By Sara Bright So the news comes through about a museum heist in California. And your mind immediately goes to the movies, doesn’t it? The…
By Sara Bright It’s Kim Kardashian’s birthday. And the internet does what it always does. It rolls out the timeline, the highlight reel. The same…
By Maria Bregman I saw another one of those lists the other day. You’ve seen them. ‘Stars Who Grew Up in the Countryside’. It’s a…
The Beautiful Anxious Mess Is Gone. Diane Keaton is gone. And the obituaries will all say the same things. They’ll talk about Woody Allen, of…
By Sara Bright There is a particular quality to the light beneath the Mediterranean, a shifting, green-tinged twilight where the past does not so much…
By Sara Bright The Staple of the Nation There was an unmistakable quality to John Stapleton on screen, a sense of unflappable calm that made…
By Tessa Nolan A beauty pageant is never just about beauty. In its own strange, sequined way, it has always been a form of soft-power…
The Shroud of Turin has long thrived on ambiguity. For centuries, that faint, sepia-toned imprint on a fourteen-foot length of linen has existed in a…
The MTV Video Music Awards has long operated as the anarchic id of the music industry. Historically, it is the stage where pop culture’s most…
By Sara Bright The news landed with a quiet significance that felt entirely deliberate. Sophie Turner, an actress who built a career portraying the evolution…