Entertainment Stories from August 1, 2020
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Book review: In 'Memorial Drive,' Natasha Trethewey reclaims her mother's life from the man who took it
Aug 7, 2020 6:53 PM - We know from the first page of this riveting memoir that poet Natasha Trethewey's mother is dead. "Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir" is a tribute to a life snuffed out by a brutal man, a fractured judicial system and a patriarchy as old as Methuselah. It is also an examination of the Old South colliding with the new, a chronicle of one artist's beginnings, and of a changing America.
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Suburban art fairs return in altered form as physically distanced 'art walks'
Aug 6, 2020 11:23 AM - Suburban summer art fairs postponed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic return in a modified, physically distanced format with mandatory face coverings and timed admission. -
'Carrion': Don't play this one right before bedtime
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Music review: Alanis Morissette dazzles on 9th album
Aug 1, 2020 7:28 AM - The piano is back. The voice is back. The angst is back. A genre onto herself, Alanis Morissette comes out in force with her ninth studio album "Such Pretty Forks In the Road."
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Women embrace #challengeaccepted, but some ask: To what end?
Aug 1, 2020 7:28 AM - "Challenge accepted," they wrote -- female Instagram users across the United States, flooding the photo-sharing app with black-and-white images. Together they formed a grid of millions of magazine-style captures of celebrities, spur-of-the-moment selfies and filtered snaps from weddings or other special occasions. The official goal: a show of support for other women. -
Book review: In Lauren Beukes's 'Afterland,' a mother and son go on the run in a post-pandemic America
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