The offer came in as Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson was finishing a project that would transform and amplify his sprawling creative life — after the pandemic had slowed down his busy career as the self-described “king of yes.” Already, he’d done a lot. A...

June 9, 2025

Anyone who was or had a kid in the 90s remembers Wakko, Yakko, and Dot, the Warner brothers and their sister, the Animaniacs . They lived in the iconic water tower and ran around the Warner Bros lot wreaking havoc, having fun, and making sly cultural...

November 18, 2020

Who needs an iron throne when you can have Emmy gold? As many critics forecasted, the final season of HBO's powerhouse Game of Thrones was yet again hard to beat (even if many of its characters weren't so lucky in those final, turbulent episodes) in...

September 22, 2019

Hal Tulchin was a director and producer best known for his work filming the 1969 film Black Woodstock , a documentary about a music festival that took place in Harlem and featured performances by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, the 5th Dimension, B. B. K...

At the 69th Emmy Awards, HBO scored on multiple fronts with a record-breaking win for Veep , as well as awards for The Night Of and Big Little Lies , while Netflix took home gold for Black Mirror , Master of None and The Crown . But perhaps the big s...

September 17, 2017

Don Kirshner, who established himself as a music mogul in the 1960s, helped to launch the career of the Monkees, and later became a television fixture as host of a popular live-music series in the 1970s, died January 17, 2011, in Boca Raton, Florida....

January 18, 2011