A former Hamilton cast member on Wednesday accused the Broadway musical of anti-transgender bias, according to a claim filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The performer, Suni Reid,...
The Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) lied to parents when it claimed no outside activist groups helped draft controversial sex education guidelines, according to internal documents obtained by...
I didn’t think the Bond movies had it in them any longer. After his sensational debut in 2006’s Casino Royale, Daniel Craig starred in two catastrophic duds by anyone’s reckoning (Quantum of Solace...
Democratic dark money kingpin David Brock is using his "pseudo-news outlet" to send Virginia voters unsolicited mailers that falsely attack Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin.
Brock in...
Rick McGinnis longs for the good old days of television news with a look at Broadcast News
Venom: Let There Be Carnage is like the second-season premiere of a Neil Simon buddy-clash TV sitcom in the guise of a comic-book-superhero-monster movie. You can hear the intro to the show in your head:...
Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election was a traumatic event for many women, especially the white ones with college educations, lucrative professional careers, and an unhealthy...
Rick McGinnis continues his journey through the work of director Douglas Sirk, this time looking at his 1959 drama Imitation of Life, starring Lana Turner and John Gavin
The Crown Heights Riot of 30 years ago is barely remembered today. One of its primary instigators, Sonny Carson, has been forgotten. My introduction to Carson, once an important figure in Brooklyn politics,...
Rick McGinnis on Douglas Sirk's relentless and hyperbolic melodrama Written on the Wind, and his later CinemaScope picture The Tarnished Angels
Thirty years ago, anti-Semitic violence erupted in Crown Heights, a neighborhood of New York City, as an angry mob of largely black and Caribbean-American residents descended on Lubavitcher Hasidic homes,...
Every year, the parents of nearly a million summer-born five-year-olds have to make an important choice: Should I enroll my child in kindergarten this year or next? Most go ahead and put their kid in...
Dave Matthews's quip might be the perfect assessment of Woodstock 99: "Today, there's an abundance of titties." Topless women seemed to be everywhere those three days in Rome, New York. But this wasn't...
Rick McGinnis unpacks the mystique and mythology of the City of Angels on film in Los Angeles Plays Itself
The author and venture capitalist J.D. Vance was a prominent voice on the national-populist right even before July 1, when he entered the crowded primary to replace GOP senator Rob Portman of Ohio. In...
Local New York officials say their towns will boycott Ben & Jerry’s after the ice cream company announced it would end sales in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Town officials from Hempstead...
There are people for whom eating is no more special than brushing teeth. It’s just a necessity—sustaining the body with nutrients to get through the rest of the day. And then there are those whose...
Rick McGinnis on the master of the Hollywood melodrama, Douglas Sirk, with a particular look at Magnificent Obsession and All That Heaven Allows
Author’s note: You need to read this piece until the very end for some very important information you would never have known otherwise.
Space Jam 2 is a movie in the way "processed cheese food" is...
Rick McGinnis on Paddy Chayefsky's The Hospital, directed by Arthur Hiller and starring George C. Scott and Diana Rigg
