License to be killed

* Movies: The Great Wall * Books: The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing * Music: The Breaker

Monsters intrude on a culture clash in ‘Great Wall’

Tell the world what you have seen,” a character exclaims in “The Great Wall,” “and what is coming!” The warning is about the mythical mass

A bear. A bat. A butterfly.

Images seen in Rorschach inkblots reveal the viewer’s unconscious mind, including any serious mental disorders. Or do they? Is the Rorschach test a brilliant diagnostic tool, or

Little Big Town return to roots, but stay in neutral

Regular scheduled programming has resumed for Little Big Town. The quartet gets back to their country roots on “The Breaker” after exploring an electronic side with Pharrell

News of the world | The mysterious life and death of a North Korean exile

The heavy-set man got out of a taxi one night last September and headed for the lobby bar of the swank Wynn Macau — a quiet place, where women

The Ampelographic Paradox

On a per capita basis, Portugal is probably the most ampelographically diverse wine-producing country in the world. Home to numerous indigenous varieties, each going by various synonyms in

Food & Beverage | Meatballs are a hearty dish for a late-winter dinner

After the Mona Lisa, Italy’s most beloved and enduring gift to world culture might be the meatball. But talk to any two Italian cooks about which

It’s the Oscars! already | In L.A. land

* Movies: Get Out * Books: All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai * Music:  Little Fictions by Elbow * Wine: The Monastic

Elbow loses a member and become more accessible

Less, it turns out, is more for the British band Elbow. On their seventh studio album, the art-rockers have lost a founding member, but the music they

What if this is a dystopian society we live in?

What if the world we know today is actually a dystopian society? Could the reason we don’t live like the Jetsons be attributed to one person’s mistake

In ‘Get Out,’ the two-faced horrors of racism

Fifty years after Sidney Poitier upended the latent racial prejudices of his white date’s liberal family in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” writer-director Jordan Peele has crafted a similar

The Monastic Heritage

Speaking of monastic influence on viticulture and winemaking, Burgundy is probably the most obvious example, but it is not the only one. Germany’s historic wine regions have their fair

Food & Beverage | Sticker shock for olive oil buyers after bad Italian harvest

  From specialty shops in Rome to supermarkets around the world, lovers of Italian olive oil are in for some sticker shock this year, with prices

News of the world | Oscars look to ‘La La Land,’ host Kimmel for ratings boost

If the Oscars had doubled down on nominating films with actors named Ryan, the ceremony’s chances for a ratings bounce might be as likely as host Jimmy

The North Korean Mata Haris

* Movies: 50 Shades Darker * Books: The Freedom Broker * Music: Son Volt, “Notes of Blue” * Wine: The Pride of Peru

Glutton for punishment? Then see ‘50 Shades Darker’

In all the kinked knots and twists of satin that adorn “Fifty Shades Darker,” none is more worthwhile to uncoil than the tangled absurdities of its

‘The Freedom Broker’ has gripping action, thrills

A  woman who runs an organization that specializes in recovering victims from kidnappings finds herself in a case that hits too close to home in K.J. Howe’s

An Americana icon ranges into new territory

If Merle Haggard is the defining voice of country music, Jay Farrar might be the artist you’d turn to if you had to explain the Americana genre

News of the world | North Korean and its long history of using women spies

A South Korean passenger plane that exploded off the coast of Southeast Asia. Army officers lured into sexual encounters. A secret agent spirited back to North Korea in a

The Pride of Peru

Situated in central-western South America, Peru – officially the Republic of Peru – neighbours Colombia and Ecuador in the north, Brazil in the east, Bolivia in the southeast

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