The Movie Star’s Movie Star
A new podcast evokes the advent of the Valley’s adult-film stars and the awe they earned from their Hollywood equivalents
Warm Ways
Songs built to withstand the heat, from Fleetwood Mac, Delaney & Bonnie, Etta James, the Detroit Cobras, and more
Hidden Tunes
“Whatever story I’m telling, I tell it through music.” An interview with Bruce Adolphe, the mind behind the wildly popular Piano Puzzlers
Southern Gothic
New exhibitions at London’s Alison Jacques Gallery spotlight Black photographer Gordon Parks’s work chronicling the American South and more
The Going Is Good
At 61, Kathy Valentine, the subject of a new documentary on the Go-Go’s, shows no sign of slowing down
No-Brain Teaser
A few questions that should have been on the cognitive test Trump boasts he “aced”
Push a Little Harder
Sick and tired of it all? Keep on keeping on with Joe Cocker, Curtis Mayfield, Charli XCX, Emitt Rhodes, and more
Winds of Change
New exhibitions celebrate the outsize life and work of photographer Gordon Parks as well as the artist Khadija Saye, killed in the Grenfell Tower fire at 24
007 Lives at No. 25
James Bond sleuths believe they have pinpointed his home in London—and discovered George Smiley was a neighbor
Jennifer Weiner
The author of In Her Shoes recommends the best books for the exercise-curious
Catch Him on TikTok
The coronavirus has returned the late Bob Ross, who hosted the wildly popular TV series The Joy of Painting, to the spotlight
