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
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
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
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
Sic Trans Gloria
Cancel culture moves into London and tries to rub out the Booker Prize, J. K. Rowling, and her defenders
All the World’s a Stage
Met favorites get star treatment in the New York opera house’s new series
All the Write Moves
Transparency, brevity, color: simple steps for writing well
Photo by Bachrach
A Who’s Who of the 20th century wanted their portrait taken at one family-run studio
La Vie en Rose
Nick Knight’s floral photographs are on view now at Waddesdon Manner
Fashion is the New Black
This month, exhibitions on Parisian shoe designer Christian Louboutin, Palm Beach fixture Lilly Pulitzer, and more
