A clean front page for open-access headlines.
Arts, culture, television, film, music, and media.
PBS Arts · Jun 8, 2026 6:20 PM
Best-selling author Dave Eggers has a new novel out this week, telling the story of two art-obsessed friends over many decades. There's much more to the author's own story as well. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports…
Read at publisher
NPR Culture · Jun 8, 2026 4:28 PM
On this week's "My Unsung Hero" from Hidden Brain, one woman shares a moment of connection she experienced with another patient in a psychiatric unit.
Read at publisher
PBS Arts · Jun 8, 2026 1:01 PM
Police say Wood died Sunday after being struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in East Providence, Rhode Island.
Read at publisher
NPR Culture · Jun 8, 2026 12:54 PM
Fifteen years after The Book of Mormon made its Broadway debut, original cast members Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad once again took the stage as Mormon missionaries — this time at the 2026 Tony Awards.
Read at publisher
PBS Arts · Jun 8, 2026 11:25 AM
"Schmigadoon!," an adaptation of an Apple TV series that gently mocks big, brassy Broadway shows, won the best new musical Tony Award on a night when actor John Lithgow and playwright Bess Wohl made history.
Read at publisher
NPR Culture · Jun 8, 2026 11:04 AM
Less than two weeks after overhauling its newsroom, NPR has hired Nadine Zylstra to be its chief content officer. She has been a top executive at Sesame Workshop, YouTube and Pinterest.
Read at publisher
BBC Entertainment · Jun 8, 2026 8:59 AM
The British star also said some audiences would not accept a black male actor playing 007.
Read at publisher
BBC Entertainment · Jun 8, 2026 7:49 AM
The musician whose real name was Mark Orabiyi - was "a gem", rapper Wretch 32 said.
Read at publisher
BBC Entertainment · Jun 8, 2026 7:41 AM
He is now splitting his days between his long-standing caretaker job and raising awareness of his condition.
Read at publisher
NPR Culture · Jun 8, 2026 7:22 AM
Nicholas Enrich, on staff at the U.S. Agency for International Aid under 4 administrations, talks about Into the Woodchipper: A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID.
Read at publisher
NPR Culture · Jun 8, 2026 4:45 AM
Harpo Marx -- the "silent" Marx brother -- can finally be heard speaking in a live album of recently recovered material, which was recorded just six months before he died in 1964.
Read at publisher
NPR Culture · Jun 8, 2026 4:45 AM
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Josef Palermo, an artist and curator, about his tenure at the Kennedy Center and what its future might hold.
Read at publisher
BBC Entertainment · Jun 8, 2026 4:44 AM
A revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman was the night's big winner with six awards overall.
Read at publisher
NPR Culture · Jun 7, 2026 8:08 PM
The 79th Annual Tony Awards celebrated the best of Broadway performances on Sunday in New York, but the star of the night was singer-songwriter P!nk, who hosted the show.
Read at publisher
NPR Culture · Jun 7, 2026 8:14 AM
At the Art Institute of Chicago, cleaning the Thorne Rooms, shoebox-sized rooms presenting a visual history of interior design in miniature, is a meticulous and delicate process.
Read at publisher
BBC Entertainment · Jun 6, 2026 7:25 PM
Sean Reifel's joined the cast of the popular reality series less than a year after he joined his hometown's police force.
Read at publisher
BBC Entertainment · Jun 6, 2026 3:33 AM
The British actor, who also appeared in Merlin and Little Britain, died of complications from pneumonia.
Read at publisher
BBC Entertainment · Jun 5, 2026 7:08 PM
The new drama centres on Alice discovering best friend Steve is dating her 26-year-old daughter.
Read at publisher