Review: Book looks at what it means to be white in America

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineSince early March, when COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, and businesses across the United States started to shutter, live comedy — like all kinds of live performance — has been virtually nonexistent.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterComedian Bryan Callen has sued the husband of a woman who accused him of rape, alleging that the husband has engaged in a campaign to torpedo Callen’s career.Callen was accused in a July 31 report in the Los Angeles Times. Actor Katherine Fiore Tigerman alleged that Callen had pinned her down and raped her in 1999.

Ed Buck in custody Sept. 2019.

Becca Kufrin is ready for the next chapter of her life after her split from fiancé Garrett Yrigoyen and her move to Los Angeles.The former Bachelorette star revealed what it’s like to be in her 30s — she celebrated her birthday in April — during the Tuesday, September 15, episode of her and Rachel Lindsay’s “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast.“I am single.

Naman Ramachandran Film and television studio and independent AVOD streamer FilmRise has acquired exclusive North American theatrical and digital rights to award-winning feature documentary “Deep In Vogue.”Voguing is a stylized dance form that originated in the late 1980s that harks back to the Harlem ballrooms of the 1960s. Interestingly, it has enjoyed renewed popularity in the north of England, spawning a movement known as Northern Vogue.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticTen years ago, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and thousands of their shows’ most loyal fans took over the National Mall to throw their support behind a common cause. Having skewered American politics for years — Stewart with flustered liberal rage, Colbert with a barely hyperbolic spoof of conservative pundits — the pair was fed up with the polarization of politics that seemed to be taking over their every waking moment.

No genre romanticizes America’s manifest destiny mythos more than the western. For decades, the construct featured white men conquering the frontier from Native Americans and law enforcement.

No genre romanticizes America’s manifest destiny mythos more than the western. For decades, the construct featured white men conquering the frontier from Native Americans and law enforcement.

“Just Us: An American Conversation,” by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press)The African American man whose beating by Los Angeles police ignited civil upheaval in 1992 famously said later: “Can’t we all just get along?”The answer to Rodney King’s question, which has taken on renewed importance these past months: Not yet.And as readers learn in “Just Us: An American Conversation,” by Yale University professor Claudia Rankine — an unusual mix of essays, narratives, poems, pictures and musings — we

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVToday marks the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The tragic event in American history is being commemorated with somber ceremonies remembering and honoring the men, women and children killed at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and aboard Flight 93.The coronavirus pandemic changed the way the commemoration event was put together this year while keeping its scope — and spirit — intact.

Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey was accused in a civil lawsuit on Wednesday of sexual assault and battery in the 1980s by actor Anthony Rapp and a second, unnamed person when both plaintiffs were about 14.

Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey was accused in a civil lawsuit on Wednesday of sexual assault and battery in the 1980s by actor Anthony Rapp and a second, unnamed person when both plaintiffs were about 14.

Kelly Clarkson won the first season of Fast forward to present time, and the singer is a multi-GRAMMY award-winning and Daytime Emmy-winning artist with her own successful talk show and slew of other accolades.On Friday, Clarkson took to social media to look back at the moment that changed her life.«18 years ago today was the finale of the first season of and it changed my life!» Clarkson, 38, wrote.