This week we bring you conversations with Kemp Powers, award-winning playwright and co-director of “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” and the acclaimed actor Jeffrey Wright, who currently stars in “American Fiction.” Powers talks about growing up in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and attending Howard University before deciding to pivot into filmmaking after a 17-yearlong career in journalism. Today we’re going to be speaking …
Some days, it is hard not to despair. Then, just when you’re Googling “most affordable and isolated mountaintops,” Joni Mitchell shows up at the Newport Folk Festival and proves that God has not yet left the building. Most of us were nowhere near Rhode Island when this miracle occurred, but thanks to video posted to YouTube and shared widely through …
Joni Mitchell performed Sunday at the Newport Folk Festival in what was the revered singer-songwriter’s first full public concert since she suffered a debilitating brain aneurysm in 2015. Mitchell, 78, sang and played guitar with accompaniment from a group of friends and admirers led by Brandi Carlile, who’s covered Mitchell’s classic “Blue” album in concert and who helped spearhead April’s …
