Neurosurgeons are typically portrayed in one of two ways in popular culture. “Gray Matters", an engrossing new book, goes on a tour through different types of brain surgery, from seemingly crude emergency treatments for traumatic injuries to high-precision surgeries to implant electrodes that provide relief from obsessive compulsive disorder. Most of the book documents the history and practicalities of brain …
Asked when being full-time Weird Al started to feel like a viable career, Yankovic, who just turned 63, says, “I think about three months ago.” “Weird Al” Yankovic quit his most recent day job in 1983. He’s stepped back to focus on other endeavors, like “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” a hilariously counterfactual sendup of the prestige-biopic genre, which premieres …
Editor’s Note: Roy Schwartz is the author of the new book “Is Superman Circumcised? In “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” — the latter named after what antiwar Vietnam veterans called themselves to convey that true patriots must speak up against America’s own crimes — is Captain America’s former sidekick Bucky, who was brainwashed into becoming a ruthless assassin and …
