Detail of “Wall Painting Fragment from the Villa at Boscotrecase,” 10 B.C.E.-1 B.C.E.Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer Arts & Culture Viewing art like an expert Sy Boles Harvard Staff Writer August 29, 2025 long read Curators and conservators at the Harvard Art Museums zoom in on the tiny details that tell big stories about some of their favorite works Looking at art can be intimidating for the untrained. Is this piece impressionist or surrealist? What, exactly, make...| Harvard Gazette
Will Burke on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”Photos by Randy Holmes/ABC Arts & Culture Funny or failure? It’s a fine line. ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ writer Will Burke on taking risks in comedy and why getting laughs is worth near-constant rejection Anna Lamb Harvard Staff Writer August 26, 2025 7 min read A series exploring how risk shapes our decisions. Imagine walking a tightrope. Your goal is to get to the other side without falling. Below you — certain death. Well, maybe not death. Maybe ther...| Harvard Gazette
Arts & Culture Reading like it’s 1989 Illustration by Liz Zonarich/Harvard Staff Max Larkin Harvard Staff Writer August 15, 2025 7 min read Report on classroom literature shows staying power for ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Of Mice and Men,’ other classics. Time to move on? Look back 40 years and you’ll see a lot of seismic change. The rise of the Internet, the smartphone revolution, and now AI everywhere. The end of the Cold War and the dawn of many messier conflicts. The overturning of paradigms ...| Harvard Gazette
Arts & Culture Carving a place in outer space for the humanities Jennifer L. Roberts.Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer Eileen O’Grady Harvard Staff Writer August 11, 2025 6 min read Cosmos ‘is as weird and astonishing as any great work of art,’ argues Jennifer Roberts, and navigating it requires ‘a new kind of ethics’ Jennifer Roberts is an art historian whose work orbits an unexpected subject: outer space. Fascinated by images that are created as a way of understanding ...| Harvard Gazette
Lamhi in Uttar Pradesh, where he was born, stands as a memorial to the readiness with which India forgets its literary icons.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Ivy Pochoda.Photo by Darran Tiernan Arts & Culture From tragedy to ‘Ecstasy’ Ivy Pochoda’s feminist retelling of ‘The Bacchae’ examines freedom from inhibition with Electronic Dance Music beat Anna Lamb Harvard Staff Writer July 30, 2025 5 min read King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother, Agave, become the target of the god Dionysus’ wrath for rejecting his sybaritic cult in the ancient Greek tragedy “The Bacchae.” In “Ecstasy,” Ivy Pochoda’s new feminist retelling, Diony...| Harvard Gazette
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This year's Pride Celebration will feature a drag story hour at the East Lansing Public Library and drag performances downtown.| East Lansing Insider
A social district would allow people to take drinks to concerts and other events in the Albert El Fresco area. But some council members have concerns about enforcing the rules.| East Lansing Insider
The Forster Woods Adult Day Services Center provides a safe and comfortable setting for adults who may require assistance with daily activities.| East Lansing Insider
The festival will feature nine performers this year.| East Lansing Insider
The death of local drag icon Heklina won’t stop the Golden Girls from being a friend for your upcoming holiday season, as Miss Coco Peru has signed on to take Heklina’s traditional role of the garishly outfitted Dorothy Zbornak in this year’s production.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
As news ripples out through the local and national drag community about the loss of San Francisco legend Heklina, many are processing the shocking news and mourning on social media.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
It was way back in 2007 that the idea to reenact old Golden Girls episodes with SF drag queens took shape, with Heklina and some friends doing the first performances in someone's Victorian in the Western Addition.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
Heklina and D'Arcy Drollinger tell SFist how they keep their annual Christmas show from getting blanched.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
A beloved drag queen has died, and all too soon. Cookie Dough, a.k.a. Eddie Bell, succumbed to complications from meningitis at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco Thursday night. She was 52.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports