When I first opened Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, “The Chronology of Water,” I could not get myself to stop reading. I felt like I was gulping down each chapter, and wouldn’t feel satiated until I had finished them all. I had never read anything like it; nonlinear, feral, unflinchingly honest, poetic, raw, dark as hell, and fascinating, both in the life it chronicled and in the way Yuknavitch chose to tell it.
Walking into the International Ballroom at the Beverly Hilton on December 15, it was immediately clear this was not a typical ballet setting. American Ballet Theatre’s annual Holiday Benefit placed the audience unusually close to the dancers, creating a beautiful and intimate environment. Dancers, artists, longtime supporters, and guests including Sterling K. Brown and Ryan Michelle Bathé filled the room alongside ABT leadership and principal dancers, blurring the line between performance and gathering.
Netflix celebrated the premiere of The Abandons on December 3 at the Tudum Theater with a Western-themed red carpet that had the buzzy feeling of a family reunion. Red carpets tend to blur together, but this one had a strange consistency to it. Reporting for The Knockturnal, almost everyone I spoke to ended up talking about the same thing: cowboy camp.
Five years after Chadwick Boseman’s passing, the late actor was honored with the 2,828th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on the morning of Thursday, November 20.
Based on the award-winning kids’ tv series, now in its 4th year, “Dino Dana the Movie” is currently available on Amazon.
The ultimate Malibu boy, Aaron Smith, better known as Shwayze, is back with a new summery album, ‘Surf Trap,’ with standout singles including ‘Hate Me’ and ‘Stuck’ with Cisco Adler.
In his debut single, ‘Never,’ featuring Sofia Reyes, Awgust effortlessly weaves between English and Spanish as he sings about seeking closure at the end of a relationship and taking ownership of his past mistakes.
Check out our exclusive interview with Leslie Odom Jr. from the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton”, coming to Disney+ soon!
On Friday, May 8, 22-year-old singer-songwriter Josie Dunne, who has toured with artists such as Julia Michaels, Ben Rector, and Andy Grammer, hosted a virtual celebration for her Late Teens / Early Twenties EP release.
Quibi, a new streaming service that provides ‘quick bites’ of content, in 10 minutes or less, has just released the horror anthology series, ’50 States of Fright,’ produced by Sam Raimi.