Entertainment & Arts
African American museums wrestle with how to convey brutal history in an uplifting way -- and turn a profit.
July 4, 2005
Times Art Critic Christopher Knight got it exactly right when he wrote that “The American Century” exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York is “meant for people with only superficial interest in art” (“A Big Lesson, a Little Dull,” May 29).
June 5, 1999
Travel & Experiences
In an unusual move, United Airlines is offering to award 500 miles to frequent fliers who land more than 30 minutes late on nonstop flights between Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and seven other domestic airports.
June 26, 2005
World & Nation
As Aaron Bryant walked along North Avenue on the night of Freddie Gray’s funeral, his photographer’s eye noted how the rising flames framed the “waves of police in riot gear” and the wall of ministers calling for calm.
June 7, 2015
Movies
Long-missing comedy shorts such as 1927’s “Mickey’s Circus,” featuring a 6-year-old Mickey Rooney in his first starring role, 1917’s “Neptune’s Naughty Daughter”; 1925’s “Fifty Million Years Ago,” an animated introduction to the theory of evolution; and a 1924 industrial short, “The Last Word in Chickens,” are among the American silent films recently found at the EYE Filmmusem in Amsterdam.
March 30, 2014
Twenty-five debutantes stepped through the National Charity League Los Angeles chapter’s golden floral coronet at the Beverly Hilton.
Dec. 3, 1989
Business
No big deal.
Feb. 7, 1993
Reginald F.
Jan. 20, 1993
Jan. 26, 1993
TLC Beatrice International Holdings Inc., the nation’s biggest minority-owned company, said Loida Nicolas Lewis, widow of founder Reginald F.
Jan. 6, 1994