Kolkata is now home to the Museum of Word, India's first immersive language museum, located inside the National Library at Belvedere Estate in Alipore. Designed to let visitors hear, touch, interact ...

When I was youth services librarian at Campbell County (Wyo.) Public Library, I hired a magician as a summer reading performer. They happened to be transgender. That scheduled performance—and, as we ...

A long time ago, an avant- garde filmmaker set out to make his third, and what he thought could be his last, commercial movie. His first attempt, a dystopian fantasy, had flopped. His second, a ...

This past Sunday, self-described Humboldt Park “listening room and learning center” Parallel Play (825 N. California) debuted Sonic Study Hall, a weekly series that invites a local artist or other ...

Making his second feature in France, the Iranian director meditates on fiction and reality but never draws us into his drama of trickery and deceit. As she starts the writing process, she pecks at the ...

The great Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is back in Cannes competition for a fifth time with his first film in five years and arguably one that ranks with his very best. That is a high bar since two ...

Parallel Web Systems, the AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has raised a $100 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation led by Sequoia. Existing investors Kleiner ...

Shelves at the Irving West Library, March 30, 2026. The Irving Public Library Board is meeting April 6 to discuss possible changes to its books collection policy. The Irving Public Library Board is ...

The Marathon series has been around since 1994, when developer Bungie — now better known for Halo and Destiny — released the original FPS game for the Apple Macintosh. After nearly 30 years lying ...