Style & Design Jun 11, 2013

For David Bowie, Japanese style was more than just fashion

by Helene M. Thian

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has scored a victory with its exhibition “David Bowie is…” for elucidating what many have probably always suspected: David Bowie is a bit of a Japanophile. From the kabuki-inspired costumes for Bowie’s early 1970s alien stage character, ...

Offbeat May 16, 2013

Houston, we have a superstar: Crooning astronaut Hadfield's enthusiasm goes viral down on Earth

by Joel Achenbach

Chris Hadfield, who crawled out of a space capsule on the plains of Kazakhstan early Tuesday, is dealing with gravity for the first time in five months and sudden global celebrity after singing a gone-viral made-in-space music video. By late Wednesday, almost 10 million ...

Entertainment Mar 19, 2013

Bowie retakes British crown on rock charts

British rock icon David Bowie on Sunday reconquered his home charts by scoring his first No. 1 album in 20 years with “The Next Day.” Bowie surprised the music world by breaking a decade-long musical silence in January when he unveiled a new single ...

Film Jan 19, 2013

Oshima was in a realm of his own

by Roger Pulvers

Film director Nagisa Oshima passed away Tuesday. He was 80. While at London’s Heathrow Airport in February 1996, he suffered a stroke. Rehabilitation in the succeeding years brought him sufficiently back to health to make what would become his last film, “Gohatto,” in 1999. ...