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Jennifer Hudson dishes on her new Christmas album, sparkling romance with Common: ‘There’s nothing like it’

Twenty years ago, Jennifer Hudson had hit bottom. As in the bottom three of “American Idol” — where she was shockingly up for elimination on the third season of the singing competition with fellow presumptive front-runners Fantasia Barrino and LaToya London. After her powerful pipes had carried her through with covers of Aretha Franklin, Elton...

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Design, Unearthed and Unfettered, in Cooper Hewitt’s Triennial

If Andrew Carnegie were alive today, he might be amazed at some of the objects occupying what was once his elegant Manhattan mansion: three turkey-feather capes suspended in an entryway like huge, hovering birds; enormous sheaves of dried tobacco on a former dressing room’s walls; a hanging stained-glass collage made up partly of laboratory slides […]

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In Casino Battle With California Cities, Tribes Get a Stronger Hand

In the sprawl of Los Angeles County, a handful of casinos have operated for decades. There’s the crescent-shaped casino in Commerce, an industrial city off Interstate 5. A warehouse-like gambling parlor in Hawaiian Gardens, a short drive south. Two card rooms in Gardena, a nearby suburb. Beyond being places to gamble and unwind, they have […]

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‘Snack Shack,’ ‘Red Rocket’ and More Streaming Gems

‘Snack Shack’ (2024) Adam Rehmeier’s coming-of-age story is set in the summer of 1991, and initially seems not only about that era, but of it, replicating the look and sound of ’90s teen sex comedies. (You can’t get more ’90s than a montage set to EMF’s “Unbelievable.”) But that’s a bit of a head fake; […]

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