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When Michaela Jaé Rodriguez strutted confidently across the BET Awards stage to her own debut single, “Something To Say,” she unknowingly created a Black pop culture moment. Before reaching the mic, she fabulously spun around, laughed infectiously and posed in a ravishing white cutout Mônot [...]

This four-part series spotlights generations of New York City Latine hip hop artists, each of them trailblazers  in their respective elements. Featured artists: Kid Freeze, a b-boy pioneer who got his start in the 1970s and the inventor of continuous headspins and a range of power moves; Lady Pink, a [...]

Growing up, I often took trips to my maternal homeland Michoacán, Mexico. In this central Mexican state, Jaripeo, a form of bull riding, is ubiquitous. This form of riding first emerged in Mexico during the 16th century. At the time, riders would ride bulls to their death. Today, riders attempt [...]

Amalia Ulman’s feature-film debut “El Planeta” starts with an awkward rendezvous: Leonor, nicknamed Leo and played by Ulman herself, meets a man at a nondescript café somewhere in Spain. We realize quickly that the man is a john. They’re setting up a recurring encounter, during the man’s breaks from work. [...]

“Catch the Fair One” isn’t here to make any friends. It’s coldly unceremonious and teeming with rage. Director Josef Kubota Wladkya's sophomore feature spends every one of its 85 minutes on the razor’s edge of indignity and indifference. Early comparisons to “Taken,” generous as they may be, conjure memories of [...]