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Gallery How the Early 1960s Looked to Americans
Even before Kennedy became president, changes were reshaping America. View a gallery of telephones, TVs, cars, and more as they transformed from 1953 to 1963.
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Review: Mr. T: I Pity the Fool — Movies for the Rest of Us with Bill Newcott
This breezily efficient documentary traces what remains among the unlikeliest rags-to-riches stories of our time.
Bessie Smith: The Empress of Blues
Beyond inspiring female vocal powerhouses like Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Mahalia Jackson, Bessie Smith paved the way for Black recording artists.
Review: If These Walls Could Rock — Movies for the Rest of Us with Bill Newcott
This documentary rocks with a spirit that echoes with the wild abandon of a cultural moment when the bad boys ruled, and nothing could stop them.
Review: Peter Asher: Everywhere Man — Movies for the Rest of Us with Bill Newcott
This documentary shows why Peter Asher has the most Zeligesque career in music history.
Poll: What Do You Pay for Programming?
We’ve come a long way from only three networks; have you come with it?
Missing in History: The First Female Pinkerton Detective
Kate Warne claimed that she could worm out secrets in many places where it would be impossible for male detectives to go.
Borrowing a Piece of the Old West in Jackson Hole
Increasingly, travelers are looking for experiences that go beyond aesthetics, something that allows them to engage with a place rather than simply occupy it.
Tour an Authentic Mir Space Station
A priceless Soviet-era space relic lives in Wisconsin.
Post Travel: Petal Parties, Supermarket Safaris, and Getting from A to B
Petal Parties Spring’s arrival sees flowers sprouting around the world, along with vibrant festivals to mark the occasion. Among the most famous are Japan’s cherry blossom festivals, where friends and families gather under canopies of pink petals to picnic, sing, and contemplate the ephemeral beauty of life. But towns and cities across the United States […]
Review: Man on the Run — Movies for the Rest of Us with Bill Newcott
Paul McCartney and director Morgan Neville offer a two-hour, highly curated glimpse of what it was like for McCartney, in 1970, to suddenly realize he was no longer The Cute Beatle.
News of the Week: Burger Bots, Tea Animals, and Saying Goodbye to Mr. Clean
In the news of the week ending March 6, 2026, are fast food AI, Mr. Clean’s first name (you’ll never guess), and cooking with ginger ale.
The National Film Registry Announces Its Latest Inductees
White Christmas, Before Sunrise, and The Incredibles are among the newest inductees to the National Film Registry.
Review: Jay Kelly — Movies for the Rest of Us with Bill Newcott
Movie stars, it turns out, are like the rest of us mostly in the bad ways. And that makes painting a sympathetic, relatable portrait of one a naggingly tough sell.
Nolan’s Last Crash
Nolan might be getting too old to drive.
Review: Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe — Movies for the Rest of Us with Bill Newcott
Fans of Bocelli will appreciate this documentary’s generous passages of the singer exercising his remarkable vocal instrument and the personal testimonies of his friends, family, and colleagues.