Culture

Have Blockbuster Movies Been Good for Comic Books?

It looked like another good year for the marriage—movie franchises based on comic book superheroes raked in billions of dollars more for Hollywood. Celluloid success, however, hasn’t rescued the comics industry from its death throes. What will?

Death of a Scenester

Dave Van Ronk, the inspiration behind the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis, was the king of the Greenwich Village folk scene. That may be why no one’s heard of him.

Dreams Adapted

Paul Aikins was an actor; he ended up teaching high school music theatre. Now, with the national-champion choir he leads featured in a new documentary, an old student checks in with her teacher and former enemy.