Opera’s Game Of Musical Chairs Brings A Netrebko Reprise

Beloved baby hippo Moo Deng may have won the hearts of the public, but a large, young penguin in Australia is stirring up some cuteness competition. Commenters on Sea Life Melbourne Aquairum’s Instagram page are doting on the animal, calling him a “fluffy king.” “Pesto is the besto,” wrote another.

Sean “Diddy” Combs was once the most ubiquitous man in hip-hop. The producer-turned-rapper rose as an indomitable force in the ‘90s by crafting glossy, infectious party anthems that helped catapult hip-hop into the mainstream. In 1997, he spent 26 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts, the most of any artist that year.

We all value, or claim to value, ideas. We want them in our movies, our books, our music; otherwise, the thinking goes, we’re just ingesting empty calories. But not all ideas are created equal. Sometimes they’re floating too freely within the material to be tethered to any meaningful interpretation; other times they’re so ploddingly instructive that we feel pummeled.

The pleasures of writer-director Jon Watts’ crime caper Wolfs are numerous: George Clooney and Brad Pitt play dueling fixers called in to clean up the accidental death of a young, adorable student—prior to his demise, occasioned by his jumping on a hotel bed, he’d been picked up by high-powered district attorney Amy Ryan in a bar.

How much does doctor-patient confidentiality matter in a murder trial? The answer can be complicated. Ryan Murphy’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, streaming Sept. 19 on Netflix, tackles this question in a dramatization of the real-life saga of brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted in 1996 for the Aug.

Kristen Bell’s childhood bedroom offered quite the surprise to Dax Shepard. The Good Place star recently detailed what happened when her husband snooped around her childhood bedroom early in their