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The grandmother-grandchild bond operates on a deeply connected and profoundly different level compared to other relationships.

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts hosted the 2025 Brain Health Festival from Oct. 17-19.

James Vanderbilt, as director and writer, has created a thoughtful, if flawed, film based on Jack El-Hai’s book, “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist.”

“It Was Just an Accident,” the Iranian film directed and written by Jafar Panahi (“The White Balloon”), was the winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes and, somewhat inexplicably, is France’s submission for Best International Film at the 2026 Academy Awards.

This week's historic peace agreement in the Middle East offers more than geopolitical significance.

“Among Neighbors,” Yoav Potash’s powerful documentary, started simply and grew more complex and insightful as his explorations expanded over a 10-year period.

Lorenz (Larry) Hart, a name that may no longer ring any bells, was one of the keystones of the American Songbook.

Taking a chapter from the life of father and son ethnomusicologists John and Alan Lomax, writer Ben Shattuck centers this love story around the quiet joy of ethnic song collecting, a harvest, so to speak, of the bones on which this country was built.

Leni Riefenstahl glorified Nazi Germany with her beautiful, powerful films that encapsulated its philosophy of power, beauty, racial purity and morality.

“Love is never having to say you’re sorry.” Erich Segal (“Love Story”) couldn’t have been more wrong.