People were laughing before the story even got fully underway—and that pretty much sets the tone for Monty Python’s Spamalot at the Ordway, running through June 14. The national tour leans hard into ...

In many cultures, the spider’s ability to weave threads is understood as a symbol of divine, elemental power. Review by Brandy Schillace ...

It’s always a drag when a game you are looking forward disappoints, but it’s even sadder when it shows you exactly how it didn’t have to at the same time. Plenty of games miss the mark in some way, ...

Xander Robin's fluorescent, stranger-than-fiction film follows a variety of American oddballs chasing grisly snake-hunting glory in the annual Florida Python Challenge. Where that doc series had the ...

"It's hours of boredom interrupted by a few minutes of pretty intense adrenalin," says one jaded participant in the Florida Python Challenge, an annual government-organized effort to curb the state's ...

The Florida Python Challenge brings out a fascinating cast of characters, all captured by the director Xander Robin’s camera. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

“Do we really need another book about the Lewis and Clark expedition?” asked Andrea Wulf in The New York Times. The answer, after reading Craig Fehrman’s new page-turner, is “an emphatic yes.” One ...

This theatrical screening has reached its registration capacity*. * Arts Circle Members can be added to the waiting list by emailing artscircle@filmindependent.org. Join us for this online screening ...

What the rise of A.I. and the gutting of books coverage across U.S. media will mean for literature. By Dwight Garner In 1981, Donald Barthelme published “Challenge,” a funny and weirdly prescient ...

“Python’s Kiss” collects a baker’s dozen stories, nine of which previously have been published in the New Yorker and elsewhere (each is illustrated with a drawing by the author’s daughter, Aza Erdrich ...