The Texas State Board of Education is meets in Austin this week to consider controversial changes to public school curriculum, including a proposal that could add Biblical texts to required reading ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Public commenters and State Board of Education members went head-to-head over a proposed reading list for Texas public school social studies curriculum. The length and ...

Over the past several years, I've asked dozens of authors to tell me about their favorite books—both for a literary series I produce specifically about writerly influence and in passing conversation.

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“Too many women’s scripts never even get a read,” co-founder Jan Kimbrough says. “We exist to change that." By Kimberly Nordyke Managing Editor, Digital The Women’s List, a nonprofit organization ...

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The 2026 Grammy Awards took place in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 1. Darren Criss hosted the annual Premiere Ceremony at the Peacock Theater, where most of the 96 Grammy categories were announced ...

The Texas State Board of Education delayed voting on a proposed list of required books for K-12 students Wednesday night after hours discussing the reading materials' religious focus and hearing ...

It may have been a legislative tautology, but nearly 70% of Texas voters in November asserted that parents are the “primary decision makers for their children” when they approved Proposition 15. No ...

On a summer day, sitting near the window of his study at his home in Oxford, England, J.R.R. Tolkien paused while grading papers to scribble the first sentence of his first novel: “In a hole in the ...

Hollywood is raising a glass to the 2026 Critics Choice Awards. On Jan. 4, Chelsea Handler helped kick off award season while hosting the Critics Choice ceremony at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, ...