Arts & Culture

May 17 2013 - 12:00pm

Appearing at No. 12, Paul French explores a British schoolgirl's murder in Midnight In Peking.

May 17 2013 - 12:00pm

Sookie Stackhouse has one last adventure in Charlaine Harris' Dead Ever After. It debuts at No. 4.

May 17 2013 - 7:41am

Note: Since I recap both Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance and they’re overlapping seasons this week and next, I’ll be covering both nights in one recap for these first two weeks.

May 16 2013 - 11:42pm

The doors of Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch closed for the last time on Thursday.

May 16 2013 - 11:37pm

Candice Glover was named "American Idol" on Thursday, becoming the first female singer to win the television singing competition since 2007.

May 16 2013 - 5:00pm

The indie darling returns in a winning collaboration with Noah Baumbach that tracks her developmentally arrested dancer heroine through the transition from protracted adolescence to reluctant adulthood. (Recommended)

May 16 2013 - 5:00pm

Scientist Terry Root, author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and filmmaker Robert Redford all turn up in this documentary on eco-activist Tim DeChristopher, who bid on — and won — mineral rights to a chunk of federal land just to tie them up. He was prosecuted and sentenced to federal prison.

May 16 2013 - 5:00pm

A 19th-century neurologist develops an intense relationship with an illiterate teenage maid who experiences erotic pleasure during intense bouts of "hysteria." French writer-director Alice Winocour's feature debut is based on an actual 19th-century case history.

May 16 2013 - 5:00pm

Controversial Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk (The Isle) turns in a meditation on cruelty, criminality, mortality and grace. (Recommended)

May 16 2013 - 5:00pm

Jeff L. Lieberman's documentary explores the story of 30,000 Nigerians who claim a Jewish heritage dating back centuries — and who have carved out a singular culture amid the post-colonial turmoil that still affects their country.