★★★★☆ Building on the momentum of her breakout performance in the action-packed film “Edge of Tomorrow,” Emily Blunt joins Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin in the drug cartel drama “Sicario,”...

In the coming months, the university will open a campus-wide dialogue on its relationship with racism and slavery, which reached its nadir in 1838 when Fr. Thomas Mulledy, S.J., and the Maryland Jesuits...

Two years ago, I did not own a camera. Honestly, I didn’t even take particularly good pictures on my phone. In high school, my artistic side focused on singing in an a cappella group. I was a singer....

★★★☆☆ Indie-rock band Beirut originally began as the solo act of frontman Zach Condon, who wrote and recorded the band’s debut album mostly by himself. After the record had some success,...

★★★★☆ Amid all the stress of the fall semester and the crush of classes that never seem to let up, Lana Del Rey’s new album, “Honeymoon,” is the perfect vacation from a busy schedule....

Afghanistan’s rural Kandahar province — the cradle of the Taliban insurgency — has a plant problem. Poppies, the Dorothy-red flowers that are tapped to make opium, outnumber the citizens. Landowner...

★★★★★ It has only been a few months since Washington, D.C.’s first cat cafe, Crumbs and Whiskers, opened. Yet the establishment has already garnered tremendous success. Even in its earliest...

★★★★★ In the ever-competitive music world, becoming a recognizable star almost always takes immense skill, combined with at least a bit of luck — unless the sound of one’s voice brings...

★★★★☆ The United Kingdom band Foals has a sound that’s hard to pin down. Their debut album, “Antidotes,” has that kind of pop-punk sound we’ve come to expect from U.K. imports---like...