Lenny Letter, the feminist content site founded by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, is shutting down.

Subscribers were notified Friday that the site, which began as a newsletter in 2015, will close that day, confirming reports that emerged Thursday from Digiday and the New York Post. Staff and contributors were informed days before. Dunham, Konner...Read more

NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- Rapper Kanye West visited Pepe's Mexican Restaurant in Naperville on Thursday and after dining played pool at the restaurant's bar, known as "The Can."

West came in to the 1272 E. Chicago Ave. restaurant with eight bodyguards and three other people about 2:30 p.m., said Sandy Rocush, owner of the franchised restaurant and a ...Read more

In "Beautiful Boy," the national epidemic of substance abuse is told in intimate personal terms. An unembellished portrait of present-day addict life, it explores the chilling real-life struggles of journalist David Sheff and his teaenage junkie son Nic. Adapted from their joint memoirs, it offers a stomach-churning primer of addiction's ...Read more

In the first key nominations announcement of the film awards season, the Independent Filmmaker Project's 28th Gotham Awards have given a boost to Yorgos Lanthimos' yet-to-open festival sensation "The Favourite" and Paul Schrader's acclaimed summer release "First Reformed."

Both films picked up three mentions Thursday, including in the top ...Read more

BLACKKKLANSMAN. 3 stars. Spike Lee brings the amazing true story to the big screen of Ron Stallworth, a black man who integrated the Colorado Springs Police Department in the 1970s and while doing so infiltrated and disrupted a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan with the help of a fellow officer. Starring John David Washington, Adam Driver, and ...Read more

Twelve days after opening in the U.S., director Bradley Cooper's remake of "A Star is Born" already has grossed $100 million. The people, collectively, have spoken, and they love it. (I liked it.) They're crying on the way into the theaters.

The soundtrack debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. That's the fifth Billboard chart ...Read more

The president of the Baltimore police union called a recent "Saturday Night Live" sketch portraying city officers a "grossly inapt portrayal," in a letter addressed to the show's executive producer.

"As you are most likely aware, the Baltimore Police department is currently a very beleaguered agency in the throes of massive amounts of criticism...Read more

It's one of the tribal rites of American family life: the holiday tradition of turning Thanksgiving week into a blood feud of fighting over politics. The dinner conversation unleashes everyone's closet bully and triggers the kind of ideological thuggery broadcast on AM talk radio: no rules, no controls, no filters.

That's the kind of ...Read more

Directed, written by and starring Rupert Everett, "The Happy Prince" is a genuine passion project, a creative act existing completely in its own space and on its own terms. Both in his disciplined filmmaking, with each scene choreographed as carefully as a dance, and his portrayal of playwright and author Oscar Wilde in decay far past his prime,...Read more

After first breaking out as one of the featured players on "The Carol Burnett Show" in the 1960s and '70s, and later starring as the titular character on the sitcom "Mama's Family," which ran from 1983 to 1990, Vicki Lawrence is back on TV every week starring in the new Fox sitcom "The Cool Kids" alongside David Alan Grier, Martin Mull and ...Read more