Chloe Veltman
Stories
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The fun — and confusion — of celebrating Christmas and Hanukkah on the same date
Christmas and Hanukkah rarely fall on the same date, but this year they do. One mixed-faith family in Oakland, Calif., doubles down for double whammy holiday.
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Britt Allcroft, who brought Thomas the Tank Engine to television, dies at 81
The beloved blue locomotive was first imagined in the 1940s — he starred in stories Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his son. Allcroft adapted Awdry's The Railway Series into Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.
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Film director and screenwriter Jeff Baena, husband of Aubrey Plaza, dead at 47
The co-writer of I Heart Huckabees and director of The Little Hours was found dead at a Los Angeles residence on Friday. The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the case.
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How several major landmarks are doing in the Los Angeles fires
Seven Los Angeles landmarks and how they're affected by the fires raging across the region.
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New AI licensing platform aims to help authors keep control over their books
In the wake of several high profile lawsuits involving authors suing AI companies for allegedly scraping their literary works to train large language models, The Authors Guild announced the public launch of its partnership with an AI rights licensing platform this week. Walter Isaacson, James Patterson, Susan Orlean and Viet Thanh Nguyen are among the authors in support of the endeavor.
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Lost Tina Turner song is just OK, say critics. But that's not why it matters.
Originally recorded for the rock star's major album Private Dancer, "Hot For You Baby" was thought lost.
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A museum's confession: why we have looted objects
An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly around efforts to repatriate artifacts looted from other countries.
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Mona Lisa's roommates may be glad she's moving out
Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in the same space by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese may finally get their due.
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Remembering trailblazing artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, dead at 85
The Native American visual artist, activist, and curator Jaune Quick-to-See Smith blazed a trail for younger indigenous artists. She was 85.
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Ariana Grande's speaking voice keeps changing. A voice speech pathologist explains
People have been baffled by the way Ariana Grande changes her speaking voice in interviews for years. The artist keeps addressing the issue but it keeps coming up. Why?
