Darryl "Cornbread" McCray tags the wall at Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia. Sara McCorriston/Paradigm Gallery/Darryl "Cornbread" McCray hide caption
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Kate Bush signing records in 1980. Chas Sime/Getty Images hide caption
Olivia Rodrigo teamed up with Lily Allen to perform "F You" at the Glastonbury Festival last week. Kate Green/Getty Images hide caption
Alyosha Levstein's father was a prominent jazz musician who played with Duke Ellington, and his grandfather was a beatnik in St. Petersburg who recorded several albums. Jon Kalish hide caption
Chris Herbie Holland (L.) as Tio and Marcel Spears as Juicy in Fat Ham at New York's Public Theater. Joan Marcus/Public Theater hide caption
Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'Fat Ham' takes 'Hamlet' in unexpected directions
Samara Weaving as Olivia and Eugenio Derbez as Antonio in the new Hulu film The Valet. Dan McFadden/Hulu hide caption
Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven and Matthew Modine as Dr. Martin Brenner in Stranger Things. Netflix hide caption
A cook prepares borsch at a March 2021 event in Kyiv to promote Ukraine's bid for UNESCO to recognize the dish as part of the country's historical heritage. Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Technoblade was one of YouTube's most popular Minecraft video creators. Technoblade/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
'Noir Alley' host celebrates cinema's double crosses and doomed characters
Simone Biles poses wearing her bronze medal from balance beam competition during artistic gymnastics at the Summer Olympics on Aug. 3, 2021, in Tokyo. President Biden will present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Biles and 16 others at the White House next week. Natacha Pisarenko/AP hide caption
The Simpsons is the longest running show on television. Production workers who make the show say they deserve the same protections as the writers and animators. Courtesy of Disney Media & Entertainment hide caption
'The Simpsons' production workers go union, saying they deserve a place at the table
Aris Servetalis plays a man who inexplicably loses his memory in Apples. Courtesy of Cohen Media Group hide caption
Minions: The Rise of Gru is the latest movie in the Despicable Me film franchise. Universal Pictures hide caption
Ralph "Sonny" Barger and his wife Sharon are shown after his release on $100,000 bond in San Francisco, Aug. 1, 1980. Robert Houston/AP hide caption
Composer Deborah Wicks La Puma writes music for Mo Willems' musicals including Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Underground Rock Experience. A new animated version is on HBO Max. HBO Max hide caption
Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù plays Mr. Malcolm, the most desirable bachelor in 1818 London. Ross Ferguson/Bleecker Street hide caption
Ticking down a checklist of qualifications in 'Mr. Malcolm's List'
The villainous Mortimer Freeze, having a whale of a time. Studio MDHR hide caption
