I recently saw Austin’s Hip Hop Theater Explosion, the city’s equivalent of the old Motown Revue—a showcase for the city’s leading rappers, slam poets, tap dancers, break-dancers and much more. This ...

You may already have heard about the passive voice. It works well in some instances, but you don’t want to use it all the time. But you also won’t want to overuse “to be” in general because that can ...

Hong Kong genre-film volcano Johnnie To rocks crime thrillers like it was still 1999, and in so many ways that’s a blessing—the pulpy textures of the HK gangster-policier are evergreen, and To always ...