Happy Monday! Here's our compendium of pop-culture news you may have missed while you were doing more important things over the weekend.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/18/11

Just as the winter chill sets in, the new film Night Catches Us (opening on Friday) takes us back to the dog days of summer.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/02/10

Jennifer Aniston, Sam Rockwell, Sarah Silverman, Julia Stiles, and many others performed a series of six 10-minute plays that were written, rehearsed, and produced in the space of just a day.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/16/10

It was a welcome departure offered by the Casting Society of America's Artios Awards on Monday evening at the American Airlines Theater, which was not filled—but not to capacity!—with good-natured, unstressed stars and the casting agents who love to place them.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/04/10

Long's soirée, at a drool-worthy private residence on Hudson Street, was elaborate indeed: the night's program consisted of a cocktail reception and a seated dinner prepared by Chef Marcus Samuelsson (of Aquavit, Red Rooster, and Top Chef Masters).  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/18/10

Last night, 10-minute plays must have provided a logistical nightmare for agents trying to get an alphabet's worth of A-List stars in one place.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/10/09

On paper, actor Anthony Mackie and rap icon Tupac Shakur couldn't be more different: Mackie is an up-and-coming Hollywood star who grew up in middle-class New -Orleans and is doing films with greats like Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood; Tupac was a gangsta rapper who was raised by a drug-addicted mother and vilified by mainstream America. The upcoming biopic Notorious, about Tupac's onetime friend and, later, greatest enemy, Notorious B.I.G., exposes the stereotypes surrounding the early hip-hop scene. But the film also shows what a brilliant shape-shifter Mackie is.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/25/08