The Charlotte Weekly

Charlotte Academy of the Arts recreated the sea in five days

A group of young performers gathered for their very first rehearsal of Disney's "The Little Mermaid JR" on a Monday. By ...
Vogue

The Odyssey Costumes Discard the Sword-and-Sandals Playbook

Director Christopher Nolan never wanted The Odyssey to be another sword-and-sandals Hollywood epic. “He has an aversion to movie clichés about antiquity,” says Ellen Mirojnick, the film’s costume ...

12 Wild Facts I Had To Fact-Check Twice Before Believing

Chilean sea bass, I believe." The brief mention of the fish in the movie, which was also served on-screen, brought it into ...
Foreign Policy

Beijing Is Trying to Turn Taiwan’s Sea Goddess Into a Chinese Agent

On a rain-soaked April day on Taiwan’s western coast, tens of thousands of pilgrims walked alongside a palanquin bearing a ...

The Odyssey Real Story: How Greek King Odysseus won the Trojan war but nearly lost everything on his 10-year journey to home

Christopher Nolan's film "The Odyssey" brings Homer's ancient epic to the big screen. Odysseus, a Greek king, won the Trojan ...