State Dinners And Their Odd Social Pairings (PHOTOS)
Text and photos from LIFE.com, where you can check out more odd social pairings at state dinners. The state dinner dates back to 1874, when Ulysses G...
Text and photos from LIFE.com, where you can check out more odd social pairings at state dinners. The state dinner dates back to 1874, when Ulysses G...
Posted 11.23.2009 | Sports
Despite the team's poor record, the stars are still coming out to see the New York Knicks. Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell, Brooke Shields, Tracy Morgan a...
Bill de Blasio | Posted 10.24.2009 | New York
Whether it's an interracial couple in Louisiana denied a marriage, or that blacks and Hispanics are 90% of the people frisked by NYC police, no place is immune to our history of racial struggle.
Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
AP | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Director Spike Lee's Brooklyn public celebration of Michael Jackson's birthday has been moved amid predictions of a big crowd. The f...
Dan Persons | Posted 09.19.2009 | Entertainment
I got a chance to sit down with Spike Lee and singer/songwriter Stew to discuss the New York musical hit, Passing Strange.
Posted 09.18.2009 | New York
Spike Lee is planning a Brooklyn block party in honor of Michael Jackson's birthday. On August 29th, what would have been Jackson's 51st birthday, Le...
Marshall Fine | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment
His odyssey takes him to Amsterdam, drugs, sex and the other joys of a rock'n'roll youth in the early 1970s. In the process, he discovers a whole philosophy of life, love and art.
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 08.16.2009 | Home
I went to New York to meet Obama the candidate, and in a Soho apartment he told a small group of us that his middle name was Hussein. I thought he was telling a joke.
Michael Giltz | Posted 08.14.2009 | Entertainment
With the new season just around the corner in mid-August, it's a good time to catch up with Mad Men. It is one show that definitely rewards careful rewatching.
Lauri Lyons | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York
The Apollo Theater's memorial tribute to Michael Jackson might as well have been Mardi Gras in Harlem.
Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment
Al Sharpton busted some serious moves at the Apollo Tuesday night during a memorial for Michael Jackson. In addition to dancing with director Spike Le...
Danny Groner | Posted 06.18.2009 | Entertainment
Kobe Doin' Work, Spike Lee's new original ESPN documentary, provides an up-close look at what Kobe Bryant thinks about and considers during an NBA game.
Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 04.29.2009 | Media
The goal in fiction and documentary making is to tell the story. I never try to lose sight of that.
Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.28.2009 | Entertainment
To look at the escalating popularity of the documentary film is to enter an interesting, complicated, and collectively psychoanalytic exploration of the role of desire and dreams in a time of mass confusion.
Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 03.27.2009 | Media
Did the New York Post simply screw up, fail to take into account possible perceptions, and then get clubbed by a few shrewd competitors who saw a good opportunity? We'll never know.
Anne Sullivan | Posted 02.22.2009 | Style
Lynne Cheney had a big fur collar on the coat she wore to the inauguration. Figures, with a husband who shoots at living creatures as a hobby (and I don't just mean ducks).
Robert D. Patterson | Posted 02.15.2009 | Living
The significance of Obama's inauguration resides in the sweat, blood, and tears shed by our forefathers so that people of all races, creed, and gender could share in the American inheritance.
AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 02.14.2009 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — If you thought the Golden Globes was a party, just wait until you see Barack Obama's inauguration. Next week, Washington will look a ...
The Observer via Page Six | Posted 02.06.2009 | Entertainment
UPDATE: Apparently The Observer buys old New Yorker interviews, as this Spike Lee first appeared in last September's issue, and is now re-appearing f...
AP | ALICIA QUARLES | Posted 01.10.2009 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — As one of Hollywood's most honored figures, Clint Eastwood can be selective about his on-screen company _ and for "Gran Torino," he d...
LA Times | Posted 01.08.2009 | Entertainment
More than 20 years after making his first splash with "She's Gotta Have It," Spike Lee is finally going to make it to Sundance. His belated debut -- i...
Graham Bensinger | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics
The day after the presidential election, I sat down with Jim Brown. Brown discussed a wide range of topics, including what electing the first African American president means to him.
John Farr | Posted 12.11.2008 | Entertainment
Prior to the 1960s, race portrayals in movies were mostly confined to servants and railroad porters. Only with the advent of the Civil Rights movement did the film industry dare address the authentic black experience.
Huffington Post | Posted 12.06.2008 | Entertainment
Bold-faced names gathered on election night at parties around the country. In Chicago Oprah joined in the celebration in Grant Park. Viewing parties i...
LIFE.com | Posted 11.24.2009 | Style