Jemaine Clement’s first acting role was in the 1995 satirical short film “Ash: Ashley Thorndyke – Work In Progress”. In 2004, he teamed up with fellow New Zealander Taika Waititi to form the comedy duo The Humourbeasts. Clement and Bret McKenzie brought “Flight of the Conchords” to HBO in 2007, where it aired for two years.
In 2014, Clement and Waititi partnered to write, direct, and star in “What We Do in the Shadows,” a comedy horror film that received stellar reviews from critics. Read More...
The grandmother sat on the edge of her sofa, quietly crying. "I always begged Derrick to stay over here with me," she said inside her Benning Heights apartment in Southeast Washington. "There was so much trouble on that strip where his friends hung out. When he was over here, he was fine. All he did was play his music."
Derrick Ingram's music was go-go, the pulsating blend of funk and rap music that District youths began chanting on city streets and inside jammed recreation centers more than a decade ago. Read More...
I’ve only been back to our office a handful of times since we were sent home abruptly one afternoon in March 2020. Returning and seeing my desk the way I left it was like opening a time capsule. There was a stack of cookbooks I had clearly meant to bring home, mostly, as I recall, to try to inject some verve into my Instant Pot dinner rotation.
Well more than a year after I’d set it aside and nearly three years after it was originally published, I finally started digging through one of those books: “The Essential Indian Instant Pot Cookbook,” by Archana Mundhe. Read More...
