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“The Vast of Night,” a micro-budget noir set in 1950s New Mexico, crackles with B-movie electricity. The film is one of those little miracles: a directorial debut, made for nothing, that establishes a young filmmaker of self-evident command.

The fraught, freighted number of this particular American moment is a round one brimming with zeroes: 100,000. A hundred thousands. A thousand hundreds. Five thousand score. More than 8,000 dozen. All dead.

Like many Canadians, Erin Riediger cancelled her gym membership when the country went into lockdown in March. For the first few days of quarantine, the Winnipeg-based architect tried crafting her own yoga routine, to no avail.

CHICAGO — These are children of the pandemic. In the far-north Canadian town of Iqaluit, one boy has been glued to the news to learn everything he can about the coronavirus.

TORONTO — "Battle of the Blades" won't have a live audience. And "Family Feud Canada" is searching virtually for season 2 contestants.

There may have been a point — say, oh, a few months ago? — when we’d have demanded a lot more edge from a movie like “The High Note,” and been less forgiving of its more implausible moments.

NEW YORK — The U.S. is hitting a tragic milestone: 100,000 dead from the coronavirus. But is that number right? The accuracy of U.S. coronavirus death count has been both a scientific and political issue.

Like many Canadians, Erin Riediger cancelled her gym membership when the country went into lockdown in March. For the first few days of quarantine, the Winnipeg-based architect tried crafting her own yoga routine, to no avail.

NEW YORK — Reaction to the death of Larry Kramer, the AIDS activist and playwright who turned his fury into mass protests and helped raise the profile of the disease: "If you remember the early days of the AIDS crisis then you remember Larry Kramer.

NEW YORK — Larry Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatregoers ’ consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the early years of the epidemic, has died at 84.