Solange and Saint Heron Are Honoring Black Innovation at BAM

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( eldorado ballroom [Solange and Saint Heron Are Honoring Black Innovation at BAM]( In a rare interview, Solange talks about bringing together a lineup of Kelela, KeiyaA, the Clark Sisters, and more. Photo: Rafael Rios Solange is a bridge builder, a nexus connecting creative mediums. Old traditions blend into new ones in her catalogue. Her 2016 studio album, A Seat at the Table, home to the yearning and ephemeral Grammy winner “Cranes in the Sky,” served limber soul music played by personnel with backgrounds in indie rock, hip-hop, and electronic music: The simmering “Mad” brought Lil Wayne, R&B trailblazer Raphael Saadiq, and Dirty Projectors front man Dave Longstreth together. 2019’s kaleidoscopic synth odyssey When I Get Home featured both Gucci Mane and Animal Collective’s Panda Bear. Performance pieces like “Witness!” and “Bridge-s” juxtaposed ballet, jazz, R&B, and the stark, imposing architecture of museums. Her craft is studious, and her art offers just as much subtle, careful historiography as plush, sticky melodies. You can dance to it, or you can pry apart the threads she’s weaving and trace them back to the wise progenitors of the arts she studied in her youth. [Read More]( [Sale Extended: Save up to 75%]( on unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • The Real Housewives of New Jersey: [Pass the Cheese]( • The Bad Batch: [Enough With the Mundane Missions]( • Vanderpump Rules: [To the Dogs]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [Keanu Reeves Goes on Fourth Rampage Over Dead Dog Man’s got a new best friend in John Wick: Chapter 4 trailer.]( By Zoe Guy [Johnny Knoxville Is Still Processing Reboot’s Demise “We were like, Oh, this will be fun to do for the next five or six seasons. We took it for granted. Boy, were we surprised.”]( [Titanic Is Still the Purest Expression of Who James Cameron Is I don’t begrudge the director’s nerdy noodling with his greatest picture because this constant need to innovate is his greatest strength.]( [A Podcast Reconsiders the Romantic Comedy The hosts of Let’s Make a Rom-Com analyze the genre — and try to write their own script.]( [Party Down Has Time on Its Side The cultishly beloved cater-waiter comedy returns in peak form, using the 13-year gap between seasons to its best advantage.]( By Kathryn VanArendonk [Kill the Propecia Joke Jim Jefferies’s latest special features a joke that has been told by at least six other comedians.]( [Dick Van Dyke, Living Legend, Went on the Singing-Mascot Show “I would say it’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever done.”]( By Jason P. Frank [Ryan Seacrest Won’t Be Going Live With Kelly Anymore Kelly Ripa, the last survivor of daytime TV, will co-host with husband Mark Consuelos.]( By Justin Curto [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 14-Across, Five Letters: Evil agent of The Matrix. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images Into It With Sam Sanders Photo-Illustration: Vulture HBO’s The Last of Us is critically acclaimed, attracts a huge audience every week, and has all the trappings of prestige TV … but is it any good? [On this week’s Into It](, Sam debates it all out with Vulture writers Roxana Hadadi and Jackson McHenry, who are in two very different camps. [Read more from Vulture]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](link.nymag.com/manage/588/optout-vulture?email={EMAIL}&hash=39357a76f6d08b16239fd2ffa65e9c6f¶m=vulture-daily) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved