On Dec. 19, more than 100 people attended the 100th anniversary celebration of “The Great Gatsby” at Raptis Rare Books.
I waited until the last minute to purchase my Halloween costume and wouldn’t you know it? By the time I got to my local Spirit Halloween (which, until the month before had been the Department of ...
Comedian Jon Stewart ripped President Donald Trump for hosting a “Great Gatsby”-themed party in Mar-a-Lago the night before millions of Americans lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...
Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT.
I hope everyone had a good Halloween. The president certainly did — he spent his weekend throwing a Great Gatsby–themed party at Mar-a-Lago. Now, “The Great Gatsby,” for those who might’ve missed the ...
California Governor Gavin Newsom tore into Donald Trump for partying like it’s 1922 given that nearly an eighth of the U.S. population is about to go hungry. “Donald Trump hosted a Great Gatsby party ...
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has preemptively acquired Academy Award winner Stephen Gaghan‘s pitch for Valley of Ashes, a contemporized loose adaptation of The Great Gatsby set in San Francisco, on which he’s ...
Very few symbols in American literature carry as much weight as that of Jay Gatsby's car from "The Great Gatsby." The lavish ride served as an opulent reminder of the character's wealth, with critics ...
Two sorrowful, enchanting eyes gaze out from the deep blue night sky. A woman’s mouth, with red-painted lips, floats silently below. The glittering lights of a city or an amusement park are visible in ...
“Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can!” is a line famously spoken by the title character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” This year, writers are repeating the past — a lot — with ...
In 2022, Kyra Davis Lurie heard a story on KCRW’s “Curbed Los Angeles” about the residents of South L.A.’s West Adams Heights, nicknamed Sugar Hill after a community of wealthy Black Harlemites.
Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby is big, loud and lavish, more of an event than a film, and a substitution of essence for grandiosity. From the moment it was announced that the Australian filmmaker ...