Ethel Merman sang it first, in the 1936 Cole Porter musical “Red, Hot and Blue,” which became the title of the 1990 AIDS awareness album “Red Hot + Blue.” On a starry compilation of pop covers of ...

The scenic designer Dane Laffrey on the inspiration he found while travelling in Tokyo and the ideas that led to the ...

The film is certainly deeply Japanese: it’s rooted in the phenomenon, much discussed in Japan, of ‘paid dating’ (college students and high-school girls who casually prostitute themselves for pocket ...