Tommy Lee Jones at his ranch in San Saba, Texas, Oct. 19, 2026. The private actor enjoys life with his horses in the Texas Hill Country, removed from the show-business fray — but he’s back on TV for the first time in decades, in “The Lowdown.” (Christopher Lee/The New York Times) By SASHA OLDERSHAUSEN Tommy Lee Jones has a pig problem. Feral hogs have been digging up his yard in their frenzied quest for grubs, rendering the lawn a patchwork of grass and dirt. Jones, never muc

M. John Harrison’s “The End of Everything,” a novel that imagines aliens overrunning Britain, has won the Booker Prize, the prestigious literary award. (Wikipedia) By ALEX MARSHALL When M. John Harrison began his writing career, in the 1960s, he sometimes spoke with other science fiction writers about the genre’s poor reputation. “Why shouldn’t a well written SF be considered to be literary fiction?” he recalled asking, during a recent BBC interview. Some 60 years later, the

James Haslam, an Elvis tribute artist, performs at the Best Festival Elvis competition in Porthcawl, Wales, on Sept. 26, 2026. (Clementine Schneidermann/The New York Times) By CHLOE W. SHAKIN Like many British seaside destinations, the Welsh town of Porthcawl offers good surfing, fish and chips, and other traditional amusements. But it is perhaps best known for something decidedly American: celebrating the life and music of Elvis Presley. Every September, it hosts one of the

Artist Yanira Delgado’s habit of looking up, repeated countless times during ordinary days, has become the foundation of “Aíther: Sublime Time,” an exhibition opening Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the library lobby of the University of Puerto Rico at Carolina. (Social media) By THE STAR STAFF When artist Yanira Delgado steps outside and notices an extraordinary sunset, she does not set out with specialized equipment or a carefully planned artistic mission. She simply reaches for the d

Original props belonging to the photographer Jerry Schatzberg sit before a photograph of Bob Dylan holding them during a photoshoot, at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Okla., April 30, 2022. According to the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV met briefly with Dylan on Wednesday at the Apostolic Palace. (Joseph Rushmore/The New York Times) By ERIC NAGOURNEY Everyone likes to quote Bob Dylan, even popes. When the singer-songwriter met with Pope John Paul II in 1997, the pontiff name-checked

Composer Ema Quiñones (Facebook video via Victory Players) By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to The STAR It will be a toss-up as to who will be more tickled Saturday when the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (PRSO) unveils a world premiere of 24-year-old Ema Quiñones’ concerto “Contrastes Caribenos”: soloist Andrés Maldonado, the debuting composer, the 70-year-old orchestra, its Spanish-American guest conductor or the audience itself. With Maldonado, 33, and Quiñones both being clarin

“Daniel Isn’t Real” (2019) By JASON T. BAILEY Especially unnerving indie chiller leads off our rundown of hidden gems on your subscription streaming services. ‘Daniel Isn’t Real’ (2019) Stream it on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video or Hulu. Everybody loves a fun horror flick in the fall, but viewers who check out this nail-biter on one of the myriad services carrying it may be taken aback by the visceral intensity of the experience. Its central conceit is a clever one: The 8-year-

From left, Matte Martinez as Usnavi and Ashley De La Rosa as Vanessa in the musical “In the Heights” at New York City Center in New York, Oct. 27, 2026. This concert staging of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’s 2005 musical is like driving through the streets of New York with the windows down. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times) By HELEN SHAW At New York City Center’s gala presentation of “In the Heights,” my ear kept tickling me. Was I experiencing the aural equiv

Elke Sommer in 1965 (Wikipedia) By ANITA GATES Elke Sommer, the German actress whose beauty and comic timing led to a co-starring role with Peter Sellers in the slapstick Pink Panther sequel “A Shot in the Dark” and in other Hollywood films of the 1960s opposite Paul Newman and Bob Hope, died last Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 85. The death was confirmed by Erwin Schneider, a friend of Sommer’s. Sommer was only 23 but had already appeared in more than two doz

Patrick Stewart, who was set to return to the role of Jean-Luc Picard for the first time since 2002 for CBS All Access, in New York, Oct. 5, 2019. Stewart’s Picard represented a divergence from the “Star Trek” franchise’s signature hero, William Shatner’s James T. Kirk, and most other science fiction protagonists. (Mark Sommerfeld/The New York Times) By SOPAN DEB When Patrick Stewart, who died on Wednesday, was first offered the role of Jean-Luc Picard in “Star Trek: The Next