Three Tar River all-star softball teams recently won Tar Heel District 4 championships in Butner and will advance to the state tournament slated for July 17-20 in North Wilkesboro.

Cate Blanchett stars as a world-famous conductor heading for a fall in Todd Field’s chilly, timely backstage drama. By A.O. Scott When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

"Tar" has won best picture from the highbrow film critics organizations. Could it win more than Cate Blanchett in best actress?

This review originally ran Sept. 1, 2022, for the film’s Venice Film Festival premiere. If for nothing else, Todd Field’s “Tár” – a razor-sharp, post-post-MeToo character study that ...

‘Tár’ Director Todd Field Explains Why the End Credits Play at the Beginning of the Film “I wanted to recalibrate the viewer’s expectations about hierarchy,” said the writer-director ...

The grey clouds of McMurray. Clearly, mining the tar sands is perfectly sustainable in a commercial sense. Indeed, so many firms have been rushing to invest in tar-sands projects that the city at ...

Tar and some of the people around her invariably cite a long list of male conductors who did the same thing historically. But it's 2022 now. Is it enough to say, well, ...

Golden Globes 2023: Nominations include 'Tár' and Cate Blanchett in a power play as a lesbian conductor who must eventually face the music.

Cate Blanchett is a force of nature as the conductor Lydia Tár in Todd Field’s intense and relentless film about a genius haunted by past misdeeds.