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White hairstylists backing away from doing Black hair. Makeup artists resorting to mixing special effects product. Black style and fashion veterans recount struggles, yet signs of change are peeping through: [...]

From the archives of Variety: AUGUST 12, 1935 'Dumont Dukes It Out with Groucho, Harpo' Portly matron Margaret Dumont, the long-suffering straight woman to Marx Brothers hijinks, pranks, and gags, [...]

Last year in early March, just as it was becoming clear that the U.S. wouldn't be able to avoid a COVID-19 lockdown for much longer, executives at Westbrook Media began [...]

Nestled along the Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore blends urban renewal with a markedly historic past and is known for its ethnic, cultural and artistic diversity. Founded in 1729 and incorporated in [...]

Delayed perhaps a decade by World War II, television programing took root in the late 1940's on four national networks - ABC, CBS, NBC and DuMont. In its first year, [...]

Byline: GRAYDON CARTER OF KINGS AND QUEENS Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patchdecaying, [...]

The following is a look at some of the voices and faces that helped turn a mode of communication into the most prolific news and entertainment medium the world has [...]

1920s The Majestic Theatre on Adelaide Street in Toronto is purchased in 1916 by N.L. Nathanson, who, with a group of associates, continues to purchase sites, naming them the Regent […]

TORONTO Stuart Pollock recalls a common criticism that Famous Players used to hear when the VP of marketing started working with the company a decade ago. "The locations," he remembers, […]

The first seeds of Famous Players were sown in 1916 when Minneapolis businessman N.L. Nathanson bought the Majestic Theatre on Adelaide Street in Toronto and, with a group of partners, […]

NEW YORK--After nearly 15 years of pounding out heavy alternative rock, L7 has come full circle. In the the late '80s, the Los Angeles-based band started recording on independent labels […]

1980-1984 1980: WTCG (later TBS) is the-first satellite programmer to charge affiliate fees. 1980: Black Entertainment Television launches. 1980s: Franchise boom leads to doubling of cable systems in the decade [...]

The year was 1974, and Hollywood was torn apart by a Writers Guild of America strike. No one felt the heat more acutely than television's top talent: As writer's, they […]

Who ruled the charts and the headlines as new players have emerged and some things (Sandra Bullock) stay the same 1994 2013 Forrest Gump TOP-GROSSING MOVIE Iron Man 3 ($409M [...]

In 1970, Berry Gordy Jr. owned the nation's largest blackowned business, Motown Industries, purveyors of the Motown Sound, 'the sound of young America.' At that time, the 8-track cassette was [...]

Christina Vitagliano, owner of Monster Mini Golf, describes how she started and grew the business. Vitagliano started the business in a dilapidated mill that hosted her former business, which has since grown into 26 franchises around the U.S. Vitagliano recently closed a deal to develop a KISS-themed franchise in Las Vegas.

Variety had its own wide-ranging, sometimes whimsical, sometimes woe-filled, take on the end of World War II in Europe. Looking back at the coverage in Variety 60 years ago in […]

UNTIMELY COMIC RELIEF: It is both understandable and unsettling to hear that a song has been removed from a show that's been revived from a past era that got a […]

HOLLYWOOD Most people clearly divide history into two periods: Before Me and After Me. To a person born in 1955, World War II was the ancient past, while the Kennedy […]

On Broadway just below Central Park stands a small, ordinary office tower called the Newsweek Building. But 50 years ago, it was the headquarters of Sinatra Incorporated here in New [...]