In October 1912, a young woman from a small village in southwest Serbia cut her hair, put on her brother's conscription papers and walked into the First Balkan War under his name. By the time she finally stopped fighting, more than a decade and two wars later, Milunka Savić had been wounded close to a dozen times, had personally marched dozens of enemy soldiers into captivity with nothing but a rifle and her own nerve, and had been decorated more times than almost any soldier

In January 1943, Warner Bros. released a seven-minute cartoon built around a swing band, a jitterbugging prince and an almost entirely Black voice cast, and it still divides the very people who study cartoons for a living. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs gets ranked among the best animated shorts ever made by the animators who worked in that era. It's also been formally banned from American television since 1968. Both things are true, and neither cancels the other out. Quick

In August 2026, Santa Fe Opera put on an American premiere that Hollywood never quite managed to get right. The opera is called Lili Elbe, it's scored by a Grammy winning composer, and its libretto was written by a working neuroradiologist who spends his days reading brain scans and his evenings, it turns out, correcting the historical record. His reason for writing it was blunt: he'd seen The Danish Girl and decided Lili's actual life deserved better than the film gave it. H