Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Alex BaraschCulture editor You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. In the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. The origin story of the instant noodle, as…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Is the U.S.—long thought to be the land of new beginnings—in danger of becoming a sclerotic gerontocracy? “In a declining society, the images of an aging leadership can come to embody…
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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story From the nineteen-fifties through the seventies, short films were a national cottage industry in France. Their production was funded in part by the government’s official film-supporting bodies, both through direct subsidies…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the catalogue of common nightmares, teeth provide some of the most potent imagery. Primal to our mechanisms of speech and sustenance, they also embody a certain vulnerability, anxiety; memento mori,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story They gathered twenty miles outside our nation’s capital. Many of the attendees were dressed in the traditional fashions of India: gauzy lehengas and bright saris. Other guests wore clothes that represented…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The year was 1985, Ronald Reagan’s Morning in America was in full swing, and the Minneapolis-based Replacements were making moves. Following a string of critically beloved and commercially overlooked releases on…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The filmmaker David Pisonero Tarantino was asking himself a big question before making his short documentary “Encarnación”: What is the secret to happiness? “I was in a not-so-good place,” he told…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Talking pictures began with a musical—“The Jazz Singer,” in 1927—and the filming of musical performance has been an artistic battleground ever since. With great performers, unadorned recording is a virtue; film…
