Grief and Comedy Come Together in “Knight of Fortune”
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Bravo in the Flesh
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Thousands of romantics, driven to the desert. This year, the reality-television network Bravo held its third annual fan conference, BravoCon, in Las Vegas, dumping the Javits Center, its previous locale, for…
Siskel, Ebert, and the Secret of Criticism
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, who went on the air together for the first time in 1975, have been off the air for a long time now. Siskel died in 1999,…
The Cassette-Tape Revolution
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For a middle-school music-appreciation class in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the late nineteen-seventies, our teacher asked each of us to bring in a piece of recorded music to play…
“The Crown” Presents the Last Days of Princess Diana
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the sixth and final season of “The Crown,” Peter Morgan, the show’s writer and creator, returns to where he began. That start is not the first season of Morgan’s epic…
In “Nina & Irena,” a Holocaust Survivor Breaks Her Silence After Eighty Years
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “We’re a vanishing breed,” Lombroso’s grandmother told him. “So, if you want to do this, you’d better hurry.” A week after Donald Trump won the Presidency, I sat in a folding…
“May December” Knows What It Thinks, and That’s a Problem
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Some of the main conflicts in Todd Haynes’s new film, “May December” (which opens Friday), are practically shouted from behind the camera, and they drown out other ones on which the…
The Freedom to See Rome Anew
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A few years back, I returned from a trip to Rome with a coffee-table book of photographs of the city taken over the decades. In the months that followed, I leafed…
The Splendid Notebooks of Picasso
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. Last year,…
Nigerian Food with a Little Times Square Glitz
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. Some skepticism is warranted whenever a restaurant has…
