Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At some point in my childhood, I persuaded my parents to buy me a computer game at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Obsessed, like many kids, with ancient Egypt, I’d spent…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Kelly Clarkson’s voice was always wasted on saccharine ballads such as “A Moment Like This,” the début single that she released, in 2002, after winning the inaugural season of “American Idol.”…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Shot in the style of a retro promotional trailer for a Hollywood film, this fake trailer features Bill Murray, in a fake role that was “cut” from “Asteroid City,” and Jason…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “In these parts of the world, where people live in extremely rough circumstances, they’re able to put aside [their] differences in the name of protecting their environment,” the director David Alexander…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The gutting of Turner Classic Movies by its parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, is a grim omen for the future of the channel. Much of its leadership team was pushed out,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story 1 / 10ChevronChevronPlace Saint-André-des-Arts. c. 1865. © Charles Marville Marville/Musée Carnavalet/Roger-Viollet/The Image Works. The Paris we know is shaded white and gray, a city of zinc roofs and pale stone façades…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I’ll say this for Hudson Yards, the twenty-five-billion-dollar, twenty-eight-acre development that has risen, like some Tolkien tower, on the far West Side of Manhattan: it would be a great setting for…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Instead of hosting back-yard barbecues for the Fourth of July, many New Yorkers gather in crowds throughout the city, to watch fireworks burst over the East River or to celebrate under…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Robert Plunket has some theories. Among them: why there are so many roundabouts in his adopted city of Sarasota, why lesbians don’t wear more jewelry, what’s really going on with Princess…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story What is the most uninformative statement that people are inclined to make? My nominee would be “I love to travel.” This tells you very little about a person, because nearly everyone…
