Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There was a moment, about twenty-five minutes into Taylor Swift’s first Eras Tour show, in Glendale, Arizona, when fans began to realize that the concert was much grander than they had…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Sining Xiang submitted his film to the Beijing Queer Film Festival, scheduled for later this year, amid an ongoing government crackdown on the L.G.B.T.Q. movement. In 2018, Sining Xiang brought his…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1974, when he was in his early twenties and living in downtown Manhattan, Richard Hell, born Richard Meyers, founded the band Television with his high-school friend Tom Verlaine. After an…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This is drawn from “The
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story What people do for money and with it, what having money or losing it does to them, is the raw material for “A New Leaf,” the first feature by Elaine May,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A children’s slide, bulbous and bright-colored, snakes down to a rectangle of synthetic grass. The playground, which consists of little else, is empty. It’s a paltry scene that could belong anywhere…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The death of Stephen Sondheim, in 2021, left a rupture in the theatre world, and especially the musical-theatre world, deeper and more profound than any other artist’s passing could. Sondheim had…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The artist Barkley L. Hendricks was known during his lifetime, though not nearly well enough, for his swaggering portrait paintings. During travels in Europe as a young man, Hendricks had been…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Often, the appeal in playing The Sims is watching humanoids navigate barely exaggerated scenarios inspired by your own life: finding a job, finding love, and, with luck, living to see old…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It was 1948 or so, and the comedy duo Freeman F. Gosden and Charles J. Correll faced a dilemma. Radio was no longer the nation’s dominant form of entertainment, and Gosden…
