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Goings On Turns a Hundred

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Shauna LyonEditor, Goings On 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…

How the Oscar Race Got as Messy as “Conclave”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Stop me if you’ve seen this one. A committee of august personages convenes, with much pomp and circumstance, to choose the best of their lot. Time-honored rituals are observed. Fancy outfits…

The Cancer Scams That Foreshadowed MAHA

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1986, Gilda Radner, one of “Saturday Night Live” ’s original Not Ready for Prime Time Players, was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer, at the age of forty. She underwent a…

Abel Tesfaye Says Goodbye to the Weeknd

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Abel Tesfaye, the Canadian singer who performs as the Weeknd, is perhaps his generation’s most committed self-mythologist. Early in his career, he obscured his identity while his moody, debased mixtapes became…

FKA Twigs Leaves It All on the Dance Floor

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For club kids, having a spiritual awakening on the dance floor is a rite of passage. Afterward, you’ll spend a lifetime chasing the high. Music-induced, out-of-body rapture has been the foundation…

A Mother and Daughter’s Joint Becoming

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Polish word pestka has roughly the same meaning in English as the word “pip,” meaning seed, or stone, as in stone fruit. But it is also used to mean “easy”—something…

Tom Gauld’s “Winter Sun”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the February 10, 2025, issue, the cartoonist Tom Gauld suggests a novel form of light therapy for the winter months: exposure to the warming rays of a…