Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When “Severance” premièred, in 2022, it felt like an absurdist parable about the alienation of labor—a moody, eerie critique of technocapitalism that seemed in keeping with our age of “upskilling” and…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Somewhere in London’s theatre district—I can’t say where—there’s a nondescript office building with a neon sign in the lobby that reads, in blue cursive script, “You Me Bum Bum Train.” The…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’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. It wouldn’t be a New York…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the spring of 2011, Lady Gaga, then twenty-five years old and on the cusp of releasing her second full-length studio album, “Born This Way,” did something unexpected—at least for a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Happy to Help You.” Two individuals, each with plenty of issues and their own communication quirks, collide on opposite ends of a mental-health helpline in Jeremy Beiler’s short film “Happy…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story New York City has long attracted imaginative and enterprising types, not all of whom express their creativity in painting studios or onstage. For the cover of the March 17, 2025, issue,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In an episode of “30 Rock”—a sitcom about a weekly live sketch show similar to “Saturday Night Live,” created by the former “S.N.L” head writer Tina Fey—the diva character Jenna Maroney…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When we first meet Shula (Susan Chardy), the quietly unbending protagonist of “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” she is driving home from a fancy-dress party, wearing dark shades, a gleaming metal…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’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. The International Center of Photography, founded,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Society has changed in monumental ways, the British historian Ruth Goodman observes, since the days “when we used scouring sand and wood ash to do the washing up”—and some of that…
