Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the August 12, 2024, issue, the cartoonist Roz Chast—who has delighted readers since 1978 with her opinionated and peculiar takes on life’s indignities—gives ice-cream makers some suggestions…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story We are twelve, and these are some of our choices: “Dawn of the Dead,” “The Deer Hunter,” “Hair,” “The China Syndrome,” “The Champ,” “A Little Romance,” “Superman,” “Love at First Bite,”…
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. It’s rare to find a Ramos Gin Fizz…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story My first and only experience of antisemitism in America came wrapped in a bow of care and concern. In 1993, I spent the summer in Tennessee with my girlfriend. At a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Stefan Ruiz was twenty-four years old and a recent graduate of U.C. Santa Cruz when he travelled to Côte d’Ivoire to help an art-history professor with a project. They went to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Some movies dispense symbols subtly, like crumbs on a backwoods trail, but in M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller, “Trap,” there’s one symbolic idea, and it’s unleashed with the subtlety of a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “She never made this cake,” Cole Escola informed me, briskly whipping egg whites as I sifted flour. It was early June, and we were baking at Joe’s Pub, the downtown performance…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Brian SeibertSeibert has covered dance for Goings On since 2002. You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Who among us hasn’t been catfished by a strawberry? At a farmers’ market recently, I bought a carton of strawberries that were vermillion, fragrant, and totally bland. I thought I was…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The art of storytelling is the art of simplification—of giving smooth contours and sharp points to messily loose-ended incidents. That’s why, when artists tell their life stories, the plethora of factual…
