Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an exchange of gifts among my two grandmothers, mother, and aunt, featuring the trait they shared: all four were left-handed. Waiting for them under the tree…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the early nineteen-eighties, Gail Butensky, then an undergraduate at Northwestern University, in Chicago, started taking photographs of punk bands for the Daily Northwestern. “I had pretty wimpy taste in high…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On paper, Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency room—the setting of the new Max drama “The Pitt”—is the kind of place you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. The waiting room is…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I’ve never been to Park City, Utah, where the Sundance Film Festival takes place, but for years I’ve been going to Sundance in New York, thanks to press screenings here of…
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…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The London Orbital Motorway, or the M25, is a vast ring road that runs in a shaggy circle around the outer edges of the capital. If you live in the city,…
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…
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…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The best filmmakers, looking to the past, see the future. The Holocaust and the Nazi menace to Europe have been filmmakers’ mainstays for decades, and sometimes the effort (whether more or…
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…
