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A Drag Story Hour Simply Observed in “It’s Okay”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “It’s Okay.” In late December, 2022, when demonstrators gathered outside a public library, in Queens, to protest a Drag Story Hour, the filmmaker and investigative journalist David France was present…

What Tweens Get from Sephora and What They Get from Us

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Midday on a Thursday this summer in New York, I walked up Broadway in SoHo, toward Sephora, hoping that I wouldn’t see something. I had been reading—in the Times, the Washington…

Snoop Dogg and American Attitude at the Paris Olympics

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I can’t be the only one who is delighted and amused but also, on a deep level, totally baffled—like a museumgoer at an early exhibition of Surrealist art—by the constant televisual…

The Cellist of Auschwitz

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Hier spricht Anita Lasker, eine deutsche Jüdin,” a voice says, youthful but precise. “This is Anita Lasker speaking, a German Jew.” The recording was made on April 16, 1945, at the…

Nick Cave’s Transfixing Chants

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Sheldon PearcePearce has been writing about music for GO since 2020. You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up…

“Weird” Is a Rebuke to Republican Dominance Politics

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Are you weird? According to Democrats—who have made “weird” a new term of art for Republicans—you’re weird if you get overexercised about the genitalia of Olympic athletes, think childless people shouldn’t…

How “Industry” Made Prestige TV for the TikTok Era

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the first episode of the third season of “Industry,” which premières this weekend on Max, a new character is introduced to the show’s ensemble. “Industry” focusses on the British office…