Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In mid-November, the musician André 3000—one-half of the beloved hip-hop duo OutKast, which released six idiosyncratic and irrepressible records between 1994 and 2006—announced that he was, at long last, putting out…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The holiday shopping season has been a mainstay of life for many, many years—yet it has dramatically shifted in form over the past decade. It once involved crowds of people mobbing…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The photographer An-My Lê was born in Saigon in 1960, six years into the Vietnam War. Four days before North Vietnamese forces captured the city, in 1975, Lê and her family…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Dolly Parton’s first-ever rock album, “Rockstar,” released in November, opens with a declaration. “I’m gonna be in rock and roll whether you two like it or not!” an imagined teen-age Parton…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story MOMA’s new show “Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner—Spirit Movers” includes thirty-seven objects from the museum’s collection, many of them no larger than a sheet of typing paper. Yet the effect of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Boulder, Colorado, where I was born and raised, is sometimes called the fittest city in America. Septuagenarians go skiing before work, high-school delinquents hang out at the climbing gym, and people…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Irish singer and songwriter Shane MacGowan, a founding member of the punk-rock band the Pogues, died on Thursday, of pneumonia, at age sixty-five. It might sound as though he went…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In “Menu-Plaisirs—Les Troisgros,” Frederick Wiseman’s four-hour documentary about a great French restaurant, playing at Film Forum, there is a kitchen like none that I’ve ever seen: a large rectangular room with…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Though a year in movie releases is a small and arbitrary sample size, it’s nonetheless clear that, at the moment, the art of cinema is in good shape in the United…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In “Dream Scenario,” the new A24 film from the writer-director Kristoffer Borgli, Nicolas Cage plays Paul Matthews, an underappreciated and ineffectual college professor who finds fame because of an odd metaphysical…
