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Mark Morris’s Summer Season
Shortly after the conclusion of the fourth season of the Netflix blockbuster “Stranger Things,” in 2022, one of the series regulars, Joe…
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How to Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday
Also: Rachel Syme on the return of Day-Glo. Source link
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At Pacha New York, an Infamous Night Club Is Reborn
By the time Rampa arrived on the decks, a bit before 1 a.m., the crowd was congealing into a congenial blur: serious dancers with their…
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What Happened to Your Face?
One of the things Wittgenstein implies is that we don’t theorize the faces we see. I might talk of “reading” your face, but it isn’t like…
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Sublime Fury at the Ojai Festival
Nostalgia isn’t an Ojai virtue, however, and younger composers kept things current. Messiaen’s nature-consciousness found a counterpart in…
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The Artistry of Tarot
Also: the modern reggae of Original Koffee, Tina Fey’s modern take on “The Four Seasons,” Hugh Jackman’s gory Robin Hood, and more. Source…
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Why the Odyssey Keeps Defeating Filmmakers
Since the fifteenth century, most adaptations of Homer have taken the form of translation, which has never been easy. Homer wrote a very…
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The Hell-Raising Rocker Who Conquered Country Radio
About a decade ago, an aspiring rock star from Texas named Koe Wetzel had the mixed fortune of writing a song that stuck to him. The…
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In “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg Replays the Hits
Margaret, following her nutty North Star wherever it leads, would have been right at home in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977),…
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A World-Class Omakase in America’s Most Landlocked State
Many of the commercial strips in Omaha, a city of about half a million people, have the air of a nineties college town, with low-slung…
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Did a Rowdy English Nobleman Mastermind the American Revolution?
America’s fight for independence is often considered a battle fought and won at home. A new book argues that it was propelled by a…
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Cowboy Heaven, in MOMA’s Westerns Series
The series “Universal Westerns,” at MOMA through July 3, reveals the fruitful cinematic idiosyncrasies that Universal Pictures, founded in…
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The Rise of the Meta-Gay Show
At times, this approach can wear thin, the air quotes so enormous that they dwarf what’s inside them. But, when the method clicks, it…
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Why the American Novel Refused to Grow Up
It is frustrating—and characteristic of his somewhat monomaniacal approach—that Fiedler does not consider, alongside the seduction plot,…
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The Fear Driving “Well, I’ll Let You Go” and “Othello”
Like the recent Broadway play “Little Bear Ridge Road,” “Well, I’ll Let You Go” is a portrait of people living in isolation, their walls…
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The Age of “Intentional” Drinking
One evening not long ago, I met Amanda Crawford, a professional wine adviser, at Vandell, a new but nostalgic cocktail bar on the east…
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Rostam Batmanglij Wanders to the Edges of American Sound
Other songs on “American Stories” are more personal. “Like a Spark” opens with a blues riff played on a nylon-string guitar, offset by the…
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The Idea That Reshaped Identity Politics Has a Complicated Backstory
Plenty of scholars and journalists have written histories of these contentious terms, “intersectionality” and “critical race theory.” Now…
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“Heated Rivalry” and Its Wine-Mom Fans Reunite
Plus: the radiant pop of MUNA, the visceral paintings of Juanita McNeely, a “Beaches” musical, and more. Source link
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“Schmigadoon!” and “The Lost Boys” Are Killer Revamps
The first sign of the show’s commitment to the bit is the third song, a delirious hoedown called “Corn Puddin’,” a parody of inane but…
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A German Master’s Modernist Epic of Postwar Amnesia and Hypocrisy
Wolfgang Koeppen’s “trilogy of failure,” written from 1951 to 1954, is a sprawling, polyphonic portrait of a physically and morally…
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Oneohtrix Point Never’s Sense of the Uncanny
Broadway Even amid Broadway’s queer renaissance, Richard O’Brien’s “The Rocky Horror Show” stands out as a transgressive blast. Luke Evans…
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Sharp Claws at “Becky Shaw” and “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
Still, what distinguishes Gionfriddo is not her ear for cruelty but her ability to see beyond it, and to shift the prism of audience…
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Why I Wanted to Keep My Marriage a Secret, by David Sedaris
All these years later, I could still see their room so clearly: its dark, almost black wood panelling, their checkerboard-tiled floor. It…