The New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend is approaching quickly. For a mere $30, you get to dive into the minds of all your favorite performers, authors and all sorts of engaging personalities. Intelligent hosts offer insightful commentary on each person’s career, as well as a chance for audience q&a. I had the pleasure [...]
By Jennifer DeMeritt Depending on your opinion of the genre, you might think a musical is a lousy tribute for an artist as charismatic, influential, and flat-out funky as Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the Nigerian political activist and father of Afrobeat. Me? I’ve always hated musicals, which typically seem like boring songs in service of a boring [...]
It’s the twentysomething Catch-22: You can’t get experience without a job. You can’t get a job without experience. But in the throes of the worst economic recession since the 1930s, this crisis gets all the more menacing for young adults. No job (or trustfund)? No apartment. No relationship. No survival. And maybe for some, the [...]
For this quintessential American holiday, I asked NY food and wine luminaries for their Thanksgiving meal plans, thoughts, memories and advice. RR: WHAT WAS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE THANKSGIVING EXPERIENCE, WHETHER FABULOUS OR FIASCO? DANA COWIN: (Editor-in-Chief of Food & Wine Magazine)?My most memorable Thanksgiving fiasco took place about 20 years ago. I made a huge spinach side [...]
Bob Dylan and His Band United Palace Theatre New York City November 19, 2009 Gonna change my way of thinking Make myself a different set of rules Gonna change my way of thinking Make myself a different set of rules Gonna put my best foot forward And stop being influenced by fools Bob Dylan kicked off the final night of his three-night stand (and [...]
In his posthumous memoir, “Last Words,” George Carlin tells the story of his life, and explains the development of his brilliant and original comedic voice. Larry Getlen talks with co-author Tony Hendra about his longtime friendship with the comedy icon. George Carlin, who died last June, was perhaps the greatest comedy mind of our time. His [...]
With 1959’s “The Americans,” Robert Frank changed the art of photography, and opened a new window onto the soul of our nation. Now, for the first time, The Met features the project in its own comprehensive exhibit. Larry Getlen finds out how “The Americans” became such an essential cultural touchstone. In the age of a camera [...]
Our own Diana Spechler finds out. I have been wondering — as I do all year in a periodic, back-of-my-mind sort of way — what I’m supposed to buy for my brother-in-law for Hanukkah. And my brother. And my father. (Boys are impossible to shop for.) And my sister and my mother, of course. And my two [...]
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