Some pop fans might have gone into 2025 anticipating a year’s worth of the shakes, suffering from Eras Tour withdrawal. But there was no need for anyone to go cold turkey on live music these past 12 ...
It’s easy to pinpoint when trends in music begin: People rally around a specific band or album, a new scene forms around a shared sensibility, or a particular sound permeates the zeitgeist. It’s more ...
New Yorker writers reflect on the year’s highs and lows. The selection below encapsulates my absolute favorites, the ones I found I could not stop thinking about and cooking from, the ones that struck ...
For years she was pigeonholed as a rom-com star. Her turn as a blue-collar mom with a love of Neil Diamond just might vault her back to the Oscars. For years she was pigeonholed as a rom-com star. Her ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Usually, holiday opera is scarce on major stages in New York. But this year, there are two at Lincoln Center alone. By Joshua Barone ...
Stablecoins are ultimately capped by a ceiling that Bitcoin is positioned to smash right through. They are not an existential threat to Bitcoin. Technologies tend to have a natural ceiling built into ...
“Twixmas” or “betwixtmas” is too twee, and “interstice” sounds too much like bad cystitis. I don’t have a good name for the time between Christmas and new year, and I know everyone is not fortunate ...
She’s a middle-aged, blue-collar amputee who sings backup in a kitschy Neil Diamond cover band. “I don’t want to be a hairdresser,” she says with a heavy Wisconsin accent. “I want to sing and dance.” ...
In 2023, she announced that she had started using a GLP-1 weight loss medication, which she's since called "a relief" Oprah Winfrey used to believe that her weight was her "responsibility to fix." But ...
Step away from the spreadsheets and into the “rabbit hole.” From the sensory bubbles of animals to the mathematical rhythms of scaling cities, prominent Indian business leaders reveal the unexpected ...
After the breakout success of their debut, what did Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers do for an encore? Plenty, as it transpired. Emboldened by new love and an expanded five-piece lineup, they ...
The taste of victory was fresh and sweet to John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Just about a year ago, he sat in the drawing room of his Georgetown home and spoke breezily about the office he would assume. “Sure ...