Before she began shooting her new feature, “The Power of the Dog,” she returned again and again to the mountain range in New Zealand she had chosen as a location, checking what the light was like at different times of day, in different weather, across seasons. She asked Cumberbatch and Jesse Plemons, who play brothers, […]
When it debuted in March 2020 on Netflix, “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” became TV’s first pandemic hit, giving panicked viewers something to watch besides terrifying reports about the global proliferation of Covid-19. It’s not just Joe Exotic, as he is known, fighting the law anymore: Several people made famous by “Tiger King” are […]
Among the evening’s top lots were Alberto Giacometti’s craggy 1964 sculpture “Le Nez” , which sold for $78.4 million, above the $70 million estimate, and Mark Rothko’s luminous painting “No. The sale, the first of two parts — the second one is scheduled for May — was closely watched as a test of an art […]
“Sesame Street” is welcoming its first Asian American muppet to the neighborhood. Ji-Young won’t just be sharing her love for rock music and tteokbokki, or Korean rice cakes, on the show. Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit that produces “Sesame Street,” said it created Ji-Young to support families of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage as part of […]
“It was about something very personal to me. Several people were already in tears — having burst into heaving, Beatlemania-style sobs as soon as Swift appeared in a regal purple pantsuit — but at this admission they cried audibly harder. Few A-list musicians of this millennium have sustained a bond with their fans as intensely […]
Etel Adnan, an influential Lebanese American writer who wrote a seminal novel about the Lebanese civil war and achieved acclaim in her later years as a visual artist, died on Sunday in Paris. Ms. Adnan also wrote numerous collections of poetry. In her poetry, novels and nonfiction, Ms. Adnan often wrote about political discord and […]
But anyone hoping for the scripted series version of “Girls Gone Wild” or Playboy’s “Women of the Ivy League” will have to look elsewhere. Created by Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble, the series stars Alyah Chanelle Scott as Whitney, a jock and a senator’s daughter; Renée Rapp as Leighton, a closeted Park Avenue princess; Amrit […]
The previously announced Broadway production of Ntozake Shange’s 1976 “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf,” directed by Camille A. Brown, who will be making her Broadway directorial debut, choreographed the director Leah C. Shange has inspired many, and her death in 2018 prompted a renewed interest in her work. The […]
As the re-emergence of Adele continues with the one-two punch of an Oprah Winfrey interview and a “One Night Only” concert at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles in front of a starry, starry crowd — all in prelude to an album release on Friday — so, too, does her mastery of the art the […]
There was a moment in last week’s episode of “Succession” when Kendall was standing on Josh Aaronson’s patio, reminding Josh of their longtime friendship and boasting about his upcoming birthday party — acting like a big shot, in other words. This week’s episode is titled “Retired Janitors of Idaho.” It refers to the faction Roman […]
Petra Mayer, a books editor for NPR and self-described “resident nerd” who delighted readers with her musings about science fiction, comics and cats, died on Saturday at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md. …Read the full story
The British monarch, 95, has put off multiple trips and engagements recently, and the latest cancellation has deepened anxiety about her health. Buckingham Palace announced the queen’s injury and withdrawal less than two hours before she was scheduled to appear at the ceremony, having signaled earlier on Sunday morning that she would be there. The […]
Bryant’s Cruz was also visited by Kyle Mooney, dressed in a makeshift Big Bird costume that probably wasn’t fabricated by Sesame Workshop. And hey, for good measure, the sketch brought out Chloe Fineman as Britney Spears, newly released from her yearslong conservatorship. Her performance — which ran even longer than Prince’s fabled eight-minute, three-song medley […]
They owned a two-unit townhouse in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and they felt lucky to have it, with its yard and the kind of close-knit neighbors who compete to shovel one another’s sidewalks after a snowfall. When the city shut down, their daughter, Edie, was 7 months old; Drew and Amena co-parented while working […]
Even as they were taking Manhattan, though, Meghan was shadowed by the couple’s old life in London. But the tabloids, which have been at war with the couple since before they abandoned Britain for Southern California, leapt on the admission. Nine months after she and Harry gave a sensational interview to Oprah Winfrey in which […]
The sound of their new collaborative album, “An Evening With Silk Sonic,” comes from a decade earlier, the 1970s, when the grit and funk of 1960s soul made way for a new embrace of sophisticated luxury. Singers promised sensual pleasures, sharing ardent come-ons and velvety harmonies in opulent tracks, backed by bountiful strings and horns. […]
Graeme Edge, the drummer and co-founder of the British band the Moody Blues, for whom he wrote many of the spoken-word poems that, appended to songs like “Nights in White Satin,” made the group a pioneer in the progressive rock movement of the 1960s and ’70s, died on Thursday at his home in Bradenton, Fla. […]
Spears, Ms. Spears’s father, who is known as Jamie, first petitioned the court for authority over his adult daughter’s life and finances in early 2008, citing her very public mental health struggles and possible substance abuse amid a child custody battle. The laws need to change,” Ms. Spears, 39, said at the time, explaining that […]
And I remember asking him to create something that could have a progression from something, from music that could be played in that context, that is music that is sort of designed to disappear, just to be in the background, and then eventually becomes very relevant and very intense and helps you define what she’s […]
Like what you hear? Let us know at theplaylist@nytimes.com and sign up for our Louder newsletter, a once-a-week blast of our pop music coverage. Like “Fearless” before it, Taylor Swift’s rerecorded and reclaimed “Red , who seems to have fulfilled this prophecy to a T. “Superstar” is a prodigious torch song that fits comfortably among […]