Baby-naming has become almost a competitive sport, with parents vying to find a name that no one else has discovered, that also carries deep personal meaning. Luna has gone from almost nonexistent 20 years ago to number 14 on the Social Security Administration list of popular names. There are definitely boy equivalents — Lucas, Luca, […]
Lin-Manuel Miranda still believes it was a miracle that “In the Heights,” the musical homage to Latino culture through the lens of the Washington Heights neighborhood, made it to Broadway. “Some of the hurdles were about Hollywood’s unwillingness to take chances on new talent and invest in that,” Miranda said. The movie features a cast […]
Thomas, Indiana’s former caretaker, said they were dropping the claims and counterclaims that began around the time of Indiana’s death in Maine in May 2018 at age 89. The protracted legal fight began around the time of Indiana’s death with a legal filing by the Morgan Art Foundation. Among these works, it said, was BRAT, […]
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal spent 9 years making “Blindspotting,” a dark and dreamlike 2018 buddy comedy about two friends grappling with police power in a rapidly gentrifying Oakland. The story, of Diggs’s Collin, a mover wrapping up his parole, and Casal’s Miles, his volatile best friend, had been told. They reasoned that there was […]
This novel follows members of the Chippewa in the 1950s, as Congress weighs a bill to “emancipate” Indigenous people from their lands and their tribal affiliations. Mason spent 15 years working on this collection of short fiction, with stories set in far-flung places like the Malay Archipelago, the outer limits of the atmosphere, an asylum […]
Most of the women — Dede Lovelace, 23; Moonbear , 27; Nina Moran, 23; Ajani Russell, 21; and Rachelle Vinberg, 22 — were still teenagers when they received their first taste of broader exposure, in a 2016 short film by Crystal Moselle. Between setups, they practiced new tricks, cracked inside jokes, shot silly videos — […]
Over the next five days, according to a story conference transcript, the three concocted a swashbuckling archaeologist who fused Humphrey Bogart to James Bond. Indiana Jones’s narrow escapes from Nazis, boulders, blow darts, poisoned dates, speeding trucks and, of course, snakes, tip a fedora to the cliffhanger serials of the 1930s — the kiddie adventures […]
The events will be held at the Eden Project, an environmental and educational center in Cornwall, England, about 35 miles from Carbis Bay, where the summit is being held. The summit comes just two months after the death of Prince Philip, the queen’s husband of 73 years. The Eden Project is an apt location for […]
When the first five-episode installment dropped, on Jan. Now a new batch of five episodes — Part 2, as Netflix is calling it — has arrived and is available on Friday worldwide. “Being a British man, you just think, ‘I could believe that when I see it’ — you don’t want to get excited,” said […]
Now, all Goldman employees in the United States, regardless of whether they choose to wear a mask while in the office, will need to log their status in the bank’s internal app for employees. “It’s important to have data to make data-informed decisions,” said Johnny Taylor, chief executive of the Society for Human Resource Management. […]
Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which before the pandemic was the rare play to have a long and lucrative Broadway run, will resume performances on Oct. It will reopen with a pair of familiar faces onstage: Jeff Daniels, who starred as the righteous lawyer Atticus Finch during the show’s first year, […]
Mark Wahlberg’s Evan McCauley attends a job interview at a restaurant, where the slimy proprietor grills him about his past struggles with mental health before dismissing him rudely. But “Infinite” is a movie about superheroes, which means that the stakes have to become, at minimum, planet-size. And so Nora , one of the good gals, […]
The book was inspired by Green’s podcast of the same name, where the author — who is best known for his 2012 young adult best seller-turned-cultural phenomenon, “The Fault in Our Stars” — reviews different aspects of the human experience on a 5-star scale. In the introduction, Green quotes the novelist Allegra Goodman, who was […]
JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup, the nation’s largest and third-largest banks, said they planned to begin donating money gathered by their political action committees to candidates. “A PAC is an important tool for JPMorgan Chase employees to engage in the political process in the United States,” the bank’s political action committee wrote in a note that […]
