The conductor Michael Tilson Thomas has always had a way with wordskabibe game, but one refrain of his is especially memorable. “I have encouraged people to color outside the lines, for lack of a better analogy,” he told The New York Times in 2017,
The beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake absorbed a great deal of oxygen this year, and from a distance it might appear that all the stakes for hip-hop in 2024 boiled down to this war of titans. But if anything, that battle was a head fake — the ge
Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music Every year, The New York Times’s pop music critics put together their comprehensive lists of best albums. And yet, still, there is disagreement — this time, each of the three critics picke
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“The Brutalist” is a bursting-at-the-seams saga of bold men and their equally outsized visions. Set across several decades in the aftermath of World War II, it is a grave, serious, visually sumptuous movie that puts a great many ideas into play, sta
“The Brutalist,” the epic starring Adrien Brody as a Holocaust survivor and architect, took home the top drama prize at the Golden Globes on Sundaymwplay888, triumphing in a field that included the journalism ethics thriller “September 5” and the Bo
It wasn’t long after celebrities started arriving on the red carpet at the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday that one of the night’s biggest fashion trends came into focus: metallics. Those who wore them included Zendaya, who went with a cop
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at the perceptions and the realities of crime in the subway. And, because it’s the first day of the state legislative session, we’ll look at the colonial-era lawyer who compiled a book of state laws whe
Burrowed in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies is a wooden house, a retreat center made of pine and spruce and filled with mushroom carvings, tapestries of periwinkle and indigo paisley, books about “The Indoctrinated Brain” and other paraphernal