Beacon’s Closet, the used-clothing emporium with several locations in New York City, is a site of ritual humiliation. Perhaps you know the drill. You haul your bags of old sweaters, shoes, or slacks to the counter in the back of Read More …
The six-episode miniseries “Valley of the Boom” (National Geographic) carries us back to the nineteen-nineties to juggle three true tales of the dot-com bubble. The most familiar charts the ups and downs of the Netscape Communications Corporation, with its seminal Read More …
In order to see “The Battle of Atlanta” more or less the way that it was meant to be seen, you must take a short escalator up to a platform that stands about a third as high as the panoramic Read More …
On a September evening this year, a twenty-one-year-old radiology student in Melbourne, Australia, named Angela Kang and her younger brother were once again cracking jokes about their Asian upbringing. Not that it hadn’t been comfortable—Angela and her brother had all Read More …
“At Home with Amy Sedaris” (truTV) might be best described as a deviled egg spiritually possessed by an imp of the perverse. The cult celebrity of its charming host rests on the satirical platform of Comedy Central’s “Strangers with Candy,” Read More …
Gabriel Kahane, a Brooklynite singer-composer who sways between pop and classical worlds, has taken the concept of the concept album to rarefied heights. For his record “The Ambassador,” released in 2014, he created a suite of songs inspired by various Read More …
The clever and freewheeling nine-minute animated short “Fire in Cardboard City,” directed by Phil Brough, which had its U.S. début at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, is a mini disaster movie that feels like a joyride. It begins with sirens, Read More …
When Bob Mackie met Cher, it was a match made in spangles. This was 1967, and Sonny Bono and Cher were guest stars on “The Carol Burnett Show,” where Mackie was the costume designer. “They came in, and I thought, Read More …
On Friday afternoon, the rapper and producer Mac Miller was found dead in his San Fernando Valley home. He was just twenty-six years old. TMZ, which has in the past decade perfected a crude art of celebrity death-chasing, broke the Read More …
At the start of the 1969 hit “The Ghetto,” the legendary soul singer Donny Hathaway plays a deep bass line on electric piano and swoops up to his falsetto, as if to outline a shape that the song will fill Read More …