After two months of being pummelled by the news, everyone in the “S.N.L.” cast this week looked ready for a break. Throughout Saturday’s show, the presumably exhausted writers relied on throwbacks and old reliable tactics. (At times they swerved lazily Read More …
These are our top picks for the weekend of March 8th-10th. For more event listings and reviews, check out Goings On About Town. Art The Iranian-American sculptor, Conceptualist, and political philosopher Siah Armajani is the subject of a fascinating retrospective Read More …
Annette Peacock has the name of a rock star. (It’s not an assumed name, but not her given one, either—she married the jazz bassist Gary Peacock and kept the excellent moniker after they split.) What’s more, when I meet her, Read More …
“Because, in an alternate universe, I am him,” Kanye West said on Thursday afternoon, as he held court before a throng of reporters and photographers in the West Wing. President Trump and Jared Kushner had invited him to the White Read More …
With a sighing emptiness of soul, feeling that I was saying goodbye, I visited Vidia Naipaul in his hospital room in London. This was in June. He strained to speak, but we managed to hold a conversation, and he smiled Read More …
There are people alive who do not enjoy Queen—who find the band too indulgent or too audacious—but I believe in my heart that those people are simply adrift. The critical conversations about Queen tend to linger on Freddie Mercury, Queen’s Read More …
Only at the Grammy Awards does the most commercially dominant artist in the world get to play the underdog. On Sunday, Drake, after years of strategically avoiding the ceremony, accepted the award for Best Rap Song, for his feel-good anthem Read More …
The Royal Albert Hall, in London, from its brick-and-terra-cotta façade to the velvet seats and gilded boxes within, is a great bowl of red and gold. Replete with Empire, the concert hall, built in 1871, was designed to showcase the Read More …
A private investigator named Manuel Gomez is the central character in the first season of Gimlet Media’s new investigative podcast series, “Conviction,” about criminal justice in the Bronx, which was released in its entirety this month. Gomez, a former police Read More …
In recent months, the crisis of immigrant children separated from their parents and held at detention centers has dominated the public imagination. Meanwhile, our understanding of another form of captivity in the U.S.—mass incarceration, including that of juveniles—continues to evolve. Read More …