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The first song Conan Gray ever wrote was called “Those Days,” about a period he spent in a small Texas town called Rockdale. (Population: 5,505.) “The slogan was ‘an hour …
Conan Gray, a Budding Pop Singer Who Feels It All Read MoreThe composer David Lang recently danced the hora at the wedding of a relative – a gay Orthodox soon-to-be rabbi who married his gay Orthodox rabbi boyfriend. “It was totally …
Pam Tanowitz’s Next Act: ‘I Need to Make a Jewish Dance’ Read MoreWhen the painter Sam Gilliam died last weekend at age 88, he left behind pioneering artworks, particularly his draped canvases stained with blooms of color that forever changed the way …
Sam Gilliam ‘Took a Step Most People Didn’t Understand What Possible’ Read MoreWhen director Dean Fleischer Camp and his co-writer and star Jenny Slate made their first short of “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” in 2010, they could not have imagined …
Behind the Scenes of ‘Marcel the Shell With Shoes On’ Read MoreTHRUSTBy Lidia Yuknavitch338 pages. Riverhead Books. $ 28. As in “Alice in Wonderland” or an old-fashioned Disney cartoon, things perk up considerably Lidia Yuknavitch’s willfully difficult new novel, “Thrust,” when …
In ‘Thrust,’ Talking Animals and Others Take Aim at Humanity’s Cruelty Read MoreHe came aboard in 2015 to stabilize a troubled Metropolitan Museum of Art, led the museum after one director was ousted and then shared power with another. But on Tuesday, …
Daniel Weiss, Met Museum’s Chief Executive, to Step Down Read MoreIn the flat red frame of a photograph, a woman smiles upward. With the camera, we gaze down upon the whirl of her body. Near her face, a basketball sinks …
Is That Steph Curry… or a Work of Art? Read MoreOne of the funniest sitcoms on Netflix makes its exit for US subscribers at the end of July. If that’s not cause enough for distress, the streamer is also jettisoning …
Stream These 9 Movies and Shows Before They Leave Netflix in July Read MoreIn 1969, when abortion was illegal in Illinois, an underground operation took place in Chicago. Officially called the Abortion Counseling Service of Women’s Liberation, it became known as the Jane …
When an Abortion Story Is Told as a Caper, Thriller or Farce Read MoreKurt Russell had the hip swivel down cold. Val Kilmer nailed the sincere, soulful voice. And Michael Shannon… well, the credits identified him as Elvis Presley, so that was the …
The Best Actors to Play Elvis Onscreen Read More