The town of Gander, Newfoundland, has six traffic lights and a population of less than thirteen thousand. Snowmobiling is popular, and people leave their car doors unlocked while they’re a…
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SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 11:00PMLisa Henson and Emma Walton Hamilton met only recently, but they have something rare in common: each has a parent who likely held a deep, enchanted place in your childhood. Henson, who is fi…
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SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 01:12PMA few years before writing “Guys and Dolls,” which premièred in 1950, Frank Loesser put his sizable talents to work for Uncle Sam, when the U.S. Army hired him to collaborate on a serie…
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SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 08:04AMEarly in 2010, Cheryl Strayed got an e-mail from an acquaintance, Steve Almond, who wrote an advice column—Dear Sugar—for the literary Web site The Rumpus. Strayed was living in Portland…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 11:00PMOscar winners aren’t the best barometers by which to gauge the national mood. Movies and politics work at different speeds, reshaping themselves—and absorbing each other—in unpredictab…
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SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 11:00PMAround three-thirty yesterday afternoon, Richard Nelson made his final edits to a project that has spanned this parlous political season: a trilogy of quiet and sad dramas called “The Gabr…
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SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMIn seventh grade, I became completely obsessed with the 1981 musical “Merrily We Roll Along,” by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth. It was my introduction to cynicism, set to a brassy Br…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 03:20PMIn an era of binge-watching, live-tweeting, and the Oculus Rift, how can theatre compete as all-consuming entertainment? Perhaps it’s our desire to be more than spectators—to be sucked h…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMIt’s become a cliché of this election season that, if you were to present the current Presidential race as fiction, no one would believe it. So what better time to hear from a group of fi…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 05:01PMKarina Longworth is the host of the popular show “You Must Remember This,” which covers the golden age of cinema.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:43PMThe thirty-eight-year-old actor Andrew Rannells is part of a new crop of gay stars—like Chris Colfer and Tituss Burgess—who never had to bother to be closeted in the public eye. Lean and…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMWhat were you up to on Friday, September 16th? Did you think about Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? Did you talk about the election with the people you encountered? Chances are that you did,…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 08:00AMGeorge St. Geegland and Gil Faizon are two Upper West Side alter kakers who are partial to turtlenecks, cultural programs at the Y, and the oeuvre of Alan Alda. For a time, they hosted a pr…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:35PMA few days before graduating from Columbia University, in May, 2015, the actress and model Hari Nef showed up at a Flatiron office building to meet Ivan Bart, the president of IMG, the agenc…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMGrowing up in Manhattan in the eighties, I loved the TV commercials for the electronics chain “Crazy Eddie.” What kid wouldn’t? The pitchman, an unholy mashup of Pee-wee Herman and Don…
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