At the CMT Music Awards this month, the least likely nominee turned into the night’s biggest story.In a room full of country music royalty, the artist Jelly Roll — a 38-year-old face-tattooed...
Read more“I didn’t like her child, actually,” Diana says.Diana’s off-puttingness is partially strategic; it keeps her safe from the harm that other people might cause by getting close. But her brittle-perfectionist facade conceals...
Read moreIt began, of course, with the songs, actual folk music. Well, with Belafonte’s interpolation, which in its varied guises wed acoustic singing with Black spiritual arrangements and the sounds of the islands....
Read moreAlexei Ratmansky was scrolling through social media recently when he came across a startling post.A video showed rehearsals from a production of “The Pharaoh’s Daughter” at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg,...
Read moreWhen plans for it first surfaced, I wondered if the new Gilder Center at the Natural History museum might end up looking overcooked. From the outside it’s a white-pink granite cliff with...
Read moreThe neon image of a louche Lady Justice, in an electric blue robe and a hot pink mask, greets the audience at the Golden Theater as if the place were a strip...
Read moreJeff Shell was fired as NBCUniversal’s chief executive after an anchor at one of the company’s news networks lodged a sexual harassment complaint against him, a lawyer for the anchor said on...
Read moreBefore the curtain rose at the Berlin Volksbühne for Friday’s premiere of “Sardanapal,” inspired by Lord Bryon’s 1821 play “Sardanapalus,” the audience learned that one of the show’s lead actors, Benny Claessens,...
Read moreA closely watched music copyright trial is set to begin Monday in federal court in Manhattan, where a jury will decide a lawsuit accusing Ed Sheeran of copying his Grammy-winning ballad “Thinking...
Read moreSeason 4, Episode 5: ‘Kill List’If you were to make a list of all the terms and phrases used most often in “Succession,” the word “yeah” would probably be at No. 1,...
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