& Juliet and Titanique: two newly minted cult classics
Let me tell you a secret: the theater world still adores Shakespeare, even in 2023
Culture
Monday
Monday
Bianca Censori: Kanye West’s new handler
The rapper and designer’s second wife is tasked with clean-up on Aisle Yeezy
Wednesday
The tragedy of corporate America’s anti-child messaging
They portray kids as not worth the trouble — and have no idea what they’re missing
Thursday
Dana White’s Power Slap is a gruesome freak show
Defenseless head slaps are Idiocracy -grade entertainment, not sport
Wednesday
The Some Like It Hot revival is cream-puff theater
It reduces a charged premise to something more mundane
The death of the movie star
Hollywood used to run on talent. Today, intellectual property is king
Playing God with Paramore
What happens when someone who was cool because they were hated is suddenly accepted?
In Claude Monet’s postmodern garden
I began to find the uncanny experience transporting
The shock and awe-inspiring art of Iraq
After decades of disorder, the country has a budding art scene
Monday
A pilot explains why air travel has become so stressful
A shrinking workforce means it takes ‘a game of musical chairs’ to get you into the air
Wednesday
Prince Harry and Andrew Tate are two sides of the same coin
On narcissism and sham masculinity
Friday
Ebony and ivories
The Piano Lesson puts its characters first
Thursday
A staunch defense of ‘nepo babies’
Most of them use their privilege for good!
Tuesday
An ingloriously dumb adaptation
Almost Famous fails to make the jump from screen to stage
Edward Hopper’s America
The popular perception of the loneliness in the painter’s work could not be more wrong
Cleopatra still dazzles sixty years later
The film is, above all, an Elizabeth Taylor-worshipping vehicle
Monday
How Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle invented the modern celebrity feud
It began with a séance…
Elon Musk loudly booed on stage at Dave Chappelle gig
Real life doesn’t have a block button
Friday
Stormy Daniels’s good fortunes
A tarot reading from the world’s most notorious porn star
Wednesday
The left declares war on sperm
Free vasectomies are not the answer
Tuesday
Romance at the porn convention
Is Exxxotica DC really so different from CPAC?
Thursday
Madison Cawthorn is right about metrosexuals on social media
Our collective preoccupation with our screens is pathetic
Wednesday
The generation gap over J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter’s older actors are speaking out in her defense, while the young ones attack
Monday
Why are wives still taking their husbands’ last names?
Despite feminism, some of us want to retain some connection to our ancestral past
Monday
Murillo the masterful
The Spaniard’s painterly skill outshines his congenital weakness for schmaltz
The shock value of Lena Dunham
She was the low-culture Mary Tyler Moore
The return of Lindsay Lohan
Falling for Christmas looks bound to be tragicomic and artless pulp, but so what?
David Bowie is bigger than ever
His stature as rock music’s greatest iconoclast shows no sign of being threatened
Friday
A very demoralizing trip to Barnes & Noble
A scan of the shelves shows how unhappy and anxious we’ve become
