Charles Mingus at 100
He isn’t for the faint of heart, but it’s worth confronting his life’s work
Culture
Monday
Midcult madness
The Music Man and Plaza Suite reviewed
Around and around the world
Masterpiece has brought Around the World in 80 Days to the small screen
Beach for America
Spring Breakers revisited
Sunday
Our long national slapmare continues
Will Smith is banned from the Oscars as everyone else tries to learn lessons that aren’t there
Saturday
Finding the religious right in remote Wisconsin
Odd though they can be, such communities are as old as America itself
Tuesday
Just whistle while you woke
Disney leans in to identity politics and invites its own demise
New York City’s desperate attempt to lure Floridians
Mayor Eric Adams says ‘come to a city where you can say and be whoever you want.’ Yeah, right
Monday
How ‘questioning authority’ gave us wokeness
Rebelling against everything has led not to less authority but bad authority — like Dr. Fauci and 1619
Thursday
There’s nothing ‘pro-trans’ about deleting women
This is a woke mass delusion and it’s being forced on us all
Will Smith: the last gentleman
Violence isn’t always the answer, but it’s sometimes the answer
Wednesday
We are all still prisoners of the Sixties
What was formerly outré or unimaginable remains in vogue. But human instinct will win out
Friday
The trans debate shows we’re all supremacists
We’re all stuck in the nineteenth century
Thursday
Holbein at the Morgan
Holbein’s heroes have arrived in New York City
Messenger service
First Flight to Tokyo by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers reviewed
Michael Jackson on Broadway
MJ: The Musical reviewed
Troubles in paradise
Belfast reviewed
Buster’s land stand
Buster Keaton is again of the moment
Tuesday
Twitter suspends the Babylon Bee for telling the truth
Don’t you dare tell a joke they disagree with
Saturday
When victimhood is a game, everyone loses
Give up on a left-wing politics whose purpose is to amplify our differences
Tuesday
Pop culture is making millennials miserable
Instead of worrying about the latest ‘vibe shift,’ maybe we should get a life
Sunday
Sibelius speaks
A new recording of a rare piece by Jean Sibelius is out
Precarious and thrilling
Milton Avery was able to carve out his own path, distinct from modernism’s march through history
Carnegie plus one
After 130 years, Carnegie Hall decided it could use a virtual stage
Going Greco-Roman in Boston
What Would Seneca Do?
Swing for me
The experience of seeing George Furth and Stephen Sondheim’s Company is something like inadvertently joining a swingers’ party
Naples and nurture
The Hand of God reviewed
Witches brew
The Tragedy of Macbeth reviewed
Friday
Sam Brinton and the dorkification of kink
Biden has welcomed a pup slave fetish master into his administration
