This 12 months’s Grammys doubled as an awards ceremony and a fund-raising attraction to help these affected by the wildfires in Southern California, striving to strike a steadiness between glitzy celebration and somber affair. Trevor Noah, the ceremony’s host, opened the present by noting the devastation of the fires and the resilience of Los Angeles … Read more
It might have been comprehensible — even pure — if the attendees of Sunday evening’s Grammy Awards had determined to go subdued. If they’d opted to seem toned down and quietly respectful of the trauma nonetheless being visited on Los Angeles within the wake of the latest wild fires, in easy black fits and equally … Read more
Recent off her massive win for album of the yr on the Grammys on Sunday evening, Beyoncé has extra information: A brand new stadium tour is on the way in which supporting that 2024 LP, “Cowboy Carter.” The genre-bending celebrity introduced on Monday that her subsequent tour would open in Los Angeles on April 28 … Read more
THREE DAYS IN JUNE, by Anne Tyler Hail, hail, Baltimore, the one metropolis whose N.F.L. crew is known as after a poem. Baltimore has given us, in addition to Edgar Allan Poe, H.L. Mencken, Billie Vacation, John Waters, “Diner” and “The Wire.” Let’s not overlook Anne Tyler, whose twenty fifth novel, “Three Days in June,” … Read more
THE AGE OF CHOICE: A Historical past of Freedom in Fashionable Life, by Sophia Rosenfeld For hundreds of years the suitable to decide on for oneself in nearly all the important thing points of life would have appeared both absurd or depraved. “What demise is worse for the soul,” wrote St. Augustine, “than the liberty … Read more
A MATTER OF COMPLEXION: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt, by Tess Chakkalakal On Nov. 10, 1898, 1000’s of armed white supremacists stormed the streets of Wilmington, N.C., terrorizing Black companies and residents and overthrowing the port metropolis’s biracial, “Fusionist” authorities. The state’s most populous and Blackest metropolis had lengthy been a logo … Read more
Early in her new memoir, “Cleavage,” Jennifer Finney Boylan describes a second of reckoning in a altering room. A dimension 12 costume is just too comfortable; she wants a dimension 14. Cue remorse, ennui and soul looking. It’s a relatable scene for anybody who has stood, sweating, earlier than a three-way mirror. However for Boylan, … Read more
Probably the most awards on the 67th annual Grammys went to Kendrick Lamar, who swept the largest track prizes together with his Drake diss “Not Like Us” on his approach to 5 trophies. However the story of the night time was Beyoncé, who after dropping album of the yr 4 earlier occasions, received for her … Read more
That weightlessness, or the impact of it, is “what Romanticism was about,” Cordua mentioned. “All of them needed to get to the next sphere. I discovered it actually attention-grabbing to see and meet folks that do all these scary issues that I don’t discover so scary — these artists that do all these excessive issues … Read more
Between streaming and cable, there’s a seemingly countless number of issues to look at. Here’s a choice of TV exhibits and specials that air or stream this week, Feb. 3-9. Particulars and occasions are topic to alter. A Sunday stuffed with soccer, puppies and adverts. It’s time for the annual Taylor Swift-bowl — oh, sorry, … Read more