Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | How to Listen A new year means new books to look forward to, and 2025 already promises a bounty — from the first volume of Bill Gates’s memoirs to a new novel by the reigning Nobel laureate, Han Kang, to a biography of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the wife and … Read more
Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music On this week’s Popcast, which was recorded live at S.O.B.’s in New York in December, Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli discuss some of the most memorable music moments and characters of the past year, including the dominance of pop star mess, hip-hop’s challenging transition moment, the … Read more
▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 3. J Balvin and Bad Bunny: “La Canción” “Oasis,” Bad Bunny’s 2019 collaboration album with the Colombian reggaeton star J Balvin, wasn’t quite the world-dominating creative team-up it might have been, but it did spawn “La Canción,” a blissfully ethereal duet about heartbreak in which Balvin sounds … Read more
Lambrini Girls, ‘Company Culture’ All things patriarchal, capitalistic and obtuse are targets for Lambrini Girls, the gleefully obstreperous English punk duo Phoebe Lunny and Lilly Macieira. “Company Culture,” a blast at workplace harassment from their debut album, “Who Let the Dogs Out,” revs up instrumentally for nearly a full minute — clattery drums, buzz-bombing bass, … Read more
There is plenty of text in “Many Happy Returns,” but dance, the language of the body — presented here as intentional and slyly forthright — is just as critical as the words. The main character, who never speaks but does, in one moment, sing a Billy Joel song in flat a cappella, is Monica Bill … Read more
It was a bitterly cold January evening the night before President-elect Donald J. Trump was set to be sentenced in a Lower Manhattan courtroom, and an unusual array of figures was gathered in an art gallery in Chinatown that was filled with sketches from his trial. They were there for the opening of the artist … Read more
‘Pepe’ Stream it on Mubi. Call it “Cocaine Hippo”: Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias’s gloriously weird new film takes on an utterly strange bit of modern South American history and gives it a cinematic treatment befitting its sordid zaniness. In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar imported four hippos to his estate, where he kept scores … Read more
A great pleasure of the performing arts is the opportunity to witness how elastic the classics can be. In opera the same role can transform, again and again, with each new interpreter, even over the lifetime of one singer. It’s a reason to keep coming back. At the Metropolitan Opera this season, for example, there … Read more
Gary Ginstling, a veteran orchestra manager who briefly led the New York Philharmonic before abruptly resigning last year, will become the next chief executive of the Houston Symphony, the ensemble announced on Friday. He will take the helm of the orchestra, which was founded in 1913, as it works to elevate its artistic profile and … Read more
Egan, the artist who lost the works for his upcoming exhibition, lived and worked out of the house he grew up in on Bienveneda Avenue in the Pacific Palisades. He described watching the fire spread from his window while his wife was in the shower. “There was a little tiny plume of smoke and by … Read more