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Conan O’Brien will reprise his Oscar hosting duties next year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday morning, in one of the earliest renewals for an Oscar host. The news comes after Mr. O’Brien received high marks for his work as the emcee of the 97th Oscar telecast, which delivered a five-year … Read more

More than 50,000 spectators filled Kennedy Stadium in Washington on Nov. 27, 1977, for a football game between two bitter rivals, the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys. There was drama in the game, with both teams in the hunt for a playoff berth, but more unusual was the entertainment before and at halftime: an enormous … Read more

On a crisp Saturday morning in late February, Rachel Murdy joined a group of singers of various ages and experience levels at the 92nd Street Y and sang “Party Hat,” delivering the refrain “I’m going to put a party hat on my cat” with a playful spark. Murdy, a seasoned 56-year-old performer and director, had … Read more

In My Obsession, one creative person reveals their most prized collection. The artist Larry Bell, 85, was born with severe undiagnosed hearing loss. “I didn’t know it, and neither did my parents,” he said. Unsurprisingly, music lessons were a struggle but, when he was about 17, he saw a strange guitar hanging in a pawnshop … Read more

The Institute of Black Imagination, in the Oculus at the World Trade Center PATH station, is an experiment in cultural alchemy. It turns a retail store called Space 001, typically a space for transaction, into a place of transformation, providing public access to an archive of thousands of books, periodicals and record albums pertaining to … Read more

On the set of the third season of “The White Lotus,” which shot for seven sticky months in luxury hotels in Bangkok and Koh Samui, Thailand, the writer and director Mike White had a repeated note for the actor Patrick Schwarzenegger. “You’re not walking rich enough,” White would yell across the pool deck. “Patrick, be … Read more

Randall K. Wilson, the author of “A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World’s First National Park,” has been named the winner of the New York Historical’s 2025 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize, which is given annually for the best work of American history or biography. In a news release, the historical … Read more

“Probably in a great way but also in a bad way,” Asante said, he decided to give Sandy the stems, or building blocks, of all the many tracks he had created for the show. “So I would walk into rehearsal and discover that a track I gave him is now a few counts longer,” he … Read more

Between streaming and cable, there is a seemingly endless variety of things to watch. Here is a selection of TV shows and specials that air or stream this week, March 17-23. Details and times are subject to change. Something isn’t right? Natalia Grace Mans was adopted from Ukraine in 2010 by an American family. By … Read more