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Entertaining With shows how a party came together, with expert advice on everything from menus to music. Nut (pronounced “newt”), the ancient Egyptian goddess of the sky, was often depicted as a slender naked woman covered with stars and arched over the earth in a protective downward dog-like stance. She appears in a similar form … Read more
But while the possibility of exciting action always hovers on the periphery, May Adrales’s low-energy production is bereft of any tension. That is an achievement of some kind for a show dealing with covert operations, and one in which a character is traumatized (or claims to be) by the 1998 bombing of the United States … Read more
A Movie Game: Can You Match the Oscar-Nominated Film to Our Headline?
When Clint Eastwood needed a performer who could persuasively go boot-toe to boot-toe with him in his brutal 1992 western “Unforgiven,” he needed an actor who was his towering equal onscreen. Eastwood needed a performer with strange charisma, one who could at once effortlessly draw the audience to his character and repulse it without skipping … Read more
Political hot spots feature prominently in this week’s recommended books, with sobering views of conditions on the ground in Ukraine (“Looking at Women Looking at War”) and Gaza (“One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”) and here in the United States, where Katherine Stewart’s “Money, Lies, and God” considers the recent rise of … Read more
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The New York Times 2025 Oscars Ballot Best Picture ☐ “Anora” “The Brutalist” ☐ “A Complete Unknown” ☐ “Conclave” “Dune: Part Two” ☐ “Emilia Pérez❞ ☐ “I’m Still Here” ☐ “Nickel Boys” “The Substance” ☐ “Wicked” Best Director ☐ Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Pérez❞ ☐ Sean Baker, “Anora” ☐ Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist” ☐ … Read more
Gene Hackman, a celebrated actor whose death at 95 was announced on Thursday, stood out in Hollywood for his ability not to stand out. Not until he was 42 did he make his star turn, winning the Oscar for best actor for playing a gruff narcotics detective in “The French Connection.” But at that point … Read more
“Running Point” is an amiable Netflix comedy starring Kate Hudson as an underestimated nepo adult tapped to run the fabled basketball team her late father once led. She is thrilled, if a bit overwhelmed, by the opportunity. Her brothers, who also work for the franchise, warn her to stay off Reddit. Hudson here is Isla, … Read more
The Outsider Art Fair, which opens to the public Thursday evening, can sometimes feel like a rock ‘n’ roll junk shop, full of chaos and noise. But this year’s edition of the fair, at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan, is more like an uptown antique store — stocked with treasures but a little bit staid. … Read more