When Ione Skye was in middle school in the early 1980s, a group of popular, mean girls she calls “the Aprils” brought her — shy, bookish, not yet famous — into their intimidating fold. She was surprised they even knew her name. “Part of me wanted to punch the girls’ smug faces,” she writes in … Read more
Ninety pounds, the approximate weight of a Farfisa organ, nearly kept Benmont Tench from his destiny. It was late 1971, and Tench, a native of Gainesville, Fla., was home from college for Christmas. His favorite local band, Mudcrutch, was playing a five-set-a-night residency at a topless bar called Dub’s, and they’d finally invited him to … Read more
In Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s new photographs, there is no mistaking where we are: Camera tripods stand like machinic bodies, studio lights cast their lurid shine upon things, and the walls are busy with what appear to be the artist’s photo prints. The fourth wall between the photographer’s studio and the art gallery has come down, … Read more
Field: Complete Nocturnes Alice Sara Ott, piano (Deutsche Grammophon) The Irish composer John Field (1782-1837) is commonly said to have invented the nocturne as a piece for piano, passing the form along for his younger contemporary Frédéric Chopin to perfect. If sometimes forgotten, Field’s contributions have hardly escaped notice. Liszt himself published an edition of … Read more
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. Putting a Cover Charge on America President Donald Trump announced his new “gold card” program on Tuesday, which would price … Read more
A teenager rescues and defends an infant creature whose species the surrounding adults have condemned as vicious and predatory. Another adolescent battles injury and other hurdles in a quest for basketball stardom. A small child in Mexico contracts polio but finds solace in the world of art. And an 11-year-old Kurdish immigrant arrives in Berlin, … Read more
Jesus Guerrero was not necessarily a household name, but he was a hairstylist to the stars, working with people like Jennifer Lopez, Kylie Jenner and Rosalía. So when his family announced on Sunday that he had died at 34, the tributes from his famous clients immediately began to flood social media. His sister, Gris Guerrero, … Read more
Georgina Sparks was not Gossip Girl, but she might as well have been. The character, a socialite who trafficked in wild manipulation, convoluted scheming and plenty of narcotics, was a main antagonist of the 2000s teen drama series that aired on the CW network, an inveterate plotter in a statement necklace. (“Gossip Girl” is available … Read more
On Tuesday night, over 100 Oscar nominees gathered at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles for a class photo in the David Geffen Theater. In the upper left corner of the group, seated two rows above Timothée Chalamet, Ralph Fiennes clasped his hands and looked deep in thought, as though he were still pondering matters … Read more
Drake, whose new album topped the Billboard 200 chart this week after Kendrick Lamar had made him a punchline at the Super Bowl halftime show, has canceled four tour dates in Australia and New Zealand because of a “scheduling conflict,” representatives for the rapper said on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear what the conflict … Read more