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, Feb. 17-23. Details and times are subject to change. A reboot six years later. From the original iteration of “Suits” came a princess, a Netflix phenomenon … Read more
Season 3, Episode 1: ‘Same Spirits, New Forms’ Take a moment. Focus on your breathing. Calm your mind. Let the sounds of the external world fade away. Did you just hear gunshots? Ignore them. Embrace the now. Find in your minds what is timeless. Pay no attention to the corpse floating by you. If you … Read more
It was the night after President Trump had officially taken over the Kennedy Center and made himself its chairman, and two well-dressed Washington women were wandering along the plush red carpet inside its Grand Foyer, so grand it could fit the Washington Monument laid on its side. They reached the eight-foot-tall bronze head of John … Read more
It was March 2000, and everything was coming up roses for “American Beauty.” There were the box office receipts (more than $350 million worldwide, not adjusted for inflation, against a budget of roughly $15 million, according to the data site Box Office Mojo). The rave reviews (“a hell of a picture,” Kenneth Turan wrote in … Read more
Nobody doubted that Lea Salonga could sing. She had won a Tony Award at the age of 20 for her breakout role as the besotted Vietnamese teen Kim in “Miss Saigon,” and sung her heart out as Éponine, and later Fantine, in Broadway productions of “Les Misérables.” She provided the crystalline vocals of not one … Read more
“Saturday Night Live” is celebrating its golden anniversary this weekend with a star-studded special in its Studio 8H at 30 Rock. You have questions? We have answers. When is the big ‘Saturday Night Live’ anniversary special? “SNL50: The Anniversary Special,” a three-hour event celebrating a half-century of comedy sketches, celebrity hosts, musical guests, standup monologues, … Read more
At the height of the superhero boom a few years ago, Disney pushed its Marvel assembly lines to run faster and faster. After awhile, quality suffered and ticket sales declined. So Disney slowed the pace. Last year, Marvel released one movie (the megasuccessful “Deadpool & Wolverine”) and two Disney+ series. To compare, in 2021 Marvel … Read more
Yrjo Kukkapuro, a Finnish furniture designer who devoted his restless creative energies to sedentary comfort, creating dozens of chairs that coddled sitters and lent a zesty flair to their surroundings, died on Feb. 8 at his home in Kauniainen, Finland. He was 91. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Isa Kukkapuro-Enbom. In his seven-decade … Read more
“When I try a role, if I feel it’s too heavy for me then I will never do it,” she told Mr. Duffie. “I might just wait perhaps until later, but I wouldn’t do something which hurts the voice, and where I have to force against the orchestra. That’s impossible.” Edith Mathis was born in … Read more
This was a practice he followed throughout his life. Determined to capture the dawn of the new millennium on Long Island, he stayed up all night to wait for it. It turned out to be a cloudy day, but he painted it anyway. “I’m interested in things that are opposites — dichotomies,” he told Hyperallergic … Read more