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Some Music Festivals Balk at Booking 50% Female Acts. One Just Did It. An Icelandic music festival has become the first to meet a target ensuring half its acts are women increasing pressure on the world's biggest festivals to step up the number of women they book. Iceland Airwaves, the country's answer to South By Sout...
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President elect Joe Biden's rhetoric on Saudi Arabia over the years has been far tougher than the monarchy is used to. But words alone won't make much of a difference. Mr. Biden's policy toward Riyadh should adopt a more cleared headed look at what the kingdom is, and, crucially, what it is not. Saudi Arabia is not ent...
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Opinion
Shortly after the Nazis rose to power in Germany in 1933 the family of a prominent newspaper publisher there fled to France, leaving behind an eclectic art collection that included Benin bronzes, Egyptian antiquities and 20th century realist paintings. The works were confiscated, many were auctioned and most have been ...
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Art & Design
When Nikki and Brie Bella, twin sisters who are also reality stars and recently retired WWE champions, found out they were both pregnant last November, they were most excited about the pizookies. While working as professional athletes, pizookies cookies baked in a cast iron pan like a pizza, of course were off limits. ...
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Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein's weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. Amid the havoc wreaked by three trades he made last week, involving seven other teams and 23 players, Gersson Rosas of the Minnesota Timberwolves missed one of the most important news bulletins of his professional life. Three da...
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James Bennet resigned on Sunday from his job as the editorial page editor of The New York Times, days after the newspaper's opinion section, which he oversaw, published a much criticized Op Ed by a United States senator calling for a military response to civic unrest in American cities. "Last week we saw a significant ...
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Pediatric patients are not the sickest group right now, or the group most in danger. But pediatricians are worried, worried for children and families, for now and for the future. On our conference calls and Zoom meetings, everyone is worried about how stressed families are right now, about what we hear from our patient...
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Well
That first cold spell of the season always feels especially harsh. If you've ever wondered, from beneath several layers of clothing, whether you were overreacting to those frigid early fall days, take solace. It may not just be in your head: The human body takes time to acclimate to the cold. "We kind of get a global r...
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Science
A roundup of motoring news from the web: A confidential source told Automotive News that Ford had asked Alcoa to provide military grade aluminum for Ford's F 150 display at the Detroit auto show next month, where the all new truck will be revealed. By making the connection with military vehicles Alcoa makes aluminum bl...
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Automobiles
At Cooper Union, it was outrage over a new tuition policy. At City College, it was anger over the closing of a community center. At both Manhattan colleges, student protest shut down buildings, garnered headlines and largely defined campus life over the past year. Now those two very different institutions are consideri...
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Education
Straddling the intersection of drug dealing and the music industry, "Yardie," the big screen directing debut of the actor Idris Elba, struggles to carve a path between warring gangs and reggae beats. Leaping from 1970s Jamaica to 1980s London, the story follows D (Aml Ameen), a drug courier and aspiring music artist wh...
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Movies
Re "Racism in the Principal's Office: Seeking Justice for Black Girls" (front page, Oct. 2): In New York City, in the year 2020, a girl who defends her friend in a fight can be charged with a felony for gang activity, sending her to detention and a lifetime of consequences. Thank you for shining a light on the unfair p...
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Opinion
Many years ago while living in South Africa I came across a Romanian kilim. Its pastel floral designs a sampler of sorts was captivating, but also beyond my budget. Decades passed, but it lingered in my memory every time I shopped for a rug to dress up a dreary room. Then I found myself living in Warsaw, Poland, last c...
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Travel
Q. I have multiple accounts set up in the Mac's default Mail program. I notice sometimes when I create a message, Mail automatically sets the sender address to the account I use for personal correspondence and not my preferred home business account. How can I specify that my business account should be the default sende...
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Technology
The Yale Center for British Art announced Wednesday that it had named Courtney J. Martin as its new director. Ms. Martin is currently deputy director and chief curator of the Dia Art Foundation in New York. In an interview, Ms. Martin described the appointment as an "opportunity to expand what we think of as British ar...
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Art & Design
When President Trump sent an angry tweet in February blasting Nordstrom for dropping his daughter Ivanka's clothing line from its stores, his supporters took to social media to intensify their previous calls to boycott the retailer. Nordstrom had reason to worry: Previous tweets from Mr. Trump calling out other brands,...
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MANTUA, Italy In 1972, Gerhard Richter represented West Germany at the Venice Biennale and presented one of his most renowned series of paintings: "48 Portraits," which depict famous and forgotten white men in blurry, pallid black and white. While in Venice that summer, he went to the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, where ...
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Art & Design
Two years ago, Emese M. Bordy, a sedimentologist at the University of Cape Town, was flipping through an obscure dissertation from the 1960s when a clue leapt out at her. It was an image of a footprint on a farm located on the northern Karoo Basin of South Africa. The Karoo region contains huge volcanic flood basalts t...
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Science
From left; Lucas Jackson/Reuters, Jared Soares for The New York Times, Joshua Bright for The New York Times, Kevin Lamarque, via Reuters, Joshua Bright for The New York Times, Jared Soares for The New York Times. From left; Lucas Jackson/Reuters, Jared Soares for The New York Times, Joshua Bright for The New York Times...
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Technology
It can be difficult to tell the good guys from the bad in "Der Ring des Nibelungen," Wagner's four opera saga of greed and mistakes. It's even more difficult in the Metropolitan Opera's current revival of the "Ring," in which the typically villainous Alberich the dwarfish Nibelung of the title is portrayed with nobilit...
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Music
Our columnist, Sebastian Modak, is visiting each destination on our 52 Places to Go in 2019 list. He went camping and scuba diving in Israel before heading to Plovdiv. I was getting into bed after a long day of traveling when I heard the bells: two tones clanging out an urgent rhythm that filled the night. I peeked out...
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Travel
Investing is hard enough when you're focused on fundamentals like earnings, debt loads and cash flow. But when you add geopolitics and military skirmishes to the mix, it turns into something else entirely: gambling. And that's usually treacherous, even if it's occasionally extraordinarily rewarding. The crisis in Ukrai...
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Your Money
If we're going to survive this pandemic we need music, more than ever. There is nothing else that can meet us in our heartbreak, elevate our spirits, move us to laughter and let us dream in the way that music can. I was apprenticed to loss and grief at the age of 17 when my best friend, Brian, died in a car accident on...
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Despite the worsening pandemic, Marie's Crisis Cafe, a West Village piano bar, reopened with a singalong this week. Like other venues, it says its music is "incidental," and therefore allowed. Although most indoor live performances have been banned in New York since the coronavirus began its deadly spread in March, abo...
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Music
Matt Drudge started showing signs that he had soured on President Trump months before the election. Since the vote, the fedora topped media pioneer has seemed even more eager to distance himself and his site from the man in the White House. "YOU'RE FIRED!" Drudge Report blared in a headline within minutes of CNN's call...
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Media
Jay Riffe in the late 1950s. He said he took up spearfishing with his brother just "to get food for the table." Jay Riffe recalled his first spearfishing outing as a fearsome affair not for the fish but for him. Mr. Riffe, a celebrated California speargun designer, entrepreneur and pioneer of tankless hunting and divin...
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Sports
As leaders in Europe try to contain a deepening financial crisis, they are also increasingly talking about making fundamental changes to the way their 17 nation economic union works. The idea is to create a central financial authority with powers in areas like taxation, bond issuance and budget approval that could even...
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Global Business
Today we take a momentous step, one that has never been taken before with China toward a future of fair and reciprocal trade, as we sign phase one of the historic trade deal between the United States and China. Together we are righting the wrongs of the past, and delivering a future of economic justice and security for...
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AMERICAN BALLET THEATER at the Metropolitan Opera (through July 6). What hasn't Alexei Ratmansky choreographed? For the time being, his ballets monopolize the repertory and that's not a bad thing. Friday and Saturday feature the final presentations of his staging of "Harlequinade," a comic ballet in the commedia dell'a...
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Dance
The Tony winning actress Kelli O'Hara will take a short trip to the mystical world of "Brigadoon," for a concert staging of the musical at City Center, the theater announced on Thursday. The production will run from Nov. 15 to 19, beginning with a Nov. 15 gala performance in honor of the theater producer Stacey Mindich...
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Theater
The artist C. Finley, organizer of the Every Woman Biennial, in front of works by Deming Harriman, Florencia Escudero, Cynthia Alvarez, Amy Vensel and Valincy Jean Patelli that are part of the exhibition. What would you do, a friend asked the artist C. Finley, if you could curate the Whitney Biennial? Easy, Ms. Finley ...
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Art & Design
Sailors, skiers and fans of activities such as tug of war and rock 'n' roll dancing the competitive kind will find much to cheer on the global sports circuit in 2017. Super Bowl LI, or 51, is scheduled in Houston on Feb. 5. Lady Gaga will appear at halftime. Held every two years, the Alpine World Ski Championships head...
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Uber Wants to Rule the World. First It Must Conquer India. BANGALORE, India Nandini Balasubramanya's office here on the southern edge of India's technology capital does not look as if it would play a key role in the world's most valuable start up's plans for global conquest. On many days, the tiny space has no electric...
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Technology
Bobby Axelrod can see the Matrix. Or whatever the moneymaking equivalent of the Matrix would be. After popping a barely legal brain enhancement pill called Vigilantix, provided by Axe Cap's resident dark arts practitioner Victor Mateo, Bobby is convinced that both he and any of his employees who have taken this dubious...
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BEND, Ore. Residents of this mountain town like doing things outdoors, and dining seems to be no exception. Last Friday evening, after an unseasonably warm day, there were no empty tables at The Lot, a food cart pavilion that features long bistro tables, pours local microbrews and hosts trivia nights and live music. It...
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Real Estate
Mandatory vaccination is rare, but it has been done and upheld by the courts. While judges have allowed health officials to fine citizens for refusing, forced vaccinations are highly unusual. New York City Is Requiring Vaccinations Against Measles. Can Officials Do That? Faced with an expanding measles outbreak, Mayor ...
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Health
As the Joyce Theater curtain descends at the end of the Sarasota Ballet's production of Frederick Ashton's "Valses Nobles et Sentimentales," a softly dazzling masterstroke of choreography is still occurring. There are just three dancers center stage. But each faces a different screen left, center back, and right and be...
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Dance
Baseball's New Rules: No Spitting, No Arguing, and Lots of Testing Coronavirus testing every other day for players and coaches. Wet rags for pitchers' pockets to prevent them from licking their fingers. Masks in the dugout and bullpen for any non players. And no public transportation to the stadium, communal food sprea...
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Sports
The force that gives one couture house, or one fashion designer, the power to shape the tastes of women has always verged on the magical sometimes literally. When the French couturier Christian Dior was a teenager in Normandy, a fortuneteller told him, "You will be poor, but you will achieve success through women." He ...
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Fashion & Style
Best performance by an actress in a television series, drama: Elisabeth Moss, "The Handmaid's Tale" Best performance by an actor in a television series, drama: Sterling K. Brown, "This Is Us" Best performance by an actress in a television series, musical or comedy: Rachel Brosnahan, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" Best per...
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Lynn Steuer and Pudding at Broadway and 71st Street, the heart of their current preferred neighborhood. Ms. Steuer guesses she's moved more than a dozen times. Now 76, she says, "I still think of moving as a great adventure." It is generally agreed that moving is a nightmare: Most people would rather lock themselves in...
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Real Estate
This was not the way Des Linden was planning to finish a marathon in Central Park this weekend, when she and 50,000 other runners were supposed to run the New York City Marathon. But there she was Saturday afternoon, crossing a finish line in front of Tavern on the Green, where she has finished marathons so many other ...
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MILAN The show was of summer clothes, of course, and yet more than anything it emblematized a lion in winter. Like Henry II of England, Giorgio Armani is an aged monarch with no designated heir to his throne. Having created a multibillion dollar company almost single handedly over nearly five decades, Mr. Armani by tra...
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Fashion & Style
MILAN Milan and the rest of the fashion world stepped off the ready to wear hamster wheel this week to pay tribute to Franca Sozzani, the longtime editor of Italian Vogue, who died in December at 66. The winter sky was slate gray on Monday afternoon as the great and the good of the industry gathered in the Duomo, the c...
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Fashion & Style
Rejecting the advice of its scientific advisers, the federal government has released new dietary recommendations that sound a familiar nutritional refrain, advising Americans to "make every bite count" but dismissing experts' specific recommendations to set new low targets for consumption of sugar and alcoholic beverag...
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Health
Yes, it may be better to give than to receive, but who wants to give up a gift this good? As re established on Friday, when the production began its final local run, this "Nutcracker" is special. And what is most special about it is the ear of its choreographer, Alexei Ratmansky. This is a "Nutcracker" that attends to ...
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Dance
LOS ANGELES Audiences have splintered into a million personalized subsets. Streaming services are sprouting like mushrooms. Attention spans are now measured in seconds. For those reasons and others a decade of stagnant attendance, studios that only seem to make sequels of sequels (of sequels) movie theaters are seen as...
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Movies
There are no fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Nor is there a television with a bullet hole in its screen. Drugs, an unavoidable topic, are mentioned in sympathetic tones as an overworked performer's self medication. "Elvis Presley: The Searcher," a two part, three hour documentary that begins airing Saturday ...
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Television
In spring 2013, Joanna Demkiewicz, a journalism student at the University of Missouri, went to hear the longtime Esquire writer Mike Sager talk about his new book, "Next Wave: America's New Generation of Great Literary Journalists." The collection, which Mr. Sager had edited, celebrates 19 underappreciated young writer...
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Style
WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new form of an extremely potent opioid to manage acute pain in adults, weeks after the chairman of the advisory committee that reviewed it asked the agency to reject it on grounds that it would likely be abused. The drug, Dsuvia, is a tablet form of sufen...
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Health
The Hollywood Reporter obituary for Doris Day describes her in the headline as "Hollywood's Favorite Girl Next Door," which is reasonable enough, if not terribly imaginative. Day, who was 97 when she died on Monday, broke through as a singer in the mid 1940s and crossed over into movie stardom in the next decade. She's...
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Movies
NEW YEAR'S EVE SPECIALS 8 p.m. on various networks. If you're ringing in the new year from the comfort of your couch, there is plenty of programming to keep you entertained. Ryan Seacrest hosts DICK CLARK'S PRIMETIME NEW YEAR'S ROCKIN' EVE on ABC, alongside the actress Lucy Hale. Ciara leads the festivities from Los An...
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Television
But the thing to admire about "The 15:17 to Paris" is precisely its artlessness. Mr. Eastwood, who has long favored a lean, functional directing style, practices an economy here that makes some of his earlier movies look positively baroque. He almost seems to be testing the limits of minimalism, seeing how much artific...
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Movies
Domio, a start up that offers short term rentals, has its headquarters in a New York City loft that features beer on tap, a game room and a wall of house slippers for visitors. The fast growing and unprofitable company has raised 117 million in venture capital, including 100 million in August. When the coronavirus pand...
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Technology
Each Saturday, Farhad Manjoo and Mike Isaac, technology reporters at The New York Times, review the week's news, offering analysis and maybe a joke or two about the most important developments in the tech industry. Mike is out this week, so Cecilia Kang, a tech reporter in Washington, stepped in. Farhad: Hi, Cecilia! G...
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Technology
The calls to the White House come at least once a week. "Murdoch here," the blunt, accented voice on the other end of the line says. For decades, Rupert Murdoch has used his media properties to establish a direct line to Australian and British leaders. But in the 44 years since he bought his first newspaper in the Unit...
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Media
Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson have two of the most mesmerizing and pleasurably unnerving physiognomies in movies. In "The Lighthouse," a sly American Gothic set in the late 19th century, the director Robert Eggers lights and frames the actors to emphasize every bony plane, every facial crease, hollow and pinprick o...
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Movies
Lining the southern section of the island of Manhattan like bristles on a brush, some decaying piers with their dilapidated buildings remain symbols of failed promises and discarded proposals. And while some successes involved waterfront developments in public parks, a new wave of commercial projects offering bistros, ...
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Real Estate
Wednesday night, in no particular order in the space of an hour: The N.B.A. suspended its season. Tom Hanks announced that he and his wife have the coronavirus. President Trump, who had spent time hate tweeting Vanity Fair magazine earlier in the day, banned travel from Europe. And, of course, the former vice president...
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Opinion
Life is not fair, I know, but this is getting ridiculous. Whenever a big corporation settles an enforcement matter with prosecutors, penalties levied in the case and they can be enormous are usually paid by the company's shareholders. Yet the people who actually did the deeds or oversaw the operations rarely so much as...
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Economy
CINCINNATI If you're a fan of classical music, chances are you've fantasized about what you would do with a time machine. You could visit Paris in 1913, to see just how riotous, if at all, the audience was at the premiere of Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring." Or Munich, where the stubbornly unresolved chord of Wagner's...
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Music
It's not just the lungs the pathogen may enter brain cells, causing symptoms like delirium and confusion, scientists reported. The coronavirus targets the lungs foremost, but also the kidneys, liver and blood vessels. Still, about half of patients report neurological symptoms, including headaches, confusion and deliriu...
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Are the Bears That Good or Are the Falcons That Bad? Bears 30, Falcons 26. If you didn't closely follow the N.F.L. weekend action, you might guess it was a decent game, closely contested. But hidden beneath the score was a most unlikely game, played by two teams whose fortunes are now on drastically different trajector...
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Sports
As people, the members of the Fantomes are nasty, trivial and boring. Their music sounds like backing tracks for, say, failed follow up singles by After the Fire, hoping to capitalize on the success of their cover of Falco's "Der Kommissar." There's a lot of chipped nail polish and weeks old eyeliner on everyone. The m...
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Movies
I Played in the N.F.L. It Needs Way More Than a Black Anthem. WASHINGTON In response to the Black Lives Matter protests, the N.F.L. has decided to play "Lift Every Voice and Sing," known as the Black national anthem, in Week 1 of its coming season. As a former N.F.L. player, my initial reaction was: Why? Is this a sign...
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As versatile containers for things that otherwise wouldn't have a home, they can control clutter in a hurry and help maintain a sense of order. "We use them all over," said Lauren Buxbaum Gordon, who became Nate Berkus's partner at Nate Berkus Associates, in Chicago, this summer. "People mainly associate baskets with s...
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Real Estate
"I've seen Black voices become a trend, and I've seen the trend die," Krishan Trotman said. She is starting a new Hachette imprint, Legacy Lit, focused on books by writers of color. This summer, as people across the United States gathered to protest police brutality and racial injustice, Krishan Trotman, an executive e...
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Books
Blanket, a longhaired Persian the color of steel wool, gave up his spot on the dining room table when a reporter came knocking, and made himself scarce. His owner, Grace Coddington, the longtime creative director of Vogue, shrugged and settled down in a chair to discuss her new project: her first perfume, which sat on ...
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Fashion & Style
How the third monolith to crop up in the past month arrived atop Pine Mountain in Atascadero, Calif., where it was discovered by a hiker on Wednesday, remains a mystery. How it left is no secret: Several young men who officials said had apparently driven five hours from Southern California livestreamed themselves teari...
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Art & Design
A drawn out and often divisive plan to create a new neighborhood atop railroad tracks on the Far West Side and, surprisingly, one having nothing to do with Hudson Yards is embarking on its final phase. Two towers are now rising at Riverside Center, an eight acre development in the low West 60s near the Hudson River tha...
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Real Estate
Much of the housing in Fort Hamilton is prewar, and residents tend to stick around so faithfully that prices wobbled only a little after the 2008 crash. Fort Hamilton, the square mile size southern half of Bay Ridge, which takes its name from the local Army garrison, is not a place that people tend to leave. Judging fr...
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Real Estate
It's all Barbie, all the time. There are over 1,000 Barbies on display, and each is a one of a kind creation. Some of the dolls are dressed by famous fashion houses such as Christian Dior, Giorgio Armani and Carolina Herrera, while others are made to model famous movie characters like Sandy from "Grease" as well as rea...
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Latest Project: Ms. Khan is working on a self published book, "Vector Equilibrium: Journey Through the Major Arcana," to teach others how to read tarot using characters that represent ancient archetypes. "Your intuition is a lot better than you think it is," she said. She is also designing her own deck of tarot cards. ...
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Federal officials outlined details Wednesday of their preparations to administer a future coronavirus vaccine to Americans, saying they would begin distribution within 24 hours of any approval or emergency authorization, and that their goal was that no American "has to pay a single dime" out of their own pocket. The of...
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In 2013, Travis Reginal wrote an essay in Education Life about making his way from Jackson, Miss., to Yale, as a first generation student. In his admissions essay, he had examined his love of writing poetry. He updates his journey, in his favorite format. My room appears as if it were just the first week of school. Mos...
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MEXICO CITY Starwood Hotels and Resorts is set become the first American hospitality chain to run hotels in Cuba in more than half a century, signaling the return of American companies to the Cuban travel market as the island gears up to receive a surge in visits from the United States. Under two deals signed on the ev...
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Travel
SINGAPORE Lamborghinis, Porsches and Bentleys fill the driveways of multimillion dollar villas in Sentosa Cove. Yachts line the 400 berth marina nearby. A number of homes have guardhouses for security. But signs of a slowdown are just beneath the shiny surface. The grass on front lawns has turned brown from neglect. Tw...
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Real Estate
Josh Barone and I chose five of the artists whose work we're most looking forward to hearing this fall check out Daniel Dorsa's gorgeous portraits. And Tony Tommasini described what he's hoping for from the two count 'em new music directors arriving at Lincoln Center this September. This week hasn't been silent, of cou...
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There was nothing unusual at the New Victory theater last week in a request to turn off electronic devices, except that it was directed at audience members not entirely versed in theatrical etiquette. When the lights went out, they howled. When someone fell, they laughed. In silent sections, they started clapping a bea...
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Dance
"Purposefully naff, twinkly, 1970s Capri glam" that is completely at odds with the London restaurant scene right now, one reviewer from The Guardian newspaper wrote. "It feels pleasantly deranged," wrote another for The Evening Standard. As the traveling circus rolls into town for fashion week, London is sulking under ...
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Fashion & Style
I met Mekas in the late 1980s after I started writing for The Voice about avant garde cinema. He recognized that my last name is Lithuanian, which obviously amused him. He was a vibrant, persistent presence whether in the audience at a screening or at Anthology Film Archives, the cinematheque he co founded. Over the ye...
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Tips from Sneaker Heads on Scoring the Hottest Shoes and Keeping Them Fresh Sneaker Con, a gathering of shoe fanatics founded in 2009, brought 500 vendors and over 19,000 people to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York late last year. The heart and soul of the event is the trading pit, an area in the back o...
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Style
The actress Jaina Lee Ortiz isn't normally drawn to high adrenaline pursuits. Her favorite hobby: flower arranging. Her idea of bliss: neatly folded towels. Her dream job: personal organizer. And yet on a snowy Wednesday, Ms. Ortiz clambered 40 feet up in the air, clutching handholds and scrambling onto footholds as sh...
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Waterfalls are furious cascades of water, sometimes scoring the landscapes in which they flow as they obey gravity's demands. From Iceland's shimmering Skogafoss to the family of falls in New Zealand's Milford Sound, they are zealous, aquatic showstoppers of the natural world. Powerful though waterfalls may appear, the...
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Science
After months of contentious behind the scenes battles, the public may finally get its chance to own a piece of a New York City landmark the Empire State Building. The real estate family that controls the 102 story Art Deco tower could move ahead as soon as this week with plans to sell shares to the public through a rea...
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Real Estate
"What I really wanted to do was tend to my own obsessions and figure out how to do it independently," Molly Stern said. Two years ago, at what seemed to be the pinnacle of her 25 years in publishing, Molly Stern's career came to an abrupt halt. As publisher of Crown, Ms. Stern had released 2018's biggest blockbuster Mi...
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Books
BEIJING The Chinese government has fined six companies that sell infant milk powder a total of 109 million for anticompetitive behavior and price fixing, the country's top economic planning agency said on Wednesday. It is the largest fine China has ever issued for violations of its antimonopoly law, according to Xinhua...
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Global Business
BURLINGTON, Vt. It's hard to find anyone here who believes that Joyce Irvine should have been removed as principal of Wheeler Elementary School. John Mudasigana, one of many recent African refugees whose children attend the high poverty school, says he is grateful for how Ms. Irvine and her teachers have helped his fiv...
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Education
SEATTLE Few believed the housing market here would ever collapse. Now they wonder if it will ever stop slumping. The rolling real estate crash that ravaged Florida and the Southwest is delivering a new wave of distress to communities once thought to be immune economically diversified cities where the boom was relativel...
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Economy
For decades, sex education in the classroom could be pretty cringey. For some adolescents, it meant a pitch for abstinence; others watched their teachers put condoms on bananas and attempt sketches of fallopian tubes that looked more like modern art. On TikTok, sex ed is being flipped on its head. Teenagers who load th...
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Health
A boarding gate area at Hongqiao Airport's second terminal in Shanghai, shown in 2010. The city relocated 10,000 residents to enable the construction. SHANGHAI For those frustrated with air travel in the United States, arriving at this city's domestic airport can be a treat. New arrivals are whisked on electronic walkw...
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Global Business
Neither Novak Djokovic nor Roger Federer could resist Rafael Nadal on Sunday. Nadal made astonishingly quick work of them both in the French Open final, overwhelming Djokovic, the world's No. 1 player, 6 0, 6 2, 7 5, to equal Federer's record of 20 Grand Slam singles titles. It was quite possibly Nadal's finest perform...
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Sports
An image from "Our Planet" of over 100,000 walruses on a coast in Northern Russia. "The walrus scenes were the hardest things I've ever had to witness or film in my career," said Sophie Lanfear, one of the series' directors. It's a striking image, watching a walrus climb a rock cliff. During one episode of the new Netf...
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Television
The unsigned murals began appearing quietly in Paris last week. On Wednesday, World Refugee Day, passers by in the north of the city noticed a stencil of a young black girl near a shuttered center for migrants. Apparently homeless, with a teddy bear and blankets at her feet, she was decorating her patch of sidewalk wit...
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Art & Design
Mahler's music wouldn't be possible without peace and quiet. During the summer, he escaped urban life and his career as a conductor to compose in nature. When he wasn't hiking or swimming, he would labor over songs and symphonies inside a small lakeside hut. In this environment, he is said to have remarked, " everythin...
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Music
Cheryl Closs, a mother of four from West Islip, N.Y., wanted to save her daughter Bella's two front teeth. They were badly decayed, and one dentist wanted to just pull them out. But Ms. Closs was having none of it. Bella, who is 15 and in 8th grade, has special needs and uses a wheelchair. "They are quick to pull a chi...
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Well
Anthony Stolarz made a career high 38 saves, and Oskar Lindblom scored the lone goal Tuesday night as the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the host Rangers, 1 0. Lindblom scored in the first period for the Flyers, who have won five straight. The Rangers had a three game winning streak snapped. Stolarz, who grew up about 35...
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Sports
PARIS In a large circular chamber covered in periwinkle blue velvet and hung with curtains all around, seats curling outward in snail shell tiers, Demna Gvasalia of Balenciaga convened his parliament. Then he scented it with Blood and Money and Petrol (after starting with a bit of Anti Sceptic, literally: he had perfum...
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Style
Brazil, which has recently suffered serious outbreaks of Zika virus and yellow fever, now faces a new threat, according to reports from local scientists: Oropouche fever. The Oropouche virus, named for a river in Trinidad, where it was first isolated in 1955, circulates in monkeys and sloths in the Amazon jungle. The v...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
The national security journalist and free speech advocate Glenn Greenwald has left The Intercept, the news website he helped create, claiming his work had been censored. Mr. Greenwald, a former lawyer, wrote a 3,300 word post on the digital platform Substack on Thursday saying that he was leaving the site because it ha...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media