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At the end of May, German police commandos arrived outside a rural home owned by a sergeant major in that country's most elite special forces unit, the KSK. Buried in the backyard they found a trove of weapons, explosives and Nazi memorabilia. In response, Germany's defense minister announced that she would disband one...
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"From the very beginning, music was what attracted me to tap" says Michela Marino Lerman. At the White Plains Jazz Festival earlier this month, the band Mwenso the Shakes was setting up, plugging in instruments and checking microphones. Michela Marino Lerman was among them. She set down a wooden board and hooked it up ...
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Dance
Beneath the philosophical welter, a new world glitters with prelapsarian strangeness: Gangs of plump cats raid administrative lobbies, chamois goats prance along train tracks, ibexes graze hotel lawns. A sort of one man utopia seems possible. The phonies and strivers are gone. The city's churches, banks and military in...
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Books
Last week in a sprawling apartment overlooking the Hudson River in New York, about 10 women sat at a dining room table eating avocado toast and tasting baby food. With children on laps, latched to breasts or in utero, they had come together to discuss parenting and nutrition. The babies babbled. The adults bantered. ("...
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It was mid June, and relations between Donald J. Trump and the news media had taken another dreadful turn. He had already vowed to change the libel laws to make it easier to sue journalists, and his personal insults were becoming more vicious. (One news correspondent was a "sleaze"; another was "third rate.") Most trou...
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Every so often, a movie comes along that isn't particularly good, yet somehow gets to you even as your eyes start to roll, they can't look away. "Dirt Music" is one of those, a strangely fascinating delivery system for so much visual beauty that its flaws scrabble to gain a purchase. Rocky coves and marzipan beaches, g...
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Movies
Many Children Under 5 Are Left to Their Mobile Devices, Survey Finds A small survey of parents in Philadelphia found that three quarters of their children had been given tablets, smartphones or iPods of their own by age 4 and had used the devices without supervision, researchers reported on Monday. The survey was not n...
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Health
Alan Alda, who played Hawkeye on "M A S H," using a improvisational exercise to teach scientists how to better speak about their work to nonscientists. A program at Stony Brook is named for him. STONY BROOK, N.Y. Martha Furie stormed into the room and huffily sat down in a chair. "Well, you know, I've been working real...
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Science
A wheat field in Mouchamps, France. There are very few genetically modified crops grown in Europe compared to the United States. Mushrooms that don't brown. Wheat that fights off disease. Tomatoes with a longer growing season. All of these crops are made possible by a gene editing technology called Crispr cas9. But now...
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Science
Free Richardson, founder of The Compound gallery in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx, with Jonathan Mannion's portraits of, from left, the LOX, Trick Daddy, Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), Kanye West and Ice T. For the past 11 years, Free Richardson has run The Compound, his creative advertising business, fr...
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Art & Design
How an Oil Price Surge Could Hurt the U.S. Economy For months, American consumers have kept the economy humming. While businesses pulled back, shoppers continued to spend. But a prolonged surge in gasoline prices after the attacks on oil production facilities in Saudi Arabia could undermine that phenomenon and increase...
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Economy
SAN JOSE, Calif. Mark Zuckerberg has faced scandal after scandal in recent months. On Tuesday, he indicated he was ready to move on and continue Facebook's march of taking over people's online lives. At the social network's annual developer conference in San Jose, Mr. Zuckerberg, its chief executive, announced a slew o...
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Technology
It's never truly fall until New York City Ballet reclaims Lincoln Center. Before the company hosts its fashion forward gala evening on Sept. 28 with designers and choreographers collaborating on new works there will be two weeks of Peter Martins's "Swan Lake." It's all about the dancers, and Sara Mearns, who is schedul...
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Dance
Michael Andersen, left, and Jeppe Christensen, founders of the design firm Reform, at their Brooklyn showroom. They saw a hole between basic and bank breaking kitchen options. When the designer Alsun Keogh began renovating a SoHo loft for a young bachelor last fall, she took him through Manhattan's temples of kitchen d...
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It was during a 1966 concert in Paris when Little Richard, drenched in sweat, told a mostly white audience, "I'm ready, ready, ready teddy, I'm ready, ready, ready teddy!" He took off his soaked shirt and the men and women pleaded for it as he swung it over his head like a helicopter, carefully considering who he would...
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PARIS In 1996 Andre Leon Talley, then a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and famously often the only black person on the front row at fashion shows, styled a shoot for the magazine titled "Scarlett 'n the Hood." It reimagined "Gone With the Wind" with the races reversed: Naomi Campbell, then one of the few black supe...
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Fashion & Style
Two thirds of women who have lumpectomies for breast cancer are receiving radiation treatment that lasts nearly twice as long as necessary, a new study reports. The conventional, longer treatment lasts five to seven weeks. But four rigorous studies and guidelines from a leading radiology society conclude that three to ...
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Health
There is as much to love about the new Samsung Galaxy Note 8 as there is to hate. Let's get the bad stuff out of the way. For unlocking the phone, the eye scanner barely works and the fingerprint sensor is in a lousy place. Samsung's Bixby, which is included, is the most incompetent virtual assistant on the market. And...
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Technology
A savanna elephant in Matusadona National Park in Zimbabwe. In some areas, including in Namibia and Zimbabwe, the proceeds from big game hunting have helped revive wildlife populations. In others, including in Tanzania, hunting has fed corruption and decimated species. Hunt Elephants to Save Them? Some Countries See No...
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TAMANA, Japan Two pedals, inches apart, one for gas and the other for brakes. For years, a Japanese inventor has argued that this most basic of car designs is dangerously flawed. The side by side pedal arrangement, the inventor says, can cause drivers mistakenly to floor the accelerator instead of the brakes, especiall...
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Global Business
SAN FRANCISCO For decades, the district south of downtown and alongside San Francisco Bay here was known as either Rincon Hill, South Beach or South of Market. This spring, it was suddenly rebranded on Google Maps to a name few had heard: the East Cut. The peculiar moniker immediately spread digitally, from hotel sites...
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Technology
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein's weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. Even with that spotless 6 0 record in the N.B.A. finals, and 27 victories in the 29 playoff series he contested in the 1990s, Michael Jordan is unlikely to ever completely shut down the Greatest of All Time debate. There will al...
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A commission from a company is one way to make ballet; another is to strike out on your own. With its two week Ballet Festival (formerly Ballet v6.0), the Joyce Theater spotlights independent choreographers, presenting six ensembles for two days each. BalletX, from Philadelphia, and Amy Seiwert's Imagery, from San Fran...
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You will never believe how I grew up. My mother, truly out of nowhere, became religious when I was 12. Not just regular religious, lighting Shabbat candles and forgoing pork, but truly Orthodox. Mega Orthodox. Ultra Orthodox. She and my father had divorced six years before, and now we lived in Brooklyn, in what was cal...
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With what seems a steady drumbeat of terrorist attacks targeting tourist attractions and events, travel today can be an anxiety provoking proposition. In the last two months alone, for example, Britain, often thought of as a safe bet for travel, has been hit by a number of attacks, including one at a concert in Manches...
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Credit...Heather Sten for The New York Times With two more high profile plays opening in New York this season and a huge movie deal in the works Theresa Rebeck's time may have come. Sarah Bernhardt ran her own theater. Correction: She owned her own theater, which she also ran. It had a dressing room that was actually f...
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LOS ANGELES All year, Hollywood executives have been brushing aside worries about box office stagnation in the United States and Canada by pointing to strong ticket sales in China. Ticket sales for imported films in China are up 34 percent this year, to roughly 2.3 billion, according to the Beijing research firm EntGro...
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On Monday, Fox will formally announce its prime time TV schedule for the 2016 17 television season. Here's a look at some of the highlights. Fox lost "American Idol," so cue the reboots. The way Fox executives explain it, familiar titles do not require the same "marketing muscle" as new shows, Dana Walden, the co chief...
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When Hurricanes Irma and Maria hit in back to back succession last fall, they had a profound impact on high season traffic in a handful of the hardest hit Caribbean islands, including Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and St. Maarten /St. Martin. Tourist arrivals dropped 8.7 percent across the Caribbean from January thro...
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'SIAH ARMAJANI: FOLLOW THIS LINE' at the Met Breuer (through June 2). Born in Iran, Armajani has been living in the United States since 1960. This retrospective ranges from work he did as a teenage activist in Tehran to models of the many public sculptures he has produced across America over the past five decades. It i...
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Art & Design
For centuries, the wives of England's King Henry VIII have been remembered largely for the ways their marriages came to an end. Now comes a pair of young British theater makers, Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, with a revisionist take on those sorry stories: "Six," a pop musical in which each woman gets, at least for a few m...
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On most days, Facebook doesn't have much in common with President Trump. But at the moment, both are in the damage control business, as they try to get out from under the cloud of suspicion related to Russia's meddling in the 2016 election. Their goals collided in awkward fashion over the weekend when Rob Goldman, Face...
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Technology
Brown University in Providence, R.I., announced it will fully cover tuition for students in its master of fine arts program for acting and directing. The three year M.F.A. program is a partnership with Trinity Rep, a Providence theater, and provides students with professional acting and directing experience in addition...
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The New York Philharmonic's declaration of its new music bona fides this season is so emphatic, it's being delivered with megaphones. In Ashley Fure's "Filament," which has its premiere on Thursday in the Philharmonic's season opening gala the first under its new music director, Jaap van Zweden singers are spread throu...
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Late Night to Trump: Comparing Yourself to Lincoln Is a Bad Idea 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. We're all stuck at home at the moment, so here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. Other Than That, Mr. Lincoln ...
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Claudia Mo, one of the pro democracy members of Hong Kong's Legislative Council who resigned in protest earlier this month. With China now firmly in control of LegCo, the body will soon become another rubber stamping organ of the Chinese Communist Party. As of a couple of weeks ago, Hong Kong no longer has a formal pol...
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Opinion
The first grandparent to arrive, Rohna Paskow, had taken the train from suburban Philadelphia. She saved seats for her daughter in law's parents, Charles and Michele Buchbauer, who were driving 50 miles from rural New Jersey to join her. Their grandson's birth was still two months away. But Ms. Paskow's daughter in law...
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Developers Sense the Time Is Right to Play Off the Aura of West Chelsea Frank Gehry's IAC building was a shot of glamour for West Chelsea when it was built in 2007, an almost ethereal assemblage of white, sail like forms at 18th Street and the West Side Highway. At 130,000 square feet, it is one of the largest commerci...
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When Liz Sender's daughter turned 8 in October, she requested a sleepover party. So Ms. Sender, a makeup artist in Los Angeles, did what any modern parent does: She looked on Instagram at slumber party photos. It was there that she spotted WonderTent Parties, which provides a professionalized sleepover experience. Inst...
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And in the Next Zoom Room, a Rat Doing a Striptease On a recent Saturday, I joined a few hundred people for a wild night at a singularly outrageous nightclub. Each room contained something different and unexpected. In one, a girl strummed a viola and told dirty jokes; next door, a giant rat performed a striptease to th...
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"To be an African or to be a part of any group of people that has been colonized when you're researching in the archives," Maaza Mengiste said, "it's not just research it's detective work that you have to do." When Maaza Mengiste found out that she was a Booker Prize finalist for her novel "The Shadow King," "I went fr...
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Books
A rehearsal for "Parade" at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris. Work on the theater, which is scheduled to reopen on Friday, cost 34.7 million. The Theatre du Chatelet is reopening after a two and a half year makeover, with a new artistic director and an inclusive new mission. PARIS The workmen were everywhere. Backstage...
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I was at Yankee Stadium last Thursday night, which means I was there to see what sportswriters might call an epic slugfest game played out in what is often hyped as the greatest rivalry in sports, Yankees versus Red Sox. Or, to put it another way, I got to see the Red Sox turn it around and beat the Yankees, after losi...
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Well
When Lori Levine goes out for a night on the town, she is often in the company of famous men like George Clooney, Chris Noth or Adrien Brody. But that's her job. Ms. Levine, 46, is the owner of Flying Television (the name inspired by Keith Haring's artwork), a New York company that books celebrities for corporate event...
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Fashion & Style
Dave Chappelle released a lacerating new special, "8:46" the length of time that a police officer held his knee on George Floyd's neck as Floyd pleaded for his life that has become among the first live shows in the Covid era to reckon with the protests gripping the nation. The show was taped in Ohio on June 6, and a ti...
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The Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night started an N.B.A. draft unlike any other by selecting Georgia guard Anthony Edwards with the first overall pick. James Wiseman, a center from the University of Memphis, went second to the Golden State Warriors, while LaMelo Ball, the popular guard from Chino Hills, Calif., ...
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In 2015, a group of flex dancers expert practitioners in contorting, pausing, snapping and gliding converged at the Park Avenue Armory for the evening length "Flexn," an ambitious show masterminded by Reggie Gray (who goes by Regg Roc) and Peter Sellars. Now, after two national and international tours, the collaborator...
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Dance
In 2016, the Musee d'Orsay in Paris received the largest foreign collection of art to be donated to France since World War II from two American art collectors, Marlene and Spencer Hays. Now the museum is making more room for all of that, as well as the rest of its collection and educational operations. On March 5, the ...
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Art & Design
"It got off to an interesting start, you know; they flipped a coin to determine who would get the first question, but when Trump saw the quarter in the air he said, 'Hey, that's how much I paid in taxes last year,' and it went downhill from there." JIMMY KIMMEL "We have emerged from the mad whirlwind where we gazed upo...
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Lee Phillip Bell, a co creator of two of daytime television's most successful and enduring soap operas, "The Young and the Restless" and "The Bold and the Beautiful," died on Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 91. Her death was confirmed by Eva Basler, a spokeswoman for the Bell family's company, Bell Phillip ...
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The elaborate "Palau Pledge" was stamped in Lynn Englum's passport when she visited the republic in February. When Lynn Englum of New York City visited the Republic of Palau in February as part of a travel project exploring places imperiled by climate change, she received an elaborate stamp in her passport. The full pa...
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There is not much action, barely even a plot, in "The Persians." People just mill about, talking (admittedly rather intensely) about events (admittedly of the tragic kind) that happened far away. Yet this National Theater of Greece production unleashes gale force sound and fury. At its peak, the show hits like a blow t...
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With their two sons grown and out of the house, Ruvin and Polina Itskovich found their neighborhood in Bergen Beach, Brooklyn, too calm for their liking. The couple, who met in their native Ukraine, immigrated to the United States in 1979, first stopping in Baltimore, where they had relatives. They then moved to an apa...
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Real Estate
Economic statistics released Friday offered the clearest sign yet that the recovery, already acknowledged to be sauntering, had slowed to a crawl. The government lowered its estimate of economic growth in the second quarter to an annual rate of 1.6 percent, after originally reporting last month that growth in the April...
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Credit...Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times MAMARONECK, N.Y. On a rainy day in mid March, nearly 300 National Guard members in military fatigues arrived to set up a containment area in the New York City suburb of New Rochelle, one of the earliest coronavirus hot spots in North America. Three miles away in the adjac...
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In the words of its playwright, Ming Peiffer, "Usual Girls" is a show about "the joys and horrors of growing up being a woman the extreme joys and the extreme horrors." And the play, which had its final performance on Sunday, is almost perfectly tailored for this moment. It follows a half Korean, half white girl in 198...
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Theater
The New York Times recently spoke with more than two dozen women in the technology start up industry about sexual harassment, provoking a range of reactions with their accounts. Sarah Kunst, an entrepreneur who told The Times about an unwanted advance from Dave McClure, a founder of 500 Startups and an investor, wrote ...
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Technology
With the coronavirus replacing many graduation ceremonies with virtual pomp and circumstance, many families are feeling the loss of a significant ritual. And for parents with children graduating from both high school and college this year, the letdown is supersized. "Missing out on solemn and formal, joyous and exubera...
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Damage from Hurricane Harvey in Katy, Tex., a Houston suburb.Credit...George Etheredge for The New York Times HOUSTON For six months, Sue and Roger Powell have been hoping to find a buyer for their 7,100 square foot home in the Houston suburb of Katy. A week ago, after they waded out of it with a few suitcases on air m...
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Economy
We spend a lot of time trying to tame our technology or wean ourselves from its ills. But tech at its best can help us create new things and express ourselves. That's why Tech Tip is evolving from a daily Q. and A. with readers into a monthly illustrated guide for people who want to use tech to hatch and produce stuff ...
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Technology
Trevor Noah also broadcast live, with his writers facing an even bigger time crunch than Colbert's because "The Daily Show" starts earlier, at 11 p.m. Eastern. But they pulled through, delivering quips about nearly every major aspect of the speech. "Just a few minutes ago, President Trump finished the second State of t...
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Television
Amazon hopes to persuade people to pay for something they have traditionally enjoyed free: short form audio. Audible, Amazon's audiobook and spoken word subsidiary, on Thursday announced Channels, a subscription service that will offer a new library of audio, including original programs, articles read aloud and more. A...
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Going to college can seem like a choice between impossibly high payments while in school or a crushing debt load for years afterward, but one state is experimenting with a third way. This week, the Oregon Legislature approved a plan that could allow students to attend state colleges without paying tuition or taking out...
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Education
What U.S. Tech Giants Face in Europe in 2017 For American tech behemoths like Google and Facebook, Europe can be both a blessing and a curse. The region and its 500 million consumers are one of the companies' most important overseas markets. And in cities from Lisbon to Ljubljana, people often can't get enough YouTube ...
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Technology
On view for one week only at the Museum of Modern Art, "Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: Work/Travail/Arbeid" is among the most substantive and challenging exhibitions of the year. But is it an exhibition at all? Ms. De Keersmaeker, a renowned Belgian choreographer, emerged in the 1980s with exacting, cerebral dances, perfo...
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Art & Design
DETROIT When Ford rolls out its redesigned F 150 pickup truck here on Monday morning to kick off two days of press previews for the 2014 North American International Auto Show, the automaker will be making one of the boldest product gambles in its 111 year history. The calculated risk Ford is taking casting aside the t...
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Automobiles
For years, thousands of people who hadn't been convicted of a crime languished in New York jails because they could not afford bail. New Yorkers were locked away for months, even years, not because they were dangerous, but because they were poor. Lives were ruined. Young people, overwhelmingly black and Hispanic teenag...
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Opinion
SAN FRANCISCO TikTok sued the U.S. government on Monday, accusing the Trump administration of depriving it of due process when President Trump used his emergency economic powers to issue an executive order that will block the app from operating in the country. The suit, which was filed in the Federal District Court for...
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Technology
Life often isn't easy for small performing arts venues in New York. Even beloved spaces can struggle with the city's high rents and competition for fund raising dollars. But Jack, an interdisciplinary performance space in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill neighborhood, is showing that it is possible to thrive. On Tuesday, Alec D...
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Theater
In Columbia, S.C., on Saturday, a young protester told a reporter that she just didn't think voting is "how change happens." "They've been telling us to do that for so long," she added, "and we've done it and look at everything that's still going on." Fury over the cruel death of George Floyd, a black man in police cus...
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How did the political left squander the opportunity that was the 2020 primary campaign? The Trump presidency has created tremendous energy among progressives. More than half of Democratic voters now identify as liberal. Most favor "Medicare for all." A growing number are unhappy with American capitalism. This year's ca...
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PARIS Even during a period of rising food prices and economic uncertainty, Damien Bignon, a poultry farmer in the Paris region, cannot meet the demand from local markets and stores for his organic eggs. At the Ferme des Beurreries near Feucherolles, west of the capital, Mr. Bignon employs five people overseeing 3,000 c...
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Global Business
Call it KAWSMANIA. The former graffiti tagger Brian Donnelly, who in 2021 will be the subject of a survey show at the Brooklyn Museum, was definitely the artist of the moment at this week's marquee auctions held by Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips. Though Jeff Koons might have set an auction record on Wednesday night...
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Art & Design
Scott Lilienfeld, an expert in personality disorders who repeatedly disturbed the order in his own field, questioning the science behind many of psychology's conceits, popular therapies and prized tools, died on Sept. 30 at his home in Atlanta. He was 59. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his wife, Candice Basterfield, ...
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Science
Franco Zeffirelli, the Italian director known for his sumptuous films and stage productions, died on Saturday at 96. Read the Times obituary. The critics sometimes found his work overstuffed, with more attention paid to decor than to human beings. But audiences ate it up for decades. Here are some of the highlights fro...
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In March of 2019, 50 people were charged for their role in a coordinated effort to buy admission to elite American universities. They included an heiress to the Hot Pockets fortune, Michelle Janavs; the Oscar nominated actress Felicity Huffman; and the television star Lori Loughlin and her husband, the designer Mossimo...
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Style
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. It's a familiar sight to have a top player's sister in the draw of the Miami Open, where this year Venus and Serena Williams are both competing for a 17th time. But this tournament is the first time at a WTA level event that top ranked Naomi Osaka was joined in the singles main draw by her older sis...
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Sports
The star of Laurie Berg's "The Mineralogy of Objects" is an inflatable sex doll named Tanya. She appears midway through the 55 minute dance, which made its debut on Thursday at Danspace Project, in line with Ms. Berg and the three other female dancers who make up the cast. They toss Tanya around and try to keep her alo...
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'ARCHIVE IN MOTION: 75 YEARS OF THE JEROME ROBBINS DANCE DIVISION' at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (through Jan. 25). August is a good catch up month, and the Jerome Robbins Dance Division provides an excellent reason to do just that with this exhibition, which was put together by the division's ...
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Mr. Chua introduces other characters, including a tiger whose halves (front and hind) talk to each other. Portrayed by two of the actors in an ingenious get up (Karen Boyer designed the costumes), the beast is too silly to be scary. And that's part of the problem. Many comic elements gossiping pandas, a rap by the prin...
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Jane Harper leans on the Australian environment in all her novels. "The Lost Man," like "The Dry," is a study in isolation, she says (seen here riding a ferry in Sydney Harbor).Credit...Matthew Abbott for The New York Times Jane Harper leans on the Australian environment in all her novels. "The Lost Man," like "The Dry...
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Pity Melbourne: After seven years of topping the Economist Intelligence Unit's most livable city rankings, it was finally displaced last year by another coffee loving city, Vienna. Despite being nudged down a notch to No. 2, Melburnians aren't too worried. Though the city is currently grappling with issues related to b...
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An heir of a prominent German banking family recovered a Renaissance era painting on Friday that was looted by the Nazis and then bought by the Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, who amassed a collection of more than 1,000 paintings. The work, "The Raising of Lazarus," by an anonymous German artist, was salvaged by the M...
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Art & Design
Emily Noyes Vanderpoel amassed a large collection of textiles, ceramics and enamels particularly pieces from Asia and the Near East. In 1902, Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, a 59 year old artist, historian and collector of exotic artifacts, published a book called "Color Problems." Written for interior decorators and florists,...
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Style
"It's almost an idea," one of Kurt Barnert's fellow students at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf says of Kurt's latest effort. It's meant as both criticism and encouragement, and a reminder of the aesthetic rules at this WestGerman outpost of the early '60s avant garde. Artistic practice among the young Dusseldorfers is...
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Movies
We have met the walking dead , and they are us. That, at any rate, seems to be the bludgeoning point of all the screen zombies that keep walking and sometimes running in our direction. Since George A. Romero unleashed the zombie movie with "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), the departed and their annihilating hunger ha...
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Movies
After his graduation from the University of Delaware in 2012, Steven Rollino moved back home with his parents on Long Island, N.Y. He commuted to work in Manhattan via the Long Island Rail Road. Between the hour long train ride and the legs on either end, the trip took him more than two hours each way. Weary of the com...
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Real Estate
Until now, little has been heard from Jose Carlos Bergantinos Diaz, whom the authorities charged in connection with the sale of 80 million in phony works. From Afar, a Fugitive in the Knoedler Art Fraud Gives His Defense He was accused of having been a central figure in one of the largest art world scandals of recent t...
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Art & Design
Through May 12. Participant Inc., 253 East Houston, Manhattan; 212 254 4334, participantinc.org. Dash Snow died in 2009 of a drug overdose at the age of 27, and this sad, sometimes disturbing show is the largest presentation of his work in New York since then. Organized with the Dash Snow Archive, it reveals both talen...
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Art & Design
The Star of David may look the same upside down as it does right side up, but the same can't be said of a painting by the American Color Field artist Morris Louis that implements the Jewish symbol, and for years has potentially been viewed in flipped over form. The work, now on display with the title "Man Reaching for ...
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Art & Design
The piece that opens the exhibition "To Exalt the Ephemeral: Alina Szapocznikow, 1962 1972," Hauser Wirth's thorough and enthralling first show of the artist's work since beginning to represent her estate last year, is an untitled plaster cast of her mouth. Rough edges frame the philtrum, chin and bits of cheek around ...
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Art & Design
"Ramen Heads" has all the thrills of a corporate training video, with about as much humor, too. Over narrated and self serious, this documentary allows its good intentions to pave the way to a tepid tale. Centering on Osamu Tomita, who runs one of Japan's most praised ramen restaurants, the film follows him and a few o...
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Movies
Social Security has always seemed like a future problem, with experts long predicting a benefits squeeze in the decades ahead. But the coronavirus has put tens of millions of Americans out of work, and economists are predicting that the recovery will take years. That means the future is now. If nothing is done to shore...
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Your Money
The theater community is reeling from Thursday's announcement of a shutdown of Broadway theaters through April 12, a public health measure to protect audiences from possible coronavirus transmission. A blow to the heart and to a vital economic engine of the city it's also a fairly unprecedented move, but for two days f...
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Opinion
"The Plague" is a parable and sermon, and should be considered as such. The message is not the highest form of creative art, but it may be of such importance for our time that to dismiss it in the name of artistic criticism would be to blaspheme against the human spirit. M. Camus is a master of the Defoe like narrative...
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Books
Despite her return to autobiography, the authorial mask is not completely removed, and the essays are stronger for it. The voice is more expansive than in her memoirs, imbued with an authority that is all the more powerful because it is diffuse and flexible, aware of its limited perspective and willing to be measured a...
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Books
Stonehenge eroding under the forces of extreme weather. Venice slowly collapsing into its canals. The Statue of Liberty gradually flooding. Images like these, familiar from Hollywood climate catastrophe thrillers, were evoked by a joint report, released on Thursday by Unesco, the United Nations Environment Program and ...
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Science
CBS announced on Tuesday that it had hired the former ABC and NBC anchor Josh Elliott to work for its streaming service. The hiring of Mr. Elliott, who was a prominent face on ABC's "Good Morning America," signals that CBS News is prepared to meaningfully invest in its streaming service, which is called CBSN. "This is ...
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Media
HONG KONG After months of brisk activity, China's torrid economy is finally growing a little more slowly. But data released on Tuesday and Wednesday leaves unclear whether the slowing is enough to bring down inflation particularly as long as the central bank is pumping tens of billions of renminbi into the economy each...
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Global Business
Like many immigrants to the United States, Alexander Hamilton reinvented himself in New York City. His haunts in and around Manhattan were the backdrop to his spectacular triumphs, trials and death. Here are some of the addresses he frequented: This spot was the first Capitol building of the United States, where George...
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Travel