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FOR a brand seeking to reach the podcast listening public, there is one thing better than sponsoring a hit series: creating your own. General Electric pulled it off last year with its quaintly named GE Podcast Theater. Its eight part science fiction thriller "The Message," produced with the Panoply podcasting network, ...
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Spotify is finally ready to go public. The streaming music giant filed a confidential registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission in late December, with the intention of listing its shares on the New York Stock Exchange in the first quarter of this year, according to two people briefed on the company's pla...
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The first page of the appeal contains a color photograph of an unidentified Las Vegas casino taken on June 4, the frame filled with an unmasked, cheek by jowl crowd of reveling gamblers (with predictable results: Covid 19 cases surged and the governor soon imposed a mask requirement). The fact that casinos are treated ...
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LIZ COOPER THE STAMPEDE at Rough Trade (Feb. 27, 9 p.m.). This lilting Nashville rock trio gives new meaning to the label "easy listening" with their tempered, dreamy psychedelia. Gentle grooves and softly arpeggiated guitars take the place of sprawling, climactic jams, yet their songwriting is taut enough that the aud...
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"O.K., good." That's something people say to signal that whatever has just occurred is sufficient, that it's time to move on. "O.K., good" is also one of the things said in Melinda Ring's "Strange Engagements," a dance work that opened at Danspace Project on Thursday. At the end of a section or two of the 40 minute pie...
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Almost exactly a year ago, on a sticky summer afternoon in Los Angeles, the Clippers staged a news conference for their two new headliners, Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. The duo sat on a platform inside a recreation center gymnasium that was packed with fans, reporters and team employees. For a long suffering franchis...
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Gil Schwartz, who was head of corporate communications for CBS, wrote a humor column under the pen name Stanley Bing. "I was Zorro, Clark Kent, putting one over on Perry White," he once wrote. Gil Schwartz, the CBS network's longtime chief communications officer who, under the pen name Stanley Bing, skewered corporate ...
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The night before her wedding, Maya Posey Pierre crouched on the living room floor of her Brooklyn apartment watching YouTube tutorials on floral design. She neatly laid out rows of orange and white roses, which she bought in bulk from Trader Joe's. Armed with floral shears and sheer determination, she got to work. "We ...
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Fashion & Style
The Danish architect Bjarke Ingels says he spent almost the same amount of time designing the Via 57 chair, which will be available for sale in September, as he did the pyramid shaped Via 57 West rental building. Not every building inspires its own chair. But Via 57 West, a 709 unit residential rental tower at 625 West...
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THE BUYERS Jim and Denise Burnham were able to find an apartment with room for four. Back before they had children, Denise and Jim Burnham spent three years living in New York. They rented a one bedroom with a balcony for around 3,400 a month in a Midtown West high rise. Both were in the military then, working primaril...
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The Munich Security Conference was a depressing gathering this February. Throughout the Cold War and for decades thereafter, Wehrkunde (as the conference was known when it started in 1963) was the premier event for Europeans and Americans committed to NATO, trans Atlantic ties and the West. For decades, Senator John Mc...
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"The move to MOOCs comes at great peril to our university," the letter said, "We regard such courses as a serious compromise of quality of education and, ironically for a social justice course, a case of social injustice." While expressing respect for Dr. Sandel's scholarship and teaching, it also chided him, saying, "...
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Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week's most notable new songs and videos. Just want the music? Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes). Like what you hear? Let us know at theplaylist nytimes.com and sign up for our Louder newsletter, a once a week blast of ...
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What are those primitive looking glasses? Those are Eskimo snow goggles. People always ask about them. They have only these tiny little slits so they won't go blind because they are out in that brilliant snow all the time. It's a wonderful form, isn't it? Is there any theme to what you have collected a through line? We...
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BERLIN A play based on Adolf Hitler's youth is sparking controversy for an unusual opening night deal: Audience members willing to wear a swastika (provided by the theater) during the performance get in free. Those who prefer to pay full price are asked to wear the Star of David. And the opening night is on the 129th a...
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In her airy, antiques filled loft in Greenwich Village, Christine Lahti is trying to fight her way out of a box. Her hands pat the empty air in front of her. Then, quickly, she clutches that pesky invisible kite, but it's getting away from her ... woaaaahhhh! I'm waiting for the third move in her arsenal, but I think w...
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SAN FRANCISCO Some of the biggest names on Wall Street are warming up to Bitcoin, a virtual currency that for nearly a decade has been consigned to the unregulated fringes of the financial world. The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange has been working on an online trading platform that would allow large inve...
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MELBOURNE, Australia Bidding farewell to the least impressive decade in its history, American men's tennis is suddenly flipping its script down under. Five American men reached the third round of the Australian Open, the most of any country; in the previous 10 years, that number was never more than two. "It's a good si...
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Facebook announced on Friday that it would allow political campaigns and candidates to pay creators for sponsored content on Instagram and Facebook, so long as the posts follow the company's disclosure guidelines. Each piece of sponsored political content must use Facebook's branded content tool, which states at the to...
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Clattering down the wooden steps into her basement, a woman named Angela is fleeing a storm. It's a tornado, she says, talking to ... herself? Nope, she's talking to the audience. Are we meant to be in the basement with her? From our auditorium seats, it doesn't feel remotely like we are. Lauren Gunderson's "Natural Sh...
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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. Jimmy Kimmel described President Trump's campaign rally in Iowa on Wednesday, a state where co...
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Quiet fireworks it sounds like an oxymoron. Usually those bright bursts of color come with equally impressive bangs. But some fireworks shows are designed to please the eyes without pummeling the ears. In parts of Europe, quiet fireworks displays have grown increasingly common. In Britain, venues close to residents, wi...
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As a place where millions of young Americans perform and explore their identities in public, TikTok has become a prominent venue for ideological formation, political activism and trolling. It has homegrown pundits, and despite its parent company's reluctance to be involved with politics the service does not allow polit...
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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. If you're interested in hearing from The Times regularly about great TV, sign up for our Watching newsletter and get recommendations straight to your inbox. On Thursday, President Trump ...
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These tracks are narrow and the trains are too, carrying only eight people total, and with riders sitting single file in bobsled style cars that straddle the track and put you right in the middle of it. That may be bad news for those who like to share the experience with a buddy, but if you are in front, it gives the i...
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Rise and shine: The third day of Paris Fashion Week begins at the Grand Palais for the Chloe show at 10 a.m., followed by a quick Metro or Mercedes ride (depending where you fall in the pecking order) to Carven in the Jardin des Tuileries an hour later. Grab a coffee while you can inside, of course, given the forecast ...
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When 17 year old Darnella Frazier filmed the police killing of George Floyd on her phone in May, her video reignited the Black Lives Matter movement and nationwide protests, even prompting one supporter to name her "the Rosa Parks of her generation." In addition to setting off policy debates about police reform, the pr...
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WASHINGTON Probably, on a long car ride or at a lagging dinner party, you have been asked that trivial query: If you could have been born at any time and place, where and when would you choose? If you're an artist, then at least as a practical matter you ought to consider reincarnating in Florence in the late 15th cent...
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What will happen next? Why is she falling back into his arms when he's sitting there minding his own business? Who would have expected that man with his legs spread eagle on the floor to scurry across it? Why does that group of people stand motionless and then all switch position in a way that transforms them? Why did ...
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There is something appealing about the concept of "shared value." The strategy, first articulated by Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School and the management consultant Mark R. Kramer, is based on the belief that companies can increase profits and enhance their businesses even as they address pressing social pro...
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When Jacob Wang saw reports circulating online recently suggesting that life was getting better in Wuhan, the center of the coronavirus outbreak, he was irate. Mr. Wang, a journalist for a state run newspaper in China, knew that Wuhan was still in crisis he had traveled there to chronicle the failures of the government...
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YES, it's a filing cabinet, but the 22 story Yale Club, at Vanderbilt Avenue and 44th Street, is a very nice filing cabinet! That is, it's incrementally more attractive than the rest of Midtown's World War I era buildings. Question: Is "nice" enough for the landmark designation proposed by the New York Landmarks Conser...
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"We can be good together, but only when we really have to be. And I'm slowly figuring out that maybe we don't have to." That's the sound of Van waking up to the reality of her situationship with Earn. It takes her a full day to get there, but she finally arrives. The episode kicks off with Van getting her way ... in mo...
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One day they may name a street after President Trump in Tehran. Why? Because Trump just ordered the assassination of possibly the dumbest man in Iran and the most overrated strategist in the Middle East: Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani. Think of the miscalculations this guy made. In 2015, the United States and the major Eur...
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If you live in a New York City apartment, it may be on hold, because the city has suspended its composting program (although there are workable alternatives). But if you're lucky enough to have a garden of your own, there's no time to lose. "The answer to so many gardening questions is, typically, 'compost,'" said Dary...
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Ashley Judd, one of Harvey Weinstein's accusers and a key figure in the MeToo movement, reacted to the Hollywood producer's conviction with satisfaction. But she would have preferred a "restorative justice process in which he could emotionally come to terms with his wrongs." The criminal justice system, she said, was l...
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The actor Woody Harrelson narrates the documentary "Kiss the Ground," a frenetic but ultimately persuasive and optimistic plan to counter the climate crisis. Streaming on Netflix, the film makes a case for the healing power of soil, arguing that its capacity to sequester carbon could be the key to reversing the effects...
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The nine works anchoring Lisa Alvarado's solo show, "Thalweg," at Bridget Donahue aren't definitively one thing or another. They're paintings: brightly colored and abstract, with geometric patterns or expressionistic swaths. They're also tapestries suspended from the ceiling, with fabric backing and trim. Notably, each...
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. With tuition, student loan debt and default rates all spiraling higher, what's not to love about a 10,000 bachelor's degree? In the last two years, two Republican governors Rick Perry in Texas and Rick Scott in Florida have challenged their states' public colleges to develop bachelor's degrees cos...
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Zachary Quinto, who plays an age shifting villain in the new season of AMC's "NOS4A2," had been planning to see a bevy of Broadway shows before the pandemic hit. On the night of March 11, as the coronavirus clamped down on cultural life, the actor Zachary Quinto was in the audience at a Broadway theater, watching the r...
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Choi Ho sung of South Korea displayed his unorthodox follow through on the second tee during the AT T Pebble Beach Pro Am on Thursday. PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. A few dozen spectators and three grazing deer surrounded the first tee at Monterey Peninsula Country Club on Thursday, craning their necks to get a better look at t...
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BRUSSELS Jeered by angry protesters demanding an end to austerity and shaken by a resounding rejection of their economic strategy from Italian voters, European leaders gathered for an economic summit meeting Thursday amid few signs that the bloc's policies were healing the twin blights of rising unemployment and recess...
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There's a pleasing symmetry to "Dedicado a Max," an episode that could be more accurately titled "A Tale of Two Coots." The bifurcated plot revolves around a pair of ornery old men. Both are natural born fighters who don't like to be told what to do. One is in a house that people want him evicted from, that he refuses ...
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The letter was closed with a gold wax seal that said "Agnes." A note was stapled to the envelope. It read: "Please file it unopened, with the date carefully noted. It is the outline for a play, and I have no means of copyrighting it except this way. The material is eminently stealable and I'm discussing the matter with...
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On CNN, the legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin was in red alert mode, denouncing President Trump's firing of the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, as "a grotesque abuse of power" and "the kind of thing that goes on in non democracies." Over on Fox News, the mood was more sanguine even celebratory. "This was overdue, and ev...
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Paul M. Romer and Caroline Weber decided to make a day of it. They exchanged vows at the Anglican Episcopal Church of St. Peter and St. Sigfrid in Stockholm. Later, Mr. Romer, wearing the same white tie and tails, was presented with the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Forgive Paul M. Romer for turning t...
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Samia was an influencer before she could talk. Her parents, Adam and LaToya Ali, are influencers themselves and began chronicling Samia's impending arrival on YouTube and Instagram in 2014, once Ms. Ali learned she was pregnant. "Samia's birth video is on YouTube, so she's pretty much been born into social media," Mr. ...
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LOS ANGELES A light rail train barrels along the curving west edge of Los Angeles State Historic Park, a spit of land here just north of Chinatown. It roars by so close that it feels like the audience watching "Sweet Land," the bewildering, ghostly new opera being put on in the park, could reach out and nearly touch it...
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Kanye West has talked a big game about running for president, but it's his sister in law Kourtney Kardashian who is participating in the American legislative process. On Tuesday, she will participate in a briefing on regulatory reform of the cosmetics industry, along with Representative Frank Pallone of New Jersey, the...
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The first of a new class of drugs to prevent migraines was approved last week. The medication, called Aimovig, reduces the frequency of migraines among those severely afflicted, but the drug rarely prevents these episodes altogether. One expert called it "progress but not a panacea." Migraine is the most disabling neur...
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Gyorgy and Marta Kurtag, who made music together for seven decades, at the Budapest Music Center in 2018. Of one of their concerts, a critic wrote, "You felt that you were eavesdropping on an intimate family affair." Marta Kurtag, a pianist and teacher who shared a 72 year collaboration with her husband, the prominent ...
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Biden once said that if he and Trump were in high school, he'd "take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him." Noah thinks a public fight benefiting a charity is in order. Jay Leno Is Not Into Edibles The former "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno made a return visit, introduced as an angry man Jimmy Fallon had seen s...
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OCEAN'S TWELVE (2004) 7:15 p.m. on AMC. This summer's slate of popcorn movies has been drastically reduced by the pandemic but Steven Soderbergh's sequel to "Oceans Eleven" could provide some of what moviegoers may be missing. In her review for The New York Times, Manohla Dargis called this crime comedy an "enjoyable, ...
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How to watch: From 3 a.m. Eastern to noon on Tennis Channel, and from noon to 3 p.m. on NBC; Streaming on the NBCSN app. The French Open begins on Sunday, with the first round matches spread across three days instead of two in a departure from tradition. While some things have changed, the high level of play and the fa...
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At the Prado, Love That Now Dares to Shout Its Name MADRID The term homosexuality was first coined at the end of the 19th century, by which time the Prado Museum here had almost finished assembling Spain's largest art collection. Yet homosexuality has always been present within the Prado, Madrid's flagship museum, in w...
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Tourism, which grew faster than the global gross domestic product for the past nine years, has been decimated by the pandemic. Once accounting for 10 percent of employment worldwide, the sector is poised to shed 121 million jobs, with losses projected at a minimum of 3.4 trillion, according to the World Travel Tourism ...
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A crazy optimist might have hoped that the impeachment trial, gutted though it was by Senate Republicans, would chasten rather than embolden President Trump, prompting a new judiciousness in his execution of his duties. Forget about that. His naming of Richard Grenell, the ambassador to Germany, as acting director of n...
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WASHINGTON In an effort to curb what many consider the worst public health drug crisis in decades, the federal government on Tuesday published the first national standards for prescription painkillers, recommending that doctors try pain relievers like ibuprofen before prescribing the highly addictive pills, and that th...
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A roundup of motoring news from the web: The prototype 2009 Corvette ZR1 known as the Blue Devil was the first car pulled out of a sinkhole at the National Corvette Museum that devoured eight of the fiberglass sports cars last month. Although the sinkhole was about 30 feet deep, the car emerged virtually unscathed muse...
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When Americans recently learned how little President Trump has paid in taxes in the past 15 years and how he benefited from financial maneuvers, it reinforced the widespread belief that the rich don't pay their fair share. Lost in the outrage is the fact that the tax provisions that allowed Mr. Trump to trim his tax bi...
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"Stairway to Heaven" is an original no new trial needed. That is the upshot of an appellate court's decision, announced Monday, which upheld a jury's verdict that Led Zeppelin's 1971 classic did not copy "Taurus," a much lesser known song by the guitarist and singer Randy Wolfe that was recorded in 1968 by his band, Sp...
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Changes loom near remote Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. It's a rough region of 1,000 foot cliffs and canyons, two wild rivers the Green and the Yampa ancient rock art and archaeological evidence of 10,000 years of human history. The park, which straddles the Utah Colorado border, affords visitors backcountry campi...
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WASHINGTON China's technological ambitions are eliciting rare bipartisan agreement in Washington, with lawmakers considering investing tens of billions of dollars in America's semiconductor industry over the next five to 10 years to help the United States retain an edge over Beijing. A bipartisan measure introduced thi...
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She soon gets a chance to prove her mettle when she and three fellow students are abducted by treasure hunters trying to track down Dora's parents (Michael Pena and Eva Longoria) , who are searching for a lost Incan city of gold named Parapata. The Indiana Jones style high jinks that ensue don't quite have the visual v...
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By now, there is no mistaking works by Cindy Sherman her signature as both photographer and subject, her over the top outfits and constantly transforming face. But it is rare to see them gathered in one intimate space, as they now are at the Mnuchin Gallery. Looking back over 30 years, "Cindy Sherman: Once Upon a Time,...
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If the livestreamed show "Zoo Motel" were happening in person instead of on our computer screens, we would probably get a neat little packet of items upon arrival at the theater. In this isolated world of virtual performance, that packet comes instead as a preshow email attachment. It's up to us to print the items out:...
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For the first time in over a decade, a contest to award the worst sex writing in the English language will not deliver a winner to the public, a relief for readers left mortified by the annual selection and sad news for the world's connoisseurs of cringe. The Bad Sex in Fiction Award is canceled. The editors who run th...
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In the fifth floor studios of City Center on Friday, Miro Magloire was sharing statistics about what his New Chamber Ballet had accomplished in the 10 years, "pretty much to the day," since the company first performed there. The largest sum was large indeed. The number of ballets presented, almost all of them premieres...
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Former President Barack Obama shared his summer reading list on social media on Wednesday, offering a mix of novels, short story collections and nonfiction for anyone, in his words, "looking for some suggestions." The list covers both new releases and older works from authors such as Tea Obreht, Colson Whitehead, Ted C...
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WASHINGTON President Obama is traveling to the shadow of Wall Street on Thursday to counter what he calls "the furious efforts of industry lobbyists" trying to weaken or kill new financial regulations that he says are needed to stave off a second Great Depression. As the Senate debates how to rewrite rules governing th...
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Full reviews of recent dance performances: nytimes.com/dance. A searchable guide to these and other performances is at nytimes.com/events. Beat Festival (Thursday through Sept. 19) This festival of site responsive, Brooklyn bred performance fans out across the borough for a fourth year. It begins on Thursday at 7 p.m.,...
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new video loaded: Travel Postcard: The Revival of Detroit
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Inspecting a bridge near Wilmington, Del. Some economists say the decline in government spending has hurt the recovery. WASHINGTON Recessions are always painful, but the Great Recession that ran from late 2007 to the middle of 2009 may have inflicted a new kind of pain: an era of slower growth. It has been five years s...
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Many of us think of the holidays as the giving season. I think of it as the stalking season. That's because I have been relentlessly followed online by advertisements for shapewear. The emails have poured in, and every sales site I frequent Zulily, MyHabit, Ideel has touted their wonders. At this time of year, there ar...
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Book your accommodations through Airbnb and be sure to take out the garbage. If you really want to get a feeling for a city, my experts agreed, do not stay in a hotel. Hotels cater to what they think are your tastes and go out of their way to make you comfortable. Instead, find an actual home that allows you to experie...
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Hiking through Forest Canyon Pass, nearly 11,500 feet above sea level, is a little like jumping into an ice cold pond: It's sobering, invigorating and takes a little getting used to. When I wasn't catching my breath because of the altitude, I was taking in the picture book panoramas of Rocky Mountain National Park. It'...
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For several years, Christina Giannini had kept one eye on the lookout for an apartment to buy. "You want to feel like your life is together, like you have control and roots," she said. "There's a lot of things you can't control, so in the meantime you work hard and set goals. Owning an apartment was a big goal for me."...
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Gritty, the furry Philadelphia Flyers mascot who took the sports world by storm last year, has always played by his own rules. The 7 foot tall, googly eyed creature with "bully" tendencies has become famous for tackling the on ice entertainment during intermission and fighting opposing teams on Twitter. Now, one family...
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Vancouver, with its snowcapped mountains and sleek, squeaky clean downtown can seem to a new visitor to be lacking in urban grit. Which is exactly why for Sara Harowitz, a Vancouver native, the once blue collar district of Hastings Sunrise has so much appeal. Today, the area is a mix of on trend eateries and boutiques ...
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Eating at a hotel restaurant in Lisbon is often a formal, expensive affair, the exact opposite of what Alexandre Martins, the chief executive of the Internacional Design Hotel in the Baixa neighborhood, was aiming for when he opened Bastardo in September. The brightly lit, 50 seat space has a colorful Pop Art aesthetic...
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Prairie dogs with a taste for peanut butter, scientists reported recently, can now be vaccinated against plague the Black Death that killed much of Europe centuries ago. Plague, which arrived in the United States through San Francisco in 1900, has persisted in rodents in the American Southwest. Their fleas may carry th...
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Making Sense of 'One of the Most Baffling Animals That Ever Lived' None An artist's rendering of the Triassic Era aquatic reptile Tanystropheus. Its nine foot neck contained only 13 vertebrae. Nearly 250 million years ago, a very odd reptile patrolled the shorelines and coves of the Triassic Alps. Called Tanystropheus,...
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The judge in a contentious lawsuit that tried to stop the long in the works merger between T Mobile and Sprint is planning to rule in favor of the deal, according to three people briefed on the matter. The verdict, expected Tuesday, will come at the end of an unusual suit filed in June by attorneys general from 13 stat...
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The title page for an unpublished manuscript related to Malcolm X's autobiography, one of several long rumored fragments that were sold on Thursday. For a quarter century, they have been the stuff of myth among scholars: three missing chapters from "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," reputedly cut from the manuscript aft...
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If the French Israeli telecommunications entrepreneur Patrick Drahi, who bought Sotheby's in June in a deal worth 3.7 billion, needed proof that auctions are unlike any other business, he got a clear introduction to that reality during this week's unpredictable sales. On Tuesday night, Sotheby's saw a 40 percent drop i...
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Art & Design
Mike Vavalle, 37, likes to joke that being the clubhouse manager for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies, a Class AA affiliate of the Mets in Binghamton, N.Y., is really just "glorified babysitting." In the spring and summer, he keeps the NYSEG Stadium clubhouse clean and outfitted with meals and snacks. He washes players' un...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
On stage at the Slipper Room this month, Lilly Hayes, the performer known as Miranda Raven, kicked off her black moon boots before zipping out of her astronaut costume to reveal a pair of jeans, white button down shirt and denim jacket the signature look of River Song, a character from "Doctor Who." The theater that Th...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Theater
The popularity of the long running animated series "The Simpsons," "South Park" and "Family Guy" defied the common perception that cartoons are just for kids. In fact, some of the best American animated shows of recent years have featured cultural references and subject matter best appreciated by viewers who've lived l...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Television
LENOX, Mass. There are really two Tanglewoods here in the bucolic Berkshires. One is the popular summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The other is the less known Tanglewood Music Center, the orchestra's prestigious training institute for exceptional student performers and composers. But during a few densely sc...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
Who says that Sleeping Beauty needs a prince? Not the choreographer and director Katy Pyle. In her "Sleeping Beauty the Beast" a two act labor of love that opened the La MaMa Moves! Festival on Friday the young heroine falls in love with a masculine woman, a union organizer in a Gilded Age garment factory. Revision is ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Dance
On the dinner plate that is planet Earth, there exists a veritable buffet of viruses an amount of biomass that is the equivalent of about 25 billion human beings. So perhaps it's a bit baffling that scientists have yet to pinpoint a species that deliberately eats viruses for energy. But mounting evidence suggests that ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
Allegations of illegal marketing tactics. More than 500 cases of severe lung illness in 38 states. Eight deaths . A proposed federal ban of most flavored e cigarettes, and new efforts in many states to counter an epidemic of youth vaping. There's been an avalanche of vaping news this month, which leaves many users faci...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
Mercedes says both versions of the engine were developed especially for the GT. The engine is in front, but closer than usual to the middle of the car, and the 7 speed dual clutch automatic transmission is at the rear axle, for better weight distribution. The engine and suspension are made from aluminum to reduce weigh...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Automobiles
The quirky Bay Area city has changed a lot over the years, but its particular brand of nonconformity is still on view for travelers including those without a lot to spend. At the Cheese Board on Shattuck Avenue, in Berkeley, Calif., which opened as a small storefront in 1967, you can still get a sense of how things use...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
If you've been keeping an eye on the ground beneath your feet, you may have noticed an explosion of pattern. It can be seen in public spaces like the Manhattan restaurant L'Amico, designed by Creme; and the Hotel Van Zandt in Austin, Tex., designed by Mark Zeff. And in private spaces, too, like the New York apartment o...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
A band will once again take the stage at the Super Bowl halftime show. The pop group Maroon 5 is scheduled to headline the annual 13 minute extravaganza this February at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Ga., according to two sources familiar with the plan who were not authorized to speak on the record. The N.F.L. said...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
Freshman year is critical, but not for the reasons most students (and their parents) imagine. American students have the luxury of a long horizon to settle on good classes, select a major and chart a career; there's plenty of time to make academic mistakes and recover from them. But it's important to set off on the rig...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Education
During her six years of graduate school in New York, Tracey Van Kempen lived in student housing. The building on the far East Side allowed pets, so Ms. Van Kempen shared a small studio with her poodle, Wesley, and her cat, Charlie. The tiny kitchen frustrated her, with its electric stove, dorm size refrigerator and min...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
SAN FRANCISCO FireEye, a cybersecurity company that has been involved in a number of prominent investigations, including the 2016 attack on the Democratic National Committee, alerted Facebook in July that it had a problem. Security analysts at the company noticed a cluster of inauthentic accounts and pages on Facebook ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
George Benson is many things to many different people, but he's a jazz musician at heart. The 77 year old guitarist and singer has traversed the worlds of pop, R B, soul and, of course, jazz, tasting success while also learning how to field any criticism that came from changing his sound along the way. His career has b...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music