text
stringlengths
1
39.7k
label
int64
0
0
original_task
stringclasses
8 values
original_label
stringclasses
35 values
Credit...Laylah Amatullah Barrayn for The New York Times Three months ago, when New York government officials ordered nonessential businesses closed to slow the spread of coronavirus, high end retailers sheathed their stores in plywood barriers, as though readying for civil unrest. Did Louis Vuitton and Coach anticipat...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
West Berkeley's warehouse district has long been known for high end lumberyards, tile shops and other stores serving creative homeowners, a kind of D.I.Y. answer to the upscale showrooms of San Francisco's Design District. Recently, the area's large, relatively affordable spaces have begun attracting a different creati...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
BALTIMORE At Everest Greenish Grocery, a brightly lit store on a faded corner of this city, nothing is more popular than a chocolate flavored little cigar. They are displayed just above the Hershey bars along with their colorful cigarillo cousins white grape, strawberry, pineapple and Da Bomb Blueberry. And they were c...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
The engagement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle last week inspired a wave of news coverage and online excitement. And that raised a question that comes up every time a British royal does something big: Why do Americans care? After all, as an op ed in The Washington Post argued recently, the founding fathers "violently...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Style
While the rest of America was roaring to jazz during the '20s, in a small corner of the South, where back roads snake through early morning mist and porches are used for melody making as much as sitting in rocking chairs, another form of music was quietly taking root. In the heart of southern Appalachia, at the converg...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
SAN FRANCISCO Uber says it is not renewing its permit to test self driving vehicles in California until the police and regulators wrap up an investigation into how one of its autonomous vehicles struck and killed a woman in Arizona last week. The company decided to withdraw its renewal application late last week. The m...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
With its freshly color coded cardigans, my pandemic closet was looking pretty sharp, I thought until I saw Joshua William Gelb's. Soon after Covid 19 hit New York, he emptied his, painted it white, reinforced it with plywood, removed its door and turned it into a cross disciplinary performance lab. (Here's how he did i...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Theater
A live production of "Rent" airs on Fox. And awards season blazes on, at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. RENT 8 p.m. on Fox. Fans who have only seen high school productions (or middle school, or elementary school, or all three) of Jonathan Larson's 1996 musical riff on "La Boheme" have at least one major reason be exci...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Television
A former major league pitcher was found dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound after he was identified by the authorities as a suspect in the killing of his former girlfriend in Arizona, the authorities said. The police found the body of the retired pitcher, Charles Haeger, about 4 p.m. local time on Saturday along a...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Sports
LOS ANGELES Relativity Media, emerging from bankruptcy, is adding some star power to its executive ranks. On Thursday, the company said the actor Kevin Spacey would become chairman of its Relativity Studios unit and Mr. Spacey's business partner, Dana Brunetti, would become president. The appointments occur as Relativi...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media
Doctors are closely watching about 200 people in Spain after a patient at a hospital in Madrid died of Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, the first time the disease has been found in Western Europe in someone who had not traveled to an endemic area. The patient apparently caught the virus after being bitten by a tick, an...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
Thousands of football fans are flying into Phoenix this week for the Super Bowl on Sunday, but will locals be joining in the festivities? Are they embracing their roles as hosts, or just bracing themselves? Fernanda Santos, chief of the Phoenix bureau of The New York Times, believes the citizens of Phoenix are ready fo...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages and a few last chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at nytimes.com/reviews/theater. 'APOLOGIA' at the Laura Pels Theater at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theater (in previews; opens on Oct. 16). It's Kristin's...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Theater
SUZY BOERBOOM, a registered nurse, retired for the first time after a 35 year career in health care and ownership of several Curves exercise locations. She then devoted five years to helping her three daughters raise their children. "I was very close to both my grandmothers," Ms. Boerboom said, "and I wanted the same r...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Your Money
DAVID N. CAMPBELL'S path to creating and running a volunteer organization began when he heard about the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. His response was something he had not seen coming. "When I heard about it, I was overwhelmed," said Mr. Campbell, 72, a former technology executive. "In my gut, I knew I had to help." He ha...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Your Money
Handel was a savvy career strategist. So what could he have been thinking when he slipped his opera "Semele" onto the boards at Covent Garden during the Lenten season of 1744? By this point, having accepted that the appetite for Italian opera among London audiences had dwindled, Handel was writing popular English langu...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. "I usually start behind the neck," Grace Granatelli said from her plump brown sofa. "There's two pressure points back behind the ears that help relax them a little bit." In her lap, she held the head of Sketch, her mixed beagle rat terrier, as her fingers traced small circles through his fur. Ms. Gran...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Economy
MONTPELLIER, France At the end of her new solo, "Goldberg Variations," on Tuesday night at the Montpellier Danse festival, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker held up a hand to stop the applause. "I want to thank you for being here," she said. "This is a difficult time; without live audiences, there would be no performing arts....
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Dance
SAN FRANCISCO Federal authorities have arrested two founders of a virtual currency that raised 32 million from investors last year and won an endorsement from the boxer Floyd Mayweather. The co founders of the Centra virtual currency, Sam Sharma and Robert Farkas, were arrested on Sunday, a day before the Securities an...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
Even extended periods of frigid weather, like the one in New York last week, are unlikely to have any noticeable effect on the bedbug population. You Won't Like This News About Bedbugs, Ticks and the 'Bomb Cyclone' Some creepy facts: A cockroach can live about a month with its head cut off. In its 300 million or so yea...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
Many classical artists have had barely a week off in their careers. But with performances now on hold worldwide for months to come, what creative projects are they working on? These are edited excerpts from their conversations with Joshua Barone, Corinna da Fonseca Wollheim, Anthony Tommasini, Seth Colter Walls and Zac...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
Like most children learning to read, I leaned heavily on illustrations to help me understand and enjoy stories. Images provided a bridge to comprehension when words were little more than mysterious hieroglyphs. But as I became more comfortable with the words and moved on to chapter books and novels in upper elementary ...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Books
The Weeknd's album "Starboy" (XO/Republic) returns to Billboard's No. 1 spot after five weeks, with 18,000 sales and 59 million streams, according to Nielsen. But some of the most interesting developments in music sales are not in what made it to No. 1. In the first chart to be published since "La La Land" swept the Go...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
COLUMBUS, Ohio When suburban malls began to stagnate in the early 1990s, the parent company of the retail stalwarts Bath Body Works and Victoria's Secret took a chance on a different kind of shopping experience. The company, L Brands, had bought 1,300 acres of meadows and forests on the west side of Interstate 270, jus...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
The International Gymnastics Federation announced on Thursday that female gymnasts born in 2005 will be eligible to compete at the Olympic Games in Tokyo postponed to July 2021 even though they would not have been allowed to if the Games were held this summer. That means some athletes who would have made the team if th...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Sports
Every year, Handel's "Messiah" is a communal ritual a glittering parade of recitatives, arias and choruses that binds listeners and performers together in a story of promise, betrayal and redemption. But not this year. In 2020 the oratorio, if you listen to it at all, will be by necessity a private matter. And many art...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
Jawsh 685's TikTok sensation was an international arrival for siren jams, a recent youth culture phenomenon in Pacific Islander, or Pasifika, communities in New Zealand and surrounding areas. During the early months of pandemic isolation, there were few distractions as cathartic and cheering as the Culture Dance challe...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
Q. When I write emails to colleagues and friends after typing the first several letters of the email address on my Mac using the Mail app, the program automatically fills in the balance of the address. I have 20 years of history of email, and often the address used is no longer the correct one. How do you get rid of ol...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
Q. How do I efficiently manage my email with three devices: computer, phone and tablet? Do I have to read, save, delete email three times, or can I easily sync them? A. Most mail programs give you the choice of two ways to set up an account on a computer or mobile device either with the IMAP (Internet Message Access Pr...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
LIMA, Peru When he was a boy in the late '80s, Elmer Hualinga would go to the nearby ravine to catch some odd fish. He'd see them floating on the water, motionless, covered in a slimy black substance. That didn't seem to concern the elders of Nueva Andoas, Mr. Hualinga's Quichua community in the Peruvian Amazon near th...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
NASA scientists revealed images of Ultima Thule, an object 4 billion miles from the sun. Pictures of the so called contact binary were captured by the New Horizons mission on Jan. 1. Here's where we were just a couple days ago on Dec. 31, 2018. This was humanity's best image of Ultima Thule made by New Horizons at a ra...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
In New York City, it is not unusual to find a day care center on the ground floor of a brownstone or high rise, a situation that can force toddlers and tycoons to coexist side by side. In some instances, neighbors form a close bond with the business, while others might have a harder time making peace with teeter totter...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
A national popular vote would have eliminated that benefit. As the region's political leaders recognized, passage of a constitutional amendment instituting a national popular vote would have spawned strong legal and political pressures to enfranchise African Americans. Even if those pressures could be resisted, an Alab...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
LONDON The artist James Bridle remembers the first time he heard of military drones. Back then, some seven years ago, it took intensive online searching to track down an image of one. As reports of drones as weapons of war and instruments of surveillance became more common, he wanted to understand them better. For him,...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
On Monday, about 1,000 people, most of them young women, lined up at a New York City theater for a poetry reading by Rupi Kaur. Giant fake sunflowers outside made a safe space for guests to pose for Instagram in their hijabs, baseball caps, pantsuits, combat boots and cocktail dresses. Then on Tuesday came a big and qu...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style
Galder Gaztelu Urrutia's horror thriller "The Platform" has been a regular fixture on Netflix's daily Top 10 since it hit the streaming service last Friday, and no wonder: with its generous helpings of cannibalism, suicide, starvation, blood, guts and feces, how could it not be a crowd pleaser? A gnarly mash up of midn...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
Nakesha Williams Died Homeless on a Manhattan Street. Should She Have Been Forced Into Treatment? On Sunday, The Times published a heartbreaking story about a standout student at Williams College who later developed mental problems and ended up homeless, a fixture on a grate at 46th Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan....
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
IHOP has new burger offerings, and in order to promote those offerings, it is pretending to change its name to IHOb in a marketing campaign. The "b" stands for burgers. IHOP (which we will insist on calling the chain until it becomes a correctable error ) announced the fake name change last week, but kept the public in...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Style
The culture war will come for us all. On Sunday, it came for a Washington Post reporter, Felicia Sonmez. Nine people were killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif., that morning, including the basketball legend Kobe Bryant and his 13 year old daughter, Gianna. The news rocketed around social media, where mourne...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
WORCESTER, Mass. The Holy Cross women's ice hockey team averaged nearly 20 victories over the last 10 seasons while hanging six conference championship banners at its home rink, the Hart Center. The senior tri captains, Tori Messina, Julie Matthias and Sam Girard, helped the team win one of those banners, and the Crusa...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Sports
An AIDS Museum: The Challenges Are Huge, but the Timing Is Right SAN FRANCISCO The National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park here is a somber glen of plants, trees, walks, grass and cairn, with thousands of names etched in stones and pavement. Visitors' emotions run high, but the details of exactly how AIDS deva...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
Ahead of the curatorial events, the museums will also use their own Facebook pages, starting on Thursday, to simulate the experience of viewing all five paintings in a gallery, allowing the audience to compare and examine them as if they were in a three dimensional environment. The virtual gallery will include narratio...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
Alzheimer's Tests Soon May Be Common. Should You Get One? None Amanda Lucier for The New York Times Not long ago, the only way to know if someone had Alzheimer's disease was to examine the brain in an autopsy. That is changing and fast with brain scans and spinal taps that can detect beta amyloid, the telltale Alzheime...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
A 1970 jumpsuit by Rudi Gernreich in "Gender Bending Fashion," at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The designer is pivotal to fast changing notions of gender in fashion. BOSTON It is a cat suit, not a thesis statement, and yet somehow the snug Rudi Gernreich garment with its band collar, dot pattern and Julie Newmar au...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
Full reviews of recent dance performances: nytimes.com/dance. A searchable guide to these and other performances is at nytimes.com/events. American Ballet Theater (through Saturday) American Ballet Theater concludes its spring season with three more performances of Alexei Ratmansky's handsome, opulent reconstruction of...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Dance
What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week The history of postwar American abstract painting remains a work in progress. We are barely beginning to understand its sheer multiplicity in terms of the artists' races and cultures and the works' physical character. New information arrives in regular and humbling batche...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
The New York Times won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, bringing to 127 its total since the annual journalism awards were first given out more than a century ago. The Times was recognized this year for its reporting that raised legal and moral questions about how President Trump built his business empire and for editoria...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media
Lounging on a cerulean leather chair at his store on the Lower East Side, a glass of Bunnahabhain 12 year old Scotch in hand, Vivek Nagrani talked about the two types of men who frequent high end clothing shops. "There's Banker A, who goes to Harvard, Goldman and buys a Lamborghini," said Mr. Nagrani, 44. "Or there's t...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style
If you're missing the chilly joy of ducking into a movie theater on a sweltering day, welcome to the club. Ditto for attending concerts, plays, sporting events and awkward variety shows on the last day of summer camp. Our usual forms of entertainment are scarce right now, but here's a fresh alternative: Jesse Eisenberg...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Books
music This pelican spider's appearance may give you a chill, but lucky for us, it's only the size of a grain of rice. So, no worries, unless you yourself happen to be a very small spider. This creature hunts its own kind. These strange looking pelican spiders were first discovered in 1854. Not alive, they were preserve...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
Public schools in Montclair, N.J., would lay off as many as 70 teachers, including reading and math specialists, and would no longer offer French and Spanish classes in elementary grades. Westfield would not be able to buy library books or replace aging computers, and a popular middle school tradition the fall play cou...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Education
Caution! This article contains spoilers for "Avengers: Endgame." Superhero sequels often introduce subtle changes to the characters' costumes in order to sell more toys, but few of these comic book movies take their makeovers as far as "Avengers: Endgame." Only half the cast of last year's "Avengers: Infinity War" surv...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
He almost never got to Jerusalem. In 1958, Israeli intelligence received a tip on the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann, and sent an agent to stake out a working class Buenos Aires suburb. When the agent got there, and saw for himself the ratty house on the unpaved street, he concluded that the intelligence was off. "The w...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. On a steamy March day, Jerry Seinfeld stood before a group of men, most of them in polo shirts and loafers, in a muggy tent here at the Omni Amelia Plantation Resort. "Thank you, insane car people," he said to a round of applause. He was here because "the Jerry Seinfeld Collection," a fleet of 18 ca...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style
PARIS The call to Vincent Grandil's Paris law firm began like many others that have rolled in recently. On the line was the well paid chief executive of one of France's most profitable companies, and he was feeling nervous. President Francois Hollande is vowing to impose a 75 percent tax on the portion of anyone's inco...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Global Business
"Which is weird, but at least it explains why Melania started smoking unfiltered Pall Malls." SETH MEYERS "In fairness to his chief of staff, you try breathing in a room where a man just went through four cans of hair spray. You'd cough also." JIMMY KIMMEL "Can you imagine working for that guy? As Trump 'George, the Ir...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Television
Credit...Andy Haslam for The New York Times This week, we roam France, sampling three regional cuisines: the richness of Gascony (below), the earthy pleasures of Medoc, and the new vibrancy of Bordeaux. Also check out the Food section's guide to French cooking and our survey of five classic specialties, from bouillabai...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
On Wednesday, Representative David Cicilline, Democrat of Rhode Island and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee, opened a half virtual hearing on "Online Platforms and Market Power" with a combative opening statement: "Our founders would not bow before a king. Nor should we bow before the ...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
Liberals love to blame Milton Friedman for the misbehavior of American corporations. Friedman, a free market ideologue, published an essay 50 years ago this week in The Times Magazine in which he argued that corporations should not go beyond the letter of the law to combat discrimination or reduce pollution or maintain...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
Gail Reiken Tuzman grew up in Canarsie, Brooklyn, but spent most of her adult life in Montclair, N.J. That's where she and her husband reared their two sons, in a three story four bedroom colonial style house. She was widowed five years ago. Last spring, newly retired from her job in technology at Rutgers University, s...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
David Brooks is on the right path, but he doesn't go far enough. Our society has become too imperiled by divisiveness and tribalism to hope that anything less than compulsory national service could save it. I was drafted into the U.S. Army at the height of the Vietnam War. Trained as an infantryman, I landed in a comba...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
Left: Museum of the City of New York; Right: Angel Franco/The New York Times Left: Museum of the City of New York; Right: Angel Franco/The New York Times Credit... Left: Museum of the City of New York; Right: Angel Franco/The New York Times No village street better illustrates how the artists' studio movement of the 19...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
Headed out east for the long weekend? Fendi is kicking off FendiRoadTrip, a traveling retail concept in which a customized Ape a version of the distinctive three wheeled Italian truck created in the late 1940s loaded with accessories like Dotcom bags ( 2,400) and ABC fur charms ( 600) will roll into the Surf Lodge on T...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style
The past year was an exceptionally active, unusually silly and indubitably worrying one for pop music lawsuits. In August, after determining that Katy Perry's "Dark Horse," a very generic trap song, had borrowed from "Joyful Noise," another very generic trap song by the Christian rapper Flame, a jury awarded Flame and ...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
Wendell Pierce: 'I Still Have Fear, But Now I Have Courage' Wendell Pierce is having a very good year. He is in two festival prize winning movies ("Clemency" and "Burning Cane") and an Amazon television series ("Jack Ryan"). He helped save a radio station, WBOK AM, in his hometown New Orleans. And now he is starring as...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Theater
THE INEVITABILITY OF TRAGEDY Henry Kissinger and His World By Barry Gewen When the nefarious Cardinal Richelieu died in 1642, Pope Urban VIII is said to have declared: "If there is a God, the Cardinal de Richelieu will have much to answer for. If not ... well, he had a successful life." Henry Kissinger likes that anecd...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Books
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein's weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. Sabrina Ionescu could spend a considerable amount of time, if she wished, dwelling on everything that was snatched away from her in what was scripted to be a momentous year. She prefers to focus on the fortune that enabled her t...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Sports
BEIJING A Chinese start up that appears to have mastered the art of keeping people glued to their smartphones also has a knack for something else: drawing the ire of China's censors. The country's top media regulator on Tuesday ordered the company, Bytedance, to shut down its app for sharing jokes and silly videos. Vul...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
Downstairs at the Beverly Hilton hotel on Feb. 11, 2012, black cars delivered celebrities, among them Serena Williams, Britney Spears and Gayle King, to Clive Davis's annual Grammys party. Upstairs in Room 434, the coroner's office tended to the body of his biggest star, Whitney Houston, who had been found dead in the ...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Style
Barbie Ferreira is 20 not too young, it would seem, to feel nostalgia for a time when Coachella, the California music festival that for many marks the advent of spring, seemed rife with possibilities, not least the chance for sartorial self invention. "The last time I went, about two years ago," Ms. Ferreira, a model, ...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style
Timothy S. Naimi, an alcohol epidemiologist and professor at Boston University's Schools of Medicine and Public Health, said the one in 10 figure "is an impressive number and it's concerning." The number is "undoubtedly an underestimate," he added, because people tend to miscalculate how much they actually drink and he...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
Every black southern family that I'm aware of has a cold case. The murder of a family member by a white man about which records might have disappeared or been deleted. It's family oral tradition that keeps the story alive. My grandfather, Mack Hopkins, was stabbed by a white man on July 9, 1934. He told my mother that ...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
THE BUYERS Stephen Bailey and Adrienne Cheatham at home in their new apartment in a Harlem high rise. She is a chef, so the kitchen was all important. Around three years ago, Adrienne Cheatham took a seat next to Stephen Bailey at Vinateria, a wine bar in Harlem. They started talking. They started dating. Last summer, ...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
Infectious passion for dancing has been the special thrill of New York City Ballet since the start of this year, and during the spring season that ended on Sunday the level kept rising. The sheer danciness of Alexei Ratmansky's "Namouna: A Grand Divertissement" on opening night was irresistible. Justin Peck's new "Ever...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Dance
Choosing one's words carefully: something every writer must do. This scrutiny can fatigue the people in our lives. "It ain't that deep, Dominique," I've been told by loved ones. But not to my kind of brain. It's all very deep. Growing up, I used to think in "novel speak." My mind would narrate my actions as if I were r...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Theater
Mariah Carey, the superstar singer who has lived in the public eye for three decades, has acknowledged that, in 2001, she learned that she had bipolar disorder. Ms. Carey disclosed the diagnosis in an interview with People magazine's editor in chief, Jess Cagle. A preview of the magazine's cover story was published onl...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Style
Credit...Vincent Tullo for The New York Times They rehearse at night and learn choreography with breathtaking speed. They dance for crowds that extend into the thousands. Sure, New York City is home to lots of dance troupes, but if you're a dance fan these two groups may not even be on your radar. Don't be a snob. The ...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Dance
A field of dead saigas in Kazakhstan in May 2015. The die off of the endangered antelopes was found to be caused by bacteria that somehow became harmful after particularly warm and wet weather. Among saiga antelopes, the month of May ought to be about new life. But in 2015, it was just the opposite for the Betpak Dala ...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
The privately owned bridge between Progreso, Tex., and Nuevo Progreso, its Mexican neighbor, is one of the busiest exit points for American corn.Credit...George Etheredge for The New York Times The privately owned bridge between Progreso, Tex., and Nuevo Progreso, its Mexican neighbor, is one of the busiest exit points...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Economy
The French circus company Akoreakro was one of the more traditional acts at this year's Letni Letna festival of contemporary circus in Prague. It presented a show called "Dans ton coeur" ("In Your Heart"). PRAGUE This city has a well documented taste for the surreal. It is, after all, the home of Franz Kafka and the ar...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Theater
After taking over as the chief executive of Tribune Publishing in 2014, Jack Griffin withstood a string of controversies and criticisms and a decline in the company's share price to about 7 from nearly 25. The one thing he could not survive was a new investor who initially seemed like a potential savior. When Michael F...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media
They were told not to go to their schools or offices. Concerns about long lines and shortages had discouraged them from going shopping. They could not visit libraries or museums; no concerts or shows were being held. There were no sporting events on TV, and only so many times that they could watch "Love Is Blind." So, ...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
This article is part of a series aimed at helping you navigate life's opportunities and challenges. What else should we write about? Contact us: smarterliving nytimes.com. Solo travel, among other benefits, means never having to compromise your plans. But some destinations by virtue of language, ease of transportation,...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
The film scholar Thomas Elsaesser at a film Festival in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 2017. "He was there when modern film studies was really beginning," a colleague said. Thomas Elsaesser, an influential German born film scholar and teacher whose writings brimmed with a fascination for Hollywood melodramas, the works...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
In recent years, the U.S. government has considered removing protections for the Canada lynx, which has been listed as a threatened species. But a recent study in Washington State shows the medium size wild cat continues to be very much at risk in the Northwest. The largest scale survey of lynx in the state relied on 6...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
In the whodunit of the financial crisis, Wall Street executives have pointed the blame at all kinds of parties consumers who lied on their mortgage applications, investors who demanded access to risky mortgage bonds, and policy makers who kept interest rates low and failed to predict a housing market collapse. But a ne...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Economy
She had taken care of her husband for the last eight years of his life, through his blindness, through cancer and heart failure. After he died in 2002, she sold the Long Island house they'd loved and shared, finding it too filled with memories, and moved to their country home in upstate New York. Friends thought Anne S...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
Trust the experts, the saying goes. But what happens when the experts can't be trusted? That's the question wealthy investors are asking after a string of cases in which advisers or sellers with blue chip reputations have been accused of either staggering incompetence or outright fraud that led to multimillion dollar l...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Your Money
Kyler Murray, left, and DeAndre Hopkins have had plenty of reasons to celebrate. Hopkins leads the N.F.L. in receptions (57) and yards (704). Murray leads in total offense and is tied for first in touchdowns with seven. The Arizona Cardinals are the latest team to challenge the "N.F.L. establishment." They are dangerou...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Sports
SAN FRANCISCO A security loophole that would allow someone to add extra steps to the counter on your Fitbit monitor might seem harmless. But researchers say it points to the broader risks that come with technology's embedding into the nooks of our lives. On Tuesday, a group of computer security researchers at the Unive...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
Now is the moment to ask: Do we really need to upgrade our iPhones every two years? Over more than a decade of writing about technology, reviewing a new iPhone has long been one of my simplest assignments. Year after year, the formula was this: I tested the most important new features of Apple's latest smartphone and a...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Choire Sicha, the editor of the Styles desk at The Times, which reports on everything from weddings and fashion to social change and self care, discussed the tech he's using. What does your tech setup look like? And what do you ...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
For the first time in its 150 year history, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has hired a full time Native American curator: Patricia Marroquin Norby. Dr. Norby who is of Purepecha heritage, an Indigenous population that primarily lives in Michoacan, Mexico will assume the role of associate curator of Native American art ...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
Vases are vessels meant to hold cut flowers or other foliage. But they often work as decorative objects even when empty. "What I think is appealing about a vase shape is it's a little miniature piece of table architecture and really open to wild interpretation," said Richard Wright, the Chicago based auction house pres...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Style
Just as New Orleans gave birth to jazz around the turn of the 20th century, New York gave birth to a new sound in the '60s and '70s. It was music for dancing, a delirious blend of African and Caribbean sounds, peppered with polyrhythm. Its pioneers, mostly of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent, took those influences and cr...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
The first big event of New York Fashion Week, which officially begins on Thursday, was not the Tom Ford and Kanye West calendar breaking shows being held on Wednesday, but a Hillary Clinton fund raiser Tuesday night that drew a phalanx of fashion heavyweights. The event, a fashion show held at Spring Studios, a favorit...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style
The ocellated lizard known as the jeweled lacerta in the pet trade is born rusty brown with white polka dots. Within a few months, its skin begins to change into a dizzying, labyrinthine array of black and bright green pixels. By the time the lizard has sexually matured, reaching up to two feet in length, some 4,000 sc...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
From left: Eirini Vourloumis for The New York Times; Caitlin Ochs for The New York Times From left: Eirini Vourloumis for The New York Times; Caitlin Ochs for The New York Times Credit... From left: Eirini Vourloumis for The New York Times; Caitlin Ochs for The New York Times When my wife, Ann, gave me a food tour for ...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
Gay Talese, whose comments on female writers at a conference in Boston put him in an unfamiliar forum on Twitter. On Friday, April 1, the 84 year old writer Gay Talese made his way from New York to Boston, where he was scheduled to speak at Boston University's "Power of Narrative" conference. Before boarding the Amtrak...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style
I think it was the 50th anniversary of Woodstock last summer that finally pushed me over the edge. All summer long we'd been reliving the '60s. Again. There were the boomers, reminiscing about Howdy Doody, Vietnam, the Summer of Love. Watching all of this, I thought, well, damn. I don't have anything in common with the...
0
N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion