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Ozzy Osbourne Tried to Raise Hell
If you trust Ozzy Osbourne’s recollection—and, given the long and eventful life he led, as well as the chemical compounds he loved, perhaps you should not—then the idea for...
Summer Is the Time for Off Broadway Comedy
When the political activist, comedian, and performance artist Morgan Bassichis premièred their exquisitely funny show “Can I Be Frank?” in New York last summer, they were already picturing a...
The Semi-Fictional Book That Transformed the Culinary World
It was early in 1985, during the first warm, blossoming weeks of spring in San Francisco, when I became hellbent on getting my old job back.Until the previous fall,...
In Defense of the Traditional Review
Last week, when the Times announced a shakeup of its arts desk that involved reassigning four of its critics—of theatre, TV, pop music, and classical music—to other roles, the...
It’s Time to Check In for Your D.E. Eye Exam
This vision test is far from routine—don’t forget that racism starts in the retinas. Source link
“Clint” Highlights the Artistic Modernity of an Old-School Man
Clint Eastwood is as impersonal a personal filmmaker as modern Hollywood has to offer. What makes his movies personal is more their ideas, their attitudes, their tones than anything...
Louisa May Alcott’s Utopian Feminist Workplace Novel
In January, 1861, Louisa May Alcott began writing a novel that she planned to call “Success.” Alcott was twenty-eight and living at Orchard House, the family home in Concord,...
What the Cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” Means
Nothing to see here! CBS’s cancellation of “The Late Show,” an institution so basic to the texture of our rapidly thinning common entertainment culture that it feels like a...
The First Time America Went Beard Crazy
A stroll through the Presidential-portrait wing at the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C., is, among other things, a game of Now You See It, Now You Don’t. In...
Sergio García Sánchez and Lola Moral’s “Journeys”
“We are appalled by the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the current American Administration,” said Sergio García Sánchez, the Spanish artist who drew the cover for the July 28, 2025, issue,...
