Business
The Age of “Intentional” Drinking
One evening not long ago, I met Amanda Crawford, a professional wine adviser, at Vandell, a new but nostalgic cocktail bar on the east…
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Mary Todd Lincoln Has Long Been Derided. Is Her Reputation Salvageable?
In these early years, Mary helped more often than she hindered, as when she steered Lincoln away from accepting the dead-end territorial…
Culture
Kadir Nelson’s “Plein Air”
For the cover of the May 25, 2026, issue, the artist Kadir Nelson decided to paint a tribute to the city’s budding artists. “I recently…
Culture
The Prehistory of A.I. Slop
Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship. Source link
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Tech leaders funding Matt Mahan's campaign for California governor say it's not about tech
San José Mayor Matt Mahan’s run for California governor has been defined from the start by his donor list. Mahan entered the race late and…
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Chaya Czernowin Gives Voice to a Wounded World
Global disaster shadowed this year’s Witten Days for New Chamber Music, an ostensibly insular contemporary-music festival that takes place…
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Harvard and Yale Discover (Gasp!) the Importance of Viewpoint Diversity
But endowed chairs for conservative scholars won’t fix the problem. Source link
Culture
“The Audacity” Is a Brutal Silicon Valley Satire with an Agenda
Midway through my watch of the new tech-satire series “The Audacity,” I received an e-mail from Google that I had received many times…
Culture
Dean’s Is Not Your Average Pub
The stargazy pie at Dean’s—a new British-ish, pub-ish restaurant on the edge of SoHo—is, in a word, freaky. The head of a fish, cooked and…
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How Garry Trudeau and William F. Buckley Bridged Partisan Divides
The two Yalies found common ground despite their generational and political differences. Source link
Culture
The Generation That Will Always Be Too Young to Smoke
Like almost every smoker, I started when I was a child. Children aren’t supposed to smoke; it’s allegedly a part of the adult world,…
Culture
Biking Outside the Lines in New York City
Thirty-nine years ago this summer, Ed Koch, the mayor of New York City, held a press conference on the steps of City Hall, where he…
Culture
Can Art Teach, and Should It Try?
Calling something “didactic” has become grounds for immediate dismissal. But do the merits of works with an educational bent—from “The…
News
The Trump–Xi Summit
It would be extremely dangerous to think that such meetings might change the way that China views the U.S. or, for that matter, the world.…
News
These Kennedy Whelps Just Keep Coming Back
Jack Schlossberg is apparently every bit as off-puttingly manic and erratic in real life as he is in his many self-posted video…
Culture
Rostam Batmanglij Wanders to the Edges of American Sound
Other songs on “American Stories” are more personal. “Like a Spark” opens with a blues riff played on a nylon-string guitar, offset by the…
Culture
Isaiah Rashad’s Confessions
Rashad seemed somewhat out of step with the hip-hop mainstream when he first surfaced, and the gap has only grown in the years since then.…
Culture
The Surrealist Blues Poet aja monet’s Jazzy New Album
Electronic The English singer, producer, and d.j. Nia Archives stands at the forefront of the modern U.K. rave scene, working primarily in…
Business
Gamers, developers protest Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund's bid to acquire Electronic Arts
As Electronic Arts moves closer to closing a sale of the gaming company to Saudi Arabian investors, it’s facing backlash from a group of…
News
Time for the Times to Retract the Israeli-Rape Column
The newspaper’s defense of Nicholas Kristof’s column is indefensible. Source link
Business
LinkedIn, Cisco and Amazon are the latest tech companies laying off more workers
Job cuts are hammering the tech industry as companies ramp up investments in artificial intelligence. This week, San José-based tech…
Business
Local Media Is Thriving in E-mail Newsletters
When I first moved to Brooklyn, in 2010, a small, stapled, glossy print product became my guide to my new neighborhood of Bushwick and…
News
The Hollow Trickery of “The Wizard of the Kremlin”
Despite such philosophizing, “The Wizard of the Kremlin” can only superficially be called a movie of ideas; it’s a movie of strategies…