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The Comic Genius Who Pushed Television Further Than It Could Go
At its peak, “Your Show of Shows” had twenty-five million viewers, and Caesar was hailed as a genius. Albert Einstein and Leonard Bernstein were fans; on Saturday nights, when...
Robert Rauschenberg’s Art of the Real
On certain days, I’d cut school and head over to the Museum of Modern Art to dream awhile. This was in the mid-nineteen-seventies, and my high school—then called the...
Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop
Before Tara Selter, the protagonist of “On the Calculation of Volume,” a series by the Danish author Solvej Balle, gets trapped in a time loop, she is one half...
La Boca Is All Smoke, No Fire
Maybe it’s the lack of heat: La Boca is beautiful, and expensive, and charismatic, but it is also very bad. I ate there on three occasions, marvelling each time...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
The squishier centrist side has no such certainties. Galloway, in both his podcasts and “Notes on Being a Man,” presents masculinity not as one side of a fixed binary...
Stop Chasing Validation Build Brands People Trust
As a founder and operator, I’ve learned that growth isn’t magic. It’s method. The Hawk Method breaks it into three parts: awareness, nurturing, and trust. My view is simple....
A Master of Fashion Photography Who Embraces Accidents
For Roversi, the studio is “like an empty stage, a space waiting to be filled, a time yet to be invented, where neither seasons, nor days, nor hours exist.”...
The Allure—and the Policing—of Subway Surfing
Are thrill-seeking kids like birds, deterred by metaphorical spikes on the roof? In late October, the M.T.A. did install barriers—vertical pads made of hard rubber—in between cars on some...
Michigan, New Jersey, and More: The States Driving Legal Online Casino Play
Online casino gaming continues to expand across the United States, with some states shaping the path forward more than others. A growing number of regions now allow residents to...
