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In “The Alto Knights,” Robert De Niro Sings a Familiar Gangland Tune
How might a mid-century New York City Mob boss spend his nights? Frank Costello, the acting head of the Luciano crime family, prefers to stay in, with his wife...
Nonprofit Dreams? Start Here
Starting a nonprofit can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. Whether you have a big idea or just a passion for helping others, understanding the basics of...
“Being Maria” Brings Maria Schneider’s Traumatic Career to Light
When Film Forum showed “Last Tango in Paris” this past December, as part of a Marlon Brando retrospective, the venue’s web page for the screening included a note stating...
Could We Store Our Data in DNA?
A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes. That’s a lot—but, according to one estimate, humanity will produce a hundred and eighty zettabytes of digital data this year. It all adds...
“Purpose” on Broadway and “Vanya” Downtown
Last season, the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins had a Broadway hit at Second Stage’s Hayes Theatre with his Tony Award-winning “Appropriate,” a knock-down, drag-out comedy in which a quarrelsome white...
The Game Designer Playing Through His Own Psyche
A little more than a decade ago, the video-game designer Davey Wreden experienced a crippling success. In October, 2013, he and a collaborator, William Pugh, released the Stanley Parable...
“Who by Fire” Is a Brilliant Drama of Male Rage at Its Most Elemental
The Québécois director Philippe Lesage began making documentaries in the early two-thousands. He has since switched to narrative features, but they have been meaningfully shaped by his nonfiction work,...
Laurie Santos’s Pursuit of Happiness
Laurie Santos, a cognitive scientist at Yale, teaches the most popular course in the university’s three-hundred-year history, Psychology and the Good Life. One of her central messages—in the class,...
The Ecstatic Intimacies of Joe Brainard
“I am a sucker for people who seem to do what they do just for you (me).” The artist and writer Joe Brainard dashed off this thought in 1969,...
How to Master Startup Financial Planning
Innovative ideas and dynamic teams are not enough to successfully scale a startup. Those operating in the B2B sector must manage financial processes as professionally as their product development....
