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Helen, Help Me: How to Recalibrate Your Kitchen
I think of myself as a good cook. I host dinner parties regularly, and I successfully tackle ambitious recipes. But for some reason I…
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The Death of Afrika Bambaataa and the Afterlife of Hip-Hop
The man who was called the “godfather of hip-hop,” and who took full license from that status, is dead. Afrika Bambaataa passed away in…
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Stop Confusing Hype With Real Brand Building
I’ve stood backstage at enough events to know the script. The lights hit, the music swells, and a famous name gets repeated like a magic…
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A.I. Is Making Influencing Even Faker
The virtual influencer is not, strictly speaking, new. In 2016, a C.G.I. avatar named Lil Miquela appeared on Instagram, presenting as an…
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What Improves With End-to-End Learning Management
Training programs fall apart when every phase runs on its own track. Planning happens in one silo, delivery in another, and measurement in…
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How Senior Home Care Adapts to Loved Ones' Changing Needs Over Time
While young professionals are busy starting careers, building businesses, or becoming solopreneurs, it’s easy to neglect retirement…
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“Half Man” Tests the Limits of Brotherly Love
Richard Gadd’s follow-up to “Baby Reindeer” traces a decades-long quasi-familial relationship that’s thornier than any other male bond on…
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“DTF St. Louis” Is a Story of Platonic Masculine Love
The show exists in a strange world where men repeatedly confess their love for each other. Does it make them better people? Source link
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“Michael,” Reviewed: A Sanitized Bio-Pic That’s All Business
In bed afterward, recovering from his father’s assault, Michael reads an illustrated Peter Pan book in which a drawing of the villainous…
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AI robot rules ping pong: A table tennis clanker named Ace beats elite human players
A few days ago came the astonishing news that the world record in the half-marathon was obliterated by a 5-foot-5 humanoid robot named…
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‘Imperfect Women’ Star Elisabeth Moss on Mary’s Suspicions About Howard and Why Her Kids Matter Most: ‘Who Gives a S— About the Affair?’
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains stories from Episode 7 of “Imperfect Women,” now streaming on Apple TV. Elisabeth Moss is no stranger to…
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Only 1.8% Are Willing—Choose To Be One
Most people want big outcomes. Few are willing to do the boring, repeatable work that creates them. That gap is the greatest edge in…
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Gwendoline Riley’s New Novel Surveys the Wreckage of Middle Age
That repeated “nothing” is surely a deliberate echo of the “ ‘Nothing?’ ‘Nothing.’ ” in “King Lear,” when Lear beseeches each of his three…
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How the Kardashians Became Flesh-and-Blood Memes
Corey charts the many different pop-cultural archetypes that the Kardashians, and Kim in particular, have played with through the years,…
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Netflix Among Suitors Interested in Buying Radford Lot
Netflix is among the potential buyers of the Radford Studios lot in Studio City, according to a source familiar with the talks. The…
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The History of Jazz Has Instantly Expanded
Like just about every major tenor saxophonist of his generation, Henderson was influenced by Coltrane, but Henderson absorbed that…
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The Minnesotans Who Wanted to Be in “Purple Rain”
In 1983, the photographer Tom Arndt heard about something interesting happening in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn: a casting call for…
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‘Schmigadoon!’ Broadway Review: TV Series Adaptation Delivers a Fizzy and Delightful Love Letter to Musical Theater
It’s tempting to argue on principle that “Schmigadoon!” is everything that’s wrong with Broadway: a double-baked potato of familiar IP…
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The Thrill of Picture Books That Let Kids in on the Joke
If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of a five-year-old’s withering “You are not the boss of me” (having caused offense by, say,…
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9 things to stop doing this quarter if you want to grow next year
If you’ve been grinding all year but your growth still feels stuck, you’re not alone. Most early-stage founders don’t fail because they…
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Christoph Niemann’s “West Fourth”
For the cover of the April 27, 2026, issue, the artist Christoph Niemann depicted a beloved spot in the West Village. “I spent my youth on…
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In Defense of the Moderate
In an era that prizes passion, “reasonableness” gets caricatured as political cowardice or bloodless neutrality. A new book says it’s…