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The Main Problem With Pedestrian Deaths Isn’t the Pedestrians
I want to talk about two things that have happened since last weekend’s newsletter on pedestrian deaths. One of them was covered in this newspaper, and the other was a personal experience. The news item is that a young child was killed in Brooklyn ...
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The Real End of David Chang’s Momofuku Ko Happened Years Ago
The revolutionary tasting-menu restaurant eventually came to resemble the fine-dining titans it tried to dethrone.
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Alessandra Ferri’s Next Act: Running the Vienna State Ballet
Ferri, the star ballerina who was a principal at American Ballet Theater, will run the large Vienna company and its affiliated school.
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Taylor Swift’s ‘“Slut!”’ and the Evolution of a Pop Star Feminist
The bonus track from “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” revisits a moment when she was carefully calibrating her public transition into adulthood and superstardom.
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Hanging Drapery Is Harder Than You’d Think. But You Can Do It.
When you’re choosing curtains for a room, there are so many things to consider. Jake Arnold, an interior designer in Los Angeles, walks us through it.
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‘The Holdovers’ Review: Three Sad Souls Stranded for Christmas
Alexander Payne’s jaunt to the past, with Paul Giamatti playing a curmudgeonly instructor at a 1970s boarding school, is crackling with pungent life.
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Science
Billions of Years Ago, Venus May Have Had a Key Earthlike Feature
A new study makes the case that the solar system’s hellish second planet once may have had plate tectonics that could have made it more hospitable to life.
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PinkPantheress’s Music Broke the Internet. Up Next? Everything Else.
On a recent September evening at Nickelodeon Universe, the cavernous indoor theme park tucked into an East Rutherford, N.J. mall, the 22-year-old British pop musician PinkPantheress was perched 10 stories above the ground, gleefully waiting to ride ...
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The Speakership Is Yours, Mike Johnson. Good Luck With That.
That House speaker mess was all Donald Trump’s fault. Yeah, yeah, I know you’re not going to argue with me if I blame him for something bad. (“Saturday night’s block party was canceled because of the threat of rain and … Donald Trump.”) Still, follow ...
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A Giant of Painting Sheds New Light on Darkness
In his explorations of black, Pierre Soulages found a link to our sorrows, despair, regrets — our deepest selves.