Performances alternated between two stages—Marigold and Dandelion—without overlap, in theory giving all forty-five thousand attendees a shot at laying eyes and/or ears on every set. In practice, this worked for a time. Walking at a motivated but not...
All four are manifestly bourgeois, flashing their cash from the moment they arrive at the village where they are to stay. They blusteringly order a bedraggled local man named Lakha to accompany and serve them. (“Ask if he...
Mano’s place was a third-story walkup on a quiet stretch of Montrose Avenue, just a few blocks north of the Marcy projects. It was stuffy, barely furnished, and perpetually muggy on account of its lack of air-conditioning, a...
The Kardashians’ smooth-brained, smooth-faced mercenariness has always struck me as dispiriting, and yet it’s also true that they’ve been masters at their game, second to none at transforming their lives into a never-ending content and revenue stream that...
For the cover of the September 7, 2026, issue, the artist Nicole Rifkin—a musician herself—pays homage to one of America’s most beloved icons, Dolly Parton, who died on August 25th, at the age of eighty. “I admire not...
The married creators of “Adults,” Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, seem well aware of the lineage of their series. (At one point, a character played by the “Girls” star Zosia Mamet asks one of the protagonists, “You think...
Dolly Parton grew up steeped in Scripture and hymns, and a congregation was her first audience; her faith and her talent were forever inseparable. But by the time she could afford to buy anything like Sunday best, she...
