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Are Young People Having Enough Sex?

The virgin allegations emerged about a decade ago. Young people “are so sexually inactive that it practically boggles the mind,” a writer for Bustle proclaimed, in 2016, invoking a then recent study that suggested that celibacy had lately...

Han Ong on Partisan Passions and Life Affirmation in the Theatre

Your story “Happy Days” revolves around an unorthodox staging of Samuel Beckett’s play “Happy Days,” by an Off Off Broadway theatre company, in the East Village. As the story explains, the Beckett estate is notoriously opposed to any...

The Magic of Daylight in a Land of Sun Worship

With “P’unchaw,” the photographer Victor Zea captures the light falling on Cuzco, Peru, where people have mixed Catholic and Indigenous Andean beliefs. Source link

The Astonishing Images of Diane Arbus

The grim spectacle of bullfighting is displayed with an unflinching, intimate glory in Albert Serra’s documentary “Afternoons of Solitude,” which follows the torero Andrés Roca Rey through fourteen corridas in the course of three years. Serra details the...

‘Dosa Divas’ Is a ‘Spicy’ New Game About Fighting Capitalism With Food

As protestors faced off against ICE agents and law enforcement in Los Angeles, game developers gathered just a few miles away for Summer Game Fest. They’d come to the annual show in early June to show off their...

What “Outrageous” Misses About the Mitford Sisters

The television series gives period-drama treatment to one of the most scandalous families of twentieth-century Europe. Source link

James Frey’s New Novel, “Next to Heaven” Is as Bad as It Sounds

The author page of “Next to Heaven,” James Frey’s new novel, breathlessly notes that Frey “was called America’s Most Notorious Author by Time Magazine and the Bad Boy of American Literature by The New York Times.” The copy...

The Portland Bar That Screens Only Women’s Sports

When Jenny Nguyen was in her twenties, working as a chef in her home town of Portland, Oregon, she became a regular at pickup basketball games organized by a group of “lawyers, plumbers, women from all walks of...

Restaurant Review: Cactus Wren Is Doing Its Own Thing

The space is bright and open, with high ceilings and large windows that highlight the eternally terrific people-watching of the Lower East Side. The mint corner location is the former home of an outpost of Serafina, a chain...

Play It Again, Charles Burnett

One of Burnett’s earliest cinematographic efforts is the silent short “69 Pickup,” written and directed by Penick. Two Black men pick up a white woman hitchhiking on the boulevard. They lure her back to her apartment, and rape...
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What Are Heirloom Tomatoes? A Complete Guide

Each spring Spencer Huey brings thousands of homegrown heirloom tomatoes to a parking lot in Berkeley, California, for...
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