Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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Restaurant Review: Le Veau d’Or Makes a Thrillingly Old-Fashioned Comeback

There are no add-ons at Le Veau d’Or, no sneaky little ways the restaurant tries to boost the price of your meal. There’s something perversely democratic about this, in a town full of restaurants smearing supplemental caviar on...

Teen-Age Alienation, on Display

In the nineteen-eighties, Andrea Modica took photos of the students at her Catholic alma mater. “I recognized something there that I had to deal with about my time in high school—something both horrible and wonderful,” she said. Source link...

“Between the Temples” Is a Songful, Scathing Jewish American Love Story

Most of the founding fathers of the Hollywood studios were Jewish, but very few of the movies they produced depicted Jewish American life. Since then, the most significant films that have done so have been independent productions, whether...

The Obamas’ Rousingly Pragmatic Call to Action at the D.N.C.

So much recent history comes rushing to mind when an Obama, husband or wife, shows up at a Democratic Convention. Most of us first heard of Barack when, as a young Senate candidate from Illinois, he showed up...

When Emily Dickinson Mailed It In

The scholar Virginia Jackson has taken this passage as emblematic of Dickinson’s persistent attention to the “material circumstances of writing,” which produce their own kind of intimacy. The predicament faced by every letter writer is that they cannot,...

‘Crush House’ Is a Game For People Who Love Drama

Recently, while stuck inside sick with Covid-19’s new FLiRT variant, I honored its ridiculous name with a binge-watch of Love Island USA. I dabble in reality TV, especially when sick; a single season graciously offered 36 hours of...

Gamergate’s Legacy Lives on in Attacks Against Kamala Harris

Back in August 2014, the misogynistic online campaign that became known as Gamergate was something that bubbled up in the anonymous, dark corners of the internet that only a select few even knew existed. Ten years later, the...

‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ and How ‘DEI’ Became Gamergate 2.0’s Rallying Cry

On May 16, the gaming and entertainment news site Dexerto tweeted an image from the forthcoming game Assassin’s Creed Shadows featuring one of its protagonists, the Black samurai Yasuke, in a fighting pose. Across scores of replies, some...

The Australian Breaker Who Broke the Internet

Before some of them were taken down, the memes about Australian Olympic breaker Rachael Gunn, aka Raygun, were all about poking fun. Videos of her flipping around or kangaroo hopping on the competition floor at the Paris Summer...

NBC Sent 27 Creators to Paris. It Only Needed Snoop and Olympic Athletes

In mid-June, when NBCUniversal announced it was partnering with Meta, Overtime, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube to send 27 influencers to the 2024 Paris Olympics, it seemed like a big deal. These were huge content creators like Kai Cenat,...
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The Kitchen Tools Top Chef Judges Replace Most Often

With a few buy-it-for-life exceptions, kitchen tools need replacing, some more than others. And no one knows that...
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