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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial Live Updates: Witness Testimony Begins in Sex-Trafficking Case

At trial, Sean Combs will be represented by a large and varied defense team — one that has grown even larger and more varied in recent days.Since early in the government’s investigation, Mr. Combs has retained Marc Agnifilo...

Natalya Romaniw Jumped Into ‘Die Walküre’ and Owned Her Role

ROMANIW GREW UP near Swansea, Wales, and was raised by her mother, a police officer working on domestic violence cases, and her grandparents. Nobody in her family was especially musical, but there was something operatic about her Ukrainian...

After Allegations, Smokey Robinson Show Goes On as Planned

By the time Smokey Robinson performed “Cruisin’” near the end of his concert at the Beau Rivage Theater on Friday night, the mutual admiration was in full display between the Motown icon and a revering audience of nearly...

Fiona Apple’s Statement About Jailed Mothers, and 8 More New Songs

“Sincerely,” the new album by Kali Uchis, is one long, languorous sigh of relief at finding true love, then basking in it. The production luxuriates in relaxed tempos and reverbed guitars in songs like “Lose My Cool,” a...

In ‘Hamlet Hail to the Thief,’ Radiohead Riffs on Shakespeare

Radiohead meets the Bard: a mash-up for the ages — and kryptonite for purists, you might think. But a new, dance-infused take on “Hamlet,” set to the band’s 2003 LP, “Hail to the Thief,” which opened in Manchester,...

Review: English Concert Brings Handel’s ‘Cesare’ to Carnegie

Operas as concerts can be challenging, especially for a work with a four-hour running time, including two intermissions. Handel benefits from eye candy: flashy garb, elaborate scenery, routines with backup dancers — anything to keep hold of our...

What to Know as Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s Sex Trafficking Trial Begins in NYC

Jury selection for Sean Combs’s federal criminal trial began this week, and opening statements from prosecutors and Mr. Combs’s lawyers are slated for Monday.The trial is being held at the Federal District Court in Lower Manhattan and is...

What Comes After Trauma and a TikTok Hit? Gigi Perez Is Finding Out.

Perez was born in New Jersey to parents of Cuban heritage and raised mostly in southern Florida. Her parents sent their four daughters to a Christian school. Celene loved to act and sing — she dreamed of making...

Joel Krosnick, Longtime Cellist of Juilliard String Quartet, Dies at 84

Joel Krosnick, the admired longtime cellist of the Juilliard String Quartet, who helped shape its championing of new American music as much as its commitment to the classics, died on April 15 at his home in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y....

The National Endowment for the Arts Begins Terminating Grants

There were at least two versions of the email from the arts endowment. Some said that “the tentative funding recommendation for the following application” had been withdrawn. Those emails went to groups that had already received offer letters...
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A Fresh Take on a Classic Layer Cake

It’s our most involved project yet, a traditional layer cake that involves baking the cakes, cutting them in...
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