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The Best Restaurant Dishes of 2024
Those of us in the admittedly absurd position of eating for a living come to learn, after some time on the job, that, on balance, most food tends to...
For Isabella Rossellini, Acting Goes Beyond Words
Isabella Rossellini’s first exposure to the public glare was at five days old. Her father, the Italian neo-realist director Roberto Rossellini, and her mother, the Swedish movie icon Ingrid...
Audra McDonald Triumphs in “Gypsy” on Broadway
In the nineteen-thirties, Gypsy Rose Lee, perhaps the world’s most famous stripper, helped transform burlesque from a vulgar pastime to café-society entertainment, simply by acting refined. She made arch...
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“Babygirl” Never Really Makes a Mess
In November, the reality star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian posted a series of images and videos to her social-media accounts, in which she appeared to promote Tesla’s new A.I....
The Best Theatre of 2024
In 2024, the theatrical fortunes of the city diverged: Broadway returned to boom times, and several commercially produced shows did gangbusters business in smaller theatres, but Off Broadway’s nonprofit...
“The Brutalist” ’s Epic Inversion of the American Dream
Not long into “The Brutalist,” the director Brady Corbet plunges us into darkness—a darkness that, although neither formless nor void, marks the film as a creation story. Deep in...
How Judith Jamison Shaped Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
Brian SeibertSeibert has covered dance for Goings On since 2002.New York dance in December is all about “The Nutcracker,” the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and the joy they...
“A Complete Unknown” Shears Off Vital Details in the Life of a Colossal, Complicated Artist
One doesn’t have to be a Dylanologist to know, or even to sense, that “A Complete Unknown,” which opens on December 25th, simplifies Bob Dylan’s early professional life and...
The Remarkable Collapse of Iran’s Powerful Alliances
For forty-five years, Tehran’s Shiite theocracy has heralded its political system as a model for all predominantly Muslim countries—and even beyond. “We should try hard to export our revolution,”...
The Afterimage of Arlene Croce
Arlene Croce, who wrote the Dancing column in The New Yorker from 1973 to 1996, died on December 16th, at the age of ninety. She was a towering figure,...
