Year: 2024

In 1603, the newly christened King’s Men acting troupe took up a Christmas residency at Hampton Court Palace. Every night, the company — best known for its master playwright William ...

One king has been barricaded in the palace, protected from potential usurpers by hundreds of subjects armed with sticks and machetes. Another king, evicted from the same palace in May, ...

City living presupposes closeness. Even when you’re alone in your apartment, dozens of people are likely to be sitting, cooking, napping, fighting or having sex within feet of you, separated ...

On a recent clear day, visitors were wandering through the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to gawk at works by Yayoi Kusama and Alexander Calder, and, a few blocks ...

When New York legalized recreational marijuana in 2021, the future seemed bright. “It has been a long road to get here, but it will be worth the wait,” State Senator ...

Take a handful of tears. This is not an attempt at poetry: They are, in fact, called tears, these tiny, translucent fragments of resin, glittering like sugar and giving off ...

This month we feature Wayne Shorter, the iconoclastic composer and tenor saxophonist whose work with Art Blakey, Miles Davis, Weather Report and through his own solo discography has influenced generations ...

Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at the expansion of a city pilot program to give food debit cards to migrants. The program will cost the city $2.6 million, ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with 29-year-old Pete Ballmer, a standup comedian and former product manager in San Francisco and one of the sons of billionaire ...

In December, the Ukrainian culture ministry issued a warning about a Russian TV series that was being widely (and illegally) viewed across the besieged nation. There was no explicit mention ...