Arms soaring, curls flopping, baton flashing, the celebrated conductor Gustavo Dudamel commanded the stage for around 90 minutes on Tuesday night inside David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center for the New York Philharmonic’s annual spring gala. “For me, it’s an honor, it’s a privilege, it’s a pleasure,” he said in the hall’s Grand Promenade after…

It is common for individual athletes or sportspeople to not have social media accounts or to avoid them during significant competitions. But it is rare, possibly unprecedented, for a whole club to suspend the opportunity for supporters to engage on social media. “This short-term move aligns with our short-term strategy to allow players and staff…

Dramatic surveillance video released Thursday shows alleged would-be assassin Cole Tomas Allen casing a hallway at the Washington Hilton Hotel on April 24, and then the next evening, storming through a Secret Service checkpoint at that hotel outside the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, where President Donald Trump was set to give a speech. The…

Pop star Dua Lipa is not expected to perform at the heavyweight bout between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury later this year. Britons Joshua, 36, and Fury, 37, have agreed terms for a long-awaited all-British contest targeted for the end of 2026. However, Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority chairman Turki Al-Sheikh had suggested the fight…