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After a promotional blitz that has run the full gamut from haute (Meryl Streep on the cover of Vogue with Anna Wintour) to not (a heinous line of Target sweats), The Devil Wears Prada 2 is finally here, and set for very chic box office takings of over $200m in its first week. Praised as…
Between streaming and cable, viewers have a seemingly endless variety of things to watch. Here is a selection of TV shows and specials that are airing or streaming this week, May 4-10. Details and times are subject to change. Pick your terror If you were in high school anytime from the 1960s onward, it’s likely…
Seymour Bernstein, an acclaimed pianist who struggled to overcome a stage fright so severe that he cut short his performing career and shifted into teaching and composing, died on Thursday in Damariscotta, Maine. He was 99. His death, at an assisted-living facility, was confirmed by Bill Finizio, a friend. In the 1950s, when he was…
Saturday Night Live returns for its final run of season 51 episodes with a press conference held by “the man, the myth, the liability” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost). He angrily “dogwalks” the dweeby members of the press pool over questions about his mistaking a Pulp Fiction quote for a real verse from…
Christo once wrapped up the Reichstag, suspended a curtain across a Colorado valley and covered up the Pont Neuf in Paris. Now, six years after the artist’s death, a London gallery is to create a monumental installation he designed in 1968, using a detailed scale model and drawings that had been presumed lost until their…
The F.B.I. director Kash Patel may or may not be a personnel problem for the White House. But he does present a challenge for “Saturday Night Live,” where there are no cast members of Indian descent to impersonate him. So this weekend, “S.N.L.” dug deep into its celebrity Rolodex to recruit Aziz Ansari, the “Parks…
The first single I boughtShut Up by Madness, from a record shop on Hoe Street in Walthamstow, London. It gave me a kind of independence in the world when I could choose what I wanted. And as a nine-year-old, you could find 10p down the back of the sofa and get a Madness badge at the…
Two years ago, actors from the hit HBO drama “Succession” dominated the theater. This season, New York theater has traded boardrooms for an emergency room and a fine-dining prep kitchen. Three actors from the HBO hospital drama “The Pitt” are appearing onstage, joined by three actors from the FX restaurant dramedy “The Bear.” Earlier this…
Andy Kershaw, a globe-trotting radio host for the BBC who introduced millions of listeners to an eclectic mix of music from around the world — Delta blues, Sufi devotionals, Zimbabwean pop — and then took an unexpected turn into war reporting from places like Haiti, Rwanda and Thailand, died at his home in Todmorden, England,…
Considering the Traitors is a game of murderous treachery played out in a castle, the Shakespearean actors in the cast of the new celebrity spin-off series should be well set. Oscar-winner Richard E Grant, acclaimed actor Michael Sheen and The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey will be among the thespians vying for victory this…
