Twitter Barred Them. What Happened When Elon Musk Brought Them Back? The reach and potential influence of these accounts are reflections of a policy instituted by Mr. Musk in his early days of ownership in 2022, when he declared an “amnesty” program for previously suspended accounts. Mr. Musk plays a …
Read More »‘Suffs’ Won Tony Awards for Best Score and Book. Now It’s Closing.
“Suffs,” a new musical about the American women’s suffrage movement, has a lot going for it: Its producers include Hillary Rodham Clinton and Malala Yousafzai, it won Tony Awards for its score and its book, and its audiences seemed energized by how the show’s themes resonated with the candidacy of …
Read More »Dreamtroit, a Low-Cost Bohemia for Artists, Revs Up in Motor City
Maurice Cox, the former planning director of the city of Detroit, remembers the first time Matthew Naimi wandered into his office in paint-splattered overalls in 2018, with fingernail polish, a kaffiyeh on his head, and his bare arms a constellation of tattoos. When Naimi told him that he wanted to …
Read More »Lee Minho Needs His Notes App
Four years ago, the actor and singer Lee Minho was yearning for a shift in his career. It was around this time that he received the script for Season 1 of “Pachinko,” the drama that follows four generations of a Korean immigrant family, based on the novel by Min Jin …
Read More »Scary Books for Scaredy-Cats
Given the sheer volume of horror fiction published over the past decade, it can be hard for the sensitive yet curious reader to know where to start. Fear is heavily individual — what sends me screaming from the room might leave you unmoved — so it’s difficult to predict what …
Read More »Allan Blye, 87, Dies; ‘Smothers Brothers’ Writer and ‘Super Dave’ Creator
Allan Blye, a television comedy writer and producer who helped cement the Smothers Brothers’ reputation for irreverence in the late 1960s and later collaborated with Bob Einstein to create the hapless daredevil character Super Dave Osborne, died on Oct. 4 at his home in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 87. …
Read More »David Garrard Lowe, Defender of Historic Architecture, Dies at 91
David Garrard Lowe, a writer and architectural historian whose passion for historic preservation — and in particular for the Beaux-Arts mansions, museums and towers of the Gilded Age — helped stem the tide of urban renewal that was leveling large swaths of American cities in the decades after World War …
Read More »The Cutting-Edge Hearing Aids That You May Already Own
In your pocket or purse, you may be toting around small devices that, with the help of new software authorized by the Food and Drug Administration, could soon become inexpensive hearing aids. Millions of people already own them. They’re Apple’s AirPods Pro 2, those white plastic knobs protruding from so …
Read More »How to Fall in Love With Lentils
I had my first lentil as an adult, and I want to say it was somewhere in France. (My mom, a terrific Japanese home cook, didn’t keep dried or canned lentils in the pantry; they didn’t figure much into her cooking, nor mine when I moved out.) I think those …
Read More »Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why?
Amazon’s C.E.O., Andy Jassy, made waves last month when he demanded that all employees return to the office five days a week. The proclamation seemed to validate similar demands made by executives like JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs’s David Solomon. And it naturally raised the question of whether …
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