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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Linguine, with a Side of Sinatra

At Patsy’s, a motley crew of Frank Sinatra singers meets once a year for chicken parm and shoptalk

George Clooney Is Happy to Pour You a Drink

He’s 60 and his hair is more salt than pepper now, but the actor–director–tequila baron still has plenty to say

Opera Pick of the Week

From Adolphe Adam, composer of the tragic ballet Giselle, an operatic soap bubble starring a postman with a knockout high D

Tough Luck

Revisiting Lucky Jim, which Kingsley Amis wrote in collaboration with Philip Larkin before the friends fell out, a writer uncovers equal parts humor and spite

Miami Vice

Downtown New York’s cool set and crypto bros decamped to Miami for a weekend of parties (and some art, where they could fit it in)

Garbo Lives

The Full Jeff Dazzle

He’s 69 and has two kids under the age of 7, but Jeff Goldblum is busier than ever, thanks to a new Disney+ show

Virginie Efira

The Belgian actress gives a rattling performance as a manipulative nun in Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta

Crown of Thorns

A new book reveals the identity of the royal whom Meghan and Harry called out in their Oprah interview. Hint: he’s next in line to the throne

The Only Podcast You Need

Tune out the world and tune in to Morning Meeting

Boeing’s Double Game

Why was a sole Boeing employee criminally charged in the 737 MAX debacle that cost 346 lives and at least $21 billion?

Nanny Diaries

A new book tells the story of Vivian Maier, the 20th-century nanny who led a secret life as a street photographer

Song Cycle

Music that forms a world apart from this mad one, from Koko Taylor, Janis Joplin, Rod Stewart, Doug Sahm, and more

The Chosen Ones

And Five, Six, Seven, Eight!

Lovers of Sondheim bolted to this gritty piano bar in Greenwich Village to grieve—and sing!

Sex on Wheels

Ahead of the premiere of And Just Like That…, A. A. Gill’s daughter remembers the Sex and the City bus tour of New York she embarked on with her dad

Making Trouble

A searing satire of the Black experience in the largely white New York theater, Trouble in Mind sees the light 66 years after it was written

Leading with the Chin

Free Solo’s Jimmy Chin discusses his latest film, his forthcoming book of photography, and why the Hamptons are the bane of his existence

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A Four de Force

The sole performer onstage, actor and director Ralph Fiennes brings T. S. Eliot’s words to life and into the now

Opera Pick of the Week

Unseen at the Paris Opera since its premiere in 1936, Georges Enesco’s Œdipe returns in a heaven-sent staging by Wajdi Mouawad

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