Cinema Paraíso
With its glory days as Brazil’s Hollywood long behind it, the northern city of Recife is having a film renaissance, powering productions such as the Oscar–nominated The Secret Agent
The Reich Stuff
How former Nazi collaborators became France’s top culinary taste-makers
When Uptown Met Downtown
Fred Brathwaite—better known as Fab 5 Freddy—bridged the worlds of punk and hip-hop, graffiti and high art
Mickalene Thomas’s Guide to Brooklyn
The American artist shares her go-to spots in the neighborhood she calls home
Charly Clive
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival sensation is starring in a new series alongside Steve Carell and Connie Britton
The Wicked Witch Is Dead!
Dogs everywhere, rejoice! Kristi Noem, U.S. secretary of homeland security and confessed puppy murderer, has been given the boot. Here, we take one last look at her career
The Nine Lives of Lillian Bassman
Colleague to Alexey Brodovitch, friend to Richard Avedon and Irving Penn … an exhibition in New York celebrates the postwar fashion photographer and art director
Lily Allen’s Revenge Era
The star who redefined confessional pop—and aired the wreckage of her marriage on West End Girl—is now taking her show on the road
Acting Up
From Keith Haring posters to anti–Reagan advertisements, an exhibition collects the works of graphic design that shaped New York’s grassroots response to the AIDS epidemic
The Monty Python Diaries
In an interview, Eric Idle looks back on the heyday of the British comedy group, from working with Lorne Michaels to partying with Ringo Starr and Keith Moon
Carolina Irving and Daughters’ Guide to Melides
The trio behind the eponymous homeware brand share their go-to spots in the Portuguese coastal village
Chris Fleming
With fans from Conan O’Brien and Alec Baldwin to Nikki Glaser and Robby Hoffman, comedy’s favorite comedian is breaking into the mainstream with a debut HBO special
Queen for a Day
With period rooms and decorative props, and scents and sounds of centuries past, an immersive exhibition in Paris transports visitors from morning to night inside an 18th-century aristocratic home
Romantic Advice to Ruin Your Life By
A breakdown of all of the unsolicited advice that will hit an unengaged woman in her early 30s—and why you shouldn’t listen to any of it
Gordon Parks’s Church Diaries
In honor of Black History Month, a new coffee-table book collects never-before-seen images taken by the American photojournalist and civil-rights advocate during a 1953 assignment in Chicago for Life magazine
Gavin Newsom and the Frisco Aristos
While the California governor attempts to paint himself as a scrappy Everyman in his new memoir, behind the scenes, a powerful network of blueblood San Francisco dynasties has quietly buoyed his career for decades
