Every Wednesday, we’ll send you our guide to the week’s cultural goings-on, from film, television, and podcasts to art, music, dance, theater, and more.
Wednesday Week in Culture Newsletter
Our Most Recent Top Stories
We All Make Mystiques
The unforgettable night in New York when Jackie Kennedy watched as opera’s greatest diva sang Tosca and bungled the high C
Assignment: Sinatra
A legendary editor. A recalcitrant writer. And a subject that was both man and myth. The story behind the writing of what became known as the greatest magazine profile ever
Factory by the Sea
In the summer of 1972, Andy Warhol bought a house in the historic fishing village of Montauk. The town was never the same again
A Whole New Ball Game
How a father and son created ESPN, sports programming’s North Star, on a wing, a prayer, and a chunk of Getty cash—and walked out with almost nothing
Lovable Geniuses, Preening Taskmasters?
Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, and the complicated truth about band—and Band—dynamics
Anthony Bourdain’s Last Days, Revisited
How the chef’s biographer got past the guardrails of France’s Le Chambard hotel and into the room where Bourdain took his last breath
The Downtown Set
A list of the 50 young New Yorkers who are remaking Lower Manhattan in their own image
Sight Unseen
Alice Mason was a celebrated hostess and New York’s real-estate agent to the elite, but while she was showing lavish apartments to clients like Marilyn Monroe, she was hiding a family secret
