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.
The Wednesday Week in Culture Newsletter
Our Most Recent Top Stories
The Miracle at the Truck Stop
At the height of his fame, Burt Reynolds had a dream: to open a dinner theater in the middle of nowhere
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
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
The Downtown Set
A list of the 50 young New Yorkers who are remaking Lower Manhattan in their own image
Lovable Geniuses, Preening Taskmasters?
Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, and the complicated truth about band—and Band—dynamics
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
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
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
