A day after the National Park Service deleted the word “transgender” from prominent spots on its Stonewall National Monument website, hundreds of people rallied at the monument site on Friday to protest the move and what they feared might come next there. It was unclear whether federal officials planned to make physical alterations to eliminate … Read more
Rio Sakairi patted around inside her purse and retrieved a key that unlocks the elevator at 1158 Broadway. Exiting on the fifth floor, she glanced toward the black door leading to the performance space in Manhattan’s Flatiron neighborhood, where the Jazz Gallery has made its home since 2012. The saxophonist Ben Wendel’s four-vibraphone band was … Read more
Broadway OPERATION MINCEMEAT A sneaky compassion lies at the heart of this caper of a show, a deliciously eccentric London import that won the 2024 Olivier Award for best new musical. Starring the original West End cast, it’s a riff on a bizarre true story from World War II, when British Intelligence, keen to misdirect … Read more
The Manhattan judge overseeing the federal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams will be in the spotlight this week after a standoff between federal prosecutors and the Justice Department over a directive to drop the charges against the mayor. The order, issued last Monday by Emil Bove III, the acting deputy attorney general, caused a … Read more
In the early 1970s, the madcap advertising executives Ron Travisano and Jerry Della Femina were struggling to find a gimmick to sell an undistinguished brand of pet food. Watching interminable and unremarkable footage of cats eating, Mr. Travisano and an editor, Joe Lione, spotted one that kept opening and closing its mouth in a manner … Read more
Even as a small boy, Michael Hirsch loved visiting cemeteries. His family would take him to visit his great-grandmother’s grave, and soon he came to see cemeteries as museums containing the stories and secrets of the past. Over the years, Mr. Hirsch, a historian and genealogist, came to feel a sort of kinship with the … Read more
Special Ingredient Dear Diary: After my daughter was born, everything felt hard. Even my quaint Brooklyn neighborhood began to sour for me. The stuffed raccoon on its hind legs in the coffee shop window, the plant store with only four plants, the fedora shop: It all seemed like a kitschy Hollywood back lot. One day, … Read more
The giant raffle wheel stood before a crowd buzzing with anticipation. A sweepstakes of sorts was about to get underway. At stake: Steak. And pork tenderloin. And sausage. And almost every other cut of meat imaginable. Nearly 260 people sat shoulder-to-shoulder on a recent Saturday night at long tables inside V.F.W. Post 1419 in Hamburg, … Read more
A sprawling storm that dumped buckets of rain on Kentucky and Tennessee on Saturday is spreading across the East Coast on Sunday and spraying a wintry blast of rain, snow, sleet and freezing rain. The system is expected to continue unleashing dangerous weather into Monday. Power outages, downed trees and hazardous road conditions could disrupt … Read more
A 24-year-old transgender man from Minnesota who had been missing since December was subjected to violence and torture before his body was found last week in a field in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, the authorities said. Five people were arrested in connection with his death and charged with murder, the New … Read more