Earlier this month, the ninth iteration of Zurich Art Weekend unfolded across the city, featuring more than 150 events at over 70 venues. Its scale reads as punishing on the page, yet its layout kept things manageable. In this city, museums and galleries sit within a compact transport network. Artist-led spaces push that map into […]
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By the second week of a New York summer, the city splits into two kinds of people: the ones who’ve already plotted their Friday escape and the ones still pretending they haven’t. Both know that the city is most lovable from a distance of about two hours—far enough that the heat and the horns become
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From the wide-open showroom floor of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, where the American Diabetes Association recently held its annual conference, the days of “living with overweight and obesity” (in clunky pharma-speak) seem numbered. Over the last decade, this conference h… More »
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For a few weeks, one of Coney Island’s most recognizable events has risked not to take place. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade, scheduled for 20 June 2026, was questioned by the organizers themselves after an urgent request of funds that left the possibility of cancellation open. For a demonstration that since 1983 marks the beginning
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California governor Gavin Newsom seems to wish ever so badly he were the target of a weaponized Justice Department. God knows he’d have plenty of company, given the Trump administration’s track record: Letitia James, James Comey, Mark Kelly, Jerome Powell, and others found themselves on the recei… More »
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Founded in Queens and still today busy cooking bagels in the same oven of 1947 that helped build its reputation almost eighty years ago, Utopia Bagels passed from being a neighborhood landmark to one of the most celebrated gastronomic institutions in New York City. What was born as a local bagel shop today produces more
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For nearly 30 years, the arts patron Christophe de Menil had the same event on her Hamptons calendar: the Watermill Center’s annual summer benefit. The center’s founder, Robert Wilson, was one of her closest friends, and she had effectively underwritten his career after seeing his experimental pl… More »
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Candidates across the city are making their last-ditch pleas for seats in Congress, the State Senate and Assembly, across every borough. More than half a dozen candidates are hoping the support of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who pulled off his own primary win last year, can help them across the finish line. They include political newcomer
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After months of seemingly endless mailers, television ads, and door knocks from intrepid canvassers, New Yorkers will head to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots in some of the most highly watched congressional elections in the country this year. Incumbents like More »
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Throughout 2026, Donald Trump has been waging a battle with Republican Senate leaders over their legislative priorities. Senate Majority Leader More »
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