Arts & Entertainment

‘Black Mirror’ Season 7 Review: Ranking the New Episodes From Best to Worst

Charlie Brooker’s beloved Black Mirror returns this week, boasting six new episodes packed with fantastical technological advances (and their inevitable drawbacks). Compared to Season 6, this round of episodes hews more closely to the show’s sci-fi roots, even offering the series’ first-ever direct sequel. As a result, this installment of the anthology is perhaps not […]

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YoungArts’ Playfully Glamorous Gala Returns to the Met’s Iconic Temple of Dendur

It’s a sure sign spring has sprung when cultural, creative and philanthropic luminaries from New York and beyond descend upon the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur to raise funds for the annual YoungArts gala. This year’s emcee was actress Katerina McCrimmon, widely lauded for her turn as Fanny Brice in the national tour

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How Will Tim Cook Navigate the 125% Tariff on China-Made iPhones?

Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook.” width=”970″ height=”642″ data-caption=’Apple CEO Tim Cook previously managed to secure tariff exemptions in 2018. <span class=”lazyload media-credit”>Justin Sullivan/Getty Images</span>’> Despite a constant churn of new products and software updates, one thing has stayed the same at Apple since 2017: the $999 price tag of its flagship iPhone. That ever-reliable number,

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‘Sondheim’s Old Friends’ Is a Love Letter in Two Acts—One Whispered, One Roared

Since the death, at 91, of historic songwriting genius Stephen Sondheim, dozens of concerts, cabaret shows, television specials and Broadway “revues” have honored his memory and celebrated the passion, talent and versatility of his musical heart and soul. The latest contribution to that astounding body of work is Sondheim’s Old Friends, a pleasant if uneven

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EXPO CHICAGO’s Frieze-Era Shift: Tony Karman Discusses the Fair’s Expanding Local and Global Influence

In the 1980s, Chicago became one of the first cities in the U.S. to have its own major art fair, first with the Chicago International Art Exposition and later with Art Chicago. However, the game really changed with the launch of EXPO CHICAGO by president and director Tony Karman, who transformed the fair into a

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18 Pairs of Waterproof Men’s Shoes to Stay Dry and Dapper

Once relegated to awkward galoshes or heavy-duty hiking boots, rainproof footwear used to clash with any style aspirations. Luckily, technology has ushered in an entirely new era, where breathable membranes, high-traction outsoles, and next-level treatments meet design-forward silhouettes that belong on city streets, not just nature trails. It’s a game-changer for anyone tired of sacrificing

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Meow Wolf NYC: Marsi Gray On Bringing Immersive Art to the Seaport’s Pier 17

A month ago, the popular immersive art experience Meow Wolf announced plans to open a seventh permanent exhibition space at Manhattan’s South Street Seaport. New York City joins two locations in Texas, one in Denver, the original in Santa Fe and another in Las Vegas, with another planned for Los Angeles. Because New York isn’t

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A $10B Gene-Editing Startup Has (Sort of) Brought Back the Extinct Dire Wolf

What weighs 80 pounds, relies on a daily diet of beef, deer and horse meat, and displays a distinctly snowy fur coat? The answer, according to the Texas-based Colossal Biosciences, is a six-month-old dire wolf, a canine species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. But scientists have a different name for the

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Former White House Chief Economic Advisor Says We’re Heading to Stagflation

Fears of stagflation, the dreadful combination of high inflation and low growth, have gripped Wall Street since before “Liberation Day,” and now it seem to be the nation’s new best-case scenario. Jason Furman, a Harvard economist who served as chair of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) under former President Barack Obama from 2013 to

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