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The Casual Confidence of Lola’s
Lola’s is named in honor of Cupps’s Filipina grandmother—lola is the Tagalog term for “grandma”—though on my visits the menu bore few overt Filipino touches, beyond a bright wisp...
Aasif Mandvi Contains Multitudes
The actor and comedian Aasif Mandvi’s three-decade career—which began with a bit part on “Miami Vice”—encompasses three distinct eras of Hollywood. There was the pre-9/11 era, when precious few...
The Texas School District That Provided the Blueprint for an Attack on Public Education
In October, 2018, on the night of a high-school homecoming dance in Southlake, Texas, a group of white students gathered at a friend’s house for an after-party. At some...
“Love Is Blind,” and Allegedly Toxic
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts.On the Netflix reality-TV dating show...
Chatsworth, Revisited
Architecture buffs might visit Chatsworth House for the important role it played in the development of the English Baroque; garden enthusiasts might relish its rose garden and dell of...
Little Island Goes Big
Brian SeibertSeibert has covered dance for Goings On since 2002.When Little Island, the extravagantly landscaped public park that floats above the Hudson River on tulip-shaped columns, first opened, in...
Three London Shows Put a New Spin on Old Classics
When I was in London recently, walking down near Cheapside, north of the Thames, I went into the small museum built above the Mithraeum, an ancient site hidden twenty...
The Journalist Biography in an Age of Crisis
Nicholas Kristof started his journalism career as a teen-age reporter for the News-Register, an Oregon county newspaper where he was paid twenty-five cents a column inch. He spent his...
A Poet’s Reckoning with What Poetry Can Do
The poet Diane Seuss and I began a recent conversation by talking about the burdens of companionship—or, at least, how those burdens are manifested through affection for a pet....
A Road Warrior’s Driving Lessons in the Thrilling, Sprawling “Furiosa”
The last time we saw Imperator Furiosa, in the dystopian chase thriller “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015), she had just returned from the heat of battle, her face streaked...
