Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The last time I talked to Colman Domingo, in 2021, his life was completely different. At fifty-one, he was a successful character actor, the kind whose face you might recognize from…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The glow in the photos coming out of Los Angeles is otherworldly, though that is precisely the wrong term. Cinematic? That isn’t quite right, either: too painfully apt for Tinseltown, but…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A hundred years after the opening of St. Pancras station, now the flashy London home of the Eurostar, a narrow strip of land opposite the train tracks near Regent’s Canal had…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Sheldon PearcePearce has written about music for Goings On since 2020. You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the cartoonist Barry Blitt’s portrayal of the upcoming Inauguration Day, the new President is sidelined into a dash of yellow hair and a sliver of red tie. “On January 20,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday that, because of the devastating wildfires raging in and around Los Angeles, the Oscar-voting deadline would be extended by two…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story With the death of the director Richard Foreman, at eighty-seven, on January 4th, an era came to an end. You might define that era as a time of American aesthetic swagger,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka. James Hobson began publishing videos on YouTube in 2006, when he was still a high-school student in…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Not long ago, my six-year-old son was in the bath, building cities out of colorful foam blocks. (“City blocks!” he said. “Get it?”) One metropolis, on the tub’s outside edge, was…