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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1998, a salt-and-pepper-haired occasional actor named Guillermo Zapata opened the restaurant SUR on a quiet block of Robertson Boulevard in West Hollywood. Serving dishes from Zapata’s home country of Argentina,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2015, Josh Sisk, a freelance photographer in Baltimore, picked up a new Fujifilm X100S digital camera for thirteen hundred dollars. He wanted to use it on vacations and road trips,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One of the privileges and pleasures of working as a film critic is that people occasionally send me movies that aren’t yet available in the U.S. Some of them are very…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In September, 2016, when the Smithsonian’s crown-like National Museum of African American History and Culture (N.M.A.A.H.C.) opened its doors to the public, its founding director, Lonnie G. Bunch III, might easily…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On a recent sun-dappled afternoon, I met the thirty-eight-year-old writer, director, and actress Lena Dunham at a brasserie called Soutine, in London, not far from her home in North London. “This…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It can be easy to take the greatness of “This American Life,” the weekly public-radio show and podcast hosted by Ira Glass, for granted. The show, which Glass co-founded in 1995…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The wobbly distinction between reality and artifice fascinates Nicolas Cage. The first time we encountered each other was in 2001, during the making of “Adaptation”—a film based on Charlie Kaufman’s struggle…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For someone who used to ride a school bus with Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Rashida Jones is remarkably earthbound. Growing up in Los Angeles, the daughter of the “Mod Squad”…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Not long ago, on a Times podcast, Paul Krugman breezily announced (and if we can’t trust Paul Krugman in a breezy mood, whom can we trust?) that, though it’s hard to…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Among the many videos of Kamala Harris that have recirculated heavily on social media in the past, momentous week, one has defined the conversation above the rest. In the clip, the…