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Think about the snitch

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Boston Globe’s Spotlight investigative team has covered wrongdoing for decades, both before and after the shocking 2003 revelations about the Catholic Church’s massive child sex abuse crisis, which were featured…

Richard Kind is the perfect second banana

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Richard Kind is the Platonic ideal of the character actor. When he appears on screen—as Larry David’s cousin on Curb Your Enthusiasm or Rudy Giuliani on Scandal—you invariably think, “Oh, that’s…

Workaholics of the world, unite!

What could be bad about idleness? Credit: Pheelings media/Shutterstock Loading Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… It’s time to train people not to repeat the work of the past, but to create great things for the future. You see, this…

Our American Dad

Political polarization is coming for the Roman Pontiff. Loading Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Discussions began immediately after it became known that the 267th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church would be an American: which American exactly? Every word…

Paradoxes of female muscles

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The photo shoot is a symbol of a lost time. Taken in 1991 during the second annual Great American Workout, a fitness event held on the South Lawn of the White…

One Hundred Years of New York Films

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The publication’s ongoing centennial celebration includes a film component: a series at Film Forum called “Stories from The New Yorker,” which featured films that were related to The New Yorker’s history,…

Cut the boat through and light it all up

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I’ve lived in New York for twenty-two years, and I still have the strange feeling that I’m in a fantasy. Not a fantasy—the city can be nasty and gritty—but a blurry…

Our Favorite “Only in New York” Places

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to and doing this week. Sign up to get it sent to your inbox. “Only in New York” may…