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Pop Heartthrob Nick Jonas on Broadway

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. Our theatrical spring continues to…

“Zooming In” by Richard McGuire

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the April 14, 2025 Innovation & Tech Issue, artist Richard McGuire presents an illustration that harks back to a more serene time when technology was expected to…

Katie Kitamura knows we’re faking it

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Before becoming a journalist, I completed a PhD in Russian literature. I miss academic life, but I do miss my Moscow “fieldwork”: gypsy taxis, Georgian wine, politically provocative theatre, sleeping pills…

Shameless Redemption Tour by Jonathan Majors

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In what time period is Magazine Dreams, a drama about a bodybuilder suffering from chemically induced rage, set? In the opening scenes of the film, written and directed by Elijah Bynum,…

I desperately need botox

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I first decided to get Botox about eight years ago, at a medical spa on a noisy, unglamorous stretch of Highway 49 in Placer County, California. On the way there, I…

Capture the spirit of the city in flames

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Photographer Andrew Friendly grew up on the West Side of Los Angeles. From the relative safety of his studio in Silver Lake, twenty miles to the east, he watched in horror…

Steak and Company

No matter what happens, they won’t be able to stop you from grilling with your loved ones in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Loading Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… I can’t stop eating filet. My father shared with me that…

A play where everyone keeps fainting

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The last time Shakespeare’s dark tragedy Titus Andronicus was performed at the Globe Theatre in London, in 2014, there were frequent fainting spells. At each performance, a crew recorded the number…