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Snow White is already an outdated chaos. Credit: cfg1978/Shutterstock Loading Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative player… Society reaches “peak awakening” around 2025, but Disney’s new Snow White movie misses the point. This remake of the 1937 animated classic Snow White…

An exhibition of Michelangelo’s sketches for the Sistine Chapel raises important questions relevant to our historical era. Credit: Dennis MacDonald/Shutterstock Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative player… Michelangelo Buonarroti, by his own account, did not consider himself a great…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There has always been something about a love of the Doors, especially their frontman Jim Morrison, that has always struck me as undeniably adolescent. The rock band, which existed for just…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last September, my then three-year-old daughter started kindergarten for the first time, wearing a ladybug shirt, bright red pants, and that special, beaming, dimpled smile she usually reserves for her joyful…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Candy Clark arrived in Hollywood in the early 1970s, a feisty twenty-year-old who left her conservative Texas hometown to pursue a career in modeling in New York City. Although she had…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story We are deluded into thinking that each era gets the Shakespeare it deserves, or perhaps the Shakespeare it desperately needs. A prime example is the Federal Theatre Project’s production of Macbeth,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, our guide to what we’re watching, listening to and doing this week. Sign up to get it sent to your inbox. Compelling blends of fiction and…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the April 7, 2025, issue, cartoonist Barry Blitt draws on the visuals of Stanley Kubrick’s iconic 1964 film Dr. Strangelove to capture the sense of impending doom…

The web is abuzz with Studio Ghibli. Loading Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Sam Altman’s OpenAI had just unveiled its latest image-generation technology in Chat-GPT4o when suddenly the entire interior of Elon Musk’s palace turned to animated dust. Animated…

Has NIL Really Hurt College Basketball? The fans were furious. The NCAA’s March Madness, long known for its unexpected twists and thrilling Cinderella stories, failed to live up to expectations. Pundits were unanimous in their outrage: The college basketball tournament…