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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 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, 2025,…

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 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 James Hobson began publishing videos on YouTube in 2006, when he was still a high-school student in Ontario, Canada. His early uploads were crude by today’s standards—some gymnastics tricks, some parkour,…

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…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1988, Kathy Shorr had just graduated from the School for Visual Arts with a B.F.A. in photography and was looking for new material to shoot. For her thesis, on ballroom…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “ ‘Hollywood Squares’ was one of the cheesier game shows of my childhood,” says the cartoonist Roz Chast, who drew her ideal selection of panelists for the cover of the January 13,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One of the stranger effects of Brexit was that, after the United Kingdom left the European Union, in 2020, it no longer recognized animals as “sentient beings.” When the U.K. was…