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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Rachel SymeStaff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. The actress…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Baroque Neapolitan CrècheThe city of Naples is synonymous with the crèche, or Nativity scene, an art form that reached its apogee there in the eighteenth century. Every year, families and churches…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story ​​It was forty years ago, so the memory has likely degraded beyond recognition, but what I seem to recall is that I never expected to be given a Cabbage Patch Kid.…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This Thursday, dining tables and social-media feeds across the country will be brimming with Thanksgiving feasts; Americans will snap pictures of everything from their perfectly arranged spreads to the messy—but strategically…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The first thing that the filmmaker Catherine Hoffman noticed about the three generations of relatives who appear in the documentary short “Parker” was their humor. “They sound funny and joyful and…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Few music scenes have moved as dynamically or evolved as quickly as dance music did in the U.K. during the nineteen-nineties. From the frantic breakbeats of drum ’n’ bass to the…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On December 1st, the Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo will release his first American movie in twenty years, a dialogue-free Christmas revenge drama called “Silent Night.” But his imprint on mainstream…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. Being tasked with buying a gift for a…

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story If the rich blithered as much in real life as they do in the movies, they’d have been eaten long ago. The fantasy that the privileged are easily gulled has a…