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State of the Union: The story that inspired this year’s Met Gala may hold important lessons for today’s celebrities. Anastasia Kaliabakos, TAC editorial fellow: On Monday, May 6, the annual Met Gala, a fundraiser held for the benefit of the…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Brian SeibertSeibert has covered dance for Goings On since 2002. You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The poet Diane Seuss and I began a recent conversation by talking about the burdens of companionship—or, at least, how those burdens are manifested through affection for a pet. Seuss lost…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On May 13th, during a live event, the artificial-intelligence company OpenAI unveiled the next generation of its technology, GPT-4o, the successor to GPT-3. When OpenAI first released its product to the…

Самовдосконалення змінює життя. Книги можуть стати вашими найвірнішими супутниками, які дарують мудрість, настанови та натхнення. Книга іди туди де страшно – це чудовий початок. Вона змушує вас зустрітися обличчям до обличчя зі своїми страхами і вийти із зони комфорту, що…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “The F-Word.” A father finds himself wading deep into the politics of language when his young daughter looks up from her coloring paper to ask “What does ‘fuck’ mean?” The…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Benjamen Walker, the creator and host of “Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything,” is a pod-maker of the mad-scientist variety: he cooks up projects using his own zeal, research, and audacious notions,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story More than a decade ago, as a baby journalist, I received a fellowship from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop to report on Chinatown, in Manhattan. I was still working as an…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story New York City’s sidewalks are often plein-air pageants, with a myriad of colorful ensembles on display for anyone out to see or to be seen. For the cover of the May…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story George Miller’s film career began with barely averted violence. In 1971, when he was a twenty-six-year-old medical student in Sydney, Australia, he took a job at a construction site while he…