2+ hour, 6+ min ago  (147+ words) For the cover of the May 25, 2026, issue, the artist Kadir Nelson decided to paint a tribute to the city's budding artists. "I recently spied a young kid walking around town with a sketch pad and a backpack full of art…...

2+ hour, 6+ min ago  (287+ words) Shaggy, who was born Orville Richard Burrell, in Kingston, Jamaica, was in town in connection with his new album, "Lottery." He'd booked a private Pilates session before heading home to Miami. "My daughter goes to Pilates as part of her…...

2+ hour, 6+ min ago  (779+ words) Abby! I can't believe we did it! Four years went by like that! Will you promise to keep in touch? ! Let's see each other once or twice this summer and then not again for about fifteen years, when we're both…...

2+ hour, 6+ min ago  (262+ words) Some latter-day club guys went on munching Cracker Jacks and sipping I. P. A. s, unoffended, as Murray explained that Cartwright moved to California in 1849, chasing gold. "And then he failed out there and decided to move to Hawaii," Murray said. "He had…...

2+ hour, 6+ min ago  (885+ words) It wasn't until Djena was in her early twenties that she finally confronted the truth: she had never been a part of the family. She was an unpaid servant in the Toures' home. Denise would tell her as much, yelling…...

2+ hour, 6+ min ago  (450+ words) The actors were greeted by the exhibition's curator, Robin Mc Clellan, who led them to Mozart's childhood violin, encased in glass. "We had a nine-year-old prodigy from Juilliard come and play it," he said. Across the hall was Mozart's clavichord,…...

2+ hour, 6+ min ago  (64+ words) Poetry by Valzhyna Mort: "In sorrowship dues, in sap, on the spines of pines, / despite the winter of hearts, summer came." Despite the sore-throat swallows and one stone, despite the planted crosses and flowers cut, despite the hush of children,…...

2+ hour, 6+ min ago  (277+ words) You spirit of grace in the taffy machine's chrome arms At Morris's Candy performing a sarabande Unknitting and knitting again immaculate sweets. You spirit of order in a plank across uprights Between us patrons and visible bottles: a bar, The…...

2+ hour, 6+ min ago  (107+ words) Montgomery's footwork and adjustment to passes' trajectories shone through. "I love him at the start of reps, and I like him at the end," Nystrom said. "The in-between stuff, it's hard to know." He pulled up a spreadsheet. "I've got…...

2+ hour, 6+ min ago  (229+ words) In 1998, Jeffries joined the white-shoe New York law firm Paul, Weiss, where he was taken under the wing of Ted Wells, the firm's only Black partner. "I used to tell him, "You look'you're going to be a partner one day,…...