Comments: Week of May 6, 2024Readers sound off on Donald Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche, MSNBC’s Mehdi Hassan, and the man behind the gossip blog Crazy Days and Nights.
Our Campus. Our Crisis.Inside the encampments and crackdowns that shook American politics. A report by the student journalists of the Columbia Daily Spectator.
Help! There’s So Much Pop!This year’s song-of-summer bracket promises bops and bangers of all types, fit for many situations. Here, a guide to maximizing the current deluge.
The New Uncle Vanya’s Aims Are OffSteve Carell & Co. are individually appealing in Heidi Schreck’s translation, but the show itself never comes to life.
Staging SufjanHow playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury turned a classic indie-rock album into a Justin Peck–choreographed dance piece that’s now Broadway bound.
ByJuan A. Ramírez
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The Man Who Gossiped Too MuchFor years, John Nelson anonymously posted blind items skewering the Hollywood elite on the blog Crazy Days and Nights. Then his identity was revealed.
ByLila Shapiro
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A Burlesque Family at HomeShowbiz couple Angie Pontani and Brian Newman’s high-spirited Marine Park house.
To Brooklyn, by Way of Paris and RomeA whirlwind week with Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri as she stages the brand’s first New York runway show in a decade.