Three Great Documentaries to Stream
The proliferation of documentaries on streaming services makes it difficult to choose what to watch. Each month, we’ll select three nonfiction films — classics, overlooked recent docs and more —…
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works Seong-Jin Cho, piano (Deutsche Grammophon) Seong-Jin Cho’s 2017 Debussy recording was full of bold colors and sharply delineated textures, which suited that composer perfectly.…
Ladies and Gentlemen, 38 Key Musical Moments on ‘S.N.L.’
Feb. 14, 1981 Funky 4 + 1 Invited by the host and “Rapture” hitmaker Debbie Harry of Blondie, the Funky 4 + 1 became the first hip-hop group to perform…
Trump Signs Crypto Executive Order With David Sacks: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
David Sacks and 47th US President Donald Trump just made digital asset history. Well, kind of. Trump just signed an executive order to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of…
Kyle MacLachlan: Fui una creación de David Lynch
No, no siempre entendía lo que estábamos haciendo. A veces lo percibía y luego, como en una brisa, desaparecía. Otras veces parecía que él existía en un plano que yo…
Clinton Bailey, American-Israeli Who Preserved Bedouin Culture, Dies at 88
Clinton Bailey, an American-Israeli academic whose research and documentation of the ancient traditions of the nomadic Bedouin tribes of the Middle East helped preserve a vanishing culture for posterity, died…
David Lynch Showed Us Who We Are in Dark Masterpieces Like ‘Eraserhead’
It felt fitting that my city was burning when I heard the news Thursday that David Lynch had died at 78. Few filmmakers grasped the complexities of Los Angeles better…
David Lynch’s Enchanting Sound Worlds
▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 4. Roy Orbison: “In Dreams” The most unforgettable musical scene in “Blue Velvet,” though, starts with a song request from the monstrous…
David Lynch Was America’s Cinematic Poet
David Lynch died yesterday at the age of 78, after a career that made him perhaps the most consequential American art filmmaker in the history of the medium. But his…
David Schneiderman, Village Voice Editor and Publisher, Dies at 77
David Schneiderman, an editor turned publisher turned chief executive of The Village Voice, the granddaddy of alternative newspapers, whose 28-year tenure ran from its era of downtown-bestriding indispensability to a…