His “Baile Inolvidable” has sparked a surge of interest in salsa dancing and brought in a younger generation. “It’s been positively contagious,” a teacher said. Read more ...
YouTube Shorts and TikToks are often set to electronic dance music with rap roots that’s become the unconscious hum of vertical video while making its creators rich. Read more ...
It’s our greatest game and our truest mirror. And in its tiki-torch-festooned way, it’s captured our society as an ever-changing collection of tribes. Read more ...
An Oscar nominee for a movie in which everything crashes down on her (literally), Byrne is shifting gears with the Broadway comedy “Fallen Angels.” Read more ...
With “The Lost Boys” on Broadway and Cynthia Erivo in “Dracula” in London, our horror expert looks at how bloodsuckers sank their teeth into pop culture. Read more ...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s comedy drama won six awards at the British equivalent of the Oscars. The best actor choice, however, was a surprise. Read more ...
The film, from the director Ilker Catak, explores political repression in Turkey. Another movie set in the country, “Salvation,” took the runner-up prize. Read more ...
An individual poured an unknown dark liquid onto a temporary skating rink at the Kennedy Center late Thursday night, in what the venue called a “calculated” attack. Read more ...
A trombonist, singer, bandleader, composer and arranger, he collaborated with Rubén Blades on “Siembra,” a 1978 release that became one of the top-selling salsa albums of all time. Read more ...
Will “One Battle After Another,” “Hamnet” or “Sinners” triumph at Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars? U.S. viewers can watch this year’s show on E! Read more ...
Phanésia Pharel’s wistful two-hander starring Patrice Johnson Chevannes and Natalie Paul looks at a Haitian American family and questions of legacy. Read more ...
Mr. Combs, who is serving a 50-month sentence after his conviction on prostitution-related charges, has argued that a judge sentenced him improperly. Read more ...
In his lyrical writings, he explored physical landscapes as well as the interior terrain of his own life — up to the blindness that overtook him in his later years. Read more ...
A racist slur, shouted involuntarily while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting an award, raised questions about how the show’s host and the BBC responded. Read more ...
A Pritzker Prize statement cited the award’s independence after Mr. Pritzker, who directs the foundation behind the award, resigned as chairman of the Hyatt Corporation. Read more ...
This whirlwind biographical documentary puts Barbara Jordan, the esteemed congresswoman and professor who died in 1996, front and center as a voice of moral authority. Read more ...
As a journalist and author, she wrote meticulous portraits of people for The New Yorker. Her book “Is There No Place on Earth for Me?” won the Pulitzer Prize. Read more ...
This bio play about Marcel Marceau, which delves into his part in the French Resistance, stars Ethan Slater (yes, that’s Boq from the “Wicked” movies). Read more ...
He played memorable screen villains, notably a psychopath in “Manhunter,” but also wrote, directed and starred in well-received plays at a theater he founded in Manhattan. Read more ...
The Canadian comedy with creative ties to “Heated Rivalry,” in its fifth season on Hulu, has its own very different take on love among men. Read more ...
“There is no better performer in the world,” the electro-glam musician said. “Every song is thought out, but always with an element of spontaneity and sass.” Read more ...
His public radio show, “Bookworm,” was a literary salon of the air for 33 years, drawing guests like Joan Didion, Susan Sontag and David Foster Wallace. Read more ...
Competition can wreck a figure skater, but Liu and other Olympians shed the pressure and delivered transcendent performances focused on artistry. Read more ...
Kevin Puts’s song cycle “Emily — No Prisoner Be” was brought to life by Time for Three and Joyce DiDonato in its New York premiere at Carnegie Hall. Read more ...
Some directors and stars at the Berlin Film Festival rejected a political view of cinema. But the movies there suggest that politics is broader than just activism. Read more ...
The country, a major center for African art, will not have an official presence at this year’s event after a legal dispute over a Gaza-focused artwork. Read more ...
Max Amini has built a global following with crowd-work videos. But the Iranian American’s mix of silliness and political points about Iran land oddly. Read more ...
Tyra Banks seemed almost omnipotent on her long-running reality series “America’s Next Top Model.” In a new documentary, she is merely a subject. Read more ...
As a drove of artists ditched the center after President Trump’s takeover, an ice skating group decided it couldn’t afford to do the same. Read more ...
While working on a 2022 biopic of the King, Baz Luhrmann learned of unseen footage stored in a Kansas salt mine. That was the start of a winding journey. Read more ...
“The Late Show” host called the group “kind of like the U.N., except instead of passing binding resolutions, you pass a greasy bag of money to Donald Trump.” Read more ...
Robby and Langdon have an awkward encounter in an elevator. Dana struggles to keep it together in a difficult case involving sexual assault. Read more ...
His breakout role came in 2006 as the handsome Dr. Mark Sloan, nicknamed McSteamy, the head of plastic surgery at a Seattle hospital. He died 10 months after announcing his A.L.S. diagnosis. Read more ...
A prolific Dutch writer of fiction, poetry and travel books, he was often mentioned as a potential recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more ...
He co-wrote five pop-rock songs that soared to No. 1 in the 1980s and shared in a Grammy for producing Celine Dion’s 1996 album “Falling Into You.” Read more ...
An HBO Max series tells the surreal true story of Enzo Tortora, brought down overnight by false accusations of being a member of the mob. Read more ...
Plays about addiction are filling Manhattan stages this month, depicting very different places on the recovery spectrum, from harrowing to serene. Read more ...
One of the most esteemed singers of his era, he had a wide repertoire that included Mozart, Wagner and the title role in Messiaen’s epic “St. François d’Assise.” Read more ...
Reporters’ attempts to draw stars into debates about Gaza and other highly charged topics have threatened to overshadow the movies at the Berlin Film Festival. Read more ...
