A brief weekly round-up of some good stuff.
The Muppets came back! For one night only, but holy hell do we need whatever we can get right now.
Peter Hujar's Day is now available to watch on Criterion and it's an absolutely lovely way to spend an hour and change.
Melissa Clark's broccoli potato soup has been giving me life this week.
Aarvo Pärt's "Fur Alina" is my ideal winter mood music.
When the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced at the end of July that its spring Costume Institute exhibit would honor the work of John Galliano, I was a little shocked but not all that surprised. A little shocked because I didn't realize the Met was in the business
This is the time of summer when I inevitably start fantasizing about the pleasures of autumn. That's especially the case this year: I think we can agree that, no matter where you are in the world, it's been a summer to inspire autumnal longing. Between the
Grief takes you to odd places. This week, it took me to the cover of GQ's September issue. The actor Jeremy Strong is on it because he's playing Mark Zuckerberg in the upcoming sequel to The Social Network (who asked for this?). According to The New
I write this week from the bottom of a deep well of grief. On Saturday morning we had to say goodbye to Cal. Cal was my dog for 15 years. But to say that doesn't really do him justice, or tell the whole story. I don't