Buyouts and Layoffs Hit Penguin Random House
Several top editors at Penguin Random House, who worked with writers including Joan Didion, Alice Munro, Amor Towles, Elizabeth Gilbert and Joyce Carol Oates, are leaving the company as a …
ART & CULTURE
The Future of Children’s Television Isn’t Television
Cocomelon’s success story is far weirder than Ms. Rachel. The brand started as a YouTube channel launched way back in 2006, specializing in alphabet videos for toddlers; it was created …
Tickets on sale for inaugural Sandy Springs Wine Festival
The Sandy Springs Wine Festival will debut its inaugural wine-tasting event from 2-5 p.m. on Oct. 1 at the Entertainment Lawn Heritage Sandy Springs. Two tastings will be held: a …
Constantine Maroulis: From ‘American Idol’ to ‘Rock & Roll Man’
Constantine Maroulis as Alan Freed in ‘Rock & Roll Man.’ Joan Marcus The title of Rock & Roll Man—now in an open-ended run at New World Stages—refers to Alan Freed, …
The other side of concert etiquette: Miranda Lambert, tempers and why everybody is so provoked
Country music’s matriarch Miranda Lambert is in hot water after a group of fans snapped a photo during her Las Vegas residency show and the singer stopped mid-song to call …
Barbie review: Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig are in the pink with the comedy of the year
Review at a glance B arbie is easily the comedy of the year. Weird and wonderful, it’s one of the funnest and funniest movies ever made – and is brilliantly …
Shaun Rankin at Grantley Hall restaurant review
They say that smell is the sense most linked to memory, the thing that has our minds barrelling to the past, like that scene in “Ratatouille”. Experience suggests they have …
In Richard Hollman’s Play, the Back and Forth of a Friendship
Catch is one of the few basic children’s games that can extend into every phase of life. Taking turns tossing and catching the ball furnishes the game with built-in respites, …
Museum of the City of New York to Be Led by Stephanie Wilchfort
Stephanie Hill Wilchfort, who for the past eight years has served as president and chief executive of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, will be the next director and president of the …
At River to River, Dancers Tackle Weighty Topics With a Smile
Now I know what it is like to be herded by a bassoon. It happened Sunday evening on Governors Island at the start of “duel c,” a movement piece by …