Heavy rains drenched the collapsed mountainside, making sludge of the rust-colored soil. Intermittently, the earth violently shuddered as an …
Continue readingAuthor: admin
U.S. Blocks Dominican Republic Sugar Imports, Citing Forced Labor
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it would block shipments of sugar from Central Romana Corporation, a Dominican …
Continue readingIn ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ They Perfect the Art of Deception
“I know we brothers,” Lincoln tells his younger sibling, Booth, in Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Topdog/Underdog.” With a slight hesitation, he then asks …
Continue readingThey Were Ahead of the Curve on Diversity in Classical Music
It was the late 1990s, and Afa Sadykhly Dworkin saw a woman crying backstage at a concert hall in Michigan. Dworkin was there helping to run a …
Continue reading‘The Fabelmans’: What’s Real and What’s Fictional
Steven Spielberg’s new semi-autobiographical film, “The Fabelmans,” hits many standard biopic beats: A Jewish boy, Sammy Fabelman, falls in love …
Continue readingA Fabled Sign Returns to the Brooklyn Waterfront
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. What’s big and yellow and high above the Brooklyn waterfront? Half of a famed sign. We’ll find out which half — and …
Continue readingLosses Pile Up in FTX Bankruptcy Turmoil
Where have the missing funds gone?Credit…Stefani Reynolds/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesBig rifts emerge as FTX bankruptcy moves forward …
Continue readingPeek Inside a $200-a-Night ‘Room’ at the World Cup in Qatar
DOHA, Qatar — After Sheng Xie, a 33-year-old soccer fan from Vancouver, booked his flight to the World Cup, he went searching for accommodations …
Continue readingSaluting in Solidarity
When Elon Musk walked into Twitter headquarters in late October carrying a sink, it seemed like that image might be the lasting one to exemplify …
Continue reading