AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America, Caribbean
This photo gallery features some of the top Associated Press imagery taken in Latin America and the Caribbean that you may have missed last week.
This photo gallery features some of the top Associated Press imagery taken in Latin America and the Caribbean that you may have missed last week.
Your story in this week’s issue, “The Midnight Zone,” is about a spring-break vacation that goes wrong. How did you come up with the setting—an old hunting cabin in Florida?
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Eligible, by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House). In this contemporary version of “Pride and Prejudice,” Liz Bennet, a journalist, and her older sister, Jane, a yoga instructor, travel from New York back to their family, in Ohio, where they meet a neurosurgeon named Fitzwilliam Darcy and his friend Chip Bingley, a star on a reality television show resembling “The Bachelor.” At times closely following the Austen template, at times departing from it, the book mixes details that evoke Austen with ones that are studiously modern. Читать дальше...
The M’zab Valley, deep in the Algerian Sahara, is renowned for its architecture—curvy white structures built a thousand years ago from sand and clay. On a recent sunny morning, the artist Kader Attia set out to create a model of the M’zab hilltop fortress Ghardaïa for an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum. Standing in for the adobe of the original was another ancient North African invention: couscous—around seven hundred and seventy pounds of it.
Gem Spa, the narrow twenty-four-hour newsstand on St. Mark’s Place, has served as a nerve center for generations of beats, hippies (undeterred by a sign reading, “No Combing of Hair—By Order of Health Dept”), rockers, and punks. The other day, Lily Tomlin, who is seventy-six, stopped by in the hope of getting an egg cream. Encountering a long line of customers waiting to buy magazines and lottery tickets, her personal assistant, Paul (burly, doting), shuffled her out.
Transportation in New York can evoke exotic locales: the yellow-taxi experience, it’s said, is reminiscent of a rickshaw ride in New Delhi; the No. 6 train is a cattle car; Joe Biden once compared LaGuardia Airport to “a Third World country.” The French Alps don’t come up much. But in 2012 Dan Levy, a Williamsburg resident and the founder of the real-estate Web site CityRealty, was on a ski vacation in Chamonix when he had a revelation. A gondola had arrived to take him to the top of the mountain. Читать дальше...
The day after the Indiana primary, when Donald Trump became the presumptive G.O.P. nominee and Ted Cruz and John Kasich dropped out of the Presidential race, eight conservatives who work in film and television gathered at Du-Par’s, a Studio City diner known for its pancakes. A number of them would speak only anonymously, worried that they could be blacklisted for industry jobs because of their political leanings. “It’s the opposite of the McCarthy era,” a sound engineer and Cruz supporter said. Читать дальше...
Fair Care
As a Filipina expat, I read Rachel Aviv’s article about Emma, a Filipina domestic worker who came to the U.S. to support her large family in the Philippines and has not seen them for sixteen years, with sadness and anger (“The Cost of Caring,” April 11th). I know countless women like Emma: they are my friends and the aunts, sisters, mothers, and grandmothers of my friends. Because of the corruption of the Philippine government and the de-facto ban on birth control by the Catholic Church... Читать дальше...
It was an old hunting camp shipwrecked in twenty miles of scrub. Our friend had seen a Florida panther sliding through the trees there a few days earlier. But things had been fraying in our hands, and the camp was free and silent, so I walked through the resistance of my cautious husband and my small boys, who had wanted hermit crabs and kites and wakeboards and sand for spring break. Instead, they got ancient sinkholes filled with ferns, potential death by cat.
The martyr does not die. He lives to create more like him.The conscience lives behind an anonymous windowIn tangletown. It is difficult to find the right one.You call and call and there is no answer. But neverA busy signal. The martyrs climb one sideOf a mountain and descend the other. It is a worldFull of dangers, hidden crevasses, avalanches,And so overwhelmingly beautiful they sometimesWish they could die right there. They endureHardship and posthumous fameWith its bitter aftertaste, the feeling of lookingAlmost into infinity... Читать дальше...
Female impersonators, midgets, hermaphrodites, tattooed (all over) men, an albino sword swallower, a human pincushion, a Jewish giant: “Characters in a Fairy Tale for Grown Ups” is the way Diane Arbus once described her subjects—“people who appear like metaphors somewhere further out than we do,” she also said, “invented by belief.” Yet Arbus could produce the same sense of dire enchantment in photographs of the most ordinary people: Fifth Avenue matrons, Coney Island bathers, even children. Other... Читать дальше...
Suzanne, a young woman in San Francisco, met a man—call him John—on the dating site OKCupid. John was attractive and charming. More notably, he indulged in the kind of profligate displays of affection which signal a definite eagerness to commit. He sneaked Suzanne’s favorite snacks into her purse as a workday surprise and insisted early on that she keep a key to his apartment. He asked her to help him choose a couch and then spooned with her on all the floor models. He even accompanied her, unprompted... Читать дальше...
Less than a minute has passed, in “The Nice Guys,” and the first guitar riff has barely begun, when the wah-wah pedal is applied. That, of course, is official confirmation that the movie takes place in the nineteen-seventies. So is the typography of the opening credits: soft curves and candy stripes, as seen in “Boogie Nights” (1997). Like that great film, “The Nice Guys” starts in Los Angeles, in 1977, though the chronology tends to swerve. Our heroes, Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) and Holland March (Ryan Gosling)... Читать дальше...
Beyoncé’s sumptuous adultery opera “Lemonade” came out the week that I began watching the Bravo reality series “Vanderpump Rules,” and it turned out to be an oddly appropriate soundtrack for the show. “What’s worse? Looking jealous or crazy?” Beyoncé croons in the video, swinging a baseball bat labelled “Hot Sauce.” “I really don’t want to cry off all this makeup I just put on,” a waitress named Scheana says on the show, struggling to compose herself for a photo shoot. “Something’s telling me I may or may not have a fake friend,” Ariana... Читать дальше...
On a Friday night in February, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Billy Eichner, the thirty-seven-year-old star of the sui-generis pop-culture game show “Billy on the Street,” was sitting in a director’s chair on the set of the sitcom “Difficult People.” That show, about two struggling performers, a straight woman and a gay man, who are harsh about the world and affectionate with each other, was created and is written by the comedian Julie Klausner, with whom he co-stars. Eichner has excellent posture, even when looking at his phone. Читать дальше...
There are only a few television commercials from my childhood that remain vivid in my memory. Some of them stuck because they were selling products I wanted. At the top of my list was the Snoopy Sno Cone Machine: you stuffed ice in the plastic doghouse roof, then turned a handle a few times, and, voilà, you got a snow cone. Other ads I remember because I was too young to figure out what they were selling. Of these, the one I recall most clearly is the famous spot for Calgon, in which a beautiful... Читать дальше...
The astonishing political emergence of Jeremy Corbyn, the left-wing leader of the British Labour Party, is the sort of thing that passes for normal in Western democracies these days. Since the economic crash in 2008, anti-establishment types have cropped up everywhere. Corbyn, a sixty-six-year-old socialist, had never held a position of authority in his party or in government before being elected last summer on a platform of benign economic populism. He is Syriza in Greece; he is Podemos in Spain; he is Sanders in America. Читать дальше...
Two years ago, a lawyer in Indiana sent me a check for seventy-eight thousand dollars. The money was from my uncle Walt, who had died six months earlier. I hadn’t been expecting any money from Walt, still less counting on it. So I thought I should earmark my inheritance for something special, to honor Walt’s memory.
Rogelio de la Vega is headed to Broadway. Jaime Camil of Jane the Virgin will rotate into Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre. Camil will settle into the role of Billy Flynn in the 1920s-set musical about murder and media.
NBCUniversal presented its massive, multi-network upfront presentation Monday to Madison Avenue ad buyers, and a big part of its two-hour show was, naturally, USA Network’s Mr. Robot. In anticipation of the buzzy Golden Globe winner’s second season, which debuts this July, stars Rami Malek and Christian Slater took the stage to unveil the first official trailer for the new season. The trailer showed Elliot (Malek) in the wake of fsociety’s hack as America - including a cameo from a very concerned... Читать дальше...
Pleasant seasonings and plenty of vegetables highlight this traditional chicken and rice pairing from Jan Balata. “Leftovers are great reheated in the microwave,” comments the Kilkenny, Minnesota cook. View the recipe at TasteofHome.com >>
The last time anyone put a quarter in the pay phone outside the Road Runner gas station in Plainview, Dave Heineman was the governor.