‘Pavements’ Blurs Fact and Fiction to Reimagine a Band’s Legacy

‘Pavements’ Blurs Fact and Fiction to Reimagine a Band’s Legacy

The Bob Dylan Center gathered some 6,000 items from the musician’s archive in an Oklahoma museum. Green Day’s “American Idiot” album was adapted into a Broadway show. The Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” won four Oscars and was nominated for best picture. If these artists could burnish their legacies and become …

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A California Museum Weighs the Promise and Perils of Tech

A California Museum Weighs the Promise and Perils of Tech

This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. On a recent overcast morning at the Computer History Museum, there was a bike near the entry painted in the colors of the Google logo. These bikes allow employees to navigate …

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How ‘Stranger Things’ Scaled Up for Broadway

How ‘Stranger Things’ Scaled Up for Broadway

The cold open: In television, it’s a scene that begins an episode before the title sequence, often without leading characters but almost always with foreshadowing hooks to confound or set a mood. Theater doesn’t really have much of a cold open tradition. The expectation is that you introduce the main …

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What Is Trump’s Tariff Endgame? Recession Fears Grow.

What Is Trump’s Tariff Endgame? Recession Fears Grow.

Worst offenders Broad new tariffs on U.S. trading partners went into effect a few hours ago, including huge penalties for those on President Trump’s “worst offenders” list. Up next: the threat of additional levies on pharmaceutical imports. The moves have hit jittery investors in the gut yet again, with bonds, …

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Lea Salonga Is Never Getting Tired of Sondheim

Lea Salonga Is Never Getting Tired of Sondheim

Nobody doubted that Lea Salonga could sing. She had won a Tony Award at the age of 20 for her breakout role as the besotted Vietnamese teen Kim in “Miss Saigon,” and sung her heart out as Éponine, and later Fantine, in Broadway productions of “Les Misérables.” She provided the …

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Winter Books to Read When It’s Cold Outside

Winter Books to Read When It’s Cold Outside

Frigid storms, heaps of snow and subzero temperatures are not exactly pleasant to live through, but winter weather can make for an irresistible setting for a book. From the cool surface of a frozen lake to the dizzying frenzy of a white-out squall, the dead of winter offers countless evocative …

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