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The Novel Source for This Space Mystery? A Novel | The New York Times

Bespoke first-person animations were built for the game’s protagonist, Yasna, who hits switches, twists handles and punches buttons. The Novel Source for This Space Mystery? A Novel. Humanity’s first contact with tiny quasi-intelligent robots felt fresh and believable to the video game producer Marek Markuszewski as he devoured “The Invincible,” …

By Samuel Horti
6th November 2023 • The New York Times

The New York Times: Kirsty MacColl’s Voice Was Singular. A New Box Aims to Bring It Wider.

The singer-songwriter, who died in 2000, is best known for duetting on “Fairytale of New York.” But in an unusual career, she also made her mark behind the scenes. During a fitful 20-year solo career, the singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl released just five full-length albums, achieving a modicum of success in …

By Bob Mehr
2nd November 2023 • The New York Times

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Shied Away From Telling Him’

By rachel schinderman
31st October 2023 • The New York Times

‘Let Gaza Live’: Calls for Cease-Fire Fill Grand Central Terminal

Hundreds of protesters calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war streamed into Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan on Friday, in one of the largest protests New York City has seen since the start of the conflict three weeks ago. The demonstration, organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, came …

By Julian Roberts-Grmela
28th October 2023 • The New York Times

How Microsoft Turned the Tide in Its Regulatory Fight Over Activision

The company found a way to placate three of the most powerful regulatory bodies in the world, along with a federal judge in San Francisco.

By Josh Lewis
13th October 2023 • The New York Times

How Microsoft Turned the Tide in Its Regulatory Fight Over Activision

The company found a way to placate three of the most powerful regulatory bodies in the world, along with a federal judge in San Francisco. The first call that Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, made in early 2022 after his company announced a $69 billion deal to buy the video …

By Josh Lewis
13th October 2023 • The New York Times

Have You Ever Seen an Elephant Twerk?

Ellie the Elephant performing at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where she has dazzled fans of the New York Liberty with her dance moves. Ellie the Elephant, the mascot for the New York Liberty, has danced her way into the hearts of fans as the team has played its way into …

By abigail covington
13th October 2023 • The New York Times

Israel-Gaza Conflict: Death Toll Rises as Families Search for News of Missing

About 1,000 protesters gathered early in the afternoon in two locations, in Times Square and at the United Nations headquarters. The demonstrations were among dozens of largely peaceful protests across the United States, with events in Chicago and Atlanta drawing hundreds of people. But tensions rose in New York City …

By Eric Berger
8th October 2023 • The New York Times

With a Shutdown in View, McCarthy Plays a Weak Hand

Loyalists view Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s malleability as his strength and the only way to deal with what they view as a virtually ungovernable majority. The G.O.P. speaker, whose style is to placate his detractors, does not have the Republican votes to keep the government open. He may call the vote …

By Herb Tenjure
29th September 2023 • The New York Times

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Darling of the Avant-Garde?

The closing of “The Phantom of the Opera” last spring left a chandelier-sized hole in New York. And as of this summer, for the first time in 44 years, there is no Andrew Lloyd Webber musical running on Broadway.

By Brittany Proudfoot Ginder
27th September 2023 • The New York Times

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Darling of the Avant-Garde?

But “Evita,” “Cats” and “Sunset Boulevard” won best musical Tony Awards, and all four shows are widely staged and enormously popular. These new productions, reflecting contemporary trends, are emphasizing psychology and politics over spectacle and sentiment. Lloyd Webber, 75, said in an interview that there is no grand strategy at …

By Brittany Proudfoot Ginder
27th September 2023 • The New York Times

A Decongestant in Many Cold Medicines Is Ineffective

But you still may want to look for alternatives. “Me, personally, I wouldn’t want myself or my kid to take anything that’s unnecessary and that’s demonstrated ineffective,” said Jennifer Le, a member of the advisory committee and a professor of clinical pharmacy with the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical …

By Nicole Mlynaryk
12th September 2023 • The New York Times

A fourth-grader in Brazil

What does an average day look like for Elloá de Oliveira Ramos?

By Flávia Milhorance
27th August 2023 • The New York Times

In Several California Communities, Recovery Efforts Continue After the Storm

Near Yucaipa, Calif., after Tropical Storm Hilary hit the state.Credit...Alisha Jucevic for The New York Times While most of Southern California survived Tropical Storm Hilary without serious damage, a handful of mountain and desert areas east of Los Angeles were still trying to recover. In Several California Communities, Recovery Efforts …

By Maggie Miles
23rd August 2023 • The New York Times

A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul

The Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide.

By Flávia Milhorance
22nd August 2023 • The New York Times

Can TikTok Revive the Dead?

Rosie Grant is one of many TikTok influencers on the hashtag #gravetok who are hoping to inspire a new generation of cemetery enthusiasts, or taphophiles, who can help conserve the country’s past. When Rosie Grant made ice cream to share with Marian Montfort last month, her biggest challenge was getting …

By Jessica Lucas
22nd August 2023 • The New York Times

Tropical Storm Hilary: Update from Maggie Miles

Officials generally expressed relief as damage appeared to be limited. Kenny Hearms was stuck in his car on a flooded block in Cathedral City, Calif., on Monday. Alex Welsh for The New York Times As sunshine returned to Southern California on Monday, residents and officials said the region had avoided …

By Maggie Miles
21st August 2023 • The New York Times

Tropical Storm Hilary: Update from Maggie Miles

Officials generally expressed relief as damage appeared to be limited. Kenny Hearms was stuck in his car on a flooded block in Cathedral City, Calif., on Monday. Alex Welsh for The New York Times As sunshine returned to Southern California on Monday, residents and officials said the region had avoided …

By Maggie Miles
21st August 2023 • The New York Times

Hurricane Hilary Live Updates: Voices

Al Betancourt, 60, was definitely feeling the storm’s wrath. He was waiting for a tow truck by the side of his vehicle, its hood open, after running into muddy waters in Thousand Palms, Calif., on Monday.

By Maggie Miles
21st August 2023 • The New York Times

Hurricane Hilary Live Updates: Interstate 10 Clean Up

A truck cleared flooding on the eastbound lane of Interstate 10 at Monterey Avenue, in Thousand Palms, Calif., on Monday morning, while truck traffic had slowed to a halt on the westbound side as a result of flooding from the rain brought by Hilary.

By Maggie Miles
21st August 2023 • The New York Times

Hurricane Hilary Live Updates: Interstate 10 Closure

A seemingly endless line of semi trucks were at a standstill, stuck in traffic near road closures at Interstate 10 and Monterrey Avenue in Thousand Palms, Calif.

By Maggie Miles
21st August 2023 • The New York Times

Hurricane Hilary Live Updates: Voices

Victor Ruiz, a resident of Thousand Palms in Riverside County, Calif., was towed by a fellow driver out of thick, muddy floodwater at the intersection of Varner Road and Monterey Avenue in Thousand Palms on Monday morning.

By Maggie Miles
21st August 2023 • The New York Times

In Palm Springs, Where Rain Is Rare, Residents Brace for Hilary’s Downpour

Throughout the desert resort city in California, anxiety set in as the storm approached. In front of a fire station in Palm Springs, Calif., residents crowded around a pit of sand on Saturday afternoon under gray clouds, using shovels to fill bag after bag. Every 15 minutes or so, a …

By Maggie Miles
20th August 2023 • The New York Times

A Crisis in America’s Theaters Leaves Prestigious Stages Dark

As they struggle to recover after the pandemic, regional theaters are staging fewer shows, giving fewer performances, laying off staff and, in some cases, closing. There is less theater in America these days. Fewer venues. Fewer productions. Fewer performances. Cal Shakes, a Bay Area favorite that staged Shakespeare in an …

By Brittany Proudfoot Ginder
23rd July 2023 • The New York Times

Phoenix Breaks Heat Record Set in 1974

On Tuesday, Phoenix break its own record for consecutive days of high temperatures of at least 110 degrees. As much of the South bakes, Phoenix blazed past a milestone set half a century ago for consecutive days with 110-degree or higher temperatures. On Tuesday, Phoenix reached a miserable milestone: It …

By Maggie Miles
18th July 2023 • The New York Times

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By Aria Deshe
13th July 2023 • The New York Times

The New York Times: Dolby Atmos Wants You to Listen Up. (And Down. And Sideways.)

There have been efforts to convince the public to adopt advanced audio technologies in the past six decades — ‌including Quadraphonic sound in the ’70s ‌and 5.1 surround sound in the ’90s — but with little success. True believers in the immersive audio format say it could restore a musical …

By Bob Mehr
21st June 2023 • The New York Times

David Miranda, Gay Rights Activist and Snowden Ally in Brazil, Dies at 37

Emerging from Rio’s slums, he helped Edward Snowden reveal classified documents and lobbied for his asylum before rising to his country’s Congress.

By Flávia Milhorance
10th May 2023 • The New York Times

Opinion | When the Mad Lead the Blind

WASHINGTON — For weeks, the hottest ticket in town has been the British director Simon Godwin’s searing “King Lear” with a phenomenal Patrick Page, put on by the Shakespeare Theater Company. “It’s a critique of the gerontocracy,” Drew Lichtenberg, the theater’s dramaturg, told me, a parable on clinging to power …

By Brittany Proudfoot Ginder
15th April 2023 • The New York Times

A Singer Who Lets Others Shine

Mr. Grice is an R&B artist and host of “The Terrell Show,” a variety series on YouTube that has amassed more than one million subscribers by spotlighting both established and rising music artists including Coco Jones, Daley, Kelly Price and PJ Morton. Because Mr. Grice is a singer himself, with …

By Makula Dunbar
14th April 2023 • The New York Times