Alex Traub

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Alex Traub

He starred in one of the westerns that dominated TV in the late 1950s. After losing traction in Hollywood, he became a traveling clown. Will Hutchins, who had a comically genteel starring role during the craze for television westerns in the 1950s, playing a sheriff who favored cherry soda over whiskey on "Sugarfoot," died on April 21 in Manhasset, N.Y., on the North Shore of Long Island. He was 94. The cause was respiratory failure, his wife, Barbara Hutchins, said in a funeral home death notice.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Alex Traub

His ribald one-liners, oddball knowledge and generosity helped define Melon's, an Upper East Side fixture, where he manned the door for decades. New York City maintains a certain lineage of restaurants worthy of the old-fashioned term "saloon." This line began with P.J. Clarke's, named after a turn-of-the-20th-century Irish immigrant. In the 1960s, a Clarke's manager and maître d', Joe Allen, opened a theater district establishment bearing his own name.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Alex Traub |Ali Watkins

4 hours agoNetflix has once again found a new, niche hit, one that may not be sprawled across the internet’s headlines, but a stellar new comedy you would be wise to check out. That would be North of North, the new series that has a 100% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and as it stands, a great 93% …

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Alex Traub

7 hours agoMarch 2025 is undoubtedly the worst month to date for Turkey’s indigenous Bayraktar Akinci drone, with at least two going down in Africa and the Middle East within a mere two weeks under different circumstances. Overnight, on March 31 and April 1, a drone fell out of the sky over the rural …

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Alex Traub

They played together for years just as friends and collaborators. In 1980, dancing at a party, Mr. Bagayako declared that his true feelings for her were romantic. Ms. Doumbia kissed him. "I felt the doors of paradise opening," he wrote in their memoir. Local news outlets covered the marriage of the two esteemed blind musicians. Concert promoters from nearby African nations began making them offers. They expanded their repertoire from their native Bambara to other languages like Tuareg and Senufo.