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2 weeks ago | 
newyorker.com | Kelefa Sanneh
Two months ago, the world lost a gruff and burly guitar player named Al Barile. He was sixty-three when he died, after a battle with cancer, and those who mourned him tended to mourn his ethos as much as his riffs, or maybe more.
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1 month ago | 
newyorker.com | Kelefa Sanneh
Salacuse is the kind of person who always seems to have a project or five under way. I first met him in 2000, and we’ve been friends ever since. (We are now colleagues-in-law, too: his wife, Stacey, is a photo editor at the magazine.) I don’t remember him mentioning Thirty-fourth Street when we met—he was then immersed in a different New York project, photographing Black strip clubs in the Bronx.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Kelefa Sanneh
1 hour agoIt’s important to know what the law says, but maintaining friendly relations with your landlord has its own benefits. Q: I sublet a market-rate rental apartment in Brooklyn on a month-to-month basis. There is nothing in my sublet agreement with the prime tenant that states how much notice I have to …
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1 month ago | 
newyorker.com | Kelefa Sanneh
Kelefa Sanneh writes about Kanye West’s antisemitism and his song “Heil Hitler,” which was banned by YouTube and Spotify but is available on X, formerly Twitter.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Kelefa Sanneh
5 best Netflix thrillers to stream right nowWhen it comes to edge-of-your-seat suspense, Netflix is home to some of the most gripping thrillers you can find on a streaming service right now. …
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1 month ago | 
newyorker.com | Kelefa Sanneh
On Friday evening, I was texting with a friend when I happened to mention where I was: sitting in the middle of Times Square, watching a boxing match. He wrote back immediately: “What is the boxing match about? Like what is its significance?” This was a good question, although not one that could be answered in the minute-long break between rounds, and possibly not one that could be answered at all.
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2 months ago | 
newyorker.com | Kelefa Sanneh
“I don’t write a whole lot of love songs,” Megan Moroney said last month, onstage at Radio City Music Hall. Fortunately, that’s not exactly true. Almost all her songs are about love, although she sings mostly about coping with its absence, or its failure to be respectfully reciprocated by various dudes, including one who had a Chevrolet and a sneaky smoking habit, and who is now known, to millions of Moroney fans, as Noah.
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2 months ago | 
newyorker.com | Kelefa Sanneh
Patrick Schneeweis was never the voice of a generation, but perhaps he was the voice of a tendency. To a small but fervent and far-flung community of listeners, he was known as Pat the Bunny, an anarchist punk troubadour from Vermont whose desperate—and sometimes bleakly funny—folk songs were about young people who wanted to smash the system, although they often settled for getting smashed themselves.
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2 months ago | 
cbsnews.com | Kelefa Sanneh
José Andrés on feeding the needy, and feeding the soul You don't typically find chef José Andrés at home. Often, he's wherever there's trouble, feeding survivors of wars or natural disaster. He's founder of World Central Kitchen, the 15-year-old non-profit. But here, outside Washington, where he and his wife raised three daughters, the world-renowned chef is making me a Tortilla Española (or Spanish omelette).
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
aol.com | Kelefa Sanneh
The New Yorker, the beloved weekly magazine, is celebrating its one-hundredth birthday. I have been a staff writer at the magazine since 2008, and Bruce Diones has been at The New Yorker since, well, not quite since the beginning. "1978," he said. "I was in the cradle. They left me on the doorstep and I came."Asked his title, Diones replied , "I don't really have one. I aid and abet all the crimes that happen here.
