Leah Mandel

2 weeks ago | thrillist.com | Leah Mandel

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings perform at Newport Folk | Photo courtesy Adam Kissick Gillian Welch and David Rawlings perform at Newport Folk | Photo courtesy Adam Kissick EventsMusicLineup highlights, how to get there, what to wear, and how to eat like a local‌If you’ve seen Timothée Chalamet’s surprisingly convincing turn as a young Bob Dylan in 2024’s A Complete Unknown, then you’re already familiar with the Newport Folk Festival.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Leah Mandel

4 days agoLuke Combs discusses playing mega-festivals like Bonnaroo and Newport Folk in 2025, the importance of getting Americans to love country music again. Last year, Luke Combs got Tracy Chapman to break a decade of silence by performing "Fast Car" with him at the 2024 Grammy Awards. For his next trick, …

1 month ago | van-magazine.com | Leah Mandel

“We have to find the Mystical Man,” my father said, in a room of Renaissance paintings on the ground floor of the recently reopened Frick Museum. Which Mystical Man? “He used to be here. You’ll recognize him.” We ventured upstairs to the newly accessible second floor, by way of the old staircase, once perpetually roped off, the organ above just barely in sight. In the sitting room among Medieval religious images was Hans Memling’s “Portrait of a Man,” from 1470, and I did indeed recognize him.

Mar 25, 2025 | nyra.nyc | Leah Mandel

I was greeted by the disembodied voice of Robert Moses, proclaiming his intent to bring visitors “together in our shrinking globe.” “I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE,” proclaims a pin in the permanent collection of the Queens Museum, designed by Norman Bel Geddes for General Motors’ Futurama Pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair.

Sep 25, 2024 | i-d.co | Leah Mandel

Cross-legged in the grass of Central Park’s Great Lawn, Bailey Wollowitz is playing Mastodon’s “Megalodon” on their phone. The song is from the prog metal band’s 2004 Moby Dick-themed concept album, Leviathan; Wollowitz got hip to the megalodon – an ancient species of shark that went extinct during the Pliocene and grew to almost 70 feet long – by way of this epic ode to oceanic legends and giant jaws.