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1 week ago | 
editorandpublisher.com | Wendy Dorr
Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2025 10:18 am For the past few months, we have been working closely with Wesley Morris, developing a new weekly podcast about the world of culture and ideas.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Alex Barron |Kate LoPresti |Tina Antolini |Wendy Dorr |Carole Sabouraud |Melissa Kirsch | +2 more
The 97th Academy Awards are on Sunday, bringing an end to an awards season that has been full of twists and turns. After some nominees picked up unexpected wins at previous ceremonies and others became ensnarled in online controversies, many races are still up in the air.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Alex Barron |Kate LoPresti |Wendy Dorr |Sophia Lanman |Daniel Ramirez |Elisheba Ittoop | +1 more
One day, several decades ago, the writer Winnie Holzman was shopping in a Manhattan bookstore where a particular cover caught her eye. It showed a woman with a green face, a black hat pulled down over her eyes. The book was "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire, a retelling of L. Frank Baum's "Oz" stories from the perspective of the Wicked Witch of the West. "When I turned it over and read the little précis on the back, it blew my mind," Holzman said.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Alex Barron |Kate LoPresti |Wendy Dorr |Sonia Herrero |James Poniewozik |Peter Keepnews | +6 more
This week, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" celebrates its 50th anniversary. "It seems strange to talk about 'Saturday Night Live' as a single show that's been around for 50 years," says The New York Times's chief television critic James Poniewozik. "It changes with the times. Administrations come and go.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Tina Antolini |Alex Barron |Wendy Dorr |Daniel Ramirez |Elisheba Ittoop |Gilbert Cruz
The screenwriter Peter Straughan has become adept at taking well known - and beloved - books and adapting them for the big and small screens. He was first nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay of the 2011 film "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," based on the classic John le Carré spy novel, and then adapted Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" trilogy into an award-winning season of television, with an adaptation of the third novel coming out soon.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Alex Barron |Kate LoPresti |Wendy Dorr |Sophia Lanman |Elisheba Ittoop |Gilbert Cruz
Elijah Wald's 2015 book, "Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan and the Night That Split the Sixties," traces the events that led up to Bob Dylan's memorable performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. The book is about Dylan, but also about the folk movement, youth culture, politics and the record business. For the writer and director James Mangold, Wald's work provided an opportunity to tell an unusual story about the musician.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Wesley Morris |Elyssa Dudley |Kate LoPresti |Wendy Dorr |Paula Szuchman |Sophia Lanman
Wesley Morris sits down with editor Niela Orr to dissect the lyrics, influences and drama behind the eight songs nominated for Record of the Year at the Grammys. Plus, the Beyoncé of it all. Image Credit... Photo Illustration by The New York Times; Photo: David J. Phillip/Associated Press The New York Times Audio app is home to journalism and storytelling, and provides news, depth and serendipity.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Melissa Kirsch |Philip Galanes |Jancee Dunn |Daniel Jones |Sara Brooke Curtis |Kate LoPresti | +7 more
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Melissa Kirsch |Gilbert Cruz |MJ Franklin |Jennifer Szalai |A.O. Scott |Sarah Lyall | +10 more
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Melissa Kirsch |Jon Pareles |Lindsay Zoladz |Jon Caramanica |John White |Kate LoPresti | +3 more
As 2024 comes to a close, critics, reporters and editors at The New York Times are reflecting on the year in arts and culture, including music. Today, The Times's pop music critics Jon Pareles, Lindsay Zoladz and Jon Caramanica talk with Melissa Kirsch, the deputy editor of Culture and Lifestyle, about a new generation of women in pop, how the rapper Kendrick Lamar beat Drake in their feud, and why so many pop stars went country.
