Author: NY TIMES

On a weekend evening in April 2016, Jonathan Runge Stewart came home to his apartment in Manhattan’s West Village from a first date with Enrico Lagasca, elated, his adrenaline running high.At that time, almost no one knew that Mr. Stewart was romantically interested in men.Mr. Stewart knew Mr. Lagasca from Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Manhattan, where Mr. Lagasca, a classical singer, performed periodically, and where Mr. Stewart headed the board that oversaw the church’s Bach Vespers series. He and Mr. Lagasca saw each other around and were Facebook friends, but had never spent time alone — until that day.“I…

Ron Edmonds, a photographer for The Associated Press who won a Pulitzer Prize for a dramatic series of pictures of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan and the takedown of the gunman outside a Washington hotel in 1981, died on Friday in Falls Church, Va. He was 77.His wife, Grace Feliciano Edmonds, said he died in a hospital from pneumonia linked to a bacterial infection.It was only Mr. Edmonds’s second day on the White House beat when he was assigned to cover a speech by President Reagan to an A.F.L.-C.I.O. group at the Washington Hilton on March 30, 1981.…

Eminem intenta recuperar glorias pasadas en su agotadora nueva canción “Houdini”, el primer sencillo de su próximo 12º álbum, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce). Sobre un ritmo estridente y carnavalesco que interpola una muestra de “Abracadabra” de la Steve Miller Band, el craso alter ego del MC Slim Shady analiza el momento cultural actual y encadena algunos chistes en su rapeo de forma rebuscada, desesperado por ofender a cada paso. El truco más viejo de la historia. LINDSAY ZOLADZClancy, el nuevo álbum de la banda Twenty One Pilots, es la cuarta entrega de una serie de álbumes…

The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency on Wednesday censured Iran over its refusal to grant inspectors access to its uranium enrichment program, passing a carefully worded resolution after the United States toned it down in a bid to avoid provoking a crisis at a time in which the Middle East is already roiling.The resolution was sponsored by France, Britain and Germany in response to advances in Iran’s nuclear program over the past year and the Iranian’s government’s refusal to cooperate with the agency. By most estimates Tehran is now just days or weeks away from being able to produce bomb-grade…

Fabiola Yépez, a 20-year-old mother from Venezuela, was sheltering under a bridge in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, with her toddler son when she first learned of President Biden’s new executive order restricting asylum seekers.Despite witnessing U.S. soldiers on the other side of the border firing nonlethal projectiles at migrants the day before, she planned to attempt crossing into the United States on Wednesday, just hours after the order took effect.“Maybe it’s not like what they’re saying, and they won’t turn us back,” Ms. Yépez said. “I’m afraid, especially with my child in my arms.”In the wake of the new order, migrants…

For anyone who watched the nightly match between Carlos Alcaraz and Sebastian Korda on the telecast last Friday night in Paris, and who has seen the Zendaya tennis movie Contenders, you may have heard of it “People will have dazzling flashbacks.A camera suddenly appears on the side of the court, just above the net, swinging back and forth as players battle for control of the net. Barely keeping up with their speed of movement and thought, the ball swerved from side to side, tracking it over the clay and down the white line before Korda, the 27th seed in the…

Around this time last June, an orange dystopian sky loomed over the Museum of Modern Art’s Party in the Garden as wildfire smoke from Canada made its way to New York City.While this year’s event wasn’t exempt from air quality alerts (a health advisory was issued on Tuesday), a mildly humid day in the high 70s seemed like a more tempered environment for the nearly 1,500 artists, curators, art patrons and supporters of MoMA to gather for the museum’s biggest annual fund-raising event.“I enjoy seeing all the people — it’s a celebration, and it’s different every year,” said the artist…

Bob Kelley, who turned the Kelley Blue Book, a price list published by his family’s used-car dealership, into one of the world’s leading authorities on cars, trucks, motorcycles and pretty much anything else that gets you from point A to point B, died on May 28 at his home in Indian Wells, Calif., east of Los Angeles. He was 96.His son-in-law Charlie Vogelheim confirmed the death.The Kelley Blue Book started in 1926 at the Kelley Kar Co., a Los Angeles dealership founded by Mr. Kelley’s father, Sidney, and an uncle, Leslie Kelley. As one of the biggest used-car dealerships in…

A committee of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted on Wednesday to update the formula for the Covid vaccine ahead of an anticipated fall immunization campaign, now an annual step to try to offer better protection against versions of the virus in circulation.The unanimous vote by the 16 advisers recommends a formula aimed at combating the variant JN.1, which dominated infections in the United States in February, or a version of it. In recent weeks, JN.1 has been overtaken by descendants known as KP.2 and KP.3.In the coming weeks, the F.D.A. is expected to formally recommend a variant…

This week’s episode of Popcast (Deluxe), the weekly culture roundup show on YouTube hosted by Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli, features an interview with the actress and downtown New York icon Julia Fox, speaking on a range of topics, including:Her appearance in the recent Charli XCX music video, “360,” with a slew of other “It Girls”Being the anti-“It Girl”Making decisions after starring in the movie “Uncut Gems,” along Adam Sandler, to right-size her fameHow motherhood has changed her relationship to adventureUpcoming acting projectsHow being transparent about her wild teen years shapes how she presents nowWhat she learned, good and bad,…