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Jac Venza, a shoemaker’s son who nearly single-handedly delivered to the proverbial “huge wasteland” that was American tv within the Sixties and ’70s an oasis of cultural programming, together with “Great Performances,” “American Masters” and “Live From Lincoln Center,” died on Tuesday at his residence in Lyme, Conn. He was 97. His dying was confirmed […] More

Through many of the milestones of Donald J. Trump’s public life, he has managed to be within the heart of the digicam’s eye: Hosting 14 seasons of “The Apprentice”; working for and successful the presidency; firing up a crowd earlier than the assault on the Capitol of Jan. 6, 2021; presumptively successful the Republican nomination […] More

The first time Carl Radke appeared on tv screens was throughout an episode of “Vanderpump Rules” that was truly a backdoor pilot for a brand new Bravo present, “Summer House.” In the episode, Radke is 29, working in New York City and consuming copiously on the weekends in a Hamptons share home along with his […] More

I don’t must let you know that Jim Henson’s work is ubiquitous and beloved, foundational to childhood throughout a number of generations of “Sesame Street” watchers and stretching far past. It’s so vital to us that when one in every of his creations, Elmo, “requested” an innocuous query about individuals’s psychological state on social media […] More

During the day’s second rehearsal, nonetheless, she tempered her enthusiasm with tacit fear about her voice. She instructed her tour manager that Taja would quickly be backstage, most likely with a prednisone prescription. “Mom, I’m already right here,” the 16-year-old screamed, 20 rows again in an in any other case empty enviornment. “I’ve your drugs! […] More

Artificial intelligence has change into the dominant disrupter to music creation and distribution. And it’s solely getting began. More

Times Insider explains who we’re and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes collectively. When you stroll into the “Popcast (Deluxe)” recording studio on the second flooring of the New York Times workplace in Manhattan, the very first thing you discover is 2 colourful chairs within the middle of the […] More

When Charles Barkley, the quippy commentator on TNT’s “Inside the NBA” studio present, grew bored with Draymond Green’s aggressive on-court antics a number of years in the past, he made it exceedingly clear that he needed to punch Green within the face. Green responded throughout a postgame information convention by calling Barkley’s bluff, telling the […] More

“Ren Faire,” an engrossing and creative three-part documentary that debuts on HBO Sunday at 9 p.m., facilities on George Coulam, founding father of the Texas Renaissance Festival. King George, as everybody calls him, claims he needs to retire; he believes he’ll reside for one more 9 years, and he has a imaginative and prescient for […] More

‘Girls of the Golden West’ Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale; John Adams, conductor (Nonesuch) You could be hard-pressed to discover a fan of John Adams and Peter Sellars’s “Girls of the Golden West” when it premiered at San Francisco Opera in 2017. Critics, who discovered its libretto aimless and its three-hour rating dishevelled […] More

A not too long ago found guitar that John Lennon used to document a number of Beatles songs within the Nineteen Sixties earlier than it went lacking for 50 years has bought at public sale for $2.9 million, turning into one of the invaluable items of memorabilia from the band. The 12-string acoustic guitar, known […] More

Last December, the Upshot printed a information to Wheel of Fortune methods, utilizing knowledge from greater than 6,000 bonus-round puzzles. Our information has influenced the habits of not less than one contestant. Scott Menke, a knowledge analyst from New Jersey, received $52,690 in money and prizes on an episode final month after creating a method […] More