Sarah Larson

The eighties pop princess returns to the Metropolitan Opera, where she sang in the Children’s Chorus, and shows off her new memoir, “Eternally Electric.”

Each year, massage therapists from around the globe gather to face off, collaborate, and make sure that no body gets left behind.

The actor who became famous as Luke Skywalker now plays a math-obsessed grandfather in “The Life of Chuck.” At MoMath, he studied fractals and rode a square-wheeled tricycle.

The N.H.L.’s newest hockey team unveiled its official name and mascot: an extinct behemoth with fossils at the American Museum of Natural History. Two players made a pilgrimage.

The Pulp singer on conquering his fear of nature, the pleasures and perils of art and aging, and the band’s first new album in twenty-four years.

Kimberly Belflower, the writer of the Tony-nominated play “John Proctor Is the Villain,” starring Sadie Sink, admires doll houses and pays tribute to a childhood hero.

In “Spotlight: Snitch City,” the Boston Globe skillfully reveals how police abused confidential informants in a Massachusetts port town.

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With a big year ahead, the British rocker visited his old West Village haunts and remembered the bourbon-soaked night when Mick and Keith didn’t think much of his idea for a song title, “Rebel Yell.”

The Talking Heads front man brought his acrylic markers to the Pace gallery recently to make some art—dancing ovals, a glamorous blob—on the stairwell walls.

“It’s ironic that, as a pro-democracy and pro-climate group, we’re protesting against electric cars,” one activist said. “But you cannot sacrifice our democracy for one piece of the thing.”

In “Ludwig,” David Mitchell tries to solve mysteries—and the problem of being a person in the world.

“The Curious History of Your Home” delves into the origins of the humdrum.

The eighty-five-year-old folksinger, who is about to publish a book of poems, chats about her old friends (Leonard Cohen and Lily Tomlin) and her Persian cats (Tom Wolfe and Rachmaninoff).

The soprano Angel Blue, the star of the new production of Verdi’s ancient-Egypt spectacle, goes to the Temple of Dendur, crosstown, for the first time.

In his new film, “Hard Truths,” the director returns to his favorite mode: building intimate portraits of regular people, from the ground up.

Despite industry turmoil, old and new shows continue to innovate, whether investigating Elon Musk, high-school mysteries, or our relationship to death itself.

A teary voter tours the People’s House and tries to find perspective in the relics of the “Honest and Wise Men” who came before.

The podcast “Noble,” about severe malpractice at a Georgia crematorium, shows that even the most shocking of horror stories can be sensitively told.

At his new flagship store in SoHo, the British billionaire and vacuum magnate celebrates futuristic headphones and mushroom-enhanced hair-styling products.