The pop diva is one of several to hold court at Madison Square Garden this month, and the West Indian American Day Parade and other celebrations return.
John Barth, who, believing that the old literary conventions were exhausted, extended the limits of storytelling with imaginative and intricately woven novels like “The Sot-Weed Factor” and “Giles Goat-Boy,” died on Tuesday at a hospice facility in Bonita Springs, Fla. He was 93. His death was confirmed by his wife, Shelly Barth. Before entering hospice […]
On a balmy spring morning, after a breakfast of coffee and plain yogurt at a luxury Manhattan hotel, Jaap van Zweden grabbed his bag of conducting batons and scores by Mozart and Gubaidulina and set out for Lincoln Center through the wilds of Central Park. “I love the air, I love the trees,” he said. […]
The mogul’s former girlfriend testified that Mr. Combs stomped on her face and later raped her. He also assaulted his employees and threatened to blow up Kid Cudi’s car after they dated, she said.
