Ridiculous
The Sunday before last, Paul Van Haver, the Belgian dance-music star, was in a taxi on his way to watch a World Cup soccer match between Belgium and Russia.
View ArticleSalman Ahmad and His Band, Junoon
Ian Parker on Salman Ahmad, a Pakistani-American professor of music at Queens College who is also a rock star. His band, Junoon, has sold tens of millions of albums.
View ArticleRaj Recall
Over biryanis, Tom Stoppard and Rosemary Harris compared their upbringings in colonial India, where “India Ink” is set. Ian Parker listened in.
View ArticleWayne Thiebaud’s Sweet Tooth
Ian Parker samples “un-American” confections with Wayne Thiebaud, who’s renowned for his paintings of cakes and pies.
View ArticleJonathan Ive and the Future of Apple
Ian Parker visits the top-secret lab where the world’s most powerful design team created the Apple Watch.
View ArticleCharles Grodin’s Fibreglass Menagerie
The actor talks with Ian Parker about Noah Baumbach’s “While We’re Young”—and the collection of life-size talking animals in his back yard.
View ArticleLouis Sarno Shops
The musicologist has lived among African tribesmen for decades, but he still comes to New York for supplies. Ian Parker reports.
View ArticleGreece’s Ex-Finance Minister Tells All
Ian Parker on Yanis Varoufakis’s high-stakes negotiations with European leaders in the days leading up to the July, 2015, referendum.
View ArticleMamie Gummer’s Virtual Reality
Gummer dons a V.R. headset in preparation for her role in the Roundabout Theatre’s play, “Ugly Lies the Bone.” Ian Parker looks on.
View ArticleBrooklyn’s Rooftop Vineyard
A new company called Rooftop Reds aims to make wine above the Brooklyn Navy Yards. Ian Parker reports.
View ArticleResettling in Connecticut
Ian Parker writes about a family of Syrian refugees who have fled the civil war in their home country and resettled in New Haven, Connecticut.
View ArticleTom Jones’s Good Genes
The singer and his son-turned-manager, Mark Woodward, have lunch while on tour for Jones’s autobiography, “Over the Top and Back.” Ian Parker joins them.
View ArticleEugene Mirman’s Jokes for Animals
On his first trip to the Prospect Park Zoo, the comedian tells Ian Parker about the material that didn’t wind up in his new opus.
View ArticleSusan Sarandon’s New York Primary
Ian Parker joins the actor and Bernie Sanders supporter at the Blossom Ball and the New York première of her movie “The Meddler.”
View ArticlePete Wells, the New York Times Restaurant Critic
Ian Parker joins Wells at David Chang’s Momofuku Nishi and recalls his legendary reviews of Per Se, Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar, and Señor Frog.
View ArticleNorm Macdonald Talks Chekhov
While in New York to promote his new and largely fictional memoir, “Based on a True Story,” the comedian makes plans to see “The Cherry Orchard.”
View ArticleKilling Animals at the Zoo
At Danish zoos, surplus animals are euthanized—and dissected before the public.
View ArticleWhat Makes a Parent?
A brutal custody battle between two women raises questions about who has a right to rear a child—and could redefine the legal meaning of family.
View ArticleBobby Cannavale’s Workplace Injuries
The actor goes to physical therapy to recover from tearing his meniscus in “The Hairy Ape” before he starts filming the next season of “Mr. Robot.”
View ArticleAnselm Kiefer’s Beautiful Ruins
The day before his new show opened, the painter and sculptor walked to his gallery in Chelsea and recalled the area as he first knew it.
View ArticleJeffrey Tambor Returns to the Strand
In 1979, when he moved to New York to audition, the actor would buy paperbacks there. Now it’s glossier than he remembers.
View ArticleKen Burns’s American Canon
Even in a fractious era, the filmmaker still believes that his documentaries can bring every viewer in.
View ArticleIan Schrager’s Gateway to Downtown
The former co-owner of Studio 54 visited the Public hotel with the architects who designed it for him.
View ArticleA Bitcoin ATM Comes to a New York Deli
Coinsource persuaded the owner of Mario’s Gourmet Deli to give the new machine a try.
View ArticleHacking the Citi Bike Points System
A program offers modest benefits to riders who help rebalance the city’s network of bicycles. One man outdid its expectations.
View ArticleThomas Heatherwick, Architecture’s Showman
His giant new structure aims to be an Eiffel Tower for New York. Is it genius or folly? Ian Parker writes.
View ArticleWhen Jay McInerney Writes Your Fortune
The novelist’s new line of fortune cookies are fit for a cynic: “If at first you don’t succeed, try Botox.”
View ArticleThe Times’ Dean Baquet Gets His Closeup in “The Fourth Estate”
Ian Parker reports from the première of the Showtime documentary, where Robert De Niro makes the paper’s executive editor squirm.
View ArticleNight at the Museum with School-Shooting Survivors
At PEN America’s annual gala, young gun-reform activists Cameron Kasky and Samantha Fuentes, who survived the shooting in Parkland, Florida, offer jokes and inspiration.
View Article21, the Home of Trump’s Favorite Burger, Renovates Without Proper Permits
After a flood, the clubhouse of Giuliani and Co. reopens, Ian Parker writes.
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