Rustam Faizov, left, and James Smith.
Most members of a 20-piece band that plays regularly in Sheepshead Bay learned jazz clandestinely in Soviet-era Russia, where the authorities were suspicious of people interested in American culture.
Supplies are lacking, electricity goes out, equipment is broken and patients lie in pools of blood as the country’s economic crisis has exploded into a public health emergency.
Amalia McCallister beat out applicants from all over. Now she gets to take Henry for his constitutional. And to speed things up, she can use a stroller.
Fifty years after Mao Zedong unleashed a decade-long political upheaval intended to transform China, here is an overview of the key events, people and issues.
After a summit with the leaders of five Nordic countries, President Obama and the first lady, Michelle Obama, held a dinner for the heads of state, their spouses and a host of celebrities.
Archaeologists are excavating the grounds of the home where the poet lived in hopes of restoring her botanical treasures.
A full-floor penthouse on Park Avenue, with a downtown, contemporary vibe, is about to enter the market.
The director of “Waitress,” a Tony-nominated musical, lives with her family in a townhouse on the Upper West Side.
Moïse Katumbi, a popular opposition politician, is the greatest threat to President Joseph Kabila’s rule. He and his supporters are now being targeted by Mr. Kabila’s security services.
Updating: See what stars like Naomi Watts, Kirsten Dunst and Susan Sarandon wore on the red carpet.
A Chinatown restaurant serves the bento-style meals sold on railways in Taiwan.
As once-transgressive forms of body modification pierce social barriers, are they losing their power to provoke?
Bert Hardy, who documented conflicts as well as mid-century British life, is the subject of a new show in London this week.
Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood of The Times make their picks.
The shop’s quirky, creative pies attract attention online, but a strong relationship with its loyal regulars in Williamsburg pays the bills.
Tree-shaded avenues, manicured gardens, and handsome Tudors and colonials draw residents to Garden City, N.Y.
The theater director Robert Wilson pulls out the stops — and pulls in a pig — for a collaboration with the French luxury-goods company.
The Kips Bay Decorator Show House features 21 design firms in a new Upper East Side townhouse.
Foreign investment is sprouting along Ukraine’s western borders, but the country’s recent history of strife has made some companies hesitant to move in.
Why is the remote more valuable to a photographer than the world right around them?
Calvary Episcopal Church welcomed nearly 200 parishioners from the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava, which was gutted in a blaze.
The country long-closed dance system may flourish even more with new relationships.
As barriers between Cuba and America tumble, Cuban dance companies are working with American choreographers and anticipating change.
Officials hope to clear thousands of vehicles from the area, which has been cut off repeatedly when flames blocked the only road link to the rest of Canada.
Residents of the nation’s third-largest city, especially blacks and Latinos, have lost faith in many of its essential institutions, a survey finds.
A growing movement of sex workers and activists is making the decriminalization of sex work a feminist issue.
An apartment at an Upper East Side co-op building designed by James E.R. Carpenter was the sale of the week.
Brooklynites seeking second homes seem to have a particular affinity for the North Fork of Long Island.
A house designed to blend in with nearby homes built in the 18th century is very much a 21st-century home inside.
The Tony nominee lives with his wife, Veronica Vazquez-Jackson, an actress and singer.
This weekend’s races feature AC 45s, a prelude to larger, more customized AC 50s to be used in the finals next year. But they have yet to be built.
Do the benefits outweigh the optics of a luxury fashion show in a country where the average monthly wage is $25?
A Bedford-Stuyvesant restaurant is revived by its Guyanese-born chef.
Mr. Gatewood‘s subjects included rock stars, strippers, exhibitionists, cross-dressers, fetishists, protesters and drunks. Just right for an anthropology major.
The founder of the global crafters’ marketplace creates his own handmade world.
The “party of the year” brings together everyone from Taylor Swift to Nicole Kidman to Alex Rodriguez.
The Kardashian clan and Lady Gaga were among the stars who flocked to the Gilded Lily and Up & Down for more late-night revelry.
The neighborhood is drawing residents with its lower housing costs, proximity to the subway and quiet, low-rise streets.
“Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist” opens Friday at the Jewish Museum — and goes beyond the artist’s landscapes.
Mr. Trump’s commanding victory over Senator Ted Cruz clears his path to reach the required number of delegates on the last day of primary voting on June 7.
In addition to building homes in the Sharswood neighborhood, the city’s housing agency is also looking at businesses and schools.
Suitland High School in Maryland is producing graduates who rise to national prominence despite budget cuts and other challenges.
The steel industry is at the heart of discussions about the world economy that could become more complicated as global rule changes loom.
Metallic and extravagant outfits, as usual, were consistent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Anna Wintour Costume Center in New York.
The Tiger Temple, a wildlife attraction backed by monks but accused of abuse and exploitation, filed a lawsuit to stop the government from shutting it down.
Cassandra Giraldo began studying the youngsters’ world five years ago, concentrating on how they spent the time between school and home.
Last night, the Knockdown Center in Queens hosted the Deaf Club, a performance and music event.
This mass performance piece — an avian-powered show at the Brooklyn Navy Yard — is the artist’s valentine to the vanishing world of rooftop pigeon fanciers.
James Dyson, the Steve Jobs of household products, wants to do for beauty and grooming what his company did for vacuum cleaners. Will consumers buy it?
In her Manhattan apartment, the media mogul practices what she preaches: A good night’s sleep.
Anton’s Dumplings and Babushka Cafe fill their specialties with care and tradition.
In the latest title from ROADS Publishing in Dublin, creative agencies and design studios open their doors to their inspired (and inspiring) interiors.
The magazine celebrates its annual list of its 100 Most Influential People.
Mr. Trump won Pennsylvania, Maryland and three other states on Tuesday, decreasing the odds of a contested Republican convention. Mrs. Clinton won Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland and Delaware.
Thirty years later, there are signs of commercial clear-cutting in supposedly off-limits forests around the site of the nuclear disaster in Ukraine.
Amid the talk of a wall, a binational crew at a park in Texas blurs borders as its members work to eradicate giant cane that constricts the river.
The singer’s company is expanding offerings in lodging, alcohol, licensing and media, and the appeal extends well beyond Parrot Heads.
The artist both embraced and hated technology as he tried to upend the music industry — realizing that making music wasn’t his only responsibility.
The prolific songwriter and performer’s decades of music transcended and remade funk, rock and R&B with hits like “Purple Rain” and “1999.”
The high heel was the through-line of the musician’s wardrobe for four decades, the base upon which he layered all fashion and character changes.
Amy Haimerl and Karl Kaebnick have gone into debt for a house valued at $100,000 less than they’ve spent. But they love it.
Leah Singer is drawn to the “Post No Bills” notices that are ubiquitous in New York City.
Photographs of the pope’s first trip to the United States, as Catholics and non-Catholics alike will navigate crowds in three cities to catch a glimpse of the “people’s pope.”
Behind the scenes of Serena Williams’s historic Grand Slam bid — and ultimate collapse.
For 733 migrants crammed aboard two tiny boats somewhere between Libya and Italy, a leaky hull was neither the beginning nor the end of their troubles.
Pope Francis, the fourth pontiff to visit St. Patrick’s Cathedral, will find it brighter, cleaner and in better repair than it has been for decades.
The New Orleans of 2015 has been altered, and not just by nature. In some ways, it is booming as never before. In others, it is returning to pre-Katrina realities of poverty and violence, but with a new sense of dislocation for many, too.
A photographer parts the curtains on one of the world’s least-known places and brings back pictures of a country that is defined for many by mystery and war.
When Nepal was hit with a powerful earthquake the tremor shattered lives, landmarks and the very landscape of the country. The scope of the disaster in photographs.
The average American consumes more than 300 gallons of California water each week by eating food that was produced there.
Finding unexpected beauty in the hands of shoe shiners.
The Rosetta spacecraft is following Comet 67P/C-G as it makes its closest approach to the sun.
The best present ideas, selected by Times experts, to make shopping easy this season.
The men and women of one Ebola clinic in rural Liberia reflect on life inside the gates.
For nine days, waves of pro-democracy protests engulfed Hong Kong, swelling at times to tens of thousands of people and raising tensions with Beijing.
The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. The latest image in the series is published here for the first time.
Few collegians work as hard as the U.S. Military Academy’s 786 female cadets.
A journey through the state, featuring Jimmy Carter, Civil War re-enactors and newborn Cabbage Patch Kids.
A panoramic view of the progress at the new World Trade Center site exactly 13 years after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Scenes of sorrow and violence in a Missouri town after an unarmed black teenager was shot by a police officer.
The damage to Gaza’s infrastructure from the current conflict is already more severe than the destruction caused by either of the last two Gaza wars.
The Times asked firefighters to submit their first fire experiences on City Room. Read a selection of those stories.
The daily tally of rocket attacks, airstrikes and deaths in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The reporter Damien Cave and the photographer Todd Heisler traveled up Interstate 35, from Laredo, Tex., to Duluth, Minn., chronicling how the middle of America is being changed by immigration.
World War I destroyed kings, kaisers, czars and sultans; it demolished empires; it introduced chemical weapons; it brought millions of women into the work force.
Despite a period of rising incomes, a tide of economic discontent helped make Narendra Modi the prime minister-elect.
Highlights from a map of N.B.A. fandom based on Facebook “likes.”
A 32,000-ton arch that will end up costing $1.5 billion is being built in Chernobyl, Ukraine, to all but eliminate the risk of further contamination at the site of the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion.
Fairgoers share memories of family outings and moments of inspiration at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and then vanished without a trace.
Runners, spectators and volunteers who were at the finish line of the Boston Marathon when the bombs exploded reflect on how their lives have been affected. Here are their stories of transformation.
Nelson Mandela’s death spurred an international outpouring of praise, remembrance and celebration.
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer the questions to see your personal dialect map.
Typhoon Haiyan, which cut a destructive path across the Philippines, is believed by some climatologists to be the strongest storm to ever make landfall.
Voters elected Bill de Blasio, but New York has always been a city of unofficial mayors.
Listen to New York Times editors, critics and reporters discuss the day’s news and features.
Mapping the Destruction