Review: ‘Paramour’ Brings Cirque du Soleil to Broadway
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
The show, at the Lyric Theater, features a story, set in old Hollywood, that adds the company’s usual circus acts to a traditional musical.
Bryan Thomas for The New York Times
In a construction technique rarely used in New York office towers, the concrete spine of 3 World Trade Center is being built before the steel perimeter.
Belmont, the Bronx: Home to Immigrants and Students
By VERA HALLER
A wide range of immigrants, along with students from nearby Fordham, make their home in this affordable Bronx neighborhood.
Critic's Notebook
At Moogfest, a Demonstration of What Human and Machine Can Accomplish
By JON PARELES
This festival featured a resurgence of analog methods after an era of all-too-neat digital sounds.
Review: Sean Combs Leads a Bad Boy Reunion, With a Surprising Amount of Soul
By JON CARAMANICA
The show celebrated the Notorious B.I.G., who would have turned 44 on Saturday. “The greatest rapper of all time isn’t here to celebrate with us,” Mr. Combs said before the concert closed with “I’ll Be Missing You.”
A Ballerina’s Return From Maternity Leave
By GIA KOURLAS
The New York City Ballet principal Maria Kowroski loves being a new mother to her son, Dylan. But conditioning herself for a comeback posed challenges.
Co-op Wars: Do You Dare Walk on the Grass?
By MICHELLE HIGGINS
A new generation of buyers at a Jackson Heights, Queens, co-op has won a nearly decade-long battle over access to the lawn.
Album
At Stuyvesant Town, a Child’s Utopia
By JOHN LELAND
Photographs from a spring day in 1960 depict children playing in the sprawling Manhattan development, shielded in an idyll from the unrest all around.
What I Love
WQXR’s Graham Parker in Hudson Heights
By JOANNE KAUFMAN
Graham Parker, the general manager of the public radio station WQXR, and his psychologist husband, Adam Benson, were drawn to their apartment’s light, scale and flow.
Scene City
Celebrities Raise More Than $25 Million at amfAR’s Gala in Cannes
Fashion and film stars attended amfAR’s 23rd annual Cinema Against AIDS gala at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc during the film festival.
Jennifer Alden and Kirk Spahn
A Facebook Algorithm Renews a College Crush
By LOUISE RAFKIN
A dark, good-looking man popped up in a list of “people you may know.”
Pioneertown Wants to Be the New Old West
By ALYSON KRUEGER
Founded in 1946 by a group of Hollywood legends like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, the desert community is having something of a renaissance.
At King of Falafel, the Crown Jewels Are Chickpeas
By LIGAYA MISHAN
A popular street cart has spawned a new restaurant in Astoria, Queens.
Intimate Photos of ’90s Hip-Hop’s Biggest Stars, From the Woman Who Styled Them
By MARCUS HOLMLUND
Misa Hylton, the Bad Boy Records stylist who created looks for everyone from Mary J. Blige to Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs, shares personal snapshots.
Victims of Boko Haram, and Now Shunned by Their Communities
By DIONNE SEARCEY
Nigerians who return from captivity after being kidnapped and raped by Boko Haram are met with suspicion that they have joined the militants’ ranks.
At the Cannes Film Festival With Julia Roberts and Jessica Chastain
By T MAGAZINE
The stylist Elizabeth Stewart gives T a look inside her whirlwind week preparing both stars for the red carpet.
Sold-Out Mixed Martial Arts Event Invades Muay Thai Turf
By JOE COCHRANE
Thailand will stage its first major mixed martial arts event after years of unofficially banning the sport to protect the traditional style of Muay Thai kickboxing.
Living In
New Rochelle: When a Smaller City Fits
By PAMELA GWYN KRIPKE
Home to around 80,000 residents across 13.2 square miles, the city has nine miles of coastline and a wide variety of housing stock.
Scene City
Whitney Museum Gala Caps Off Hectic Art Season
By JULIA CHAPLIN
Leonard Lauder, Dan Colen, Cindy Sherman and other art elite at the Whitney’s annual gala
Square Feet
Inglewood, Calif., Pins Hopes for Commercial Revival on N.F.L.’s Rams
By LAUREN HERSTIK
The return of the team to the area and plans for an 80,000-seat stadium and an entertainment complex are expected to breathe new life into the city.
In a Brooklyn Basement, Jazz With a Russian Accent
By COREY KILGANNON
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.
Dying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Venezuela’s Failing Hospitals
By NICHOLAS CASEY
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.
Pet City
Her New Job: Walking a 17-Pound Pet Tortoise
By ANDY NEWMAN
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.
China’s Cultural Revolution, Explained
By AUSTIN RAMZY
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.
Obamas Host a Nordic State Dinner With Guests Like Miranda Kerr, Will Ferrell and Aziz Ansari
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
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.
The Lost Gardens of Emily Dickinson
By FERRIS JABR
Archaeologists are excavating the grounds of the home where the poet lived in hopes of restoring her botanical treasures.
Exclusive
A Park Avenue Penthouse for $26.9 Million
By VIVIAN MARINO
A full-floor penthouse on Park Avenue, with a downtown, contemporary vibe, is about to enter the market.
What I Love
At Home With Broadway’s Diane Paulus
By JOANNE KAUFMAN
The director of “Waitress,” a Tony-nominated musical, lives with her family in a townhouse on the Upper West Side.
Congo Lurches Toward a New Crisis as Leader Tries to Crush a Rival
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
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.
Cannes Red Carpet Fashion
Updating: See what stars like Naomi Watts, Kirsten Dunst and Susan Sarandon wore on the red carpet.
Hungry City
A Meal (and History) in a Box at Taiwan Bear House
By LIGAYA MISHAN
A Chinatown restaurant serves the bento-style meals sold on railways in Taiwan.
Piercings and Eye-Popping Tattoos: Fashion’s Latest Canvas Is the Skin You’re In
By RUTH LA FERLA
As once-transgressive forms of body modification pierce social barriers, are they losing their power to provoke?
Personal (and Romantic) Vintage Pictures From a Legendary Photographer
By HATTIE CRISELL
Bert Hardy, who documented conflicts as well as mid-century British life, is the subject of a new show in London this week.
The Tony Awards: Who Will Win (and Who Should)
By BEN BRANTLEY and CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood of The Times make their picks.
Neighborhood Joint
At Vinnie’s, You Can Grab a Slice, Then Eat the Pizza Box
By KATIE ROGERS
The shop’s quirky, creative pies attract attention online, but a strong relationship with its loyal regulars in Williamsburg pays the bills.
Living In
Garden City, N.Y.: Affluent, With a Welcome Mat Out
By MARCELLE SUSSMAN FISCHLER
Tree-shaded avenues, manicured gardens, and handsome Tudors and colonials draw residents to Garden City, N.Y.
Front Row
An Avant-Garde Director Sets the Stage for Hermès
By MATTHEW SCHNEIER
The theater director Robert Wilson pulls out the stops — and pulls in a pig — for a collaboration with the French luxury-goods company.
Kips Bay Offers a Colorful Answer to Décor Sameness
By PENELOPE GREEN
The Kips Bay Decorator Show House features 21 design firms in a new Upper East Side townhouse.
Ukraine Makes Iffy Progress After Trade Pact With Europe
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
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.
Exposures
The Conflict Zone of Motherhood
By ELIZABETH DALZIEL
Why is the remote more valuable to a photographer than the world right around them?
After a Manhattan Church Is Destroyed in a Fire, Another Welcomes Its Members
By NOAH REMNICK
Calvary Episcopal Church welcomed nearly 200 parishioners from the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava, which was gutted in a blaze.
Cuban Ballet: Proud Past, Promising Future
By BRIAN SEIBERT
The country long-closed dance system may flourish even more with new relationships.
What Comes Next for Cuban Modern Dance?
By BRIAN SEIBERT
As barriers between Cuba and America tumble, Cuban dance companies are working with American choreographers and anticipating change.
Convoys Inch South to Safety From Fort McMurray
By IAN AUSTEN
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.
In Deeply Divided Chicago, Most Agree: City Is Off Course
By MONICA DAVEY and GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO
Residents of the nation’s third-largest city, especially blacks and Latinos, have lost faith in many of its essential institutions, a survey finds.
Feature
Should Prostitution Be a Crime?
By EMILY BAZELON
A growing movement of sex workers and activists is making the decriminalization of sex work a feminist issue.
Big Ticket
A Prewar Facing Central Park for $52 Million
By VIVIAN MARINO
An apartment at an Upper East Side co-op building designed by James E.R. Carpenter was the sale of the week.
Brooklyn on the North Fork
By MARCELLE SUSSMAN FISCHLER
Brooklynites seeking second homes seem to have a particular affinity for the North Fork of Long Island.
Exclusive
Old Meets New in Sag Harbor
By AILEEN JACOBSON
A house designed to blend in with nearby homes built in the 18th century is very much a 21st-century home inside.
What I Love
Christopher Jackson of ‘Hamilton,’ at Home in the Bronx
By JOANNE KAUFMAN
The Tony nominee lives with his wife, Veronica Vazquez-Jackson, an actress and singer.
Testing on the Water in America’s Cup
By CHRIS MUSELER
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.
Chanel Cruises Into Havana, Showcasing Style and Questions
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
Do the benefits outweigh the optics of a luxury fashion show in a country where the average monthly wage is $25?
Angela’s Takes a Return Trip to the Caribbean
By LIGAYA MISHAN
A Bedford-Stuyvesant restaurant is revived by its Guyanese-born chef.
Charles Gatewood, Photographer of Extremes, Dies at 73
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Mr. Gatewood‘s subjects included rock stars, strippers, exhibitionists, cross-dressers, fetishists, protesters and drunks. Just right for an anthropology major.
After Etsy, Scratching an Itch
By PENELOPE GREEN
The founder of the global crafters’ marketplace creates his own handmade world.
At the Met Gala, Everyone Seems a Little Starstruck. Even the Stars.
By MATTHEW SCHNEIER
The “party of the year” brings together everyone from Taylor Swift to Nicole Kidman to Alex Rodriguez.
Scene City
Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Kanye West at 2016 Met Gala After-Parties
By DENNY LEE
The Kardashian clan and Lady Gaga were among the stars who flocked to the Gilded Lily and Up & Down for more late-night revelry.
Living In
Elmhurst, Queens, a ‘Crossroads of the World’
By JULIE BESONEN
The neighborhood is drawing residents with its lower housing costs, proximity to the subway and quiet, low-rise streets.
A Revolutionary Garden Designer Finally Gets a Retrospective
By HILARY MOSS
“Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist” opens Friday at the Jewish Museum — and goes beyond the artist’s landscapes.
Donald Trump All but Clinches G.O.P. Race With Indiana Win; Ted Cruz Quits
By JONATHAN MARTIN and PATRICK HEALY
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.
Square Feet
To Rebuild a Neighborhood, Philadelphia Goes Beyond Housing
By JON HURDLE
In addition to building homes in the Sharswood neighborhood, the city’s housing agency is also looking at businesses and schools.
Pope Francis’ Visit to America, in Pictures
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.”
Two Weeks in New York
By JOHN BRANCH
Behind the scenes of Serena Williams’s historic Grand Slam bid — and ultimate collapse.
Feature
Desperate Crossing
By SCOTT ANDERSON and PAOLO PELLEGRIN
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.
Francis in America
A Gift to New York, in Time for the Pope
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.
10 Years After Katrina
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.
Illuminating North Korea
Photographs by DAVID GUTTENFELDER
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.
Photographs of Earthquake Devastation in Nepal
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.
Your Contribution to the California Drought
By LARRY BUCHANAN, JOSH KELLER and HAEYOUN PARK
The average American consumes more than 300 gallons of California water each week by eating food that was produced there.
Foot Soldiers
Photographs by CHRISTOPHER GRIFFITH
Finding unexpected beauty in the hands of shoe shiners.
Rosetta Follows a Comet Through Perihelion
By JONATHAN CORUM
The Rosetta spacecraft is following Comet 67P/C-G as it makes its closest approach to the sun.
2014 Holiday Gift Ideas and Guide — Movies, Music, Books, Clothes & More
The best present ideas, selected by Times experts, to make shopping easy this season.
Braving Ebola
Photographs by DANIEL BEREHULAK
The men and women of one Ebola clinic in rural Liberia reflect on life inside the gates.
Images of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution
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.
Forty Portraits in Forty Years
Photographs by NICHOLAS NIXON
The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. The latest image in the series is published here for the first time.
Photo Essay
The Women of West Point
Few collegians work as hard as the U.S. Military Academy’s 786 female cadets.
The Peculiar Soul of Georgia
Photographs by ALEC SOTH
A journey through the state, featuring Jimmy Carter, Civil War re-enactors and newborn Cabbage Patch Kids.
A View of Ground Zero
Photographs by BEDEL SAGET
A panoramic view of the progress at the new World Trade Center site exactly 13 years after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Outcry and Confrontation in Ferguson
Scenes of sorrow and violence in a Missouri town after an unarmed black teenager was shot by a police officer.
Assessing the Damage and Destruction in Gaza
By JEREMY ASHKENAS, ARCHIE TSE, TIM WALLACE, DEREK WATKINS and KAREN YOURISH
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.
First Fires: The Fears and Rewards
The Times asked firefighters to submit their first fire experiences on City Room. Read a selection of those stories.
The Toll in Gaza and Israel, Day by Day
By KAREN YOURISH and JOSH KELLER
The daily tally of rocket attacks, airstrikes and deaths in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
A Changing Landscape
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.
The War to End All Wars? Hardly. But It Did Change Them Forever.
By STEVEN ERLANGER
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.
Hopes of a Generation Ride on Indian Vote
By
Despite a period of rising incomes, a tide of economic discontent helped make Narendra Modi the prime minister-elect.
Which Team Do You Cheer For? An N.B.A. Fan Map
By TOM GIRATIKANON, JOSH KATZ, DAVID LEONHARDT and KEVIN QUEALY
Highlights from a map of N.B.A. fandom based on Facebook “likes.”
Chernobyl: Capping a Catastrophe
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
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.
50 Years After the New York World’s Fair, Recalling a Vision of the Future
By LIZ ROBBINS
Fairgoers share memories of family outings and moments of inspiration at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie
By JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN
On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and then vanished without a trace.
Surviving the Finish Line
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.
Honoring Mandela
Nelson Mandela’s death spurred an international outpouring of praise, remembrance and celebration.
Quiz
How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer the questions to see your personal dialect map.
Pictures of Typhoon Haiyan’s Wrath
Typhoon Haiyan, which cut a destructive path across the Philippines, is believed by some climatologists to be the strongest storm to ever make landfall.
Mapping the Destruction 
The Real Mayors of New York
Voters elected Bill de Blasio, but New York has always been a city of unofficial mayors.
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