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Mr. Lewis would remain in that tight-knit African-American world as he became a coach and father figure to countless boys, co-founded the first social and pleasure club in the Lower Ninth Ward, shared his table with family, friends and strangers, and sought to tell the world about his home.“Right here in the Ninth Ward...

An effort to raise money for entertainment workers hurt by the coronavirus pandemic has collapsed because of a dispute between a major charity and a labor union representing musicians.The charity, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, had planned an online fund-raiser on Monday at which it would stream a concert, recorded in November, that celebrated the...

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Michiel Commandeur, a Dutch violinist, sounded surprisingly upbeat when he said his income had fallen to zero since the coronavirus pandemic began.He wasn’t earning anything from concerts, he explained in a telephone interview from his home in Amsterdam, and, because of a loophole, he didn’t qualify for support for lost income in the Netherlands,...

BERLIN — It has been rocked by protests and beset by technical delays. And, on Wednesday, the Humboldt Forum, the huge new museum under construction in the center of Berlin, suffered another blow.Just before 10 a.m., two tar cookers exploded at the site, injuring one worker and sending black smoke spiraling over the city.“It...

“In the early days of collecting,” said Mr. Kloha, who hired Ms. Loll’s team, “there really were not qualified individuals involved, and in some ways we knew these results were coming two-and-a-half years ago, because the documentation was, well, I’ll just say it was meager.”Experts who often disagree on the rules, ethics and impact...

LOS ANGELES — They had to cancel the premiere party. But Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman have stuck with the April 6 start date of Quibi, the short-form video app for smartphones that they hope will attract millions of subscribers.After having led some of the nation’s top companies for decades, the two veteran executives...

On Saturday, with audiences largely quarantined in their homes because of the coronavirus, and comics putting on a six-hour benefit online, Laugh Aid, to help struggling performers, Louis C.K. completed the last stage of his comeback with the surprise release of a new special, “Sincerely.”It was his first special since he confessed in 2017...

Who better than the father of “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” to guide us through the thicket of being together, alone?Source link

The pity of it is that, by refusing to link the cases, the city heartlessly deprives the victims of the only comfort and dignity left to them — their kinship as women. “Having lain there, sisterly, so close, for so long, the women bristle at the absurdity.”♦It’s such a cheat to throw suspicion on...