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Jazz was at the apex of its artistic power and commercial popularity when, in 1959, some of the music's greatest innovators gathered to record in New York City. In this excerpt from the new book 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool (Penguin Press, March 5, 2024), auth...

You don’t need to be a studio head or a theater owner to realize that everyone in Hollywood has their fingers crossed for Dune: Part Two. Sure, the Oscars are right around the corner, and there are certainly plenty of great films from last year that are worth celebrating, but so far 2024 has been an absolute shit sh...

A thousand miles west of Shanghai, on a vast plain between two mountain ranges teeming with giant pandas, it looks like an alien spacecraft has landed in the fourth-largest city in China.Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects to resemble a star nebula, this is the 59,000-square-foot Chengdu Science Fiction Museum, constr...