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The best-loved bridges in California
NEW YORK, NY.- I moved to San Francisco from Los Angeles just over a year ago, and one thing that still marks me as a newcomer is how much I delight in crossing bridges in the Bay Area. During my first trip over the Carquinez Bridge on Interstate 80 recently, I was taken with the industrial steel span and what it crossed: the wide expanse of water known as the Carquinez Strait, which separates Contra Costa and Solano counties. That a bridge allows me to depart one county and enter another in midair seems truly magical, as anyone who has recently ridden in a car with me has heard me carry on about. Readers have been sending me emails about their favorite bridges in California, including the most iconic ones, like the Bixby Bridge on Highway 1 in Big Sur, the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena and, of course, the Golden Gate. ... More

A war-haunted choreographer steps into a new role at City Ballet
NEW YORK, NY.- For choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, the past two years have brought an uncomfortable intermingling of life and art. Known for ballets that combine wit with an almost surrealistic imagination, he has found his thoughts drawn insistently toward the war in Ukraine, the country where he spent his early years and began his dancing career, where he met his wife and where their families still live. My parents in Kyiv are awoken at night by explosions, he said in an interview at Lincoln Center. It gets harder and harder and heavier because no one sees any light. I cant stop thinking about it. There is one image in particular that he cant get out of his mind a photograph of a father kneeling next to his 13-year-old son, killed at a bus stop in Kharkiv during a Russian airstrike. The man stayed there for hours holding the boys ... More

Two pianists make a life out of an intimate art form
NEW YORK, NY.- It looked like some kind of grand music exam. Pianists Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy sat down at their instruments onstage at Wigmore Hall and began to play for an audience of two. The rest of their listeners were online. It was June 2020, and Kolesnikov and Tsoy were, like virtually every other musician at that time, playing a livestreamed concert. Despite the halls chilly emptiness, there was something heartening: Here were two musical and romantic partners sharing a bit of their domestic lives as they worked through a messy pile of sheet music spread out on a single Steinway piano. Now, things are more or less back to normal. When they sat for an interview at their elegant northwest London home recently, Kolesnikov had just returned from Copenhagen as a replacement soloist in Pyotr Tchaikovskys First ... More

Get ready to dress up again
NEW YORK, NY.- Fashion Month, that four-week extravaganza of shows, celebrities and clothes that has become a perfect vehicle of bite-size entertainment for our attention-fractured time, officially began in New York on Friday before rolling out to London, Milan and Paris. In reality, however, it started a full week earlier, thanks to Marc Jacobs, who like many designers, stepped off the formal schedule during COVID but, unlike many, never looked back. If his amuse-bouche of a collection is any sign of what is to come and part of what makes Jacobs such an effective designer is his ability to hold a finger up to the wind and then capture that in clothes we will be in for a banger of a season. Anchoring one end of Jacobs runway was the Robert Therrien installation No title (folding table and chairs, beige), which features supersize ... More

36 hours in Turin, Italy
NEW YORK, NY.- With the Alps as a background, Turin, Italys fourth-largest city, is elegant, photogenic and rich with history. Grand squares and former royal palaces abound in this northern Italian crossroads, nicknamed Little Paris, which was briefly Italys first capital after the countrys unification in 1861. And despite housing one of Christianitys most solemn relics a shroud believed by some to be the burial cloth of Jesus the city is awash in earthly pleasures. Both gianduja chocolate and vermouth were invented there, and can be sampled among the historic coffeehouses, chocolate shops and aperitivo bars that line the citys arcaded shopping boulevards. And especially important in the winter, an ever-expanding buffet of galleries and museums including one of the worlds largest collections of Egyptian antiquities, ... More

Rolling Stone's top editor steps down
NEW YORK, NY.- Noah Shachtman, the top editor of Rolling Stone, is stepping down at the end of the month after a stint of more than two years at the helm of the pop culture bible. In a brief note to employees that was seen by The New York Times, Shachtman said his last day running the magazine would be March 1, but he did not elaborate on the reasons for his exit. His resignation was prompted by editorial differences with Gus Wenner, Rolling Stones CEO, according to a person who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters. Its the right decision, one Gus Wenner and I made after many discussions about the direction of the brand, Shachtman said in the letter. Wenner told employees in a separate note that Shachtman would be replaced in the interim by Sean Woods, the magazines deputy ... More