After watching a performance of the Shaw Festival’s “Brigadoon,” the streets of this magical town on Lake Ontario might seem like a real-life version of the Scottish village depicted in the Lerner and Loewe musical. On a recent evening, the place felt frozen in time, with horse-drawn carriages rolling down a main street lined with…
When the producer Simon Fuller reached out to Lupita Nyong’o to gauge her interest in narrating his latest project — a wildlife documentary directed by John Downer — the Kenyan-Mexican actress was intrigued. But once she watched the first two episodes, she was sold. Ms. Nyong’o understood that these shows can be mundane and repetitive,…
One sweltering night last July, I found myself inside a small auditorium in a Norwegian valley called Setesdal for a community concert. A young woman stood in the right aisle, dressed in the valley’s traditional bunad dress, a billowing black skirt with red and green stripes at the hem, a full-sleeved white blouse, and a…
The 52 Places Traveler The 52 Places Traveler was one of four tourists on the remote Falkland Islands, also known as Las Islas Malvinas. But there were thousands of penguins. Jul 23, 2019 Image More than a thousand breeding pairs of king penguins make their home on East Falkland Island.CreditSebastian Modak/The New York Times Our…
Moments after parking our car and loading into a compact, one-propeller bush plane, my three friends and I were looking down at a lush boreal landscape, newly green after the long winter. The view of soft, wooded peaks interspersed with creeks and lakes extended as far as we could see, evoking the northern territories of…
“I come here to read my poetry tonight as a black feminist lesbian poet,” said Audre Lorde, standing onstage in a dashiki and head wrap, to a mesmerized West Berlin audience at the Amerika Haus in June 1984. At the time, the Wall was still standing, and the western part of the divided city was…
Another summer, another dive, launch, twirl and loop. This roller coaster season brings record-breaking new thrills and state-of-the-art technology, but it also includes a bit of simple, enjoyable tradition. Below is a look at a few of the most interesting new rides now open for your enjoyment in the United States, along with one wild…
Atlantic City’s boom-and-bust cycle has been in motion for decades now, with new casinos and restaurants sowing high hopes for revitalization, followed by mass closings, and then the whole thing happening on repeat. The key to enjoying this seaside New Jersey city, where the beach is often a secondary consideration, is to revisit old favorites…
The roar of a jet engine, the vroom of a car, the vibration of a moving ship. These sounds and sensations, commonly associated with travel and motion, share a common source: fossil fuel-powered engines. But as regulators and businesses around the world try to reduce carbon emissions, airplanes, automobiles and ships are going electric. It’s…
Bad dreams die fast. When I told a salesman at the New York City outpost of REI, the camping supplies store, that I was going camping for four days only 40 miles outside of Chicago, we launched into a conversation about safety in the woods. “You’re not gonna see bears,” he told me, “but you…