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Can a humorless show be great? My bias has long been that truly ambitious dramas are also funny, however submerged or black their jokes. And yet John Ridley’s “American Crime,” on ABC, which is currently ending its third season (and likely its last, given the ratings), breaks that rule and is still a keeper. An astringent outlier in a dizzy age, it has none of the ironic pop songs and retro homages that dominate so many modern cable dramas. It’s serious in an old-fashioned sense: sincere, thoughtful, and heartbreaking. Читать дальше...

Son for son, dóttir for dóttir, Iceland may be the most musical nation on earth. It has a population of three hundred and thirty-two thousand—about the same as that of Corpus Christi, Texas—and an international musical presence that is out of all proportion to its size. In April, the Los Angeles Philharmonic hosted the Reykjavík Festival, which sprawled across eight days of programming. There were around fifty musical compositions, six nonclassical groups, and nearly a hundred and fifty Icelandic participants. Читать дальше...

Just outside the town of Brunswick, Maine, the Harpswell Road runs along a finger of land poking into the ocean. It passes clapboard houses and mobile homes, stands of red-tipped sumac and pine, a few farms, a white Congregational church, and the Harpswell Historical Society, which used to be Bailey’s country store, when the writer Elizabeth Strout worked there as a teen-ager. “I remember sitting on the front porch eating a lollipop,” Strout, who is sixty-one, said one damp day in March, as she drove past. Читать дальше...

Running the Court

Jeffrey Toobin does well to expose the enormous influence of Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society, a conservative organization that has infiltrated many levels of the U.S. judicial system (“Full-Court Press,” April 17th). Toobin says that Leo, who has been the executive vice-president of the society for many years, in effect chose three of the nine current Supreme Court Justices. This is alarming, particularly because Leo and the society are committed to an “originalist” interpretation of the Constitution... Читать дальше...

We really want them to like us. We want it to go well. We overdress. They are narrow people, art people, offhand, linens. It is early summer, first hot weekend. We meet on the street, jumble about with kisses and are we late? They had been late, we’d half-decided to leave, now oh well. That place across the street, ever tried it? Think we went there once, looks closed, says open, well. People coming out. O.K. Inside is dark, cool, oaken. Turns out they know the owner. He beams, ushers, we sit. Читать дальше...

Now that everybody’s confessing everything, I’m ready to confess that, until about five years ago, I was under the impression that the constellation Orion was the constellation O’Ryan. I thought of it as the Irish constellation, sort of the way that actors refer to “Macbeth” as “the Scottish play.” Had I never seen “Orion” in print? I had, in fact, but I suppose I thought it was pronounced “oar-e-un.” I thought it was some other constellation that had nothing to do with the constellation people... Читать дальше...

A trampoline park brand is to open its flagship site at a shopping centre in Kent, the fourth to be announced in the county in a year.

Find out about available commercial space. This week, we rank it by available square feet as of April 19.

On March 15, I was enjoying my annual trip to Nevada and Arizona. ...

Trump was talking about bringing in four warships, one of them an aircraft carrier. Was this going to mean real shooting? His critics back home had to decide whether to protest, wave the flag in support or simply stock the fallout shelter. ...

House Republicans are apparently ready for yet another attempt to snatch health insurance away from constituents who need it. Someone should remind Speaker Paul Ryan of a saying often attributed to his legendary predecessor, Sam Rayburn: “There’s no education in the second kick of the mule.” ...

Two issues are paramount in American politics. The first is whether President Trump will get away with his arrogant dismissal of the public’s right to a transparent government free of corrupting conflicts of interest. The second is whether those who would hold him to account remain focused, mobilized and determined. ...

Around the world, the economic health and beauty of cities are driven by their downtowns. And if there is one particular area that is most vital and representative of any downtown, it has to be Main Street.

Having come through her own struggles with addiction, Dee Wirth now leads the nonprofit WestCare Nevada Women and Children’s Campus, which provides crucial behavioral health services.

Retail is changing before the world’s eyes, with online sellers presenting serious challenges to businesses with physical storefronts. But core strengths can be refined and creatively enhanced.

Drawing an expected 103,000 from 166 countries, the National Association of Broadcasters convention continues through Thursday at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

“You want to reduce recidivism, invest in education,” said Jon Ponder, founder and CEO of the nonprofit Hope for Prisoners, which helps those who’ve been incarcerated through the process of re-entering society.

Donald Trump promises to crack down on drug trafficking from Mexico to make the United States safer from cartel violence. But his policies not only will fail to ...

With the Trump administration proposing to cut community grants for programs such as Meals on Wheels, officials in sparsely populated Lyon County are concerned about ...

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Jaqueline Andrea moved to Las Vegas knowing no one and dreaming of breaking into a business where reputation is everything — at the start of the Great Recession, no less. Still, the mother of two persevered and learned to love mundane business tasks so she could earn a living by sharing her passion.

In the Notes: Dr. Prentice Bowman, Edward Wasserman, Charity Sanders, Tim Bennett, Gary Ameling, Meredith Markwell, Lisa Ross, Jennifer Bradley and more ...

There’s nothing worse than being 85 years old, full of life, and being flat broke. And it takes work to avoid the pitfalls that can ruin your golden years. Inflation, taxes, bad health and bad investments can be devastating. Here are some tips for getting started:

It’s a sensitive subject, but having sex with animals in Nevada is still surprisingly legal. ...

At a time of concern over environmental budget cuts, each of us can also help with our driving, our recycling and our diet. ...