It’s easy to dismiss the guitar solo as an outdated, macho institution. The shredding lead guitar, once ubiquitous in rock music, can now feel like a relic of a bygone time. It’s easy to dismiss the guitar solo as an outdated, macho institution. The shredding lead guitar, once ubiquitous in rock music, can now feel like a relic of a bygone time. The musical trope has become less of a fixture in ma
Miranda July in Portland, Ore., in 1995, the year she began her feminist video series Joanie 4 Jackie (then called Big Miss Moviola).Credit...Heide Foley A devotion to women and their complexities is at the heart of all of the creative endeavors undertaken by Miranda July, the artist, writer, filmmaker — and radically motivated movie mogul. The latter gig, begun in 1995, was inspired by the Riot G
Mr. Dylan has put his words out into the world in vessels with too many dimensions to be broken down into elements: as songs. Think of a song as thrillingly alive with the furies of creation, discovery and experiment, with the resolution of each verse reaching a pitch of such insistence, humor and force that the next has to push further or die. Think of “Highway 61 Revisited,” from 1965 — a song t
Lisa, left, and Anna Hahner in the women’s marathon Sunday. The twins finished 81st and 82nd, in times well off their personal bests.Credit...Sergio Moraes/Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO — The Olympics are as much about what warms the heart or initiates debate as who wins the medals. But what warms the heart or initiates debate can be a matter of perspective in a sprawling event that brings together more
Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels at Windmark Studios in Santa Monica, Calif.Credit...Elizabeth Weinberg for The New York Times LOS ANGELES — Ten minutes into a recent recording session with a Grammy-winning producer they had never previously met, Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter, the in-demand pop songwriters of the moment, had a bouncy new hook. “She’s a new girl now,” Ms. Michaels, 22, sang wi
Kosuke Morita of the Riken institute in Japan led the team with the strongest claim to having discovered element 113 on the periodic table.Credit...Kyodo News, via Associated Press Since the 19th century, European and American discoveries have monopolized the naming of elements on the periodic table. It is evident in entries like francium, germanium, scandium, polonium, europium, californium, berk
In 1964, Gerald Harris successfully prosecuted Jonas Mekas for showing a 43-minute film by Jack Smith called “Flaming Creatures,” which included nudity and sex acts. Fifty-one years later, after reading an article about Mr. Mekas in The New York Times, Mr. Harris reached out to the defendant to apologize. Mr. Harris is now 79 and semiretired. Mr. Mekas is 92 and still going strong, making movies a
Winston-Salem, N.C. — MY mind was absorbed by the biochemistry of gene editing when the text messages and Facebook posts distracted me. So sorry about Cecil. Did Cecil live near your place in Zimbabwe? Cecil who? I wondered. When I turned on the news and discovered that the messages were about a lion killed by an American dentist, the village boy inside me instinctively cheered: One lion fewer to
After a world record-setting short program performance, Yuzuru Hanyu, a teenager from Japan, fell twice in his free skate but still prevailed. Hanyu fell on the quadruple salchow. Composite image by The New York Times Yuzuru Hanyu Total score: 280.09 Hanyu became the first skater to break 100 points in a short program after receiving high marks for all his jumps, including a quadruple toe loop. Bu
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