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Tracee Ellis Ross Dresses Like a Living Doll at Marc Jacobs's New York Fashion Week Show, in Bright Colors and Elf Shoes

Viral elf shoes included.

Marie Claire

"I stood right at the front and watched. There was hardly anyone there": Behind the scenes at Led Zeppelin's first UK show, told by the people who saw it

When people turned up to a Newcastle ballroom, they expected to see The New Yardbirds. Instead, they saw the future of rock'n'roll

Louder

Franne Lee, who designed costumes for 'SNL' and 'Sweeney Todd,' dies at 81

From SNL's Coneheads to Killer Bees, Broadway's Sweeney Todd and Candide, we remember Tony Award-winning costume designer Franne Lee who died on Aug. 27.

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Did this tomato travel the Underground Railroad?

It could have been a gift from a runaway enslaved person. Maybe it wasn’t

The Guardian - US

New York Fashion Week: Prabal Gurung Explores Impermanence

Does a butterfly know it was once a caterpillar? How do we fill those fleeting moments between beginning and end, joy and despair? With moody luxury clothes, of course. Prabal Gurung was thinking deep this season. He installed a mirrored square runway reflecting an opulent blue light display at the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

New York Fashion Week: Prabal Gurung explores impermanence

Prabal Gurung installed a mirrored square runway reflecting an opulent blue light display at the main branch of the New York Public Library for a fashion week show Friday

The Independent UK

Didion-Dunne archives acquired by New York Public Library

The archives of the late Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne have been acquired by the New York Public Library

The Independent UK

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How to plan the ultimate Christmas trip to New York

Christmas in New York is the greatest festive show on earth, says Lorna Parkes. Here’s how to do it right

The Independent UK

Brooklyn Public Library reveals its most borrowed book ever to celebrate 125 years

The library system announced that Where the Wild Things Are is its most borrowed book. It has been sharing its 125 most checked-out books to celebrate 125 years of service to the Brooklyn community.

WEKU

Goodnight Moon has comforted kids at bedtime for 75 years

Since its publication on September 3, 1947, the book has lulled children around the world to sleep with its dreamy ritual of bidding "goodnight" to everything in the "great green room."

WEKU

Chautauqua, where Salman Rushdie was attacked, has a long history of promoting free speech and learning for the public good

On Aug. 20, 2022, a large crowd gathered in front of the New York Public Library to hear prominent authors such as Kiran Desai, Gay Talese and Colum McCann read from novelist Salman Rushdie’s works. The event was organized as a demonstration of support for Rushdie after he was brutally…

The Conversation

Authors and friends rally and read for Salman Rushdie

Friends and fellow authors have spoken out on Salman Rushdie's behalf during a rally on the steps of the main branch of the New York Public Library

The Independent UK

Paul Auster, Aasif Mandvi and others support Salman Rushdie with public readings

Writers Jeffrey Eugenides, Roya Hakakian, Kiran Desai, Tina Brown, Gay Talese and others gave live readings from the author's work as he recovered from a brutal attack.

WEKU

Salman Rushdie: writers gather in New York to read author’s works in solidarity

Event organized by Pen America champions freedom to write after novelist survived assassination attempt last week

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Hundreds of authors to read from Salman Rushdie’s works in show of solidarity

The ‘Stand with Salman’ event in New York mirrors a public reading of The Satanic Verses that took place after the fatwa was issued in 1989

The Independent UK

Marc Jacobs finds his Nietzsche at the NY Public Library

Marc Jacobs’ runway show in the grand, marbled lobby of the New York Public Library came exactly a year after his previous show in the same venue — the first in-person runway show since the pandemic had shut things down for a couple of seasons

The Guardian - US

‘A huge labor of love’: the Lou Reed exhibition years in the making

At the New York Public Library, an expansive new exhibition shares previously unseen personal artifacts and demos

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