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‘Mr. Crocket’ If you watch only one new horror film this Halloween, make it this demented but deeply humane meditation on fathers and sins. If Freddy Krueger and Mr. Rogers got together in the 1990s and said “Let’s make a VHS tape,” it would look like “Mr. Crocket’s World,” the song-and-dance singalong children’s show that […]

Good morning. It was a perfect weekend in New York City: dinner at Torrisi, no alarm in the morning, a late breakfast at Ba Xuyen, a long walk along the beach at Fort Tilden. Then, soft meatballs and freezing cold martinis at Cozy Royale, followed by Soul Coughing at Brooklyn Steel. Super bon bon. No […]

The annual Harvey Awards hall of fame ceremony is back next Friday at New York Comic Con, and is adding five members to its ranks. The inductees include Arthur Adams, an artist perhaps best known for his X-Men illustrations; the writer and artist Sergio Aragonés, who did extensive work for Mad magazine; and Larry Hama, […]

On Lisa Hoberg’s phone, the group chat with what she calls her “mom friends” is a politics-free zone. In the political hotbed of suburban Phoenix, it seemed safer that way. Why risk ruining 15 years of friendship by bringing up Donald J. Trump? That meant that some of Ms. Hoberg’s closest friends had no idea […]

In British East Africa in 1898, two lions living along the Tsavo River were hungry. This was bad news for the workers building a railroad there. They would retreat to their tents at night and, come morning, some of the men would be missing, the latest victims of big cats that had a hankering for […]

Home is a slippery concept in classical music, a global art form of constant travel and jobs that require relocating for months or years at a time. The superstar conductor Gustavo Dudamel, who will become the New York Philharmonic’s next music and artistic director in 2026, is based in Madrid with his family. You could […]

A children’s playmat sold in JoJo Maman Bébé and Mamas&Papas is being recalled due to a choking risk. Taf Toys are carrying out a recall of their ‘Savannah’ and ‘Urban Garden’ Foam Playmat and shoppers are being told to ‘stop using the product immediately’. RELATED: Parents warned about recall on bath toys in Ireland that […]

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Kids books are such a great source of clever Halloween dress up ideas and the resulting costumes inspired by their favourite characters are just the sweetest. From Paddington Bear to Gangsta Granny, here are a few beloved children’s novel inspired costumes they’ll love and you probably have most of the items already in your wardrobe! […]

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Durga Maha Navami is the culmination of Durga Puja, or the final day of Durga Puja. All about victory, rituals, and piety galore! It comes on Friday this year-the 11th of October 2024-and reverberates with great sanctity. But it was like the finale show of a spiritual blockbuster, wherein the goddess does full-on Mahisasuramardini-a kaifi …

Dussehra, known as Vijayadashami in some regions, is the greatest festival of Hinduism. It depicts the story of good over evil and happens on the Dashami Tithi of Ashwin Shukla Paksha annually. Dussehra is associated with the killing legend of Ravana by Lord Rama and also the killing day of Mahishasura by Goddess Durga. Dussehra …