Al B. Sure, an iconic figure in the R&B music scene, has made an indelible mark with his smooth vocals and production skills. His journey, characterized by chart-topping hits and a keen sense for music production, has cemented him as a pivotal figure in the evolution of New Jack Swing and R&B. Rising to fame in the late 1980s, Al B. Sure's blend of soulful melodies and distinctive style won him acclaim and a dedicated fanbase. Read More...
White imagines sex ‘filling up the city’ … the Manhattan skyline. Photograph: AlamyWhite imagines sex ‘filling up the city’ … the Manhattan skyline. Photograph: AlamyFictionReviewWhitman, Mapplethorpe and Edmund White star in Megan Bradbury’s beautifully written debut about what defines America’s most famous city
The American writer Lydia Davis has compared her mini-stories to buildings, because like skyscrapers they are surrounded by an imposing blank space.
It’s a pretty analogy that didn’t mean much to me until I read Everyone Is Watching. Read More...
Idina Menzel (at center) in If/Then. Elizabeth is a walking irony. An independent, die-hard New Yorker, she nevertheless moves to Phoenix to be with a husband none of her friends likes. An urban planner by training, she thus finds herself in a city so sprawly and unregulated she can’t practice her profession, and so teaches it there instead, “like teaching breathing on the moon.” After 12 years of this, she returns to New York, divorced and jobless and 38, to untangle her ironies and, in the great tradition of such stories, start over. Read More...