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The Goings On Newsletter

What we're watching, listening to, and doing this week in N.Y.C, and beyond

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A Pioneer of Electronic Music Reanimates Old Songs

Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s latest album, produced with his partner, Elizabeth, was made amid financial hardship and illness’s mounting toll.

By Hanif Abdurraqib

Musical Events

Vocal Resistance at the New York Festival of Song

The event’s theme: Fugitives.

By Alex Ross

Goings On

Whodunnit: The Upstate Murder-Mystery Weekend

Also: Valentine’s songs for the ages.

By The New Yorker

Annals of Inquiry

Why Do We Like Music?

People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs.

By Shayla Love

The Lede

What Do We Want from a Protest Song?

For a genre that confronts the horrors of the present, the protest song of 2026 is curiously backward-looking.

By Mitch Therieau

Pop Music

Mitski’s New Album Is a Dark Ode to Isolation

On “Nothing’s About to Happen to Me,” a reclusive woman confronts the inhospitality of the world beyond her door.

By Hanif Abdurraqib

Goings On

Mitski’s Spellbinding Intensity

Also: the actions and art work of Lotty Rosenfeld, mixed-martial-arts sparring in the play “The Monsters,” a cocktail adventure at Oddball, and more.

By Marina Harss

The Art World

Peter Strausfeld, the Movie-Poster Master

An exhibition in New York celebrates the work Strausfeld made for a cinema in London over the course of more than thirty years—designs of graphic confidence that were clean, strong, and scornful of embellishment.

By Anthony Lane

Humor

Finishing School: The Moby-Dick Club

This year marks the hundred-and-seventy-fifth anniversary, or demisemiseptcentennial, of “Moby-Dick,” originally published in 1851. (Saving you the math.) Is it O.K. to have a “Moby-Dick” T-shirt for every day of the week?

By Mary Norris

New York Journal

Zohran Mamdani, the Everywhere Mayor

On your phone, on the street, on Taxi TV—you’ve been seeing New York’s new leader wherever you turn, whether you want to or not.

By Molly Fischer

The Lede

The Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie

The search for the “Today” show host’s mother, nearing its second week, has transfixed the public in Arizona and beyond.

By Paige Williams

Our Local Correspondents

What Happens When the Snow Doesn’t Melt?

The icy buildups blocking crosswalks around New York have been dubbed sneckdowns. Some urbanists think they offer a vision of a less car-dependent city.

By Naaman Zhou