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