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CANNES, France — The satire “Triangle of Sadness,” from the Swedish director Ruben Ostlund, won the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival at a ceremony here on Saturday. A blunt,...

In many ways, Cortet is the standing ovation’s secret weapon. The audience does not simply clap into a vacuum for several minutes: They are guided and goaded by Cortet, who continually searches...

LONDON — For Steve Jones, direct has always been best. The Sex Pistols guitarist is known for rejecting what he describes as fancy “Beatle chords” in favor of a sound without frills,...

Jean and June Millington, Filipino American sisters and lifelong bandmates best known for their 1970s rock band Fanny, have over 50 years of history in the music industry to reflect on in...

You would be forgiven if you listened to “It’s Gonna Rain,” an early work by the American composer Steve Reich, and came to the conclusion that it was not music as you...

That image you have in your mind of 17th-century pirates? Tattooed, gold-earringed guys swaggering about in thigh-hugging leather boots, clutching cutlasses between their teeth, glowering at the captives they send down the...

Klay Young, a 63-year-old Harlem resident who immigrated to New York as a teenager from Belize, has worked as a server at the landmark Rainbow Room for 30 years, taking orders, ferrying...

Andy Fletcher, who played synthesizers in Depeche Mode, the electronics-heavy British band that developed a huge fan following and sold millions of records in the 1980s and ’90s, has died. He was...

A curious, intrepid loner, she famously went from Dunkirk through Europe and then to Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India — mostly on two wheels.

SURFACINGAt one point in time, you couldn’t walk 30 feet on a New York City block without encountering a pay phone. A look at the last ones.By Ann Chen and Aaron ReissPhotographs...