Frank
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World
Frank Wakefield, Who Expanded the Mandolin’s Range, Dies at 89
A bluegrass innovator, he recorded numerous albums as a leader, and his list of collaborators included both Leonard Bernstein and Jerry Garcia.
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World
Meet the Artist Delighting Amsterdam
In the spring of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, the always bustling Dam Square in Amsterdam was deserted, silent and surrounded by concrete counterterrorism blocks. The Dutch street artist Frank de Ruwe, who goes by the name of Frankey, decided ...
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Arts
Review: ‘Merrily We Roll Along,’ Finally Found in the Dark
Jonathan Groff, supported by Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, is thrillingly fierce in the first convincing revival of the cult flop Sondheim musical.
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Arts
Even a Mother Can’t Body-Block Mental Illness
ZIG-ZAG BOY: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood, by Tanya Frank When Tanya Frank’s otherwise healthy 19-year-old son, Zach, experienced his first psychotic break in 2009, he thought his friends had become members of the Russian Mafia, that his ...
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World
‘The Last of Us’ Is a Very Conservative Show. Really.
Toward the end of the achingly poignant, much-discussed third episode of “The Last of Us,” HBO’s new zombie dystopia series, there’s an earnest ode to traditional masculinity. Bill, a taciturn survivalist, leaves a letter for the show’s hero, Joel ...
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Arts
‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 3: One More Good Day
This week’s episode, starring Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett, stepped away from the main action, offering a melancholy vignette about companionship.
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Business
The Young Founder Who Fooled JPMorgan, According to JPMorgan
When JPMorgan Chase paid $175 million to acquire a college financial planning company called Frank in September 2021, it heralded the “unique opportunity for deeper engagement” with the five million students Frank worked with at more than 6,000 ...
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Magazine
The New York Bakery Where Frank Sinatra Liked to Buy Pastries
To walk into Veniero’s, the belovedItalian pastry shop on East 11th Street, just off First Avenue, is to step into a dreamscape of buttery cookies, cannoli and tarts heavy and trembling with jewel-colored fruit. On one side of the double-fronted ...
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Arts
Review: ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Returns, the Way It Never Was
Maria Friedman’s rethinking of the much-loved, much-monkeyed-with 1981 Sondheim-Furth flop gets very close to coherence, and all the way to enjoyable.