Riff: One Scene, 42 Takes and 2 Hours in a Bathroom Stall

Scene 63. INT. BATHROOM. NIGHT. Frances and Sophie inside a stall together. FRANCES: I was lying. I don't love Patch. SOPHIE: I do love him. FRANCES: Since when? When did this happen? SOPHIE: It's been happening. FRANCES: That's [expletive]...

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The 6th Floor: Faces in the Crowd, Printed in 3-D

Imagine someone collecting a strand of your hair from the subway floor. What would that person do with it? Frame you for a crime? Weave it into a wig? Heather Dewey-Hagborg, who describes herself as an "information artist," creates lifelike masks of...

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Network TV Is Broken. So How Does Shonda Rhimes Keep Making Hits?

Jeff Minton for The New York Times Rhimes on the set of "Scandal" in Hollywood. "I love that the gay White House chief of staff is threatening to pretend the first lady is a closeted lesbian," Shonda Rhimes said to a roomful of writers. "It is...

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Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine

Photo illustration by Bobby Doherty Michelle Crosby, an energetic 37-year-old lawyer in Boise, Idaho, applied for a loan last November from a local bank, Western Capital. She proposed to use the money, $10,000, to help start a new business, Wevorce,...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Marginalia, Added by the Author

Here at the magazine, you might say we have a thing about marginalia. So perhaps it's not a surprise that I'm mildly infatuated with Niemann Lab's Annotation Tuesday! (That's not an unwarranted exclamation mark.) It's a weekly series in which authors...

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Who Would Kill a Monk Seal?

Peter Bohler for The New York Times The Hawaiian monk seal has wiry whiskers and the deep, round eyes of an apologetic child. The animals will eat a variety of fish and shellfish, or turn over rocks for eel and octopus, then haul out on the beach...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Abdication, Dutch-Style

For someone who makes a special trip to the Netherlands, nominally timed to the investiture of a new monarch; for someone who has always been a fan of regalia; for someone who enjoys a costumed parade of nations as much as the next person — you'd think...

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Abstract Sunday Blog: In Pursuit of Happiness

Abstract Sunday mirrors Christoph Niemann's illustrations for The Times Magazine and is an archive of Abstract City, his Opinion column, which ran from 2008 through early 2011. Niemann's work has appeared on the covers of The New Yorker, Newsweek,...

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It’s the Economy: The Food-Truck Business Stinks

Illustration by Jasper Rietman Stefan Nafziger seemed oddly downbeat for a guy watching a dozen or so hungry people line up to buy his falafels. Three years ago, when it seemed as if food trucks might take over Manhattan, he planned to have a fleet...

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Is Avenues the Best Education Money Can Buy?

One night last winter, more than 120 parents filed into the black-box theater at Avenues: The World School in Chelsea, to learn about what their kids were eating. Ever since the $85 million for-profit start-up opened its doors in September, food had...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Take the Plunge With ‘Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia’

On Tuesday, a new episode of the Web series "Hamilton's Pharmacopeia" appeared. Hamilton Morris is a chemist and general expert in the field of psychedelics and all things mind-bending. In past episodes, he has investigated rare hallucinogenic tree frogs...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Behind the Cover Story: Adam Davidson on Dueling Economists

Adam Davidson, who writes the magazine's It's the Economy column, is the author of this week's cover article about the economists Larry Summers and Glenn Hubbard. Davidson is a founder of NPR's Planet Money, a podcast and blog. His last cover article...

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Lives: My Desperate, Stupid, Emotional Hunt for the Perfect Pants

When I was a kid and my mom bought me Levi's, they were stiff and uncomfortable for weeks. Then over time and multiple washings, they'd fade the way you wanted them to and start to contour themselves to your body. They became more than your pants....

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The 6th Floor Blog: Take the Plunge With ‘Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia’

On Tuesday, a new episode of the Web series "Hamilton's Pharmacopeia" appeared. Hamilton Morris is a chemist and general expert in the field of psychedelics and all things mind-bending. In past episodes, he has investigated rare hallucinogenic tree frogs...

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Is Avenues the Best Education Money Can Buy?

One night last winter, more than 120 parents filed into the black-box theater at Avenues: The World School in Chelsea, to learn about what their kids were eating. Ever since the $85 million for-profit start-up opened its doors in September, food had...

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Lives: My Desperate, Stupid, Emotional Hunt for the Perfect Pants

When I was a kid and my mom bought me Levi's, they were stiff and uncomfortable for weeks. Then over time and multiple washings, they'd fade the way you wanted them to and start to contour themselves to your body. They became more than your pants....

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The 6th Floor Blog: Take the Plunge With ‘Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia’

On Tuesday, a new episode of the Web series "Hamilton's Pharmacopeia" appeared. Hamilton Morris is a chemist and general expert in the field of psychedelics and all things mind-bending. In past episodes, he has investigated rare hallucinogenic tree frogs...

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Is Avenues the Best Education Money Can Buy?

One night last winter, more than 120 parents filed into the black-box theater at Avenues: The World School in Chelsea, to learn about what their kids were eating. Ever since the $85 million for-profit start-up opened its doors in September, food had...

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Is Avenues the Best Education Money Can Buy?

One night last winter, more than 120 parents filed into the black-box theater at Avenues: The World School in Chelsea, to learn about what their kids were eating. Ever since the $85 million for-profit start-up opened its doors in September, food had...

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The 6th Floor Blog: In Ikram Goldman’s Hands, I Became a Model Student

I didn't think for a moment that anything I wore to Ikram, one of the most prestigious boutiques in the country, would ever be considered chic by anyone who knows anything about what chic actually is. So I went for a look that I hoped appeared, at least,...

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The 6th Floor Blog: For Love of the Game

Last May, the Santa Fe Fuego, an expansion team in the lowly Pecos League, the minor leagues of the minor leagues, threw their first pitch into baseball ignominy. Their starting pitcher was 47-year-old Rodney Tofoya, a former has-been in various Mexican...

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The 6th Floor Blog: In Ikram Goldman’s Hands, I Became a Model Student

I didn't think for a moment that anything I wore to Ikram, one of the most prestigious boutiques in the country, would ever be considered chic by anyone who knows anything about what chic actually is. So I went for a look that I hoped appeared, at least,...

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Is Avenues the Best Education Money Can Buy?

One night last winter, more than 120 parents filed into the black-box theater at Avenues: The World School in Chelsea, to learn about what their kids were eating. Ever since the $85 million for-profit start-up opened its doors in September, food had...

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Larry Summers and Glenn Hubbard Square Off on Our Economic Future

Nigel Parry for The New York Times Left to right: Larry Summers, Glenn Hubbard. One cold late-winter afternoon, Larry Summers was standing by the free-throw line at Lavietes Pavilion, on the Harvard campus, somberly shooting a basketball. In the...

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It’s the Economy: Is It Crazy to Think We Can Eradicate Poverty?

At a news conference during the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in late April, Jim Yong Kim held up a piece of paper with the year "2030" scribbled on it in pen. "This is it," said Kim, the genial American physician...

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