Minaj’s ‘Pinkprint’ delivers grown-up complexity

Maybe we knew — even in 2010 — when Nicki Minaj released her debut set, that beneath the fluorescent wigs and zany accents, there resided a real-life grown-up. On some

News of the World | Religion in India bubbles over into politics

Powerful Hindu nationalist leaders — some with close ties to Modi's government — say they intend to ensure India becomes a completely Hindu nation. But Modi himself? He has remained silent

The Pastoral Symphony

Sandwiched between Wachau to its southwest and Kamptal to its northeast, Kremstal (literally: Krems Valley) is one of the top wine regions of Austria, producing some of the finest Grüner

SUBTLETIES OF A GOLDEN ERA

“What dishes did Deng Xiaopeng like the most from you?” I ask. “He was not particularly picky and liked simple dishes. Very easy to deal with,” he explains, as if talking

MDT/AP Top 10 albums | Sam Smith’s ‘In The Lonely Hour’ reigns

2. "2014 Forest Hills Drive," J. Cole: J. Cole: Another honest man: J. Cole. The insanely talented rapper captures so much on his third album, tackling various topics from losing

The New York Times top 5 fiction books

By Anthony Doerr, Scribner With brisk chapters and sumptuous language, Doerr’s second novel follows two characters whose paths will intersect in the waning days of World War II: an orphaned engineering

MDT/AP top 10 films | Playing with time, again and again

Also just as good: “Two Days, One Night,” ‘’The Babadook,” ‘’Selma,” ‘’Ernest & Celestine,” ‘’Locke,” ‘’Citizenfour,” ‘’Stranger By the Lake,” ‘’Dear White People,” ‘’Timbuktu,” ‘’The Trip to Italy” and “Neighbors.”

Revealing | 2014 Or the Year of the Flesh

* Movies: The interview * Music: Black Messiah by d’Angelo and the Vanguard * Wine: The Hope Against Hope * Food: Marvelous interpretation DOWNLOAD

‘The Interview’ deserves to be seen

That I was one of the relative few to see “The Interview” is not a boast I take any pleasure in. It’s with heavy sadness, not pride, that I review Seth

D’Angelo’s ‘Black Messiah’ plays to message of rising up

The phrase “long-awaited album” gets tossed around quite a bit — slapped on sets delayed by a couple years, or a few measly months, even. But “Black Messiah,” D’Angelo’s follow-up

NEWS OF THE WORLD | Bold booty or sheer reveal: 2014 was big on flesh

Skin was definitely in, but was 2014 all about the big, bold booty or a sheer reveal up top? On runways, Marc Jacobs sent up-and-comer Kendall Jenner out during February’s New

The Hope Against Hope

Detractors of Bordeaux wine often point to the fact that many bordelais estates have in the last decades become quasi-investment instruments, that vineyards have become akin to real estate in

MARVELOUS INTERPRETATION

Bringing a new Portuguese dining concept to Macau, the hotel opened a restaurant named Fado, offering authentic cuisine and numerous bottles of exceptional Portuguese wine to discerning diners. Upon entering

The year of the word CULTURE

* Robin’s on our mind A nation, a workplace, an ethnicity, a passion, an outsized personality. The people who comprise these things, who fawn or rail against them, are

‘Annie’ is a hard knock, no fun adaptation

It’s impossible to talk about “Annie” without admitting up front when you first experienced John Huston’s 1982 film. For adults at the time, it was a spectacular disaster, thanks in large

‘Five’ by Ursula Archer is intriguing

Geocaching — the contemporary treasure hunt in which a GPS is used to find hidden objects — lends itself to an intriguing melding of a gripping police procedural and an

Gov’t Mule covers Pink Floyd on new live album

When you're playing music for 20 years with the caveat that no two shows will ever be the same, you had better write a lot of music, or cover some

NEWS OF THE WORLD | Merriam-Webster names ‘culture’ word of the year

The word “culture” joins Oxford Dictionaries’ “vape,” a darling of the e-cigarette movement, and “exposure,” declared the year’s winner at Dictionary.com during a time of tragedy and fear due to

The Czech Enigma

If Belgium is the amalgamation of Germanic and Latin cultures, Czech Republic would be one of Germanic and Slavic cultures. Situated in the heart of Europe, Czech Republic actually shares

SPIKY SWEET SENSATION

Fighting the wind with my coat on, I get off the taxi and walk quickly into the The Season’s dining hall. Smiling warmly, the waitress warmly greets us and brings

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