‘This Beautiful, Ridiculous City’ captures New York in an emotional graphic memoir

Kay Sohini’s move from India to New York was an escape, rebirth and reunion all wrapped in one, leaving behind an abusive relationship and broken family to

Steven Soderbergh’s eerie haunted house drama ‘Presence’ packs a punch

The camera is the ghost in Steven Soderbergh’s chillingly effective, experiential haunted house drama “Presence.” The filmmaker traps the audience in a beautiful suburban home, letting us

‘Wolf Man’ is a toothless reboot that’ll make you bark at the moon

Blake Lovell thinks taking his wife and young daughter to rural Oregon to pack up his dead father’s belongings is a good idea. It’s a break from

Kyle Paoletta’s ‘American Oasis’ offers lessons for a hotter, drier world

Albuquerque-born author Kyle Paoletta takes readers on a virtual road trip around his native region, transporting us across hundreds of years and thousands of miles in his

Celebrate with Elegance 

As the Year of the Snake gracefully unfolds, Four Seasons Macao’s Zi Yat Heen proudly celebrates its esteemed Black Pearl award. We are invited

New Year, New Energy 

Chinese New Year is here and brimming with magnetic energy and the freedom of renewal, W Macau is one of MDT’s top picks when it comes to celebration

Robbie Williams has always lived to entertain. In ‘Better Man,’ he’s still doing it

I came out of the womb with jazz hands,” pop star Robbie Williams recounts in “Better Man,” his new biopic. “Which was very painful for my mum.”

Oprah Winfrey opens 2025 with an encore. ‘A New Earth’ is her book club pick for a second time

Oprah Winfrey is beginning 2025 with an old favorite. She has selected Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life Purpose” for her book club, marking

Epic Japanese Dining 

Reopened with a fresh look at Wynn Palace, Mizumi’s Executive Chef Hironori Maeda partnered recently with celebrity sushi master Chef Takayoshi Watanabe for an exquisite Japanese meal

In Grammy spotlight, Khruangbin wants to ‘let the music speak for itself’

If you think your Spotify playlist is getting a little too long, consider the one shared by the members of Khruangbin. It’s got 51 hours of

Preserving Macau’s fusion cuisine with recipes passed down generations

A crack of fire under a sprawling wok, a dab of soy sauce and a splash of Chinese rice wine. Bursts of aroma from spices sourced from around

With ‘The Room Next Door’, Almodóvar makes a lively movie about death

Films that are straightforwardly about death are rare, but movies that are about both death and sex are rarer, still. In Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room

A wordless Latvian cat parable about climate change is the year’s best animated movie

Of all the post-apocalyptic landscapes we’ve been treated to over the years, none is as beautiful nor peaceful as that of “Flow.” In Gints Zilbalodis’

CHVRCHES’ Lauren Mayberry makes feminist pop on debut solo album, ‘Vicious Creature’

Lauren Mayberry, frontwoman of the Scottish synth-pop band CHVRCHES, liberates herself from preconceptions on a punchy debut solo album, “Vicious Creature.” Mayberry’s striking voice has

‘Gladiator II,’ with Denzel Washington, goes back into the arena

Rome teeters on the brink in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II.” Its fall is said to be imminent. The dream it once symbolized is dead. The once high-minded

Blackpink K-pop star Rosé’s debut solo album is heartfelt

Rosé, the nightingale of the massively popular Korean girl group Blackpink, has flown the nest and launched her first solo album “Rosie.” She’s the first of the

Parisian Flair 

Under the skilled leadership of Chef de Cuisine Giovanni Galeota, guests can expect the same elevated culinary standards in a completely reimagined dining experience. MARMO Bistro is

Angelina Jolie is graceful and sharp as opera star Maria Callas in ‘Maria’

Angelina Jolie glides through the final days of Maria Callas’ short life in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria,” a dramatic, evocative elegy to the famed soprano. It’s an

The Breeders’ Kim Deal soars on solo debut

When the Pixies set out to make their 1988 debut studio album, they enlisted Steve Albini to engineer “Surfer Rosa,” the seminal alternative record which includes

Heaven for wine lovers 

Last week, “An Exquisite Night of World-Class Bordeaux Wines” took place at Wynn Macau, bringing in 24 top wineries from Bordeaux to Macao. The event involved the

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