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Jeff Bezos, the owner of the The Washington Post, announced a major shift to the newspaper’s opinion section on Wednesday, saying that it would now advocate for “personal liberties and free markets” and not publish opposing viewpoints on those topics. Mr. Bezos said that the section’s editor, David Shipley, was leaving the paper in response…
Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos, is laying off roughly 10 percent of its work force, according to an email that was sent to staff on Thursday and that was viewed by The New York Times. The cuts, which could affect about 1,000 roles, follow several years of rapid growth and the…
By a campfire on the shore of Lake Geneva in 1816, five friends take up the challenge of telling the scariest story. Mary Shelley is clearly the winner, with her cautionary tale (soon to be a novel) of an obsessed doctor whose electrified monster achieves sentience, then runs wild. So freaked out is her pal…
Since the death of the filmmaker David Lynch last week, fans have been driving to Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank, Calif., to pay their respects, building a spontaneous, snowballing shrine at the feet of the restaurant’s mascot. Among the roses and teddy bears you might expect at a memorial, a casual observer waiting for a…
Clinton Bailey, an American-Israeli academic whose research and documentation of the ancient traditions of the nomadic Bedouin tribes of the Middle East helped preserve a vanishing culture for posterity, died on Jan. 5 at his home in Jerusalem. He was 88. The cause was heart failure, his son Michael said. A native of Buffalo, Dr….
Defining His Style The first child of Donald Lynch, a research scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service, and Edwina (Sundholm) Lynch, David Keith Lynch was born on Jan. 20, 1946, in Missoula but lived there for only a short time. The family soon moved to Boise, Idaho, and then to Spokane, Wash….
It felt fitting that my city was burning when I heard the news Thursday that David Lynch had died at 78. Few filmmakers grasped the complexities of Los Angeles better than Lynch did and fewer still seemed so at home with its distinct, otherworldly mix of beauty and disaster, sunshine and noir. Los Angeles is…
Is “Twin Peaks” the most American TV series ever made? It is, maybe, not the first series that a nation would happily choose as its calling card: a murder mystery, surreal and haunted, that involves the sacrifice of the innocent against a backdrop of mountain majesties and small-town diners. In it, David Lynch, who died…
The death of the surrealist film and television director David Lynch on Thursday prompted mourning across the entertainment world, with celebrities and artists paying tribute to Lynch’s work and his stature as an insistently experimental artist. Lynch was best known for works including “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive,” an oeuvre that combined cosmic horror and…
High-level cease-fire talks appeared to be gaining momentum on Monday as Arab and American mediators pressed for an agreement to halt the fighting in Gaza and release hostages held by Hamas before President-elect Donald J. Trump assumes office on Jan. 20. It was still unclear whether the parties had reached resolution on central disputes that…
