Photo The NPR quiz show host Ophira Eisenberg will share stories about scar tissue, however defined, in a night of narratives at Union Hall; see listing below. Credit Nickolai Hammar Our guide to stand-up, improv and variety shows. DEL CLOSE MARATHON (June 23-25). Now in its 19th year, this weekend …

The performance of the U.S. economy has been disappointing this year to say the least, and in one respect it’s the biggest letdown since 2011. Citigroup’s Economic Surprise Index, a widely followed indicator of how the data are matching up to expectations, continues to plumb new depths. In fact, the …

Bis der Vorhang aufging, hatten Nörgler bezweifelt, ob dieser hoch geschätzte, aber schwer kalkulierbare und zu Absagen neigende Künstler tatsächlich der Rolle gewachsen sein würde. Erst im März sagte er seinen Auftritt für die mit Spannung erwartete neue “Tosca” an der Metropolitan Opera für die nächste Saison ab, weil er …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk, chairman and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors Inc. Put this one in the “You can do that, but why would you want to do that?” file: Tesla is talking to the music industry about creating its own streaming music …

Photo Ron Howard, who will be directing the Han Solo film, a stand-alone entry in the “Star Wars” franchise. The movie is still slated for May 2018. Credit Willy Sanjuan/Invision, via Associated Press Ron Howard is stepping in to direct the coming stand-alone Han Solo film, two days after Philip …

Investors, brace yourselves. A market pullback may be coming soon. The intrastock correlation between the 50-largest S&P 500 components by market capitalization — including high-flying technology stocks like Apple and Amazon— has dropped to the mid-teens, suggesting “the potential for a coming dip in share prices,” Tobias Levkovich, U.S. chief …

Photo Nicole Kidman in “The Beguiled,” Sofia Coppola’s new film. Credit Ben Rothstein/Focus Features “The Beguiled,” Sofia Coppola’s new film, looks like a historical drama — it’s set in Virginia during the Civil War — but it often behaves more like a fairy tale. In the first scenes, a young …

Billy H.C. Kwok | Bloomberg | Getty Images Billionaire Richard Liu, founder and chief executive officer of JD.com. JD.com, Alibaba’s largest rival in the Chinese e-commerce market, has invested nearly $400 million into Farfetch, a fast-growing online marketplace for luxury fashion boutiques. Alongside the $397 million investment, JD.com founder and …

Zach Gibson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Demonstrators hold signs during a healthcare rally opposing the American Health Care Act (AHCA) bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Americans consider the House Republican health-care bill to be a bad idea, by a 3-to-1 margin, …

Photo The cellist Ashley Bathgate. Credit Caitlin Ochs for The New York Times Echo chambers in which the same voices are multiplied over and over have gotten a bit of a bad rap in recent times. But when a musician engages in conversation with splintered figments of her sonic self, …