Up until the curtain rose, there were naysayers who doubted whether this beloved but elusive and cancellation-prone artist would actually go through with it. In March, he dropped out of a highly anticipated new “Tosca” at the Metropolitan Opera next season, because of the time it would require him to …

Photo Samantha Bee accused the Trump administration of playing fast and loose with the meanings of words. Credit TBS Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What do you think of it? What else are you …

Paulo Duarte | Bloomberg | Getty Images Peter Smith, chief executive officer of Blockchain Ltd. Smith said that the recent rally in bitcoin has caused high demand for Blockchain’s wallet product, and the funding will help to meet that. “We are really focused on scaling to meet the record demand …

Photo Laurel Halo, whose new album, “Dust,” is out Friday. Credit Mustafah Abdulaziz for The New York Times CHICAGO — The experimental producer and D.J. Laurel Halo has spent the past eight years building up a reputation as a slippery artist, moving from fidgety techno to conventional songs and back. …

Olivier Douliery-Pool | Getty Images U.S President Donald Trump checks hands with President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine in the Oval Office of the White House on June 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said after meetings in Washington that Kiev and the United States would soon sign …

Photo Georgina Pazcoguin performing in the revival of “Cats” at the Neil Simon Theater in July 2016. Credit Krista Schlueter for The New York Times The first Broadway production of “Cats” was a smash hit that ran for 18 years. The revival, not so much. The current production, which opened …

Victor Fraile | Power Sport Images | Getty Images Tiger Woods (2nd from left) of the United States and Rory McIlroy (2nd from right) of Northern Ireland with Ken Chu (l), Chairman and CEO of Mission Hills Group, and Tenniel Chu (r), Vice Chairman of Mission Hills Group, attend the …

Buddhika Weerasinghe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Signage for Takata are displayed at the company’s Echigawa plant in Echigawa, Shiga, Japan, on Friday, Nov. 25, 2016. The Japanese company, whose defective air-bag inflators have been blamed for at least 16 deaths and more than 150 injuries worldwide, will file for …

Photo Carrie Coon in “Fargo.” Credit Chris Large/FX Season 3, Episode 10: ‘Somebody to Love’ The third season of “Fargo” ends with the ultimate cliffhanger: Is there justice in this world or isn’t there? Can we talk to our children, as Gloria does, about the fact that “sometimes the world …

I’m honestly not sure what it reveals about the degree to which Australians welcome or resist the boldest forms of cultural expression, which was one of the questions I raised last week. This seems to be something that Australians themselves, separate from me, continue to debate. Continue reading the main …