Mr. Prager said in an email, “To the extent that the event has been rendered political, it was done solely by the people who chose to make it political — by publicly urging orchestra members not to play that night and urging people not to attend.” While Mr. Prager is …

Philippe Wojazer | Reuters Emmanuel Macron, head of the political movement En Marche !, or Onwards !, and candidate for the 2017 French presidential election, arrives on stage with his wife Brigitte Trogneux to deliver a speech at the Parc des Expositions hall in Paris after early results in the …

AP Photo | Marcio Jose Sanchez A construction workers stands in front of a gate leading into the Presidio Terrace neighborhood Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, in San Francisco. Thanks to a city auction stemming from an unpaid tax bill, a Bay Area real state investor bought the street in the …

Photo Kurt Russell, left, and Chris Pratt in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.” Credit Marvel Studios/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” throbs to the beat of the ’70s while giving Kurt Russell a digital face-lift. And Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner get their whine …

“Henry Threadgill or Naturally 7 or One For All or DJ Logic, whoever it is — there’s some sort of a spiritual, unspoken, musical bond there with all of it,” he said, naming an avant-garde pioneer, a gospel-tinged a cappella group, a straight-ahead jazz sextet and a turntablist, all of …

Photo Tina Packer inside the theater at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., where she directed “Cymbeline.” Credit Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times In 1971, Tina Packer, then a classically trained English actress, persuaded the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art to let her direct Shakespeare’s “Measure …

Ronaldo Schemidt | AFP | Getty Images Anti-government activists and the National Guard clash in Venezuela’s third city, Valencia, on August 6, 2017, a day after a new assembly with supreme powers and loyal to President Nicolas Maduro started functioning in the country. Venezuela could face a full-fledged civil war …

George Rose | Getty Images Rows of grapevines at Happy Canyon Vineyard during a drought on August 6, 2016, near Santa Ynez, California. The average temperature in the United States has risen dramatically since 1980, according to an as-yet-unreleased federal report, the New York Times reported. The climate change report …

It took a long, long time to shoot. We shot for more than three weeks in Spain, outside of this town called Cáceres, and as you might imagine, it’s very complicated when you have all these elements. You have fire, which is difficult to work with. You have horses, which …

Source: HBO Kit Harington as Jon Snow featured in the Game of Thrones season 6, episode 9, Battle of the Bastards Hackers using the name “Mr. Smith” posted a fresh cache of stolen HBO files online Monday, and demanded that HBO pay a ransom of several million dollars to prevent …