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Court Appearances: Andrew Rice • The Gossip Racketeers At the heart of the Trump trial is a sleazy caper gone wrong.

Honor Levy • The 26-year-old stalwart of the Dimes Square scene is finally publishing My First Book. But is it already out of date?

Our Campus. Our Crisis. • Inside the encampments and crackdowns that shook American politics. A report by the student journalists of the Columbia Daily Spectator.

So What Does Everyone Else on Campus Think? • A survey of 719 students, professors, and others caught up in the crisis.

THE LAST THING MY MOTHER WANTED • Healthy at age 74, she decided there was nothing on earth still keeping her here, not even us.

THE PACKAGE KING OF MIAMI • MATTHEW BERGWALL was a gifted coder who could have gotten a job at any tech company. He decided to go in another direction.

The Bentley of Umbrellas

The Ideal Way to Make a Bed • THE WRITERS AND EDITORS at the Strategist spend a lot of their working hours thinking about bedding (testing mattresses, studying the difference between percale and sateen). So it’s not terribly surprising that when it comes to their own beds, they’re a bit obsessive.

A Pyramid Club Reunion • In celebration of the new book “We Started a Nightclub”: The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge As Told by Those Who Lived It, former clubgoers gathered at their old East Village stomping ground for a homecoming.

The Trash and Treasures of Temu • How are these headphones $4.98? And everything else you’ve wondered about the chaotic new Everything Store.

Trial-and-Error Arcadia • Kitty Hawks and Larry Lederman’s Chappaqua gardens have been a three-decade-long journey.

The Best Wine Bars • Our critic’s (non-exhaustive) picks for various moods and tastes.

Where Does the Wine Bar End and the Restaurant Begin? • Pét-nats, pan roasts, and a lobster on the loose at Penny and Demo.

French Quarter Seafood in Fort Greene • Lots of oysters and fillets of fish inspired by Nobu at Strange Delight.

On Normani’s Time • Five years into her solo career, the pop star’s debut album is finally imminent. She’s not sorry for the wait.

HELP! THERE’S SO MUCH POP! • The temperatures are warming, the windows opening, and a pop or pop-adjacent album is being released every week. This year’s song-of-summer bracket promises bops and bangers of all types, fit for many situations. Here, a guide to maximizing the current deluge.

The Art World’s Pot Stirrer Returns • Maurizio Cattelan’s first solo gallery show in more than 20 years is a provocative commentary on America’s ills.

WHY CAN’T MUSIC BIOPICS BE GOOD? • FILMS IN THIS GENRE tend to follow the same beats: A sensitive and singular talent too pure for this world wants to create but falls prey to the lure of fame and drugs and a culture of exploitation that the movie usually perpetuates but is uninterested in examining. Still, since 2018, when the definitive bad music biopic of our time, Bohemian Rhapsody, won multiple Oscars, Hollywood has appeared obsessed with them. (Movies about Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt are in the works.) The latest entry in this vexing category is the questionable new Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black. To “celebrate,” we’re ranking the recent musical-biopic canon from the best of the worst to the even worser.

CRITICS • Sara Holdren on Uncle Vanya … Nicholas Quah on Serial season four … Christine Smallwood on Miranda July’s All Fours.

To DO! • Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read. MAY 8–22

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