The Must Read

The Washington brothers (yes, Denzel’s two sons) built their careers apart—until an irresistible project drew them together. In The Piano Lesson, they tackle a father’s thorny legacy.

With “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” he's got one of the biggest pop hits of all time—and he sang on a couple of songs with Beyoncé this year too. So we asked the great Shania Twain to help country’s biggest new star make sense of his explosive year.

At his eponymous Chinatown space, Los Angeles painter-gallerist Henry Taylor helps Cornwall, UK–based Fox curate an art show—by pulling paintings off the wall.

Riding along from Paris to Hollywood to New York with the Louis Vuitton men’s creative director, whose prolific and often prophetic contributions to fashion, film, and music have once again thrust him to the center of the pop culture Venn diagram.

After immortalizing the whirlwind of the last four years—relapse, intervention, recovery—in his award-winning stand-up special, John Mulaney has emerged as one of the most popular comedians on earth. For his next trick, he’s embracing his surprising new role as a Southern California family man.

It’s hard for Dwayne Johnson to hide. Wherever he goes, there he is—as conspicuous out in the world as he is on the silver screen. But after two decades of playing a version of himself in huge movies, suddenly he is ready to do something entirely new: vanish.

Magdalene Taylor embeds with the crypto weebs and Trump bros of downtown Manhattan’s right-wing scene.

Grayson Haver Currin, who spent the days before the election traversing Wisconsin on foot, experiences the kindness of strangers twenty miles outside of Madison.

For generations, the Yankees were the biggest and baddest team in professional sports, seemingly too powerful to ever be touched. Those days are over.

He turned a SpongeBob musical into the break of a lifetime. But when the Broadway alum nabbed the role of Boq in the mega-budget Wicked film, his trip down the yellow brick road would change everything.

Artist Chase Hall paints his canvases with coffee, making large-scale works that examine mixed-race identity in America. Now, on the eve of the biggest show of his career, Hall is reconciling his fractured past with his blindingly bright future.

“It almost turned into a full-on cop-versus-twink extravaganza.” And then the real Timmy showed up.

No place in America is more prone to reinvention—and Las Vegas has new food, new art, new sports, new heat, and, yes, a new Sphere. We sent Brett Martin to take stock of the great American city of the future—and find out whether this Vegas is the best version yet.

Veneers were once a dirty secret. Now they’re the new luxury status symbol, and the famous and wealthy are flocking to Hollywood’s favorite dentist in search of ever more perfect teeth.

In Inglewood, Steve Ballmer has constructed a basketball Xanadu, giving his team a much-needed home of their own. Now Kawhi Leonard, James Harden, and Co. are ready to start filling the rafters with red-and-blue banners.