ARTS HEADLINES
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Why we’re still in a relationship with some classic sitcoms
“Friends,” “The Office,” and “Seinfeld” still regularly sit near the top of the streaming services’ most-watched lists.
TELEVISION
Conan ends his late-night show on TBS
He’ll be back in a different vehicle on HBO Max before too long.
MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS
This week’s TV: Talking animals, Charles Schulz’s legacy, and Conan says goodbye . . . again
Globe critic Matthew Gilbert navigates the week in TV.
TY BURR | MOVIES
From fan favorites to deep cuts, films with Dad make for lasting memories
Going to the movies with dad is a lasting memory for many people, providing a window into the world and a window into a man. And there is definitely a Dad Movie Hall of Fame.
15 months later, Radio City reopens with Dave Chappelle
Fifteen months after shuttering for the pandemic, New York’s Radio City Music Hall reopened its doors Saturday for the Tribeca Festival premiere of a new Dave Chappelle documentary for a full-capacity, fully-vaccinated audience.
Taylor Swift surprises fans by announcing that ‘Red’ will be her next re-recorded album
The album, expanded from the original to include 30 songs, is set for release on Nov. 19.
MUSIC
Mark Volpe looks back at 23 years of running the BSO
The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s longtime president and CEO is set to retire Sunday.
Dorchester Art Project’s spin on Tiny Desk amplifies big voices
DAP launched its series of mini concerts this week with DJ WhySham.
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COMFORT ZONE
Meet the 15-year-old who just won ‘the Olympics of the Violin’
Keila Wakao, of Chestnut Hill, took top honors at the prestigious Menuhin Competition.
TELEVISION
Old series’ staying power can be seen on streaming services
A lot of subscribers are invested more in a streamer’s library holdings than in its original series.
The Big To-Do: The Bulger brothers up close, Kevin Hart gets dramatic, plus more great lobster rolls
The Globe’s picks for staying entertained any day of the week, at home and away.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra is back just the way you left it — for better and worse
While the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra appear to be gunning for status as the East Coast’s answer to the forward-looking Los Angeles Philharmonic, the BSO seems content to throw its arms around the past and pay a few requisite courtesies to the future.
BOOK REVIEW
Local histories, rewritten
The guide to Massachusetts produced by the New Deal’s Federal Writers Project is full of forgotten facts. Now Scott Borchert has written a guide of his own. “Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America” is as inviting, compelling, comprehensive, and endearingly quirky as the volumes it celebrates and explains.
BIBLIOPHILES
Poet Michael Robbins on reading while walking
Robbins suddenly became a name in the literary world in 2009 when The New Yorker’s then poetry editor Paul Muldoon plucked his “Alien vs. Predator” from the magazine’s voluminous slush pile and published it. Since then Robbins has written three collections, including the just published “Walkman,” the title poem of which was chosen for Best American Poetry in 2018.
BOOK REVIEW
Writerly delusions in ‘Dream Girl’
Positively humming with the vibrancy of a slew of crime-fiction authors during a high-energy drinking session, Laura Lippman’s novel shimmers with suspense, surprises, wry humor, and an ever-present stream of appreciations for the pleasures, frustrations, and oddities inherent in the life of a writer.
BOOK REVIEW
A family saga with Alzheimer’s at its center in ‘Morningside Heights’
Joshua Henkin is an emotionally generous, deft, witty, and deeply intelligent writer, and his new novel displays these qualities in spades. The story begins in the 1970s, when Pru Steiner leaves the Midwest to attend Yale and then Columbia’s English Literature Ph.D. program.
