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Start-Ups Flock to WeWork, Cage, and Other Low-Commitment Spaces

When Melissa Pancoast moved her financial literacy startup, The Beans, to a WeWork office in San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower last May, most of the offices around her were rented but empty. As vaccine rates soared and San Francisco flirted with lifting pandemic restrictions, so did neighbors. Ms. Pancoast’s social calendar soon filled up with bike …

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‘The Unbearable Weight of Enormous Talent’ Review: Being Nicolas Cage

Those eyes, that hair, those cutters, and, uh, that purring, whining adenoidal sound that can change pitch and intensity in the middle of the sentence (middle word!) and often seems a bit stuffed. Knowing Nicolas Cage or whatever, watching him, loving him, and sometimes getting confused by him (which is okay). A joy and a …

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Review: ‘Ten Thousand Birds’ Turns Armory into a Cage

By now, Park Avenue Armory’s Recital Series concerts are a known quantity: art song and chamber music in ornate, intimate spaces. Whether the programming is classical or contemporary, the packaging is the same, with just a few surprises – like soprano Barbara Hannigan did. He translated Erik Satie’s music semi-staged monodrama. But it was not …

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