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☆ The Battle Over Zaza Waza: A Lifelong Liberal Joins New York’s Weed War
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Nicholas Fandos | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The informal walking tour came to a pause on Amsterdam Avenue, outside a brick building where a beloved Upper West Side pizzeria had recently been replaced by yet another rogue weed shop. 23 — an entry on an oversize spreadsheet tracking the explosion of unlicensed cannabis stores in her district since New York legalized the drug in 2021. “These guys are currently out of compliance with absolutely everything,” he muttered before moving on to the next shop. At last count, there were 56 unlicensed shops within about 200 square blocks, twice as many as a year ago. Brewer, a 72-year-old former Manhattan borough president, came to be a leading combatant in New York’s madcap battle against illegal weed, you need to know about just one: Zaza Waza.

Persons: Gale Brewer, Sam Goldsmith, Brewer, Zaza Organizations: West Locations: Amsterdam, New York, Manhattan

☆ Review: With Jeremy Strong, ‘An Enemy of the People’ Is Still Making Trouble
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-18 | by ( Jesse Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Dissent is necessary to democracy, sure. That’s the fundamental question posed by Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” — and, in highly dramatic fashion, by the preview I attended of its latest Broadway revival. Surely not the Ibsen, which aligns closely with their views and is a distant source of them. (The play was first performed, as “En Folkefiende,” in 1883.) Nor does it make sense that they would object to Sam Gold’s crackling and persuasive production, which drove those views home despite having to regroup once the protesters were ejected.

Persons: Henrik Ibsen’s “, ” —, Jeremy Strong, Ibsen, Sam Gold’s crackling, ”, Amy Herzog, Strong, Thomas Stockmann Locations: —, ”

☆ Jeremy Strong Isn’t Sure He Knows Who He Is
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

Mamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times Talk Jeremy Strong Isn’t Sure He Knows Who He IsFor years, Jeremy Strong was a relatively anonymous, steadily gigging actor. Jeremy Strong and Brian Cox in “Succession.” Craig Blankenhorn/HBOYou know, the quote that comes to mind for me is “Ass, gas or grass. I don’t think I’m someone who particularly has a drum to bang. Don’t know. I don’t know that that show can be put into any box, but it had an incredible amount of humor in it.

Persons: Mamadi Doumbouya, Jeremy Strong, ”, ” “ Selma ”, Roy, Strong, Kendall Roy, Ibsen’s, —, “, Forrest Gump, Jeremy, Brian Cox, ” Craig Blankenhorn, Rafe Spall, Hamish Linklater, Steve Carell, Jeffry Griffin, Ryan Gosling, Jaap Buitendijk, I’ll, Ibsen, Robert Ferguson, Ted Hughes, I’ve, you’re, You’ve, Arthur Miller, It’s, Miller, Keats, Michael Imperioli, ” Emilio Madrid Really, I’m, David, Peter Sellers, he’s, Sam Gold, Coward, Barry Lyndon ” Organizations: The New York Times, HBO, Yorker, Paramount, Everett, The, New York Times Locations: “, Denmark

☆ How Jewish People Built the American Theater
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Jesse Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +46 min

Let Us Tell You A Story How Jewish people built the American theater as we know it. The theater, which for many Jews was a major way of becoming American in the first place, seems unable to acknowledge that the danger that American Jews face is not just historical, and not just onstage. (Both of Adler’s parents were Yiddish theater stars — her father, Jacob Adler, was a renowned Shylock in 1903.) Embedding their own observation and experience within Stanislavsky’s, along with the best of Yiddish theater and a generous dollop of Freud, they converted the American theater to Judaism. Sara Krulwich/The New York TimesThe Jewish contribution to the creation of the American theater was built on the acknowledgment of a larger humanity alive within each of us, available to some, with natural empathy and rigorous training.

Persons: Glocca, “, Lerner, Loewe, ”, Isidore Hochberg, Burton Lane, né Burton Levy, William Goldman, “ Killybegs, Sammy Davis Jr, Julie Andrews, Connie Francis, Rosemary Clooney, Tommy Dorsey, Davis, —, Arthur Miller’s “, joyously, Jason Schmidt, Christine Jones, Miller, I’ve, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Brustein, Neil Simon’s, ” Cynthia Ozick, Sholom, Philip Roth, Simon, Leonard Bernstein, Matt Nadel, Bradley, Bernstein, “ Maestro, Shylock, William Shakespeare’s “, Venice ”, Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe’s, Farah Karim, Cooper, Bard ”, “ Merchant, Tom Stoppard’s, Sara Krulwich, Ansky’s, Stella Adler, Bessie Berger, Clifford Odets’s, Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan, Francis Joseph Bruguière, Billy Rose, Eugene Smith, Roth, Arthur Schnitzler, Juliet Stevenson, Ruth Wolff, Lorraine Hansberry’s, Sidney’s, Alex Edelman’s “, Leo Frank, Bernard B, Frank, Mandy Patinkin, James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim’s, George, Martha Swope, outspokenness, creatives, Oscar Isaac, Sidney, “ Sidney Brustein, Isaac, Stevenson, Robert Icke, Roman Catholic Cooper, Rachel Brosnahan, Maisel, Joan Rivers —, Brosnahan, Sidney Brustein’s, Alec Guinness, Fagin, “ Oliver Twist, I’m, Micaela Diamond, Ben Platt, Lucille, Alfred Uhry, Jason Robert Brown’s, Rivers, Wolff, Robert, Republic ”, isn’t, LEE Strasberg, Konstantin Stanislavsky’s, Fyodor Ivanovich, Strasberg, Israel Strassberg, Zalmon, Srulke, Joseph Stein, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock’s “, Bette Midler, Jackie Hoffman, Photofest Stanislavsky, Theater’s, Isaac Butler, Stanislavsky, Harold Clurman, George Bernard Shaw, Henrik Ibsen, Clurman, Adler, Jacob Adler, Freud, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Ruthie Rivkin, Jerome Weidman, Harold Rome’s “, John Weidman, disown Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, Bobby Lewis, né, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Meisner, Robert Duvall, Lewis, Meryl Streep, Clifford Odets, Jacob Garfinkle, Jules Garfield, Odets, Sam Feinschreiber, Garfield, Ralph Berger, wasn’t, John, Tovah Feldshuh, Golda Meir, William Gibson’s, Aaron Epstein, exigencies, Bessie, Feinschreiber —, loveless, William Fox, Louis B, Mayer, Jack Warner, Marjorie Morningstar ”, Morgenstern, Marjorie, Natalie Wood, Anne Frank ”, Millie Perkins, Audrey Hepburn, Susan Strasberg —, Ibsen, Sholom Aleichem, August Wilson, Daveed Diggs, Thomas Jefferson, Lin, Manuel Miranda’s “ Hamilton ”, Adrian Lester, Emanuel Lehman —, Barbra Streisand, Marmelstein, George Silk, Miller’s, Sophie Okonedo, Elizabeth Proctor, Ben Whishaw, John Proctor, Jan Versweyveld, Don’t, — Bernstein, Stoppard, Schnitzler, Jeanine Tesori, Tony Kushner’s “ Caroline, Sharon D Clarke, Adam Makké, Noah Gellman, Leo, Stoppard —, Hermine, ” Leo Frank, there’s, Matthew Broderick, Eugene Jerome, it’s, Edelman’s, Queens bigots, David Yosef Shimon ben Elazar Reuven Alexander Halevi Edelman, Woody Allen, Joshua Harmon’s, — George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Porgy, Bess ”, Barns, Alex Edelman, Paula Vogel, Harvey Fierstein, Jordan Taylor Fuller, — that’s, Wendell Pierce, Friedman, Jacobs, Hirschfeld, Gershwin, Rodgers, PAULA VOGEL, BRANDON URANOWITZ, DAVID CROMER, MICAELA DIAMOND, TONY KUSHNER, Diamond, Monica Rich Kosann, Marco Bicego, JESSE EISENBERG, MATTHEW BRODERICK, AMY HERZOG, LESLIE RODRIGUEZ KRITZER, JOEL GREY, Herzog, Michael Kors, Kritzer, Marco, HARVEY FIERSTEIN, LIEV SCHREIBER, ETHAN SLATER, IDINA MENZEL, TINA LANDAU Organizations: Broadway, Broadway’s Lyceum, “, of Venice, New York Times, Defamation League, New York Public Library, Performing, Vandamm, Billy, Billy Rose Theatre Division, Performing Arts, New, Jacobs, Empire State, Nazi, Goyim Defense, The New York Public Library, Roman Catholic, New York City, Street, Moscow Art, Group, Hollywood, Disney, Everett, The New York Times, Philadelphia, Brit, Times Locations: Poland, American, kilts, E.Y, Harburg, Kilkerry, Kildare, Philadelphia, New York, Polish, Massachusetts, Vichy, Biloxi, Venice, Malta, of, ”, Germany, playgoers, Sweden, England, United States, Pittsburgh, Nazi, Brustein’s, Greenwich, Georgia, Gutenberg, “, Atlanta, Republic, New, Konstantin Stanislavsky’s Moscow, Russian, America, Moscow, Stanislavsky’s, Clurman, Eastern Europe, Czech, Austrian, Auschwitz, Heini, Southern, Brighton, Rivers, French Republic, “ Brigadoon

☆ Investors See Interest-Rate Cuts Coming Soon, Recession or Not
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Federal Reserve is less likely to cut rates the better the economy performs, some experts say. Photo: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg NewsWall Street is gearing up for rate cuts. Twenty months after the Federal Reserve began a historic campaign against inflation, investors now believe there is a much greater chance that the central bank will cut rates in just four months than raise them again in the foreseeable future.

Persons: Graeme Sloan Organizations: Federal, Bloomberg, Federal Reserve

☆ Stocks Extend Rally, Boosted by AI Optimism
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A jump by Microsoft’s shares helped drive major stock indexes higher. Photo: justin lane/ShutterstockInvestor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence took center stage again Monday, after Microsoft announced it was hiring freshly ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to lead its new advanced AI research team. The news spurred a rally in Microsoft shares, helping power stock indexes higher. The S&P 500 climbed 0.7%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite advanced 1.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.6%, or around 204 points.

Persons: justin, Sam Altman Organizations: Microsoft, Nasdaq, Dow Jones

☆ Wall Street Loves Washington’s New Debt Approach—for Now
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Andrew Duehren | Sam Goldfarb | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Janet Yellen says predictability is the foundation of the Treasury Department’s borrowing strategy. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesSwelling deficits and weak investor appetite for long-term U.S. debt are pushing the Treasury Department to get more creative with how it borrows. The Treasury has long embraced the mantra of “regular and predictable” debt sales to avoid creating market volatility as it finances the U.S. deficit. Recently, though, high interest rates have driven investors to eschew longer-term Treasurys. The government has had to adapt, cutting back this month on expected increases in long-term bonds and favoring more short-term debt.

Persons: Janet Yellen, Drew Angerer Organizations: Treasury, Treasury Department

☆ Boeing Shares Lift Dow Industrials, With Inflation Data Looming
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Boeing’s stock rose 4% after the company received an order for 95 aircraft. Photo: Lindsey Wasson/REUTERSA large order for jets helped boost Boeing shares Monday in an otherwise quiet day for U.S. markets ahead of key inflation data. Given a lift by Boeing, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.2%, or roughly 55 points. The S&P 500 slipped 0.1%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 0.2%.

Persons: Lindsey Wasson Organizations: REUTERS, Boeing, Dow Jones, Nasdaq

☆ Markets Got an Unexpected Boost From Washington. Will It Mark a Turning Point?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Treasury Department handed investors a happy surprise last week. Now the question is how far they can run with it. Stocks and bonds both staged rallies last week, getting a boost when the Treasury increased the size of longer-term debt auctions by a smaller amount than many had expected.

Organizations: Treasury Department, Treasury

☆ Stocks Bounce Back Ahead of Packed Week of Economic News
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones Organizations: dow

☆ Decoding the (Almost) 5% 10-Year Treasury Yield
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note touched 5% for the first time in 16 years last week, spurring debate about whether it has peaked or just taken another step in its long and disruptive climb. Treasury yields play a critical role in determining borrowing costs across the economy. Their nearly two-year surge has driven 30-year mortgage rates close to 8%, weighed on stocks and stirred anxieties that the surprisingly resilient economy could finally fall into a recession.

Organizations: Treasury

☆ Bond Rout Drives 10-Year Treasury Yield to 5%
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | Peter Santilli | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A deepening selloff in the U.S. bond market drove the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note to 5% for the first time in 16 years, extending a rout that has rattled stocks, lifted mortgage rates and fueled persistent fears of an economic slowdown. A critical driver of U.S. borrowing costs, the 10-year yield rose to within a few thousandths of a percentage point of 5% last week following an unexpectedly strong retail-sales report and comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that reinforced investor bets on stubbornly high short-term interest rates.

Persons: Jerome Powell Organizations: Treasury, Federal Locations: U.S

☆ Wall Street’s Latest Obsession Is an Unknowable Number
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones

☆ Stocks Rise, Bond Prices Decline to Start Week
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: Dow Jones Organizations: dow

☆ Bonds Track Toward Another Year of Dismal Returns
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Stocks Slump Further, With Amazon Lawsuit Adding to Recent Pressure
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: Dow Jones Organizations: dow

☆ Why Are Tech Stocks Down? Bond Yields Are Up
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | Eric Wallerstein | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The Market-Beating Investment That’s Defying Wall Street Skeptics
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones

☆ Stocks Tick Up in Quiet Session Ahead of Fed Decision
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: Dow Jones Organizations: dow

☆ Stocks Climb Despite Rise in Treasury Yields
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: Dow Jones Organizations: dow

☆ Bond Yield Hits Highest Since 2008, Adding Pressure to Borrowing Costs
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Tech Shares Rise, Lifting Nasdaq, as Bond Yields Seesaw
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones Organizations: dow

☆ What Wall Street’s Top Recession Gauge Is Saying Now
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | Peter Santilli | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Investors Bet That High Rates Will Linger
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | Matt Grossman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The Benefit of Owning Stocks Over Bonds Keeps Shrinking
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Sam Goldfarb | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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