The New York Times - USA (2020-07-26)

2 AR THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, JULY 26, 2020

JOE COSCARELLIis a reporter for

the Culture desk and the host of

the Times video series “Diary of a

Song.” He swears by gummy

candy, portrayals of youthful angst

and the requisite trashiness that

comes with being raised in Florida.

@SAMYOUKILIS

INSTAGRAM

The recent photos and videos by Sam

Youkilis, a young photographer, zoom in

on uncanny moments from this mask-on

summer of social unrest, telling stories

about class and power through sly visual

gags and sharp details that are eye-catch-

ing enough to slow your endless Insta-

gram scroll.

BOTTOM OF THE MAP

PODCAST

A recent casualty of the Covid-19 economy,

this show from the hip-hop academic and

writer Dr. Regina N. Bradley and the

music journalist Christina Lee has a back

catalog that takes a social, political and

ground-level view of Southern rap. The

playlist is just a bonus.

CHERRY

BOOK

Nico Walker, an Iraq War veteran with

post-traumatic stress disorder, wrote

“Cherry” while in prison for robbing banks

to feed his drug habit. It’s the first novel I

read this year that swallowed me whole.

THE SHOW ABOUT THE SHOW

TELEVISION

The filmmaker Caveh Zahedi’s bite-size

documentary series for BRIC TV, a non-

profit Brooklyn channel, starts out as a

meta-commentary on reality television,

with each episode describing the making

of the previous one, but crumbles into

something far more arresting in its com-

mitment to personal chaos.

JULIO TORRES

COMEDY

The stand-up by this former “S.N.L.” writ-

er and star of HBO’s “Los Espookys” is a

gay millennial immigrant update of the

Mitch Hedberg model, with deadpan,

one-liner-style jokes — equally economical

and absurd. A Comedy Central special

now on YouTube touched on “Sex and the

City,” Melania Trump and Daisy Duck.

THE QUEUE

An image on @samyoukilis.

SAM YOUKILIS

JAMES NIEVES/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Julio Torres

COMEDY CENTRAL

Inside Culture

THIS WEEK FROM THE ARTS DESK

An article on July 12 about the new Starz

drama “P-Valley” described incorrectly the

extent to which the actress Brandee Evans

performed her character’s moves in the show’s

dance sequences. She did many of them, not

all; body doubles performed many as well.

CORRECTION

Handball has existed for centuries; Homer even described it in “The Odyssey.” But it was Irish

immigrants who brought the game to New York City in the 19th century. Jessie Wender, a photo editor,

combed through the archives of The New York Times for this selection. Top, in 1985, a handball game

against a mural by the street artists KAOS and Mace on West 48th Street. Above, in 1904, a game at

Columbia University’s Teachers College.

FROM THE ARCHIVES

FRED R. CONRAD/THE NEW YORK TIMES; MURAL: DAVID GERENA AKA KAOS AND MACE

BYRON COMPANY, VIA MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IN OUR PHOTO ARCHIVE?Ideas can be sent to [email protected] with the subject line “Photo Archive.”