Workman Publishing
This image provided by Workman Publishing shows the The Secret Life of Squirrels calendar. There are a variety of beautiful and creative calendars on tap to mark the months or weeks of 2022 with photos, artwork, quotes, cartoons, puzzles and more. (Workman Publishing via AP)
Why are many of us still drawn to paper calendars in this digital age?
Karen Hernandez, senior product manager at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has theories.
First, we can feel “more intimately tied to our plans, and get increased joy out of organizing our to-dos, when we can track them physically on analog calendars,” she says.
Also, “these calendars can express our style and bring beauty to otherwise monotonous days. Not only does the act of writing the event down stick in our minds more permanently, we’re also able to use the calendar for creative self-expression.”
There are a variety of beautiful and creative calendars on tap at bookstores and online sites to mark the months or weeks of 2022 with photos, artwork, quotes, cartoons, puzzles and more. Added bonus: You can frame your favorite images after each month is done.
A sampling of what’s new:
ARTSY AGENDAS
MoMa Design Store
This image provided by MoMA Design Store shows a city landscape calendar. A great-looking desk calendar offered at MoMA from Japanese studio Good Morning features 3D cityscapes of Tokyo, New York and Paris. Interlock the shapes on the provided display stand to showcase the 12 monthly calendars and the skylines. (MoMa Design Store via AP)
A great-looking desk calendar called “City,” at MoMA from Japanese studio Good Morning, features 3-D cityscapes of Tokyo, New York and Paris. Interlock the shapes on the provided display stand to showcase the 12 monthly calendars and the skylines.
Fans of artist Charley Harper’s modern depictions of birds and animals will want either the studio’s 12-by-13-inch or 6½-by-14-inch wall calendars, with some of Harper’s most striking works.
Lovers of all things vintage will be pleased with one of Paper Source’s Vintage Cats, Dogs, Birds, Travel, Maps, or Cocktails desk calendars, with frameable illustrations from the Cavallini & Co. paper goods archive.
POP CULTURE PLANNING
Workman Publishing
This image provided by Workman Publishing shows the New York Times mini crossword calendar. There are a variety of beautiful and creative calendars on tap to mark the months or weeks of 2022 with photos, artwork, quotes, cartoons, puzzles and more. (Workman Publishing via AP)
At Calendars.com and other retailers, find a “Descendants” calendar featuring characters in the TV series about the teen kids of Disney villains. There are also Batman, Wonder Woman and Frozen II calendars.
“Bridgerton” fans will want a wall calendar (Universe/Rizzoli) with all the steamy, dishy and dreamy characters in the Netflix series.
There are also calendars for “Outlander” (Sellers Publishing), and for “Mandalorian” fans, calendars with portraits of all the series actors in costume, or one that features just The Child, in photos and illustrated forms (Trends International Calendars).
There’s a calendar devoted to The New York Times’ Mini Crossword puzzle at Workman Publishing, which also has calendars themed around social media favorites like cute squirrels, pets, and unusual animal friends.
Workman Publishing
This image provided by Workman Publishing shows the Unlikely Friendships calendar. There are a variety of beautiful and creative calendars on tap to mark the months or weeks of 2022 with photos, artwork, quotes, cartoons, puzzles and more. (Workman Publishing via AP)
OUTDOORSY ORGANIZING
Another example of Good Morning’s lovely papercraft: their kit of pop-out bird calendars, featuring six birds, including a pelican, crested kingfisher and cardinal. Fold the easily assembled tabs and the birds stand up on their own.
At MoMA’s store, there’s a safari animal version as well, with a rhino, giraffe, gorilla, stag, bear and camel in pop-up form.
Armchair travelers might enjoy a calendar from National Geographic’s collection (Simon & Schuster). Photographs are themed around Islands, Castles & Houses, and National Parks.
The parks are also to be found in Cavallini & Co.’s beautifully drawn archival print calendar, at Paper Source. Or choose Arboretum, with detailed illustrations of trees.
Those who prefer a desktop blotter calendar might like Paper Source’s large, grid-format blotter with lots of writing room in each block. Each month’s page is bordered in a seasonal floral print.
SHOW-TIME SCHEDULES
The Playbill Store celebrates the return of Broadway with a 2022 calendar featuring some of the theater district’s favorite musicals, like “Chicago,” “Come From Away” and “Dear Evan Hansen.” “Hamilton” lovers might want the wall or day-to-day desk calendar with photos, lyrics and historical facts.
TIMETABLES FOR THINKERS
The “30 Second Mysteries” calendar (Simon & Schuster) would be a fun one for everybody who binges whodunits. A quick recap of each case, the mystery and clues from the worlds of history, science, celebrity and everyday life can be digested in half a minute – then the answer is on the back.
For history fans, the History Channel’s 2022 This Day in History will be a trove of interesting facts.
Bibliophiles and writers might like “The Curious Reader” calendar from the folks at online magazine Mental Floss, with anecdotes and fun facts about writers and literary works. What really happened on the day “The War of the Worlds” was broadcast nationwide? What did Hemingway say when he won the Nobel Prize for literature? The daily calendar is a trivia trove for readers.
Learn some new (old) words with “Forgotten English” (Sellers Publishing), a daily tear-off calendar of archaic and arcane words like “womblety-cropt,” which in the 1850s described a tipsy individual, along with historic reference and word usage. There are anecdotes on, among other things, the history of the dinner fork, medieval holiday hijinks and how Paris was redesigned.
DATEBOOKS FOR DOERS
Andrews McMeel Publishing
This image provided by Andrews McMeel Publishing shows the The complete runner's calendar. Amateur athletes would go for The Complete Runner's Day by Day calendar, that's a planner and log all in one. There are inspirational monthly essays, helpful tips, and lots of space to track your runs. (Andrews McMeel Publishing via AP)
“The Martha Manual” daily tear-off calendar features Martha Stewart’s organizing, cleaning, decorating and cooking tips, like how to soften butter, use leftover egg whites, or paint a wall.
“Life Hacks 2022” (Andrews McMeel) gives daily tips and tricks on dealing with everything from cooking to technology to personal care.
And amateur athletes would go for “The Complete Runner’s Day by Day Log 2022 Planner Calendar” (Simon & Schuster) a planner and log all in one. There are inspirational monthly essays, helpful tips and lots of space to track your runs.
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New this week to TV, streaming and more: Roddy Ricch, ‘Swan Song’ and ‘The Larkins’
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Britney was freed. Bennifer came back. So did Broadway, yay! And actually, the Beatles! As for Bond — James Bond — he said goodbye, at least the Daniel Craig version.
Harry and Meghan spoke to Oprah, and boy, we listened. We listened, too, to Taylor Swift, who sang about a failed affair and a still-missing scarf (ex-lovers: hang onto knitwear at your peril!)
It was a year for reunions: The cast of “Friends,” for example, and three of the “Sex and the City” foursome, in a reboot. And revivals: “West Side Story” made an Oscar-buzzy splash 60 years after the original. Even Tony Soprano came back, sort of, for a minute.
Live entertainment brought a wary joy — wary because at any time, it could stop. And nice guys won out — at least in TV comedy, where “Ted Lasso,” Jason Sudeikis’ show about an endearingly earnest American coach transplanted to cutthroat British football, swept the Emmys. The whole “Ted Lasso” cast was great, but if we’re seeking to capture the mood of the year, let’s maybe look to the goldfish.
Who?
You know, the goldfish. The happiest animal, Lasso likes to tell his players, because it only has a 10-second memory (though science may beg to differ). That’s good when you’re holding a grudge in sports, but also when you’re trying to get through a rollercoaster year like 2021, when we thought we were up and then we were down again. And again. And again.
So here’s to you, happy goldfish. And here’s our annual, highly subjective trip down pop culture memory lane:
AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File
Britney was freed. Bennifer came back. So did Broadway, yay! And actually, the Beatles! As for Bond — James Bond — he said goodbye, at least the Daniel Craig version.
Harry and Meghan spoke to Oprah, and boy, we listened. We listened, too, to Taylor Swift, who sang about a failed affair and a still-missing scarf (ex-lovers: hang onto knitwear at your peril!)
It was a year for reunions: The cast of “Friends,” for example, and three of the “Sex and the City” foursome, in a reboot. And revivals: “West Side Story” made an Oscar-buzzy splash 60 years after the original. Even Tony Soprano came back, sort of, for a minute.
Live entertainment brought a wary joy — wary because at any time, it could stop. And nice guys won out — at least in TV comedy, where “Ted Lasso,” Jason Sudeikis’ show about an endearingly earnest American coach transplanted to cutthroat British football, swept the Emmys. The whole “Ted Lasso” cast was great, but if we’re seeking to capture the mood of the year, let’s maybe look to the goldfish.
Who?
You know, the goldfish. The happiest animal, Lasso likes to tell his players, because it only has a 10-second memory (though science may beg to differ). That’s good when you’re holding a grudge in sports, but also when you’re trying to get through a rollercoaster year like 2021, when we thought we were up and then we were down again. And again. And again.
So here’s to you, happy goldfish. And here’s our annual, highly subjective trip down pop culture memory lane:
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New this week to TV, streaming and more: Roddy Ricch, ‘Swan Song’ and ‘The Larkins’
AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool, File
On Inauguration Day, a star is born, and we’re not talking about an elected official.
AMANDA GORMAN, 22, captivates a nation, reciting “The Hill We Climb” in her distinctive yellow coat and red hairband. Within hours, the eloquent national youth poet laureate has gained more than a million followers on Instagram (now close to 4 million); soon, she has million-print book orders, a modeling contract and a hosting gig at the Met Gala.
Runner-up inauguration star: BERNIE SANDERS’ MITTENS, inspiration for many a bobblehead.
AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool, File
On Inauguration Day, a star is born, and we’re not talking about an elected official.
AMANDA GORMAN, 22, captivates a nation, reciting “The Hill We Climb” in her distinctive yellow coat and red hairband. Within hours, the eloquent national youth poet laureate has gained more than a million followers on Instagram (now close to 4 million); soon, she has million-print book orders, a modeling contract and a hosting gig at the Met Gala.
Runner-up inauguration star: BERNIE SANDERS’ MITTENS, inspiration for many a bobblehead.
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New this week to TV, streaming and more: Roddy Ricch, ‘Swan Song’ and ‘The Larkins’
AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey
“Could this whole night have been an email?” co-host TINA FEY asks of the Golden Globes, an awkwardly virtual ceremony that still has its moving moments, including a heartbreaking speech by TAYLOR SIMONE LEDWARD, widow of posthumous winner CHADWICK BOSEMAN: “I don’t have his words.”
These Globes will be remembered, though, for revelations of the shocking lack of diversity in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
A judge upholds — for now — the conservatorship governing BRITNEY SPEARS, as a new documentary, “Framing Britney Spears," shines light on the troubling case.
AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey
“Could this whole night have been an email?” co-host TINA FEY asks of the Golden Globes, an awkwardly virtual ceremony that still has its moving moments, including a heartbreaking speech by TAYLOR SIMONE LEDWARD, widow of posthumous winner CHADWICK BOSEMAN: “I don’t have his words.”
These Globes will be remembered, though, for revelations of the shocking lack of diversity in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
A judge upholds — for now — the conservatorship governing BRITNEY SPEARS, as a new documentary, “Framing Britney Spears," shines light on the troubling case.
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New this week to TV, streaming and more: Roddy Ricch, ‘Swan Song’ and ‘The Larkins’
Joe Pugliese/Harpo Productions via AP, File
It’s a big night for women at the Grammys, where SWIFT becomes the first female performer to win album of the year three times, and BEYONCÉ gets her 28th win to become the most decorated woman in Grammy history.
But the biggest news this month is HARRY and MEGHAN's bombshell interview, in which Meghan speaks of a fairytale life that turned dark and made her suicidal, and alleges experiencing racism in the royal family.
Joe Pugliese/Harpo Productions via AP, File
It’s a big night for women at the Grammys, where SWIFT becomes the first female performer to win album of the year three times, and BEYONCÉ gets her 28th win to become the most decorated woman in Grammy history.
But the biggest news this month is HARRY and MEGHAN's bombshell interview, in which Meghan speaks of a fairytale life that turned dark and made her suicidal, and alleges experiencing racism in the royal family.
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New this week to TV, streaming and more: Roddy Ricch, ‘Swan Song’ and ‘The Larkins’
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, Pool
It was about time. CHLOÉ ZHAO takes the best director Oscar for her lyrical “Nomadland,” only the second woman in history (and the first woman of color). The in-person but stripped down Oscars bring back red-carpet glamour — that abrupt ending was super weird, though.
April is also Titanic anniversary month — worth noting because of BOWEN YANG’S hilarious impersonation, on “Saturday Night Live,” of the iceberg itself, who's moved past that sinking thing but is eager to promote his album.
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, Pool
It was about time. CHLOÉ ZHAO takes the best director Oscar for her lyrical “Nomadland,” only the second woman in history (and the first woman of color). The in-person but stripped down Oscars bring back red-carpet glamour — that abrupt ending was super weird, though.
April is also Titanic anniversary month — worth noting because of BOWEN YANG’S hilarious impersonation, on “Saturday Night Live,” of the iceberg itself, who's moved past that sinking thing but is eager to promote his album.
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New this week to TV, streaming and more: Roddy Ricch, ‘Swan Song’ and ‘The Larkins’
Terence Patrick/HBO Max via AP
Let’s devote this month to friends – meaning “Friends,” aka Joey and Phoebe and Chandler and Monica and Rachel and Ross, who hold their long-awaited reunio.n Among the revelations: A mutual, previously unknown crush between JENNIFER ANISTON and DAVID SCHWIMMER, and LADY GAGA'S fondness for Phoebe’s “Smelly Cat.” Also: the monkeys who played Marcel weren’t nice, and this is the last reunion (we’ll see about that).
Terence Patrick/HBO Max via AP
Let’s devote this month to friends – meaning “Friends,” aka Joey and Phoebe and Chandler and Monica and Rachel and Ross, who hold their long-awaited reunio.n Among the revelations: A mutual, previously unknown crush between JENNIFER ANISTON and DAVID SCHWIMMER, and LADY GAGA'S fondness for Phoebe’s “Smelly Cat.” Also: the monkeys who played Marcel weren’t nice, and this is the last reunion (we’ll see about that).
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New this week to TV, streaming and more: Roddy Ricch, ‘Swan Song’ and ‘The Larkins’
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File
One of Hollywood’s more compelling relationships i s apparently finished. KIM KARDASHIAN WEST details in “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” why she filed for divorce from KANYE WEST in February: “I don’t want a husband that lives in a completely different state,” she says, and “I want someone who wants to work out with me.”
SPEARS speaks, telling a judge that she wants her life back. “I’ve lied and told the whole world I’m OK,” she says. She was not.
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File
One of Hollywood’s more compelling relationships i s apparently finished. KIM KARDASHIAN WEST details in “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” why she filed for divorce from KANYE WEST in February: “I don’t want a husband that lives in a completely different state,” she says, and “I want someone who wants to work out with me.”
SPEARS speaks, telling a judge that she wants her life back. “I’ve lied and told the whole world I’m OK,” she says. She was not.
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New this week to TV, streaming and more: Roddy Ricch, ‘Swan Song’ and ‘The Larkins’
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File
Nice guys don’t always finish last — especially not in 2021, when audiences seem to crave something upbeat and folksy and guileless. The second season of “Ted Lasso" debuts this month, bringing a new set of challenges to the amiable coach and his underdog club, AFC Richmond. In two months, the show will sweep the comedy Emmys — we’re just telling you now, because our September entry will be packed! “Heck of a year,” Sudeikis will say, Lasso-like.
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File
Nice guys don’t always finish last — especially not in 2021, when audiences seem to crave something upbeat and folksy and guileless. The second season of “Ted Lasso" debuts this month, bringing a new set of challenges to the amiable coach and his underdog club, AFC Richmond. In two months, the show will sweep the comedy Emmys — we’re just telling you now, because our September entry will be packed! “Heck of a year,” Sudeikis will say, Lasso-like.
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New this week to TV, streaming and more: Roddy Ricch, ‘Swan Song’ and ‘The Larkins’
Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP
Who saw this coming? It’s BENNIFER! Almost 20 years after their very public romance, JENNIFER LOPEZ and BEN AFFLECK have found each other again, and they’re packing on the PDA, with paparazzi pics of kissing at dinner, on a yacht, on red carpets ... The Internet rejoices.
On a sad note, it’s the end of a rock ’n' roll era as ROLLING STONES drummer CHARLIE WATTS — the beat AND heartbeat of the band — dies at age 80, just before the Stones go back on tour.
Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP
Who saw this coming? It’s BENNIFER! Almost 20 years after their very public romance, JENNIFER LOPEZ and BEN AFFLECK have found each other again, and they’re packing on the PDA, with paparazzi pics of kissing at dinner, on a yacht, on red carpets ... The Internet rejoices.
On a sad note, it’s the end of a rock ’n' roll era as ROLLING STONES drummer CHARLIE WATTS — the beat AND heartbeat of the band — dies at age 80, just before the Stones go back on tour.
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New this week to TV, streaming and more: Roddy Ricch, ‘Swan Song’ and ‘The Larkins’
Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
“There’s no place like home!” That’s the original Glinda, KRISTIN CHENOWETH, welcoming Broadway audiences back to “Wicked.” Enthusiastic post-pandemic theatergoers — masked and vaccinated — also flock to hits like “Waitress,” “Hadestown,” “The Lion King” and “Hamilton.”
The Met Gala is back, with mandatory PCR tests and a decidedly young vibe led by hosts TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET (in sweats and high-tops), BILLIE EILISH, GORMAN, and tennis star NAOMI OSAKA.
At the Emmys, it’s Lasso time, and also time to hail comedy heroine JEAN SMART, who takes a trophy and basks in her “JEANaissance.”
New on TV: the South Korean survival drama “Squid Game," making an audacious entrance. In the courtroom, music star R. KELLY is convicted of sex trafficking — a milestone in the #MeToo movement, especially for Black victims of sexual abuse.
Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
“There’s no place like home!” That’s the original Glinda, KRISTIN CHENOWETH, welcoming Broadway audiences back to “Wicked.” Enthusiastic post-pandemic theatergoers — masked and vaccinated — also flock to hits like “Waitress,” “Hadestown,” “The Lion King” and “Hamilton.”
The Met Gala is back, with mandatory PCR tests and a decidedly young vibe led by hosts TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET (in sweats and high-tops), BILLIE EILISH, GORMAN, and tennis star NAOMI OSAKA.
At the Emmys, it’s Lasso time, and also time to hail comedy heroine JEAN SMART, who takes a trophy and basks in her “JEANaissance.”
New on TV: the South Korean survival drama “Squid Game," making an audacious entrance. In the courtroom, music star R. KELLY is convicted of sex trafficking — a milestone in the #MeToo movement, especially for Black victims of sexual abuse.
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New this week to TV, streaming and more: Roddy Ricch, ‘Swan Song’ and ‘The Larkins’
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File
In an almost too-good-to-be-true, life-meets-art moment, CAPTAIN KIRK himself boldly blasts off into space. An overwhelmed WILLIAM SHATNER, at 90 the oldest space traveler, describes the atmosphere keeping mankind alive as “thinner than your skin.”
DANIEL CRAIG makes his final Bond outing in “No Time to Die.”
And while TONY SOPRANO may be dead or not, depending on how you viewed that diner scene in the finale, he’s back as a teenager in the prequel “Many Saints of Newark,” played by none other than MICHAEL GANDOLFINI, James's son. The film, though, doesn't thrive at the box office — unlike Sony Pictures’ Marvel sequel “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” which enjoys a huge opening.
Real-life tragedy strikes a movie set as a gunshot fired by actor ALEC BALDWIN accidentally kills cinematographer HALYNA HUTCHINS, horrifying an industry and spurring calls for all guns to be banned on sets.
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File
In an almost too-good-to-be-true, life-meets-art moment, CAPTAIN KIRK himself boldly blasts off into space. An overwhelmed WILLIAM SHATNER, at 90 the oldest space traveler, describes the atmosphere keeping mankind alive as “thinner than your skin.”
DANIEL CRAIG makes his final Bond outing in “No Time to Die.”
And while TONY SOPRANO may be dead or not, depending on how you viewed that diner scene in the finale, he’s back as a teenager in the prequel “Many Saints of Newark,” played by none other than MICHAEL GANDOLFINI, James's son. The film, though, doesn't thrive at the box office — unlike Sony Pictures’ Marvel sequel “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” which enjoys a huge opening.
Real-life tragedy strikes a movie set as a gunshot fired by actor ALEC BALDWIN accidentally kills cinematographer HALYNA HUTCHINS, horrifying an industry and spurring calls for all guns to be banned on sets.
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New this week to TV, streaming and more: Roddy Ricch, ‘Swan Song’ and ‘The Larkins’
Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File
It's not quite a BEATLES reunion, but the PETER JACKSON doc “Get Back” gives hungry fans eight hours of yet-unseen footage.
And it’s BRITNEY’s time: a judge finally terminates the conservatorship that controlled the pop singer’s life for nearly 14 years. “Best day ever,” she says.
SWIFT releases a 10-minute rendition of the blistering single “All Too Well.”
A saddened Broadway community says goodbye to STEPHEN SONDHEIM, beloved titan of musical theater.
Unimaginable tragedy strikes the music world: At a chaotic TRAVIS SCOTT concert, eight people (and later, two more, including a 9-year-old boy ) are killed as a crowd surges forward to the stage.
Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File
It's not quite a BEATLES reunion, but the PETER JACKSON doc “Get Back” gives hungry fans eight hours of yet-unseen footage.
And it’s BRITNEY’s time: a judge finally terminates the conservatorship that controlled the pop singer’s life for nearly 14 years. “Best day ever,” she says.
SWIFT releases a 10-minute rendition of the blistering single “All Too Well.”
A saddened Broadway community says goodbye to STEPHEN SONDHEIM, beloved titan of musical theater.
Unimaginable tragedy strikes the music world: At a chaotic TRAVIS SCOTT concert, eight people (and later, two more, including a 9-year-old boy ) are killed as a crowd surges forward to the stage.
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New this week to TV, streaming and more: Roddy Ricch, ‘Swan Song’ and ‘The Larkins’
Niko Tavernise/20th Century Studios via AP
More reunions and returns. SPIDER-MAN is back, as is 50-something CARRIE BRADSHAW (and buddies MIRANDA and CHARLOTTE but not SAMANTHA).
Nostalgia peaks with the exciting new “West Side Story” directed by STEVEN SPIELBERG, with screenplay by TONY KUSHNER and vivid choreography by JUSTIN PECK.
With more troubling pandemic news on the horizon, we can all do with a stirring distraction like this one — as we keep waiting, to paraphrase the Fab Four, to get back, get back, get back to where we once belonged.
Niko Tavernise/20th Century Studios via AP
More reunions and returns. SPIDER-MAN is back, as is 50-something CARRIE BRADSHAW (and buddies MIRANDA and CHARLOTTE but not SAMANTHA).
Nostalgia peaks with the exciting new “West Side Story” directed by STEVEN SPIELBERG, with screenplay by TONY KUSHNER and vivid choreography by JUSTIN PECK.
With more troubling pandemic news on the horizon, we can all do with a stirring distraction like this one — as we keep waiting, to paraphrase the Fab Four, to get back, get back, get back to where we once belonged.
