Culture— Feature
The Last Dubbing Studio on Rua Fria
A two-room studio above a hardware shop in Lisbon dubbed four decades of children’s television into Portuguese. What happens to a language when the work of translating it stops being a career?
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Marguerite Okonkwo
Marguerite Okonkwo commissions and edits Veyra’s culture coverage, and writes a monthly essay on inheritance — of recipes, of grudges, of neighborhoods. Okonkwo spent seven years as a book critic before deciding that criticism was more useful when it left the desk, a conviction that now sends the section’s writers to rehearsal rooms, test kitchens, and municipal archives.
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Culture— Essay
What the Wedding Band Knows
Eighty weddings a year, four hours each, and no two crowds alike. What a working covers band understands about an audience that no recommendation system has managed to learn.