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?
Culture Desk
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Music, film, food, language, and the long argument a society has with itself about what is worth keeping. Veyra’s culture desk is less interested in what is new than in what is becoming permanent.
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Culture— Interview
Kwesi Anoff Builds Drums That Outlive Their Owners
An interview with a drum maker whose instruments are built to last a century — and who turns away most of the people who want to buy one.
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.
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Inés Marchetti
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Teodor Brandt
Photographs work, weather, and the places where both are visible.
Culture Editor
Marguerite Okonkwo
Edits the culture section and writes the monthly essay.
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Santiago Vela
Reads objects, interfaces, and public space as arguments.
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