Protoje in Paris, April 3, 2026. The musician’s latest album, “The Art of Acceptance,” features stars of reggae and fresh updates on nostalgic sounds. (Elliott Verdier/The New York Times) By PATRICIA MESCHINO Hope Gardens, a lush, pastoral oasis in Jamaica’s capital city, Kingston, was the setting for the third installment of the Lost in Time music festival — a fitting conclusion to February, observed as Reggae Month on the island. The dynamic up-and-comer Lila Iké performed,

“Roofman” By JASON BAILEY This month’s guide to the under-the-radar movies of your subscription services includes unconventional romantic comedies and vibrant indie dramas. ‘Roofman’ (2025) Stream it on Paramount+ There’s a tension at the heart of Derek Cianfrance’s latest movie, which finds the director of intense indies helming a high-concept romantic comedy like a ’70s crime drama. It’s so incongruent that it shouldn’t land, yet it somehow does. Cianfrance’s unconventional

Phil Collins performs “Up Close and Personal: Phil Collins Plays 60s Motown and Soul” in New York, June 23, 2010. Collins, who first entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 as a member of the British band Genesis, will now be honored for his solo work, which includes seven No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100. (Chad Batka/The New York Times) By DERRICK BRYSON TAYLOR When the British rock group Oasis began its reunion tour last summer, after more than a decade of feudin

“Revenge”  By BRANDON YU Payback is bloody, according to this month’s selections, which include Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy. ‘Revenge’ (2017) You can’t help squirming during the first stretch of Coralie Fargeat’s debut feature. Much of it is spent ogling the body of lollipop-sucking blondie Jen (Matilda Lutz) as she skitters around a desert getaway with her boyfriend, before things turn sour and she’s assaulted and left for dead. Even knowing that Fargeat is here to se

“Bad Girl” By DEVIKA GIRISH This month’s picks include a feminist coming-of-age tale from India, a documentary about grasshopper harvesting in Uganda, a queer fable from Brazil and more. ‘Bad Girl’ Not everyone will experience the same wondrous thrill of recognition I did when I watched Varsha Bharath’s audacious coming-of-age tale, but “Bad Girl” will certainly strike a chord or two with anyone who has rebelled against the dictates of society. For me, a South Indian woman wh

Conductor JoAnn Falletta in 2015 (Wikipedia/David Adam Beloff) By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to The STAR One of the world’s finest female orchestra conductors, JoAnn Falletta, is back in San Juan, bearing musical wealth galore from the North. And as this unique product of the Big Apple steps up to that Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (PRSO) podium Saturday night, she’ll bestow Yankee goodies with pride and love. Falletta and the ensemble’s 75 musicians will reunite over three of

The Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City houses major works by Frida Kahlo, most notably her iconic 1939 painting “The Two Fridas” (Las dos Fridas). ( smarthistory.org ) By VICTORIA BURNETT and ZACHARY SMALL A storied collection of 20th-century Mexican art that includes a trove of paintings by Frida Kahlo has drawn tens of thousands of visitors to Mexico City’s Museum of Modern Art in recent weeks. Record crowds have lined up to see some 70 pieces from the esteemed Gelman Coll

The lovers are played by Zendaya and Robert Pattinson. By MAHOHLA DARGIS “The Drama” is a clever, deeply unserious movie about male panic in the guise of an edgy romantic comedy. It’s bright and shiny and aggressively nasty, and centers on a couple who meet, fall in love, become engaged and experience a relationship crisis of outlandish proportions. Screen romances tend to be catnip, and that’s certainly true in this case because the lovers are played by Zendaya and Robert Pa

Teenagers visited the notorious Black Angus in Miramar as a rite of passage. Some would make jokes such as: “I saw your sister at Black Angus.” ( pinterest.com via 80s Jamaica) By EVA LLORENS Long before he became a communications adviser and a journalist, before he learned how to ask questions with the sharpness of a scalpel and the hesitation of someone who has lived more than he lets on, Juan José Díaz Díaz carried a chapter in his life that most people did not know about

By JASON BAILEY ‘A Little Prayer’ (2025) David Strathairn led the all-star cast of “Good Night and Good Luck” in 2005, got an Oscar nomination for his trouble, and then … kept right on being David Strathairn, making small movies with lesser-known directors (rather than cashing in as, say, a Marvel villain). He’s particularly good, in all of his specific ways, in this modest drama of a quietly messy family, from writer-director Angus Maclachlan. As the patriarch Bill Brass, St