“In Our Blood” By ERIK PIEPENBURG A new year brings thrillers galore, with evil emerging from a pandemic, a summer camp and a rideshare app. ‘No More Time’ Death, isolation and conspiracy theories are just three of the pandemic-era horrors that drive this eerie thriller, the debut feature from writer-director Dalila Droege. To escape city life, a couple (Jennifer Harlow and Mark Reeb) drive until they reach a mostly deserted mountain town, one of many such communities barely

A couple gets married live onstage as singer Bad Bunny performs during the Super Bowl LX halftime show at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. Antonio Reyes spent a week rehearsing his part of the show, when a real-life couple married. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By DERRICK BRYSON TAYLOR Bad Bunny’s 13-minute Super Bowl performance took viewers on a vivid journey through Puerto Rico — its colorful neighborhoods, bustling streets and proud cultur

By DERRICK BRYSON TAYLOR and MATT STEVENS Catherine O’Hara, the film and television actress best known for her roles in “Schitt’s Creek,” “Home Alone” and “Beetlejuice,” died of a pulmonary embolism with an underlying cause of rectal cancer, according to a death certificate that was released Monday. O’Hara died Jan. 30 at age 71 at Saint John’s Health Center, a hospital in Santa Monica, California. No other underlying causes of death were listed on the certificate, which said

Maria Antonia Cay, known as Toñita, who is well known among Puerto Ricans in New York City as the owner of the Caribbean Social Club, a popular gathering place in Brooklyn, at the club on July 20, 2023. Toñita was briefly the star of the halftime show at Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, Calif., as the guest of her friend Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio — the Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny. (José A. Alvarado Jr./The New York Times) By SANDRA E. GARCÍA There are not many places i

Bad Bunny performs during the Super Bowl LX halftime show at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (Loren Elliott/The New York Times) By JON PARELES, BEN SISARIO and LINDSAY ZOLADZ Would he be political? Would he stick to the hits? And would Lady Gaga — or Ricky Martin — make an appearance? In the end, Bad Bunny managed to hit all those notes at his halftime performance, walking out in an off-white football jersey labeled “OCASIO” (after his full nam

“One Battle After Another” By KYLE BUCHANAN After earning 14 Oscar nominations without a win, is Paul Thomas Anderson finally on the path to Oscar gold? It would seem so. On Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, the “One Battle After Another” filmmaker won the feature-film prize from the Directors Guild of America, a top honor that has proved to be a strong Oscar predictor: 18 of the previous 20 DGA winners went on to claim the Oscar for directing

Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra Music Director Maximiano Valdés ( ospr.pr.gov ) By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to The STAR Maximiano Valdés, outgoing music director of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (PRSO), isn’t stepping down from the podium! Not for another season, anyway. Just as his fans braced for the Chilean conductor’s final three concerts wielding the baton, Valdés’ contract as music director, which began in 2008, was renewed for an indefinite time.  The reason is simp

Colombian cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia (Instagram via tonebasecello) By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to The STAR The ninth concert (out of 14) of the current Puerto Rico Symphony (PRSO) season will be presented Saturday, and will feature young Colombian cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia playing “Tout un Monde Lointain” (A Whole Distant World) one of the “finest cello solos in the world repertoire,” PRSO Music Director Maximiano Valdés said. While conductors and cello prodigies re