Bad Bunny’s “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” was named album of the year and gathered four more awards at the 26th annual Latin Grammys. (Instagram via muchofficial) By JON PARELES Bad Bunny’s “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” was named album of the year and gathered four more awards at the 26th annual Latin Grammys, which were broadcast Thursday night on TelevisaUnivision from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. On “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” (“I Should Have Taken More Photos”) he sings about holding on to m

The 80-member Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Maximiano Valdés and featuring cuatro soloist Luis Sanz, above, will bring to Boston an evening of rhythms and warmth from home. (bso.org) By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to THE STAR Mega bucks superstar Bad Bunny isn’t the Caribbean island’s only musical treasure, and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (PRSO) is about to see that everybody knows it. Friday night in chilly Boston, in the prestigious Symphony Hall, th

By MANOHLA DARGIS You don’t expect a meet-cute in a “Predator” movie, but that’s just one of the surprises in this latest edition. Space is the place in “Predator: Badlands,” specifically a planet where an android researcher, Thia (a delightful Elle Fanning), meets Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), a Predator who’s on the hunt. He’s tall, has fearsome mandibles and a face to match. She’s bubbly, talkative and has been severed in two, leaving her upper half stuck in a nes

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2025 inductee Cyndi Lauper in New York, May 20, 2024. (Thea Traff/The New York Times) By BRIAN RAFTERY The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has long been known as boomer mecca, where musicians of the ’60s and ’70s are feted and lionized. But its 2025 induction ceremony made one thing clear: Now, it’s Gen X’s time. The concert-slash-coronation, which took place Saturday at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, honored several acts whose careers started

A mariachi band, Mariachi Sol de Acapulco, plays a tribute song to the Mexican singer and songwriter Juan Gabriel in front of his portrait at a restaurant, in Mexico City, Aug. 29, 2016. (Brett Gundlock/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL They had come on planes and buses, in pedicabs and on scooters. Some navigated the crowd in wheelchairs or pushed babies in strollers. They were there, in Mexico City’s central plaza, to see the singer known as the “Divo of Juárez,” or simp

Lady Gaga performs at Madison Square Garden in New York on Aug. 22, 2025. She is among the top nominees for the 68th annual Grammy Awards in February 2026. (The New York Times) By BEN SISARIO Rap will be front and center at the 68th annual Grammy Awards in February, with Kendrick Lamar; Bad Bunny; Doechii; and Tyler, the Creator among the top nominees. Lady Gaga, Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish and Chappell Roan are also in competition for the most prestigious awards, accord

By JASON BAILEY ‘Little Men’ (2016) Director Ira Sachs, whose new film “Peter Hujar’s Day” is getting raves on the festival circuit, is particularly adept at telling stories situated at the intersection of personal relationships and real estate concerns. It’s a peculiar specialty, but it describes both his lovely 2014 film “Love Is Strange” and this follow-up, which concerns two Brooklyn middle schoolers who find their close friendship threatened by a painfully protracted con

Jack DeJohnette onstage in New York on Feb. 28, 2014. The drummer and pianist, who died on Oct. 26 at 83, was a master of many styles and an ever-evolving innovator. (Tina Fineberg/The New York Times) By KEN MICALLEF Jack DeJohnette, an early member of Chicago’s experimental collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), developed an adaptable style that shaped his career as one of jazz’s great instrumentalists. Originally a pianist, DeJohnette,

Rosalía in New York, Sept. 10, 2025. The Spanish musician pushed herself to make “Lux,” a labor of love exploring the feminine divine and the brutalities of romance. (Chris Maggio/The New York Times) By JOE COSCARELLI and JON CARAMANICA There is no pivot too sharp for Rosalía, the pathbreaking Spanish pop star. She emerged a decade ago as a disruptive star student of flamenco, and has since become pop’s leading avant-gardist and one of its most convincing omnivores. Last Frid

Anthony Ramos as Maj. Daniel González in “A House of Dynamite,” the new nuclear war thriller from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow. (Eros Hoagland/Netflix) By ALISSA WILKINSON Certain premises make for perfect movies, so they keep being repeated. Boy meets girl. Rags to riches. And another that seems remarkably durable: nuclear holocaust has been triggered. We may or may not know why, and we may or may not be able to do anything about it. This is the setup of Kathryn Bi