It was March 2016, and more than 200 million people around the world were watching a battle 2,500 years in the making. At the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, Lee Sedol — one of the greatest players of Go, the ancient Chinese board game — sat across from AlphaGo, a computer program built by the … Read more
When it comes to capturing the spirit of Christmas in NYC, there are few grander ways to celebrate than by seeing Cirque du Soleil’s holiday show “’Twas the Night Before…” at Madison Square Garden. The seasonal spectacle, based on Clement-Clarke Moore’s classic poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” features 26 artists, plucked from a global … Read more
It’s been a year of Sphere. Twelve months in, the otherworldly Las Vegas orb and its vivid visuals have become a top tourist attraction in seen-it-all Sin City. Owner James Dolan is only too happy to have an audience. In fact, last Thursday — Independence Day — he added audio to an already mesmerizing, patriotic … Read more