Sarah Bahr

By At first, spending two weeks every spring on the French Riviera, basking in the sun and hobnobbing with celebrities at the Cannes Film Festival sounds like a vacation.

Aiming to experience trips like readers do, New York Times travel reporters avoid junkets and keep a low profile on their journeys.

NEW YORK -- "The Book of Mormon," one of Broadway's biggest hits, resumed performances on Wednesday night after a three-week shutdown prompted by a damaging three-alarm electrical fire at the theater where the musical comedy has been running for 15 years.

New York • “The Book of Mormon,” one of Broadway's biggest hits, resumed performances on Wednesday night after a three-week shutdown prompted by a

Tejal Rao and Ligaya Mishan, who were appointed last June, discuss some of their culinary highlights, including barbecue in Texas and Bangladeshi food in New Jersey.

Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, who founded the event, and Rebecca Glashow, the new leader of Tribeca Enterprises, reflected on the festival’s legacy and ambitions.

A crowd that included Daniel Radcliffe, Cole Escola and Carrie Coon celebrated with whiskey ice cream at Rockefeller Center and show tunes at the Carlyle hotel.

She hates when the mugs on offer at a hotel are “teeny-weeny.” “So I just bring my own massive one,” she said.

Members of a new team of Times reporters and editors are covering culture, economics and more in a state long known for its political clout.

For many people, Texas brings to mind politics and barbecue.