EditorialA billiard room, where children are allowed to play after completing their studies, at Hanoch LaNoar, a Beit midrash where Pinchas Badush is the rabbi, in Beit Shean, Israel, April 16, 2023. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times)
EditorialA billiard room, where children are allowed to play after completing their studies, at Hanoch LaNoar, a Beit midrash where Pinchas Badush is the rabbi, in Beit Shean, Israel, April 16, 2023. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times)
EditorialJosh Beard racks billiard balls at the Martin Luther King Adult Center in Philadelphia on April 13, 2021. (Caroline Gutman/The New York Times)
EditorialAt Weekender Billiard, a Bhutanese snooker hall in Woodside, Queens, players line up shots before decamping to tables for dishes like ema datse, green chiles simmered with cheese, on Feb. 18, 2017. (An Rong Xu/The New York Times)
EditorialA musician plays an electric guitar inside a spot along Sixth Street — which is reflected in the window — known for its eclectic mix of nightclubs, bars, tattoo shops and billiard parlors, in downtown Austin, March 11, 2020. (Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times)