The Met's first performance of 1991 opera by John Adams about the hijacking of a cruise ship and murder of wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer sparks fresh controversy.
The Met's first performance of 1991 opera by John Adams about the hijacking of a cruise ship and murder of wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer sparks fresh controversy.
When S.B. Morgaine learned the theme for next week's Stoop Storytelling Series show -- "strange-but-true happenings" -- she knew just the tale to tell.
Story time isn't always just for kids.
A painting of a confident-looking bulldog wearing a Baltimore Orioles baseball cap propped outside the artist Robert McClintock's studio bears a caption reading, "How 'bout dem O's, hon!"
Sixty-three years ago this week — at 9 p.m. Oct. 15, 1951 — TV viewers got their first look at a situation comedy on CBS that, in short order, would become part of the country's cultural DNA.
David Ives' "Venus in Fur," a play spiced with sadomasochistic desires, gets a sturdy workout from Columbia-based Rep Stage directed by Joseph W. Ritsch.
When a person stops paying his credit card bill, the lending bank has 180 days to collect on what is owed before it is required, by law, to "charge off" the account and file it as a loss. Soon afterward, the bank will sell the rights to collect on the debt to one of the 9,599 debt...
Of all the inventions of the 20th century, the birth control pill arguably had the most profound effect on the everyday lives of human beings. By making widely available a convenient and effective form of contraception, the pill gave women control over their reproductive lives and, in the...
The National Book Foundation announced the shortlists for the 2014 National Book Awards on Wednesday. There are five finalists each in four categories: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young adult literature. The complete list is below.
Richard Flanagan is the 2014 winner of the Man Booker Prize for his novel "The Narrow Road to the Deep North." The award, worth about $85,000, was announced Tuesday at a gala ceremony in London and broadcast by the BBC.
Three-quarters of the way through "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End," Atul Gawande pulls back his carefully stitched curtain of reporting and research to relate the story of his father's decline and eventual death. Atmaram Gawande was in his early 70s when a...