Baxter Black, the country’s best-known cowboy poet, whose witty, big-hearted verse about cowpokes, feed lots and wide-open vistas elevated the tradition of Western doggerel...
Nicholas Angelich, an American-born pianist best known for his soulful interpretations of the Germanic repertory, which he performed with elegant virtuosity and expressive intimacy,...
There’s an old joke among animation lovers that the difference between Pixar and DreamWorks is a matter of conceptual vision: While Pixar movies tend...
What’s in Our Queue? ‘HeidiWorld’ and More Amanda Hess�� In Brooklyn, looking for something new Museum: Brooklyn Children’s Museum Having a toddler is a...
“I found even the most elementary rudiments of piano technique very difficult,” he confessed to The Monitor, “because this needed great self-discipline, and as...
Speaking of specters, the second half of this work evokes the spirit of Kaplan’s famous “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History” (1993), which covered...
A new musical adaptation of “Some Like It Hot,” a classic cross-dressing comedy that is being recalibrated for contemporary audiences, will start performances in...
There’s a wistful air wafting through Samantha Jayne Allen’s debut, PAY DIRT ROAD (Minotaur, 298 pp., $27.99), which introduces the private investigator Annie McIntyre....