The Misread City

LAST night's Academy Awards confirmed expectations that movies pining for the art of the past (the French past, in some cases) would wal...

IT seems like everyone who saw Justin Faulkner's performance with Branford Marsalis out here has told me personally that we have to look...

What's this celebrated screen actor doing on television? Dustin Hoffman isn't quite sure either. But he sat down to speak with me re...

THIS week I have a brief piece on SecondAct, the site devoted to people 40 and over. (A demographic I joined four years ago today, and am h...

THIS week my Influences column looks at opera soprano Ana Maria Martinez , who started out as a West Side Story loving kid in Puerto Rico a...

CRAZY ideas come and go; most don't see the light of day. When millions of dollars are required, it's even harder for unorthodox not...

THINGS seemed to be going so well: The architect was a figure tailor-made for the heyday of bourgeois bohemia, and Frank Gehry was palling a...