The Misread City

EVER wondered what it would sound like if the British writer J.G. Ballard fronted an L.A. punk band? I hadn't either, frankly, but the q...

COMING from BBC America this summer is a new series called Copper , created by Tom Fontana ( Oz , Homicide , Borgia ) and set in 1860s New Y...

SOMETIMES, in this business, you have to do things you don't want to do -- deal with unpleasant people, write about a production that bo...

EVERY two weeks, I speak to a performer coming to town and ask them about their influences, figures who drove them into a life in the arts o...

NEXT to Esa-Pekka Salonen, the most visible Finnish classical musician over the last few decades has been his old partner in crime Magnus Li...

WHAT would it look like if Hurricane Katrina blew across an Italo Calvino fable? We might be able to find out when Crescent City , whose cre...

EVEN when someone has hit their 80s, it can be hard to think of them disappearing if they're as ornery and vital as Maurice Sendak. Famo...