Georgia Tech’s Glen Rice, left, and Mfon Udofia chase a loose ball in front of North Carolina's Tyler Zeller during the Yellow Jackets' victory...

The first Mexican opera to deal directly with the country's drugs conflict has staged its premiere in Mexico City.The opera, Only the Truth, is based on a popular Mexican song of the 1970s which...

At war’s end, the cabbie won’t take money from the Marine returning home from the Pacific. “I might have jumped into Normandy but at least I got some liberties in London and...

“Mealtime in the Trench,” by Otto Dix, part of a retrospective of the artist’s works at the Neue Galerie. Dix was born in 1891 in Germany and saw action in World War...

Beethoven ’s Violin Concerto, as enduring a work as you’ll find, and Franck’s Symphony in D minor, a score that has always struck many listeners as diffuse and bombastic. Oddly, at...

Paul Taylor Dance Company lists as its historian; the other is an authorized biography by Suzanne Carbonneau. Both of these scholars have followed Mr. Taylor’s choreography for years, enjoying...

She is and she isn’t as Mr. Bong reveals through a kinked narrative and a monumental, ferocious performance by Kim Hye-ja as the title character. Written by Mr. Bong, sharing credit with Park...

“Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present”: A visitor at MoMA walks between Jacqueline Lounsbury, left, and Layard Thompson, both naked in a...

RAW: Assignment ID: 30093723A. Mariinsky Orchestra performing Berlioz’s “Les Troyens, Part 1: The Siege of Troy” at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday night, March 9, 2010. This image: Valery...

Considering how revolutionary Surrealist photography was in the years before World War II, what with its double-exposing, montaging, solarizing and other techniques, it may seem paradoxical that...

Restarting the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains after the death in 2002 of its lead singer and frequent lyricist, Layne Staley, was a matter of delicate positioning. Jerry Cantrell, the guitarist...

Magnetic Fields said at Town Hall on Wednesday night, to a murmur of something like delight. His disclaimer doubled as a statement of principle and, on some level, as low-impact...

Violins from the 1500s to the 1700s, including a Stradivarius, second from left, at the recently reopened André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of...

“The Exploding Girl,” Bradley Rust Gray’s sweet and tentative new film, is home from college for the summer, back in a New York suffused with leafy green in the daytime and red neon at night....

“People Begin to Fly” (1961), from the exhibition “Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers,” which is coming to...

“Here is the truth about being a Marine that you won’t find on the local news. We’re loud. We drink too much, fight too much and swear too much. Truth be told, our rifles are the only things we...

Out of a mathematical conceit the Italian writer Paolo Giordano has drawn a mesmerizing portrait of a young man and woman whose injured natures draw them together over the years and inevitably pull...

“Children of Invention,” a modestly scaled, quietly effective independent movie about a struggling single mother and her two children. Directed and written by Tze Chun, making a fine feature...

To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt An anthropoid shaped wooded coffin for “the Servant of the Great Place,” from about 1339-1308 B.C., is in this show at the Brooklyn...

When the British musical theater star Clare Burt was a little girl, she recalled on Wednesday evening, she was so infatuated with the idea of Manhattan that she adopted a New York accent and...

It’s hard to know what the director Allen Coulter could have done to improve Will Fetters’s absurdly contrived, yakky script about love and loss, largely set in the summer of 2001. But Mr....

You might wonder then whether it was a good idea to take on the same kind of part in “Sons of Tucson,” a new sitcom beginning Sunday night on Fox. One answer is that this was Mr....

“Stolen,” Anders Anderson’s dual kidnapping melodrama of tormented fathers a half-century apart, searching for their lost sons, plays like a middling episode of “Law & Order: SVU,”...

Through May 1 The great American modernist Milton Avery always looks a bit dour in photographs. He seems to lack the bright disposition that might logically be expected from the jaunty topographical...

Thornton Wilder chose Peterborough as the model for his play “Our Town.”Peterborough is only 74 miles northwest of Boston, but the town is not a bedroom community. Nor is it a heavy...

THE Killington resort in central Vermont is the biggest ski area in New England, renowned as the Beast of the East. There are more than 200 trails, 6 peaks, 33 lifts and more than 1,200 acres of...

Federal Communications Commission said the agency was considering changes to ensure that cable television customers do not lose access to broadcast stations because of fee disputes between...

Get your Irish eyes smiling in anticipation of St. Patrick's Day at the Day of Irish Dance. The Gaelic gaiety and Celtic camaraderie is sponsored by the Irish Music & Dance Association, and in...

IT may be rather tricky to forecast at this early stage but barring any seriously unexpected eventuality, the contours of the likely outcome of the next general election are...

Soundtrack Features Johnny Depp Reading the Poetry of Jim Morrison, Plus Classic Studio Recordings, and Rare Live Performances From the Legendary Band, Available April 6; Vinyl Double-LP Collections...

NEW YORK -- A musical celebrating Ray Charles is headed for Broadway this fall."Unchain My Heart" will open Nov. 7 with preview performances beginning Oct. 8.Producer Stuart Benjamin said Thursday...

California's chinook salmon fishery is likely to be opened this year after two straight closed fishing seasons - but with restrictions, according to recommendations released Thursday by a federal...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- A former model says she's appalled that her nearly decade-old bikini photo became a randy prop in the film "Couple's Retreat." Irina Krupnik filed a $10 million...

By HILLEL ITALIEAP NATIONAL WRITER NEW YORK -- Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall," winner last year of the Man Booker Prize in London, was honored Thursday night on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. The...

Pink Floyd's legal victory over EMI may be welcomed by some as a victory for artistic integrity. Others, however, culturally reared in the post-punk era, will scoff at the preciousness of these...

. Brontë lived, after all, in an age when sex was rarely discussed in public. She was, therefore, able, as one of the boldest artists of her age, to define the erotic almost entirely for herself;...

THE seaside town of Leven, in Fife, is getting ready for its close-up. After a mammoth effort by local citizens to return their 1922 Art Deco cinema to its former glory, it reopens on Friday night...

CONSERVATIONISTS will be thrilled to hear that cod is no longer an endangered species. And it never will be while Jack O'Brien is directing. Dramatic pointing, staggering back in fear/horror and...

Matt Damon . Later, when his search for phantom weapons of mass destruction has led him to uncover a web of lies, spin and ideological wish-fulfillment, Miller expands on the point. “The reasons we...

The Court of Appeal in Brisbane today ruled against the state's Liqour Licensing Division in a case which hinged on whether a woman had been "touting" for business when handing out fliers...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Ice dancers Alexandra Paul and Mitchell Islam of Barrie, Ont., climbed to second place with an impressive performance in the original dance Thursday at the world junior...

— A clinical research trial of a new treatment to restore brain cells damaged by stroke has passed an important safety stage, according to the UC Irvine neurologist who led the...

Turkey's relations with the IMF seem to be like a soap opera series that goes on for years and years. Remember the Dallas or Dynasty soap operas? I remember they glued us to the screen for more than...