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The Met Cloisters were alive with the sound of music on a frigid January afternoon. Six nuns in white surrounded a seventh dressed in black, and all were singing. The scene was...

The Tchaikovsky showcased the formidable discipline of the Chicago sound under Muti, with the orchestra’s famous brass section gleaming in the fearsome fanfares that function as the fate motif anchoring the symphony....

The movie trailer hit heavy rotation on N.F.L. playoff broadcasts and elsewhere earlier this month. A pilot played by Mark Wahlberg is flying a federal agent and a government witness in a...

The children seem like typical kindergartners: Some beam at the camera; some glance coyly aside; others appear lost in reverie. One slim, dark-haired girl in a pale dress looks precociously serious.She is...

Did anything come out of nowhere and surprise you?The Fear story was one that I wanted to know about forever. When I first got to 30 Rock in 2009 , I purposely...

They sure do grow up quickly, don’t they?Last week marked a milestone for the children’s brand Kidz Bop: The release of “Kidz Bop 50,” the company’s 50th album of sanitized, child-friendly covers...

Sometimes, when I poll Oscar voters about the films and performances they plan to nominate, they turn the tables on me.“What do you want to happen?” they ask.Maybe they’re expecting me to...

After being removed from the PlayStation Store, the controversial parody game Grand Taking Ages has found a new home on Steam. The game, a satire of the much-anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI...

Around 1980, the movie producer Robert Evans recruited Mr. Feiffer to write the screenplay for Robert Altman’s “Popeye.” Mr. Feiffer patterned his script after the Segar newspaper strip, not the animated adaptations...

Ever so self-effacingly, Garth Hudson breathed history into songs. At his magisterial Lowrey organ, he summoned Bach, hymns, the gospel church or a circus calliope. At the piano, he bounced through ragtime...