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This month, Marsalis, was back with the full 15-piece Lincoln Center Orchestra, and it was all about the music, he gave a few brief song intros, but otherwise cued two hours of protean big-band artistry.

Crop tops are a particularly daring trend that have recently sprung up--literally!--revealing a bit more skin than we're typically inclined to show. The good news is that there's no black-and-white ...

Recently I had the opportunity to attend Bushwick Open Studios. I visited a number of open studios and galleries, and was also invited to be in an incredible two-part show organized by Julie Torres, called "What I Like A...

One of the search terms that sends a lot of people to Nameberry every day is "pretty girl names."

Rossini would laugh if he knew that people were still performing his opera "Il viaggio a Reims" ("The Journey to Rheims") nearly two centuries after it was written. It's hardly even an opera but more a gala-cum-revue tha...

The next time a skeptical New Yorker questions whether Washington is an artsy town, direct that skeptic to the National Endowment for the Arts' "National Statistics about Working Artists" report. Seventy newly released t...

Q: I disagree with your recent travel safety tip about destroying used boarding passes. That is how my son, who lives in Japan, lost more than 13,000 frequent flier miles...

The first time I heard my husband tell the story of our daughter's birth, I was taken aback by the other new parent's point of view.

GEOQUIZ: Which state is nicknamed both the Old Line State and the Free State?

Glenn Greenwald isn't your typical journalist. Actually, he's not your typical anything. A lawyer, columnist, reporter and constitutional liberties advocate, Greenwald blurs a number of lines in an age in which anyone ca...

SANFORD, Fla. -- There is a memorial here for the dead teenager whose name everyone knows. Beneath Trayvon Martin's name, which is etched in black granite, are placards bearing the names of nine others -- all African Ame...

Jose Antonio Vargas's "Documented" is about young people who grew up American but are legally citizens of another country. The Philippines-born Vargas is one of those people, so it's logical that his documentary begins i...

Abby Fisher arrived in San Francisco a generation after the Gold Rush ready to make her fortune. In a few short years, she won kudos and prizes for her pickles,

This past spring saw not one but four solo shows, three of them Broadway vehicles for major star ladies and one unassuming off-Broadway effort with a skinny guy you probably never heard off.

NEW YORK -- "After Midnight," a musical revue celebrating Duke Ellington's years at the famous Cotton Club nightclub in Harlem in the late `20s and...

Paul Giamatti is having a grand ole time on the set of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2." Giamatti, who recently joined the cast of "Downton Abbey,"...

With Shakti, I watched videos of her dance and I felt increasingly connected to this girl. She was a little less than a month older than me, we were both born in 1985 in vastly different parts of the world and here she h...

Married: George Lucas, 69, and Mellody Hobson, 44, in a quiet Saturday night ceremony in Marin County, Calif., reports People. The second marriage for the billionaire "Star Wars" mastermind comes nearly 30 years after he...

One of the most perfectly coiffed members of Hollywood elite, David Lynch, recently released a new song. "Star Dream Girl" is the second single off...

The scorching heat wasn't the only thing making New Yorkers sweat this weekend. At the 4th annual Air Sex Championships, held at Manhattan's Cutting Room,...

The scrappy and peripatetic Bel Cantanti Opera has grown, and grown fast. A couple of seasons ago it presented a double bill, using several singers in principal roles in both operas. This past weekend, it landed at Catho...

Duke University's Center for Child and Family Policy will look at adolescent drinking and drug use. A grant will fund the Center for the Study of Adolescent Risk and Resilience.