The baritone saxophone is hulking instrument, a tube of brass so long it extends down past a player’s knees. It makes burly, reedy sounds, deep growls...
History is integral to Danspace Project’s 50th-anniversary season. As part of “Danspace@50: The Work Is Never Done. Sanctuary Always Needed.,” a four-month festival of performances, screenings...
The artist John Knuth surveys the desolate landscape around Mariposa Street, in Altadena, Calif., where he lived with his wife, the interior designer Taylor Jacobson, and...
From “Eight Men Out” to “Field of Dreams,” baseball movies are usually enraptured by the past. Steeped in traditions, these films celebrate homespun heroes whose anything-is-possible...
Herman Graf, a major and intrepid figure in independent publishing who sold copies of Henry Miller’s novel “Tropic of Cancer” to bookstores after it was embroiled...
“It was pandemonium,” Maria Tallchief wrote in her memoir about her “Firebird” debut, in 1949. “The theater had turned itself into a football stadium, and the...
“Is it true that all of you, except me, have never played there?” Rosnes asked her bandmates when they gathered for a video interview in late...
Patina Miller may play a fearless New York City drug queenpin inspired by 50 Cent’s mother on television, but for a long time, something scared her:...
Political hot spots feature prominently in this week’s recommended books, with sobering views of conditions on the ground in Ukraine (“Looking at Women Looking at War”)...
Elegance has a way of pouring out of Miriam Miller. Her arms open like wings, her fingertips part like petals. At 5 foot 10, with long...
