Frantically trying to find a last-minute gift for the food-lover(s) in your life? As I think back through my past year in …
Yo-Yo Ma And His Solo Cello Take Meany Theater By Storm
A sold out Meany Theater greeted cellist Yo-Yo Ma with tumultuous applause as he walked out on stage Tuesday night for a rare solo …
Opus 7 Makes a Lively Gift of Britten’s ‘St. Nicolas’
The Feast of St Nicholas is December 6, so it was fitting for Opus 7 to devote its Christmas performance largely to celebrate this third-century …
How Ray Harryhausen Changed My World (and Yours, Too)
It was the early 1970s, I’m not sure what year. I couldn’t have been more than five years old. A birthday party …
Confessions of a Badasssss: An Interview with Melvin Van Peebles
It’s 12:30 p.m. on Labor Day, and legendary director/writer/artist/iconoclast Melvin Van Peebles is running about a half-hour late. I’m slumped comfortably in …