Lullaby in Birdland
Life is still a cabaret
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Saturday
Friday
Peake practice
An artist with the soul of a pirate
Tuesday
Heroine problem
Female antiheroines — at last
Thursday
The movies’ crush on ‘Auld Lang Syne’
Part of the song’s resonance surely comes from its sheer staying power
Sunday
Hungry like the rabbit
Eighty years ago, Bugs Bunny first launched himself on an unsuspecting Elmer J. Fudd
Wednesday
Charles Brown’s Christmas
’Tis the season for collectible vinyl
It’s good for your elf
A history both naughty and nice
A holly Dolly Christmas
Parton hits all the right notes with her Christmas classics
Tuesday
Pawn show
The Queen’s Gambit overcomes its hackneyed ‘girl power’ message
Sunday
The great lost Beatles album
It’s a real shame the Christmas flexis have not had a proper, all-on-one album release
Friday
The best video games to buy for Christmas
With the latest generation of consoles comes some great new games
Christopher Nolan wants to save cinema
Straight-to-streaming films could kill the theater for good
Thursday
Netflix’s Barbarians taught me those Romans had it coming
Barbarians reviewed
Thursday
The great Poetry Foundation shakedown
Poetry, an anti-racism petition and a $250 million endowment
Wednesday
Mostly ghostly: Henry James haunts Bly Manor
If you’re hoping for a show that requires your blanket be used to cover your eyes, skip this one
Wednesday
Night at the museum
Is the Baltimore Museum of Art exploiting the COVID-19 crisis to sell off major modern paintings?
Meet the real-life gangsters who inspired Guys and Dolls
The musical premiered on Broadway 70 years ago this week
Tuesday
Look east, old man
To the Lake is the right kind of Russian interference
Tuesday
Barack Obama’s music taste remains painfully mainstream
His new playlist sucks
Saturday
Is Billie Eilish really in shock over James Bond?
‘Shock’, from the French ‘choque’, began as the word for a collision of armies
