Words and Music

From the Food Vault Dept .: I tried to combine my longer trips with restaurant reviews back in the days when I took long trips and wrote res...

FOR BROTHERS DAVID AND DAN PODOLL, one of the solutions to the economic stresses of operating their North Dakota farm turned out to be heirl...

From the Tech Vault Dept. : There’s a rain barrel outside my house that has spawned a large sunfish, swimming within. I was going to blast i...

From the Record Shelf Dept .: All right, CD shelf, but even what sounds more up-to-date is charmingly antiquated. At any rate, here’s a look...

From the Classical Vault Dept .: Pianist Gary Graffman, who turned 90 last October, is still active as a teacher and performer (and numbers ...

From the Food Vault Dept. : I began my restaurant-reviewing career, such as it was, in 1986 with a column titled “Byron’s Blue Plate Special...

From the Tech Vault Dept .: Listen, my children, and you shall hear of an era with DOS to fear. That’s right: once upon a time we had no gra...

From the Darkroom Dept. : As I mentioned a few days ago, I found some interview and promo pieces I wrote for Capital Repertory Company’s 201...

From the Cinema Vault Dept .: I’ve written very few fim reviews over the years, which is surprising given my intense love of the cinema, and...

George Ade Dept. : We invite the distinguished newspaperman and fables-writer to spin another yarn of How Things Were and How They Ought to ...

From the Theatrical Vault Dept. : A few years ago, I was hired to write promotional copy for Albany’s Capital Repertory Company (known now i...

From the Vault Dept .: During the course of my thirty-year Metroland career, I wrote a massively wide variety of reviews, advances, calenda...

From the Theater Vault Dept. : Here’s a charming little musical that had its world premiere in Cohoes, NY, in 1989; it had runs in Chicago a...

From the Vault Dept. : Thirty years ago, the Albany (NY) Symphony offered a splendid performance of Mahler’s Fourth, one of the more accessi...

AS A CHILD, Jinah Kim’s favorite dish was pan-fried yellow croaker. When her mother would prepare it for the family, it reaffirmed their Kor...

Guest Blogger Dept. : Do movies pander to the masses? Nearly a century ago, Robert Benchley argued the point in this 1920 Vanity Fair piece....

SOMETIMES YOU NEED NO WORDS to make a convincing argument. Listen to violinist Isabelle Faust dance through the difficult bariolage passages...

FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY, when the First of March also fell on a Friday, seven aides and advisors to Richard Nixon were indicted by Judge ...

ONE OF THE MOST SURPRISING DISCOVERIES lurking in a trip through the complete works of Hector Berlioz is the sense of intimacy that peeks th...

SPEAKING OF BING (a new biography of whom I reviewed a few days ago), here's an example of his work in the 1950s. He'd just finishe...