Words and Music

HIS FIRST INKLINGS of the immediacy of Nazi atrocities took place in a neighborhood bakery, in 1956, where the four-year-old Bobby Rosen spo...

From the Opera Vault Dept.: We’re gearing up for summer opera season, so here’s a re-visit to a time, thirty years ago, when the NYC Opera ...

Guest Blogger Dept. : Hello again, Mr. Benchley! The estimable Robert is here again with a piece that’s more timely than ever.             ...

From the Vault Dept. : It was pretty cutting-edge when I wrote about this melding of music and lights at the Schenectady Museum and Planetar...

WHAT BECOMES APPARENT as you examine the exhibition, Like Sugar , is that the exhibition is all around us, all the time. What Skidmore Colle...

From the Tech Vault Dept. : Once upon a time, the saving grace of laptop computers (in the days when laptop computers required somewhat more...

Guest Blogger Dept. : We deserve a visit from H. Allen Smith. He was a newspaperman in the 1920s, a Mark Twain devotee who won his own fame ...

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...