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Last night, at the Kennedy Center, where a friend had invited us to hear the Emerson String Quartet perform three of Shostakovitch's cha...

A friend sent me this New York Times story about Nova's biography of Percy L. Julian : Harvard awarded him a master’s degree but would n...

I've been getting a lot of hits from China the past couple of days, perhaps because some of Sidney Sheldon's 300 million books in p...

Why I think Rudy Giuliani really is running for President in 2008. As evidence, here's an email I found in my inbox on February 2nd. ...

Really enjoyed a concert version of Shostakovich's 1936 opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtensk , performed last night at the Kennedy Center by Va...

The recent death of composer Gian Carlo Menotti , who died on February 1st, reminds one that he dealt with the issue of diplomats confronti...

Well, he appeared at a recent public event for it, and today's New York Times reports that at least Ambassador Holbrooke wrote the intro...

Full transcript on Kremlin.ru: STEVEN GUTTERMAN (Associated Press): After Anna Politkovskaia’s murder you said that there are people hiding ...

Here's one way to celebrate the anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birthday on February 6th, 1911--pop a DVD of Storm Warning (1951) in...

An acquaintance let me know he just published a history of radio, Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Genera...

A Canadian college friend, with a PhD in traffic science, has come up with a high-tech driver's ed console that looks like pilot traini...

Saw an ad for this while doing a Google search--it's British, and looks interesting: The First Post ...

Today's New York Times ran an interesting obituary of novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and producer Sidney Sheldon . I was sorry to r...

The other night, thanks to Netflix, we watched Andrei Maksimov's charming Russian comedy about a 10-year old boy celebrating New Year...

From the transcript of Daniel Pipes' London debate with Ken Livingstone : The mayor is a man of the Left, and I am a classical liberal. ...

Can't finish writing about my trip to Salt Lake City without putting in plug for the website of artist Kate Birch , who does paintings f...

Dinesh D'Souza certainly knows how to sell books... A few years ago, when I was between jobs, I almost got a job working for him as a r...

From AEI's Russian Outlook : On January 27, 1987, at the end of the first working day of the Central Committee meeting, the general secr...

Most interesting of all was today's Times story about Judith Miller's testimony at the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby....

Another interesting story in today's Times featured Lars Brownworth , a history teacher at Stony Brook School who has some 140,000 sub...