I woke this Monday morning in a horrible blue funk, dreaming of fire lines approaching a city with a mayor who could or would do nothing, a...

Alice Neel is one of those many artists who were sidelined, for too many years, by the great sweep of 20th century modernist abstraction and...

After reading this report on the presidential and vice-presidential candidates' health by Dr. Lawrence K. Altman in Monday's New Yo...

Remember my old friend Bill and his notion of Sacred Lifeboats ? I was writing about him just a short while ago on The Buddha Diaries, and ...

... we just couldn't bear to watch, even though I suspect that it's a very good one: The Savages . It had been sitting on our Netf...