Last month, I wrote an essay centered on Stefan Zweig: “The World, Yesterday and Today.” He was a writer to whom music was very important. Among his friends and colleagues were Berg, Busoni ...
It’s Christmas movie season, and although Netflix isn’t exactly crawling with family-friendly holiday options, the best family movies on Netflix offer more than enough to entertain the whole ...
Comedian Jonathan Winters and actress Angela Lansbury posing with an Oscar at the 1965 Academy Awards. Winters had accepted the award on behalf of Peter Ustinov, who won Best Actor in a Supporting ...
In the age of fake news and its proliferation on social media, very serious societal issues can become trivialised by the unwarranted anger of "useful idiots", who end up harming the cause more ...