Archive for the ‘Humanities’ Category

The Glimmerglass Opera has been a must-see festival, presenting unusual repertoire and creative productions in an intimate, 900-seat house. Not this year.

Leonardo’s “The Virgin and Child With St. Anne” in the Louvre may be unfinished, but it offers a total aesthetic experience.

The rising clout of international audiences is a sea change for Hollywood. Foreign ticket sales represent 68% of the global market, and studios are using foreign actors and tweaking plots to lure viewers abroad.

Heli-hiking in the Canadian Rockies offers a quick route to spectacular vistas. “You can go to places almost no one has seen,” says a tour operator.

A Wall Street Journal investigation finds that one of the fastest growing businesses on the Internet is the business of spying on American consumers. First in a series.

The Washington National Opera, facing financial challenges, is exploring a possible merger with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Coming soon to a theater near you: absolutely nothing you want to see. Joe Queenan on why Hollywood keeps trying to sell us on pointless sequels, lame remakes and the stardom of Shia LaBeouf.

St. Luke’s Hospital in the Mission district is essentially on life-support, with its future largely dependent on the fate of an expansion plan by its owner, California Pacific Medical Center.

The heart of “An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing The Gross Clinic Anew” is the painting itself, brought back to its original intensity and immediacy.

For teenagers on summer vacation with their families, there seems to be a universal goal: Ditching the parents. Hotels and resorts are trying to make that easier by offering souped-up teen programs.

From Dvorak to American roots music to Argentine tango, Yo-Yo Ma works both inside and outside the box.

Clowns, trains and mini-golf are among the attractions of this southwest Wisconsin city, the birthplace of the Ringling Bros. Circus.

The 5k race is the country’s most popular running race. At 3.1 miles, it’s a distance easy enough for beginners, but not so short that accomplished runners scoff. A guide to some of the highest rated 5K races in the U.S.

Chefs from the German airline are using a chopped up jet as a laboratory to study the decline of haute cuisine at high altitude.

Couples fight. The good news: If you fight the right way it can actually make your relationship happier and healthier.

A number of grocery retailers are now pushing nutritional advice. Efforts include posting nutritional ratings on bin labels and hiring dietitians to advise shoppers on how to select healthier food.

An extreme method that combines skiing and fishing puts fishermen deep in water, spawning a surfcasting debate.

How do you change perceptions of a little known country formed largely by a hugely popular movie that ridiculed it? For Kazakhstan, part of the answer is to win professional cycling’s biggest prize, the Tour de France.

Consuming alcohol is illegal on this city’s famous beaches. But, thanks to a loophole authorities are now trying to close, drinking a few feet from shore is not.

New cognitive research suggests that language profoundly influences the way people see the world.

Consuming alcohol is illegal on this city’s famous beaches. But, thanks to a loophole authorities are now trying to close, drinking a few feet from shore is not.

Short layouts are still out of fashion, but a revival could be a boon to the game—and also really fun.

The Peloton, the V-formation that top riders form in cycling races, has its unofficial rules and etiquette at the Tour de France.

China’s most commercially successful film director, Feng Xiaogang, talks about his latest film, the two-earthquake family saga “Aftershock.”

Bahraini pearls are widely believed to be the best in the world, with their fabulous luster that is the combination of the sea’s freshwater springs and its warm, shallow, highly saline water.