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Dec. 9, 2010
Entertainment & Arts
By the hundreds they come to eat, drink and be merry--loaded down with gourmet meals packed in picnic baskets and wine chilled in ice chests.
Aug. 23, 1998
Ovation TV, an all-arts cable channel owned in part by film studio Weinstein Co., said it acquired a music video channel operated by Vivendi’s Universal Music Group.
Jan. 8, 2008
Music
The dysfunctional mob family of the HBO series “The Sopranos” proved a poor fit in the music business in one of the acclaimed show’s story lines.
June 20, 1999
World & Nation
Can the Basra Folk Arts group coexist with extremist Islamic elements?
May 21, 2003
Travel & Experiences
Cuba has had a rich, roiling musical history for much of the 20th century, even though its sociopolitical isolation in the past few decades has kept it out of the global mainstream.
Feb. 5, 1999
The millennium coverage on PBS was an extraordinarily colorful overview of the creative fashion in which countries around the world welcomed the new century.
Jan. 7, 2000
While the jazz world has been looking to New Orleans--hometown of the Marsalis brothers--and the East Coast for young lions to feed the music’s current youth movement, a pride of West Coast initiates has been preparing to roar.
Oct. 16, 1993
Perhaps because of the years “Hairspray” costume designer Rita Ryack spent creating wardrobes for Broadway musicals, she approached her latest project like a choral director — a food-obsessed one.
July 23, 2007
One of the more elegant catered affairs in Texas takes place this Christmas Eve beneath a downtown street overpass, compliments of the Cordon Bleus Brothers who believe in feeding the homeless in high style.
Dec. 17, 1988