The three-man TV shoot at Alpha Delta Pi went calmly, something sorority houses aren’t necessarily known for. When asked why the sorority girls weren’t partying on a Friday night, the answer was pretty simple. Read more...

The Calle 54 concert was off the hook. Treating the Royce audience to music from the Fernando Trueba documentary, the concert did just what the movie project intended by offering a tour of Latin music’s broad, stylistic spectrum. Read more...

The motivation for young pianists to tackle Chopin’s etudes, pieces that are monuments of technical razzle dazzle, is youthful vanity. The motivation for 40-year-old Louis Lortie to do the same is less obvious. Read more...

“Punch Drunk Love” New Line/Revolution 4 Paws This is not “Boogie Nights” or “Billy Madison.” But P. T. Anderson’s latest film combines aspects of his style with Adam Sandler’s presence as both a comic, and yes, dramatic actor. Read more...

The motivation for young pianists to tackle Chopin’s etudes, pieces that are monuments of technical razzle dazzle, is youthful vanity. The motivation for 40-year-old Louis Lortie to do the same is less obvious. Read more...

Imagine scenes of a young woman in ecstasy, a wife about to hit her husband with a bottle, or a daughter stealing from her dying father. Read more...

Joan Didion’s “Political Fictions” introduces an angle on American politics few have seen. It’s like visiting the vacant set of a television show: what appears real and sincere is revealed to be fake. Read more...