The Cabaret and quite charming, engaging, and funny as just himself.

The president's realpolitik is a breath of fresh air.

We have it within us to recognize in an opposing ideology a part of our own nature — and to ask our "opponent" to do the same.

I'd dig the new Drive-By Truckers disc a lot more if more of the songs cohered.

Olney and his main co-writer, John Hadley, have felt-tipped a subtle new entry in the Great American/Americana Songbook.

The Met hadn't staged this excellent example of Parisian grand opera in 113 years.

"The people" are multifaceted, and divided. But practically all of us want health care reform.

Don't get me started on the coelocanth.

This flashy, good-natured send-up of everything geeky and gory and youthful and fun is a knockout.

Schmidt and Loewith have crafted the words of Elmer Rice's 1923 play into melodies and meters that pulse and rise and fall with the rhythm of thought.