But we shouldn't need the UN, or a special day, to make an effort to understand the aged, and to become not only patient but respectful.

Knowing that Eyck conceived and recorded the album for 12" vinyl made even my digital listening experience feel somehow richer – as if I were in the presence not just of new avant-garde music but of the whole weird history of the theremin.

Hillary Clinton shouldn't expect to score major political points by implying, or even showing, that Donald Trump doesn't pay his personal income taxes. It just puts him in a place where we all, at least on some level, wish we could be.

Mae West wrote 'SEX' in the mid-1920s, just after the peak of first-wave feminism hit with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. First-wave feminism was about suffrage and other basic political inequalities. 'SEX' more directly challenges gender roles and expectations and illustrates the hypocrisy and tragic consequences of societal gender inequities. So, West was more in line with second-wave feminism – which didn’t happen until the 1960s!

The production boasts a highly talented cast and creative team and, equally important, a big collective heart that gives this smart, reverential take on the iconic show-business musical just the right tone.

Folk-rock from accomplished veterans and hard rock from precocious teenagers.

Those who respect the New York Times's journalistic integrity will do so even more if it begins to include among "all the news that's fit to print" calling out the lies, even the petty ones, told to the American people by those who aspire to lead them.

In this composite interpretation of the Greek myth of the incestuous queen, Isabelle Huppert's marvelous performance is really three marvelous performances in one.

The band's ongoing fight with the U.S. Trademark Office over its name hasn't sapped the creativity of the Portland, Oregon-based Asian dance-rock group.

It was nice to see a warmer side to the cellist's chill, hyper-modern aesthetic as she introduced songs and asked the audience for vocal and smartphone participation. At the end she sent us out to wander the crowded desert of Greenwich Village, inspired by her musicianship but even more so by her distinctive dark aesthetic.