The Compass Rose

Brubeck on Time Magazine cover November 8, 1954 For people of my generation, the memory of Brubeck's famous hit album, Time O...

Man's earliest attempts at flight look silly to us now. Inventors and tinkerers looked at birds and insects and thought they could im...

Harry Callahan [1912-1999] was an important 20th Century American photographer whose career spanned the entire post-WWII period. He be...

I don't know why cocktails are associated with ladies. A lot of them are named "ladies" as if an alcoholic drink could be c...

A rose is a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet. They who feel their thought as immediately as the odor of a rose. He arose at br...

I don't know what to say about people who dote on their pets. Once upon a time, I would probably have thought it over-indulgent.   ...

Elliott Carter has died, and with his very late departure we can finally close the book on a whole epoch of American musical genius. As...