Fairfax quickly finds out things are different than they seem at first blush. The reader does, too, when Harris introduces a significant twist early in the
How excited James Brown would have been for “21 Bridges.” Take you to bridge? How about 21 of them? But I suspect even the Godfather of Soul would give
Hard-times troubadour Tom Waits gets the Great American Songbook-style treatment in “Come On Up to the House,” a classy collection of covers performed by two generations of
Baroque music is all too rare in Asia. Several years ago when the Alliance Française of Macao decided to create a baroque music festival, supported by the Macau Foundation,
Do you have a kid in your life who loves a good baking session? Who really wants to use your chef’s knife? Who is addicted to
* Movies: Ford v Ferrari * Books: Parisian Lives by Deirdre Bair * Music: Rise by Joanna Connor * F&B: gin is infused with elephant
Cops might do well to position their speed traps near movie theaters wherever the new film “Ford v Ferrari” is playing. They might fund their whole year’s
Deirdre Bair has spent her life writing well-received biographies of some of the 20th century’s most fascinating people, including Al Capone and Carl Jung. Yet the only two subjects
Joanna Connor takes her powerful guitar down new paths on “Rise,” an album featuring some jazzier hues, her considerable acoustic skills and even a guest rapper while
There’s a building boom on the Tibetan plateau, one of the world’s last remote places. Mountains long crowned by garlands of fluttering prayer flags are newly topped
The makers of a South African gin infused with elephant dung swear their use of the animal’s excrement is no gimmick. The creators of Indlovu Gin,
For the amount of cursing, vulgarity and nudity in “Dolemite Is My Name ,” it might come as a surprise that it’s actually a rather sweet and
* Movies: Dolemite Is My Name * Books: Little Weirds by Jenny Slate * Music: What You See Is What You Get by Luke Combs * Lifestyle: How to choose the right
Jenny Slate is an artist in the broadest sense of the word. You may know her as a comedian, an actress, or a co-creator of short films.
Not many artists break out on their first record, but Luke Combs did it without much fanfare, dropping an album two years ago that has spent 50
The walls of the Bornholmer Huette pub were last painted in 1973, a light beige that has gradually cracked and darkened into a caramel brown from decades of cigarette
When we’re given a choice about our health care plans, we often choose badly. In one study, more than 80% of the employees at a Fortune
* Movies: The Irishman * Books: Blue Moon: a Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child * Music: Three Chords and the Truth by Van Morrison * Travelog: Some places offer trips to the
The runtime is the most boring aspect of Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman “ to dwell on. There is no question that three hours and 28 minutes
The narrative in “Blue Moon,” the latest Jack Reacher novel by author Lee Child, has the feel of an old Western where the town needs the sheriff
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