Mr. Harvey was a news commentator and talk-radio-pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation’s most familiar voices.
Original post by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 28, 2009
Habitats | Larchmont, N.Y.: Call Her Style Concert-Cozy
Nina Kuzma-Sapiejewska, a classical pianist who is an expert on Chopin, likes to perform for small groups on the concert grand Grotrian piano in her apartment in Larchmont, N.Y.
Original post by By DAN SHAW
Art: Images Separated at Birth?
Little attention has been paid to American photography’s relationship to Edward Hopper. That is, until now.
Original post by By JORI FINKEL
Television: Don’t Worry, Bedtime’s Safe With the Lads
In a universe where a viewer can watch anything at any time, late night hosts like Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan O’Brien form a comfortably familiar united front.
Original post by By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Noel Martin, 86, Inventive Catalog Designer, Is Dead
Mr. Martin was a nationally known graphic designer who was one of the first to modernize art museum catalogs and who simplified the cluttered look of industrial trade catalogs.
Original post by By STEVEN HELLER
Sverre Fehn, 84, Architect of Modern Nordic Forms, Dies
Mr. Fehn’s talent for applying Modernist ideas to traditional Nordic forms and materials made him the most prominent Norwegian architect of the postwar era.
Original post by By WILLIAM GRIMES
Behind Fairy Tale Drawings, Walls Talk of Unspeakable Cruelty
An exhibition in Jerusalem of works by Bruno Schulz includes wall paintings he created under Nazi coercion shortly before he was killed.
Original post by By ETHAN BRONNER
Broadcast TV Faces Struggle to Stay Viable
Networks still pull in the biggest audiences, but they are losing the cultural and the financial battle to cable.
Original post by By TIM ARANGO
Bridge: From a Deal in New Zealand, a Surprise at the Final Trick
Every autumn a national bridge congress is played in Hamilton, New Zealand, 66 miles south-southeast of Auckland.
Original post by By PHILLIP ALDER
February 27, 2009
Music Review | Pinchas Zukerman: An Old View of Old Works
Pinchas Zukerman’s recital at the 92nd Street Y on Thursday offered a mix of the wonderful and the wonderfully odd.
Original post by By STEVE SMITH