FM: What is the most interesting, surprising thing you’ve come across in your archival research or reading? CN: I found a fascinating ...

If it takes Black History Month to spark excellence on  BET  (Black Entertainment Network), so be it. I am talking about that station...

Not long ago, via Norman Lebrecht 's Slipped Disc  blog on Arts Journal,  I saw mention of two young art music composers I'd never ...

As I watched the Academy Award -nominated film Incendies (2010) last month, which my friend writer and translator N. had recommended, th...

Somewhere around the middle of last week, this blog reached its FIFTH ANNIVERSARY! It's hard for me to believe that five years have pass...

I love this photo, from Canada's National Post . President Obama and Canada's Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, at his arrival in Ot...