The art of New England is far from just portraits of Puritans — "banned" art, performance art and political art make up some of the area's current offerings. In fact, great art cuts a swath through much of the Berkshires and New England Read More
There, the members of the Fox News Super Tuesday II political team—Brit Hume, Juan Williams, Bill Kristol, Nina Easton and Fred Read More
A third possibility—a split decision—will present Clinton the justification to push on if she wishes to, but without any clear way to win.
Let’s say Hillary wins Ohio (as the latest polls suggest Read More
These are people who grew up in a world where Nirvana was the alpha band, where rock stardom is not anathema, but something to strive for,” said Ted Leo, the mod-punk provocateur and bandleader known for his politically infused music and explosive live shows. Talking from his home in Rhode Island, Mr. Leo is discussing Read More
Consider the mere possibility of this at your own risk, but there is some speculation that Senator Lincoln Chafee, who some think is mounting a late seat-saving charge in Rhode Island, might bid in victory bid adieu to the Republican Party - potentially giving the Democrats their 51st seat even if they fall short Read More
Donald Winter This is the new secretary of the Navy, Donald C. Winter, sworn in a few months ago. He opened up the Naval War College's conference on strategy that I attended Tuesday in Rhode Island, and when I heard that he was a former VP at Northrop Grumman, I was prepared to write him Read More
Even while on trial, Buddy Cianci, the now-incarcerated former mayor of Providence, R.I., was proud of his Tony Soprano–like charisma. "Be careful of the toe that you step on today, because it may be connected to an ass that you have to kiss tomorrow," a witness recalled Mr. Cianci threatening, during testimony at his 2002 Read More
Never mind that The Century Club only began admitting women in 1988, some 140 years after it was founded. And never mind that it only took the threat of a Supreme Court decision to get it to open its doors to the fairer sex. Last night, March 29th, the club belonged to a group Read More
I recently returned from the wilds of western Virginia, where I swore off "media" for a blessed week. So I missed reading about the great celebrations thrown by Islam's defenders upon the sudden but regrettably not premature deaths of the awful Hussein boys. I can only assume that clerics and sheiks from Saudi Arabia to Read More
My father, he's an enthusiast. When he likes something, he really likes it. A little over a year ago, while watching Shrek with his youngest grandson, he discovered Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" (sung in that instance by Rufus Wainwright). Shortly after, he bought himself the soundtrack, and then he sought out every imaginable Leonard Cohen version Read More
When the electric blanket switched off in late-August and we had some days that were still warm, but clear and invigorating, my wife and I simultaneously had the same thought: This is like last September; in fact, like ….
The coming anniversary lurks behind our end-of-summer pleasures, tugging our attention, like an undertow, away from Read MoreThis new novel is several kinds of love story with multiple happy endings-but the author still makes her readers sweat.
Rhode Island Blues , by Fay Weldon. Atlantic Monthly Press, 325 pages, $24. Critics and readers alike tend to put Fay Weldon's fiction in a box. "Barbed," "wicked," "enraged," "unsparing," "iconoclastic"-this litany of terms and their Read MoreScopa is one of the strangest restaurants I have been to recently. It officially opened this summer in Murray Hill, which has always struck me as a lugubrious part of town but which I've read is now the cool place to live. There certainly were no signs of life at the address I had, 79 Read More
For a moment, when I sat down to dinner the other night at Asia de Cuba, I felt that I was back in boarding school. We were seated on high stools in the middle of a big, crowded communal table. But boarding school was never like this. To my left, as far as I could Read More
