Israeli voters decided at the end of January 2003 that the Likud would become Israel’s leading party with a share of 29.4% of the votes. The Likud doubled its number of seats in the...

Get Birthday Girl on DVD from Amazon.com, Amazon.de and Amazon.co.uk. The film is about an ordinary, shy bank clerk, John Buckingham (Ben Chaplin), living a rather dull life in St....

Criticism of Hollywood and its studio system remains a subject for filmmakers such as Robert Altman (The Player, 2001), David...

A Beautiful Mind (Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr) received four Oscars at the 74th Academy Awards Ceremony on March 24, 2002: Ron Howard for Best Director, Brian Grazer...

The film Talk To Her (original title: Hable con ella; Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr) by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar is a masterpiece: The narration, rhythm and flow...

Although today sees the 25th anniversary of Elvis’ death, “The King’s alive!” more than ever. The remix of Elvis’ A Little Less Conversation by Dutch DJ JXL...

Robert Altman died on November 20, 2006 at the age of 81 at Los Angeles’ Cedar Sinai Medical Center from cancer related complications. His latest film, A Prairie Home Companion, was...

Review of the jazz album SuperBass 2 with Ray Brown, John Clayton and Christian McBride (basses). Recorded live at the...

Biography In 1994, at the age of 23, the Swedish singer Lisa Ekdahl became famous overnight in her homeland with her debut album and the #1 hit single Vem Vet (Who Knows). The record...

Dave Brubeck has died today, just one day before his 92nd birthday. Another jazz legend has left us. His music will remain. Sheet music by Dave Brubeck [December 5, 2012]. Biography of...

History of Tiny Bell Trio The Tiny Bell Trio with Dave Douglas on trumpet, Brad Shepik on guitar and Jim Black on drums is one of the rare truly innovative and exciting trios around....

Ken Burns’ Jazz documentary series (10-DVD box-set: Amazon.com; 4-DVD-set: Amazon.de; Amazon.co.uk.) aired in the United States on PBS in January. Cosmopolis is based in...

Martha Argerich was born in Buenos Aires in 1941. At 3, she played the piano for the first time. Two years later, she began taking piano lessons with Vicenzo Scaramuzza. At 8, she made her...

This biography and filmography is based on the book by Graham McCann: Cary Grant – A Class Apart. The hardcover edition was published in 1997 by Columbia University Press, 348 pages...

Biography of Jane Monheit Born on November 3, 1977, Jane Monheit grew up on Oakdale, Long Island. At the age of 2, she is said to have begun singing Somewhere Over the...

The biography of Albert Barnes and the history of his foundation Biography added in January 2001: Albert Barnes was born in Kensington in 1872, a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood. As...

The exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Barbara Haskell, hardcover, September 2000, 128 p. Get the catalogue from Amazon.com. Since Edward Steichen’s (1879-1973) death,...

The historian Ian Kershaw was born in 1943. He studied in Liverpool and Oxford. From 1968 to 1989, he taught at the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham. Since 1989, he is professor of...

Michael Burleigh was born in 1955. Originally a medievalist at the University College of London and a Research Fellow at Oxford, he spent six years as a Professor at the London School of...

After Detroit and Boston, the exhibition Van Gogh: Face to Face — the Portraits makes the final stop of its tour at the...