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Critics have been sounding the death knell for classical music for years. Concerts are becoming more sparsely attended; radio stations are dropping the classical format; and new music premieres are [...]

Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance Charles Murray was invited to speak in April at Azusa Pacific University about this, his latest book. The event had been scheduled for months, but two [...]

Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance At a Harris Teeter in suburban Washington, what used to be Harry's Balloon Corral is, to young eyes, disappointingly empty. The grocery store has posted a [...]

Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance The last time I heard from Alex, he emailed from Kabul. 'Our lengthy discussions about your trip to St. Petersburg were apt, because you are like [...]

Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance It's not often officials from the nation's largest business lobby and an AFL-CIO-affiliated union speak to one another, let alone work together. But last week, the [...]

Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance New York A premiere at the country's foremost opera company always meets with a certain level of excitement. But the man in the orchestra section two [...]

Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance Hollywood loves to think of itself as socially significant. But given how long it can take to finance a film--let alone make one--it's exceedingly rare for [...]

Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance Halfway through what feels like the usual interview with a Hollywood entertainer in town to promote a new work, I'm stopped short. Lance Reddick had discussed [...]

Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance Acerebral law professor takes his progressive ideas into politics and inspires a personality cult that catapults him to the highest office in the land. Encouraged by [...]

Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance Everyone is talking about Angelina Jolie's leg. Her right leg, to be specific. The actress presented at the Oscars last week in a striking Versace dress [...]

Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance The 1980s ended in a flood of optimism that's hardly been seen since. Nearly a half-century of cold war all but ended in a single year [...]

Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance Against Reform by John Pepall Toronto, 176 pp., $19.95 Canada's Conservative party won a clear majority in last week's federal election. So the Canadian constitution is [...]

Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance Some people only dream of a white Christmas. I'm guaranteed one. It's right there in the name of the place where I'm headed--the Great White North. [...]

Rob Fleming, the hero of Nick Hornby's pleasurable novel High Fidelity, approaches life as something to be ranked. He doesn't just have to hand the usual lists men of a [...]

Anthony Minghella died of a hemorrhage last month at London's Charing Cross Hospital, and the news took the creative world by surprise. The filmmaker was just 54 years old and [...]

'I've discovered that I don't have that much talent, really,' the composer Elliot Goldenthal confessed a decade ago. 'If I work on something for 10 years or three weeks it's [...]

MURIEL SPARK died April 13 in Tuscany, her home for the last 30 years. The Scottish novelist lived to the ripe old age of 88. But she had been thinking [...]

JOHN ADAMS HAS MADE A career of creating art from recent events. One of the country's most important composers, he specializes in turning the messiness of American politics into grand [...]

How did Greenpeace change from a modest band of crusaders to the global scourge of logging, sealing and whaling? The transformation was largely the work of one man--David McTaggart. His [...]

If you saw an older man snapping a young girl's bra strap, you might look at him in disgust or yell at him to leave the girl alone. But would [...]

Stroppy students once scribbled complaints about their schools, teachers and classmates furtively on blackboards and bathroom walls. Now the Internet lets them vent their spleen globally. The Vancouver School Board [...]

As both a respected civil servant for three decades in B.C., and then later as a highly regarded commentator, Mel Smith was not one to let passion cloud reason. Always [...]