OMG -- Michelle Obama says her husband is "pathetic"! On national TV!

Over the years, the quirkily inventive Pilobolus troupe has abandoned brains for brawn. The weird, morphing optical illusions, the walking puzzles made out of torsos and legs that defined it at its start nearly 40 years ago -- these have given way to slapstick humor and simpler shapes made by the...

British songstress Adele Laurie Blue Adkins opened her concert Tuesday at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue on an optimistic note: Standing alone onstage, finger-picking an acoustic guitar, she performed the lullaby-like "Daydreamer," plying her big, bluesy voice on her own lyrics about the though...

The history of showbiz and the showbiz of history figure prominently in "¡Gaytino!," the autobiographical solo piece Dan Guerrero performed at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater on Tuesday and Wednesday. But those epochal themes did not seem to be the catalysts for the enthusiasm (cries of...

Herbert and Dorothy Vogel like the most unlikable art. They own a few inches of frayed rope with a nail through it. A curved lead pipe. A black cardboard square with the definition of the word "nothing" printed on it in white.

Adapted from a recent online discussion: Dear Carolyn:

That photo of Kate Hudson in the red ruffled bikini bottom, with her butt hanging out? So not what we're trying to do this summer. Never mind those highly Pilaticized Hollywood tushes sporting microscopic bikinis, snapped in the almost-altogether and plastered across TMZ.com.

Mike Myers isn't the Antichrist, exactly. But he is anti-comedy -- if one believes comedy ought to be smart, new, surprising, or, yes, funny. This isn't an accusation. It's been Myers's shtick for a long, long time: Jokes that don't work, bad jokes, lame jokes, jokes that are 40 years old and jokes...

To get to "This Beautiful City," proceed to the junction of PBS and Broadway. The storytelling style of the Civilians, a savvy young troupe of New York actors, is to immerse themselves in a subject, interview a lot of people, compose a few songs and edit all the material into what amounts to a...

From the three network anchors to a former governor to the Buffalo nun who taught him in seventh grade, Tim Russert's extended family bid farewell yesterday to "an unmade bed of a man, with an armful of newspapers and a cellphone to his ear," as Tom Brokaw described his colleague.

You think of the legs first. After all, they were famously insured for $5 million, back when Cyd Charisse was the pearl of the American movie musical. She was perfect, from her dark eyes and toothpaste-ad smile to her long, tapered shins and slim ankles, and the camera loved her.

N aniette Coleman was headed back to grad school this fall but worried about the cost. So the staffer for the U.S. Trade Representative's office turned to YouTube, with a video making a pitch to friends, or strangers, to help foot the $65,000 bill.

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Site of former monastic retreats and Soviet gulags, the Solovetski Archipelago is where Russians get a feel for their country's past—and future