Oct 10th, 2008 · Electric passion becomes lasting love, and ends with desperate tragedy, in Puccini's La Boheme — maybe the greatest "date opera" in history — in a racy new production from the Washington National Opera.
Aug 15th, 2008 · William Berger, author of Puccini Without Excuses, sizes up two new and very different recordings of the composer's best-known opera. Berger says the beauty of Bohème lies in the little details of the characters' lives.
Jul 28th, 2007 · The love-story-by-the-sea follows a free-spirited couple living happily on Cape Cod after World War II -- until an affair splits them apart. In her simple, poetic prose, Dillard depicts the abiding love between two unconventional people, and how they survive life's unexpected turns.
Sep 7th, 2006 · In 1989, the group found massive success on the strength of the hit "What I Am." Seventeen years later, Stranger Things finds it returning to its jam-band beginnings, while retaining the playful and distinct sound that made it successful in the first place.
Jun 4th, 2006 · Poet Edward Field was a fixture in the post-World War II literary community of New York... a companion of Frank O'Hara, James Baldwin and Susan Sontag, among others. His memoir is The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag and Other Intimate Portraits of the Bohemian Era.
Mar 31st, 2005 · A new exhibit in the National Gallery of Art explores painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's relationship to Montmartre, the Paris district that drew artists and bohemians in the late 19th century.