Month: December 2007

If the “difficult artiste” is a cliché, Julie Kavanagh's Nureyev: The Life (Pantheon Books) suggests Rudolf Nureyev created, broke, and…

How can anybody be so bitter, and yet so sweet? Ah, Billie. In this handsome four-CD set, we get Lady…

The Birthday Boy himself said it is more blessed to give than to receive. Accordingly, at each year's end we…

Queer bands are becoming more and more visible and are finding ways in which to distinguish themselves from the pack.…

I've always loved the Prophets. Not the ones who live in the wormhole in Star Trek 's Deep Space 9,…

Have you ever been to a holiday party where the music was so lame you wanted to run screaming from…