Art: At the Norton, a summery look at iconic toys If there was a heaven for toys, it probably would look and feel like the Norton Museum of Art’s new exhibition. This is what a toy gets for enduring decades and co-existing wit... Read More... More in: Art

Film: Bland, predictable ‘And So It Goes’ aims for safe audiences You can tell a lot from a movie by its opening shot. Rob Reiner’s new film, And So It Goes, opens with a crane shot delicately gliding ove... Read More... More in: Film

Theater: Theater roundup: A radiant ‘Most Happy Fella’; provocative ‘The Whale’ Fifty-eight years ago, having already achieved success in Hollywood and on Broadway, composer-lyricist Frank Loesser immersed himself in a passion project, a quasi-operatic musical about an unlikely rom... Read More... More in: Theater

Dance: Essay: Keeping dance all about the art By Tara Mitton Catao Dance competitions are multiplying in profusion these days, forcing those of us in the art form to have mixed feelings about a growing popularity that seems to tre... Read More... More in: Dance

Music: Onslow, Stephenson stand out in PBCMF Concert 3 If the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival musicians went looking for a trove of unfamiliar but worthwhile music they could draw on year after year, they could do worse than the works of ... Read More... More in: Music

Interviews: Natacha Koblova: Multilingual Society founder helps them speak in tongues A year in business has not given Natacha Koblova all the answers she would like to have, although she did learn another language. The Russian-born 39-year-old polyglot (more on this later) has... Read More... More in: Interviews

Books: ‘Pencil’ full of itself, but recounts an admirable idea Growing up in wealthy Greenwich, Conn., Adam Braun developed an “obsession” with Wall Street and dreamed of “becoming a billionaire. While in college he traveled abroad in the Sem... Read More... More in: Books

Weekend Picks: Weekend arts picks: July 18-20 Theater: The second shoe of Palm Beach Dramaworks’ summer concert series drops this weekend with The Most Happy Fella, Frank Loesser’s quasi-operative romantic musical about a middle-aged Italian vineyard owner who falls for... Read More... More in: Weekend Picks

News & Commentary: Sundays: The Great War’s technology lesson One hundred years ago this month, Europe was in the throes of a buildup to catastrophe in the aftermath of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28. It ... Read More... More in: News & Commentary

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