March 12, 2010

Valery Gergiev led the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra and chorus in a concert performance of Berlioz’s epic opera “Les Troyens” on Tuesday and Wednesday nights at Carnegie Hall.

Medicis has started a new marketing campaign that pits its wrinkle-smoother, Dysport, directly against Botox. It makes bioethicists squirm.

A settlement of up to $657.5 million has been reached in the cases of thousands of rescue and cleanup workers who sued the city, according to city officials.

A riveting account of the flawed leadership, bad luck and virulent personalities that led to the 2006 murder of an entire Iraqi family by American soldiers.

The bank used accounting gimmicks to hide its weakness in the months before its bankruptcy, a report says.

A Justice Department antitrust investigation of the seed industry is apparently focused on Monsanto.

The brand’s sales and reputation have held up, analysts say, because Lexus has not been included in Toyota’s most serious recalls.

Companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft let advertisers buy ads in the milliseconds between the time someone enters a site’s Web address and the moment the page appears.

“The Demons,” a 12-hour production of a grim Dostoyevsky novel that will be performed only twice, may be the must-see show of the New York theater season.

The rise and fall of Desirée Rogers, the White House social secretary, is in some ways a familiar Washington tale.

Noah Baumbach’s “Greenberg” crystallizes the Ben Stiller persona.

The most striking thing about “The Runaways,” a new film about the trailblazing bad-girl rock band from the 1970s, is how authentic it feels.