August 28, 2011

The morning commute was relatively painless in the city, but fallen trees and downed wires caused problems in suburban New York and Connecticut.

Given the issue’s legislative history, any amendment process is likely to be long and complicated.

“Death Valley,” a gory but innocuous new comedy-horror series on MTV, is about an outbreak of zombieism, vampirism and werewolfism in the San Fernando Valley.

Is Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” an opera or a musical? A Tanglewood production made clear that the work is not a mistake to be fixed but a challenge to be met.

A novel from George Pelecanos, a writer and producer of “The Wire,” introduces Spero Lucas, a Washington investigator.