March 7, 2012

The sizzling energy of a terrific cast freshened a Metropolitan Opera production of “L’Elisir d’Amore” (“The Elixir of Love”), using John Copley’s 1991 staging.

I Paid a Bribe, a site in India, is spawning a movement of corruption-exposing sites and in turn is vexing bribe-seeking bureaucrats all around the globe.

Mitt Romney apparently pulled off a narrow victory over Rick Santorum in Ohio. But Mr. Santorum scored victories elsewhere, competing with Mr. Romney’s achievement of collecting the most delegates.

Is it time to boycott Apple? Sweatshop opposition in the past offers limited hope, but consumer pressure has already led Apple to make some big changes.

The president deplored the “casualness” with which many Republicans have called for war to solve the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program, and challenged his critics to make their case to voters.

As a pair of self-centered Boston blue bloods, Kathleen Chalfant and John Cunningham are the heart of Tina Howe’s “Painting Churches,” a Keen Company revival now at the Clurman Theater.

With what appeared to be only a slim victory in Ohio, the most coveted primary of Super Tuesday, Mitt Romney must decide what is needed to repair his candidacy.

Don Draper and his colleagues will return on March 25 for a long-delayed fifth season, but Matthew Weiner, creator of “Mad Men,” will reveal nothing about where the action will take it.

With Israel and other world powers focusing on the Arab Spring and the mounting tensions with Iran, the Palestinian issue has effectively been shelved, leaving Palestinian leaders at a loss.

The new iPad has a high-definition screen, faster wireless connection and several other refinements for the same price as the old one, $499.

One of the regulars during Luc Carl’s bartending days on the Lower East Side was Stefani Germanotta, a k a Lady Gaga, with whom he had a six-year, tempestuous romance.

New gallerists, most with more hope than cash, are fixing a gritty neighborhood into an art scene.