March 17, 2012

The seven-episode “Frozen Planet” switches between the Antarctic and the Arctic to explore nature in its cold glory.

The Piatigorsky International Cello Festival calls further attention to a new vitality on the classical music scene of Los Angeles.

For more than 40 years, Gloria Steinem has been the near-singular voice of the women’s movement. Why, in all that time, has no one emerged as her successor?

While his possible successors are dinner-party fodder, Robert Silvers says he has no plans to step down from The New York Review of Books.

The prospect of financial crowd-sourcing on the Internet has been enthusiastically embraced by some as an important new model for the future of arts financing.

The swing guru Hank Haney offers some surprises in a book about Tiger Woods that details their relationship from the first time they met, when Woods was 17, to when Haney quit in 2010.

The onslaught of questionnaires from businesses has led to declining response rates and a condition known as survey fatigue, but it’s not likely to let up soon.

There is not much evidence that gas prices deserve an outsize reputation for holding economic and political influence.

C.J. McCollum scored 30 points and Lehigh upset Duke to become the second No. 15 seed to beat a No. 2, after Norfolk State performed the feat earlier in the day.

Culture clashes in parent-teacher groups are increasingly common at schools where demographics are changing.

Chris Hackett, a master builder and fabricator in Brooklyn, has a taste for showmanship and improvised technology, and a plan for when zombies take over.

“Island of Vice,” Richard Zacks’s new book, chronicles the brief, doomed tenure of Theodore Roosevelt as president of the board of New York City’s police commissioners.