The great Sheldon Harnick, who died June 23 at 99, was a uniquely accomplished American lyricist. One of the few theater artists to have won not only a Tony Award and an Emmy Award, but also a Pulitzer Prize, Harnick is best known for his work as part of the creative team behind “Fiddler on…
‘My Father’s Dragon’ Stream it on Netflix. “My Father’s Dragon,” an adaptation of the 1948 children’s novel of the same name by Ruth Stiles Gannett, follows a young boy named Elmer (Jacob Tremblay, recently the voice of Flounder in “The Little Mermaid”) who is living a blissful life with his mother, Dela (Golshifteh Farahani). When…
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The much anticipated Royal Collections Gallery in Madrid has opened to the public, boasting masterpieces by Velázquez, Caravaggio, Titian, El Greco, Tintoretto, and Goya. First conceived in the 1930s and finally initiated in 1998, the mammoth undertaking has been 25 years and €172 million ($186 million) in the making. “This is the biggest museum project…
If you’re curious about where the saying “dog days of summer” comes from, it was the Ancient Greeks who noticed that Sirius, dubbed the “dog star,” is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major. It appears to rise alongside the sun in late July. This led the Greeks to believe the combined power of…