An all-star lineup is scheduled to get wild and crazy at the 13th annual Efes Pilsener Blues Festival, which has dates this year in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Rostov-on-Don.

The Houston Ballet will offer some compensation for the temporary loss of the Bolshoi Theater's ballet company with two Moscow performances on Nov. 14 and 15.

The first annual Art November festival will feature a full roster of concerts by artists from all over the world, as well as two exhibits of paintings by three local artists, and one Spaniard.

For a while after seeing the movie ""Babe,'' I couldn't eat bacon with my usual zest, and I'm worried that something of the sort may afflict me after reading this book. Even this review could cause in some readers a temporary loss of appetite for beluga, and so, since everything comes with a warning label these days, I think it only fair to append a caveat to emptors of caviar.

Two years before he died in 1999 at the age of 88, Leo Cherne told a friend he wanted to be ""remembered as a cold warrior.""

Josef Stalin was no music critic, but he knew what he didn't like. As a result, Dmitry Shostakovich's ""Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"" was banned in the Soviet Union for 30 years.

Didn't dress up for Halloween last night? Maybe you should have. After all, a Halloween costume helped me get into an Ivy League university.

Two hundred and four years after Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth set out for the coastal village of Watchet, my friend and hiking partner, Marybeth, and I struck out in the same direction.

Vengeance or mercy. Quick ""justice"" or a measured response. Unquestionable guilt or the presumption of innocence. These are words and problems for our time.

Long one are the days when to find good Chinese food in Moscow one's best bet was to hop the next flight to Hong Kong.

There's a Russian maxim that says that any new concert hall begins with a cloak room. Following that logic, any new nightclub probably ought to start with a guest list for its opening night.

Half a century ago, James Stewart, at that point the most beloved of Hollywood leading men, decided it was time for something completely different.

How can Donald H. Rumsfeld be certain of more terrorist attacks against the American people? Because these attacks will be ordered of the U.S. Secretary of Defense himself.

An all-star lineup is scheduled to get wild and crazy at the 13th annual Efes Pilsener Blues Festival, which has dates this year in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Rostov-on-Don.