Need to look sharp in a hurry? Give these companies-which specialize in weapons and breakaways-a shot. It's been said that violence never solves anything, but playwrights throughout history haven't been so sure. Many shows, classic titles and contemporary hits alike, eventually dissolve into...

In the heart of Los Angeles' predominantly Latino and Korean immigrant Mid-Wilshire district is a retirement home like no other. Sunset Hall describes itself as "a non-profit retirement home for freethinking elders who continue to share independence of spirit and involvement in the...

In the best historical novels, history goes out of the window and love remains. So it is in Rosemary Sutcliff's new novel "Sword at Sunset"—which is only theoretically concerned with King Arthur. As history, it is unconvincing. Miss Sutcliff's king has almost nothing to do with the familiar Arthur of folklore. She has reinvented him, given him a character of her own choosing and placed him outside the accepted legends altogether—in a closed world where nothing happe...