Vaudeville, a collection of disparate acts (comedians, jugglers, and dancers) marketed mainly to a family audience, emerged in the 1880s and quickly became a national industry controlled by a few businessmen, with chains of theaters extending across...

Vaudeville was a genre of variety entertainment prevalent in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Developing from many sources, including concert saloons, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque,...

Two centuries of kvetching, kvetching, kvetching. That's New York-ese _ Yiddish, actually _ for complaining, complaining, complaining. And it's the subject of a new booklet of letters both funny and fascinating _ "The New York City Museum of Complaint" _ that were...

Peggy Gilbert, a noted saxophonist who helped female jazz musicians gain acceptance over a decades-long career of leading all-women ensembles, has died. She was 102.A Los Angeles resident, she died Feb. 12 of complications of hip surgery Monday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in...

AIMEE: Toodle-oo Ikea pots and pans! Hello All-Clad! Goodbye mismatched tumblers, hello sassy martini glasses! We've spent hours unpacking our wedding gifts and our apartment is a disaster area, COVERED with open boxes, mountains of china, stemware, kitchen appliances and millions of little pieces...

For the last couple of weeks, the proprietors of the exclusive Chrystie Street burlesque venue The Box have been previewing what they call a “totally different” experience: a dinner theater called Pandora. The new show, which principal owner Simon Hammerstein expects to put into regular...