In this year's Thanksgiving list, thanks for inherited wisdom, some if it wrought from philosophical rigor and some culled from simple...

Directed by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa. 2011. I waited for something to go wrong with Crazy, Stupid, Love. I waited for a parade of ...

Directed by Tarsem Singh. 2011. Spoilers within! But first, a vocabulary lesson brought to you by the letter I . pas·tiche [pa-steesh,...

In our first essay on Sacred Music we looked at chant and discussed some of the properties which make it uniquely appropriate for the litu...

To those who wish to get to know these priceless works [i.e. Bach's cantatas] in bulk, [Albert] Schweitzer's advice is invaluable---...

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Directed by Steven Soderbergh. 2011. *Spoiler Warning* The structure of Contagion  must have scared a few producers. Nothing else can ex...

In our first look at sacred music last month we discussed some concrete principals and why they functioned as the essence of good sacred m...

Sometimes my lists spiral into large projects. This is not one of those times. I offer only one word of clarification, that I restricted my...

Aristotle and the Neuroscientists The NY Times is running psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker's review of the new book, "Will...