I wonder, when a humorist writes a book not intended for laughs. When, say, the very funny satirist, Christopher Buckley, writes a memoir – say, Losing Mum and Pup – about the deaths of his legendary parents in 2007 and 2008? …more

Forget Ecclesiastes. There is something new under the sun–and it appeared, like a shower of shooting stars, on April 15 at Carnegie Hall, a place not known for wild innovation. While teabaggers across the land looked back on their day of protesting the effrontery of income taxes, thousands of forward thinkers flocked to Carnegie Hall to witness a technologically mind-bending and oddly moving idea whose time just arrived: the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Think Live Aid and Earth Aid on Steroids. Woodstock for the Age of Twitter. Mozart and Rachmoninoff meet Flash Gordon on the screen of your iPhone. …more