The sight of a baseball fan nearly falling out of the stands trying to catch a ball at the All-Star Game's homerun derby got a lot of attention on tel...
The math is easy, even for a writer. 800 concerts in ten days equals 80 concerts a day at Montréal's International Festival de Jazz. But how does thi...
Malls make me cringe, especially when they take over iconic city buildings, like the Limelight Marketplace has done with the formerly infamous club. S...
Traditionally Cirque shows have played outside Manhattan proper. However this year, the circus arts have landed at Radio City. And Cirque just may be taking money away from Broadway shows.
By moving from its usual big top on Randall's Island to the magnificence of Radio City Music Hall, Zarkana ups its theatrical impact. Set in an abando...
Zarkana is not a guilty pleasure, it's a genuine one, at its best moments. Just don't let the music distract you from the point of the fun.
Cirque du Soleil is a victim of its own success. Over the years so many of their new shows have popped up all over the world it's inevitable that expectations have been raised and lowered many times.
"Why did you want to go into space?" was the first question that I asked of Guy Laliberté. I was intrigued by a man who would spend 11 days in a space station 220 miles above the earth... and return with 10,000 photographs.
Comedian Eugene Mirman appeared on The Interview Show to discuss his career, lip-synching a Bill Cosby record for a school book report, giving Pauly Shore a back rub and more.
Thursday, June 16th, was Cirque du Soleil Day in LA. They have revealed in a 'sneak' preview their new, first-time-ever-in-L.A. permanent show, a journey through the world of cinema called Iris.
Some people in Vancouver have raised questions as to whether or not the rest of Canada would support the Canucks the way they united to root on the Sens, Flames and Oilers.
Right now, most of my stories are still spinning around in my brain -- not quite ready to land. So here's the second part of my weekly round-up of my accommodations, written in the form of haiku.
With a musical score by Calexico, Circo is much less about fancy costumes and death-defying acrobatics than it is about dealing with the mud, grime, and family tensions of shlepping a small circus around Mexico.
The NFL released its preseason schedule yesterday. Exactly what football fans were waiting for. They hate preseason games, and they hate them even more because as of now there is no season.
There's something about traveling that changes cultural perspective, and with that in mind, I set out for two radically different cultural experiences last month.
It's true you can now get oysters all year long, but it's the cold winter waters when oysters store up sugars, resulting in a plumper and sweeter tas...