Teresa Wiltz

(Music) 1889-The "divine" Claudia Muzio, one of the most celebrated dramatic sopranos of the first half of the 20th Century (especially in Chicago, where she reigned supreme from 1922 to...

"Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be `white' - they would be only Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh and others engaged in class, ethnic, and gender...

This summer, the DreamWorks studio (with Paramount) scheduled its apocalyptic space-chunk extravaganza, "Deep Impact," to beat Disney's "Armageddon" to the megaplexes. Then DreamWorks rushed the release of its computer ant-imation...

There was a time when the excitement of a live music concert rested in its very liveness, the electricity of improvisation--warts, flubbed notes and all. In recent years, however, many...

N'Dea Davenport N'Dea Davenport (V2) No doubt about it, N'Dea Davenport's got a Voice, a smokey, supple thing that teases and pleases, wrapping itself with ease around a bluesy ballad...

Brandy Never Say Never (Atlantic) She's achingly wholesome, R&B's braided answer to Sandra Dee. Brandy Norwood's debut, "Brandy," tickled the ear with perky, head-bopping grooves that spoke of friendship and...

He is, to put it mildly, a character: He's a much married man - currently he's on No. 6. He campaigned for mayor of New York with Jimmy Breslin as...

We're not ashamed to admit it: `Titanic' made us cry. And it got us to thinking about other movies that left us in tears. Here, then, is our list of...

Throw in some hoops -- as in hula, not b-ball -- a pool cue, a back walkover, a couple of flips and a pirouette or two, and you've got Melissa...

They are endangered, coming from a tradition that borders on extinction -- an ancient people grappling with the absurdities of a modern world. Throw in the added perplexities of being...