Word: eclecticism
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To most of these graduates, eclectic a key word. It certainly applies to the food served at Miss Ruby's Café, which opened late last year in Manhattan. Says Ruth Bronz, the Texas-born owner-chef: "I plan menu changes on a regular basis, switching from Cajun-Creole to New...
DIED. Fernand Braudel, 83, eminent French historian and leading practitioner of the Annales school, or "new history," an approach that focuses on climate and geography, sociocultural processes and accounts of everyday life and thought, and downplays the roles of great men and political events, which he labeled "surface disturbances, crests...
DIED. Lucia Chase, 88, indomitable co-founder and, from 1945 to 1980, co-director and financial angel of the American Ballet Theatre, to which she helped transplant the traditions of the great European troupes and which she helped forge into one of the world's best companies; in New York...
Ekow Eshun's new job comes with a really cool office. He was recently appointed artistic director of London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, and his office walls are still blank. The space boasts high ceilings and a window you can step through onto a breezy balcony overlooking St. James...
The wildly eclectic mix of participants on the panel, convened at the annual publishing industry tradeshow Book Expo America, included indie creators Adrian Tomine (Optic Nerve) and Charles Burns (Black Hole) with superhero/pulp auteur Frank Miller (Sin City) and novelist-turned-superhero-comics writer Brad Meltzer (Identity Crisis), who sat...