"Your ideas on bidding are interesting," a reader writes. "Sometimes I even agree with you. (Sorry.) But you're off base when you advocate raising a major-suit response with three-card support. If responder can bid a four-card suit, opener needs four cards to raise." Experts often raise with three....

Mo'Nique is recalling the toughest days on the set of "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire." In the film, a searing drama about a teenager overcoming extreme physical and emotional abuse, Mo'Nique stars as the protagonist's toxically cruel mother, who subjects her daughter to incest,...

Forgive me, readers, for I have sinned. Whenever I've gone by Titian's great "Venus With a Mirror," sitting topless in the Renaissance rooms at the National Gallery of Art, or Canova's marble "Naiad," lounging a floor below in the no-kini of a classical goddess, carnal thoughts have come to me.

The pins are displayed in glass cases at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York so that the jeweled butterflies seem to be in mid-flight and the patriotic eagles and flags sparkle like Fourth of July fireworks in a vitrine. The exhibition, "Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection,"...

The visitors comment book at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's exhibition "1934: A New Deal for Artists" has taken on a distinct note of nostalgia. "America needs another public works art program now," wrote Gene, from Maryland, after looking at paintings created for President Franklin...

A potential lightning rod lurks in the first line -- actually, the first few words. No wonder, then, that Signature Theatre Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer, choreographer Karma Camp and a group of African American actors were in a rehearsal room recently, trying out a new approach to the opening of...

Flip the channel and feel the burn. The history of exercise on TV stretches to 1951 and "The Jack LaLanne Show." Amazingly, despite the advent of home video, LaLanne's successors are still on the air, lifting and thrusting and smiling too hard. By way of seeing what kind of shape the genre is in,...

BERLIN -- Daniel Barenboim, who was in town the night the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, is joining Bon Jovi, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa and Hillary Clinton to celebrate the 20th anniversary.

Dear Carolyn: I'm involved with a married man, which I didn't know until after we became involved and this breaks one of my core values -- so even though I love his company (we're no longer physically involved), I hate that I'm in the middle of someone else's marriage. To make matters worse, it q...

PARIS -- Federico Fellini, once viewed by some as a mere farceur, has become a classic. The Jeu de Paume is honoring the Italian film director with a vast exhibition, aptly named "La Grande Parade."