John Milton

To understand why the hiring of Brian Bannon as Chicago's public library commissioner caused a more-than-ordinary stir, let us quote a learned cultural authority. That authority is not Socrates. It is not Shakespeare. It is not Goethe. Nor is it...

It didn't start with Twitter — and it won't end with Weiner. For centuries, the theme of sexual sins committed by the powerful has been scintillating source material for the arts. In poems and plays, in novels and films and TV series, artists...

After the coffee. Before reading Steve Jobs' FBI file. The Skinny: The final thing I did before falling asleep Thursday night was watch "Top Chef" (I'm a day behind) and get worked up about how mean all the chefs are......

In the middle of a publicity blitz for “Veep,” the new HBO comedy series premiering Sunday that stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a frustrated vice president, Armando Iannucci is holed up at the Trump International Hotel on Columbus Circle in...

Edgar Allen Poe and John Milton had their time in the sun at San Diego's Comic-Con....

For a concert that has been billed as a match made in Hell, the temperature inside the Sovereign Center in Reading Wednesday night was a welcome relief from the scorching heat wave that has been cursing the rest of the......

In an attempt to honor Florida's veterans, the Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs managed to insult not only veterans but also minorities and virtually all rational people who inhabit the state. This courtesy of Mike Prendergast, the former Rick...

John Milton's epic poem is getting the Alex “The Crow” Proyas treatment early next year. He's landed Bradley Cooper to play Lucifer and Benjamin Walker as his Michael. And now there's an Angel of Death for the film. The great Djimon Hounsou...

The Democrat gives a preview of the president's speech next week on the U.S. troop drawdown in Iraq....

Feb. 21, 1961: The choice of which Mercury astronaut will be the first launched into space narrows to Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr., Air Force Capt. Virgil L. Grissom and Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr. Herman Abrams'......

A little respect, if you please, for His Satanic Majesty Nicolas Cage. Nobody goes off the deep end like Nic. Nobody gives better value in bad movies than the sleepy-eyed Oscar winner with a gift for picking bad movies. “Drive Angry” is a very...

A look ahead at the spring season in performance and dance. Lemi Ponifasio/MAU The Samoan-born, New Zealand-based choreographer and theater artist pays homage to Shakespeare and explores more contemporary ideas about personal freedom and political tyranny...