It's that time of year, when the fictionalized retelling of the von Trapp family and in particular, Maria von Trapp, escape from Austria as it is annexed by Nazis Germany, comes to prime time. This ...

Forward-looking: When wildfires sweep through the dry hills outside Los Angeles, homes can be lost in moments. A California startup imagines a different outcome: as embers fall and nearby brush ...

A wildfire burns in the hills of a Los Angeles suburb, leaping from one patch of dry brush to another as it approaches a cluster of homes. The landscaping at the first house burns, but the house ...

The word legend is bandied about a bit too much these days—suggested for any musician who lasts a decade and releases three good albums, bestowed on any artist who headlines a festival and plays for ...

Sound, when emitted by a source — whether a person or a piece of equipment — propagates in all directions through space, being reflected, absorbed, transmitted, or diffracted as it encounters surfaces ...

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I’m tempted to call “The Phoebe Variations” a came-of-age book. Wisconsin writer Jane Hamilton’s eighth novel — the “A Map of the World” writer’s first since “The Excellent Lombards” in 2016 — is of a ...

Since its premiere at Cannes Film Festival back in May of this year, The History of Sound has generated more buzz than your average wartime melodrama, largely due to its star casting. With Paul Mescal ...

As the guitar-strumming will-o'-the-wisp Maria von Trapp, Julie Andrews taught us a few of her favorite things. And six decades on, "The Sound of Music" is still one of ours. Based on Rodgers and ...

Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor play lovers who embark on a folk song-recording mission in this demure New England drama. By Natalia Winkelman When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

Scientists have captured direct images of heat behaving like sound — an elusive phenomenon called 'second sound' — for the very first time. Imaged within an exotic superfluid state of cold lithium-6 ...

Director Oliver Hermanus follows two men united in love and music, but his style is overly pictorial and polite, and so is the film's romantic passion. In “Brokeback Mountain,” the two lead characters ...