Memorial Day is traditionally the start of summer, although most Americans are still at their wintertime tasks. Political types get out to cemeteries dotted with small flags and praise those who have served this country in the...

Dan Walker on Film         Director:  Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage) Writers:  Sergio G. Sánchez, María Belón Cast:   Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive, 21 Grams, I Heart Huckabees) Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge, Big Fish) Tom...

Dan Walker on Film   This DVD review of “Life of Pi” — which I reviewed when it opened in theatres and before it’s well-deserved four Academy Award wins (Director, Cinematography, Visual Effects, Original Score) — is in...

Now that I have the news on again – I’m playing the video and sound through my iPod dock with a 7″ screen now — I figured I’d be patient with any reasonable news about the surviving...

The Philadelphia Orchestra is honoring its former music director Wolfgang Sawallisch by altering the program for its final concerts in May. Current intendant Yannick Nezet-Seguin has substituted the first movement Of Schumann’s Second Symphony, a Sawallisch specialty,...