"If you build it, they will come." Comment.

"Embracing the Influence" is One World Symphony’s continuing exploration of how classical music connects past with present. Comment.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music mines the world’s performing arts community for avant-garde talent, but to helm a new production of "Henry IV, Part One" - one of two productions kicking off the 2003 Next Wave Festival, the organizers didn’t have to look far. Comment.

Can a woman who makes her living tasting and critiquing food find happiness with a burger-and-beer guy? Readers who followed Amanda Hesser’s "Food Diary," in the New York Times Sunday Magazine for a year-and-a-half, know the happy outcome. Comments (1).

Women figure prominently in this weekend’s New French Connection film series at BAMcinematek. Comment.

Public relations man Dan Klores (pictured), who counts among his 100 clients Jennifer Lopez and choreographer Mark Morris, seemed relaxed and accessible at a screening of his first film, the documentary "The Boys of 2nd Street Park" at Brooklyn College on Sept. 19. Comment.

As Hurricane Isabel stormed her way up the coast, the New York Aquarium bravely went ahead with its annual gala in the Seaside Pavilion in Coney Island on Sept. 18. Comment.