IF YOU GO Who: Rick FaugnoÕs ÒSongs My Idols Sang (and Danced)Ó When: 3 p.m. Sunday Where: South Point Tickets: $20 to $30; 797-8055, (866) 796-7111 or southpointcasino.com See additional photos of Rick Faugno at South Point and watch a video report on ...

From the dripping paint of Jackson Pollock to the paper cutouts of Henri Matisse and the tap routines of Fred Astaire, jazz has inspired some of the greatest artists of the past century. Those influences are celebrated in "The Jazz Century," a new Paris exhibition ...

I recently discovered that until the early 1900s it was considered the height of bad manners for gentlemen to take off their hats indoors. As a mark of great favour, the hostess might ask those sitting closest to her to remove their hats, in which case they had to be stowed neatly under their chairs. Fifty years later, Vidal Sassoon ...

Fred AstaireBy Joseph EpsteinYale University Press, 198 pages, $22 You know you’re in trouble when the author of a book on a popular artist drags in lofty literary references to justify what he clearly regards as his own intellectual slumming. In this case, Joseph Epstein, the author of Snobbery (2002) and the former editor of The American Scholar, invokes ...