Humor

Humor Me: When cancer became an afterthought

23 May 2012

Until Saturday, I had almost forgotten my father was diagnosed with prostate cancer just about four years ago.

Jeremy Denk: Playing Ligeti With A Dash Of Humor

23 May 2012

The pianist's new album features some of the most difficult etudes ever written for solo piano by the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti. "Ligeti took the piano to places it had never been before," he says, "and makes demands of the pianist and the mind that had never been made before."

Humor hotel: OK, put up your #dukes and tweet like a man!

23 May 2012

I recently drove past my old middle school, stopping to gaze at the faded brick, the worn asphalt and the large grassy playground field, which doubled as an Ultimate Fighting octagon.