Carmen Miranda

Elane Stein, a prominent figure in Baltimore broadcasting whose career in radio and television spanned more than three decades, died Sunday at St. Vincent's Hospital in Santa Fe, N.M., from injuries she suffered in a fall at her home a day earlier. Ms....

DONALD ERB, 81 Electronic composer Donald Erb, a composer with a strong interest in electronic music who was prominent on the avant-garde scene of the 1960s and 1970s, died last week at his home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. His death Tuesday came...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — Brazilian composer and singer Dorival Caymmi, who catapulted to fame when Carmen Miranda performed one of his songs in 1938, has died. He was 94. He died Saturday of kidney cancer and multiple organ failure in his Rio de Janeiro...

Conceptually sophisticated and visually smashing, the installation design that artist Jorge Pardo conceived and executed for the impressive Pre-Columbian collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was unveiled to the public Sunday. Unlike anything...

It's as fresh as a summer breeze rolling in gently off the waves, as young as the sun-worshipers crowding the white-hot beaches of Rio. Yet bossa nova—the serenely seductive music that Brazil gave the world—this summer turns 50, an absurd...

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Genius Products, $24.95 Taking place over one harrowing weekend in '80s Bucharest, "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" follows a frazzled woman trying to secure an illegal abortion for her university roommate. Aside from the...

By Robin Blaetz Fairly early in her new book about the manufacture of movie stars in Hollywood's classical period, Jeanine Basinger confesses she was an usher in a movie theater for a decade after World War II. This fact, rather than the knowledge...

In a cityscape long associated with the flat, black facades of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the arrival of Helmut Jahn's State of Illinois Center was akin to Carmen Miranda crashing a black-tie ball. From the outside, where it boldly looks out on...

This evening, millions will tune in to a world-famous spectacle involving carefully choreographed moves, intense competition and fanatical spectators. Viewers will largely put aside their complaints that it has lost its authenticity and become beholden to...

The gentle hearted loved Kermit. The kooky kids loved Animal. The aspiring cynics loved those two old guys who made fun of everyone, but we always loved Miss Piggy. She was alternately sweet and tough, glamorous but not afraid to muster a karate kick...

Everyone knows that Chicago is a great steak town, a great ethnic-dining town, the hotbed of molecular gastronomy (food faddists will know what I'm talking about) and a top restaurant destination in general. It is also, I'm happy to report, a terrific...

"The Tarzan Collection, Vol. 2" (Warner, $40): After a successful decade at MGM, the "Tarzan" franchise moved to RKO in 1943. Johnny Weissmuller, who played Tarzan, made the move to the new studio, as did Johnny Sheffield as his son Boy and their pet...