He built a fortune lending to low-income borrowers shunned by banks. He paid staff below-market wages and thought they still earned too much. He gave away almost all his wealth to a handful of ...

Shelved too quickly after poor early word, Charles Burnett's romantic drama starring Lynn Redgrave and James Earl Jones ...

In her heyday, Lina Cavalieri was heralded as the most beautiful woman in the world — a superstar of the Belle Epoque whose legacy is kept alive by a Milan-based, family-run design firm that fell in ...

The story of two Jewish cousins in 1939 New York City who create an anti-fascist comic book hero, the Escapist, comes as a ...

The Metropolitan Opera will double cast a portion of Verdi and Puccini revivals and shift some contemporary compositions away from Saturdays at the recommendation of a consultant trying to boost ...