Tavern on the Green

“Mr. Popper’s Penguins” is precious, protracted and pleasant enough, if not exactly potty trained. It pops from beloved children’s book to the screen as a passable time-passer for the pre-school set. Oh, the alliteration! That&#...

Robert Olen Butler's upcoming novel seems to echo his 2007 divorce, which was overly exposed when his email about it wound up on Gawker....

Some people get poisoned by shellfish, some people get poisoned by brownies in today's roundup of food news. --Tavern on the Green files for bankruptcy. Bloomberg --Why we're storing billions of seeds. TED --The hoki, an unlikely star among seafood,......

You want the recipe for Babycakes' much-loved vegan chocolate cupcakes? You got it! This and more in today's food news roundup. --Eight great street-food vendors in Los Angeles. Gourmet --Will investors show an appetite for local food? An exploration of.....

How will two-buck Chuck compete against 7-Eleven's new wines? How does someone steal 70 cases of pizza? How do you open a bottle of wine with nothing but willpower and your shoe? All this and more in today's food news......

Hollywood said goodbye on Saturday to Meinhardt Raabe, one of the original Munchkins in the "Wizard of Oz." Flowers were placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame star for the Munchkins, according to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Raabe, 94,......

To the extent that such events can be fixed in time, the moment Mayor Philip A. Giordano's obsession with sex jumped from back-alley gossip to pressing political business occurred at the end of a corny downtown Christmas pageant. Giordano backers, the...

If Jill McCorkle had to sum up her new novel, the description would go something like this: "It ain't over 'til it's over." Trust McCorkle, author of six novels and four short story collections, to get right to the big, generous heart of Life After Life...

Ambition can be overrated. Look what it did for Julius Caesar. Tavern at the Park, an 11-week-old restaurant across the street from Millennium Park's north border, is not going to die of overambition. But neither will it scare off visitors with exotic...

Phillips Seafood, the last of the original Harborplace tenants, is leaving Baltimore’s waterfront mall. But it appears the restaurant — once one of the nation’s busiest eateries — won’t be going far when it closes on Sept....

Robert Hilburn was pop music critic for the Los Angeles Times for 35 years, from the psychedelic era to the emergence of the iPod. He witnessed many of rock 'n' roll's seminal moments and interviewed virtually every major pop figure of the period. All...

Rebecca D. Dorsey, a Baltimore-born and -raised chanteuse, died Sept. 14 of ovarian cancer at her home in Sea Cliff, N.Y. She was 54. The daughter of a physician and a public relations executive, Rebecca Devereux Dorsey was born in Baltimore and raised...