Murmurs

Chaos reigned on the opening day of the four-day Mood Indigo, the celebrated annual festival of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Read More

The Ultimate Ears 700 noise-isolating earphones are the tiniest buds I've ever placed in my ears. Read More

Sometimes I think theater lovers would be luckier if only we could forget the past and live, as apparently everyone else in America can, pretending that history doesn't exist. Read More

What happens when two pretty young women from conservative upper Egypt take to music, put on indefinite hold all plans of marriage and set off for far-away lands accompanied by three men who are not their relatives? Read More

"I think we are keeping it alive," John Mayall murmurs in a rather sanguine tone responding to my query about the impending death of the blues. Read More

In the loamy swamp's underbrush surrounding Bogalusa, La., four men from Reidsville, N.C.—a former tobacco and textile community north of Greensboro, not far from the Virginia state line—set out to make soul seductress Betty Davis' ultimate record. Read More