Artist in Retreat: Late Renoir in Philadelphia

The late-career works of Renoir, in which he rejected Impressionism, are being shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The Three Ahabs

Call me Ishmael. But don't ask me to chronicle for hundreds of pages a mythical and mad contest between obsessive whaler and elusive white whale. No. Instead I carve here one piece of analytic scrimshaw, depicting the modern whale hunters who've long sailed around the moratorium on whale hunting.

Share some sherry before, during or after dinner

Enjoyed in Spain for centuries, sherry has a place at the table--and the party--today, whether you are noshing on olives, ham and nuts before dinner or forking down a decadent chocolate cake afterward.

PB wristband: a sports must-have?

LAGUNA NIGUEL Rounding many of the sports world's most famous wrists is today's mystical, must-have, performance-enhancing accessory: the Power Balance wristband. Los Angeles Laker forward Lamar Odom wears two yellow silicone bands on his left...

Don't cry for Argentina: Its capital is blooming

Buenos Aires is all polished up after Argentina's recent bicenntenial.