Every subculture has its in-jokes. Classical musicians are no exception, and the punchline usually involves a viola.

In 2014, attendance at the movies hit its lowest level in two decades.

2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Orson Welles.

An exhibit of Francisco Goya's paintings and prints at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts showcases an amazing talent and a personality who lived through extraordinary and frequently horrifying times.

Hank Williams

The Hollywood musical was slaughtered onscreen for the entertainment of the spectator in The Phantom of Hollywood, a horribly tacky made-for-TV movie.

Before The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien was a philologist, a specialist in historical texts.

Little Orphan Annie is the latest in a sequence of pop culture foundlings, but America’s orphans of the Great Depression weren’t endearing at all.

Ludwig van Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 in Bonn, Germany.

Guglielmo Marconi successfully made the first transatlantic radio transmission on December 12, 1901.