Some Movies

As the Bastille Falls, Gossip in Versailles - NYT Critics' Pick
‘Farewell, My Queen,’ Set at Versailles

Missing Child Seems Found, but His Family Is at a Loss - NYT Critics' Pick
‘The Imposter,’ About the Con Artist Frédéric Bourdin

Baseball Dreams and Schemes - NYT Critics' Pick
‘Ballplayer: Pelotero,’ Baseball Scouting in the Dominican Republic

Suppose...

Hating on Congress is a beloved American tradition. Hence Mark Twain’s old joke, “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” But the 112th Congress is no ordinary congress. It’s a very bad, no good, terrible Congress. It is, in fact, one of the very worst congresses we have ever had. Here, I’ll prove it: Moar

Monet at the Home Depot

Claude Monet and his waterlilies, left, at Giverny. At center, waterlilies, many of them the varieties he grew, float in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory pools at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. The exhibition's groupings take cues from Monet's but are not copies. More Photos »
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: July 11, 2012

FOR most of his adult life, Claude Monet painted with one hand and planted with the other. Over time, the two activities became almost inseparable. Moar/blockquote>
A Giverny Garden in Queens