And I mean that in the most fruitfully happy way. The Kennedy Center’s scrumptious revival of “Monty Python’s Spamalot” supplies just the kind of relief you crave from the continual nonsense in the ...

As the psychiatrist Dr. Melfi says to Tony in the pilot episode of “The Sopranos,” “Hope comes in many forms.” I was reminded of this the other day when I found my finger glued to the hand of another ...