NBC continued to steamroll over its network-television competitors on Monday as its coverage of the Olympic games attracted an average of 30 million viewers during prime time.

Soul Calibur IV offers some of the most kinetic, balletic, gorgeously rendered over-the-top fighting experience on the market today.

George R. Steel, who is resigning as executive director of the Miller Theater at Columbia University, arrives in Dallas a year before the opera company plans to move into its new house.

The curators of “Prokofiev and His World” at the Bard Music Festival are concerned with exploring aspects of the composer’s life.

CNN, which will assign to 10 cities journalists who will borrow office space and use laptops, is hardly alone in its approach.

A conservative gadfly who attacked John Kerry’s war record has released a book painting Barack Obama as a stealth radical liberal.

Mr. Slobodyanik was a Ukrainian-born pianist who earned stardom in the former Soviet Union with his virtuosity and emotional interpretations of Romantic composers.

Mr. Castelli was a painter, a screenwriter, a balletomane and a choreographer as well as a producer.

Bob Dylan played to a sold-out crowd at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn on Tuesday night.

Free folk music will return to Governors Island this summer, beginning with a performance by Janis Ian on July 5. The second annual Folks on the Island: A Folk Music Festival on Governors Island will run for five Saturdays, ending Aug. 2. Other performers include Slaid Cleaves (July 12), Bearfoot (July 19), Eric Bibb (July 26) and Ronny Cox. Free ferry service to the island will leave from the Battery Maritime Building every hour on the hour beginning at 10 a.m. The concerts, at Colonel’s