Small businesses have ramped up their hiring in recent months, fueled by a recovering economy and more optimistic business owners.
After my 7-year-old daughter's sleepover and a few hours before my 9-year-old son's play date, and just in the middle of quieting my daughter's whining about her impending piano lesson last Saturday morning, I stumbled upon "Why Chinese Moms are Superior," Amy Chua's Wall Street Journal article that's created a firestorm.
Olga Guillot, the Cuban singer known as the "Queen of the Bolero," died at a hospital Monday in Miami, Florida. She was 87.
An Iranian father and son use music to bridge the cultural divide. CNN's Richard Roth reports.
Diplomacy hasn't worked. Sanctions have achieved little. Relations between Iran and the United States are, at best, chilly. So why not try music?
Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa, known as "the voice of Latin America" for her songs about the plight of the poor, died Sunday, according to an announcement on her Web site. She was 74.
EDEN PRAIRIE, MINN. -- The plan going into the Minnesota Vikings' third preseason game is to have Brett Favre play the first half, or slightly less than five innings. Manager Brad Childress and pitching coach Darrell Bevell -- that is, head coach and offensive coordinator, respectively -- will be watching closely from the dugout, or rather, sideline and booth to gauge Favre's velocity and location. Going over signs and getting some rhythm with his young backstop, er, catcher, er, center John Sullivan has been a daily part of workouts for the recently signed veteran NFL passer. If he gives up takes too many hits, Favre could be in for a rough night Monday against the Houston Astros Texans at Minute Maid Park Reliant Stadium.
Musicians from around the world met at Carnegie Hall to give the first performance as the YouTube Symphony Orchestra.
The YouTube and Carnegie Hall generations collided Wednesday night in New York City as a nearly sold-out audience looked on in amazement.
A Grammy-nominated classical pianist who wears personalized trainers, Lang Lang is one-of-a-kind in the world of classical music.
Pianist Lang Lang has a striking image to match a prodigious talent, creating a thoroughly modern classical musician.
CNN's Richard Roth reports on one tenant's fight to keep her apartment in Carnegie Hall.
Editta Sherman has celebrated more than half a century's worth of new years in her palatial studio apartment above New York's Carnegie Hall. But it's unlikely the celebrated portrait photographer will be raising her glass there next year.
OK, so brilliant reader David (in Toledo) offered up a great statistic that I did not know -- he says that the aforementioned Richie Scheinblum is the only All-Star outfielder in baseball history to not steal a single base in his career. Actually David says he BELIEVES this to be true but, in brilliant reader fashion, would not swear to it. On this blog, we don't swear to anything.
Kidman remembers husband's promise: "Let me give you a home and a baby"
I am not standing near enormous platters of shrimp and sushi under a tent at Lincoln Center. I am not listening to Maroon Five play while the stars of "Gossip Girl" glow and mingle. I am not at the annual television upfronts because, as you may have heard, they don't really exist any more. They are over, a relic of the past like drive-in movies or bolo ties or Cabbage Patch dolls.
Trudie Styler rebuffs a report ranking their fund-raising group at "bottom of the bucket"
Soprano Hila Plitmann, from 'The Da Vinci Code' soundtrack, sings with the Atlanta Symphony at Carnegie Hall.
"The Here and Now" might well be subtitled "Redeeming Rumi." As if to save us from the new-age squish of much contemporary rediscovery of the 13th-century Persian poet's work, Christopher Theofanidis' 33-minute sonic salon is an exhilarating setting bound for a Carnegie Hall debut April 5.
Pianist Oscar Peterson succumbs to kidney failure at his home in Ontario, Canada, dying at the age of 82.
CNN's Porter Anderson talks with 15-year-old composer Jay Greenberg at the Carnegie Hall premiere of his Violin Concerto.
As the interview is ending, Jay Greenberg sneaks in one of his goals for next year. "I have to learn to drive, as well."
J.K. Rowling has belatedly outed her wizard. But John Cloud doesn't see it as a triumph for gay equality
During a New York City reading with delighted fans, the author explains that Dumbledore is gay
However up and down the temperatures may be, it's springtime for violinist Joshua Bell.
As a managing director in charge of software-equity research at CIBC, Melissa Eisenstat worked 70-hour weeks, spent 70 percent of her time on the road, and, she recalls, "when Bill Gates sneezed, I...
LH: Lorraine Hahn LL: Lang Lang
A new Web site designed to help people settle billing disputes with merchants went online Wednesday.
Love hanging out with hipsters in boutique hotels but hate the dorm-size rooms? Wherever you're going, there's probably a stylish indie alternative with larger-than-usual rooms, so you can spread o...
Violinist Miri Ben-Ari studied Beethoven and Bach as a child, but her passion followed the rhymes of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac.
How do you get to the Supreme Court? For lawyers, it's like the old joke about Carnegie Hall: Practice, practice, practice.
It was all in the future then.
Justine Stamen, 33, has seen tragedy up close. In 1988 her best friend, Teak Dyer, was murdered on the eve of her high school graduation. Then in 1997, DeWitt White, who'd been her student at an ac...
He has orchestrated some of the biggest mergers in history, making Citigroup the world's largest financial services firm ($1 trillion--plus in assets, market cap of $231 billion). And though Weill ...
FSB: A Rank Search Toolupdated: Fri Nov 01 2002 00:01:00
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get to the top of search engine listings? More practice than it's worth. I was wary of First Place Software's WebPosition Gold 2 ($149) and its...
FSB: [Opera Singing]updated: Fri Mar 01 2002 00:01:00
--Brent Habig wasn't always an opera fan. His instrument of choice as a music student at Oberlin College was the piano. "I didn't get it," he says of opera's divas and drama. "It was so overblown, ...
Yonah Lloyd is itching to hang up on me. I haven't said anything to offend him, but nonetheless Lloyd, vice president of business development at Internet phone company Net2Phone, wants off. He want...
In August, I treated myself to a night on the town: mouth-watering Italian fare at Brooklyn's Coney Island followed by a Brooklyn Cyclones game at Keyspan Park, the picturesque stadium built for th...
Thanks to an exchange between Chairman Sanford Weill and a questioner at Citigroup's annual meeting in mid-April at Carnegie Hall, the company's shareholders gained a new, deeper understanding of j...
It's hard to imagine Jim Cramer--the hyperactive hedge fund manager turned Web entrepreneur turned market pundit--parking himself in front of a television every Friday night. Yet Cramer says there ...
At Citigroup's annual meeting in April, Sanford I. Weill, still at that moment a co-CEO, took the spacious stage of Carnegie Hall and conducted the third act of a discordant corporate drama. Two Ap...
There's no hotter liquor right now than tequila. Between 1995 and 1998, tequila consumption rose 30%, vs. 2% for other alcohols. Riding this glory is Sammy Hagar--better known as David Lee Roth's r...
From Spirituals to Swing (Vanguard)
In business, workspace is destiny. From lobby to back office to plant floor, the places where we do our jobs influence how well we work--or don't.
Three years ago in September, the head of human resources at Bankers Trust wrote a letter to Frank Newman, who had just stepped down as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. It began: "On behalf of the...
Fortune: Duke at 100updated: Mon Jun 22 1998 00:01:00
That noise you hear is the sound of the chairs being put in order for next year's celebration of Duke Ellington's centenary. Composer, songwriter (there is a distinction), bandleader, instrumentali...
Fortune: Coughs Includedupdated: Mon Feb 02 1998 00:01:00
The ten-disk New York Philharmonic: The Historic Broadcasts, 1923 to 1987 (New York Philharmonic Special Editions, 800-557-8268) features the era's greatest conductors and soloists--and some truly ...
Sanford ''Sandy'' Weill's own musical accomplishments never got much beyond some childhood piano lessons and high school drum beating. But now he's got a gig in Carnegie Hall. Weill, 58, the CEO of...
^ As never before, immortality is for sale. What kind? The kind that comes when a donor cements his name to an institution: Stanford University, Carnegie Hall, Rhodes Scholarships, the Pulitzer Pri...
Fortune: A Wolf from Tigerupdated: Mon Jan 18 1988 00:01:00
He has a reputation for saving failing airlines -- first Republic, then Tiger International -- by persuading labor to submit to his cost slashing. But United Airlines' new chief executive, Stephen ...
Fortune: THE EDITOR'S DESKupdated: Mon May 12 1986 00:01:00
HOW LARGE COMPANIES work has fascinated Walter Kiechel since his days as a student at Harvard Business School. ''I'm impressed by how tough it is to run a big organization,'' he says. ''You can nev...
A RECENT CALLER seeking an appointment got a wry response. ''Name your time,'' said Sanford I. Weill. ''I'm free.'' That he is, though not for lack of trying to pick his way into a vaultful of work...
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