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New York's Metropolitan Opera has lost its second major lead in its highly anticipated staging of Tristan and Isolde after soprano Deborah Voigt, sick with a stomach problem, left during a performance.

It is hard to know if the once-distinguished International Asian Art Fair has been dealt a fatal blow or just knocked backward into starter mode, a phase it had previously managed to skip.

There is enough in "John Milton at 400: A Life Beyond Life," at the New York Public Library, to hint at Milton's extraordinary life, and an even more overwhelming afterlife.

For her swan song on Thursday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rosamond Bernier wore a gauzy dress in which she resembled an exotic bird with green-and-black plumage.

South by Southwest thrives on the plain fact that people still love music: making it, hearing it, dancing to it, even marketing it.

"Ladies and Gents," a noir-ish thriller from Ireland with a cast of six, will open on Monday for a two-week engagement in the public bathrooms near the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park.

As the television writers' strike slowly gnaws its way through the TV grid, the question arises: What else is there to watch? Doesn't Al Gore have some kind of television channel, among his many worthy pursuits? Maybe nobody there's on strike.

Admit it, now that the World Series trophy has paraded through every Middlesex village and farm. You are starting to feel a little sorry for them. The New York Yankees, I mean.

Move over, Prince Charles. Former Boston University president John Silber covets your title as the world's leading Architecture Crank.

BUENOS AIRES, Mar 14 (IPS) - The soap opera has proved itself an effective medium for portraying social problems in Latin America, and now a popular one in Argentina is addressing an issue on which the news broadcasts have remained silent: the disappearance of women for commercial sexual exploitation.