Arts

In an attempt to learn Italian while living in Rome, I dated Italian men and developed the following highly scientific theory: Italian men love women and tolerate sex to get them, whereas American men love sex and tolerate women to get some.

Chimes' work is everything contemporary painting can be: engaging in terms of content, original and personal in expression, aesthetically compelling, and not exclusively two-dimensional.

Jamestown really begins to come together only when John Rolfe and Pocahontas stop texting each other and start communicating through telepathy.

"Nothing ever happens underground in Louisiana/ Cause there ain't no underground in Louisiana/ There is only underwater." So sings Caroline Thibodeaux at the opening of Caroline, Or Change, which premiered nearly two years before Hurricane Katrina.

Director Jared Reed presents the further adventures of ordinary human Arthur Dent; his alien pal, Ford Prefect; and their all-knowing talking book, with more style.

Ever felt like different parts of your mind were vying against one another for your attention? Well, then you're cued in to the vibe of Pig Iron Theatre's Chekhov Lizardbrain.

Kristina Wong's one-woman show addresses the high rate of mental illness and suicide among Asian-American women, but don't expect the Los Angeles-based performer to offer a cut-and-dried explanation. "I'm not a brochure," says Wong.

With his new The Castle in the Forest , his first book since adding his own spin to the life of Jesus Christ in 1997's The Gospel According to the Son, the octogenarian Mailer sets his sights on the young years of Adolf Hitler.