Breaking into an art museum with works worth tens of millions of dollars should be harder than stealing from a Walmart, right? Perhaps not. Last week, thieves stole an estimated $130 million of art from Rotterdam’s Kunsthal Museum in just under 90 seconds. Under the ...

Video: Security footage from the Kunsthal Museum art heist

Martin McDonagh has made a career writing dark comedies in which blood flows by the gallon, but his own story reads more like a Dickens novel. The son of working-class Irish immigrants in London, he dropped out of school at 16. Just ten years later, McDonagh was ...

In 1982, the Missing Persons song “Walking in LA”quickly made Los Angeles the poster child for a national bad habit. The refrain — “Nobody walks in LA” — became an unofficial motto for the city. For Alissa Walker, the song’s claims are just wrong. She gave up her car ...

Slideshow: Walking in LA

In the new book Reinventing Bach, Paul Elie explores how performers and recording artists of the last century — including organist Albert Schweitzer, pianist Glenn Gould, and cellist Pablo Casals — kept teasing out the new in Bach's 300-year-old music. Bach left room for ...

Mary Miller fell in love with a man who made his fortune flipping houses.  When the relationship ended, Mary wasn’t just heartbroken — she wanted to beat him at his own game.On the way to the bank to sign a $400,000 loan, Lee Ann Womack’s “I Hope You Dance” came ...