Washingtonians out for a recent night at the opera left their tux-and-tails at home, instead donning tee shirts and visored caps for a performance screened gratis at the city's main baseball stadium. "Opera in the Outfield", sponsored by the Washington National Opera company last weekend, offered thousands of area residents an evening of classical music in the decidedly informal ...

Ithink my favourite ever name for a campaigning, single-issue pressure group can be found in the New York telephone directory: The National Stigma Clearing House. Its purpose is to stamp upon stigma wheresoever it may arise -- and recently it turned its attention to a television programme called Loonatics Unleashed which, according to the NSCH, 'gives new life to the most ...