Wes Phillips

Now that I don't review DVDs professionally, I almost never watch the commentary tracks. Like most folks, I feel I could use that time watching a movie I've never seen before—yet, a few (a very small few) of 'em are interesting or amusing. I think my favorite was Randy Newman's commentary for Pleasantville, which came off as an insider's view of the Hollywood scoring community (his uncles Lionel and Alfred were both film composers).

Mystery of Napoleon's death laid to rest?

Boy, this is great writing tempered by knowledge and experience.

It's everything you need.

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Bagheera is really a sweet-natured kitty, but she does get irritated with me and my camera.

Bill Greene's photo of a curator examining Whistler's Mother is one of the Boston Globe's best photographs of 2006. See the shot and listen to Greene tell how he got it.

Conductor Kenneth Woods guides us through Mahler's Kindertotenleider. Articles like this 'un are why the web was invented.