Arts and Culture

Goldman Sachs Bankers Spin on Merry-Go-Round With West Point Cadets: Books The bankers of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. may be in for a surprise: They have more in common with West Point cadets than they know.

Top London Chefs Auction Home Cooking; Harrods Opens Wonderland: Food Buzz Twenty leading chefs helped raise a total of 400,000 pounds ($600,000) for leukemia care when they prepared dinner and auctioned off their services for private dining at the annual Leuka charity dinner on March 8 in London.

See Nicole Kidman Sulk, Hear Chopin Play, Rea Warble: Great London Weekend Steal a glimpse of a sulking Nicole Kidman as the Friday stop on your weekend in London.

Phantom of the Opera Spooks Coney Island in Fun $9 Million Sequel: Review The Phantom of the Opera, last seen fleeing from the bowels of the Paris opera, has resurfaced as an impresario in Coney Island.

`Scottsboro' Turns Nightmare Into `Chicago' Style Musical: Jeremy Gerard On the stage of New York’s Vineyard Theatre, John Cullum swoons, lost in reverie. Behind the white actor, nine worn black men sing “Southern Days,” a ghostly ode to Dixie as sweet-sounding as “My Old Kentucky Home.”

Sotheby's Outlook Raised to Positive by S&P Following Quarterly Profit Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services raised its outlook on Sotheby’s debt to positive from negative after the New York auctioneer reported a fourth-quarter profit of $73.6 million.

Per Se, Ramsay Alums Bring Heat, Sodium Blitzkrieg to Recette: Ryan Sutton Recette serves supermodel-friendly small plates and rewards the fashionably layered.

Spector Seeks $7 Million to Modernize `Raunchy' Public Theater Building Wearing a white hardhat, former Bear Stearns Cos. Co-President Warren Spector chipped plaster with a gold-plated wood mallet yesterday in the lobby of New York’s Public Theater, signifying the latest change at what was once the grand Astor Library.

Pink Floyd, Queen May Ditch EMI as Guy Hands's Buyout Mission `Implodes' Pink Floyd and Queen, bands that have been with EMI Music for about four decades, may head for the door, according to two people familiar with their talks, as concern mounts about the U.K. record label’s finances.

Top Five Nonfiction Books From Conover to Rove: Bloomberg Muse Recommends With so many books in the stores, we’re often asked for recommendations. Here’s a list of recent nonfiction titles: