Arts and Culture

Grateful Dead Fans Peek at Trippy Archive of Cool Stuff, Trivia: Review Turn left at the giant bust of Abraham Lincoln -- the first dead head you’ll encounter at the New-York Historical Society -- and slip into the small exhibition area where relics of the Grateful Dead are worshipfully displayed.

Johnny Cash's Raw Farewell Songs Overwhelm Sade's Silky Return: Mark Beech Johnny Cash’s rasp cracks and groans like a wooden galleon about to wreck on the rocks. Sade sings in a smooth voice as slinky as a cocktail dress. Corinne Bailey Rae’s crooning melts like fine chocolate.

Wall Street `Generosity Coach' Stresses Focus, How to Say `No': Interview Kathy LeMay lives in the college town of Northampton, Massachusetts, with a mortgage and a 2005 Honda Accord hybrid that she’s paying off mainly by counseling billionaires and others on how to give away their money.

Cameron Diaz, Recession Can't Stop Winemakers From Entering `Ugly' Market Vintner Ben Sharp was waiting to meet a distributor at a New York cafe last year when he spotted actress Cameron Diaz at a nearby table.

Pistol-Packin' Cowboy Tony Blair Ridiculed by Painter Hamilton: Interview Tony Blair stands in the desert with a gun on each hip, wearing a cowboy shirt and a look of mild menace.

Michelin Awards More Stars as 10,000 Bottles of Bubbly Popped: Food Buzz Michelin awards a second star to a Stockholm restaurant and recognizes five Budapest eateries in “Main Cities of Europe 2010,” to be published tomorrow.

Flesh -- Naked, Obese -- Overflows in Freud Paris Show: Jorg von Uthmann Lucian Freud is not exactly what French arbiters of taste expect from contemporary art. He is unashamedly traditional, stubbornly figurative and realistic to the point of being brutal.

Valerie Harper's Boozy Tallulah; Tragic Love in `Next Fall': John Simon Valerie Harper does a bravura turn on Broadway as Tallulah Bankhead in Matthew Lombardo’s “Looped.

Performance Art Empress Engages MoMA Visitors in Staring Contest: Review Marina Abramovic, the empress of international performance art, sits silently at a small table in the soaring atrium at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

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