Wes Phillips

When John Atkinson and I were driving from Kansas to New Mexico after recording Rendezvoushttp://ssl.blueearth.net/primedia/product.php?productid=22&cat=1&page=3…;, we spotted a crop duster spraying a roadside field. I was stunned by his precision at high speed—and by the exuberant loops with which he terminated each run. It looked incredibly difficult, and also like he was having a ball.

I told you baaaad things happened when you monkey around with sheep.

If, when listening to the music of John Coltrane, you've been asking yourself what am I missing?, Traneumentary will give you answers. It's a podcast series that interleaves commentary and Coltrane's music with interviews with collaborators like McCoy Tyner and Jimmy Cobb, contemporary musicians like Terence Blanchard and Jason Moran, and legendary producers Michael Cuscuna and Joel Dorn—not to mention the great man himself.

We attended the New York Philharmonic Saturday, and, if the classical record industry is in trouble, classical music is still vibrantly alive. Ionarts gets it precisely right, Saturday's concert was about as balanced a program as I've ever heard and it was a meeting of equals.

The story behind The Raft of the Medusa. Like the painting, it isn't pretty, but you can't look away.

Why theater goers in Epidaurus could hear actors from 60m away.

Edward Tufte, information pioneer.