Dave Biro produces “intelligent lyrics for tots” after having been stricken with encephalitis.

The annual Easter lily display is the Julius Roehrs Company’s longest running show at Rockefeller Center.

African tradition holds that there is a library within every living elder. Then there is the extraordinary repository that is Dr. Arthur C. Thornhill.

Ensconced in a rose leather chair in her studio apartment, Taewon Yi Kim, a classically trained coloratura mezzo-soprano, looks decidedly undivalike.

Reading is the source of Carol Kolb Phillips’s power.

Precisely 107 years ago tomorrow, four Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary — two from Louvain, Belgium, and two from Rouen, France — stepped off the steamer Gascogne, which had left Calais, France, 11 days earlier.

During Lent, traditionally a time of spiritual reflection, a teacher might expound on the virtues of fasting, while a preacher might excoriate the self-absorbed preoccupations of the times.

What do you call an entertainer who is paralyzed at 21 but goes on to dance in 40 films and to teach John Travolta, Michael Bennett, Susan Stroman, Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Elliot Gould, Liza Minnelli, Twyla Tharp, Robert Morse and countless others his unique dance style?

“Pan’ e vino, San Martino” is frequently uttered in Sicilian households before Nov. 11, when the feast of St. Martin of Tours is celebrated.

The artistry of Sicilian pasticcieri, or pastry chefs, is renowned throughout Italy. But at Easter, when they create the queen of Sicilian desserts, cassata, the full extent of their virtuosity is most apparent.