The success of “Mad Men” relies at least in part on the glamour of spectacularly messy, self-destructive behavior to a relatively staid audience.

Tattoos have become the ubiquitous cliche of subversive cool.

This week, answers to readers’ questions on social-climbing sister-in-laws, neighbor etiquette, and tipping.

Kieran Culkin plays Wallace Wells, the hero’s roommate, in “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.”

Some ticket prices are being sharply reduced as summer concerts often fail to sell out.

The Salzburg Festival is honoring a major living composer, Wolfgang Rihm, with a premiere of his work “Dionysus” and a program called Kontinent Rihm, which opened on Tuesday.

Emanuel Ax played Chopin on Wednesday in the series A Little Night Music, part of the Mostly Mozart festival at Lincoln Center.

A Brooklyn junkman finds the sweaty path to his own business leads him into a series on Spike TV.

Samuel Maoz’s film “Lebanon” uses Israel’s 1982 war in Lebanon as the backdrop for a view of combat as seen from one tank.

The versatile and in-demand supporting actress Patricia Clarkson assumes the lead in the romance “Cairo Time.”