Should Mona Lisa Have Been Watching Her Cholesterol?

“An Italian medical expert says he has found evidence of a range of afflictions in some of the world’s greatest works of art. Vito Franco, Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Palermo, claims that there are clear signs of diseases, from bone malformations to kidney stones, that cast certain icons of perfection in a very different light.”

Steep Challenge: Reflecting Charles Addams’ Wit Onstage

“What works brilliantly in morbidly hilarious cartoons … is a tougher trick to translate to live theater, as the producers of ‘The Addams Family’ have learned” in the show’s Chicago bow. They chose “to eschew the slapstick humor of the popular ‘Addams Family’ television show of the 1960s and three movies in the ’90s” in favor of the cartoons.

Parsing The Personals In The New York Review Of Books

“They’re sort of like the brainy, geriatric version of the ads on Match.com. Nothing as vulgar as a photograph, of course, and quite a bit of talk about culture signifiers. The women – it’s about 90 percent women – are always slender – so slender, in fact, that you could probably fit six of them into the backseat of a Chevrolet.”