Friday's wild opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics put the spotlight on influential French metal bands, famed athletes bearing their nations' flags and a triumphant return from Celine Dion herself.

The theater is a garage near Greenwich Village. The playing floor is wall-to-wall carpeting, across which an occasional cockroach wends its nimble way. Wandering around the room or lying on the floor, ...

The luxurious House of Dionysus on Delos, Greece, offers a vivid portrait of the island’s peak commercial prosperity in ...