Much appreciated by Mexican cineasts, writer-director Francisco Vargas’s accomplished first feature The Violin is a solemn, suspenseful, extremely well-shot political drama. This evocation of the ...

Halloween is famous for tricks and treats, but inside Benaroya Hall there were only treats on Thursday night. A sizable contingent of music lovers decided to bypass Halloween candy and costumes in ...

What must Beryl Mui have thought? The demure, 17-year-old violin student walked into a rehearsal room in the Fine Arts Building. There she saw four 200-pound English mastiffs, panting and drooling ...