The New Bedford Whaling Museum will be hosting a Portuguese Moby-Dick Mini-Marathon, featuring simultaneous readings in three ...

A popular local kabob restaurant is offering to parlay your hankering for kabobs, hummus and fresh pita into a meal to help needy families this holiday season.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum will kick off its 30th Annual Moby-Dick Marathon weekend with the Melville Scholars’ Dinner & ...

The author in the Azores, among friends. For years, “Moby-Dick” defeated me. I think I was put off the book when, as a child, I watched the 1956 John Huston film on our tiny black-and-white television ...

The 21st annual Moby-Dick Marathon takes place Friday through Sunday at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Volunteers will take turns reading passages from the iconic American novel — start to finish.

SALEM — “Moby-Dick” has the most famous opening sentence in American literature: “Call me Ishmael.” That’s it, but what a lot gets packed into those three words. Now that sentence can make a further ...

Jonathan Lemalu stars as Queequeg in San Francisco Opera's Moby-Dick Jonathan Lemalu discusses his role of Queequeg in Moby-Dick. He describes how each production has researched tattoo patterns for ...

Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer’s award-winning opera Moby-Dick will be broadcast on THIRTEEN’s Great Performances Friday, November 1, 2013 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), as ...

When Leonard Foglia was invited to direct an opera based on Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, his first reaction was: “Moby-Dick. That’s great!” “Then I ran to a used bookstore and ...

Herman Melville had everything a young author could dream of. By the age of 30, he’d traveled the world and written five books, including two bestsellers. He’d married the daughter of a prominent ...

Every year, the New Bedford Whaling Museum hosts a marathon reading of “Moby-Dick.” For the social distancing edition, volunteers are recording performances from home. By Jacey Fortin If these were ...