Dan Webster

India is a fascinating country, with must-see sights in Delhi and Agra, though the air can be hard to breathe.

Especially when touring hard-to-access locations, taking a cruise can be a fun and fulfilling experience.

In one of the world's great cities, Christian Marclay's art exhibit The Clock is a fascinating study of time and place.

You can find any number of reasons to love Brooklyn. Here are 10 or more of them.

(Posted Saturday) The reviews for “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” are out, and the critical one-liners – which add up to a cumulative 0 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes – are flying fast and loose, besides being vicious. A few samples:

The commercials for tonight’s Academy Award ceremony have labeled this year’s Oscar race the most competitive in recent years, and for once there’s truth in advertising. Normally, your friendly neighborhood Oscar prognosticator would study the numbers, figure the odds and determine who’s most likely to win which award, but this year the acclaim has been all over the place. The marketplace was simply too crowded with good movies and performances, many of which were completely shut out by the Academy. For three years now, Dan Webster and I have offered up our dual predictions in the main Oscar categories: actor and actress (lead and supporting), as well as best picture and director. In 2011 and 2012, our individual guesses were all the same; in terms of accuracy, we guessed five of six right in ’12, and four of six in ’13.

Oscar is another word for fickle. I mean, think of the whole process run by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – the promotions, the nominations and certainly the actual awarding of those cute little gold statuettes. As I say. Fickle.