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| A Piece of Cleveland With a New York Accent |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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Hundreds of artifacts are being prepared for the opening on Tuesday of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC, a $9 million branch of the Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.
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| Movie Review | 'Twilight': The Love That Dare Not Bare Its Fangs |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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It’s love at first look instead of first bite in “Twilight,” a deeply sincere, outright goofy vampire romance for the hot-not-to-trot abstinence set.
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| Theater Review | 'Dividing the Estate': Inherit the Windfall |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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The problems confronting the sprawling, anxious, compulsively talky Texan clan of 1987 in “Dividing the Estate” will be familiar to many American families at the moment.
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| Art Review | 'Art and Love in Renaissance Italy': Eternal Objects of Desire |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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“Art and Love in Renaissance Italy” at the Metropolitan Museum promises romance, desire, expensive gift items and possible sex in the land of Romeo and Juliet and delivers on all counts.
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| Art Review | 'Beyond Babylon': Global Exchange, Early Version |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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“Beyond Babylon,” a big, prescient, concentration-taxing exhibition, is the latest in the museum’s illustrious line of panoramic archaeological shows.
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| Music: How Axl Rose Spent All That Time |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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“Chinese Democracy” is the Titanic ship of rock albums: It’s outsize, lavish, obsessive, technologically advanced and, all too clearly, the end of an era.
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| Museum Review | The National Museum of American History: America’s Attic, Ready for a Second Act |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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When the National Museum of American History reopens, it may begin to shed its reputation as one of the more cramped and confounding corners of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Category: National Museum of American History |
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| Television Review | '24: Redemption': Saving the World in Less Than a Day |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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Kiefer Sutherland is back as Jack Bauer in “24: Redemption” on Sunday on Fox, but the title is a bit misleading.
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| Books of The Times: Voters Are Red, Voters Are Blue |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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A short poem about Calvin Trillin’s new book, which tells the story of the 2008 presidential election in light verse.
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Category: Poetry and Poets |
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| Endowment Drying Up, a Museum Seeks Help |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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Faced with a severe financial crisis, officials of the Museum of Contemporary Art have had talks about a possible joint venture or merger with several other Los Angeles institutions.
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Category: Museum of Contemporary Art |
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| Theater Review | 'On the Town': Drop Me Off at Broadway, 1944 |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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The fleet’s in this weekend, at least on 55th Street, where a radiant production of “On the Town” has docked at City Center through Sunday.
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| Art Review | Pipilotti Rist: Tiptoe by the Tulips (or Stretch by the Apples) |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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“Pour Your Body Out,” a site-specific installation by the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, is arguably the first project to humanize the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art.
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| Angelina Jolie’s Carefully Orchestrated Image |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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The actress pushed for favorable coverage while negotiating magazine rights to pictures of her new twins.
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Category: Jolie, Angelina |
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| Television Review | 'A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All': Unwrap the Presents, Unleash the Parody |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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Stephen Colbert is delightful, a few of the song parodies are clever, but over all, the show is too long and more than a little strained, much like the holiday specials it mocks.
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Category: Colbert, Stephen |
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| A Jersey Boy’s Moment as Broadway’s New Pal |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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Christian Hoff has his first shot at a major leading role with the lead in Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of “Pal Joey.”
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Category: Theater |
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| Theater Review | 'Jester of Tonga': A King Becomes the Fool in a South Seas Scandal |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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The whimsical “Jester of Tonga” is a rare example of puppet theater about bad investments.
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Category: Jester of Tonga (Play) |
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| Theater Review | 'Continuous City': Pulling the Plug on Digital Bonding |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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Marianne Weems gives a sleek multimedia look to Harry Sinclair’s drama about the creation of a social-networking site.
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Category: Weems, Marianne |
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| Dance Review | Urban Bush Women and Jant-Bi: Crossing Continents to Explore History and Identity |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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“Les Écailles de la Mémoire,” an exploration of black identity, has perfect timing politically speaking, but is only intermittently compelling to watch.
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Category: Dancing |
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| Music Review | MATA Interval: Pop-Classical Intersections, in Tune With Any Season |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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The bimonthly series tend to feature young composers who disregard the classical-pop divide. Wednesday’s installment was a showcase for the violist Nadia Sirota and the guitarist Andrew McKenna Lee.
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| Music Review | Hinder: Bad Boys, but Not Afraid to Show Their Sensitive Side |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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The multimillion-selling band from Oklahoma performed an entertaining set of blues rock and power ballads to the willing crowd at the Nokia Theater on Wednesday.
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Category: Rock Music |
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| Music Review | The Academy Is ...: Armed With Guitar and Emotions |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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The band seamlessly connected the dots between emo and early 1980s soft-rock in their show at the Roseland Ballroom on Wednesday.
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Category: Rock Music |
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| Movie Review | 'Bolt': Canine TV Action Star Discovers That Life Is the Best Reality Show |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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“Bolt” is at once a knowing, satirical sendup of the Hollywood fame-and-fantasy machinery and a sleek product of the Disney-Pixar industrial complex.
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Category: Motion Pictures |
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| Movie Review | 'Lake City': Suds, Southern Scenery and Fistfuls of Weaponry |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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When Sissy Spacek speaks her clichéd lines in the mediocre screenplay of “Lake City,” her delivery lends them a resonance that is not in the written words.
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Category: Motion Pictures |
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| Movie Review | 'The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)': Convulsions of a Family and an Abandoned Country |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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“The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” is quiet, contemplative and impressionistic, which makes the story it has to tell all the more powerful.
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Category: Motion Pictures |
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| Movie Review | 'Special': Going Bonkers, Superhero Style |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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“Special” puts an indie spin on the current Hollywood vogue for moody superhero psychodrama.
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Category: Motion Pictures |
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| Movie Review | 'I Can’t Think Straight': Love Beyond Boundaries |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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Plugging the same two actresses into different Sapphic scenarios may be a valid filmmaking strategy but it can be an extremely boring one.
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| CW Says It Is Retaking Control of Its Sunday TV Lineup |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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he CW network has canceled its low-rated Sunday lineup and ended a $15 million deal with Media Rights Capital, the company that produced the shows.
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Category: CW Television Network |
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| Ailes Agrees to Remain at Fox News 5 More Years |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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The News Corporation announced Thursday that Roger Ailes, the chairman and chief executive of Fox News, had signed a new five-year contract with the company.
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Category: Ailes, Roger E |
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| Movie Review | 'Were the World Mine': Puck’s Love Potion, Splashed Across Town |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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“Were the World Mine,” an indie alternative to Disney’s “High School Musical” franchise, is a small, endearing film.
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| Art in Review |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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Martín Ramírez at the American Folk Art Museum, “I Am a Man” at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Zaha Hadid at Sonnabend and more.
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| Inside Art: Auction Slump Has Silver Lining for MoMA |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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After the recent drop in auction prices, artworks that were once out of reach for museums have suddenly become affordable again.
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| Antiques: The China Trade, Portrayed in Porcelain |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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Kentshire Galleries is hosting a selling exhibition of Chinese export porcelain in its Manhattan shop at 700 Madison Avenue, at 62nd Street.
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| Irving Gertz, Composer for Monsters of the Movies, Dies at 93 |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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Mr. Gertz was a prolific though often uncredited B-movie composer whose melodies haunt a spate of pictures with words like “Hell,” “Thing” and “Creature” in the titles.
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| Donald Finkel, 79, Poet of Free-Ranging Styles, Is Dead |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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Mr. Finkel was a noted American poet whose work teemed with curious juxtapositions, which in their unorthodoxy helped illuminate the function of poetry itself.
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Category: Poetry and Poets |
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| Arts, Briefly: Tanglewood Schedule Announced |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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The Tanglewood Music Festival, the annual summer arts celebration in Lenox, Mass., has announced its 2009 program.
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Category: Classical Music |
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| Arts, Briefly: 'American Buffalo' Goes the Way of the Buffalo |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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The Broadway production of “American Buffalo” has posted a provisional closing notice and is likely to end its run on Sunday, a publicist for the show said.
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| Arts, Briefly: Michael Jackson, Live in Court |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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A British court that nearly had to settle for video testimony from Michael Jackson will instead receive him in person.
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| Arts, Briefly: $1 Million Donation? The Author Did It |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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Patricia Cornwell, the best-selling author, has made a commitment of $1 million to the Harvard Art Museum’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies.
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| Arts, Briefly: Rockefeller Grants Announced |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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The Rockefeller Foundation has announced the recipients of its New York City Cultural Innovation Fund awards, which will give a total of $2.7 million to 16 cultural organizations.
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| Arts, Briefly: McCain vs. Browne: Round Two |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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While the détente continues between Senator John McCain and President-elect Barack Obama, normal relations have yet to be restored between Mr. McCain and the singer-songwriter Jackson Browne.
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Category: Presidential Election of 2008 |
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| Arts, Briefly: CBS Wins the Night |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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“Criminal Minds” and “CSI: NY” led CBS to another victory in the ratings on Wednesday, according to Nielsen’s estimates.
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| Arts, Briefly: Footnotes |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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Laura Linney has been named the host of “Masterpiece Classic,” a spinoff of the PBS series “Masterpiece Theater,” which was divided into three different shows in 2007.
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