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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/theater/amy-herzogs-4000-miles-at-mitzi-e-newhouse-theater.html	Amy Herzog’s ‘4000 Miles’ at Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater	SNACKING on pastries and tea at her cloth-covered dining table, Leepee Joseph, 95, worked to put into words the odd experience of seeing her longtime home, a light-filled apartment on the eighth floor of a sturdy brick building on West 10th Street in Greenwich Village, recreated onstage in the play “4000 Miles.” “I suddenly
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/theater/elena-roger-brings-native-touch-to-broadway-evita.html	Elena Roger Brings Native Touch to Broadway ‘Evita’	EVITAS tend to be formidable women — Patti LuPone, Madonna, Elaine Paige — so Elena Roger, the Argentine actress who stars in the Broadway revival that opens April 5, stuns at first glimpse. Dramatically collapsed on the floor of a rehearsal hall (no worries, it’s the part of the script where Evita is not feeling so good), Ms.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/theater/rick-miller-talks-about-his-machomer.html	Rick Miller Talks About His ‘MacHomer’	THERE are a few Simpsonisms — Ned Flanders’s “okely-dokely” and, of course the famed “d’oh” — in Rick Miller’s “MacHomer,” a one-man show in which he puts Shakespeare ’s words into the mouths of Homer, Marge and 50 other characters from “The Simpsons.” But Mr.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/movies/the-wwe-enters-into-partnerships-with-movie-studios.html	The WWE Enters Into Partnerships With Movie Studios	STAMFORD, Conn. EXCEPT for the buccaneerish black flag fluttering in the breeze off Long Island Sound, the headquarters of World Wrestling Entertainment here looks like any other corporate office park on the I-95 corridor. Trim. Tidy. Quiet. But there are a few indications that this isn’t your usual button-down workplace. Like the 200-pound
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/movies/mirror-mirror-grimm-and-hollywood-love-for-fairy-tales.html	‘Mirror Mirror,’ ‘Grimm’ and Hollywood Love for Fairy Tales	Fairy tales can come true, the old song goes; it can happen to you, apparently, if you’re young at heart. Whether one believes this hopeful sentiment, and regardless of the age of one’s internal organs, there’s no doubt that fairy tales have for the past couple of years — and into the foreseeable future — been coming
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/movies/finding-the-right-wig-for-the-role-on-screen.html	Finding the Right Wig for the Role on Screen	FROM the first Shakespearean performer ever cast as Ophelia, wigs have been a necessary staple in the toolbox of props that aid an actor in assuming a character. They’ve allowed Elizabeth Taylor her austere and almost incomprehensibly silky Cleopatra hair, Cher her dowdiness and her dazzle in “Moonstruck,” and Steve Van Zandt a
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/movies/god-save-my-shoes-a-documentary-about-high-heels.html	‘God Save My Shoes,’ a Documentary About High Heels	Bryn Mawr, Pa. BETH SHAK teetered around her Main Line home here one day this winter in taxi-to-table shoes, stiletto heels so preposterously high that she usually staggers no farther than between a car door and restaurant seat. “I once dated a very frugal guy in New York City who expected me to walk 16 blocks to dinner in seven-inch
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/movies/homevideo/john-fords-fort-apache-on-blu-ray-from-warner-home-video.html	DVD; John Ford’s ‘Fort Apache’ on Blu-ray From Warner Home Video	FOR his 1948 “Fort Apache,” the first movie in his celebrated cavalry trilogy, John Ford brought together four of the five leading men most closely associated with his career: George O’Brien, the star of “The Iron Horse” (1924), Ford’s first major critical and commercial success; Victor McLaglen, whose 12 films
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/arts/storytelling-classes-in-new-york.html	COMEDY; Storytelling Classes in New York	THE eight people in David Crabb’s Wednesday night class had been asked not to walk like themselves. So the students shuffled or pranced, puffed out their stomachs, clutched their backs. They all had their own gaits, and no one made eye contact. “I’m having trouble,” one student said, “because the person I’m being
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/arts/mar-25-31.html	THE WEEK AHEAD; Mar. 25 — 31	A FAMILY reunion of sorts is taking place at the Vineyard Theater, where the new musical “NOW. HERE. THIS.” opens this week. The gang that brought the world “[title of show],” the infectious and seriously self-referential musical with a similarly eccentric title, has reunited to create a show that promises to be just as
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/arts/dance/the-collaborative-show-samhara-at-the-joyce-theater.html	DANCE REVIEW; The Collaborative Show ‘Samhara’ at the Joyce Theater	New York has become accustomed to regular visits by the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble , which refines its art in a village outside Bangalore in southern India dedicated to that purpose. Each visit here is a gift, but for the one that began at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, the group has brought something extra: friends. They are Thaji Dias and Mithilani
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/books/the-land-of-decoration-by-grace-mccleen.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; ‘The Land of Decoration’ by Grace McCleen	Judith McPherson, the plucky heroine of Grace McCleen’s debut novel, “The Land of Decoration,” is a smart but extremely literal-minded 10-year-old English schoolgirl. She grows up, as Ms. McCleen did, in the midst of Christian fundamentalists. She has been raised with the guarantee that Armageddon is near. To deal with this
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/books/a-new-book-and-film-about-rare-amazonian-language.html	A New Book and Film About Rare Amazonian Language	In his 2008 memoir, “Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes,” the linguist Dan Everett recalled the night members of the Pirahã — the isolated Amazonian hunter-gatherers he first visited as a Christian missionary in the late 1970s — tried to kill him. Dr. Everett survived, and his life among the Pirahã, a group of
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/theater/godspell-sister-act-and-priscilla-push-through-the-winter.html	‘Godspell,’ ‘Sister Act’ and ‘Priscilla’ Push Through the Winter	Why are the musicals “Sister Act,” “Priscilla Queen of the Desert” and “Godspell” still running on Broadway? Box office sales teetered between lukewarm and lousy this winter for all three, and they were each already struggling with mixed reviews from the critics last year — a deadly combination that usually
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/theater/reviews/that-beautiful-laugh-a-show-of-stunts-at-la-mama.html	THEATER REVIEW; ‘That Beautiful Laugh,’ a Show of Stunts at La MaMa	It’s hard to imagine anything funnier on a New York stage right now than a man struggling to stuff his body through a clothes hanger. As with all great comedy, exactly why this is so funny is hard to explain. But Carlton Ward, with veins bulging and limbs mangling, makes it work. Mr. Ward is one of three clowns starring in “That
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/theater/reviews/give-me-your-hand-at-the-irish-repertory-theater.html	THEATER REVIEW; ‘Give Me Your Hand,’ at the Irish Repertory Theater	The concept of the museum audio guide, with an expert nattering on in your ear, telling you what to think and why, has always seemed particularly loathsome. But if more such guides contained ekphrastic poetry , the idea might be a little more appealing. Paul Durcan’s “Give Me Your Hand” takes place in a theater — the Irish
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/movies/new-directors-new-films-at-the-film-society-of-lincoln-center.html	CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK; New Directors/New Films at the Film Society of Lincoln Center	“Street Vendor Cinema,” a short film from Brazil that will be shown at the New Directors/New Films festival, spends some time with an energetic auteur practicing his art — and trying to hustle a little cash — in a busy São Paulo shopping area. Equipped with a small digital camera, a few crude costumes and a scroll of
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/movies/stephen-dorff-in-brake.html	MOVIE REVIEW; Stephen Dorff in ‘Brake’	Because Jeremy Reins ( Stephen Dorff ), the protagonist of “Brake,” finds himself confined in the trunk of a moving car with no memory of how he got there, the movie is already being compared to the 2010 thriller “Buried.” In that one, Ryan Reynolds played a nonmilitary truck driver in Iraq who awakens bound and gagged in a
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/arts/louis-c-k-and-others-take-stand-up-to-the-web.html	Louis C. K. and Others Take Stand-Up to the Web	Stand-up comedians of a certain era knew they had arrived when Johnny Carson invited them to a desk-side seat on “The Tonight Show.” A generation later, the gold standard was getting a solo comedy special on HBO. But in the Internet era, the yardstick for success has been redefined. A handful of top-tier performers have begun producing
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/arts/music/ulu-grosbard-broadway-and-film-director-dies-at-83.html	Ulu Grosbard, Broadway and Film Director, Dies at 83	Ulu Grosbard, a director whose affinity for naturalistic drama shaped critical successes like the original Broadway production of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” and the film version of John Gregory Dunne’s novel “True Confessions,” has died in Manhattan. He was 83. His death, at N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center,
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/movies/natural-selection-starring-rachael-harris.html	MOVIE REVIEW; A Man Who Spewed His Seed Finds the Son Who's No Prize Crop	The most memorable element of Robbie Pickering's debut feature, ''Natural Selection,'' is Rachael Harris's portrayal of Linda, a dutiful wife whose older husband, Abe (John Diehl), refuses to have sex with her. They are Christians living on the outskirts of Houston with no children. Both are sure she is barren, and Abe believes that sex for
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E5DF163AF935A25750C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Stones Won't Rock For 50th Anniversary	-The Rolling Stones will not tour to celebrate their 50th anniversary, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards told Rolling Stone magazine in an item published on Wednesday. Mr. Richards, who is 68, said 2013 was a more realistic goal for the aging rockers. The band did announce on Wednesday that it would release a new documentary film about its history in
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/books/the-grey-album-by-kevin-young.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; A Poet's Collage, Sampling Included	THE GREY ALBUM On the Blackness of Blackness By Kevin Young 483 pages. Graywolf Press. $25. Equal parts blues shout, church sermon, interpretive dance, TED talk, lit-crit manifesto and mixtape, the poet Kevin Young's first nonfiction book, ''The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness,'' is an ambitious blast of fact and feeling, a nervy piece of
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05EFD6163AF935A25750C0A9649D8B63	EXHIBITION REVIEW; An Exhibition in Easy Mode	WASHINGTON -- On Christmas in 1980 a fifth-grade boy in Flushing, Queens, received his first computer, a Commodore VIC-20. It changed his life. A few months later, a third grader about 100 miles upstate, in Woodstock, also received his first computer, a Commodore VIC-20. It changed his life too. The kid in Queens was Chris Melissinos, curator of
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804EEDE163AF935A25750C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; There's Much Light at Maastricht	MAASTRICHT, the Netherlands--The art dealers wanted fireworks to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the European Fine Art Fair here. But that idea was deemed too dangerous, so instead they settled for an installation of 20,000 cascading white LED lights that shimmers at the fair's entrance. The work of the American artist Leo Villareal, ''Cylinder
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/movies/free-men-directed-by-ismael-ferroukhi.html	MOVIE REVIEW; In French Occupation, A Broader Resistance	Ismael Ferroukhi's new film, ''Free Men,'' takes place in Nazi-occupied Paris, by now a familiar setting for morally serious period dramas. The story this movie has to tell is a bit unusual, though: it concerns the efforts by Muslim North African residents of the city to protect Jews and aid the Resistance. Like Rachid Bouchareb's ''Days of Glory''
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/music/traditional-irish-music-in-new-york-city.html	Embracing Irish Music, A New York Tradition	YOU step into the crowded establishment, and it hits you: a rousing set of reels, played by a pickup band in the corner. There's a fiddle, a guitar, a bodhran, a concertina, maybe a banjo or a flute or a tin whistle. Your foot starts tapping, you order a pint and you settle in for music summoning images of a damp, windswept isle across the
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/movies/will-ferrell-in-casa-de-mi-padre.html	MOVIE REVIEW; The Grind House Of My Father	¿Por qué está hablando en español Will Ferrell en su nueva película? Well, in the Spanish-language comedy ''Casa de Mi Padre'' Mr. Ferrell, his hair darkened and his deadpan locked, stands knee-, sometimes bare-buttocked-deep in the corn. (Some call it maíz.) A quick-sketch routine stretched -- amusingly, absurdly, thinly -- to feature
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/movies/detachment-starring-adrien-brody-directed-by-tony-kaye.html	MOVIE REVIEW; Substitute Teacher, Just Trying to Do Good by His Pupils	''Detachment,'' the latest provocation from Tony Kaye, the director of the neo-Nazi drama ''American History X'' and the graphic abortion documentary ''Lake of Fire,'' belongs to a subset of shockers that know exactly which nerves to prick to produce intense reactions. Like-minded movies determined to blow the lid off your complacency include Larry
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/design/asia-week-in-new-york-includes-more-than-40-shows.html	ART REVIEW; Sacred, Sensual And Scholarly	New York never lacks for art, but as spring approaches, movable feasts of it seem to arrive in waves. Last week nearly a dozen fairs put extra servings of contemporary and Modern art on the table. Friday is the official beginning of Asia Week, a visual repast of more than 40 shows staged by New York and out-of-town dealers and spread mostly through
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E1D6143BF930A25750C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; 'Old Jews Telling Jokes'	One would be hard pressed to find a more honestly titled theater production than ''Old Jews Telling Jokes,'' an new Off Broadway show that promises to reinvent classic Jewish jokes and perform them on stage. Co-created by the authors Peter Gethers and Daniel Okrent and directed by Marc Bruni (''Fanny''), the project is inspired by the Web site
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/arts/music/new-albums-from-vcmg-brad-mehldau-trio-and-henry-cole.html	NEW MUSIC; New Albums From VCMG, Brad Mehldau Trio and Henry Cole and the Afrobeat Colective	VCMG ''Ssss'' (Mute) VCMG is a 30-year reunion of sorts for two synth-pop masters, Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore, both songwriters who rarely sing. After writing nearly all of Depeche Mode's 1981 debut album, ''Speak & Spell,'' Mr. Clarke left the band, going on to start Yazoo (billed Yaz in the United States) and then Erasure. Mr. Gore stayed on
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/arts/music/new-york-youth-symphony-at-carnegie-hall.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Premiere for Cello and Orchestra, Inspired by a Poem	Through its invaluable First Music program, the New York Youth Symphony has commissioned works from more than 100 emerging composers since 1984. The orchestra's concert on Sunday afternoon at Carnegie Hall brought the premiere of ''That Blue Repair,'' a kind of mini-concerto by Chris Rogerson. Born in 1988, Mr. Rogerson is just a couple of years
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E0D7173BF930A25750C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Ceremony in Iran for 'Separation' Director Is Canceled	A ceremony in Iran to honor the Academy Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi was canceled on Monday after the authorities there denied permission for the event, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Farhadi's film ''A Separation,'' about an Iranian husband and wife in a dispute over whether they should remain in their country, won the Academy Award
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE2D9143BF930A25750C0A9649D8B63	What's On Today	5:15 P.M. (Showtime) ALL GOOD THINGS (2010) Ryan Gosling, above, portrays David Marks, a fictional character based on Robert A. Durst, the son of the New York real estate developer Seymour Durst, in this film by Andrew Jarecki (''Capturing the Friedmans''). Kirsten Dunst is Katie, a stand-in for Robert's wife, Kathie, who disappeared in 1982 in a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E4D8143BF930A25750C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; A Glimpse of Leonardo?	Efforts to find a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci behind a fresco by Giorgio Vasari in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio have shown possible signs of success, researchers in Italy say. According to a BBC report, the researchers claim to have discovered a black pigment also used in the Mona Lisa after tiny probes were sent through drilled holes in
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9401EEDC143BF930A25750C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Showtime Sets Date For Two Series' Return	In the department of much-buzzed-about cable serials that don't take 17 months between seasons, Showtime said on Monday that new episodes of its hit drama ''Homeland'' will resume on Sept. 30, along with additional installments of its long-running thriller ''Dexter.'' ''Homeland,'' which is produced by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa and adapted from
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/arts/dance/bolshoi-sends-alexei-ratmanskys-corsaire-into-cinemas.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; In a Pasha's Seraglio, Even Flowers Turn Frisky	The sublime and the ridiculous can coexist in disconcerting proximity. Witness Alexei Ratmansky's 2007 production for the Bolshoi Ballet of the 19th-century ballet ''Le Corsaire,'' which on Sunday was broadcast live to cinemas worldwide (including in Manhattan). Actually ''Le Corsaire'' (''The Pirate'') in any modern production is often ridiculous.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E3DF143BF930A25750C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Brooklyn Museum To Honor 'First' Women	On April 18, as part of the fifth anniversary of the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the museum will present the First Awards, given to 15 women who were first in their fields. Among the honorees are Sandra Day O'Connor; Jessye Norman; Toni Morrison; Connie Chung; the choreographer and director Susan Stroman; Faye
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/books/carry-the-one-a-novel-by-carol-anshaw.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; One Death That Haunts Many Lives	CARRY THE ONE By Carol Anshaw 253 pages. Simon & Schuster. $25. Carol Anshaw's beautifully observed new novel, ''Carry the One,'' begins with a terrible accident in the summer of 1983: very late at night, after Carmen and Matt's wedding, a car filled with some seriously stoned and sleepy wedding guests turns onto a two-lane road, accelerates
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/arts/music/nicolas-jaar-electronic-musician-and-student-at-brown.html	MUSIC; Between Semesters, Digital Innovation	ON a chilly February afternoon a line of people coiled around MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, and disappeared down the block. It was Super Bowl Sunday, but despite a smattering of Giants gear, the young-looking crowd had committed the day to ''From Scratch,'' a five-hour performance of continuous improvisation by Nicolas Jaar, an even
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/gods-without-men-by-hari-kunzru.html	Convergences	GODS WITHOUT MEN By Hari Kunzru 369 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $26.95. One thing that struck me about the 9/11 footage shown during last year's anniversary was that in 2001, the people on New York City's sidewalks had no smartphones with which to record the events of the day. History may well look back on 9/11 as the world's last underdocumented
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/eminent-outlaws.html	LETTERS; 'Eminent Outlaws'	To the Editor: One work that John Leland's review of ''Eminent Outlaws,'' by Christopher Bram (Feb. 26), and apparently the book itself, fail to mention is ''A Separate Peace,'' by John Knowles. Although there is no explicit sex between the novel's two main characters (or indeed, between any of the characters), this book, widely assigned in
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/arts/television/the-persian-ness-of-shahs-of-sunset-on-bravo.html	TELEVISION; A New Persian Empire Plants a Personal Flag	IN the beginning there was the word ... Persian. It was imaginary, of a place that no longer exists, the realm of dusty maps and fairy tales and myths, and yet for my entire childhood it was who I was. We said ''Irani'' among Iranians, but when we were among Americans ''Persian'' was the name of the game. I said it because my parents said it. At
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/bookshelf-poetry.html	CHILDREN'S BOOKS; Bookshelf: Poetry	OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW A First Book of Nature. By Nicola Davies. Illustrated by Mark Hearld. 108 pp. Candlewick Press. $19.99. (Picture book; ages 3 to 8) Reading poetry may seem an activity for the winter-bound and introverted, but this lovely collection, organized by season, urges children to dash outside, slamming the screen door behind them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/tomas-transtromers-poems-and-the-art-of-translation.html	ON POETRY; Versions	If you're a poet outside the Anglophone world, and you manage to win the Nobel Prize, two things are likely to happen. First, your ascendancy will be questioned by fiction critics in a major English-/language news publication. Second, there will be a fair amount of pushing and shoving among your translators (if you have any), as publishers attempt
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/new-fiction-by-richard-mason-anna-funder-and-others.html	Fiction Chronicle	HISTORY OF A PLEASURE SEEKER By Richard Mason. Knopf, $25.95. We learn in the first sentence of Mason's fourth novel that its hero, the dashing 24-year-old Piet Barol, is ''extremely attractive to most women and to many men.'' It's fair warning for the democratic dalliances that ensue. Living outside Amsterdam in 1907, Piet is tired of the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E3D8123EF932A25750C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Print & E-Book Fiction: Sunday, March 11th 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 11, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending February 25, 2012. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807E4DE1F39F932A25750C0A9649D8B63	CORRECTIONS	An art entry last Sunday in the Week Ahead column misstated the dates for the Pulse Contemporary Art Fair. It is scheduled for May 3 to 6 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, not in early March.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01E2D81039F932A25750C0A9649D8B63	WEEK AHEAD | POP/JAZZ	THERE'S a proud tradition of brotherly alliances in jazz, exemplified by a pair of engagements running from Tuesday through next Sunday. THE HEATH BROTHERS represent its gold standard, despite the death of its eldest member, the bassist Percy Heath, in 2005. Jimmy Heath, a saxophonist, and Tootie Heath, a drummer, have experienced more than a
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/arts/music/overcoming-the-disaster-at-jazz-at-lincoln-center.html	MUSIC REVIEW; From Japan, Percussive Gratitude	Amid a din of percussion and heavily amplified voices and instruments in the Rose Theater of Jazz at Lincoln Center on Tuesday evening came a remarkably understated moment. Not quiet, exactly, since it too was amplified, but simple, intimate, unexpected and soul wrenching. The program, ''Overcoming the Disaster: Gratitude From Japan to the World,''
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/arts/music/judy-kuhn-at-feinsteins-at-loews-regency.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Love and Happiness. And Then It's Complicated.	It would take courage for any performer to sing ''In Buddy's Eyes,'' the great Stephen Sondheim ballad from ''Follies,'' while standing only a few feet away from its definitive interpreter, Barbara Cook, who was in the audience. But at Feinstein's at Loews Regency on Tuesday evening Judy Kuhn did just that, putting her stamp on this fantasy of a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E3DC1438F93BA35750C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Judy Blume Favorites Are to Be E-Books	Judy Blume books, those dog-eared paperbacks that have taught children and teenagers about the mysterious parts of growing up for more than four decades, will be released in e-book format, her publisher said on Wednesday. Beginning on Mar. 21, 13 of Ms. Blume's books, including ''Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret,'' ''Blubber'' and ''Starring
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/arts/music/robert-johnson-at-100-at-the-apollo-theater.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Celebrating a Faustian Bargain	The music and the mythology kept an unsteady covenant throughout ''Robert Johnson at 100'' at the Apollo Theater on Tuesday night. Late in the going there came a succinct embodiment of that tension in two versions of ''Hellhound on My Trail,'' one of the most venerated tunes of Johnson, the Delta bluesman. The first take was by Taj Mahal, singing
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04EEDD1F39F934A35750C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Kennedy Center Announces New Season	Washington can take occasional breaks from politics this fall when the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opens its 42nd season. On Tuesday, Michael M. Kaiser, the center's president, unveiled highlights of the 2012-2013 program, which include celebrations of Woody Guthrie's and Bob Marley's music; a new production of Fernec Molnár's
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/arts/dance/sarah-michelsons-devotion-study-1-at-whitney-museum.html	DANCE REVIEW; Five Figures Circling, Backward, Across a Blueprint of the Whitney	The crucial word in ''Devotion Study #1 -- The American Dancer,'' Sarah Michelson's contribution to the 2012 Whitney Biennial, is ''study.'' Like much of Ms. Michelson's work, this one is relentless, formally severe, unafraid to push repetition to extreme ends. But her focus here is even narrower, zoomed in on a detail from last year's acclaimed,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E1DE1638F934A35750C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Critic's Notebook: Looking Deeply at a Painting's Mystery	One of the many pleasures of going to art galleries regularly is that in addition to the formal exhibitions up front, art dealers often display unexpected gems off to the side, in project spaces, offices or even behind the reception desk: lost bits of history and unfamiliar early works by this or that artist. Recently, in the lull before the
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/theater/reviews/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-at-the-new-victory-theater.html	THEATER REVIEW; Merriment, Mischief And a Few Dead Critters	The ultimate American id boy is up to his old tricks in ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' at the New Victory Theater, an amiable if slightly too well-behaved adaptation of Mark Twain's novel, by Laura Eason. First performed at Hartford Stage in 2010 and intended for audiences 8 and older, this buoyant production gives a decent account of the book.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEFD71F39F934A35750C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; For Updike's Birthday, Some Rereleases	Random House will mark John Updike's birthday this month with the re-release of some of his most beloved works, including the ''Rabbit'' series, the publisher said on Tuesday. Mr. Updike, who was born on March 18, 1932, died in 2009 after a career that produced 60 books as well as essays, criticism and poetry. Random House will also release e-book
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/arts/music/lelisir-damore-at-the-metropolitan-opera.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Peasant Pitted Against Soldier	With its lurid pastel costumes and swirling onstage activity, John Copley's 1991 staging of ''L'Elisir d'Amore'' (''The Elixir of Love'') looks like an Easter egg display on steroids. Some of the cardboard sets and props could have been bought at a garage sale, and Nemorino sings his showpiece aria in what appears to be a forest of giant
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E0D61F31F937A35750C0A9649D8B63	WEEK AHEAD | THEATER	MATT CHARMAN, a British writer in his early 30s, has had the kind of meteoric rise that usually happens only in the movies. Eight years ago he was working on a theater Web site when he got his big break, winning an award for his debut play, ''A Night at the Dogs.'' His second and third plays had their premieres at the Royal National Theater, where
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/books/review/geoff-dyers-zona-examines-the-film-stalker.html	A Place of Our Deepest Desires	ZONA By Geoff Dyer 232 pp. Pantheon. $24. The jacket of Geoff Dyer's ''Zona'' describes it as ''A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room.'' It is also a hall of mirrors in which the author watches himself watching (and remembers himself remembering) a movie that, according to his impressively detailed description, ends with a character looking
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/books/review/thomas-mallon-reimagines-watergate.html	Expletives Deleted	WATERGATE By Thomas Mallon 432 pp. Pantheon Books. $26.95. I'm fairly sure it's a faux pas to compare a novel and a television show, but I mean it as a compliment to both when I say that Thomas Mallon's new novel, ''Watergate,'' bears a certain resemblance to ''The West Wing.'' Like that much-loved NBC drama, ''Watergate'' shifts among various men
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01EEDB1230F937A35750C0A9649D8B63	ART	THERE'S no way around it. New York this week is knee deep in contemporary art fairs. There are over a dozen, most at ARMORY ARTS WEEK, and they come in several shapes and sizes. Most open Thursday, including the sprawling Armory Show at Piers 92 and 94, at 12th Avenue and West 55th Street; the trés chic Independent, at 548 West 22nd Street,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E4D8123EF937A35750C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction: Sunday, March 4th 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 4, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending February 18, 2012. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/movies/footnote-israeli-film-by-joseph-cedar.html	Ego and Envy, So It Is Written	THE world is full of unsung academics who toil all their lives in an obsessive quest for knowledge -- and a reputation-making breakthrough in their chosen field -- only to end up a footnote in someone else's brilliant career. Israel's contender for this year's foreign-language Academy Award was Joseph Cedar's ''Footnote,'' a tragicomic tale of
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E5D8123EF937A35750C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: E-Book Nonfiction: Sunday, March 4th 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 4, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending February 18, 2012. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/books/review/an-ermine-in-czernopol-by-gregor-von-rezzori.html	Changing of the Guard	AN ERMINE IN CZERNOPOL By Gregor von Rezzori Translated by Philip Boehm 380 pp. New York Review Books. Paper, $16.95. The central character of ''An Ermine in Czernopol,'' Gregor von Rezzori's mid-20th-century masterpiece, first published in 1958, is not a person at all, but a city. Czernopol -- less an invented place than the distilled essence of a
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/books/review/up-front.html	Up Front	On this week's cover, Eleanor Henderson reviews Amber Dermont's first novel, ''The Starboard Sea.'' Henderson -- an assistant professor at Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y., where she lives with her husband and two sons -- is no stranger to the Book Review's cover; her own debut novel, ''Ten Thousand Saints'' (one of our 10 Best Books of 2011), was
http://tv.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/books/review/the-fox-effect-by-david-brock-and-his-colleagues.html	Right Face	THE FOX EFFECT How Roger Ailes Turned a Network Into a Propaganda Machine By David Brock, Ari Rabin-Havt and the staff of Media Matters for America Illustrated. 329 pp. Anchor Books. Paper, $15. One of the peculiarities of modern conservatism is that the most coruscating examinations of its doctrines are often issued from dissidents within its own
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/arts/music/the-ted-brown-quartet-at-the-kitano-hotel.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Rising Even While Seated	The tenor saxophonist Ted Brown remained seated during his first set at the Kitano Hotel in Murray Hill on Wednesday night, and his playing often felt so retiring and interior that it barely met the minimum requirements for performance. This was a matter of aesthetic inclination, as Mr. Brown demonstrated in the finer moments of the set. You might
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/movies/last-days-here-about-bobby-liebling-of-pentagram.html	MOVIE REVIEW; Last Days Here	Unexpectedly flouting its doomy title, ''Last Days Here'' invests the standard, washed-up rock-star tale with surprising sweetness. Observing the drug-fueled descent and attempted resuscitation of Bobby Liebling, the self-destructive frontman of the 1970s metal band Pentagram, Don Argott and Demian Fenton's unfussy documentary hopes for redemption
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/movies/the-snowtown-murders-an-australian-true-crime-story.html	MOVIE REVIEW; The Snowtown Murders	''The Snowtown Murders,'' an Australian true-crime story that's unrelenting in its singular vision of suburban rot and teenage vulnerability, is at times very tough to watch. But for those who do, this distressing infiltration of a family of young boys by a charismatic psychopath rewards with a stylistic talent that feels entirely new. Set in
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/books/beautiful-thing-by-sonia-faleiro.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; For Some Women, the Misery of Mumbai's Dance Bars Looks Like a Big Step Up	BEAUTIFUL THING Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars By Sonia Faleiro 225 pages. Black Cat. $15. Leela, the young exotic dancer at the center of ''Beautiful Thing,'' is a genius of vulgarity. In this intimate and valuable book of literary reportage by Sonia Faleiro nearly every word out of Leela's mouth is spit like a cartoon hornet. Few
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3D81430F932A35750C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; $41 Million Ertegun Gift For Oxford Humanities	As the man who founded Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun helped give careers to musical artists like Led Zeppelin and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Now the estate of Ertegun, who died in 2006, and his widow, Mica, have given more than $41 million to Oxford University that will benefit its graduate students in the humanities, the university announced
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406E7D71430F932A35750C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; 'Five-Year Engagement' To Open Tribeca Festival	''Five-Year Engagement,'' a studio comedy starring Jason Segel and Emily Blunt as a couple who can't quite seem to follow through on their marriage plans, will be the opening presentation of the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, its organizers said on Wednesday. The film is written by Mr. Segel, a star and writer of ''Forgetting Sarah Marshall'' and
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE2DC1530F932A35750C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Beatles' Childhood Homes Become Historic Sites	The childhood homes of John Lennon and Paul McCartney in Liverpool have been placed on a national list of protected historic sites in England, ensuring they cannot be altered without government approval, a quasi-governmental organization that curates historic buildings announced Wednesday. The decision means the homes where the two former Beatles
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/arts/music/adele-tops-chart-for-a-22nd-time.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Adele Tops Chart For a 22nd Time	Still riding a wave of good publicity from the Grammy Awards, Adele's ''21'' album topped the Billboard album chart for a 22nd week last week; no album has been No. 1 in that many weeks since Prince and the Revolution's ''Purple Rain'' soundtrack in 1984, Billboard reported. Adele, who won six Grammys, also had a second album in the Top 10, as
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/movies/intouchables-in-rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-festival.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; French Film In Its Year Of Triumph	As the annual Rendez-Vous With French Cinema series begins in New York City on Thursday with a screening of the blockbuster ''Intouchables,'' France's film industry is jubilant. In a coup, another French film, ''The Artist,'' just won five Academy Awards, including best picture and best director as well as best actor for Jean Dujardin. And over the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00E0DD1530F932A35750C0A9649D8B63	What's On Today	10:30 A.M. (HBO Signature) LAUREL CANYON (2003) Jane (Frances McDormand, above), an aging, hard-partying Los Angeles record producer, opens her California dwelling to her snobbish son (Christian Bale) and his fiancée (Kate Beckinsale), both graduates of Harvard Medical School. Alessandro Nivola plays the lead singer of the rock band whose album is
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/books/review/a-gertrude-stein-reader.html	LETTER; A Gertrude Stein Reader	To the Editor: I relished Lynne Tillman's lively review of the reissued editions of Gertrude Stein's ''Ida'' and ''Stanzas in Meditation'' (Jan. 29), and I was pleased by her positive comments on Stein's little-known but ''trenchant'' essay ''Composition as Explanation.'' Virginia Woolf must have felt the same way. Writing to Vita Sackville-West in
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/books/review/elmore-leonards-rule.html	LETTER; Elmore Leonard's Rule	To the Editor: Olen Steinhauer, reviewing Elmore Leonard's latest novel, ''Raylan'' (Feb. 5), quotes from the author's 11th rule of writing: ''If proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.'' But Steinhauer tells us he didn't pass on this bit
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/books/review/the-technologists-matthew-pearls-new-thriller.html	Science Will Save Us	THE TECHNOLOGISTS By Matthew Pearl 480 pp. Random House. $26. ''Tell us where you get your ideas!'' we demand of the talented and interesting writer. ''Oh, the imagination on you! How do you do it?'' He demurs, disclaims, and we note a modest fluffing-up of authorial plumage. He knows how wonderful he is. But good prose is so much less of a
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/arts/the-week-ahead.html	The Week Ahead	THE popularity of ''The Devil Wears Prada'' -- both the execrable novel and the so-so movie -- spawned a small spate of what might be called assistant lit: books about monstrous bosses and the humiliations their underlings endure as the price for proximity to the powerful. The sharp-eyed playwright Leslye Headland now brings this topic to the stage
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E1D6153FF935A15751C0A9649D8B63	Online	Podcast Scheduled to appear this week: Jennifer B. McDonald on ''The Lifespan of a Fact,'' by John D'Agata and Jim Fingal; John Leland on Christopher Bram's ''Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America''; Julie Bosman with notes from the field; and Gregory Cowles with best-/seller news. Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the Book Review, is the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E7D8123EF935A15751C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: E-Book Fiction: Sunday, February 26th 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the February 26, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending February 11, 2012. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/arts/music/michael-tilson-thomass-american-mavericks.html	SPRING PERFORMANCE: MUSIC; On a Mission To Celebrate The Different	IN the fall of 1995 the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas opened his inaugural program as music director of the San Francisco Symphony with the premiere of Lou Harrison's ''Parade.'' This was not just a festive piece to begin a new era. Mr. Thomas was signaling that under his leadership the orchestra would champion idiosyncratic American composers,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/arts/music/a-daughter-of-kronos-revisits-quartets-fold.html	A Daughter of Kronos Revisits Quartet's Fold	IT'S still hard to picture the ubiquitous Kronos Quartet without Joan Jeanrenaud. For 20 years there they were: three hip-nerdy guys and one willowy, glamorous woman. Then, in what seemed eerie emulation of an early role model, the British cellist Jacqueline du Pré, Ms. Jeanrenaud was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She took a long-term leave,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/arts/music/kraftwerk-concerts-at-museum-of-modern-art-in-april.html	SPRING PERFORMANCE: MUSIC; Return Welcome to the Man-Machine	REPETITIVE, pulsating synthesizer lines. Robotic, electronically altered voices. That's a big part of the sound of pop 2012 -- and it was also the sound, way back in 1974, of Kraftwerk, a German band that can now claim it saw the future. With high-concept prescience Kraftwerk (German for ''power plant'') invented itself as ''the man-machine'' in
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/arts/music/mitsuko-uchida-and-schubert-sonatas-at-carnegie-hall.html	SPRING PERFORMANCE: MUSIC; Tackling a Master's Despair	THE pianist Paul Lewis spoke recently in an interview with the 92nd Street Y (where he will perform Schubert as part of an international tour on April 26) about the soft-spoken drama of Schubert's music. ''He will usually lower his voice rather than raise it,'' Mr. Lewis said. ''He draws you into the message, rather than projects it out to you. His
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEEDC1531F936A15751C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; 'Boccanegra' Canceled	The Opera Orchestra of New York announced on Friday that it had canceled its concert performance of Verdi's ''Simon Boccanegra'' scheduled for March 7 at Avery Fisher Hall because of a ''loss of funding.'' The performance's novelty, of sorts, was that the tenor Placido Domingo was to have sung the baritone title role, though Mr. Domingo has already
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/books/america-in-other-words.html	America, in Other Words	Here are a few terms from Volume V of the Dictionary of American Regional English, being published on March 20. SOMETIMEY Fickle, moody, inconsistent. Especially South Atlantic. SNIT A small amount, especially a small beer. Chiefly western Great Lakes. SPLIT THE WIND To go very fast. Especially North and West. SQUEAKY CHEESE Fresh cheese curds.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E7DA1431F936A15751C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Interactive Web Site For Ghent Altarpiece	If a picture is worth a thousand words, what about other economies of exchange? And what if the picture is among the most revered in Western art history? Here is one answer: Hubert and Jan van Eyck's ''Mystic Lamb,'' better known as the Ghent Altarpiece, is worth 100 billion pixels. And after you see what this means in practical terms, you might
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/crosswords/bridge/michael-seamon-and-alan-osofsky-win-a-tournament.html	BRIDGE; Gaining Money for Research And Tricks for a Small Slam	Zeke Jabbour of Boca Raton, Fla., an eight-time national champion, hosts an annual Parkinson's charity luncheon and bridge duplicate. This year's, on Jan. 29 at Saint Andrews Country Club in Boca Raton, raised nearly $40,000. The winners were Michael Seamon of Dania, Fla., and Alan Osofsky of Palm Beach, Fla. Second were Kenneth and Elayne Kadis,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E2DB1431F936A15751C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Afghan Whigs Reunion Alongside Louis C. K.	As the front man for the dark alternative rock act the Afghan Whigs, Greg Dulli isn't exactly known for liking things. But he evidently enjoys the misanthropic comedy of Louis C. K. enough to invite that lovably curmudgeonly standup to perform at a festival in September he is organizing that will also feature the reunited Afghan Whigs. The
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/theater/reviews/the-navigator-eddie-antars-play-at-workshop-theater.html	THEATER REVIEW; Proceed to End of Road, Then Make a U-Turn	The economy meets auto technology meets the supernatural in Eddie Antar's comedy ''The Navigator,'' now returning to the WorkShop Theater Company, and the play largely cruises in entertainingly high gear. Dave (Joseph Franchini), a harried family man in a business suit, is driving on the highway, fretting about mounting troubles: he needs a job,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/arts/dance/danspace-projects-parallels-series.html	DANCE REVIEW; Taking It From the Streets Onto the Stage	Darrell Jones, where have you been all my life? Mr. Jones has been around for a while as a dancer, of course, and a fine one, working with choreographers like Bebe Miller and Ralph Lemon. But I had never seen his choreography until Thursday night at Danspace Project, when he presented ''Hoo-Ha (twister pump breakdown)'' as part of the Parallels
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06E1D91631F936A15751C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Dressing the Water Tanks	4:25 p.m. | Updated For 12 weeks starting in the spring and summer of 2013, several hundred of New York City's water tanks will be wrapped with artist-designed creations. The project is the brainchild of Word Above the Street, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to raise awareness about the global water supply, and was first reported online
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/arts/music/new-york-philharmonic-at-avery-fisher-hall.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Mixing Twin Palettes Of Colors and Sounds	Alan Gilbert's program with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall this week is about color or, more specifically, the way sound can be used to suggest it. As themes go, that is hardly an outlandish one, and since the orchestral repertory is packed with painterly works, finding music to make the point is simple enough. If the Philharmonic
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/arts/music/axwells-cosmic-opera-at-the-hammerstein-ballroom.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Under a Crystal Chandelier, A Bit of Opera and Lots of Thumping	There wasn't much to the opera part of ''Cosmic Opera,'' an electronic dance music show that took over the Hammerstein Ballroom for the first of two nights on Thursday, headlined by the disc jockey-producer-remixer Axwell from Swedish House Mafia. Preshow promises by its organizer Justin Cohen about actors and a story line didn't exactly come true.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/arts/dance/jen-rosenblit-and-vanessa-anspaugh-perform-at-live-arts.html	DANCE REVIEW; Relationships and Patterns in Continual Change	The relationship between a dance and its title can be deceptively straightforward. Take Jen Rosenblit's ''In Mouth,'' her part of a shared run last week with Vanessa Anspaugh at New York Live Arts. It begins with the entrance of Ms. Rosenblit's longtime colleague Addys Gonzalez. He has something stuffed in his mouth. That explains the title. But it
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E4DE123EF931A15751C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Beck and Passion Pit Join Governors Ball	Who says you have to journey to the deserts of Indio, Calif., or the farm country of Manchester, Tenn., to enjoy top musical acts while risking dehydration and exposure to the summer sun? If you're a New York-area resident (or even if you're not) you can do all that right here at Randalls Island Park, where the organizers of the Governors Ball
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE7D7123EF931A15751C0A9649D8B63	MEDIA DECODER; Slide Continues For NBC's 'Smash'	The Broadway series ''Smash,'' in which NBC invested enormous hopes - and even bigger piles of promotional cash - took another dive in the ratings Monday night, displaying, as it had in its first two weeks, a particularly ominous trend: viewers leaving the show in big numbers at its half-hour mark. Overall the show dropped to 6.5 million viewers,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/arts/music/rihanna-and-chris-brown-appear-on-each-others-songs.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Reconciliation, At Least In Song	Terrible things happen. Who wouldn't want to forget? And you'd be surprised how long a scar lasts. The urge to cover it up, to hide from the story it tells, must be overwhelming. That is certainly true of Chris Brown and Rihanna, who on Monday each released a new song featuring the other, a notable development because three years ago, on the eve of
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/movies/awardsseason/oscar-nominees-for-best-foreign-language-film-discuss-work.html	Oscar Films That Dot the Globe (Even Its Dark Corners)	An Iranian family torn by a custody battle and a criminal case. A pair of rival Talmudic scholars in Israel who happen to be father and son. A Polish laborer hiding Jews in the sewers of Lvov. A Belgian farmer caught up in the so-called hormone mafia. And an Algerian refugee teaching elementary schoolchildren in Canada grieving for their previous
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/theater/reviews/poetic-license-by-jack-canfora-at-59e59-theaters.html	THEATER REVIEW; Taking Literary Liberties Too Far	By coincidence I saw ''Seminar'' on Broadway the night after I saw ''Poetic License'' at 59E59 Theaters. Both plays are smart one-acts about revered writers, asking just what kind of hideous men those writers are. The subject of plagiarism comes up in both. But ''Seminar'' mostly romanticizes the art of writing. ''Poetic License,'' an unsettling
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/arts/music/the-orchestra-of-st-lukes-at-carnegie-hall.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Typical Program, Atypical Approaches	On the surface, there seems nothing unusual about a program opening with a Haydn symphony and Beethoven's oft-played Piano Concerto No. 1. But with the conductor Roger Norrington in charge, there were plenty of unconventional touches during the Orchestra of St. Luke's concert on Thursday evening at Carnegie Hall. For Mr. Norrington, who has a long
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/arts/design/art-by-sargent-johnson-berkeleys-loss-is-museums-gain.html	Berkeley's Loss Is a Museum's Gain	BERKELEY, Calif. -- Everybody misplaces something sometime. But it is not easy for the University of California, Berkeley, to explain how it lost a 22-foot-long carved panel by a celebrated African-American sculptor, or how, three years ago, it mistakenly sold this work, valued at more than a million dollars, for $150 plus tax. The university's
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/arts/dance/where-were-calling-from-at-st-marks-church.html	DANCE REVIEW; Mulling the Role of Race But Without Answering	What do you need to make a black dance? What do you bring into the room? The questions floated through my mind on Friday night at Danspace Project, when the choreographer Marya Wethers entered St. Mark's Church for her solo, ''(w)hole, again,'' cradling an odd assortment of objects: a fork, a lime-green sock, a plastic cup, a battered red boot. Ms.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/arts/music/lauren-fox-sings-songs-of-joni-mitchell-and-leonard-cohen.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Conjuring Singer-Songwriters' Romantic Alchemy	The affair of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen in the late 1960s may have only lasted a few months, but its resonance in the songs of these two Canadians -- especially in Ms. Mitchell's lyrics -- is far reaching. A speculative exploration of their personal and artistic chemistry is only one aspect of Lauren Fox's remarkable cabaret show, ''Love,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/books/review/the-artist-martin-kippenberger-through-the-eyes-of-his-sister.html	Ruling the Roost	KIPPENBERGER The Artist and His Families By Susanne Kippenberger. Translated by Damion Searls. Illustrated. 564 pp. J&L Books. $34.95. The comet that was the German artist Martin Kippenberger streaked across the firmament for about two decades, excessively gifted, and also just plain excessive. By 1997, the restless, charismatic exhibitionist,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03EFD9123EF93AA25751C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Advice, How-To And Miscellaneous: Sunday, February 19th 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the February 19, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending February 4, 2012. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/books/review/inside-the-list.html	TBR; Inside the List	BLACK AND WHITE: Charles Murray's book ''Coming Apart,'' about the class divide in white America, is new on the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 9. Murray -- whose previous book, ''The Bell Curve,'' spent 15 weeks on the list in 1994-95 -- devotes a chapter in ''Coming Apart'' to a quiz measuring how much his upper-middle-class readers know about
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEFD7143FF93AA25751C0A9649D8B63	Changing Gears But Retaining Dramatic Effect	ATLANTA MARGARET EDSON is the Harper Lee of playwrights. She has had just one play produced -- ''Wit,'' which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 and has been revived on Broadway in a Manhattan Theater Club production starring Cynthia Nixon -- and having said what she had to say, she doesn't feel any need to try playwriting again. She occupies herself
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/books/review/olaf-olafssons-new-novel-restoration.html	Mark of a Master	RESTORATION By Olaf Olafsson 326 pp. Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. Paper, $14.99. Among the many writers who were part of the early-20th-century English colony in Florence, Iris Origo is probably the best remembered, not just for her wonderful books -- they include ''The Merchant of Prato,'' a vivid portrait of daily life in medieval Tuscany --
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/arts/design/moma-to-showcase-cindy-shermans-new-and-old-characters.html	ARTS & LEISURE; Cindy Sherman Unmasked	CINDY SHERMAN was looking for inspiration at the Spence Chapin Thrift Shop on the Upper East Side last month when she eyed a satin wedding dress. An elaborate confection, it had hand-sewn seed pearls forming flowers cascading down the front and dozens of tiny satin-covered buttons in the back from which the train gently hung like a Victorian
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/books/review/how-an-egyptian-revolution-began-on-facebook.html	Spring Awakening	REVOLUTION 2.0 The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir By Wael Ghonim 308 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $26. In the embryonic, ever evolving era of social media -- when milestones come by the day, if not by the second -- June 8, 2010, has secured a rightful place in history. That was the day Wael Ghonim, a 29-year-old
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507EED9123EF93AA25751C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction: Sunday, February 19th 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the February 19, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending February 4, 2012. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/books/review/the-washington-wives-book-club.html	ESSAY; The Washington Wives' Book Club	In times of partisan gridlock, economic woe and /public-opinion doldrums, Hillary Clinton, Lynne Cheney and Laura Bush all wrote them. Callista Gingrich recently wrote one. And now Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden, is coming out with one. Could children's books be the wifely calming salve for this election cycle's blistering
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407EFD9123EF93AA25751C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: E-Book Fiction: Sunday, February 19th 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the February 19, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending February 4, 2012. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/theater/reviews/tokio-confidential-a-musical-at-atlantic-stage-2.html	THEATER REVIEW; Musical Portrait of a Lady, Newly Tattooed in Tokyo	Why didn't Henry James think of adding some dragon tattoos and poisoned cups of tea? ''Tokio Confidential,'' a new musical by Eric Schorr, has plenty to recommend it, not least a plush, inviting score. But Mr. Schorr, who wrote the music, book and lyrics, does his almost comically lurid story no favors by basing several characters' names on figures
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/theater/reviews/cq-cx-by-gabe-mckinley-at-peter-norton-space.html	THEATER REVIEW; Hello, Sweetheart, Give Me Rewrite	''CQ/CX,'' a new play by Gabe McKinley depicting the Jayson Blair scandal at The New York Times, is less ''Front Page'' than ''Front Page Correction'' -- a straightforward dramatization and a cautionary tale of ambition, deception and hubris. In an unprecedented front page article in 2003 The Times reported that Mr. Blair, a young reporter on its
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E1D7163FF935A25751C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Wiig and Silverman Join Policeman's Ball Lineup	2:52 p.m. | Updated A second wave of American and British comedians has been added to Amnesty International's Secret Policeman's Ball in New York, which has picked up several cast members from ''Saturday Night Live'' and a couple of Muppets, and a cable and online broadcaster that will carry the event. The ''SNL'' performers Fred Armisen, Kristen
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/books/watergate-a-novel-by-thomas-mallon.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Nixon and Friends, Stalked With Literary License	WATERGATE By Thomas Mallon 432 pages. Pantheon Books. $26.95. In this stealth bull's-eye of a political novel, Thomas Mallon invests the Watergate affair with all the glitter, glamour, suave grace and subtlety that it doesn't often get. His cleverly counterintuitive ''Watergate'' even has the name-dropping panache of a Hollywood tell-all. In one
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/arts/design/leonardo-live-puts-london-exhibition-on-screen.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Leonardo in London: The Movie	Viewing an art exhibition on the big screen of a movie theater is not my idea of an optimal art experience. But if, like me, you wish, or even half-wish, that you had traveled to London for the blockbuster exhibition devoted to Leonardo da Vinci that recently completed its three-month, sold-out run at the National Gallery, you may find yourself
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E2D8173FF935A25751C0A9649D8B63	What's On Today	8 P.M. (NBC) 30 ROCK After he's mugged, Jack (Alec Baldwin, above) decides to protect the elite of New York by running for mayor. Liz (Tina Fey), on the other hand, decides she would rather sacrifice the good of the city for her own interests. In ''Parks and Recreation,'' at 8:30, Leslie (Amy Poehler) encounters her old flame, Dave (Louis C. K.),
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E6DE103FF935A25751C0A9649D8B63	MEDIA DECODER; 'Glee' Continues Slide	1:18 p.m. |Update If Fox executives weren't asking the question before, they ought to be now: Should we be worried about ''Glee''? Just one week short of its winter finale, the onetime blockbuster music show hit its second-lowest rating Tuesday night, fueling speculation that the series, which burned so hot, so fast, is cooling down almost as
http://tv.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/arts/television/battleground-is-an-original-hulu-scripted-series.html	WATCHLIST; The Shenanigans Behind the Slogans	What does a television channel (for lack of a better description) look like when you build it one new show at a time, with the money left over from your primary business, which is acquiring swaths of pre-existing programming? The answer could be HBO in its early days (or, perhaps more pertinently, AMC five years ago), but now we're talking about
http://tv.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/arts/television/the-slap-on-directv.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; Drama at a Barbecue Leads Relationships to Fizzle	Best known for rescuing ''Friday Night Lights'' and ''Damages'' from cancellation, the satellite broadcaster DirecTV has a sideline in bringing offbeat British and Australian series to America -- shows you won't see unless you're a DirecTV subscriber (or have a universal DVD player). These programs aren't reason enough to put a satellite dish on
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E0D81E3CF936A25751C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Playwrights Horizons Sets 2012-13 Lineup	The new musical ''Far From Heaven,'' based on the 2002 film starring Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid as a 1950s housewife and her sexually conflicted husband, will be among the six productions that Playwrights Horizons will mount during its 2012-13 season, that Off Broadway theater company announced on Tuesday. The adaptation, which will open in
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/books/review/topic-of-miller.html	LETTERS; Topic of Miller	To the Editor: Re Jeanette Winterson's review of ''Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of 'Tropic of Cancer,' '' by Frederick Turner (Jan. 29): As ''Tropic of Cancer'' begins, Miller says he is an artist and then dances about on the pages in the most manic and delightful way. Writer, dancer, singer. ''I am going to sing for you, a little off key
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/movies/william-wellman-retrospective-at-film-forum.html	Directing At the Speed Of an Aircraft	THEY called him, not always affectionately, Wild Bill. William A. Wellman earned the nickname as a flier in World War I, and it stuck to him for the 40 years or so he spent directing movies in Hollywood. It was a good sort of name to have in the early days of American filmmaking, when he got his start, as a director of cheap, fast silent westerns
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/books/review/norumbega-park-by-anthony-giardina.html	Keeping Up With the Palumbos	NORUMBEGA PARK By Anthony Giardina 325 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $27. Anthony Giardina's new novel begins on a country road in Massachusetts in 1969, with 39-year-old Richie Palumbo and his family -- his son, daughter and wife -- out for a drive near their home in Waltham. At twilight, they happen upon the seemingly idyllic WASPy town of
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E7DF1E3AF931A25751C0A9649D8B63	CORRECTION	An article on Jan. 29 about the resurrection of Hammer Film Productions, which specializes in horror movies, misidentified the Hammer film that was the last one in which Veronica Carlson appeared. It is ''The Horror of Frankenstein'' (1970), not ''Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed'' (1969).
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/books/review/paperback-row.html	Paperback Row	ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD: New and Selected Stories, by E. L. Doctorow (Random House, $16.) From ''Ragtime'' (1975) to ''Homer & Langley'' (2009), Doctorow is best known for his madcap, slightly skewed novelizations of American history. This story collection moves from the 19th century to an unidentified future, evoking gothic horrors and outsiders
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E1D9123EF931A25751C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Advice, How-To And Miscellaneous: Sunday, February 12th 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the February 12, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending January 28, 2012. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/arts/design/a-proposal-for-penn-station-and-madison-square-garden.html	ARCHITECTURE; Restore a Gateway To Dignity	It's time to address the calamity that is Penn Station. Nearly a half-century has passed since the destruction of the great 1910 station designed by Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead & White, a ''monumental act of vandalism,'' as an editorial in The New York Times called the demolition in 1963. A vast steel, travertine and granite railway palace
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/arts/music/george-london-foundation-contest-set-for-morgan-library.html	MUSIC; Enduring Legacy of Encouragement	ESTABLISHING a career in opera has never been easy, and young singers need whatever help they can get. The great bass-baritone George London knew all about that. Born in 1920, the son of immigrants from Russia who had more or less to improvise a living during the Great Depression, London lived with his family in New York and Montreal before
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/books/review/bookshelf-black-history.html	CHILDREN'S BOOKS; Bookshelf: Black History	WHEN GRANDMAMA SINGS By Margaree King Mitchell. Illustrated by James E. Ransome. 40 pp. Amistad/HarperCollins Publishers. $16.99. (Picture book; ages 5 to 9) The twin powers of optimism and determination shine through in this fictional account of an 8-year-old girl, Belle, and her grandmother, Ivory Belle Coles, of Pecan Flats, Miss. The creators
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/arts/music/albums-by-rosie-thomas-punch-brothers-luis-perdomo.html	PLAYLIST; Carpathian Wedding Bands And Other Valentine Treats	'Aimer et Perdre: To Love & To Lose Songs, 1917-1934' Arriving right on time for Valentine's Day this two-disc compilation on the Tompkins Square label presents a bittersweet bouquet of love songs, without looking in the usual places or yielding the usual results. It's a sampling of recordings from the rural past, with emphasis on the Polish and
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/arts/design/klara-liden-pretty-vacant.html	ART IN REVIEW; Klara Liden: 'Pretty Vacant'	Reena Spaulings 165 East Broadway, Lower East Side Through Feb. 19 In the house of art there are the grown-ups (collectors, dealers, curators, critics and administrators), and there are the children (the artists), who run around madly vying for attention. One of the cutest of the kids these days is Klara Liden, 33, a Swedish wild thing whose
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/theater/reviews/growing-up-gonzales-at-the-jan-hus-playhouse.html	THEATER REVIEW; 2 Brothers Come of Age In the Bronx	''Growing Up Gonzales,'' a one-man play about a Nuyorican family in the 1970s, is part stand-up, part melodrama and part cultural tourism. For the benefit of any blanquitos in the audience, the play opens with a slideshow glossary of Puerto Rican slang, for words like ghost (cuco), mistress (chilla) and several nicknames for male genitalia (use
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/arts/design/steve-gianakos-new-paintings.html	ART IN REVIEW; Steve Gianakos: 'New Paintings'	Fredericks & Freiser 536 West 24th Street, Chelsea Through Feb. 18 It is just as well that we don't know what most people think about in the privacy of their own dirty little minds. But in Steve Gianakos, who has been downloading his twisted preoccupations onto paper and canvas since the early 1970s, we have an exception. With formal perfect pitch,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/arts/spare-times-for-feb-10-16.html	Spare Times	Around Town Museums and Sites Brooklyn Historical Society: 'Fading Ads of Brooklyn' (Wednesday) Vintage advertisements that were put on brick walls around the city decades ago are still in plain sight, and some have survived for almost a century. The photographer Frank Jump will discuss the phenomenon of the fading ads and his endeavor to document
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E4DE103DF933A25751C0A9649D8B63	What's On Today	7 P.M. (USA) NFL CHARACTERS UNITE Tony Gonzalez of the Atlanta Falcons, Jimmy Graham of the New Orleans Saints, Hines Ward of the Pittsburgh Steelers (above right, with Carlton Dennis, a student) and Tony Dungy, a former head coach for the Indianapolis Colts and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, discuss the hate and bigotry they overcame as children to
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/movies/linda-cardellini-in-liza-johnsons-film-return.html	MOVIE REVIEW; Coming Home, When Home No Longer Seems the Same	''A lot of people had it worse than I did.'' That is the rote, slightly impatient response of Kelli (Linda Cardellini), a soldier returning from an overseas tour of duty, when friends ask what happened to her. Anchored by a powerfully restrained performance by Ms. Cardellini (''Freaks and Geeks,'' ''ER,'' the ''Scooby Doo'' movies), who appears in
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/arts/design/renoirs-full-length-paintings-at-the-frick-collection.html	ART REVIEW; Soigné Parisians, Fit for a Grand Canvas	Impressionism, like fashion, is dedicated to the fleeting sensation: this moment's light, this season's dress. Yet the works in the Frick Collection's fashion-conscious ''Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting'' don't at first register as Impressionist. With their traditional portrait format and imposing scale, they seem at odds with the
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/arts/dance/dance-listings-for-feb-10-16.html	The Listings	Dance Full reviews of recent dance performances: nytimes.com/dance. BalaSole Dance Company (Saturday and Sunday) The stylistically diverse ''Polymorph'' brings together works by Loganne Bond, Raven McRae, Maxine Montilus, Laura Neese, Sandra Passirani, Michael Ryan, Erin Shimberg, Saeed Alan Siamak, Charly Wenzel and Roberto Villanueva. Saturday at
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E3DF133DF933A25751C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; George Carlin's Daughter to Host A Comedy Interview Show	At a time when it seems that everyone and his brother has a show or podcast about comedians, Sirius XM believes it has found a new wrinkle on the format: a program hosted by Kelly Carlin, the daughter of the famous stand-up George Carlin. On Thursday the satellite radio broadcaster is expected to announce that it will carry ''The Kelly Carlin
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/movies/safe-house-with-denzel-washington-and-ryan-reynolds.html	MOVIE REVIEW; Smoldering Superagent Runs...and Keeps on Running	At some point in the tense, tough, visceral action movie ''Safe House'' a side character describes a rogue superagent played by Denzel Washington as ''the black Dorian Gray.'' Now that's a movie pitch in waiting. Mr. Washington, or rather the mystery man he plays, Tobin Frost, a former operative for the C.I.A., lets out a short self-aware laugh of
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/movies/bingham-ray-light-of-october-films-and-daring-cinema.html	An Indie Champion And His Life's Labors	IN his 2004 book, ''Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film,'' Peter Biskind recounts a striking story about October Films, the little movie company that could and sometimes did in the 1990s. It was December 1999 and October, which had helped push independent film into the mainstream, was at a crossroads. Barry
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/arts/national-college-comedy-festival-at-skidmore.html	COMEDY; Sophomoric Humor? Bring It On!	THE campus apartment shared by the Skidmore College students Lex Curry, 21, and Ruth Morrison, 21, has been the scene of chaos for the past few months, and not in typical party-recuperate-party fashion. The living room has morphed into an ad hoc headquarters, littered with paperwork and laptops. With urgent logistical matters to sort out, Ms. Curry
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9502E3D9123EF936A35751C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction: Sunday, February 5th 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the February 5, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending January 21, 2012. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/books/review/the-letters-william-s-burroughs-wrote-at-the-height-of-his-success.html	After 'Lunch'	RUB OUT THE WORDS The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1959-1974 Edited by Bill Morgan Illustrated. 444 pp. Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. $35. In 1959, as this collection begins, William S. Burroughs was living in Paris at 9, rue Git-le-Coeur, the address that would come to be known as ''the Beat Hotel.'' ''Naked Lunch'' had just been published by
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/books/review/these-dreams-of-you-by-steve-erickson.html	Coincidental Tourists	THESE DREAMS OF YOU By Steve Erickson 309 pp. Europa Editions. Paper, $16. You don't need to read a word of Steve Erickson's new novel to figure out that it's broken. A quick flip through its pages reveals it to be fractured into hundreds of pieces, many no longer than a paragraph or two, each island of text banked by white space and heralded by a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE4DD123BF936A35751C0A9649D8B63	The Week Ahead | Feb. 4-Feb. 11	Art Robin Pogrebin February just may be the month for art fans to venture beyond Manhattan. The Bronx Museum of the Arts will open ''JUAN DOWNEY: THE INVISIBLE ARCHITECT'' next Sunday. The exhibition, billed as the first United States survey of this Chilean-born video artist, who was trained as an architect, was organized with the MIT List Visual
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02EEDE123BF936A35751C0A9649D8B63	The Week Ahead | Feb. 4-Feb. 11	Theater Jason Zinoman Filmed plays don't always translate well, but the NATIONAL THEATER in London, which has been broadcasting its productions in American movie theaters, has done a lovely job of shooting plays with creativity and dynamism. These polished efforts prove that film and theater can coexist nicely, which also happens to be an central
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/books/review/tony-judt-reviews-his-lifes-journey.html	One Man's History	THINKING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY By Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder 414 pp. The Penguin Press. $36. Tony Judt was known to many people as the public intellectual who aroused a firestorm of criticism for an article he wrote in The New York Review of Books in 2003, calling for Israel to become a binational state and to lose its specifically Jewish
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/books/review/stay-awake-stories-by-dan-chaon.html	Fumbling in the Dark	STAY AWAKE Stories By Dan Chaon 254 pp. Ballantine Books. $25. In his somber, beautifully constructed 2009 novel, ''Await Your Reply,'' Dan Chaon presented three interlocking narratives, each involving a form of identity theft. Midway through, in a strangely haunting scene, a man and a woman are wandering the ruins of a drowned town: Nebraska's own
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E2D9123EF936A35751C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Trade Fiction: Sunday, February 5th 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the February 5, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending January 21, 2012. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/arts/dance/akram-khan-troupe-in-montclair-while-khan-recovers-from-injury.html	A Transcendent Artist, Now Tethered	LONDON THE choreographer Akram Khan isn't given much to sitting still. ''This is torture,'' he moaned, perched on a couch in his South London house, one leg heavily bandaged around the ankle and awkwardly propped to his side on a cushion. The timing could hardly be worse for Mr. Khan, who snapped an Achilles' tendon while rehearsing in Paris in
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/movies/the-innkeepers-a-paranormal-film-directed-by-ti-west.html	MOVIE REVIEW; Capturing (on Webcam) the Ghost Checked Into the Haunted Hotel	''It works every time,'' says Luke (Pat Healy), a sad-sack employee at a creaky New England hotel who has just scared his colleague, Claire (Sara Paxton), with an Internet video. The clip is a sub-''Paranormal Activity'' prank, a long fixed shot with something ghoulish popping suddenly into the frame. I didn't just spoil it, because what Luke says
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/arts/design/henry-taylors-portraits-and-other-paintings-at-moma-ps1.html	ART REVIEW; A Visual Equivalent Of the Blues, In Warm Shades	The putative gap between art and life is a pernicious myth. Painting in a studio is no less a form of life than, say, occupying Wall Street. Consider the exuberantly vital art of Henry Taylor, whose paintings are in an exhibition named for him at MoMA PS1. Mr. Taylor, who lives in Los Angeles, paints fast, loose and sensuously on canvases great and
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/arts/design/museum-and-gallery-listings-for-feb-3-9.html	The Listings	Art Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. Museums - American Folk Art Museum: 'Jubilation | Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined' (through Sept 2) Having escaped the ugly, West 53rd Street tomb of a building it inhabited from 2001 to 2011, the American Folk Art Museum has
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/theater/theater-listings-feb-3-9.html	The Listings	Theater Approximate running times are in parentheses. Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of current productions, additional listings, showtimes and ticket information: nytimes.com/theater. Previews and Openings 'And God Created Great Whales' (previews begin on Tuesday; opens on Feb. 12) This Obie-winning show, created by
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01EFD9163AF930A35751C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Primary Stages to Present Plays by Horton Foote	The playwright Horton Foote, whose tightly focused anatomies of small-town families have been a staple of Off Broadway since the 1980s, culminating in his nine-hour ''Orphans' Home Cycle'' during the 2009-10 season, will be among the writers produced in the upcoming 2012-13 season at Primary Stages, the theater company announced on Thursday. Three
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/movies/splinters-a-documentary-on-indigenous-surfing-in-papua-new-guinea.html	MOVIE REVIEW; Splinters	There have been movies about third-world athletes advancing to prosperity through sports (Disney's dramedy ''Cool Runnings,'' about the first Jamaican Olympic bobsled team; Anne Buford's recent documentary, ''Elevate,'' about Senegalese basketball players shooting for the N.B.A.). And there have been movies about surfing (Bruce Brown's classic
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/arts/design/american-vanguards-at-the-neuberger-museum.html	ART REVIEW; The Modernist Musketeers Are Reunited	PURCHASE, N.Y. -- ''American Vanguards,'' the new exhibition at the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, N.Y., reunites the Four Musketeers of New York painting: John Graham, Arshile Gorky, Stuart Davis and Willem de Kooning. For a time -- the 1930s, give or take a few years -- these artists linked arms to defend modern American art against the dreariness
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/movies/bad-fever-directed-by-dustin-guy-defa.html	MOVIE REVIEW; Bad Fever	Eddie (Kentucker Audley), the painfully awkward hero of ''Bad Fever,'' longs for a career in comedy, though it's clear from the outset that his real gift is for tragedy. As written and directed by Dustin Guy Defa -- whose psychological kinship to the character is suggested by the sensitivity of his gaze and confirmed in the film's publicity notes
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/movies/madonnas-we-with-andrea-riseborough-and-abbie-cornish.html	MOVIE REVIEW; Meet Wally & Wallis, Buddies Across Time	First there was ''Julie & Julia,'' Nora Ephron's demi-dessert about Julia Child and the wildly less interesting blogger who toiled and troubled her way through one of Child's cookbooks. More recently there was ''Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,'' another bifurcated movie about women in separate epochs, one a past in which women are imprisoned by law
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/movies/sean-penn-at-sundance-on-haiti-and-paolo-sorrentino-film.html	A WORD WITH: SEAN PENN; Good Works Overshadow Goth Looks	PARK CITY, Utah -- It's not subtle: in his forthcoming movie, ''This Must Be the Place,''Sean Penn resembles Robert Smith, the goth frontman of the Cure. The resemblance was intentional; the Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, known for the political biopic ''Il Divo,'' idolized the Cure growing up and decided to make his English-language debut
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/books/strategic-vision-by-zbigniew-brzezinski.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Surveying a Global Power Shift	STRATEGIC VISION America and the Crisis of Global Power By Zbigniew Brzezinski Illustrated. 208 pages. Basic Books. $26. The 2008 crash and America and Europe's continuing economic woes; the rise of China and worries about the decline of the West; and technology-fueled uprisings around the world from the Arab Spring protests to anti-Putin
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/theater/reviews/wuthering-heights-restless-souls-at-new-victory.html	THEATER REVIEW; A Stormy Romance on the Moors, via the Netherlands	An elemental wildness runs through ''Wuthering Heights, Restless Souls,'' Theater Artemis's spare but impressively theatrical adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel. Though intended for young audiences (13 and up), this production never condescends. Quite the opposite: it can be ferocious, even scary, as it gives physical shape to the bond between
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E6DE163BF933A05752C0A9649D8B63	CARPETBAGGER; Sundance Festival Prizes	Quvenzhane Wallis, 8, cemented her status as the It Girl of this year's Sundance Film Festival on Saturday night, as ''Beasts of the Southern Wild,'' starring Ms. Wallis as a poor Louisiana girl named Hushpuppy, took the festival's top grand jury prize. ''Beasts of the Southern Wild,'' directed and co-written by Benh Zeitlin, (and headed to
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905EEDF163BF933A05752C0A9649D8B63	CARPETBAGGER; Directors Honor Michel Hazanavicius	LOS ANGELES -- The Directors Guild of America honored a bespectacled filmmaker for his love of classic Hollywood cinema, and he was a Frenchman: Michel Hazanavicius won the prize for best feature from the organization, whose choices usually dovetail with the Oscars. (Pundits quickly called it: ''The Artist'' will win best picture at the Academy
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/arts/music/juilliard-schools-focus-festival-celebrates-john-cage.html	MUSIC REVIEW; In John Cage's Room, Sounds of Gertrude Stein	Some music now considered transporting was simply too revolutionary for its time: Beethoven's late works often baffled his peers but inspire us. The music of some 20th-century composers, on the other hand, will probably never move the listener, which was not the goal of an artist like John Cage. Cage, a brilliant man with a mischievous sense of
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/arts/music/wet-ink-in-gaudeamus-muziekweek-at-new-issue-project-room.html	MUSIC REVIEW; New Music Opens a New Hall in a Venerable Building	It has been a long time coming -- about four years of raising money and renovating -- but on Wednesday evening the Issue Project Room settled into its new digs in the former Board of Education building at 110 Livingston Street in downtown Brooklyn. For anyone who spent time in Issue Project's former home, a tiny space at the Old American Can
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/arts/dance/new-york-city-ballet-in-new-carillons-at-koch-theater.html	DANCE REVIEW; In a New Wheeldon Ballet, Overlapping and Piling On the Riches	Christopher Wheeldon and New York City Ballet have a special relationship. Perhaps there were some bruised feelings when, in 2008, he resigned as resident choreographer -- a position City Ballet had created for him in 2001 -- to concentrate on his own company, Morphoses, which he later abandoned. And it's true that Mr. Wheeldon maintains strong
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E3DB1E38F933A05752C0A9649D8B63	MUSIC REVIEW; Promoting a New Album, and Often Going Off Script	Here's what working with Steve Albini can do for your band, as evinced by ''Attack on Memory'' (Carpark), the strong new album by the Cleveland outfit Cloud Nothings. Like a preset mode in ProTools or other recording programs, there is an Albini sound: the drums hit with a certain crispness, and there's a mild claustrophobia to the proceedings. Mr
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/arts/music/new-contract-for-philharmonic.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; New Contract For Philharmonic	The New York Philharmonic's management and musicians have agreed on a new contract, the players' union said late Saturday. Union officials said orchestra members had been prepared to strike, jeopardizing a European tour starting Monday, without an agreement this weekend. In a statement the musicians reported reaching a two-year deal -- relatively
http://tv.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/arts/television/luck-starring-dustin-hoffman-on-hbo.html	TELEVISION REVIEW | 'LUCK'; Where Fortune Is Just Around the Bend	What are the odds that an HBO series by David Milch (''Deadwood'') and Michael Mann (''Miami Vice''), that stars Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte, and is set in a Damon Runyon-esque world of horse racing could be anything but great? The most hardened gambler would be reluctant to bet against ''Luck''; even karma leans in its favor. After the huge
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/theater/reviews/kathryn-erbe-in-yosemite-at-rattlestick-playwrights-theater.html	THEATER REVIEW; Nature and Death Have a Family Shivering and Bickering	The snowy woods of the Sierra Nevada are not easy to simulate inside a small Off Broadway theater, but Raul Abrego, the designer of the new drama ''Yosemite,'' gives it a shot. Several impressively large, ridged trees, speckled in dirty white, stand near a mound of genuine-looking dirt inside the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. It's a visually
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/arts/the-20th-anniversary-of-the-outsider-art-fair.html	ART REVIEW; Creating Artworks Without a Net	Let's all agree that ''outsider artist'' is a term of convenience, encompassing the self-taught, the visionary, the geographically isolated, the mentally ill or developmentally disabled, and (in one memorable episode) Homer Simpson. And in that spirit, we must judge the Outsider Art Fair, now celebrating its 20th anniversary, not by its title but
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/arts/music/the-tierney-sutton-band-plays-at-birdland.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Sunny Face And Sounds Don't Hide Dark Reality	An air of ceremonial gravity infused the music of the Tierney Sutton Band on Wednesday evening at Birdland, where Ms. Sutton, a Los Angeles-based jazz singer, and her group performed most of its recent album, ''American Road,'' which has been nominated for two Grammys. A suite of three songs from ''Porgy and Bess'' --''It Ain't Necessarily So,''
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/movies/katherine-heigl-in-film-based-on-janet-evanovich-novel.html	MOVIE REVIEW; A Girl's Got to Work: From Lingerie to Glocks	''One for the Money,'' the latest Katherine Heigl vehicle to park itself in the multiplexes, is also the title of a best-selling novel by Janet Evanovich. It is worth stating this fact at the outset to avoid the mistaken but entirely plausible assumption that the phrase somehow made its way onto the lobby posters from the subject line of an e-mail
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/arts/dance/new-york-city-ballet-in-a-balanchine-and-robbins-program.html	DANCE REVIEW; Three Stars Flaunting Their Styles: Flirty, Serene and Mysterious	New York City Ballet has its flaws, but a lack of vibrant female dancers isn't one of them. In George Balanchine's era dancers weren't carbon copies in body type or personality; mercifully, the same holds true today. On Thursday evening at the David H. Koch Theater, three principal dancers evoked their assertive harmony or individuality in a
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/movies/sundance-films-fall-short-of-expectations.html	At a Subtler Sundance, One Film Sparkles: A Sales Race for Tortoises, Not Hares	PARK CITY, Utah -- ''The buzz means nothing,'' said Robert Redford as his Sundance Film Festival opened in this luxury ski town last week. ''Wait until it's over, and see what sticks.'' That's pretty much the case for any film festival, but it is especially true about Sundance, where every movie, aggressively angling for a distribution deal,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/arts/music/ludovic-morlot-stands-out-at-the-seattle-symphony.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; A Symphony's Leader Takes Seattle by Storm	SEATTLE -- At a cocktail party on Wednesday evening in an art-filled home in the fashionable Capitol Hill neighborhood here, Andrew Russell, the 28-year-old artistic director of the Intiman Theater, addressed a small crowd in front of a picture window and unexpectedly mentioned Ludovic Morlot. Assuming that the Intiman could stabilize its shaky
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/arts/music/cloud-nothings-at-the-studio-at-webster-hall.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Promoting a New Album, and Often Going Off Script	Here's what working with Steve Albini can do for your band, as evinced by ''Attack on Memory'' (Carpark), the strong new album by the Cleveland outfit Cloud Nothings. Like a preset mode in ProTools or other recording programs, there is an Albini sound: the drums hit with a certain crispness, and there's a mild claustrophobia to the proceedings. Mr
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/arts/music/new-york-philharmonic-featuring-frank-peter-zimmermann.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Uncommon Trick in a Common Concerto	Some of the buzz around the New York Philharmonic residency of the German violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann this season has focused on the conservatism of his repertory. Mr. Zimmermann's distinguished discography includes items by Weill, Szymanowski and Ligeti, after all, and a West Coast colleague in the audience at Avery Fisher Hall on Thursday
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/theater/reviews/bridesburg-at-gene-frankel-theater-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'BRIDESBURG'; Think Life Couldn't Get Worse? Drop In on This Dismal Family	Some people go to the theater to escape the struggles of everyday life. If you're one of those people, don't see ''Bridesburg.'' There is nothing whatsoever escapist about this new play, running at the Gene Frankel Theater. If anything, you could call it entrapist. It not only fixates on poverty, layoffs and hopelessness, but pulls you further into
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/arts/music/frank-peter-zimmermann-and-new-york-philharmonic-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; The Rewards of Brahms, Playful to Magisterial	The German violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann, joined by the pianist Enrico Pace and members of the New York Philharmonic, played a Brahms chamber music recital on Sunday afternoon at Avery Fisher Hall. The good news was that the performances were excellent. The problem was the place they were played. At more than 2,700 seats, Avery Fisher Hall is
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/arts/music/grace-woodroofe-tim-mcgraw-richard-galliano-review.html	NEW MUSIC; New Albums by Tim McGraw, Grace Woodroofe and Richard Galliano	TIM MCGRAW ''Emotional Traffic'' (Curb) In 2005, the year Toby Keith turned 44, he released ''As Good as I Once Was,'' one of his most bellicose and smarmy singles in a career that specialized in them, and a declaration of potency in the face of encroaching middle age. The pugnacious Mr. Keith figured out that aging gracefully in country music,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E1DD1339F937A15752C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Tale of Comic Adventures Wins Newbery Medal	A sly, gothic and quasi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is grounded by his parents and sent to type obituaries for a neighbor, leading to a string of comic adventures, won the John Newbery Medal on Monday for the year's most outstanding contribution to children's literature. The winning book, ''Dead End in Norvelt,'' was written by Jack Gantos,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/books/how-it-all-began-by-penelope-lively-book-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; One Small Event Derails Many Lives	HOW IT ALL BEGAN By Penelope Lively 229 pages. Viking. $26.95. The plot of Penelope Lively's vital new novel is one big snowball: an avalanche of events that starts with the mugging of an elderly woman named Charlotte Rainsford one fine April day in London. By the end of the book this single event will have derailed seven lives, sending these
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E3DF1039F937A15752C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Schoolgirl's Embroidery Fetches $1.07 Million	In 1807, a New Jersey schoolgirl named Mary Antrim embroidered a farm scene with silk thread on linen. On Sunday, Sotheby's in New York sold her view of livestock, picket fences and clapboarded outbuildings for $1.07 million (the top estimate had been $120,000), setting an auction record for a needlework sampler. The sale contained 198 lots from
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/arts/music/thomas-hampson-sings-songs-of-america-at-met-museum-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Bank Facade, Statues and a Baritone	In some ways it made perfect sense for the Metropolitan Museum to stage Thomas Hampson's recital on Sunday evening in the Charles Engelhard Court, rather than in its more staid Grace Rainey Rogers auditorium. Mr. Hampson's program, ''Songs of America,'' a sampler from his similarly titled 13-week series for the WFMT Radio Network (heard in New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/books/in-love-inshallah-american-muslim-women-reveal-lives.html	Lifting Veil On Love And Islam	Zahra Noorbakhsh was 14 when her Iranian immigrant mother discovered that Zahra was defying the family ban on mingling with boys: one was among her four friends heading to the movies together. So the sex education talk that in a different life, back in the holy city of Qom, would have waited for her bridal night was instead delivered in the parking
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E3DA1339F937A15752C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Tim Rice Not Happy With Lloyd Webber	Look at all the trials and tribulations of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The one-time partners behind some of musical theater's most successful (and lucrative) works are feuding again, this time over a British reality series that would cast the lead for a new production of ''Jesus Christ Superstar.'' Last week it was announced that Mr. Lloyd
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE7D91339F937A15752C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; 2 Live Crew to Live Again	The rap group 2 Live Crew, which set off a fierce debate over freedom of speech with its graphic sexual lyrics in the 1980s and early 1990s, plans to reunite and begin touring, The Associated Press reported. The group's former leader, Luther Campbell, said at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah that the rappers, whose hits like ''Me So Horny'' drew
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/books/review/justice-and-the-enemy-nuremberg-9-11-and-the-trial-of-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-by-william-shawcross-book-review.html	The Shadow of Nuremberg	JUSTICE AND THE ENEMY Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed By William Shawcross 257 pp. PublicAffairs. $26.99. On the campaign trail in June 2008, Barack Obama commented on the Supreme Court's extension of the constitutional right of habeas corpus to detainees held at the naval facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. ''During the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E6D9123EF931A15752C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Advice, How-To And Miscellaneous: Sunday, January 22nd 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the January 22, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending January 7, 2012. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980DEEDA123EF931A15752C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: E-Book Fiction: Sunday, January 22nd 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the January 22, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending January 7, 2012. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/arts/dance/wendy-whelan-ballerina-of-architectural-bearing.html	A Dancer Who Can Remember The Giants	IF Wendy Whelan were a Hollywood star, glossy profiles about her would forever be opening with vignettes underlining how remarkably down to earth and likable she is. But when this celebrated New York City Ballet principal talks about choreography -- not just any choreography, but dances that really get her creative juices flowing -- all of that
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/arts/design/ellsworth-kelly-explorer-of-shape-line-and-color.html	True to His Abstraction	Spencertown, N.Y. ELLSWORTH KELLY'S studio here is a sprawling labyrinth of white-walled rooms, some with skylights, some with large windows looking out onto the rolling landscape. The walls are either bare or impeccably hung with a selection of Mr. Kelly's striking painting reliefs. Everything is simple, spare and modern with one exception: at the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01EEDA123EF931A15752C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Chapter Books: Sunday, January 22nd 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the January 22, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending January 7, 2012. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/21/arts/music/marilyn-horne-celebrates-young-singers-at-zankel-hall.html	MUSIC REVIEW; A Program for Singers Shows Them the Way to Carnegie Hall	''I'm still here,'' an ebullient Marilyn Horne crooned to a delighted audience at Zankel Hall on Thursday night, invoking the classic Stephen Sondheim song. On one level this great mezzo-soprano was referring to herself, having come through extensive treatments for cancer in recent years. But her words also applied to the Marilyn Horne Foundation,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EED91130F932A15752C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; 'Far From Heaven' Heads to Williamstown	From Douglas Sirk to Todd Haynes and now to the stage of the 2012 Williamstown Theater Festival: that's the journey to be taken by ''Far From Heaven,'' a musical adaptation of Mr. Haynes's 2002 film of the same name, which starred Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid. The musical will feature a book by Tony-winning playwright Richard Greenberg (''Take
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/21/crosswords/bridge/the-district-3-winter-regional-bridge.html	BRIDGE; Playing Well and Being Lucky At District 3 Winter Regional	Friday the 13th is supposed to be unlucky. This month it wasn't for R. Jay Becker and Brian Glubok of New York City, who won the two-session Open Pairs that day at the District 3 Winter Regional in Rye Brook, N.Y. They finished 5.36 match points ahead of Michael McNamara of White Plains, N.Y. (who won the most master points at the regional), and
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/21/arts/dance/flicfest-at-irondale-center-in-brooklyn.html	DANCE REVIEW; Clouding Together for a Storm, and Shedding Light on Immigration Stories	Last year's inaugural FLICfest (Feature-Length Independent Choreography), a festival of dance created by Jeramy Zimmerman in partnership with the Irondale Center in Brooklyn, generated a lot of goodwill buzz for its mission of supporting evening-length work. It's a nice idea. Sampler programs stuffed with short pieces tend to be tedious affairs;
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/movies/with-technology-sundance-films-make-it-to-screen-faster.html	Technology Helps Sundance Films Capture the Moment	LOS ANGELES -- If the Sundance Film Festival is a mirror of America, this year's installment depicts an unusually stark image of a broken place filled with broken people. Documentaries examine the nation's collapsed manufacturing base, its damaged health care system, a looming hunger crisis among the American poor, an epidemic of rape in the United
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E4DF1730F93BA25752C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Literary Agent Strives To Educate Arts Leaders	Having served on several cultural boards, the literary agent Morton L. Janklow found that many arts leaders lacked basic business skills necessary to manage their institutions. So he has spearheaded a new master's of arts degree program at Syracuse University, which is to be announced Tuesday. ''Sometimes they don't have the tools with which to
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507EFDA1430F93BA25752C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; From Catfish Row to Cirque du Soleil	Diane Paulus is moving from Catfish Row to a mysterious island. The producers of Cirque du Soleil announced this week that Ms. Paulus, the director of ''The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess,'' which just opened on Broadway, is set to direct ''Amaluna,'' the company's latest touring spectacle, which will open in Montreal on April 19 before moving to Quebec
http://tv.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/arts/television/inside-natures-giants-on-pbs-review.html	TELEVISION REVIEW | 'INSIDE NATURE'S GIANTS'; Windows Into Big but Little-Understood Worlds	''Inside Nature's Giants,'' besides being the liveliest scientists-at-work program to come along in a while, is the perfect thing for anyone trying to lose weight. You won't be doing any snacking while watching this cut-them-open extravaganza. The four-part series, which begins on Wednesday night on PBS, features a team of experts who dissect a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E2DF1430F93BA25752C0A9649D8B63	What's On Today	10 P.M. (BBC America) MISTRESSES This soap opera about four women in Bristol, England, balancing friendship and extramarital intrigue, left American viewers dangling when Season 2 wrapped in May 2009. Now it returns for a four-episode finale. When last we saw the girlfriends, Katie (Sarah Parish), the doctor who helped her terminally ill married
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/theater/reviews/newyorkland-at-coil-festival-shows-police-work-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'NEWYORKLAND'; The Officers' Workaday, Work-a-Night Lives, Far From Movie Glamour	When our culture represents police officers, it's usually a good cop-bad cop situation. With notable exceptions, like the characters in ''The Wire,'' those who enforce the law are typically noble or corrupt, glamorous detectives or dirty dealers. ''Newyorkland,'' part of the Coil Festival, a stylish new play by Temporary Distortion, an audacious
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/movies/crazy-horse-by-frederick-wiseman-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'CRAZY HORSE'; The Agony Behind an Erotic Club's Ecstasy	''Crazy Horse,''Frederick Wiseman's new documentary, invites the viewer to contemplate the intricacies of the creative process, the daily rhythms of a complex organization and the tensions between artistic ambition and practicality -- and also to look at very beautiful women wearing very little. This is not the first time Mr. Wiseman has planted
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/movies/the-city-dark-a-documentary-by-ian-cheney-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE CITY DARK'; Recalling When Nighttime Was Dark	A documentary about light pollution that is entertaining and thought-provoking? It hardly seems possible, but that's what Ian Cheney has made in ''The City Dark.'' Mr. Cheney's film is a personal lament for the star-filled night sky he experienced growing up in Maine, but it is neither sorrowful nor a rant; he somehow manages to give this engaging
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802EFDA1730F93BA25752C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Stand-Up Comedy Booker for 'Late Show' Loses Job	4:05 p.m. | Updated Eddie Brill, a longtime gatekeeper for rising stand-ups at ''Late Show With David Letterman,'' will no longer be the comedy booker at that CBS late-night series, ending the tenure of a respected and contentious figure in the stand-up comedy world. A spokeswoman for CBS declined to comment on Tuesday. But a person with direct
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E05E6DD1430F93BA25752C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; A Breakout Premiere For 'Alcatraz' on Fox	The series premiere of ''Alcatraz'' -- which features a crack investigative team tracking former inmates of the infamous prison -- managed to capture a large portion of the broadcast audience for Fox on Monday night. The new drama averaged 10 million viewers and outperformed the premiere of the previous time slot occupant, ''Terra Nova,'' in the
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/arts/jan-15-21.html	THE WEEK AHEAD; Jan. 15 -- 21	Theater Ben Brantley The urge to hibernate is strong in January, when the weather is frightful and bed looks like the most inviting place in town. But heat-seeking theatergoers can avoid brain freeze with stimulating alternatives to Broadway blandness. You might, for example, venture into deepest Brooklyn, where the temperature's rising at the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03EFDA123EF936A25752C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Mass-Market Fiction: Sunday, January 15th 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the January 15, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending December 31, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/books/review/editors-choice.html	Editors' Choice: Recent Books Of Particular Interest	PITY THE BILLIONAIRE: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right, by Thomas Frank (Metropolitan/Holt, $25.) Frank entertainingly mocks powerful conservatives' claims that they are victims of an all-powerful liberal establishment. THE TEA PARTY AND THE REMAKING OF REPUBLICAN CONSERVATISM, by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4DB123EF936A25752C0A9649D8B63	COMING ATTRACTIONS; The Week Ahead: Jan. 15-Jan. 21	Most artists find the teachers they need, whether consciously or by accident. Such was the case with Degas (self-portrait, above), who was inspired by Rembrandt (self-portrait, top) upon seeing his etchings in Rome. ''Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Feb. 23 and explores that
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04E2D6133EF936A25752C0A9649D8B63	COMMENTS	Here's a sampling of readers' comments on Michael Kimmelman's column about parking lots. ''My favorite place in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., is a crummy cinderblock hotel that overlooks the central public parking lot. If you take a second-floor room overlooking the parking lot, you can see the world: people change their clothes there, have parties,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E6DD123EF936A25752C0A9649D8B63	The Week Ahead: Jan. 15-Jan. 21	Television Kathryn Shattuck When the second season of ''MISTRESSES,'' the delicious BBC America soap opera about four women in Bristol balancing best friendship and extramarital intrigue, wrapped in May 2009, I eagerly awaited news of Season 3 and was met with a funk-inducing silence. There were so many loose ends to tie up, I wailed. Katie (Sarah
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406EFDA123EF936A25752C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Graphic Books: Sunday, January 15th 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the January 15, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending December 31, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07EFDA123EF936A25752C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Fiction: Sunday, January 15th 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the January 15, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending December 31, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E3DE123EF936A25752C0A9649D8B63	CORRECTIONS	A caption on Dec. 4 with the Video column omitted credit for the picture of the French film director Jean-Luc Godard. The photograph was from the Collection Christophel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/books/review/carpentiers-kingdom.html	LETTER; Carpentier's 'Kingdom'	To the Editor: As a footnote to Adam Hochschild's informative review of Laurent Dubois's ''Haiti: The Aftershocks of History'' (Jan. 1), the most insightful novel on the tragic destiny of Haiti is still Alejo Carpentier's ''Kingdom of This World'' (1949). SUZANNE JILL LEVINE Santa Barbara, Calif. The writer is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/arts/music/huang-ruos-dr-sun-yat-sen-at-le-poisson-rouge-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; The Irresistible Allure Of 'Banned in Beijing'	Nothing creates interest in a work like official displeasure, or so, at least, historical precedent suggests. When the British government tried to ban Strauss's ''Salome'' in 1910, the conductor Thomas Beecham appealed successfully and led a London run that was the hottest ticket of the season. Time was when the label ''banned in Boston'' helped
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/arts/music/geri-allen-esperanza-spalding-terri-lyne-carrington-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Leaderless, A Hybrid Swings Forward	The drummer Terri Lyne Carrington put out an album last year called ''The Mosaic Project,'' with all female musicians and singers from different aesthetic areas and generations, swing and backbeats, melodic improvising and rapping, the whole thing loosely categorizable as jazz. It involved a revolving cast of more than a dozen musicians; it's
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E7D81331F930A25752C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Aldean and Minaj at the Grammys	The country music star Jason Aldean and the rapper Nicki Minaj will be among the first-time performers during the Grammy Awards ceremony on Feb. 12, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced on Thursday. Mr. Aldean and Ms. Minaj are nominated for several awards. They will be joined by Kelly Clarkson, Foo Fighters, Bruno Mars and
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/arts/design/works-by-haviland-ceramics-and-robert-r-taylor.html	ANTIQUES; 'Absolutely Nobody,' Discovering Old Ceramics	WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- Robert F. Doares Jr. and Barbara Myers Wood have no doctorates or institutional backing, just time on their hands for freelance ceramics scholarship. A married couple, they have shown up unannounced at the offices of venerable manufacturers, asking to rifle archives, and have then made major discoveries. They have attributed
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/movies/man-on-a-mission-with-richard-garriott-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'MAN ON A MISSION'; Blasting Off as a Space Tourist	''Man on a Mission,'' the most expensive home movie ever made, is one man's genial account of his trip into outer space. What's odd about it is that while you can certainly sense the joy that this fellow, Richard Garriott, feels in achieving a lifelong dream, you're unlikely to be interested in imitating him. Cramped quarters, bulky wardrobe,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/arts/dance/bhangra-the-wedding-dance-thats-also-a-workout.html	URBAN ATHLETE; A Wedding Dance That's Also a Workout	ATTENDING Indian weddings and ending up the night sweaty and tired from hours of bhangra dancing have been regular parts of my weekend repertory since I was a child. The catchy music can entice even the most die-hard wallflower to move. But though my heart beats fast, and my legs end up sore, I've never thought of bhangra as a workout. Apparently
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/movies/contraband-with-mark-wahlberg-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'CONTRABAND'; Not Quite An Honest Day's Work	The absurdity of the story in the largely thrill-free thriller ''Contraband,'' its hairpin twists and outrageous coincidences, may keep even hungry action fans away. That's too bad because the story doesn't matter. (It rarely does.) If anything, the film's adherence to implausibility as a defining narrative principle -- a reliably winning Mark
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/theater/reviews/audra-mcdonald-in-the-gershwins-porgy-and-bess-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS'; A New Storm's Brewing Down on Catfish Row	The hurricane that's said to be headed for Catfish Row has yet to arrive early in the second act of ''The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess,'' which opened on Thursday night in a new, slimmed-down reincarnation at the Richard Rodgers Theater. The climate so far might be described as mostly cloudy and mild, as might this version of the show. But suddenly an
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/arts/spare-times-for-jan-13-19.html	Spare Times	Around Town Museums and Sites The Jewish Museum: Hanukkah Lamps (through Jan. 29) ''An Artist Remembers: Hanukkah Lamps Selected by Maurice Sendak'' features, along with 33 lamps from a variety of eras in many styles, an audio recording of Mr. Sendak that illuminates his choices through personal anecdotes. Saturday through Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 5:45
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9F0CE3DB103EF931A25752C0A9649D8B63	THEATER REVIEW | 'IN THE SOLITUDE OF COTTON FIELDS'; Seller and Buyer in a Puzzling Exchange	''In the Solitude of Cotton Fields,'' a visceral adaptation of a French play by Bernard-Marie Koltés, portrays a high-octane, sexually charged meeting between a dealer and a client, where the goods exchanged are unclear, but the high stakes are not. On another level, this production, staged in Polish with English supertitles by Radoslaw Rychcik,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/books/review/treasure-island-by-sara-levine-book-review.html	Pirate Life	TREASURE ISLAND!!! By Sara Levine 172 pp. Europa Editions. Paper, $15. I'm partial, I confess, to a book with exclamation points in its title. It's the excitement, the urgency, the exuberance they bring to a page. Imagine if other people had used them: ''War and Peace!!!'' ''The Breast!!!'' You'd expect a completely different book. ''Treasure
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400EEDB103CF93BA35752C0A9649D8B63	ESSAY; 140 Characters in Search of an Author	Since the 19th century, the common conception of ''the author'' has gone something like this: A young man, in his garret, writes furiously, crumpling up papers and throwing them on the floor, losing track of time, heedless of the public, obsessed with his own imagination. He is aloof, elusive, a man whom you know only by his writing and the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E0DA123EF93BA35752C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Trade Fiction: Sunday, January 8th 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the January 8, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending December 24, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/books/review/would-it-kill-you-to-stop-doing-that-a-modern-guide-to-manners-by-henry-alford-book-review.html	Mr. Manners	WOULD IT KILL YOU TO STOP DOING THAT? A Modern Guide to Manners By Henry Alford 242 pp. Twelve. $24.99. Henry Alford's breezy guide to manners begins promisingly with a fact-finding trip to Japan, ''the Fort Knox of the World Manners Reserve.'' He hires a Japanese etiquette coach and learns that it's rude to point with your fingers or sneeze in
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/movies/todd-graf-sticks-to-his-favorite-genre-in-joyful-noise.html	Gleeful Sounds From Memories Of Childhood	THE success of ''Glee'' and ''American Idol'' in the last few years would seem to make Hollywood particularly amenable to the work of Todd Graff, a writer-director who describes himself as ''a big old musical theater queen from way back.'' His résumé is eclectic, but the films that are nearest to his heart involve characters making music in one
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/books/review/up-front.html	Up Front	Four years after a presidential election that looked, briefly, as if it might put an end to America's partisan warfare, we find ourselves further embroiled in it, as reports from the run-up to the Iowa caucuses reminded us almost daily. Only now what once seemed disagreements over solutions have grown, or deteriorated, into profound differences
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E1D8163FF93BA35752C0A9649D8B63	COMING ATTRACTIONS; The Week Ahead | Jan. 8- Jan. 14	This year's Harkness Dance Festival, which opens at the 92nd Street Y on Feb. 17, brings exciting news: The slippery choreographer Doug Elkins has updated his 1990 dance ''Mo(or)town,'' a play on Shakespeare's ''Othello'' set to the music of Motown. ''Mo(or)town/Redux,'' right, will be performed on March 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. and on March 4 at 3 p.m.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/arts/design/taking-parking-lots-seriously-as-public-spaces.html	Paved, But Still Alive	THERE are said to be at least 105 million and maybe as many as 2 billion parking spaces in the United States. A third of them are in parking lots, those asphalt deserts that we claim to hate but that proliferate for our convenience. One study says we've built eight parking spots for every car in the country. Houston is said to have 30 of them per
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9906E2DA123EF93BA35752C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Picture Books: Sunday, January 8th 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the January 8, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending December 24, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E1DA123EF93BA35752C0A9649D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Graphic Books: Sunday, January 8th 2012	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the January 8, 2012 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending December 24, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/theater/reviews/goodbar-at-under-the-radar-festival-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'GOODBAR'; Anatomy of a Murder, in Raging Rock	The easily downloadable single dominates pop music today, which makes ''Goodbar,'' a music-theater piece being presented at the Public Theater as part of the Under the Radar festival, a throwback in more ways than one. The show, created by the band Bambï and the downtown theater troupe Waterwell, is essentially a staged concept album. (Remember
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE1DE103FF935A35752C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Gehry Designs 'Don Giovanni' Set	Having designed the auditorium for the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the architect Frank Gehry is now turning his attention to the stage itself, creating a set for the Los Angeles Philharmonic's production of ''Don Giovanni.'' Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte will design the costumes. Gustavo Dudamel, the Philharmonic's music director, will conduct.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/arts/design/die-nazi-scum-soviet-tass-propaganda-posters-1941-1945.html	ART IN REVIEW; 'Die, Nazi Scum!': Soviet Tass Propaganda Posters, 1941-1945	Andrew Edlin Gallery 134 10th Avenue, near 18th Street, Chelsea Through Jan. 14 This lively array of ferocious anti-Nazi posters produced in the Soviet Union during World War II will reward anyone interested in political cartoons, graphic design, wartime propaganda, German Expressionism, Soviet Social Realism or all of the above. The show follows a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00EEDA133FF935A35752C0A9649D8B63	ARTSBEAT; An Online Presidential Debate That's Meant to Be Laughed At	In this presidential election cycle can you handle just one more Republican debate? If that already sounds like a joke - and we haven't even mentioned that it will be moderated by Larry King and its panelists will include Mike Tyson - that's precisely the goal of a satirical event that will be presented on Friday morning by Yahoo! and Funny or Die
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/movies/pom-poko-directed-by-isao-takahata.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'POM POKO'; Angry Critters Spearhead an Ecological Battle	''Pom Poko'' -- one of the final offerings in the welcome Studio Ghibli retrospective at the IFC Center -- wasn't directed by the studio's master animator, Hayao Miyazaki, but certainly bears his influence. Directed by Mr. Miyazaki's frequent collaborator Isao Takahata, the film, from 1994, credits Mr. Miyazaki with ''planning,'' and it's easy to
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/arts/design/metropolitan-museum-completes-american-wing-renovation.html	Grand Galleries for National Treasures	IN 1924, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its American Wing, the Met's president, Robert W. de Forest, cautiously toasted the state of what he called ''American domestic art.'' ''Perhaps, at the moment, it has more acclaim than future generations would think it ought to have had,'' he said. ''It has filled the antiquity shops, it has
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/arts/design/george-kuchar-pagan-rhapsodies-at-moma-ps1-review.html	ART REVIEW; A Dissident Director of High-Camp, Low-Budget Films	On Bizarro World, a planet in Superman's universe, people do everything backward and ineptly. If this anti-Earth had a filmmaker, that person would probably be a lot like George Kuchar (1942-2011), the pioneering underground filmmaker who dedicated his life to upending the values of conventional cinema. Long before video-making technology and
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/arts/design/city-views-from-q-train-and-other-unexpected-urban-art.html	FRAME; Serendipity as Urban Curator	WITH apologies to provincial visionaries everywhere, it's always been tough to argue with Ezra Pound: ''All great art is born of the metropolis.'' For more than 20 years I've lived in New York, and for the last 7 as a newspaper reporter I've written about the art world of this metropolis. So for a long time now it's been second nature for me to
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/movies/codependent-lesbian-space-alien-seeks-same-from-madeleine-olnek.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'CODEPENDENT LESBIAN SPACE ALIEN SEEKS SAME'; Lesbian Alien Looks for Love Light Years Away	In ''Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same,'' Madeleine Olnek's witty ode to urban love and shoestring sci-fi, a lonely Manhattanite and an exiled extraterrestrial find interspecies contentment. On the Earthling side is Jane (a perfect Lisa Haas), a sweet, unlucky-in-love store clerk surviving on fantasies and regular therapy. About to realize
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/movies/norwegian-wood-from-haruki-murakami-novel-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'NORWEGIAN WOOD'; Young Love as Divine, But a Perilous Insanity	The dreamy, protracted love scenes in ''Norwegian Wood'' recall that now quaint era near the peak of the sexual revolution when intense young love fired the collective imagination with envy, prurience and awe. Yes, there were casual hookups then, but they were not called that in the late 1960s, when the story takes place. Romantic sex still bore a
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/books/review/read-it-again-sam.html	LETTER; 'Read It Again, Sam'	To the Editor: David Bowman's essay ''Read It Again, Sam'' (Dec. 4) called to mind an anecdote dear to Jane Austen devotees. The Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle, when asked if he ever read novels, replied: ''Oh yes. All six. Every year.'' It's worth remembering, though, that just as no two siblings ever have the same parents, no one ever reads the
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/books/review/how-it-all-began-by-penelope-lively-book-review.html	Unintended Consequences	HOW IT ALL BEGAN By Penelope Lively 229 pp. Viking. $26.95. How it begins: ''The pavement /rises up and hits her.'' A retired schoolteacher, Charlotte Rainsford, has been mugged on a London street. Her hip has been broken and her bag stolen by someone who, Penelope Lively briskly informs us, will disappear from the rest of Charlotte's story. Amid
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/movies/awardsseason/inside-the-production-design-of-hugo.html	THE OSCARS; Making Marvels: A World for 'Hugo'	WHEN it comes to the design of his films, the director Martin Scorsese is known for detailed clarity. The sets for his recent period films -- ''Shutter Island,''''The Aviator,''''Gangs of New York'' -- have each evoked a specific time and place thanks to his collaboration with the production designer Dante Ferretti, who supervises the design and
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/books/review/gossip-the-untrivial-pursuit-by-joseph-epstein-book-review.html	Tell-All	GOSSIP The Untrivial Pursuit By Joseph Epstein 242 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $25. Most of us scriveners feel obliged to call our books something catchy in the hope of impressing potential readers with how clever we are. Not so Joseph Epstein. ''What's your book about?'' ''Gossip.'' ''What's it called?'' ''Gossip.'' Epstein has repeatedly opted
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/books/review/the-unquiet-american-richard-holbrooke-in-the-world-edited-by-derek-chollet-and-samantha-power-book-review.html	Man of the World	THE UNQUIET AMERICAN Richard Holbrooke in the World Edited by Derek Chollet and Samantha Power Illustrated. 383 pp. PublicAffairs. $29.99. In the spring of 1991 Strobe Talbott, who would become deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration, visited Richard Holbrooke at his weekend home in Connecticut. After playing tennis and going for a
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/arts/dance/liam-scarlett-choreographs-viscera-for-miami-city-ballet.html	DANCE; A Cherub's Classical Vocabulary	LONDON IT is a little after 7 p.m., and Liam Scarlett, a Royal Ballet corps dancer and the new choreographic wonder boy of British ballet, clad in black jeans and a T-shirt, is courteously escorting a visitor through the backstage corridors of the Royal Opera House here. As the sounds of the orchestra warming up for the evening performance of ''The
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E1D6103DF932A35752C0A9649D8B63	A DANGEROUS METHOD; Setting A Scene With Words	In the early years of the 20th century, and the beginnings of what will come to be known as psychoanalysis, a disturbed young woman (Keira Knightley) is being treated at a clinic in Zurich by Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender). This is the final session in Jung's initial treatment of Sabina Spielrein. INT. CONSULTING ROOM - DAY Jung sits, as usual,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/movies/awardsseason/tilda-swinton-discusses-her-career.html	THE OSCARS; Alien Laborer in the Hollywood Factory	''I live on another planet, fortunately, and we do things differently there,'' Tilda Swinton says over tea and a slight case of the sniffles at the Bowery Hotel in the East Village. Somehow this does not seem a revelatory confession coming from this singular and singular-looking actress. She naturally radiates a certain otherworldliness, as of a
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/books/review/smut-stories-by-alan-bennett-book-review.html	Dirty Stories	SMUT Stories By Alan Bennett 152 pp. Picador/A Frances Coady Book/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Paper, $14. On Sept. 24, 1986, in one of his published diaries, Alan Bennett -- the British dramatist, screenwriter and master of the long short story -- sighs over a spate of mixed reviews: ''Well, one must take it like a man,'' he supposes. ''Which means
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/books/review/roger-williams-and-the-creation-of-the-american-soul-church-state-and-the-birth-of-liberty-by-john-m-barry-book-review.html	Errand in the Wilderness	ROGER WILLIAMS AND THE CREATION OF THE AMERICAN SOUL Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty By John M. Barry 464 pp. Viking. $35. Should you find yourself in front of the Rhode Island Statehouse in Providence, look up and east, and tip your hat -- real or imagined -- to Roger Williams. A 35-foot statue of the Protestant theologian (1603?-1683)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E2D9143CF933A05751C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Trove of Titanic Artifacts Will Go to Auction	Thousands of artifacts salvaged from the Titanic's watery tomb in the North Atlantic will be sold in a winner-take-all auction scheduled for April, the centennial of the luxury liner's sinking, The Associated Press reported. The estimated value of the 5,500 pieces of fine china, still-fragrant perfume bottles, ship fittings and more recovered by
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE5DF153CF933A05751C1A9679D8B63	Sing In the New Year	Another year down, another drop of the ball, another chance to get it all right. The parties of New Year's Eve are ostensibly the way to start another trip around the Sun with a burst of exuberance. But really New Year's Eve is a confessional, a way to scrape off the muck of the year that's ending with loud music, maybe some libations and a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/arts/music/pop-music-in-2012.html	POP MUSIC | THE YEAR AHEAD; Pop Will Thrive in Greenwich Village	There's little need to wait for two of 2012's most promising events. Thanks to the intrepid Association of Performing Arts Presenters, which braves January in New York City for its annual convention, a brigade of jazz and world-music performers converges in downtown Manhattan next weekend. On Jan. 6 and 7, the Winter Jazzfest shares five Greenwich
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03E0DC143CF933A05751C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; In Cheetah Mystery, Sanctuary Stands by Its Chimp	A Florida animal sanctuary on Thursday stood by its claim that a chimpanzee that died there over the weekend was featured in the classic Tarzan movies of the 1930s, despite the skepticism of some experts who believed it was unlikely that a chimp could live to be more than 80 years old. ''I'm disputing that, I am greatly disputing that, and I think
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/theater/theater-listings-dec-30-jan-5.html	The Listings	Theater Approximate running times are in parentheses. Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of current productions, additional listings, showtimes and ticket information: nytimes.com/theater. Previews and Openings 'The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess' (in previews; opens on Jan. 12) Controversy swirled around this revival of the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/arts/weekend-miser-an-indoor-park-and-mini-golf-in-a-bar.html	WEEKEND MISER; An Indoor Park and Mini-Golf in a Bar	Normally this time of year finds the Miser making a gigantic list of possible resolutions. (There are always many to choose from.) But with vacation extending into the first week of January, the plan is to ease into the new year with some mildly active fun that won't require facing the cold reality that the holidays are over. For instance, the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/arts/dance/in-dance-ratmansky-wheeldon-paul-taylor-and-mark-morris.html	DANCE | THE YEAR AHEAD; Tackling Beethoven And the 'Firebird'	What choreography in 2012 whets the appetite in advance? It's dismayingly hard to know. The choreographers Mark Morris, Alexei Ratmansky, Paul Taylor and Christopher Wheeldon will all present premieres in New York. But while Mr. Morris and Mr. Taylor are capable of real greatness, and Mr. Ratmansky and Mr. Wheeldon are the most important
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/movies/the-iron-lady-about-margaret-thatcher-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE IRON LADY'; Polarizing Leader Fades Into the Twilight	The best thing about ''The Iron Lady'' may be that viewers going into the theater with strong views, pro or con, about its subject, the former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, are likely to emerge in a state of greater ambivalence, even confusion. Those who know or care little about her will also be confused, but for different reasons.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/arts/television/on-tv-new-shows-and-season-premieres-set-for-january.html	TELEVISION | THE YEAR AHEAD; A Second Chance For TV's Season	New TV shows are liable to pop up any time these days, but over the last few years January has solidified its position as the start of television's second season. There are probably more series making their debuts or having their season premieres next month than there were during the official start of the 2011-12 broadcast network season in
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9800E4DE123CF933A05751C1A9679D8B63	THEATER | THE YEAR AHEAD; Revivals and Retellings, Some Served With Blood: Gershwins on Broadway	Musical revivals are one of the bread-and-butter staples of any Broadway season, but the arrival of ''Porgy and Bess'' -- oops, I mean ''The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess'' -- at the Richard Rodgers Theater this winter does not remotely qualify as business-as-usual fare. This is not just because the new production has come thundering into town after
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/books/review/paperback-row.html	Paperback Row	GATHERING EVIDENCE: A Memoir, by Thomas Bernhard. Translated by David McLintock (Vintage International, $16.95.) Bernhard, the Austrian playwright and novelist who died in 1989, describes his harrowing childhood in Nazi-dominated schools and the bouts of pneumonia and tuberculosis that shaped his lifelong obsession with death. This volume includes
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/arts/television/a-new-season-of-the-donna-reed-show-on-dvd.html	Back When Mother, Too, Knew Best	TO baby boomers of a certain age Donna Reed was a sunny-bright television fixture for eight seasons, the perfect mom -- at least according to the prevailing values of the day -- radiantly gliding down the staircase every week to answer the beckoning phone, its ringing augmented by an impossibly perky musical theme fittingly titled ''Happy Days.''
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/movies/homevideo/a-screwball-a-noir-a-courtroom-drama-all-unsung.html	DVD; Unsung Features, Screwball to Noir	Nothing Sacred At a time when Technicolor was generally reserved for musicals or historical pageants, William Wellman's 1937 film ''Nothing Sacred'' made a memorably anomalous use of the process for a screwball comedy -- among the most cynical of the period -- largely set in the nightclubs and hotel rooms of an Art Deco Manhattan. The story,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/books/review/the-book-of-books-what-literature-owes-the-bible.html	The Book of Books	The Bible is the model for and subject of more art and thought than those of us who live within its influence, consciously or unconsciously, will ever know. Literatures are self-referential by nature, and even when references to Scripture in contemporary fiction and poetry are no more than ornamental or rhetorical -- indeed, even when they are
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E5DA123EF936A15751C1A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Graphic Books: Sunday, December 25th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the December 25, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending December 10, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/arts/music/white-female-rappers-challenging-hip-hops-masculine-ideal.html	Challenging Hip-Hop's Masculine Ideal	HIP-HOP is primarily a celebration of black masculinity. Sure, there have long been significant black female and white male figures, but the majority of the conversation in hip-hop is and has always been about the actions, thoughts, feelings and ethos of black men. But this hegemony cannot last forever. Eventually the throne will have to be shared.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E2D8123AF936A15751C1A9679D8B63	The Week Ahead | Dec. 25-Dec. 31	Television Neil Genzlinger Your thoughts may already be turning to New Year's Eve and yet another dull dropping of the ball. But ESPN will be offering something a little different: two guys going airborne for absurdly long distances. Simultaneously. The show, which will be seen late Saturday, as soon as the Chick-fil-A Bowl is over, is called ''RED
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/books/review/bears-dolphins-and-the-animal-stories-we-tell.html	NONFICTION CHRONICLE; Animal Attraction	Ever since Peter Singer's ''Animal Liberation'' laid the groundwork for modern animal advocacy more than 35 years ago, it has been a central tenet of the movement that we go ethically astray when we let emotional proximity to humans and a handful of nonhuman species trump the obvious interests of other animals. Although animal rights proponents
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/books/review/cover-to-cover.html	LETTER; Cover To Cover	To the Editor: Peter Keepnews, reviewing ''Alex Steinweiss: The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover,'' compiled by Kevin Reagan, and ''R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection'' (Dec. 4), laments the loss of great record cover art as LPs gave way to CDs, and CDs now give way to coverless digital downloads. If he feels ''a little lump'' in his
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/arts/dec-25-31.html	THE WEEK AHEAD; Dec. 25 -- 31	Theater Steven McElroy It seems appropriate, as another year ends, to recall influential people who have died in the past 12 months. One of the most important names on my list is ELLEN STEWART, the founder and, until her death in January at 91, artistic director of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club. I once interviewed Stewart and, though what I
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/movies/pina-a-documentary-by-wim-wenders-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'PINA'; 3-D Tribute to Artistic Impulse	One of the interesting and unexpected film stories of 2011 is about 3-D, which simultaneously lost commercial potency and gained artistic credibility. Those who dismiss the format as the industrial gimmick (and excuse for price gouging) that it frequently is may need to reconsider now that a handful of certified auteurs have given it a try. Steven
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/arts/design/paul-sharits.html	ART IN REVIEW; Paul Sharits	Greene Naftali 508 West 26th Street, Chelsea Through Jan. 14 Paul Sharits (1943-93) was a pioneer of what the critic Gene Youngblood called ''expanded cinema.'' He made ''flicker films'' of stroboscopically changing colors and structural films that toyed with the basic properties of the medium. Both types are represented here. ''Apparent Motion''
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/arts/design/kindred-spirits-at-peter-blum-gallery-in-soho.html	ART REVIEW; A Native Culture's Reach, Both Visual and Emotional	''Kindred Spirits: Native American Influences on 20th Century Art'' at the Peter Blum Gallery in SoHo closes out the New York gallery year with a great group show. This superb yet fraught exhibition creates a vortex of history, visual culture, language and ideas that is both heartbreaking and exhilarating. It seems almost impossible to straighten
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/arts/dance/dance-listings-for-dec-23-29.html	The Listings	Dance Full reviews of dance performances: nytimes.com/dance. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Friday through Sunday, and Tuesday through Thursday, through Jan. 1) Robert Battle seems to be pulling off his first season as artistic director of Alvin Ailey with some panache. He has brought Paul Taylor's ''Arden Court'' and Ohad Naharin's ''Minus
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/movies/we-bought-a-zoo-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'WE BOUGHT A ZOO'; A Modern-Day Ark, With Children, Animals And Even Romance	Cameron Crowe may be the last of the Hollywood romantics. He's best known for his stories about love and longing, for films that immortalize the moment when characters bare their hearts, as when John Cusack serenades a girl with a boom box in ''Say Anything'' and Renée Zellweger tells Tom Cruise he had her at hello in ''Jerry Maguire.'' These are
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2DA1E3AF930A15751C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; A Captain Beefheart Bootleg Gets an Official Release	More than 36 years after it was recorded, Zappa Records is finally releasing Captain Beefheart's album ''Bat Chain Puller,'' Billboard and The Wire report. The album has been widely bootlegged and has become something of a legend among fans of Captain Beefheart, the avant-garde rocker whose real name was Don Van Vliet. The project was reportedly
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/theater/reviews/messrs-lonely-hearts-in-an-unhip-gay-bar.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'ACCIDENTALLY, LIKE A MARTYR'; Messrs. Lonely-Hearts, In an Unhip Gay Bar	A good man is hard to find, especially in this city. But is it harder or easier to find one than to find a good bar? And is it ever even possible to find such a man in such a bar? To reveal how Grant James Varjas answers these eternal New York questions would be to give away ''Accidentally, Like a Martyr,'' his latest play. The production is having
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/arts/music/jazz-listings-for-dec-23-29.html	The Listings	Jazz Full reviews of recent jazz performances: nytimes.com/jazz. Eric Alexander and Harold Mabern (Friday through Jan. 1) Mr. Alexander, a tenor saxophonist with a taste for smartly surging hard bop, teams up with Mr. Mabern, a veteran pianist and collaborator, in a band anchored by the bassist John Webber. Every night will feature a special guest,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803EFD9163DF930A15751C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Broadway Cast Is Announced For 'Jesus Christ Superstar'	Technically, ''Jesus Christ Superstar'' offers a stylized retelling of the story of Easter, up to the Crucifixion, and the Passover seder that was the Last Supper. But the producers of the coming Broadway revival of that Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical are using the Christmas season to announce the cast, which will keep intact the lineup from
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/arts/design/museum-and-gallery-listings-for-dec-23-29.html	The Listings	Art Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. Museums Asia Society and Museum: 'Sarah Sze: Infinite Line' (through March 25) Promising a new angle on Sarah Sze's mesmerizing, minutely detailed installations, this midcareer solo reveals that Ms. Sze, who is Chinese-American, has
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/arts/music/ambrose-akinmusire-drake-the-roots-st-vincent.html	Sounds That Come From in the Head And on the Street	1. AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE ''When the Heart Emerges Glistening'' (Blue Note) An earnest young trumpeter with a bracingly original style -- shadowy tone, sure attack, surprising turns of phrase -- Mr. Akinmusire puts the focus here on the gleam of his crackerjack quintet. It's a smart dispatch from the new postbop frontier, and the rare album of that
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/books/review/look-i-made-a-hat-by-stephen-sondheim-book-review.html	Sweet Clarity	LOOK, I MADE A HAT Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) With /Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, /Anecdotes and Miscellany By Stephen Sondheim Illustrated. 453 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $45. Stephen Sondheim claims to dislike most opera, and I guess I believe it. He also says he avoids serious fiction, and I suppose I believe
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E7DA123EF93BA25751C1A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Manga: Sunday, December 18th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the December 18, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending December 3, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03EEDB123EF93BA25751C1A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Hardcover & Paperback Fiction: Sunday, December 18th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the December 18, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending December 3, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507E7DA123EF93BA25751C1A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Mass-Market Fiction: Sunday, December 18th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the December 18, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending December 3, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/arts/music/highlights-of-classical-music-from-lully-to-glass.html	Cunning Vixens, A Dark Concert And Much Glass	''BEST of'' lists are approximate endeavors. I was sorry I couldn't attend the Mostly Mozart Festival's ''Don Giovanni,'' one of many tantalizing events I missed. But the following proved highlights of my year. 'CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN' A host of unusual creatures have appeared with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic recently. After the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/books/review/the-exegesis-of-philip-k-dick-edited-by-pamela-jackson-jonathan-lethem-and-erik-davis-book-review.html	Dreaming of Androids	THE EXEGESIS OF PHILIP K. DICK Edited by Pamela Jackson, Jonathan Lethem and Erik Davis. Illustrated. 944 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $40. In 1979, I visited Philip K. Dick for a profile I was writing. In a modest apartment he shared with dusty stacks of books, deteriorating furniture, a vintage stereo system and a couple of cats, he took the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/books/review/stay-with-me-by-paul-griffin-book-review.html	YOUNG ADULT; 'I Don't Need Anybody Else'	STAY WITH ME By Paul Griffin 288 pp. Dial Books. $16.99. (Young adult; ages 14 and up) According to legend, the Random House co-founder Bennett Cerf once said that to guarantee a best-selling book, you should title it ''Lincoln's Doctor's Dog.'' In these dog-crazed times, you could probably skip both the president and the doctor -- especially if
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE4D9173BF93BA25751C1A9679D8B63	The Week Ahead | Dec. 18 - Dec. 24	Dance Claudia La Rocco Throw a dart anywhere in the five boroughs this week, and you're likely to hit a theater playing some version of ''The Nutcracker.'' Raunchy, classic, cabaret, big screen: no matter your tastes, there will be something to suit them. Unless, of course, you don't actually like ''The Nutcracker.'' Then, well, the pickings are
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9402E6DF1E3BF93BA25751C1A9679D8B63	Tough Women, Candid Candidates	BEST is the worst of categories, because there are so many different standards for television -- ''Breaking Bad'' may offer the most searing performances, but plenty of seemingly high-minded people get a kick out of ''Hoarders'' or ''Chelsea Lately.'' There was a lot of good television in 2011, but it was also a year that stood out for deliciously
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/music/christian-zacharias-pianist-at-carnegie-hall-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Long Road to August Hall Makes a Pianist Feel Free	Christian Zacharias has been a regular visitor to New York in recent years, conducting and performing as piano soloist with the Orchestra of St. Luke's at Carnegie Hall last year and offering a solo recital at the Rose Theater in 2008. But this distinguished German musician, now 61, had to wait until Tuesday evening to make his Carnegie recital
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/movies/sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS'; Holmes and Watson, But Is There Mystery?	Robert Downey Jr. is currently carrying two movie franchises -- the Marvel ''Iron Man'' proto-''Avengers'' thing for Paramount and the brawling steampunk ''Sherlock Holmes'' series for Warner Brothers -- so it is perhaps understandable that he is showing a touch of fatigue. In the new Holmes adventure, ''A Game of Shadows,'' his imperiousness is
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/music/sephardic-music-festival-in-new-york.html	Sounds of Diaspora, Updated	BROADLY defined, ''Jewish music'' typically evokes the wild fury of klezmer or -- and this is particularly unfortunate -- tuneless elementary school renditions of ''The Dreidel Song,'' complete with fudged lyrics and ill-timed handclaps. The weeklong Sephardic Music Festival, now in its seventh year, should put to rest those notions with its
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/movies/the-pill-directed-by-jc-khoury-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE PILL'; Juggling Two Women Is Never Easy	Is there anything more cloyingly irritating than watching young singles playing a drinking game? It's the height of sophistication for those who think swapping swallows of booze is the pinnacle of human evolution, but for everyone else it's just tedious. A drinking game opens ''The Pill,'' a sort of hook-up horror story by J. C. Khoury that never
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/dance/dance-listings-for-dec-16-22.html	The Listings	Dance Full reviews of dance performances: nytimes.com/dance. Active Viewing Hour (Friday and Saturday) Levi Gonzalez, an artist in residence at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, is the curator of this impromptu works-in-progress showing. According to his curatorial statement, he's chosen two choreographers, Rebecca Patek and Liz Santoro, who challenge their
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/music/jaime-laredo-at-92nd-street-y-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Celebrating a 70th Birthday With Spirited Romanticism	The Bolivian-born violinist Jaime Laredo has performed often at the 92nd Street Y, where he has been artistic director of the Chamber Music at the Y series since 1974. So it seemed a fitting hall for this distinguished musician to celebrate his 70th birthday on Wednesday evening, joined by several rising and established colleagues. The roster
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04EED6143AF935A25751C1A9679D8B63	ART REVIEW; A Jewel Box for Translucent Treasures	In light of the glass-box atrium plugged into the J. P. Morgan Library & Museum a few years ago, New York cultural custodians might have been understandably alarmed to learn of plans for architectural intervention at another great institution of Gilded Age ancestry. They need not have worried. The Frick Collection's transformation of an outdoor
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/movies/movie-listings-for-dec-16-22.html	The Listings	Movies Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign-language films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases: nytimes.com/movies. - 'Addiction Incorporated' (PG-13, 1:42) Fuming with contempt for the tobacco industry, this straight-shooting documentary follows the whistle-blowing career of Dr. Victor J. DeNoble, the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/books/blue-notes-in-black-and-white-by-benjamin-cawthra-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; They Put the Face On an American Sound	BLUE NOTES IN BLACK AND WHITE Photography and Jazz By Benjamin Cawthra Illustrated. 345 pages. University of Chicago Press. $45. Benjamin Cawthra's ''Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz'' is not entirely, or specifically, about its subtitle. That would be a book with a lot more images, or at least with more concentrated information
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/dance/alexei-ratmanskys-nutcracker-at-bam-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; What if You Could Meet Yourself as an Adult? These Children Do	Since ''The Nutcracker'' in all its many versions is always a tale of transformation, there's a well-established tradition of making its little heroine grow up to become the adult heroine who dances the Sugar Plum pas de deux. Usually, though, this involves a grown-up dancer playing the little girl in the party of the first scene, which means that,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/arts/music/jazz-musicians-campaign-for-pensions.html	Jazz Musicians Start a Pension Push	New York City's musicians' union has begun leafleting outside a major jazz club, the first salvo in what union leaders say is a campaign to gain pension benefits and a minimum wage for jazz artists. The campaign began quietly last Thursday night, when four members of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians stood in the cold outside the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CEFDA173BF930A25751C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; 'Venus in Fur' Heading To the Lyceum Theater	The Broadway production of the David Ives play ''Venus in Fur,'' starring Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy, will take a break after ending its run at the Manhattan Theater Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theater on Sunday and resume performances at the Lyceum Theater on Feb. 7, 2012, for a limited engagement through June 17. The Lyceum will be the third and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/arts/music/piers-lane-is-soloist-with-american-symphony-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Rarely Heard Offerings From Busoni and Liszt	In the 19 years he has conducted the American Symphony Orchestra Leon Botstein has been at his best when his programs have been built around unusual works that deserve to be heard more often. With that as a goal, it's easy to run off the rails: works that seemed promising on paper, or even in rehearsal, can turn out to have been neglected with good
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/arts/music/karita-mattila-at-carnegie-hall-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; A Tour Alights In Finland And France	In an interview with the WQXR host Jeff Spurgeon, quoted on the WQXR blog, the Finnish soprano Karita Mattila said that when giving a recital, ''the challenge is always to find the intimacy and the contact with the audience, no matter how big the hall is.'' But for much of her recital on Saturday night at Carnegie Hall, where there were many empty
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/theater/reviews/a-christmas-carol-at-abrons-arts-center-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'A CHRISTMAS CAROL'; Marley's Ghost and Other Mash-Ups	The director Reid Farrington is a man of the moment. A multimedia collage artist who transcends genres, he makes plays that blend theater and film, drama with art installation. His work is formally impressive and conceptually fascinating, but sometimes it's hard to tell if his experiments are a step forward or back. Last year his ''Gin and 'It' ''
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/crosswords/bridge/the-winning-strategy-of-the-player-of-the-year.html	BRIDGE; The Winning Strategy of the Player of the Year	The diagramed deal occurred during the last round of the Keohane North American Swiss Teams on Dec. 4 at the Fall North American Championships in Seattle. Sitting West was Joel Wooldridge of New York City, defending against four hearts doubled. In the auction, partner's two-club response was natural but nonforcing. West's second-round double
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/theater/reviews/wearing-lorcas-bowtie-at-the-duke-on-42nd-street-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'WEARING LORCA'S BOWTIE'; A Poet Lonely And Adrift In New York	''Wearing Lorca's Bowtie,'' a mood piece inspired by the writings of Federico García Lorca, features scenes in Spanish and English, but nothing said in either language makes as much of an impact as the quiet images in this impressionistic show. One scene portrays a bizarre, ominous party out of ''Eyes Wide Shut,'' from the perspective of a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE6DC153BF931A25751C1A9679D8B63	MUSIC REVIEW; Holiday Extravaganza Rewritten by Lady Gaga	Even early in Z-100's Jingle Ball on Friday night, when the girl-screams at Madison Square Garden were not yet full-blooded, Elvis Duran, the Z-100 D.J. and the evening's principal M.C., looked like a cat who had swallowed an eagle. He was sitting on an apotheosis, something that made Jingle Ball seem like much more than a promotional orgy for Top
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/movies/ladies-vs-ricky-bahl-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'LADIES VS RICKY BAHL'; Wooing to Reap Revenge	The Bollywood film ''Ladies vs Ricky Bahl'' has much to recommend it at first, not least its premise. The young, feisty Dimple (Parineeti Chopra), the daughter of a New Delhi land magnate, is smitten with a physical trainer (Ranveer Singh), who wins over her parents before skipping town with some of their money. Dimple learns that Saira (Aditi
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/theater/reviews/on-a-clear-day-you-can-see-forever-at-st-james-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER'; Reincarnation All Over Again	Toward the long-awaited end of the new semirevival of ''On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,'' which opened on Sunday at the St. James Theater, an eminent psychiatrist proposes that what we have been watching was perhaps only ''my own psychoneurotic fantasy.'' Now, I don't have a medical degree, but might I propose an alternate diagnosis? It seems
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CEED91F39F932A25751C1A9679D8B63	The Week Ahead | Dec. 11 - Dec. 17	Film Andy Webster There are nefarious cinematic goings-on this week, some of the high-suspense variety, some of a more benign flavor. In the thriller category there's Carol Reed's postwar masterpiece ''THE THIRD MAN''(1949), part of the Auteurist History of Film series at the Museum of Modern Art. Joseph Cotten plays a seedy novelist tracking down
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/books/review/assumption-by-percival-everett-book-review.html	Hostile Territories	ASSUMPTION By Percival Everett 225 pp. Graywolf Press. Paper, $15. New Mexico is a place of great beauty and great melancholy, and, like all of the American West, a magnet for misfits. Willa Cather captured these aspects in her classic 1927 novel ''Death Comes for the Archbishop.'' Now Percival Everett, author of genre-bending novels like ''I Am
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/books/review/no-comparison.html	LETTER; No Comparison	To the Editor: In his otherwise reasonable and enlightening review of two recent books on the Ku Klux Klan -- ''One Hundred Percent American,'' by Thomas R. Pegram, and ''Gospel According to the Klan,'' by Kelly J. Baker (Nov. 27) -- Kevin Boyle implies, not so subtly, that today's Tea Party movement and political conservatives, especially
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/theater/blood-and-gifts-brings-afghanistan-to-the-experts.html	Afghanistan Play, With Experts In the House	''Blood and Gifts,'' J. T. Rogers's play about the history of America's involvement in Afghanistan in the 1980s, has gotten strong reviews from the critics, who have praised its subtle depiction of a Central Intelligence Agency operative who thinks he is financing anti-Soviet freedom fighters only to see them morph into something more menacing. But
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E4D71038F933A25751C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Leonardo (Not DiCaprio) To Star in a Film	If you can't get into ''Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan,'' now at the National Gallery in London - and you can't unless you're willing to get in line at dawn with all the other people hoping to snag one of the 500 tickets a day not sold in advance for the blockbuster exhibition - then soon you might at least be able to go see the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E5DA1138F933A25751C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; New Musicals Planned	Two classic British children's stories separated by several decades and a huge difference in sensibility - though both share an affection for rodents (a water rat in one, an army of trained squirrels in the other) - appear to be coming to the stage. -Reuters reported that the screenwriter Julian Fellowes, who won an Oscar for the Robert Altman move
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/arts/dance/merce-cunningham-troupe-in-biped-at-bam-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; Space Travelers and Dragonflies, in Galaxies of Life and Death	More than two years after his death, the choreographer Merce Cunningham has grown only more unknowable. Even if you can keep track of the restless ways in which he made formal inventions with human movement over the course of 60 years, the ways in which he shaped choreography as drama keep defying categorization. This farewell month of performances
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E5D91338F933A25751C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Jagger and Richards Pay For a Guitarist's Funeral	Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have offered to pay for the funeral of Hubert Sumlin, a great Chicago blues guitarist to whom they owe a musical debt, a spokeswoman for the Rolling Stones, Fran Curtis, confirmed. Mr. Sumlin died on Dec. 4. He was 80. He was the longtime guitarist for Howlin' Wolf and inspired a generation of rock and blues players
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE6DE1338F933A25751C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; 'Magic/Bird' Finds One of Its Stars	A 6'9'' leading man who could match the height of basketball great Larry Bird was probably too much to hope for in ''Magic/Bird,'' the new play whose producers are aiming for Broadway in the spring of 2012. But 6'5'' will do. The producers, Fran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo, said in an interview Thursday that they have cast actor (and former college
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/arts/music/vladimir-jurowski-and-london-philharmonic-orchestra-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Brief Encounter: Modernist's Take on Egyptian Myth	Every major international orchestra visiting Carnegie Hall of course wants to make a big impression. But that is hard to do with as curious a program as the one the Russian conductor Vladimir Jurowski presented with the London Philharmonic Orchestra on Wednesday night. Mr. Jurowski, 39, is one of the most dynamic conductors of his generation. He
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E0DC1638F934A35751C1A9679D8B63	What's On Today	10 P.M. (BBC America) STATE OF PLAY A respected British newspaper journalist (John Simm) and his sardonic editor (Bill Nighy) try to unearth the connection between two seemingly unrelated murders and a prominent politician (David Morrissey, above left, with Mr. Simm) in this entry in the ''Dramaville'' programming block. This six-part, Bafta
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/movies/angelina-jolies-first-directing-effort-is-serious.html	Behind the Camera, but Still the Star	Once the red carpet follies were over, the war correspondent Christiane Amanpour introduced the film, calling it ''remarkable and courageous'' while warning that there was ''no way to sugarcoat'' the atrocities it portrays. The afterparty, at a nightclub high atop a hip New York hotel in the meatpacking district, complete with the usual
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/arts/television/pearl-harbor-24-hours-after-on-history-review.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; When the Country Was Attacked, and There Were No TV Updates	A disastrous attack catches the United States by surprise, and in the hours that follow, the president and other leaders must make major decisions hindered by communication problems and a lack of clarity as to what exactly has occurred and whether more attacks are coming. What? Someone is still commemorating the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11? No,
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/theater/reviews/once-the-musical-at-new-york-theater-workshop-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'ONCE'; A Love Affair With Music, Maybe With Each Other	Charm is fragile. What's enchanting in one context, subjected to stress, exaggeration or self-consciousness, can seem soppy or strident in another. That's the big problem faced by the talented creators of ''Once,'' the gently appealing new musical that opened on Tuesday night at the New York Theater Workshop, and it's one they've only partly
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CEEDB1F39F934A35751C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Grammys Statement Deepens Mystery of Promised Reunion	1:16 p.m. | Updated The Recording Academy, the music industry group that gives out the Grammy Awards, gave its explanation on Monday night for why a promised band-reunion announcement did not occur at its Grammy Awards nomination concert on Nov. 30. But the explanation offered few if any clues to the band's identity or why the announcement did not
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/arts/design/leonardo-fresco-search-in-florence-spurs-protest.html	Methods for Finding a Lost Fresco by Leonardo Lead to a Protest	ROME -- More than 300 scholars have signed a petition to Florence's mayor and that city's top art authority to stop a project that hopes to find a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece behind a fresco by Giorgio Vasari in the Palazzo Vecchio, now city hall. The Leonardo fresco, commissioned by the Republic of Florence around 1503, depicted a battle between
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/arts/design/jorge-m-perezs-name-on-miami-museum-roils-board.html	Resisting Renaming Of Miami Museum	MIAMI -- Walking across a sun-baked construction site in his hard hat the other day, Jorge M. Pérez said he was proud that this city's major art museum, whose new home is being built here beside Biscayne Bay, is now going to bear his name. But not everyone is happy that the institution, now known as the Miami Art Museum, will be recast as the
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/movies/london-river-stars-brenda-blethyn-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'LONDON RIVER'; In Wake of Terror Attacks, Unlikely Bonds	Rachid Bouchareb's tidy little two-character film, ''London River,'' demonstrates how great acting can infuse a banal, politically correct drama with dollops of emotional truth. This cozy tale of the rapprochement between two cultures, each personified by an individual, is likable in the same way as ''Driving Miss Daisy,'' though ''London River''
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/theater/reviews/mama-and-papa-versus-life-upon-the-wicked-stage.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'THE JAZZ SINGER'; Mama and Papa Versus Life Upon the Wicked Stage	''The Jazz Singer'' is best known as the first feature-length talkie, a 1927 cinematic artifact assigned in every introductory film class. Before it was a movie, though, it was a hit Broadway play. Today, nearly 90 years after the play's world premiere, the Metropolitan Playhouse has extracted the script from the amber and discovered a drama that
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/books/adam-sismans-honourable-englishman-on-hugh-trevor-roper.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; A Reputation Staked, and Shattered, On the Forged Diaries of Hitler	AN HONOURABLE ENGLISHMAN The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper By Adam Sisman Illustrated. 643 pages. Random House. $40. The English historian Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) is best remembered, if at all, for a humiliating blunder. He was the Oxford and Cambridge scholar who, in 1983, was called upon to authenticate diaries, discovered by the German
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F07E2DA1330F937A35751C1A9679D8B63	CORRECTION	An article last Sunday about the actor Cillian Murphy, who stars in Enda Walsh's play ''Misterman,'' misspelled the Northwest London town where he lives. It is Kilburn, not Killburn.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/movies/henri-georges-clouzot-retrospective-at-moma.html	A French Auteur's Bleak Visions Of Confinement	WATCHING a film by the French master Henri-Georges Clouzot, you often feel as if the walls were closing in on you -- even when there are no walls. ''The Wages of Fear'' (1953), the movie that opens the Museum of Modern Art's Clouzot retrospective on Thursday, takes place almost entirely out of doors, yet it's as claustrophobic as a stretch in
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/books/review/gardening.html	Gardening	When I was the editor of House & Garden, I was often asked what every gardener should have on her shelves. Contrary to popular belief, gardeners are bookish sorts -- all those fallow winters, you know. It just so happens that this holiday season, publishers are offering a whole library's worth of collectibles. How would we be able to get through
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E2DB123EF937A35751C1A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Hardcover & Paperback Fiction: Sunday, December 4th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the December 4, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending November 19, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/books/review/how-we-got-to-dessert.html	Sweet And Savory	Eel in marzipan and goose-liver macaroons may sound like outtakes from Monty Python's ''Crunchy Frog'' skit, but in SWEET INVENTION: A History of Dessert (Chicago Review Press, $24.95), Michael Krondl tells us that the eel was offered at a 16th-century Italian banquet while the cookies, known more elegantly as foie gras macaroons, are the creation
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/books/review/howard-cosell-the-man-the-myth-and-the-transformation-of-american-sports-by-mark-ribowsky-book-review.html	Sportscasting	HOWARD COSELL The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports By Mark Ribowsky Illustrated. 477 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $29.95. Once upon a time, Howard Cosell roamed television draped in the /canary-colored blazer of ABC Sports, smoking a cigar the length of a sequoia, covering his baldness with a toupee the size of a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/books/review/the-novelist-who-loved-food.html	Food History	When Balzac's Eugénie Grandet falls in love, she defies her maniacally miserly father -- for the first time -- by taking the sugar he's hidden and returning it to the breakfast table so her beloved can take another lump. ''Most certainly,'' we are told, ''the Parisian lady who holds up a silken ladder with her fragile arms to help her lover escape
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907EFDA1330F937A35751C1A9679D8B63	The Week Ahead | Dec. 4 - Dec. 10	Television Kathryn Shattuck ''We all need to live in peace,'' says Phillippe, a young Chilean immigrant. ''The kids know that, and they don't want war. They're not like those violent grown-ups who always want war.'' In ''STRANGERS NO MORE,'' on Monday at 6:45 p.m. on HBO, Phillippe and his schoolmates -- some 800 Jewish, Christian and Muslim
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE3DA1330F937A35751C1A9679D8B63	The Week Ahead | Dec. 4 - Dec. 10	Dance Jack Anderson Merce Cunningham did not want the MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY to survive him. Therefore, when he died in 2009, plans were made for the troupe to make an extended tour, then disband at the end of 2011. Since that time is rapidly approaching, the company's performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music are poignant occasions.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E1DA1330F937A35751C1A9679D8B63	The Week Ahead | Dec. 4 - Dec. 10	Classical Vivien Schweitzer During his visit to New York last year with the London Philharmonic Orchestra VLADIMIR JUROWSKI conducted fresh interpretations of war horses by Beethoven and Brahms. He returns with Brahms's Symphony No. 4, which he pairs on Wednesday at Carnegie Hall with Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, ''Turkish.'' The excellent young
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/movies/kinyarwanda-about-1994-genocide-of-tutsis-in-rwanda.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'KINYARWANDA'; Linked Stories From the Months of the Rwanda Massacre	''From my heart, I ask for forgiveness,'' a Hutu killer says near the end of the weighty ''Kinyarwanda.'' Forgiveness would have to be a precious natural resource in Rwanda in 1994, after the genocide that left more than 800,000 dead, mostly Tutsis. Those atrocities are the horrific backdrop of the six linked story lines in this dry but thoughtful
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E6DC1739F931A35751C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Film on West Memphis Three Draws Protest From Parents	The parents of one of the children who was killed in the so-called West Memphis Three murder case have asked the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to refuse Oscar consideration for the documentary ''Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory,'' saying that it celebrates the three defendants in that case. In a letter reported by The Associated Press, Todd
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/arts/dance/alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater-at-city-center-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; Starting a New Era With Graciousness, Taste and Tradition	When Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater opened its annual season at City Center on Wednesday, it did so under a new artistic director, Robert Battle. But an Ailey gala is a set ritual, a glamorous fund-raiser as much about donors as about dancers, and in conforming to the standard of years past, this one sent a message of continuity. After the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00EFDD1439F931A35751C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Miami Museum to Be Renamed	The Miami Art Museum will be renamed the Jorge M. Perez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County after a $15 million gift from Mr. Perez, the museum announced Thursday. Mr. Perez, a developer of multifamily residences, had already given $5 million to the museum's capital campaign for its new downtown building, designed by Herzog & de Meuron and due to be
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/movies/a-journey-in-my-mothers-footsteps-dina-rosenmeiers-documentary-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'A JOURNEY IN MY MOTHER'S FOOTSTEPS'; Daughter's Bittersweet Memoir of a Humanitarian Mother	The actress Dina Rosenmeier's self-distributed documentary debut begins, innocently enough, as a work of impeccably trite ambitions. Retracing the jet-setting itineraries of Jessie Rosenmeier, a Ladies Circle humanitarian with a philanthropic interest in adorable children, ''A Journey in My Mother's Footsteps'' retreads some familiar vanity-project
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/arts/design/the-ungovernables-at-new-museum-a-manet-to-the-getty.html	INSIDE ART; A Rising Generation of Artistic Resistance	Nearly three years ago they were ''Younger Than Jesus.'' Now that generation of emerging artists (born between the mid-1970s and the mid-'80s) is being called ''The Ungovernables,'' at least by curators at the New Museum, organizing its second Triennial. ''I wanted a title that has more than one side,'' said Eungie Joo, the New Museum's director
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/arts/music/nate-wooley-quintet-omega-at-brooklyn-lyceum-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Songs About Friendship, Performed With His Pals	The pursuit of aloneness -- in a deep-focus, self-obliterating sense -- seems to mean a lot to the trumpeter Nate Wooley. An improviser with a tactile, patient, interrogatory approach to his craft, he belongs to the avant-garde jazz tradition but doesn't press the issue of lineage. His two most recent albums are solo trumpet recordings: sealed-off
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E2D81738F931A35751C1A9679D8B63	THROUGH THE LENS; Brave New 'Faust,' For 1953	How imperfect a pairing it seems: the silent, still, small-scale, black-and-white photograph and the sonorous, tumultuous, extravagant and kaleidoscopic opera. And yet, Times archival pictures from the 1940s through the early 1970s (most by Sam Falk) reveal how perfectly these two media complemented one another. Photographers may not have been able
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E2DD1739F931A35751C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Montclair Film Festival Receives Lift From Colbert	Cannes. Toronto. Park City, Utah. If these cities can each be the home of a great film festival, then why not Montclair, N.J.? Isn't it entitled to a little bit of that cinematic luster, too? ''Is it entitled to it?'' Stephen Colbert, the late-night comedian and Montclair resident, asked rhetorically. ''I think every town is entitled to anything
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/arts/spare-times-for-children-for-dec-2-8.html	Spare Times: For Children	'Fantasia on the Loose' On Sunday a striking blond celebrity with lots of curves will emerge from her New York home and languorously greet her many adoring young fans. It's not Scarlett Johansson. Meet Fantasia, the albino Burmese python at the Brooklyn Children's Museum. Unlike many famous New Yorkers, she'll allow her admirers to touch her and
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02EFDB1330F93AA15752C1A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Tribeca Film Festival Names Artistic Director	Frederic Boyer, a veteran of the film-festival circuit who has most recently been in charge of the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes, will be the new artistic director of the Tribeca Film Festival, its organizers said on Monday. Mr. Boyer, 52, has been the artistic director and head of programming for Directors' Fortnight since 2009. He also is the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05EEDB1330F93AA15752C1A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Kushner Wins Puffin/Nation Prize for 'Activism'	The playwright Tony Kushner, below, has been named the recipient of a $100,000 award honoring artists and others for ''socially responsible work'' and challenges to authority, like Mr. Kushner's fight with City University of New York trustees last spring over an honorary degree that they temporarily withheld from him. The Puffin Foundation and the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/arts/music/distinguished-concerts-international-new-york-in-messiah.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Unfurling Hallelujahs At Full Throttle	The Christmas shopping season began as soon as the Thanksgiving dishes were cleared away, so it seems fitting that the parade of ''Messiah'' performances that fill New York concert halls and churches during the holiday season began early too. And even in a city where that vividly pictorial Handel classic is interpreted in a rich variety of styles,
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/arts/music/new-music-javier-colon-and-taylor-ho-bynum-reviews.html	NEW MUSIC; 'The Voice' Winner Javier Colon Stays in Character on New Album	JAVIER COLON ''Come Through for You'' (Universal Republic) It wasn't just Javier Colon's high, supple, long-breathed, achingly sincere tenor that made him the winner on the premiere season of ''The Voice'' this year. It was also his personality as a family man, earnest striver and all-around nice guy. He doesn't break character on his new album,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/arts/music/baby-jane-dexter-at-the-metropolitan-room-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Hard Reality Of Nostalgia, Laid Bare	Baby Jane Dexter's message is loud and clear: This is how it is. And for all the pain and misery involved, it's not unbearable. In her new cabaret show, ''Still Bad, Still Blue,'' at the Metropolitan Room, Ms. Dexter, a gentle mama lion, accompanied on piano by her longtime musical director, Ross Patterson, resurrects, with additions and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/arts/dance/from-nancy-goldner-more-balanchine-variations.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; A Guide to Balanchine, Ardent Yet Unflinching	Three years ago the dance critic Nancy Goldner brought out her ''Balanchine Variations,'' a paperback guide to 20 ballets by the choreographer George Balanchine (22 if you count the three parts of ''Jewels'' as individual ballets). Pocket-friendly, modest, undictatorial, with a bright but quiet voice, it touches on multiple aspects of ballet
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/books/higher-gossip-by-john-updike-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Last Notes From a Man Of Letters	HIGHER GOSSIP Essays and Criticism By John Updike Edited by Christopher Carduff. Illustrated. 501 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $40. In accepting the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism for his 1983 collection, ''Hugging the Shore,'' John Updike modestly described himself as ''a freelance writer who writes on occasion about books, bringing to
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03EFDB1330F93AA15752C1A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Youssou N'Dour Trades Music for Politics	With his country gearing up for a hotly contested presidential election early next year, the Senegalese singer and songwriter Youssou N'Dour, above, one of the biggest stars of the world music genre, is putting his career on hold to plunge into the political fray. It's not clear in what capacity -- as a candidate for public office or just lending
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/arts/dance/harrison-atelier-enlists-merce-cunningham-dancers-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; Design Space Becomes Installation Setting for Merce Cunningham Dancers	The design firm Harrison Atelier is making a habit of dabbling in dance. Last year it was credited as a co-creator of ''Anchises,'' a sophisticated work about aging choreographed by the former Merce Cunningham dancer Jonah Bokaer. Now the firm has brought in the current Cunningham dancer Silas Riener to choreograph ''Pharmacophore: Architectural
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/arts/dance/george-balanchines-the-nutcracker-at-lincoln-center.html	DANCE REVIEW; Dewdrop, Candy Canes and Sugarplum Fairy, Liberated by Familiarity	On Friday, after shoppers had battled one another for bargains that might not have existed, balletgoers of many ages gathered at the David H. Koch Theater for a more reliable holiday ritual. As New York City Ballet's ''Nutcracker'' began its annual run of performances there, the tree telescoped on cue, the seven-headed Mouse King was vanquished,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E5DB123EF934A15752C1A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Picture Books: Sunday, November 27th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the November 27, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending November 12, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/george-f-kennan.html	LETTERS; 'George F. Kennan'	To the Editor: Henry A. Kissinger, in his review of John Lewis Gaddis's biography ''George F. Kennan'' (Nov. 13), rightly celebrates Kennan's formulation of the concept of containment in dealing with Stalin's Soviet Union after World War II. What I find interesting is that Kennan thought along the same lines as Henry Morgenthau Jr.; for more than
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/van-gogh-the-life-by-steven-naifeh-and-gregory-white-smith-book-review.html	Splendor in the Stars	VAN GOGH The Life By Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith Illustrated. 953 pp. Random House. $40 Vincent VAN GOGH tends to be remembered as an art saint whose radiant paintings of sunflowers and starry skies seem somehow imbued with moral valor. He identified with the poor and marginalized, and looked upon art as a humanitarian calling. He died
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/the-last-sultan-the-life-and-times-of-ahmet-ertegun-by-robert-greenfield-book-review.html	Soul Man	THE LAST SULTAN The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun By Robert Greenfield Illustrated. 431 pp. Simon & Schuster. $30 Ahmet Ertegun was the first person to ask Ella Fitzgerald for her autograph, in 1935. He lived long enough to party for days on end with Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson, and died in 2006, after falling backstage at a Rolling Stones show
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/magazine/the-murdochs-hug-it-out.html	FIRST DRAFT OF HISTORY; The Murdochs Hug It Out	The writer of ''Tropic Thunder'' imagines a succession squabble, Rupert-style. INT. PSYCHOLOGIST'S OFFICE -- DAY A framed degree tells us that DR. LEO HART holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University. DR. HART: On the one hand, I'm flattered that you chose me. On the other hand, I'm concerned that you violated certain boundary issues by
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900E3DB123EF934A15752C1A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Trade Fiction: Sunday, November 27th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the November 27, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending November 12, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/arts/music/new-concert-dvds-from-beyonce-and-adele.html	A Pair of Pop Queens Flaunt Winning Hands	LATE last summer, with barely more than a week's notice, the indomitable pop whirlwind known as Beyoncé descended on the Roseland Ballroom for four nights: a canny undersell and a tacitly hopeful push for her fourth album, ''4'' (Columbia). About a month later, the adult-contemporary powerhouse Adele headlined the Royal Albert Hall in her native
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/movies/a-dangerous-method-and-mental-illness-in-movies.html	Let's See What's Inside That Pretty Head	IN general, movies would rather look at women than analyze them -- except when the lady in question is (at least apparently) a little screwy. David Cronenberg's ''Dangerous Method'' seems an unlikely subject for a film: it's about the beginnings of psychoanalysis, when Sigmund Freud (played by Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE3DC1730F935A15752C1A9679D8B63	What's On Today	12:30 A.M. (Oxygen) DUPLICITY (2009) She -- Julia Roberts as the long-legged Claire, standing around a garden in a flowery dress, looking bored -- is C.I.A. He -- Clive Owen (above, with Ms. Roberts) as Ray, on whom a suit becomes a brazenly sexy uniform -- is MI6. Five years after meeting over frozen drinks at a Middle Eastern Fourth of July
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/arts/music/tenet-at-trinity-wall-street-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; A Nod to St. Cecilia, Patron Despite Herself	Whatever you make of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music, the ensemble Tenet's idea of honoring her feast day in a concert presented by Trinity Wall Street on Tuesday was a lovely one. What others have made of her is a long story, or several of them. Longstanding celebrations of Cecilia, who was martyred in third-century Rome, took on a musical
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/movies/arthur-christmas-voiced-by-james-mcavoy-and-hugh-laurie.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'ARTHUR CHRISTMAS'; A Son of Santa Claus Takes the Reins	Why is it that out of all the holidays, only Christmas ever needs to be saved? When was the last time you saw a movie about a madcap, heroic effort to save Flag Day? That means that ''Arthur Christmas,'' a 3-D film that opens on Wednesday, is in well-worked territory. But this scrappy, smart animated tale can hold its own against the rest of the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/books/george-f-kennan-by-john-lewis-gaddis-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; America's Cold War Sage and His Discontents	GEORGE F. KENNAN An American Life By John Lewis Gaddis Illustrated. 784 pages. The Penguin Press. $39.95. This may be the most long-awaited single-volume biography ever. In 1981, the renowned cold war historian John Lewis Gaddis approached the pre-eminent cold war diplomat George F. Kennan about writing his life story. Kennan, who was 78 at the
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/theater/reviews/bring-it-on-the-musical-at-ahmanson-theater-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL'; Power Struggles Over Pep And High School Popularity	LOS ANGELES -- The jubilant young dancers in the new musical ''Bring It On,'' at the Ahmanson Theater here, should probably be racking up frequent-flier miles, so often are they airborne in this featherweight show about competing high school cheerleading squads. The director and choreographer, Andy Blankenbuehler, has clearly schooled himself in
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/movies/the-muppets-with-jason-segel-and-amy-adams-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE MUPPETS'; Getting The Gang Together Again	How do you reboot an entertainment juggernaut that began to fade before most of its young audience was born? In the case of the Muppets, you make a leap of faith and hope that the charm of these Jim Henson creations, which once flooded children's television and movies, remains irresistible. Realizing the potential for consumer burnout, you overlook
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/movies/a-dangerous-method-by-david-cronenberg-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'A DANGEROUS METHOD'; Taming Unruly Desires And Invisible Monsters	''A Dangerous Method,'' David Cronenberg's new film, starts out with a case of hysteria. A woman, clumsily restrained by nondescript handlers, writhes and howls inside a horse-drawn carriage, her mania at once drowned out and underscored by the thunder of hooves and the shrieking of strings on the soundtrack. We learn soon enough that she is Sabina
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/movies/martin-scorseses-hugo-with-ben-kingsley-and-sacha-baron-cohen-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'HUGO'; Inventing A World, Just Like Clockwork	''Hugo,'' an enchantment from Martin Scorsese, is the 3-D children's movie that you might expect from the director of ''Raging Bull'' and ''Goodfellas.'' It's serious, beautiful, wise to the absurdity of life and in the embrace of a piercing longing. No one gets clubbed to death, but shadows loom, and a ferocious Doberman nearly lands in your lap.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9501E0DA1531F930A15752C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; A Breakfast Memoir About Lucian Freud	The painter Lucian Freud, who died in July at the age of 88, spent many of his Saturday mornings with an intimate group of friends at Clarke's restaurant in London, only steps from his home. Those Saturdays will be recalled in ''Breakfast With Lucian,'' a memoir by Geordie Greig, the editor of The London Evening Standard, his publisher said on
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E6DA1331F930A15752C1A9679D8B63	MEDIA DECODER; New Penguin E-Books Withheld From Libraries	Another major publisher has pushed back against making its e-books available to library users. Penguin Book Group said it would ''delay the availability'' of new e-books to libraries because of security concerns. ''Penguin's aim is to always connect writers and readers, and with that goal in mind, we remain committed to working closely with our
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03EED71431F930A15752C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; A Rolling Stones Sound For an Education Benefit	The annual concert at Carnegie Hall to benefit music education programs for the poor will have a Rolling Stones theme this spring, the event's organizer, Michael Dorf, announced. Rosanne Cash, Steve Earle, the Carolina Chocolate Drops and others have signed on to perform all 21 tracks from the Rolling Stones classic collection ''Hot Rocks
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/arts/music/jeffrey-lewis-singer-and-illustrator.html	How to Become a Big Fish In an Indie-Rock Aquarium	Jeffrey Lewis was crouched on the floor of his East Village apartment one recent evening, stuffing his self-made CDs and comic books into a backpack while his brother, Jack, prodded him to hurry. They had a gig to get to, and not a moment to spare. A singer, illustrator and professional-grade neurotic, Mr. Lewis plays a jangly and verbose kind of
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E7DB123EF933A15752C1A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Picture Books: Sunday, November 20th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the November 20, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending November 5, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07E7DA143EF933A15752C1A9679D8B63	COMING ATTRACTIONS; The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 - Nov. 26	Heeere's Yvonne! Setting artists and audience members in a maze of 350 refrigerator boxes, Yvonne Meier's dance-installation piece ''The Shining'' returns Dec. 13 to 23 at New York Live Arts in all of its maddening glory. It was first performed in 1993 at Performance Space 122, above -- and, yes, that is Ms. Meier leaping among the Beckett-like
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05EEDA143EF933A15752C1A9679D8B63	The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 - Nov. 26	Dance Roslyn Sulcas Running a ballet company is no picnic, but the lure of being in charge of your own repertory and dancers is apparently irresistible. The latest adventurers into this tricky terrain are two well-known figures: the former American Ballet Theater principal MICHELE WILES, who, with no official farewell, abruptly left that company in
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E7DB123EF933A15752C1A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Chapter Books: Sunday, November 20th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the November 20, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending November 5, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/books/review/eva-braun-life-with-hitler-by-heike-b-gortemakertranslated-by-damion-searls-book-review.html	Adolf and Eva	EVA BRAUN Life With Hitler By Heike B. Görtemaker.Translated by Damion Searls Illustrated. 324 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $27.95 Hitler could not have wished for a better girlfriend. In this first full-scale biography of Eva Braun, the German historian Heike B. Görtemaker examines the known sources for Braun's life and emerges with a highly readable
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/arts/music/rene-jacobss-harmonia-mundi-cds-and-dvds.html	Conductor Flies Freely Over Critical Gulfs	THERE seems to be no crisis in the classical recording industry as far as René Jacobs and Harmonia Mundi are concerned. To judge from his astonishing number of CDs and DVDs, Mr. Jacobs, the 65-year-old Belgian-born conductor and former countertenor, is one of the biggest stars in the proliferating world of early-music performance. He might seem to
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/theater/mr-rogerss-very-tough-neighborhood.html	ARTS & LEISURE; Mr. Rogers's Very Tough Neighborhood	THE playwright J. T. Rogers enjoys one of New York City's briefest commutes. Most days he leaves his apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and strolls past elm trees, brownstones and his son's elementary school to his office, just a few blocks away. His plays, however, travel more exotic routes: from Rome to Rwanda, Madagascar to the Middle East.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/books/review/catherine-the-great-portrait-of-a-woman-by-robert-k-massie-book-review.html	Empress of All the Russias	CATHERINE THE GREAT Portrait of a Woman By Robert K. Massie Illustrated. 625 pp. Random House. $35 How delightful to discover that Robert K. Massie, 82 years old, hasn't lost his mojo. At a heft befitting its subject, his long-awaited ''Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman'' is a consistently nimble and buoyant performance, defying what might
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E5DB123EF933A15752C1A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Graphic Books: Sunday, November 20th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the November 20, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending November 5, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E7D8103EF933A15752C1A9679D8B63	The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 - Nov. 26	Film Neil Genzlinger JOHN LANDIS has a new book out called ''Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares,'' but an eight-film retrospective of his work at BAMcinématek opens on Monday at 4:30 p.m. -- cut out of work early! -- with laughs: ''National Lampoon's Animal House,'' the 1978 frat-house comedy that really put him on the map.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/arts/music/classical-music-opera-listings-for-nov-18-24.html	The Listings	Classical Full reviews of recent classical performances: nytimes.com/classical. Opera - 'La Bohème' (Friday and Tuesday) Under Peter Gelb's management the Met may be replacing some grandiose Franco Zeffirelli productions, but not his colorful, popular and critic-proof staging of Puccini's ''Bohème,'' which has been around for 30 years. For this
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900EFDE133EF934A25752C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Abuse Play Headed to New York	A critically acclaimed one-man play about institutional abuse of children that created waves in Ireland when it was first produced in 2003 will be coming to New York. ''James X,'' written and performed by Gerard Mannix Flynn, will begin performances on Dec. 6 and open on Dec. 9 at 45 Bleecker Theater. The play presents the story of a man waiting to
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/arts/shoah-foundation-institute-examines-other-genocides.html	The Shoah Foundation Widens Scope	LOS ANGELES -- Since Steven Spielberg established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in 1994, the organization has devoted itself exclusively to the memory of Holocaust survivors. Its archives house more than 50,000 video interviews, in 32 languages, with survivors from 56 countries -- the largest such collection in the world. But
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/books/don-delillo-stories-led-by-the-angel-esmeralda-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Angry Landscapes Up Close And Far	THE ANGEL ESMERALDA Nine Stories By Don DeLillo Illustrated. 213 pages. Scribner. $24. ''The Angel Esmeralda,'' the title story in Don DeLillo's first ever collection of short fiction, is a dazzlingly told tale of despair and ruination, the dream of redemption and the testing of faith. Set in the Bronx and featuring a nun on the lookout for a
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/theater/reviews/iron-curtain-at-baruch-performing-arts-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'IRON CURTAIN'; Fun With Khrushchev in '50s Moscow	You may not always belly laugh during ''Iron Curtain,'' but you'll probably smile throughout. A musical comedy that delights in the pun, the groaner and the quick aside, the show is sometimes far from great. But it is consistently good. And that's no small praise. Set in the 1950s, the story follows Murray and Howard, a failed writing team, who are
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E0D8133EF934A25752C1A9679D8B63	Broadway Video Series Starts With Sondheim Confession	In the premiere video of an online series that had its debut on Wednesday, the composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim discussed a bit of history he was forced to forsake when writing the lyrics for ''West Side Story.'' ''I wanted to be the first person to use a four-letter word in a musical,'' Mr. Sondheim said in the first episode of ''Legends of
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405EFDF133EF934A25752C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Warning to Emanuels: Big Brother Was Watching	Zeke Emanuel, perhaps the least-known brother in the power trio that includes Rahm and Ari, has written a memoir of his childhood and adolescence as a member of the Emanuel family, his publisher said on Wednesday. ''Growing up Emanuel,'' to be published by Random House, will reveal stories of Mr. Emanuel's parents, Benjamin and Marsha Emanuel, and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/arts/music/theater-of-early-music-daniel-taylor-deborah-york-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Embracing Handel's Leaping Arias and Duets	The Theater of Early Music, a Canadian period-instrument and vocal ensemble led by Daniel Taylor, the countertenor, expands and contracts to suit the project at hand. Mr. Taylor brought a compact version to Weill Recital Hall for a Handel program on Tuesday, and though he was listed in the program book as both countertenor and conductor, there was
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/crosswords/bridge/world-computer-bridge-championship-bridge.html	BRIDGE; Surprises Arise When Computers Play Cards	The 64-board final of the World Computer-Bridge Championship, held last month in the Netherlands, was between two programs that had never taken the title. They were Q-Plus Bridge from Germany and Shark Bridge from Denmark. Shark Bridge won the first three quarters by small margins to lead by 19 international match points. The final session was a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/arts/music/david-murray-on-his-new-nat-king-cole-album.html	Paying Tribute to a Jazz Legend, in Spanish This Time	In his musical career the jazz saxophonist David Murray has always been omnivorous, which helps explain why, after playing on more than 150 albums, he has finally turned his sights to the Nat King Cole repertory. But Mr. Murray's taste can also be quirky, which is why his latest project focuses on a relatively obscure phase of Cole's career: two
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DEFDA153FF930A25752C1A9679D8B63	The Week Ahead | Nov. 13-Nov. 19	Pop/Jazz Ben Ratliff It is often said of Duke Ellington that his orchestra was his true instrument. A handful of jazz-inclined musician-philosophers have taken that idea one step further: they create their bodies of work by conducting groups of improvisers. Three of them, with imaginations that go far beyond the jazz tradition, are performing
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/books/review/picture-books-about-unusual-animals.html	CHILDREN'S BOOKS; Lions and Hippos and Whales, Oh My!	THE PET SHOP REVOLUTION Written and illustrated by Ana Juan 40 pp. Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic. $17.99. (Picture book; ages 4 to 8) STUCK Written and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers 32 pp. Philomel. $16.99. (Picture book; ages 4 to 8) The average North American toddler grows up with almost daily exposure to lions, hippos and elephants -- even
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/arts/music/anthony-santos-has-new-album-and-tv-project.html	Crossing Over, No Translation Needed	FOR the last decade Anthony Santos, the lead singer of the bachata group Aventura, has been something of a secret hidden in plain sight. Though Aventura regularly fills Madison Square Garden and other arenas around the country and sells millions of records, Mr. Santos, known to his Latino fans as Romeo, has remained pretty much anonymous outside
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/arts/music/peter-maxwell-daviess-new-opera-kommilitonen.html	An Elder Maestro Shows Students How to Be Strident	LONDON WHEN a new opera written specifically for student singers opened at the Royal Academy of Music here in March, many in the audience feared the worst. The title ''Kommilitonen! (Young Blood!)'' -- with exclamation marks evidently deemed essential -- promised something strident, vaguely Soviet and heavy going. That the subject matter concerned
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E7D8153FF930A25752C1A9679D8B63	The Week Ahead | Nov. 13-Nov. 19	Dance Jack Anderson BALLET NY, the little company directed by Judith Fugate and Medhi Bahiri, is piquing balletgoers' curiosity by bringing back a morsel from the past: the pas de deux from ''The Other,'' a ballet to Schubert that Agnes de Mille created in 1992 for American Ballet Theater. A meditation on the interplay of oppositional forces --
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/books/review/picture-books-about-childhoods-in-wartime-asia.html	CHILDREN'S BOOKS; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Boy	DRAWING FROM MEMORY Written and illustrated by Allen Say 64 pp. Scholastic Press. $17.99. (Picture book; ages 10 and up) THE HOUSE BABA BUILT An Artist's Childhood in China By Ed Young with Libby Koponen. Illustrated by Ed Young 48 pp. Little, Brown & Company. $17.99.(Picture book; all ages) What formative experiences make a great children's book
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/books/review/the-chronicles-of-harris-burdick-14-amazing-authors-tell-the-tales-by-chris-van-allsburg-and-othersillustrated-by-chris-van-alls.html	CHILDREN'S BOOKS; Choose Your Own Adventure	THE CHRONICLES OF HARRIS BURDICK 14 Amazing Authors Tell the Tales By Chris Van Allsburg and others. Illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg 195 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $24.99.(Middle grade; ages 10 to 14) Those eternal picture book fixtures, adorable ducklings and idyllic clambakes, do not feature in Chris Van Allsburg's darkly fanciful works,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/books/review/liesl-and-po-by-lauren-oliverillustrated-by-kei-acedera-book-review.html	CHILDREN'S BOOKS; My Friend the Ghost	LIESL AND PO By Lauren Oliver. Illustrated by Kei Acedera 307 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $16.99.(Middle grade; ages 8 to 12) Teachers and librarians are always searching for an ideal read-aloud: a book with a strong narrative voice, rich language and short episodic chapters that appeals to a range of ages. The very best read-alouds manage
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/movies/ernie-gehrs-films-traffic-in-images-and-light.html	No Blockbusters Here, Just Mind Expanders	THERE are a multiplicity of adjectives that fit Ernie Gehr's experimental film and digital work: abstract, beautiful, mysterious, invigorating, utopian. The work can also be oblique; this is not a bad thing! His 14-minute film ''History'' (1970), to take one extreme example, largely consists of what looks like a sparkly black-and-gray blob that
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/books/review/george-f-kennan-an-american-life-by-john-lewis-gaddis-book-review.html	Mr. X	GEORGE F. KENNAN An American Life John Lewis Gaddis Illustrated. 784 pp. The Penguin Press. $39.95. While writing this essay, I asked several young men and women what George F. Kennan meant to them. As it turned out, nearly all were essentially oblivious of the man or his role in shaping American foreign policy. Yet Kennan had fashioned the concept
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/movies/movie-listings-for-nov-11-17.html	The Listings	Movies Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign-language films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases: nytimes.com/movies. 'Abduction' (PG-13, 1:46) This film is a sloppy, exploitative act of star worship created (if that's the right word for cynical hackwork) around Taylor Lautner, the pouty 19-year-old
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/movies/adam-sandler-in-jack-and-jill-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'JACK AND JILL'; Going Over the Top, Then Downhill	The continued success of Adam Sandler -- the audiences who flocked to ''Grown Ups'' can be counted on to show up for his new one, ''Jack and Jill'' -- proves that everyone loves a sore winner. Back in the 1990s, when he was consolidating his stardom and working his id in epochal comedies like ''Billy Madison'' and ''The Waterboy,'' Mr. Sandler's
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/arts/design/viennese-works-from-australia.html	ANTIQUES; Old Vienna, via Australia	Two aging Viennese sisters lived together in Australia for decades, still bickering from time to time over childhood slights. Tim Bonyhady, a young relative, was regularly dropped off at their apartment in an unimpressive brick building in Sydney. He barely noticed the décor, but ''adults who visited the apartment remember it as claustrophobic
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F07E6DD1F3FF932A25752C1A9679D8B63	ART REVIEW; A Conjurer of Beautiful People, Back in Town	Andy Warhol was a piker compared with Cecil Beaton (1904-80). A British dandy in the Wildean mold, Beaton photographed fashion for Vogue and Vanity Fair; shot portraits of rich, famous and glamorous people; drew and painted cartoons, caricatures, apparel illustrations and theatrical sets with a deft hand; published six volumes of his diaries; and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/arts/design/eatsleepplay-at-childrens-museum-of-manhattan.html	Where Children Discover Their Inner Child	WHAT would you think if you visited a public restroom, and the toilet began to talk -- in a female voice with a British accent no less -- about the bodily function you'd just performed? No such bathroom exists in New York City, but ''The Royal Flush,'' among more than 70 interactive exhibits in ''EatSleepPlay: Building Health Every Day,'' the new
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/arts/dance/dance-listings-for-nov-11-17.html	The Listings	Dance Full reviews of dance performances: nytimes.com/dance. - American Ballet Theater (Friday through Sunday) Ballet Theater continues its terrific fall program that is sharply accented toward modern dance greats: Twyla Tharp (''In the Upper Room,'' woo-hoo!), Merce Cunningham (''Duets''), Martha Clarke (''The Garden of Villandry'') and Paul
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/arts/music/jazz-listings-for-nov-11-17.html	The Listings	Jazz Full reviews of recent jazz concerts: nytimes.com/jazz. J.D. Allen Quartet (Tuesday through Nov. 20) The harmonically adventurous tenor saxophonist J.D. Allen has done strong work in recent years with a pianoless trio, featuring the bassist Gregg August and the drummer Rudy Royston. For this engagement he augments that unit with Orrin Evans, a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/dining/finding-a-quality-drink-at-an-affordable-price-in-new-york.html	WEEKEND MISER; Finding a Quality Drink at an Affordable Price in New York	In New York finding a quality drink at a happy hour price can be difficult. Just the thought of paying $15 for a skimpy glass of stale Pinot or worming up to a sticky bar to get a watery vodka and soda has this Miser feeling a little queasy. But there is a better way. With a little care and a lot of passion, several watering holes around town are
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/movies/inni-about-icelands-sigur-ros-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'INNI'; Dreamscapes From a Singular Rock Group	The best concert films achieve a marriage of sound and image that feels effortlessly harmonious, and in that regard ''Inni,'' a musical portrait of the Icelandic band Sigur Ros, leaves most of its genre in the dust. Captured mainly in a dreamlike haze of throbbing black and white that perfectly mirrors the band's haunting, otherworldly songs, this
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/arts/music/escher-string-quartet-at-alice-tully-hall-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Precision And Polish For Quartet On the Rise	In the six years since its formation the Escher String Quartet has been checking off all the boxes expected of a rising ensemble. Good conservatory? The original members all completed their studies at the Manhattan School of Music. Prestigious summer plans? The new group was quickly invited to take part in Pinchas Zukerman's and Itzhak Perlman's
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/arts/design/a-bike-lane-perch-for-the-urban-show.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Pleasures of Life in the Slow Lane	New Yorkers should love bicycling. We're control freaks. We want to get from here to there in a New York minute and moan about the subways and the buses, about lunatic taxi drivers and the gridlock that slows us down. The other day I jumped on my bicycle and rode downtown to meet Janette Sadik-Khan, transportation commissioner for New York City.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E7DD1E3CF93BA35752C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Public Theater Picks New Executive Director	The board of the Public Theater announced its new executive director on Monday, entrusting its $18.5 million operating budget and other business operations to a somewhat unusual pick: Patrick Willingham, the former president and chief operating officer of Blue Man Productions, a for-profit company that turned the Off Broadway production ''Blue Man
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE6DE1E3CF93BA35752C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; De Niro Could Play Madoff in HBO Film	Robert De Niro, who has played all manner of menace to society, may next play Bernard L. Madoff. HBO confirmed Monday that Mr. De Niro is attached to play the Ponzi-schemer in a made-for-television film that is in development for the cable channel. But it cautioned that the film has not yet been put into production. Mr. De Niro and Jane Rosenthal,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01EEDA113CF93BA35752C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Documentary's Subject Sues Filmmakers	4:01 p.m. | Updated Though the subject of a documentary is often a welcome presence at screenings of said film, Joyce McKinney, the central figure in the Errol Morris feature ''Tabloid,'' has not exactly been an honored guest at showings of that movie. After attending several screenings of ''Tabloid,'' sometimes in disguise, to denounce what she
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/arts/television/vietnam-in-hd-on-the-history-channel-review.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; The Vietnam War, Retold in Images	Francis Ford Coppola and Michael Herr should demand credit. More than 30 years after they defined how the Vietnam War would look and feel in the American memory -- in Mr. Herr's book ''Dispatches'' and Mr. Coppola's film ''Apocalypse Now'' -- they should still be getting a special thanks in every Vietnam movie and television program. This notion is
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/arts/television/nfl-delays-angering-good-wife-fans.html	'Wife' Taking Late Hits By N.F.L.	''The Good Wife'' on CBS is an Emmy-winning show (for its star Julianna Margulies) with a committed, devoted audience. But its relocation this season to Sunday nights has resulted in the loss of about 2 million viewers -- and outright frustration for a number of its fans, especially those who make a point to record the episodes on DVRs. The problem
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/theater/reviews/julia-brownells-all-american-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'ALL-AMERICAN'; A Gridiron Family: The Star Quarterback Is Just Daddy's Little Girl	Not so long ago, for a reviewer to compare a work of theater to a television show would have been a sign of obvious displeasure. That's hardly the case anymore, as the cable stations have pushed the series form forward artistically and the networks have scrambled to follow suit. So when I say that Julia Brownell's play ''All-American'' reminded me
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/books/back-to-work-has-bill-clintons-ideas-for-america-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Bill Clinton Lays Out His Prescription for America's Future	BACK TO WORK Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy By Bill Clinton 196 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $23.95. Bill Clinton's new book, ''Back to Work,'' is really several books in one slender volume. It's a lucid one-man rebuttal of the Tea Party's anti-government agenda. A series of shrewd talking points for Democrats trying to hold on to the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/crosswords/bridge/israel-juniors-victory-at-world-championships-bridge.html	BRIDGE; At the World Championships, Down One Is, Yes, Good Bridge	Has anyone won a best-played award for going down one in a contract? Probably not, but if it were ever to be given, perhaps this performance would earn it. The diagramed deal was Board 11 of the Transnational Teams final in the Netherlands last month between Israel Juniors and Oz Open (from Australia). Declarer was 23-year-old Dror Padon from
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/arts/dance/fall-for-dance-at-city-center-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; Troupes From Abroad Get a Warm Welcome	Are there any dance audiences more eager to love than those that sell out the Fall for Dance Festival at City Center? When the companies on the bill all come from abroad, as was the case on Friday night for the festival's fourth program, the quick-trigger ovations can feel like a form of hospitality. Basking in the warm welcome can be enjoyable,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/books/review/populist-appeal.html	LETTERS; Populist Appeal	To the Editor: Sheri Berman, in her Oct. 9 review of Corey Robin's ''Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin,'' says Robin is ''driven to distraction by anger at his subject,'' and that the result is a ''diatribe that preaches to the converted.'' The book is undoubtedly scathing, but its damning nature stems from an
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/books/review/paperback-row.html	Paperback Row	THE GUN,by C. J. Chivers (Simon & Schuster, $16.) Chivers, a foreign affairs correspondent for The New York Times (and a former Marine), examines the history of the crude but devastatingly effective AK-47 -- or as it is often called, after its designer, the Kalashnikov -- from its use in East Germany and Hungary in the 1950s to the current conflict
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9402E1D8113AF935A35752C1A9679D8B63	Online	Podcast Scheduled to appear this week: Kathryn Schulz on Haruki Murakami's new novel, ''1Q84''; Harvey Araton on his book about the Knicks' heyday, ''When the Garden Was Eden''; Julie Bosman with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-/seller news. Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the Book Review, is the host. ExcerptsSelections from
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E3DA1E3AF935A35752C1A9679D8B63	T MAGAZINE; Booze Cruise	Chris Gall, the Arizona illustrator most famous in New York for his flying fish posters inside M.T.A. subway cars, has blended his strangely transporting tableaus into the first cocktail book from the Manhattan speakeasy PDT. (That's the place you enter through a phone booth inside a hot-dog joint.) Written by Jim Meehan, ''The PDT Cocktail Book''
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/arts/music/brooklyn-babylon-by-darcy-james-argue-and-danijel-zezelj.html	Animation Joins Jazz At the Next Wave Festival	NEXT week the large-ensemble jazz composer Darcy James Argue and the graphic novelist Danijel Zezelj will be collaborating for four nights on ''Brooklyn Babylon,'' as part of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It is an hourlong performance involving an 18-piece band conducted by Mr. Argue, with nearly continuous animation and
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04E5DF1E38F935A35752C1A9679D8B63	REMIX: EDIBLE SELBY; Boon Boxes	As the creative director of Chez Panisse, the Kyoto-born chef Sylvan Mishima Brackett learned a thing or two about catering intimate events with élan. Add to this his mother's down-to-earth cooking and the artful presentation at the restaurants where he apprenticed in Japan, and you've got the influences behind Peko-Peko, the catering business
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E0DC123EF935A35752C1A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Mass-Market Fiction: Sunday, November 6th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the November 6, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending October 22, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/books/review/the-oldest-new-experiences.html	READING LIFE; The Oldest New Experiences	In London recently there was an exhibition of paintings by Atkinson Grimshaw. The name might not ring a bell, but his paintings will be familiar to you. Victorian street scenes at twilight. The amber-lit windows of homes through the bare branches of trees -- the seasons always fall or winter. Shop windows reflected in rain-slick streets. Solitary
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/theater/broadway-revival-of-godspell.html	Welcome To the Church Of 'Godspell'	''GODSPELL,'' the 1971 musical about Jesus and his apostles, brings to the stage a vision of spirituality so earnest that it can veer perilously close to self-parody. With its thrift-store costuming and vaudeville-style song-and-dance numbers, the show is the ultimate in accessible feel-good Christianity. In the 2000 movie ''Meet the Parents'' Ben
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/books/review/1q84-by-haruki-murakami-translated-by-jay-rubin-and-philip-gabriel-book-review.html	Escape Route	1Q84 By Haruki Murakami. Translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel 925 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $30.50 It's April of 1984, and a young woman in a taxi is stuck in a Tokyo traffic jam. As she frets about being late for a meeting, the driver tells her she has an option: She can get out of the cab, descend a nearby emergency stairway and take the subway
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/arts/design/museum-and-gallery-listings-for-nov-4-10.html	The Listings	Art Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. Museums American Folk Art Museum: 'Super Stars: Quilts From the American Folk Art Museum' (through Dec. 31) This location is featuring 20 quilts in which stars figure in some way, whether as pieced-together geometric forms or as
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/movies/ben-stiller-and-eddie-murphy-in-tower-heist-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'TOWER HEIST'; Crime Doesn't Pay. Oh, Wait.	Rich guys are among the most reliable villains in Hollywood movies, and it takes no special insight to point out that the guys who make and star in those movies tend to be pretty well off themselves. You can call this hypocrisy, but I prefer to think of it as one of the cultural contradictions of capitalism that all of us have to live with. Today's
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/arts/design/art-books-on-gerhard-richter-bruce-davidson-cartoon-advertising-football.html	PAPER GALLERY; Exploring Artworks While Recumbent	THE publication of ''Panorama,'' a book tied to a retrospective of the German artist Gerhard Richter at the Tate Modern in London, is a perfect occasion for starting this column. After London, the exhibition will travel to Berlin and later to Paris. Most of us, I suspect, won't be able to catch up with Mr. Richter overseas. But the book based on
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/arts/design/urs-fischer-and-cassandra-macleod.html	ART IN REVIEW; Urs Fischer and Cassandra MacLeod	Gavin Brown's Enterprise 620 Greenwich Street, West Village Through Nov. 12 Urs Fischer proved long ago that he is an omnivorous appropriator and manipulator of images. One of the brighter moments in his 2009 survey at the New Museum was a gallery agleam with Minimalist boxes papered with enlarged images of found objects photographed from five
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E3D7173CF937A35752C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; LuPone to Star In New Mamet Play	David Mamet's new play, ''The Anarchist,'' is built for two actresses who are expert at spitting nails. The drama centers on a female inmate with a radical past, pleading for parole with the prison's female warden; a battle of words and wits ensues over politics, money and religion. On Thursday the Broadway producers Jeffrey Richards and Jerry
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/movies/the-last-rites-of-joe-may-a-film-by-joe-maggio-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE LAST RITES OF JOE MAY'; A Sort of Homecoming To an Unexpected Fate	The title character in ''The Last Rites of Joe May,'' played by Dennis Farina, is a hustler of a particular breed: a small-time idealist who always believes he's one score away from the big time. Joe wears (sports) a pinkie ring, leather coat and ankle boots, and if this were a mafia movie, he would be the third wiseguy from the left. When the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/books/charles-j-shieldss-and-so-it-goes-on-vonnegut-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Vonnegut In All His Complexity	AND SO IT GOES Kurt Vonnegut: A Life By Charles J. Shields Illustrated. 513 pages. Henry Holt & Company. $30. Charles J. Shields got nowhere with Harper Lee when he tried to interview her for the 2006 biography ''Mockingbird.'' But he got lucky with Kurt Vonnegut. Mr. Shields found a lonely talkative octogenarian who had scores to settle and a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E4DD163CF930A35752C1A9679D8B63	A Week for Documentaries	DOC NYC, a film festival that rounds up some of the year's most notable documentaries, returns to two Manhattan locations, the IFC Center and the Skirball Center at New York University. This year's festival was to open Wednesday night with Werner Herzog's latest work, ''Into the Abyss,'' which looks at the effects of a triple homicide on a Texas
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE4DB1F3DF930A35752C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Sotheby's Sells a Set Of Four Matisse Sculptures	All weekend, art lovers flocked to Sotheby's 10th-floor galleries to see the paintings, drawings and sculptures up for auction there this week. Among the stars was the first of a suite of four bronze sculptures of a woman's back that Matisse created over a 23-year period starting in 1908, the works becoming more radical as the years went on. And
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E7D81F3DF930A35752C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Coldplay Dominates the Planet	In a busy week on the music charts Coldplay's new album sailed to No. 1 around the world, Tom Waits reached the Top 10 for the first time, and Rihanna scored her 11th No. 1 single. As expected, Coldplay's ''Mylo Xyloto'' (Capitol) was the week's biggest album, with 447,000 sales in the United States, according to SoundScan. That is significantly
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/movies/brett-ratner-directs-tower-heist.html	HOLIDAY MOVIES; Forget the Art House; He's Making Blockbusters	WHEN you present a comedy achievement award to Brett Ratner, as the Friars Club did on a recent Saturday night in Manhattan, who shows up for the ceremony? You get the entrepreneur Russell Simmons and the billionaire Ronald O. Perelman, who roasted Mr. Ratner for his tastes in fashion models and baggy pants; Michael Barker, co-president of Sony
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/movies/filmmakers-and-actors-discuss-their-holiday-favorites.html	HOLIDAY MOVIES; Favorites of the Season, Cherished All Year	'The Nightmare Before Christmas' (1993) I grew up in Oklahoma City, where I felt like an outsider because as a kid I was into film and music instead of football. At 9 or 10, in the mid-'60s, I was making Super 8 monster movies (with robots) in the backyard. I was influenced by the directors and animators making stop-motion films and television
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E1D6173DF933A05753C1A9679D8B63	Stuff That Defines Us	London IT was a project so audacious that it took 100 curators four years to complete it. The goal: to tell the history of the world through 100 objects culled from the British Museum's sprawling collections. The result of endless scholarly debates was unveiled, object by chronological object, on a BBC Radio 4 program in early 2010, narrated by
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E4DF173AF933A05753C1A9679D8B63	New DVDs to Warm Your Toes By: Tokyo Drifter/branded To Kill 1966/1967	Anarchy rarely hits the screen with the rigor of Seijun Suzuki's gangster films. Criterion is rereleasing, this time in Blu-ray editions, ''Tokyo Drifter'' and ''Branded to Kill,'' two of the dozens of movies that Mr. Suzuki made for the Japanese studio Nikaatsu between 1956 and 1967, when the unconventionality of ''Branded to Kill'' got him fired
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/midnight-rising-john-brown-and-the-raid-that-sparked-the-civil-war-by-tony-horwitz-book-review.html	Terrible Swift Sword	MIDNIGHT RISING John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War By Tony Horwitz Illustrated. 365 pp. Henry Holt & Company. $29. Early one morning in the mid-1990s a squad of Civil War re-enactors wandered into Tony Horwitz's front yard in rural Virginia. He grabbed some mugs of coffee and went out to meet them. They were ordinary guys -- a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/theater/esther-freuds-lucky-break-explores-the-actors-life.html	That Hour Upon the Stage And the Pain Getting There	WHEN Esther Freud set to work on her seventh book, ''Lucky Break'' -- a comic, wrenching tale of a decade and a half in the lives of three British drama students -- she thought she ought to read some other novels on the art and business of acting. But she couldn't find any. Ms. Freud encountered plenty of books that featured actors as ''loud, brash
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/lucky-break-by-esther-freud-book-review.html	In and Out of Character	LUCKY BREAK By Esther Freud 310 pp. Bloomsbury. Paper, $16. Esther Freud was an actress before she became a novelist, and as we can guess from the title of a droll essay about her acting career's high point, ''I Was an Alien in 'Doctor Who,' '' the change was an excellent move. She's a superbly gifted writer, with a touch so light she's often
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E4D6163AF933A05753C1A9679D8B63	New DVDs to Warm Your Toes By: The Rules of the Game 1939	Few pictures are as evanescent as Jean Renoir's ''Rules of the Game.'' Set on the eve of World War II, this story of Parisian aristocrats both misbehaving and tentatively reckoning with their own suffering holds so many shifts of tone, color and mood that watching it is like being dazzled by an intricately cut crystal: it reinvents itself not just
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E3D7173AF933A05753C1A9679D8B63	The Week Ahead | Oct. 30 - Nov. 5	Art Robin Pogrebin The Polish-born artist ALEKSANDRA MIR has produced handmade blowups of front pages from The New York Post and The Daily News and a video that shows herself planting a flag on Dutch soil that bulldozers have refashioned to resemble the Moon's surface. Now her new video inspired by Galileo, ''The Seduction of Galileo Galilei'' is
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00E4D9133AF933A05753C1A9679D8B63	CORRECTIONS	An article last Sunday about the artist Rashaad Newsome, who blends hip-hop and heraldry, misidentified the position held by Pierre Levai of the Marlborough Gallery in Chelsea, where Mr. Newsome's first solo show is being held. Mr. Levai is the gallery's president, not a director.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/crosswords/bridge/after-waging-a-seesaw-battle-france-wins-the-senior-bowl.html	BRIDGE; After Waging a Seesaw Battle, France Wins the Senior Bowl	VELDHOVEN, the Netherlands -- At the world team championships here on Friday, France defeated U.S.A.-2 to win the d'Orsi Senior Bowl by 165 international match points to 160.3. Third place went to Poland. The French team consisted of Patrick Grenthe, Philippe Vanhoutte, Guy Lasserre, Philippe Poizat, François Leenhardt and Patrice Piganeau, with
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/arts/television/from-the-sky-down-a-documentary-about-u2-review.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; The Past Brought Into the Light: Breaking Down a U2 Breakthrough, Chord by Chord	Artists' windy chatter about their creative angst rarely makes interesting listening for anyone but hard-core fans, and there's a fair amount of it in ''From the Sky Down,'' a documentary by Davis Guggenheim about U2. But the film, showing Saturday night on Showtime, has a few segments that get beyond platitudes. Mr. Guggenheim, whose previous
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/movies/janie-jones-with-abigail-breslin-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'JANIE JONES'; Rocker Tests Daughter's Music Chops And Mettle	''Janie Jones,'' a likable, unassuming father-daughter drama set in the trenches of the indie-rock world, rides on the impeccably detailed performances of its stars, the brilliant but perennially overlooked Alessandro Nivola (''Junebug,''''Laurel Canyon'') and Abigail Breslin, now 15 and two-thirds grown up from the days of ''Little Miss
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/arts/design/mpa-directing-light-onto-fist-of-father.html	ART IN REVIEW; MPA: 'Directing Light onto Fist of Father'	Leo Koenig Inc. 541 West 23rd Street, Chelsea Through Nov. 12 Installed in Leo Koenig's storefront project space, an enigmatic solo by the young artist who goes by the name MPA mixes mediums and forms, among them performance, sculpture, painting and film. At the opening, which I did not attend, the artist stood silent, eyes closed, for a long time,
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/movies/puss-in-boots-with-antonio-banderas-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW; A Fairy Tale Mix With 9 Lives and Dozens of Egg Jokes	''Puss in Boots'' mixes it all up. Even more than in the ''Shrek'' movies, from which this likely candidate for a new animated franchise is spun off, it is a cheerfully chaotic jumble of fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters parachuted into a Spanish storybook setting. It also looks terrific: brighter, with a lot more visual pizzazz than the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE5D9163DF93BA15753C1A9679D8B63	A New Wing, a New Vista	On Tuesday, after eight years of renovation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will open its new Islamic wing -- the Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South Asia. Below, a tour of some of the collection's highlights. The Damascus Room The room, a nearly intact 18th-centuryreception chamber from a wealthy
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE2D71F3AF93BA15753C1A9679D8B63	What's On Today	8 P.M. (NBC) CHUCK Season 5 finds Chuck (Zachary Levi, above right, with Adam Baldwin and Yvonne Strahovski) adjusting to life as a spy for hire. Now Chuck and his team -- Col. John Casey (Mr. Baldwin); Chuck's best friend, Morgan Grimes (Joshua Gomez); and Sarah Walker (Ms. Strahovski), once the C.I.A.'s top agent and now Chuck's wife -- are
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/movies/anonymous-by-roland-emmerich-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'ANONYMOUS'; How Could a Commoner Write Such Great Plays?	''Anonymous,'' a costume spectacle directed by Roland Emmerich, from a script by John Orloff, is a vulgar prank on the English literary tradition, a travesty of British history and a brutal insult to the human imagination. Apart from that, it's not bad. First things first. The film's premise is that the plays and poems commonly attributed to
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/movies/my-reincarnation-a-documentary-by-jennifer-fox-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'MY REINCARNATION'; Higher Calling? It's the Family Business	Films like Martin Scorsese's ''Kundun'' and Bernardo Bertolucci's ''Little Buddha'' acquainted American audiences with the Tibetan Buddhist belief that the souls of great lamas are reincarnated in newborns, who must be identified and then schooled to fulfill their destinies as spiritual teachers. But what happens if a designated youngster rejects
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/arts/design/musee-dorsay-reopens-after-weeklong-strike.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Musée d'Orsay Reopens After Weeklong Strike	After a weeklong strike by museum workers, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, right, reopened on Thursday, enabling visitors to discover the museum's renovated galleries. Employees staged a walkout last Thursday, the day of the planned reopening of the Impressionist galleries, because no additional workers had been recruited despite the addition of more
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/arts/video-games/blizzcon-blizzard-entertainments-fan-convention.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Best Friends, In Fantasy And Reality	ANAHEIM, Calif. -- More than 26,000 people from 50 states and 49 countries arrived here last week for BlizzCon, the annual self-celebration by Blizzard Entertainment, perhaps the most revered video game company in the world. But the most important moment, the one that illuminated the passion that weaves Internet gamers into global communities that
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/books/charles-dickens-by-claire-tomalin-becoming-dickens.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Two-Sided Man Gets Two New Biographies	BECOMING DICKENS The Invention of a Novelist By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Illustrated. 389 pages. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. $29.95. CHARLES DICKENS By Claire Tomalin Illustrated. 527 pages. The Penguin Press. $36. In a remarkable account of a meeting he had with Charles Dickens in 1862, Dostoyevsky recalled that the British
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/arts/music/mariusz-kwiecien-on-the-mend-for-don-giovanni-at-the-met.html	Baritone Returns to Fighting Trim at the Met	It was his final sword thrust, the one dispatching the Commendatore, that did in Mariusz Kwiecien. Mr. Kwiecien, the Polish baritone scheduled to perform the title role in Mozart's ''Don Giovanni,'' made the lunge during a dress rehearsal at the Metropolitan Opera on Oct. 10. The movement severely aggravated a herniated disc, forcing his withdrawal
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/arts/music/london-symphony-orchestra-at-avery-fisher-hall-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Leading the March to a Mystical Place	Lincoln Center's monthlong White Light Festival is back for its second year. As before, the focus of the event is a little blurry. In the words of Lincoln Center's artistic director, Jane Moss, White Light is an exploration of music and art's power to reveal ''dimensions of our interior lives.'' The programs offer ''a spectrum of artistic
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E5D7163AF936A15753C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Thank You for This Honor ... Oops	To hear Will Ferrell tell it, accepting the 14th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor was a matter of relenting. ''For 13 consecutive years, I have been begged by the Kennedy Center to accept this award,'' he said Sunday night at a ceremony in Washington. ''And for 13 consecutive years, I've emphatically said, 'No.' '' And upon receiving the award,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E7D9173AF936A15753C1A9679D8B63	MUSIC REVIEW; A Prodigal Daughter Returns Home	Audra McDonald's Carnegie Hall concert on Saturday evening had the feel of a homecoming celebration for a prodigal daughter: In an unbroken wave of adoration, all was forgiven. Ms. McDonald's crime, if there was one, was her temporary abandonment of musical theater for television. For four seasons, while playing Dr. Naomi Bennett in the ABC series
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/arts/dance/radio-and-juliet-at-skirball-center-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; Romeo Meets Radiohead In a Love Story of Twitches	Here's the pitch: a ballet of Romeo and Juliet. Sure, that's been done before, but this is contemporary, set to songs by Radiohead, sure to appeal to a youthful demographic. And get this: Juliet doesn't kill herself. The whole love story comes through her flashbacks. This thing is stripped-down, chic, just Juliet in a corset and six men in suits
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E6D9173AF936A15753C1A9679D8B63	What's On Today	8 P.M. (ESPN) THE REAL ROCKY In 1975 Chuck Wepner, the 6-foot-5 boxer known as the Bayonne Bleeder for his New Jersey hometown and for the pummeling he sustained at the fists of Sonny Liston, went up against Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight title and a potential purse of $100,000. (Ali would win $1.5 million.) Wepner, above, knocked Ali down in the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/arts/music/shinee-and-south-korean-k-pop-groups-at-madison-square-garden-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Korean Pop Machine, Running on Innocence and Hair Gel	Think of the work required to make just one Justin Bieber. The production, the management, the vocal training, the choreography, the swagger coaching -- all that effort to create one teen-pop star in a country that's still starving for them. South Korea has no such drought, thanks to several companies that specialize in manufacturing a steady
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E7DB173AF936A15753C1A9679D8B63	ARTSBEAT; Whedon's Quick Work of Shakespeare	3:28 p.m. | Updated Having recently wrapped principal photography on ''The Avengers,'' a big-budget, big-stakes action film about that Marvel Comics superhero team, Joss Whedon has surely earned the right to kick back on his couch, eat bonbons and catch up on daytime television for a few weeks. Instead, Mr. Whedon, the overachieving producer of
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E6DB173BF930A15753C1A9679D8B63	SPECIAL SECTION: FINE ARTS; Beneath an Abstract Painting, A Mystery Is Revealed	Preserving and cleaning paintings at a museum is often a relatively straightforward, not to say dull, affair. But sometimes a compelling flesh-and-blood story awaits beneath a layer of oil and varnish. That was the case with recent high-tech examinations that were commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum on several works by the great Russian
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/arts/artsspecial/artur-walther-casts-global-net-in-search-of-photographers.html	SPECIAL SECTION: FINE ARTS; For Photos, Collector Casts a Global Net	If Jo Ractliffe's star has risen on the international art circuit during the last year, it is in many ways because of the support of the German collector Artur Walther. Ms. Ractliffe's first New York solo show, presenting haunting depictions of mass graves and minefields in Angola, inaugurated the Walther Collection Project Space in April. The
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/movies/homevideo/new-on-blu-ray-erle-c-kentons-island-of-lost-souls.html	DVD; Island's Inhabitants? Clearly Not Natives	MOST of the classic horror films of the early 1930s have been released and rereleased on home video to the point of surfeit and beyond. But one, in many ways the most disturbing, has remained elusive: Erle C. Kenton's 1932 ''Island of Lost Souls,'' an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel ''The Island of Dr. Moreau'' so extreme in its effects that
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/arts/artsspecial/performa-11-to-start-in-november.html	SPECIAL SECTION: FINE ARTS; Performance, Indoors and Out	Live performance will be erupting, and possibly disrupting, New York for three weeks starting Nov. 1, when Performa 11, a performance art biennial, begins its fourth season. The events, mostly free and including a shamanistic dating show at El Museo del Barrio and a medieval-style rap joust at Marlborough Chelsea, will take place in theater,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/arts/artsspecial/latin-american-art-rediscovered-again.html	SPECIAL SECTION: FINE ARTS; Latin American Art, Rediscovered Again	In November, the Art Dealers Association of America will start its new season of collector forums with ''Latin American Art in Global Collections'' at the Morgan Library and Museum. The panel will be timed to the Pinta, a Latin American Art fair now in its fifth year that coincides with Christie's and Sotheby's Latin American art auctions. Also
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/arts/television/common-stars-in-amcs-hell-on-wheels.html	TELEVISION; Building a Railroad And a New Life On the Frontier	CALGARY, Alberta THE modern world was just over the next ridge, downtown Calgary's 21st-century skyline less than 10 miles away from the set of ''Hell on Wheels,'' AMC's new series (beginning in November) about the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. But you couldn't see the city from the set, tucked into a shallow valley on the lands of the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/books/review/the-design-of-symbols.html	VISUALS; Vital Signs	We see them in airports, hospitals and government buildings, in waiting rooms and bathrooms, on exits and entrances: schematic silhouettes of men, women and children. The graphic icons are characterized by a no-frills, geometric style that is immediately recognizable and decipherable wherever they're found. But while the symbols are ubiquitous, few
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/books/review/up-front-dana-spiotta.html	Up Front	In her most recent novel, ''Stone Arabia,''Dana Spiotta used multiple voices and narrative devices to explore the slipperiness of identity and the capriciousness of memory. So too does the novel she reviews in this week's Sunday Book Review: ''Shards,'' by Ismet Prcic, about a young man's experiences of the Bosnian war and his mental breakdown in
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/books/review/the-end-by-ian-kershaw-book-review.html	State of Deception	THE END The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-45 By Ian Kershaw Illustrated. 564 pp. The Penguin Press. $35. By the morning of April 18, 1945, the war in Ansbach, a picturesque town in southern Germany, was just about over. With the Wehrmacht in retreat and the United States Army a few miles away, surrender seemed the only option.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E5DC123EF930A15753C1A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Chapter Books: Sunday, October 23rd 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the October 23, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending October 8, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/arts/music/pop-and-rock-listings-for-oct-21-27.html	The Listings	Pop Prices may not reflect ticketing service charges. For full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music. - Betty Buckley (Fridays and Saturdays, and Tuesdays through Thursdays, through Oct. 29) This Broadway doyenne co-opts famous men's numbers from Great White Way productions -- including ''West Side Story,'' ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''La Cage
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/arts/design/john-mcallister-damned-sparkling-pomp.html	ART IN REVIEW; John McAllister: 'Damned Sparkling Pomp'	James Fuentes LLC 55 Delancey Street, Lower East Side Through Sunday With increasing optical intensity John McAllister's smart, wryly elegant new paintings continue to negotiate a path between past and present, painting and photography, decoration and documentation, and modernism and postmodernism. In his fourth New York gallery solo Mr.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/arts/design/mickalene-thomas-more-than-everything.html	ART IN REVIEW; Mickalene Thomas: 'More Than Everything'	Lehmann Maupin 201 Chrystie Street, Lower East Side Through Oct. 29 Mickalene Thomas is best known for her large, enameled, sequin-encrusted paintings of diva-ish women, works that are as impenetrable as they are spectacular. In her process-oriented second solo at Lehmann Maupin she strips away some of those layers but retains the pizazz. She does
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/arts/television/for-csi-house-law-order-svu-risky-transitions.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Old Shows, New Faces, Big Risks	While the season's new television shows battle for survival, like baby turtles scurrying across the beach -- five of them are gone already, picked off by the bad-ratings bird -- there's an equally important but more quiet drama going on in prime time. Five of network TV's most established shows have undergone major cast changes since last season,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0DB143BF933A15753C1A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Warhol Foundation Ends Authentication Board	4:59 p.m. | Updated The Andy Warhol Foundation announced on Wednesday that it will dissolve its authentication board early next year. In a statement, the foundation said the move reflects its intent to shift focus toward maximizing ''grant making and other charitable activities.'' In recent years, the foundation has been involved in legal disputes
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/arts/video-games/you-batman-keep-arkham-city-in-line-review.html	VIDEO GAME REVIEW; You, Batman, Must Keep Arkham City in Line	I've never been a comic book guy. As I kept telling people last week while New York Comic Con was in town: I'm not anti-comics; I just never got into them. But I do know a stupendous game when I play one, and that is Batman: Arkham City, released this week by Warner Brothers for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. In its ambition, scope and sheer
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/arts/music/paul-lewis-shows-schuberts-depth-at-92nd-street-y-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; When Schubert Shouts Softly	When a musician programs a composer's late works, it's hard to imagine that those pieces were mostly written while the composer was still in his 20s. But the autumnal masterpieces of Schubert, who died at 31, are indeed the efforts of a young man. At the 92nd Street Y on Tuesday evening, the brilliant English pianist Paul Lewis offered superlative
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/movies/hollywood-revs-up-partisan-films-a-year-ahead-of-election.html	The Sniping Of Partisans, This Time On the Screen	LOS ANGELES -- At a film festival in Toronto last month the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein tried to bait Michele Bachmann, the Republican presidential contender, into joining him for an Iowa premiere of ''Butter,'' in which the conservative lead character looks suspiciously like a parody of Ms. Bachmann. Perhaps wisely, Ms. Bachmann did not
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/movies/phone-stunt-seeks-box-office-numbers.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Phone Stunt Seeks Box-Office Numbers	When it comes to publicizing movies, a lot of stars do as little as possible: a perfunctory wave from a red carpet, a chat with Jay Leno. Then there is what Jonah Hill is doing to promote ''The Sitter,'' an R-rated comedy set for release on Dec. 9. Mr. Hill, last seen as a statistics nerd in ''Moneyball,'' is so eager to make ''The Sitter'' a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E0D8173BF933A15753C1A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; A 'Mormon' Reunion On 'South Park'	If you'd like to see what happens when Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez combine their comic talents but can't get your hands on tickets for their bawdy, blaspheming Broadway hit, ''The Book of Mormon,'' cable television will soon provide a more easily accessible alternative. Mr. Lopez, who with Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone won Tony Awards for
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/inside-the-list.html	TBR; Inside the List	HEMINGWAY IN LOVE: Ernest Hemingway has been having a tough few months. First, he gets slapped around in Paula McLain's best-/selling revenge novel ''The Paris Wife,'' which retells the story of his years in France from the point of view of his jilted first wife, Hadley Richardson. Then he's mocked in Woody Allen's ''Midnight in Paris'' as a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E6DC123EF935A25753C1A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Advice, How-To And Miscellaneous: Sunday, October 16th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the October 16, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending October 1, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04EEDA1339F935A25753C1A9679D8B63	The Week Ahead | Oct. 16 - Oct. 22	Pop/Jazz Ben Ratliff The Canadian-born jazz trumpeter KENNY WHEELER, who has lived in England for most of his life, first came to New York in the late '40s, looking for Miles Davis, whom he didn't find. He never found much of an audience in this town either, and hasn't played here as often as he's deserved to. But the jazz scene here tends to be
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E7DC123EF935A25753C1A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Hardcover & Paperback Fiction: Sunday, October 16th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the October 16, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending October 1, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E0DE1330F935A25753C1A9679D8B63	Online	Podcast Scheduled to appear this week: Jill Abramson, the executive editor of The New York Times, on her new book, ''The Puppy Diaries''; Christopher Chabris on books about the science of the human brain; Julie Bosman with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-/seller news. Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the Book Review, is the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07EEDA1339F935A25753C1A9679D8B63	The Week Ahead | Oct. 16 - Oct. 22	Film Rachel Saltz The New York Film Festival wraps on Sunday, but cinephiles need not despair -- the treasure-rich ''To Save and Project: The Ninth MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation'' has just begun. Continuing through Nov. 19, the festival will show more than 30 films from 14 countries, most making their New York premieres. Among
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE4DD1438F935A25753C1A9679D8B63	Ode to Siblings	THE KEATS BROTHERS The Life of John and George By Denise Gigante Illustrated. 499 pp. The Belknap Press/Harvard University Press. $35. Suppose you wanted to write a novel about John Keats, everyone's favorite English Romantic poet, whose travels in ''realms of gold'' were purely imaginary, and who died in 1821, poor and spitting blood, at the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/arts/music/chris-martin-of-coldplay-discusses-mylo-xyloto.html	ARTS & LEISURE; What Would Bruce Do?	Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, is one of the world's biggest rock stars, a species for whom tardiness is all but a right. Yet he was full of apologies when he popped through the door of a Midtown Manhattan restaurant, no entourage in sight, for a recent interview. ''I'm sorry I'm late,'' he blurted, wearing a slightly stained ''Don't
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/arts/music/colin-davis-brings-london-symphony-to-carnegie-hall.html	A Maestro Reflects On a Life of Batons And Knitting Needles	LONDON WHEN I put it to Colin Davis that conductors live long lives and go on until they drop, the observation got the withering response it probably deserved. ''Apparently they do,'' he said, and lapsed into a ruminative silence that I took as encouragement to change the subject. But it's true. The international conducting circuit has historically
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/the-marriage-plot-by-jeffrey-eugenides-book-review.html	The Graduates	THE MARRIAGE PLOT By Jeffrey Eugenides 406 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $28. There was no predicting where Jeffrey Eugenides would go after his first two novels, so different were they in tone and form. ''The Virgin Suicides'' -- humid, dreamlike, entranced -- comes off as a single thought. ''Middlesex,'' a chatty multigenerational saga that winds
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/arts/design/night-scented-stock.html	ART IN REVIEW; 'Night Scented Stock'	Marianne Boesky Gallery 118 East 64th Street, Manhattan Through Oct. 22 Exhibitions juxtaposing art, artifacts, decorative objects and ephemera are in vogue, and more power to them. That the independent curator Todd Levin has contributed to their rise is confirmed by his latest effort, ''Night Scented Stock,'' a selective overview of 500 years of
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/theater/theater-listings-oct-14-20.html	The Listings	Approximate running times are in parentheses. Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of current shows, additional listings, showtimes and ticket information: nytimes.com/theater. Previews And Openings 'The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs' (in previews; opens on Monday) Mike Daisey's latest monologue analyzes Mr. Jobs,
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/theater/reviews/the-mountaintop-with-samuel-l-jackson-angela-bassett.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'THE MOUNTAINTOP'; April 3, 1968. Lorraine Motel. Evening.	Even before the first flash of lightning -- and there will be plenty of that before evening's end -- an ominous electricity crackles through the opening moments of ''The Mountaintop,'' Katori Hall's surprisingly thin new play about a monumental subject, which opened on Thursday at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater. It's not that what we're looking at
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/movies/oka-directed-by-lavinia-currier-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'OKA!'; One Man's Crusade Is More a Portrait of a Land and Its Culture	Yandombe, in the Central African Republic, is the stealth star of Lavinia Currier's ''Oka!'' This movie may have its leading man and dutifully hit its plot points, but the incidental sights and sounds -- the climate, topography, fauna and Pygmy population -- largely keep it watchable. Based on an unpublished memoir by Louis Sarno, this film
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/movies/father-of-invention-with-kevin-spacey-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'FATHER OF INVENTION'; Mopping Up His Life After Years in Prison	You've seen them railing on television: those maniacal shifty-eyed hucksters peddling flimsy abdominal toners that promise rock-hard eight-packs in a matter of weeks when used only five minutes a day. Who better to play a gaseous TV snake-oil salesman than that master of insincerity and sarcasm, Kevin Spacey? In ''Father of Invention,'' a strident,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/arts/design/commeraw-pottery-and-a-siqueiros-mural.html	ANTIQUES; From Manhattan to Sierre Leone	Thomas W. Commeraw, an African-American ceramist in early-19th-century New York, ran a workshop on the Lower East Side waterfront. He painted blue scallops, tassels and petals on beige and tan containers for gallons of oysters, preserved fruit and alcohol, among other products. No one quite knows how he learned his trade and built a business that
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/books/whats-on-at-new-york-comic-con.html	More Than Just Comic Books, But Plenty of Those, Too	Cupcake, a cupcake, owns a bakery named Sweet Tooth. He and his friend Eggplant, an eggplant, enjoy a good steam at the Russian baths and they jam in a band with Brown Egg, a brown egg, and Avocado, a -- well, you get it. Cupcake also dreams of visiting Turkey to meet Turkish Delight, the greatest pastry chef in the world. This is the trippy
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/arts/spare-times-for-oct-14-20.html	Spare Times	Around Town Museums and Sites Historic House Trust Festival (Friday through Sunday) To experience firsthand the good old days, many historic sites around the city are offering special events in conjunction with an annual festival presented by the Historic House Trust of New York City, a division of the Department of Parks and Recreation. Among the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/arts/music/mariinsky-orchestra-valery-gergiev-and-daniil-trifonov-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Sounds for a Samovar: Carnegie Hall Russian Night	For all the attention being lavished on Tchaikovsky's appearances in the festival that opened Carnegie Hall in 1891 as a pretext for the hall's 120th anniversary celebration, Carnegie has made no point of reviving the works the composer conducted, which included his ''Marche Solennelle,'' his Third Orchestral Suite and two of his a cappella
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/arts/music/classical-music-opera-listings-for-oct-14-20.html	The Listings	Classical Full reviews of recent classical performances: nytimes.com/classical. Opera Amore Opera (Friday through Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday) In what amounts to a substantial coup for a feisty young company, on Tuesday the Amore Opera offers the American premiere of ''I Due Figaro,'' the long-lost third part of Beaumarchais's saga of Figaro and
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805EEDD1739F933A25753C1A9679D8B63	What's On Today	9 P.M. (13, 49) THE WAR OF 1812 From 1812 to 1815, Americans battled the British, Canadian colonists and American Indians in a war that would shape the geography and identity of North America. Two centuries later this two-hour documentary by Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey, above, uses re-enactments, animation and commentary from historians and
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E1DD1739F933A25753C1A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Real Steel' Tops Weekend	Boxing robots were No. 1 at the North American box office over the weekend, as ''Real Steel'' (DreamWorks Studios/Disney) sold an estimated $27.3 million in tickets. That total was solid, but the picture, which stars Hugh Jackman as a reluctant father, will need to continue drawing large audiences to justify its hefty production budget of $110
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/movies/unauthorized-the-harvey-weinstein-project-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'UNAUTHORIZED: THE HARVEY WEINSTEIN PROJECT'; Harvey Weinstein Is Under the Microscope Again	Taking its cue from a subject who's always been able to sell sizzle sans steak, ''Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project'' is a bit of bait and switch. While its title implies a tawdry tell-all, this documentary actually delivers a virtual tribute to Mr. Weinstein, who co-founded Miramax Films, helped revolutionize American independent cinema
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE6DC1739F933A25753C1A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Paul McCartney Marries in London	Beatles fans now have two reasons to toast to their favorite band each Oct. 9: On what would have been John Lennon's 71st birthday, Sir Paul McCartney married Nancy Shevell in a small civil ceremony on Sunday at Marylebone Town Hall in London, The Associated Press reported. After being showered with flower petals by their wedding guests, the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/books/christopher-hitchens-on-writing-mortality-and-cancer.html	A Voice, Still Vibrant, Reflects on Mortality	HOUSTON -- Christopher Hitchens, probably the country's most famous unbeliever, received the Freethinker of the Year Award at the annual convention of the Atheist Alliance of America here on Saturday. Mr. Hitchens was flattered by the honor, he said a few days beforehand, but also a little abashed. ''I think being an atheist is something you are,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/arts/music/tobias-picker-at-the-miller-theater-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; A Composer's Repertory In Broad Brush Strokes	The philosophy behind the Composer Portraits series at the Miller Theater of Columbia University runs contrary to the kind of program you will find on almost every other concert stage in town, any day of the week. Instead of mixing works by different composers to form juxtapositions that illuminate each (or not), the Miller series generally
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/arts/dance/dancer-crush-at-new-york-live-arts-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; This Work Is About The Movers and Shakers	''Self-indulgence is the key to all art,'' Ishmael Houston-Jones remarked at New York Live Arts on Wednesday. He was referring, in particular, to himself and his fellow dancers, who he insisted were all ''narcissistic egotists.'' Considering the money they make, he asked, ''Why else would you do it?'' ''Dancer Crush,'' the program of which he was a
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/arts/television/five-directed-by-jennifer-aniston-and-alicia-keys-review.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; One Disease, Many Faces And Many Personal Paths	Take some celebrity directors, the Lifetime network and Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and what do you get? A teary, perfectly tolerable collection of interlocking stories featuring lots of recognizable actors and two particularly well-etched segments. The film, called ''Five,'' is being broadcast on Monday night and features vignettes directed by
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/arts/television/more-tv-shows-canceled.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; More TV Shows Canceled	Three weeks into the new television season, prime-time schedule changes are beginning to pile up, as four new shows effectively have been canceled. CBS confirmed Saturday that it had halted production on the sitcom ''How to Be a Gentleman,'' with David Hornsby and Kevin Dillon. That came a day after the network decided to move the sixth season of
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/movies/new-york-film-festival-includes-a-sneak-preview.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Film Fest Gleams Mysterious This Year	In its 49th incarnation, well into respectable middle age, the New York Film Festival has experienced a growth spurt and a burst of youthful energy. The Film Society of Lincoln Center, which hosts the festival, expanded its footprint last summer, with the opening of the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, a street-level miniplex across West 65th
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/arts/music/philharmonic-union-authorizes-strike.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Philharmonic Union Authorizes Strike	In a sign of potential conflict to come, the musicians of the New York Philharmonic, above, have voted to authorize their representatives to call a strike, two orchestra members said on Friday. The players spoke on condition of anonymity because orchestra leaders ordered the members not to discuss the matter. The musicians' contract expired on
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/movies/varian-and-putzi-a-20th-century-tale-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'VARIAN AND PUTZI'; Horrors of a Coming War Painted in a 1935 Meeting	On July 17, 1935, The New York Times published a statement by Varian Fry in which that young American, the editor of Living Age magazine, described anti-Jewish rioting that had taken place in Berlin two nights earlier. His account was horrific, and not only because of what it foreshadowed: ordinary Germans joining Nazi thugs in what he
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/arts/television/the-early-show-on-cbs-is-sober-but-stronger.html	THE TV WATCH; Mornings Are Sober But Better At CBS	There isn't much news you can use on ''The Early Show'' on CBS. It no longer offers dieting tips, barbecue recipes or audience makeovers. There are no pop concerts or ''Growing Pains'' cast reunions. ''The Early Show'' doesn't plan weddings or even forecast rain -- weather is delegated to local affiliates. CBS's morning show is at times so soberly
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/arts/design/los-angeles-county-museum-moves-a-340-ton-rock.html	How Do You Move a 340-Ton Artwork? Very Carefully	RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- It is just under 60 miles from the Stone Valley Quarry here -- an expanse of dust, boulders, roaring bulldozers and cut granite hillsides -- to the lush campus of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Museum Mile. Behind a pile of rocks the other afternoon, out of sight from the road, workers scurried around a 340-ton,
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/theater/reviews/the-speakers-progress-in-brooklyn-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'THE SPEAKER'S PROGRESS'; Restricting Free Speech With Lab Coats in Illyria	In an unnamed Arab country theaters have been shut down and performance criminalized. From a lectern a former theater producer explains that what he is presenting is not a play but a reconstruction of a 1960s production based on the story of Shakespeare's ''Twelfth Night.'' It's oddly clinical: Lab coats replace costumes, and men and women remain
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00EFD91E30F93BA35753C1A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; After Concert Deaths, A Free Sugarland Show	Sugarland, the country music duo, will give a free concert in Indianapolis, where seven people were killed in August when stage rigging collapsed in high winds just before the band was to play at the Indiana State Fair. Sugarland announced on Friday that it would appear at the Conseco Fieldhouse on Oct. 28 and would collect money for survivors and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/arts/music/chamber-music-society-plays-turina-and-ravel.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Sketches of Spain, by Turina and Ravel	The Spanish composer Joaquín Turina experienced a eureka moment in 1907 while having a drink with his compatriots Isaac Albéniz and Manuel de Falla in Paris. He later wrote that during that evening he ''realized that music should be an art, and not a diversion for the frivolity of women and the dissipation of men.'' Turina (along with Albéniz,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE2D81030F93BA35753C1A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Family Breakup In 'Relatively Speaking'	The last collaboration between the actor Fred Melamed and the filmmaker Ethan Coen yielded one of the silkiest screen villains in recent years: Sy Ableman, the gently bearish widower in ''A Serious Man'' (2009), who seduces the wife of the main character and then keeps explaining the logic of the cuckolding to him. (Sy: ''Such a thing, such a thing
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/arts/dance/david-gordons-dancing-henry-five-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; Ships, Steeds and Kings, on Two Legs	MONTCLAIR, N.J. -- How can this demonstrate that? How can art demonstrate life or history or another work of art? With the speech ''O for a muse of fire,'' Shakespeare starts his play ''Henry V'' with words about the challenge for theater of trying to represent war. (''Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them.'') When Laurence Olivier made
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/arts/television/life-for-walking-dead.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Life for 'Walking Dead'	Just in time for people to catch up with ''The Walking Dead,'' the AMC series that begins its second season on Oct. 16, the first season is now streaming on Netflix. The drama, about survivors of a zombie infestation, is the most prominent part of a multiyear content-licensing deal announced Friday by Netflix and AMC. The arrangement is the latest
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/arts/television/george-harrison-documentary-from-martin-scorsese.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; A Life of Guitars, Girls And Gentle Weeping	As three-hour-plus Martin Scorsese documentaries about 1960s musical legends go, ''George Harrison: Living in the Material World,'' showing in two parts on HBO on Wednesday and Thursday, is not the best. That would be ''No Direction Home: Bob Dylan,'' shown on PBS in 2005. (''Shine a Light,'' about the Rolling Stones, was largely a concert film and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/arts/music/cassandra-wilson-at-the-rose-theater-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Spanning the Years in One Evening of Jazz	During one inspired stretch of her casually luxurious concert at the Rose Theater on Friday night, Cassandra Wilson sang material from her oldest and most recent Blue Note albums, released 17 years apart. A few of these were original songs, full of spirit talk and churning, viscous grooves. One was an adaptation of Charley Patton's ''Pony Blues,''
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/theater/reviews/motherhood-out-loud-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'MOTHERHOOD OUT LOUD'; Pain-Free Delivery? Not for These Moms	Giving birth is, by wide report, among the most painful experiences a human being can endure while remaining conscious. But there are times when witnessing unpalatable theater seems to deserve a place in the top 10. During the opening moments of ''Motherhood Out Loud,'' a compendium of scenes and monologues about the joys, agonies and clichés of
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E4DF1630F936A35753C1A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Madonna a Contender For the Super Bowl	Madonna and the National Football League are discussing a deal under which the pop diva would perform at halftime during the Super Bowl in February, but the details have yet to be ironed out, a person familiar with the talks said. -Neither the N.F.L. nor Madonna's spokeswoman would comment on the talks. ''I can not announce that this is a done deal
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E6DD1630F936A35753C1A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Salary Dispute Threatens to Halt 'Simpsons'	As ''The Simpsons'' character Troy McClure once asked about that popular Fox cartoon family, ''Who knows what adventures they'll have between now and the time the show becomes unprofitable?'' That question didn't seem so funny on Tuesday, as a pay dispute between the ''Simpsons'' actors who provide the voices of Homer, Bart, Marge and company, and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/arts/dance/music-of-elliott-carter-interpreted-at-the-guggenheim.html	DANCE REVIEW; Youth Meets Aged Master In 2 Dances, One Score	The Guggenheim Museum's Works & Process series set a particularly difficult challenge for the young ballet choreographers Emery LeCrone and Avi Scher. Requiring them both to make a dance to the same music was not unusual; comparing and contrasting is habitual at Works & Process. The difficulty arose from the selected music: five unrelated works,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/arts/calvin-tomkins-continues-to-chronicle-artists.html	Artists Painted With a Palette Of Words	Calvin Tomkins, who has chronicled the lives of artists for The New Yorker for half a century, has somehow managed to escape the ritual of interrogation to which he has subjected everyone from Andy Warhol on down. One recent afternoon, sitting at a glass-topped table in his brightly minimalist apartment on the Upper East Side, he mentioned that he
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/arts/music/moscow-string-quartet-at-frick-collection-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Borodin Glows in an Intimate Salon	One of the sunniest pieces of classical music ever written, Borodin's String Quartet No. 2, which the composer dedicated to his wife of 20 years, seems to imply that all is well with the world. The third-movement Notturno, which furnished the melody of the song ''And This Is My Beloved'' in the Borodin-drenched musical ''Kismet,'' is particularly
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E5DA1131F936A35753C1A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Book on Strauss-Kahn	Dominique Strauss-Kahn has left New York for Paris, but the story of his sexual encounter with a hotel chambermaid, and the criminal case that developed and then was dropped, is just reaching book publishers. St. Martin's Press, part of Macmillan, said on Monday it had acquired a book by John Solomon, the Newsweek reporter who interviewed
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/arts/television/american-horror-story-on-fx-review.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; They Said It Had Good Bones	If you like the jar with the baby's leg, wait until you see the jar holding the baby's head. If one actress with Down syndrome doesn't provide enough Tod Browning-style otherness for you, don't worry -- there are two. If the line about snorting cocaine off a high school girl's nipples doesn't do it for you, maybe the scene of the sobbing naked man
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/books/review/gustav-mahler-by-jens-malte-fischer-book-review.html	Composing Multitudes	GUSTAV MAHLER By Jens Malte Fischer Translated by Stewart Spencer. Illustrated. 766 pp. Yale University Press. $50. Idealistic, fantastic, grotesque, violent, tender, sarcastic, confrontational, confessional, the symphonies of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) are among the most profoundly autobiographical of all composed music. ''I have written into them,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E0DD123EF931A35753C1A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Manga: Sunday, October 2nd 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the October 2, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending September 17, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/books/review/on-canaans-side-by-sebastian-barry-book-review.html	Irish Odyssey	ON CANAAN'S SIDE By Sebastian Barry 256 pp. Viking. $25.95. So many people have emigrated from Ireland over the centuries that the diaspora far outnumbers those in the home country. The old joke goes that if all Irish returned, the island would sink under their weight. Most departed to seek jobs. Others, like the narrator of ''On Canaan's Side,''
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E0DD123EF931A35753C1A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Nonfiction: Sunday, October 2nd 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the October 2, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending September 17, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800EFD7123EF931A35753C1A9679D8B63	The Week Ahead | Oct. 2 - Oct. 8	Theater Steven McElroy We have arrived at that fruitful point in the fall theater season when a Broadway production will open about once a week for the next couple of months, ensuring that Midtown Manhattan will be crammed with new productions. There are openings coming in other neighborhoods too, of course, where the prices are more recession
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/arts/music/karen-os-opera-stop-the-virgens-at-st-anns-warehouse.html	MUSIC; An Indie Queen Cranks Up Opera's Amps	IN a studio on the far West Side of Manhattan a gaggle of young women, numbering close to 40, almost all under 25, sat splayed in slumber party mode on a rehearsal room floor. Dressed mostly in leggings and the appropriate American Apparel accoutrements, hair coolly mussed, they kept their eyes focused on one woman in the room while they quietly
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E1DD113DF931A35753C1A9679D8B63	REMIX: EDIBLE SELBY; A Movable Feast	When Caroline Burnett decided to open Heroes, in Berlin's Neukölln district, her initial emphasis was not on food. ''The cafe was a pretext for the art,'' says Burnett, an American editor who curates art shows in a dynamic exhibition space in the back. Today she and her partner, Damien Poinsard, a French-born cook who helps run a theater group on
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B06E1DC133EF931A35753C1A9679D8B63	REMIX; So Far, So Good	From Oct. 7 to July 2012, the Centre Pompidou-Metz will present ''Bivouac,'' a retrospective dedicated to the work of the designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. ''It's like a big family dinner where everybody shows up,'' says Erwan (above, seated). The family, in this case, is the brothers' radically original work, from ''Lit Clos'' of 2000, a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE2DC1E3EF931A35753C1A9679D8B63	TALK; Mother Modern	Getting a read on the city of Los Angeles has never been easy. Twenty years ago, when my husband was offered a job in L.A., we left New York. I figured that as a writer, my work was portable, and as an urbanite, I would easily adjust. But Los Angeles, with its shifting perspectives and unwieldy size, was perplexing. When we first arrived, I spoke
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06E1DD123EF931A35753C1A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: E-Book Nonfiction: Sunday, October 2nd 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the October 2, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending September 17, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/movies/eli-craigs-tucker-and-dale-vs-evil-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'TUCKER AND DALE VS. EVIL'; Stay Away From Those Creepy Locals	The impalement is a nice touch. The death by wood chipper, pretty sweet. But the best bit of comedy in the ridiculously gory ''Tucker and Dale vs. Evil'' eviscerates the field of psychology with no bloodshed at all. Eli Craig, directing his first feature (from a script he wrote with Morgan Jurgenson), has put together a droll sendup of the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/arts/for-children.html	Spare Times	For Children 'Creepy Creatures Weekend' (Saturday and Sunday) Gardens are full of strange things that crawl and strange things that fly, and what better time to celebrate them than the month of Halloween? The New York Botanical Garden has turned its Everett Children's Adventure Garden into a haunted pumpkin patch for October, with daily costume
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/arts/design/adam-marnie-locus-rubric.html	ART IN REVIEW; Adam Marnie: 'Locus Rubric'	Derek Eller Gallery 615 West 27th Street, Chelsea Through Oct. 8 Expanding on the punched-sheetrock pieces he has exhibited elsewhere, Adam Marnie combines photography and collage with bold architectural interventions in his Chelsea solo debut. In doing so, he refreshes each one of these mediums by making it contingent on the others. Viewers enter
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/arts/a-musical-version-of-gatsby-four-decades-late.html	WEEKEND MISER; A Musical Version of 'Gatsby,' Four Decades Late	Renewed attention to ''The Great Gatsby'' has come in the form of huge Jazz Age lawn parties, seven-hour staged readings and even a 3-D movie, filming now in Australia. But here comes Ben West, who has dug into the past to produce his own tribute to F. Scott Fitzgerald's great novel: a musical. Mr. West, the founder and artistic director of
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/arts/music/pop-listings-sept-30-oct-6.html	The Listings	Pop Prices may not reflect ticketing service charges. For full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music. - All Tomorrow's Parties Presents I'll Be Your Mirror, with Jeff Mangum (Friday through Sunday) The newest installment of the mellow All Tomorrow's Parties festival features an exceptional booking coup: the hermetic singer Jeff Mangum, who
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE5DF1731F933A0575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Duck! A Courtney Love Memoir	A tell-all memoir from Courtney Love will be released by William Morrow next fall, the publisher said on Thursday. Ms. Love, the musician and actress, will give an account of her life from childhood to the present, including tales from her own band, Hole, her stints in Hollywood, her marriage to Kurt Cobain and her relationships with Billy Corgan
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E5D91631F933A0575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; The Modern Counts the Minutes	A blockbuster film is headed to the Museum of Modern Art, and it didn't even have to make a dent at the box office. The museum announced that it would buy ''The Clock,'' a 24-hour video installation by Christian Marclay that uses a montage of timepieces from movies to count down a day in real time. The film earned Mr. Marclay the Golden Lion as
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/arts/design/loren-munk-location-location-locationmapping-the-new-york-art-world.html	ART IN REVIEW; Loren Munk: 'Location, Location, Location,Mapping the New York Art World'	Lesley Heller Workspace 54 Orchard Street, near Grand Street, Lower East Side Through Oct. 16 Loren Munk's obsession with art, art history and the New York art world is evidently more than one person can handle. So Mr. Munk created James Kalm, the alter ego he assumes when he videotapes gallery openings and exhibitions and posts them, with
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/movies/new-york-film-festival-now-bigger-beckons.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Cult Hits, Carnage And Even Chaplin	Is more more? Is it better? Moviegoers may be wondering the same thing when faced with the astonishment of offerings in this year's New York Film Festival. In addition to a main slate dotted with some of cinema's brightest stars -- Michelle Williams! Bela Tarr! -- this year there are screenings of old goodies like Charlie Chaplin's ''Gold Rush''; a
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/movies/archies-final-project-with-gabriel-sunday-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'ARCHIE'S FINAL PROJECT'; The Camera Doesn't Lie, Does It?	Ever feel your life is one big movie? Archie Williams, the high school hero of ''Archie's Final Project,'' does. That's because he goes nowhere without his video camera, taping all he sees. So when Archie (the talented Gabriel Sunday, also one of the screenwriters) decides to kill himself -- his final project for school and for keeps -- it's no
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/books/john-lithgows-memoir-drama-an-actors-education.html	Memoirist Ever Ready To Inhabit Another Role	John Lithgow is probably best known for playing oddballs and weirdos: a psychotic physicist in ''Buckaroo Banzai,'' an extraterrestrial college professor on the long-running sitcom ''3rd Rock From the Sun'' and most recently the creepy serial killer Arthur Mitchell in the Showtime series ''Dexter.'' With his big, almost hulking frame and long,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/crosswords/bridge/usa-vs-italyengland-at-zhejiang-huamen-cup-bridge.html	BRIDGE; In China, a Slam Hard to Beat	We continue to look at the final round of the Zhejiang Huamen Cup, played this month in Beijing. Before the last round the Netherlands led U.S.A. by 3 victory points and Taiwan Weide by 5. Italy/England was fourth but had no chance to win. After 5 of the 16 boards the Netherlands was ahead of Taiwan Weide by 12 international match points, and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/arts/music/new-juilliard-ensemble-in-2-premieres-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Plenty of Artistic Pressure for a Saxophone Student	Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to improvise freely on alto saxophone throughout the premiere of a concerto not only inspired by Ornette Coleman, one of the most natural melodists and distinctive improvisers in American music, but also actually intended for Mr. Coleman to perform. You should evoke the work's dedicatee without
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/books/russell-bankss-novel-lost-memory-of-skin-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; A Man Entrapped In a Host Of Webs	LOST MEMORY OF SKIN By Russell Banks 416 pages. Ecco. $25.99. ''Lost Memory of Skin'' is a major new work by Russell Banks destined to be a canonical novel of its time. That is not to say it is without problems. It engages the reader in one long wrestling match. It is sometimes marred by condescension. But it delivers another of Mr. Banks's
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/arts/performing-arts-group-names-a-new-leader.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Performing Arts Group Names a New Leader	The Association of Performing Arts Presenters has announced the appointment of Mario Garcia Durham as its new president and chief executive. Based in Washington, the association fosters continued growth and development in the performing arts presenting field and its professionals with over 1,400 members worldwide. It also holds an annual conference
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/arts/music/keatons-sherlock-jr-with-stephen-prutsman-score-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; The Keaton Film Was Silent; Now, Cue the Kazoos	At the peak of the silent-film era movie theaters provided nonstop work for instrumental musicians in America. In most houses just a single pianist would play, usually improvising, and often folding in songs or classical pieces. Some theaters had organs equipped with sound effects to evoke thunderstorms and galloping horses. Large auditoriums
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/arts/music/wilco-at-central-park-summerstage-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Hallucinatory To Folk-Rock In an Instant	In the rain at Central Park SummerStage on Friday night, Wilco started its set by implying that it wasn't going anywhere soon. No snappy opening ditty for this concert; instead, Wilco played the two extended songs that end and start ''The Whole Love,'' its new album. ''This is how I tell it/ O' but it's long,'' Jeff Tweedy sang to begin ''One
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/arts/music/jon-hendricks-and-jimmy-heath-at-rose-hall-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Jazz Classics, Still of the Moment	''There's a rumor going around that I'm 90,'' Jon Hendricks remarked from the stage of Frederick P. Rose Hall on Saturday evening, as he flashed a sly believe-it-or-not smile. In his imagination, he admitted, he was still only 11. Because a large part of Mr. Hendricks, one of the originators of vocalese -- the application of fanciful, pirouetting
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/arts/dance/new-york-city-ballet-dances-balanchine-and-wheeldon-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; Balanchine's High Society, on Earth and in the Firmament	What good company New York City Ballet was on Saturday night. The audience, happy to do its part, applauded heartily through numerous curtain calls. Yes, such clamors are ballet ritual. But more typically they're of the ''We've paid good money for our seats and, gosh darn it, we're going to will transcendence'' variety. These were heartfelt. The
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/theater/reviews/death-sewage-and-a-few-laughs.html	THEATER REVIEW; Death, Sewage ... and a Few Laughs	''Dublin by Lamplight,'' part of the 1st Irish Theater Festival at 59E59 Theaters, tries to juxtapose the serious with the silly. Yet the silliness is so untamed it overwhelms the production's potential for a truly affecting experience. The play is set among the political and literal filth of Dublin in 1904, including some of the era's more salient
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3D71E3FF937A1575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Villella Stepping Down At Miami Ballet	Edward Villella, the founding and current artistic director of Miami City Ballet, will step down at the end of the 2012-2013 season, the company announced on Thursday afternoon. Mr. Villella, a former principal dancer with New York City Ballet, who founded the company with Toby Ansin in 1985, is leaving to continue other professional pursuits. In a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/arts/design/think-at-lincoln-center-review.html	EXHIBITION REVIEW; Data as Art, as Science, as a Reason for Being	Anyone walking past Lincoln Center during the last few days, and glancing downward at its new access road, Jaffe Drive, would have seen what seemed to be a slightly eccentric art installation. A long band of animated colored lights would snake across a 123-foot-long wall of LEDs as a digital clock counted backward. Then that band might suddenly
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/arts/dance/companhia-urbana-de-danca-from-brazil-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; Dancing of the Streets, Stripped Down to Its Art	MONTCLAIR, N.J. -- It's easy to imagine Sonia Destri rehearsing with Companhia Urbana de Dança, her all-male Brazilian troupe that specializes in contemporary dance and hip-hop. Or at least this is my fantasy: the moment just before a dancer is about to spin on his head or whip a leg around in a windmill, she hollers, ''Freeze!'' Last year Ms.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/arts/music/philadelphia-orchestra-is-heading-to-china.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Philadelphia Orchestra Is Heading to China	The Philadelphia Orchestra will spend a week in China next May, giving performances, coaching sessions, master classes and workshops, the orchestra said. The visit is the first of what the orchestra called a ''pilot partnership'' with the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. (Its president, Chen Ping, above, shakes hands with Allison
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/arts/design/menil-collection-is-to-return-frescoes-to-cyprus.html	The Menil Is to Return Frescoes To Cyprus	ROME -- The Menil Collection in Houston announced on Friday that next year it would return to the Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus 13th-century Byzantine frescoes that have been one of the museum's main attractions for more than a decade. The philanthropist Dominique de Menil, who founded the museum with her husband, John, and died in 1997, bought
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E1D6163EF937A1575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'X Factor' Steady On Second Night	The ratings for ''The X Factor'' premiere on Wednesday may not have met expectations, but the second episode last night at least held steady. With 12.5 million viewers, the overall ratings matched the debut episode, while the 18-to-49-year-old audience dropped off by just 2 percent. It was enough to give Fox a victory in the advertiser-coveted
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/arts/design/fluxus-and-the-essential-questions-of-life-review.html	ART REVIEW; Liberating Viewers, and the World, With Silliness	Fed up with being hounded by the New York State attorney general's office over alleged zoning violations in the early 1970s, George Maciunas, the real estate developer, graphic artist and leading light of Fluxus, the international network of Conceptual artists, created an artwork that doubled as a defense against subpoena-wielding enforcers. He
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/arts/dance/tool-is-loot-with-jennifer-lacey-and-wally-cardona.html	DANCE REVIEW; With the Help of Unusual Outsiders, Finding Love in Strange Objects	The process behind ''Tool Is Loot,'' the collaboration between Jennifer Lacey and Wally Cardona that had its premiere at the Kitchen on Thursday, was willfully, even perversely circuitous. The two choreographers spent the first year of the project apart, on different continents. Instead of working with each other, they consulted with experts far
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/arts/music/the-dilemma-of-james-levine-and-the-metropolitan-opera.html	A 'God' With Baton vs. the Met's Mortal Needs	Some in the business call it ''Peter's Dilemma.'' James Levine is acknowledged as one of the greatest opera conductors alive, but while his mind remains as sharp as ever, his body is failing him. So what should the Metropolitan Opera do with a maestro beloved by audiences, singers and his orchestra, a man who has given 40 years of his life to the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E2DB1E3FF937A1575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; AMC Tells Fans, Let's Talk Zombies	Just as Bravo has a talk show about its gossipy ''Housewives'' (and its other hit shows), AMC will soon have a talk show about its gory zombie drama, ''The Walking Dead.'' The channel said Thursday that the half-hour show, called ''Talking Dead,'' would start on Sunday, Oct. 16 at 11 p.m., the same night that the second season of the drama has its
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E0D7153FF932A1575AC0A9679D8B63	What's On Today	10 P.M. (NBC) LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT The series begins its 13th season with a thinly veiled account of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case, as Detective Benson (Mariska Hargitay) is called to the scene when a hotel maid (Anika Noni Rose) accuses a powerful Italian diplomat (Franco Nero, above right, with Ron Rifkin) of rape. The bureau
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/theater/reviews/connis-avant-garde-restaurant-the-mothership-landing-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'CONNI'S AVANT GARDE RESTAURANT'; A Satire of the Avant-Garde, With a Side of Fresh Food	''The avant-garde is meaningless'' is the kind of thing that a character in a satire of the avant-garde, like ''Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant: The Mothership Landing,'' would say. And yet the show -- interactive theater featuring witless spectacle, stale comedy and fresh food -- is arguably an argument for that point. The rickety conceit of this
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E5DA123FF932A1575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; CBS and Comedy Central Get Gifts From Sheen	The lambasting of Charlie Sheen's real and fictional personas proved to be a ratings gold mine for CBS and Comedy Central on Monday night. The season premiere of ''Two and a Half Men'' on CBS, which featured the funeral of Mr. Sheen's character, Charlie Harper, drew 27.8 million viewers. It was the highest-rated and most-watched season premiere of
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/books/the-quest-by-daniel-yergin-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Visions Of an Age When Oil Isn't King	THE QUEST Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World By Daniel Yergin Illustrated. 804 pages. The Penguin Press. $37.95. Daniel Yergin is America's most influential energy pundit, and the book that put him on the map was ''The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power'' (1991). It was a best seller, won a Pulitzer Prize and was
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/arts/dance/crossing-the-line-festival.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Art at the Food Cart and in the Park	In ''The Conspiracy of Performance,'' the choreographer Trajal Harrell and the actress Perle Palombe have much to say about current movement-based art. Inspired by Jean Baudrillard's essay ''The Conspiracy of Art,'' this work rages against mediocrity, unoriginality, banality and nothingness. Within it there are also echoes of Yvonne Rainer's ''No''
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9502E7D6153FF932A1575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Reality Hits 4 'Housewives': They're Off the Show	Friends come and go, and so do housewives. In a thorough reassembling of the ''Real Housewives of New York City'' cast, Bravo has confirmed that only three women -- Ramona Singer, Sonja Morgan and LuAnn de Lesseps -- would be returning for the reality show's fifth season. Jill Zarin, Alex McCord, Kelly Bensimon, and Cindy Barshop are all off the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E5DA123FF932A1575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Clyfford Still Works Are Going to Auction	In August officials of the City and County of Denver announced that they had chosen Sotheby's to sell four canvases by the Abstract Expressionist painter Clyfford Still to raise money for the endowment of the new Clyfford Still Museum, which is scheduled to open there on Nov. 18. The agreement called for Sotheby's to try to sell the four as a group
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E3DC153FF932A1575AC0A9679D8B63	THE TV WATCH; 'Two and a Half Men' Offers Its Own Roast	The Charlie Sheen roast on Comedy Central was a cake walk compared with the season premiere of ''Two and a Half Men'' on CBS on Monday. That wasn't a sitcom romp, it was more like watching Iraqis tear down statues of Saddam Hussein in the early days of the American-led invasion. Real anger seemed to seep through punch lines in a funeral service
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/theater/reviews/crane-story-at-the-cherry-lane-theater-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'CRANE STORY'; Splashing Through Rain Toward a Silent Afterlife	From a sensory perspective, ''Crane Story'' is consistently gorgeous. The play follows the journey of a Japanese-American woman (Angela Lin) to the afterlife to confront her brother (Jake Manabat), who had inexplicably committed suicide a year earlier in Tokyo. Intertwined with her Orpheus-like ordeal is a Japanese folk tale about a man who drowns
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E5DA123FF932A1575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Swados Work Honors La MaMa Founder	The composer and writer Elizabeth Swados has created a musical work, ''The La MaMa Cantata,'' comprising decades of quotations by Ellen Stewart, the founder of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, and is set to direct the piece at that downtown theater on Nov. 7 and 8. The piece is intended as a celebration of Ms. Stewart, who helped establish the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEFDB163CF93BA2575AC0A9679D8B63	SEVEN CHANCES 1925	Buster Keaton has the most noble, solemn and honest face of all 20th-century film comedians, a face that says, ''Nothing bad should ever happen to me.'' But, of course, faces like that are magnets for all manner of trials and troubles, and in the silent movie ''Seven Chances'' Keaton, who also directs, plays a lowly businessman whose firm will fall
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/arts/television/viewing-like-its-1979-science-fiction-and-fantasy.html	New Fantasy: Viewing Like It's 1979	IN advance of the debt-ceiling debate in Congress this summer, morning-show pundits repeatedly compared the moment with 1979 both in terms of specific economic realities and the bleak, broader cultural mood. In 1979 the country similarly faced the danger of defaulting on its financial obligations; growth lagged; the Iranian revolution sparked
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/theater/theresa-rebeck-and-sam-gold-have-a-busy-season.html	THE NEW SEASON; Also Waiting in the Wings	There's busy, and then there's Theresa Rebeck busy. Besides being writer and executive producer of ''Smash,'' an NBC series about the making of a Broadway musical, Ms. Rebeck has three plays having premieres this season: ''Poor Behavior,'' a comedy about adultery now in previews at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles; ''Seminar,'' starring Alan
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/theater/jeremy-jordan-in-newsies-and-bonnie-clyde.html	THE NEW SEASON; Just a Little Moonlighting On Broadway	THE drive from Times Square to the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, N.J., takes an hour, but the journey that Jeremy Jordan must complete during the ride is much longer. On Broadway, where Mr. Jordan will soon spend his days rehearsing for the new musical ''Bonnie & Clyde,'' he is one of the outlaw lovers who terrorized and seduced East Texas
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/movies/emilio-estevez-and-martin-sheen-collaborate-on-the-way.html	A Father-Son Journey Continues	AMERICANS have elected men to the highest office in the land in the hope that they would be tough but fair, regular guys but still presidential. You know, like Josiah Bartlet, who reigned with dignity for seven seasons on ''The West Wing'' on NBC. During some of the more feckless stretches of the presidency people have even suggested that Martin
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/movies/in-praise-of-character-actors.html	THE NEW SEASON | MOVIES; The Name Might Escape, Not the Work	THE golden age of Hollywood may have passed, but these are boom times for great character actors. On the big screen and the small, in movies and in television, beautiful sad sacks like Paul Giamatti, Bryan Cranston and Steve Buscemi are running away with some of the best roles and lines going, and Viola Davis is suddenly on the verge of stardom.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/theater/outlaws-kings-and-comedy.html	THE NEW SEASON; Outlaws, Kings and Comedy	Dates are subject to change. For more listings: nytimes.com/theater. SEPTEMBER ARIAS WITH A TWIST Drag show, puppet show, fantastical surreal experience -- call it what you will. The collaboration between the downtown drag chanteuse Joey Arias and the master puppet maker Basil Twist, which enthralled audiences and critics in 2008, is back. Mr.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE7D7143CF93BA2575AC0A9679D8B63	CORRECTIONS	An article on Aug. 28 about the original production of the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical ''Follies'' misstated the initials of the person who once hosted a get-together where Mr. Sondheim played and sang the whole musical. And a correction in this space on Sept. 4 also referred incorrectly to the host. The host, D. D. Ryan -- not B. B. --
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/books/review/train-dreams-by-denis-johnson-book-review.html	Private Express	TRAIN DREAMS By Denis Johnson 116 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $18. Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake. Your blood quickens, the clouds stretch, the light turns everything to gold and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/theater/plays-by-katori-hall-lydia-r-diamond-and-suzan-lori-parks.html	THE NEW SEASON; Playwrights Bring Uncommon Bond To Broadway	TO the casual theater observer, and sometimes even to the obsessed aficionado, one Broadway season can look very much like the next. Names of stars more familiarly splashed on movie trailers are glowing from marquees around the district. The London-to-Broadway express delivers its usual cargo of prestige attractions. New musicals based on popular
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/arts/music/music-review-big-four-with-anthrax-megadeth-slayer-and-metallica.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Heavy Lineup Has Metallica Hitting Cleanup	The concert, or the tour, or the notion, is called the Big Four, and it needs an asterisk. Long ago one of the four became much bigger than the rest. In alphabetical order, Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer -- who all played at Yankee Stadium in a thorough and memorable seven-hour concert on Wednesday night -- were the most popular bands of
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/movies/shut-up-little-man.html	MOVIE REVIEW; 'Shut Up Little Man!'	Matthew Bate's ''Shut Up Little Man!'' is a dandy little documentary whether you view the story it captures as a precursor to the flash fame of the Internet age or as one of the last genuine underground phenomena before the Internet made that whole concept obsolete. The film tells the tale of two men, Mitch Deprey and Eddie Guerriero, who in San
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/movies/my-afternoons-with-margueritte.html	MOVIE REVIEW; 'My Afternoons With Margueritte'	Drearily sentimental, Jean Becker's ''My Afternoons With Margueritte'' is the chaste love story between a genial, unlettered lug of a working man (Gérard Depardieu in unflattering blue overalls) and an older woman he meets on a park bench in a town in the Charente-Maritime region of France. She reads to him (Camus, Romain Gary). He blossoms. In
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/movies/sound-it-out.html	MOVIE REVIEW; 'Sound It Out'	The Web site for ''Sound It Out,'' Jeanie Finlay's documentary about the last independent record store in the Teesside region in northeast England, calls it '' 'High Fidelity' with a northern accent,'' and there's no getting past the similarities with the Nick Hornby novel (and the movie starring John Cusack). Customers of the store, Sound It Out,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/arts/spare-times-for-sept-16-22.html	Spare Times	Around Town Museums and Sites Center for Jewish History: 'Moses Mendelssohn and the Legacy of the Enlightenment' (Sunday) ''A Continuing Conversation: Moses Mendelssohn and the Legacy of the Enlightenment,'' a symposium on the 18th-century philosopher and scholar who is considered to be the founder of modern Jewish thought, is planned in
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06EFDA163FF935A2575AC0A9679D8B63	THE TV WATCH; An 'A' for Effort on Emmy Night	Emmy Awards don't factor in the degree of difficulty, but they should. It's at least one way to choose between equally good performances. So in the spirit of rewarding the effort behind excellence, here are one critic's picks for what should win when the Emmys are handed out on Sunday night. When it comes to best drama, ''Game of Thrones'' and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/arts/design/american-christmas-cards-1900-1960-at-bard-graduate-center.html	ANTIQUES; Cheery Christmas Cards? Bah, Humbug!	Scrooge and the Grinch would come across as hopelessly mushy about holiday traditions compared with the debunking exhibition catalog for ''American Christmas Cards, 1900-1960,'' which opens on Wednesday at the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture in Manhattan. In cards depicting festive couples caroling, ''There
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/movies/the-toronto-film-festivals-wide-range.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Showing It All in Toronto	TORONTO -- Having muscled its way forward with ambition and mountains of money, the Toronto International Film Festival stands supreme as the leading cinema event after Cannes. This year's event was the first time that the Bell Lightbox, the festival's permanent home here, was fully operational. For much of the festival's 11 days (it ends on
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/arts/design/infinite-jest-at-the-metropolitan-museum-review.html	ART REVIEW; Mockery, Alive and Well Through the Ages	It is not nice to make fun of other people, but it is hard to resist. There is even a genre of art devoted to this often uncharitable impulse of human nature: caricature. Fine and popular artists have been producing comical, grotesque and weird images of people at least since the days of Leonardo da Vinci. Perhaps because it depends so heavily on
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/arts/spare-times-for-children-for-sept-16-22.html	Spare Times: For Children	NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS 'DOLPHIN TALE' It sounds like shameless Hollywood schmaltz: A critically injured young dolphin, facing almost certain death, recovers miraculously when medical research intended for disabled humans leads to a prosthesis for her amputated tail. Yes, it's a movie. But it's also true. This
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/theater/gay-marriage-plays-headed-to-new-york.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Gay-Marriage Plays Headed to New York	''Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays,'' a compilation of one-acts focusing on marital equality, will begin an Off Broadway run next month, the producers announced. Directed by Stuart Ross, the production includes original works from Neil LaBute, Moisés Kaufman and Doug Wright, among others, with a portion of ticket sales to be donated to
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE5D61E3DF930A2575AC0A9679D8B63	MUSIC IN REVIEW; New York Chamber Music Festival	Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street (212) 864-5400, symphonyspace.org Through Monday The New York Chamber Music Festival, now in its third year, takes up residence at Symphony Space just before the start of the formal concert season, when its core players -- members of the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/arts/music/european-union-extends-copyright-on-recordings.html	Europe Extends Copyright On Music	In a victory for the financially troubled recording industry, the European Union on Monday extended the term of copyright on sound recordings to 70 years from 50, while declining to include provisions that would allow artists in Britain and elsewhere in Europe to recoup ownership of their music easily. Had the Council of the European Union not
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/theater/reviews/neo-futurists-present-stage-directions-from-oneill-plays.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'THE COMPLETE & CONDENSED STAGE DIRECTIONS OF EUGENE O'NEILL VOLUME 1'; Long Day's Journey Into Laughter	Stage directions, those humble, practical and occasionally ignored players in the art of dramatic composition, are the stars of the show at the Kraine Theater in the East Village, where the New York Neo-Futurists are presenting a handful of early Eugene O'Neill plays, shorn of all dialogue. ''The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/theater/reviews/sweet-and-sad-by-richard-nelson-at-public-theater-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'SWEET AND SAD'; For Family, 9/11 Is Uninvited Guest	Richard Nelson knows what you were thinking on Sunday. Oh, not everything, of course. But if you see (and you need to) his soul-stirring new play, ''Sweet and Sad,'' at the Public Theater, the odds are that you'll experience the kind of shivery moments that come when someone articulates ideas that have been lurking in your head, unexpressed and
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E0DA1E3DF930A2575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Bourdain as Book Chef	Anthony Bourdain, the celebrity chef, author and reality TV star, will acquire books for Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, the publisher said on Monday. Mr. Bourdain has been given a line of books that is expected to release three to five titles each year, which Ecco said in a statement would ''reflect his remarkably eclectic tastes.'' Daniel
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/arts/television/ringer-and-the-secret-circle-on-cw-television-review.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; Daughters of 'Buffy' Come Out, Red in Tooth and Fingernails	The new television season arrives this week with a pair of premieres on the CW network, coming in on little catfight feet. Young woman's inhumanity to young woman is an evergreen theme at CW, where attention is focused firmly on the 18-to-34 female demographic. ''Ringer,'' on Tuesday night, stars Sarah Michelle Gellar as twins: Bridget, a former
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E3DA1E3DF930A2575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Winehouse-Bennett Duet Due Out on Wednesday	On the same day it was announced that Amy Winehouse's last recording - a duet with Tony Bennett -- would be released on Wednesday, her father said she had been experiencing seizures related to alcohol withdrawal in the weeks before her death. Ms. Winehouse recorded a version of ''Body and Soul'' with Mr. Bennett on March 23, four months before she
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/movies/big-names-join-cast-of-les-miserables-movie.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Big Names Join Cast Of 'Les Misérables' Movie	Russell Crowe has been cast as Inspector Javert opposite Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean in the coming film adaptation of the musical ''Les Misérables,'' according to deadline.com. The film will be directed by Tom Hooper (''The King's Speech'') and is scheduled for release in December 2012. The most recent theatrical adaptation based on that 1862
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E3D6123DF931A2575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Super Fly' Musical Steps Toward New York	Could blaxploitation meet Broadway? It's an obvious question that comes up with news that Bill T. Jones, the director and choreographer, will spend three weeks next month developing ''Super Fly: The Musical'' in New York. Young African-American singers will no doubt be lining up early at Pearl Studios on Monday morning for auditions. The show,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE4DD123EF932A2575AC0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Paperback Books: Sunday, September 11th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the September 11, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending August 27, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/movies/creature-by-fred-m-andrews-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'CREATURE'; Chock-Full of Gator Bait, Most of It Human	On television the backwoods are a trendy place to hang out lately, what with shows like ''Swamp People'' on History and ''Hillbilly Handfishin' '' on Animal Planet. At the movies, though, the boggy undergrowth is apparently still where young people go to be eaten by strange beasts, as we learn from ''Creature,'' a long-on-gore, short-on-brains
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/movies/bucky-larson-born-to-be-a-star-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'BUCKY LARSON: BORN TO BE A STAR'; Making the Most Of the Very Least, And Other Lessons	''Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star'' is the tale of a small-town boy from Iowa, with a Prince Valiant haircut, a bad overbite and big dreams, who comes, like so many other small-town dreamers, to the San Fernando Valley to become a pornographic film star. There he meets a bunch of other performers who seem to be desperate for work and willing to
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/arts/music/umphreys-mcgee-at-brooklyn-bowl-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; A Jam Band Plays, and Occasionally a Song Even Breaks Out	Every now and again during its energetically sprawling two-part show at Brooklyn Bowl on Thursday night, Umphrey's McGee outlined the clear parameters of a song. Typically this involved Brendan Bayliss, the band's lead singer, delivering gauzy lyrics in his thin, nearly featureless voice. Often it felt faintly dutiful, in stark contrast to the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/arts/music/st-lukes-chamber-ensemble-in-mahler-program-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; A Tighter, Lighter, Smaller Mahler	The Orchestra of St. Luke's, now comfortably settled in its new home at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, is understandably intent on showing off the building's flexible, freshly renovated performance spaces. For its first offering of the season, on Thursday evening at the center's Jerome Robbins Theater, the orchestra fielded its core
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/arts/music/future-at-sobs-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Starting New York Cool, Ending Atlanta Hot	''The hottest artist in the world!'' DJ Esco shouted from the S.O.B.'s stage Wednesday night, teasing the impending arrival of the Atlanta rapper Future. He repeated it a couple of times for emphasis, but maybe also because not everyone in the room was paying attention. They were milling about, probably wondering why they were so alone. The crowd
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE4DE1F3DF933A2575AC0A9679D8B63	Magazine Covers on a Topic Known All Too Well	Choosing the right magazine cover is a challenge in any ordinary week. But capturing the right sentiments surrounding the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks presented questions more fraught and delicate than most. How could editors make their magazines distinctive without being distasteful, evocative yet not exploitative? And how could they
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/movies/george-clooney-presents-the-ides-of-march-in-toronto.html	A Movie About Scandalously Familiar Politicians	TORONTO -- ''It's probably not our best moment in politics,'' offered George Clooney, who was on a stage at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday being asked about the message of his movie, ''The Ides of March.'' The film's take on American democracy left some viewers here feeling stunned, if not disillusioned. But Mr. Clooney, a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01EEDC143DF933A2575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Clybourne' Shoots For Broadway	''Clybourne Park,'' Bruce Norris's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about race relations and neighborhood gentrification, is looking for its own real estate on Broadway. A spokeswoman for Center Theater Group in Los Angeles said the company, along with Lincoln Center Theater and the producers Scott Rudin and Stuart Thompson, plans to bring its coming
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/arts/design/911-exhibitions-rekindle-grief-in-3-ways.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Three Ways To Look Back, None Easy	Many people assured us that we would never forget, and they were right. The attacks of Sept. 11 were the most extensively witnessed and recorded events in history, a spectacle, as the hijackers intended. The towers exploding against the crystalline blue sky, the white dust cascading, the panicked office workers -- these are all seared in collective
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E3D6103AF934A3575AC0A9679D8B63	In Return to Solo Host, Oscars Pick Eddie Murphy	LOS ANGELES - If the idea is to stage a goofy television show about a very serious bunch of movies, next year's Academy Awards are pointed in the right direction. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which presents the Oscars, on Tuesday said that Eddie Murphy - whose starring roles over the past the 20 years have come almost
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/arts/television/beverly-hills-housewives-goes-on-after-a-suicide.html	THE TV WATCH; The Housewives Regroup, Now With One Widow	There were plenty of ads for Cover Girl and Lexus and Match.com in the season premiere of Bravo's ''Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,'' which returned on Monday less than a month after Russell Armstrong, the estranged husband of one of the main characters, killed himself. And commercial advertising must have been the real suicide prevention message
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/arts/chinese-art-collectors-prove-to-be-a-new-market-force.html	China's New Cultural Revolution: A Surge in Art Collecting	As auction houses prepare for their fall sales, Chinese collectors are expected to be a major boost for the market, raising their paddles for big-ticket artworks despite a backdrop of global economic turmoil. With China's economy booming, art collectors there have become an increasingly powerful force in the market, demonstrating a growing interest
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/arts/dance/sleep-no-more-is-theater-embedded-with-dancers.html	'Sleep No More,' but Move Nonstop	In ''Sleep No More,'' a roving retelling of ''Macbeth'' by the English theater company Punchdrunk, the masked audience is in constant motion as it chases the action from room to room at the fictional McKittrick Hotel. But in the end, no one is more breathless than the cast, which is largely made up of some of the most fearless dancers around. ''I'm
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/books/scott-snyder-writes-a-new-swamp-thing-for-dc-comics.html	It Came From the Suburbs: New Life for a Swamp Creature	For an awfully nice guy, Scott Snyder has a rather awful imagination. And it's his ability to spin a dark tale that has landed him the awfully desirable chance to reboot two key titles in the DC Comics franchise. In Swamp Thing No. 1, which arrives in stores on Wednesday, a plague of biblical proportions fells birds, bats and fish around the world.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E5D9103AF934A3575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Six Authors Up for Man Booker Prize	Six authors were named on Tuesday to the shortlist of candidates for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the most prestigious literary award in Britain. They are: Julian Barnes for ''The Sense of an Ending'' (Jonathan Cape - Random House) Carol Birch for ''Jamrach's Menagerie'' (Canongate Books) Patrick deWitt for ''The Sisters Brothers''
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7DB113AF934A3575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Beatles' '1' Album On iTunes for $10	The Beatles have taken one more baby step into the world of digital music. After having had all of their original albums put on sale through Apple's iTunes in November, the Beatles on Tuesday released a downloadable version of ''1,'' their 27-song greatest-hits album from 2000, again available only through iTunes. As its title suggests, ''1''
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E2DF113AF934A3575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Univision Reigns On Labor Day	In what was a very low prime-time turnout for the Labor Day holiday, Univision was the highest-rated broadcast network in both total viewers and the 18- to 49-year-old demographic. The Spanish-language network averaged 5.6 million viewers Monday night, aided by the three-hour season finale of ''Pequenos Gigantes'' (''Small Giants''), a talent show
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500EEDB103AF934A3575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Global Shakespeare Fest To Feature 70 Shows	New productions of ''Timon of Athens,'' starring Simon Russell Beale and directed by Nicholas Hytner, and ''King Lear,'' starring Jonathan Pryce and directed by Michael Attenborough, are among the many, many Shakespeare works that will be presented as part of the World Shakespeare Festival, a seven-month celebration of the playwright that is being
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406E5DE113AF934A3575AC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Steve Martin Honors Another Banjo Player With a Hefty Award	Though it hasn't been a great year, economically, for almost anyone, Steve Martin continues to do what he can to spare bluegrass musicians the worst of the lingering downturn. On Tuesday Mr. Martin, the actor, comedian and cultural omnivore, announced that Sammy Shelor, the banjo player and leader of the Lonesome River Band, is the second winner of
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E2DE133BF937A3575AC0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | SEPT. 4 - SEPT. 10	Classical Steve Smith Opening night for the new season at the NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC is still a few weeks away, but the orchestra is already getting busy this week with a handful of performances closely tied to its history and legacy. On Wednesday and Thursday nights the ensemble plays backing band to Tony, Maria, the Sharks and the Jets as MGM
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/arts/dance/degass-ballet-at-the-phillips-collection-and-royal-academy.html	Workers Wearing Toeshoes	IN 1903, when ballet had been a prolific subject of Edgar Degas for over 30 years, an American collector, Louisine Havemeyer, asked him, ''Why, monsieur, do you always do ballet dancers?'' His quick reply was, ''Because, madame, it is all that is left us of the combined movements of the Greeks.'' This already said much: in ballet he had found a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/theater/when-the-color-is-primary.html	When The Color Is Primary	BLOOD. Cherry. Brick. Sangria. With so many shades of red on the color spectrum, what's a poster designer to do with a show called simply ''Red''? Almost 30 regional theaters faced this question when they put John Logan's drama, about the Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko, on their 2011-12 schedule. (The show was a hit on Broadway last
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/books/review/inside-the-list.html	TBR; Inside the List	MAN BITES GOD: ''God, No!,'' new at No. 14 on the hardcover nonfiction list, isn't a reaction to the news that George R. R. Martin has decided to abandon his ''Song of Ice and Fire'' series and take up extreme knitting instead. Rather, it's a profanity-laced memoir-cum-manifesto from the magician and outspoken atheist Penn Jillette, the taller and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/movies/zoya-akhtar-and-farah-khan-bollywood-directors.html	In Bollywood, Female Directors Find New Respect	Mumbai, India THE director Zoya Akhtar laughs as she tells the story of the Steadicam operator who worked on her first film, ''Luck by Chance.'' He had earlier worked with her younger brother, Farhan, a director-actor who was playing the lead in Ms. Akhtar's film. Brother and sister sat behind the monitor as the operator set up the shots. After
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CE6DD123EF937A3575AC0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Series Books: Sunday, September 4th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the September 4, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending August 20, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E1DE133BF937A3575AC0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | SEPT. 4 - SEPT. 10	Television Kathryn Shattuck In the opening of ''MEL BROOKS AND DICK CAVETT TOGETHER AGAIN,''Friday at 9 p.m. on HBO, Mr. Brooks glances over at Mr. Cavett, eyes narrowing, a grin cleaving his face. ''I hate to say this in front of him, but I feel somewhat like a panther, a leopard on an overhanging limb of a tree,'' Mr. Brooks says. ''And I feel
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E0D71F3BF937A3575AC0A9679D8B63	Goddesses And Beasts In a Dusky, Lilting Roar	LONDON ON a sunny July afternoon the English singer-songwriter Laura Marling met me in Highbury Fields, a park in the Islington borough of London, where her management company was holding its summer picnic. As she stood up to say hello, a butterfly alighted on her shoulder, and it stayed there for some time, unmoving, as we strolled toward a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E5DD123EF937A3575AC0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Advice, How-To And Miscellaneous: Sunday, September 4th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the September 4, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending August 20, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E5DD123EF937A3575AC0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Fiction: Sunday, September 4th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the September 4, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending August 20, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/arts/television/dark-matters-on-science-channel-with-john-noble-review.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; Mad Scientists, Real and Fictional, Giving Birth to Troubling Theories	Normally, ''Dark Matters: Twisted but True,'' a cornball documentary series starting on Wednesday on the Science Channel that tells unsavory stories of scientific research, wouldn't merit much attention. It's a standard show of its kind, relating urban legends, conspiracy theories and sensational more-or-less-true stories with the help of cheap
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/books/dc-comics-reboots-justice-league-and-other-series.html	Heroes Take Flight, Again	When the latest issue of Justice League is released on Wednesday by DC Comics, it will be scrutinized like no other installment in the 76-year history of that publisher of superhero adventures. Some readers may be drawn in by its cover depicting revised incarnations of Superman and Batman, or a story line that tells of a tense first meeting between
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/movies/debt-with-helen-mirren-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE DEBT'; Exalted Past Erodes In Present	''The Debt,'' John Madden's remake of a 2007 Israeli thriller, shuttles back and forth between a dim, creaky East Berlin apartment in 1965 and the sunshine of elite Tel Aviv a little more than 30 years later. The film, written by Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan, is interested in the ways that the truth of the past can be shaded and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/arts/music/lil-waynes-tha-carter-iv-review.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Rapper Returns, With Punch Lines But Little Soul	There goes Lil Wayne, wearing bleached leopard-print skinny pants -- women's pants, as it happens -- and stalking the stage of the MTV Video Music Awards with Iggy Pop attitude. There goes Lil Wayne, riding a skateboard and falling off. There goes Lil Wayne, who can't sing worth a lick, taking a ballad, ''How to Love,'' into the Top 10 of the
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/movies/gainsbourg-a-heroic-life-by-joann-sfar-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC LIFE'; 'Je T'Aime,' He Sang, to His Women and Himself	Singer and writer of songs, lover of women, prodigious smoker of cigarettes -- Serge Gainsbourg was an indelible, unavoidable figure in French culture in the postwar years until his death in 1991. Equal parts icon and iconoclast, he shocked respectable opinion even as he seemed to embody the contradictory moods of his era. He could, sometimes
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E6DC153AF932A0575BC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Former 'SpongeBob' Artist Sues After Being Sued	A former lead artist on the cartoon series ''SpongeBob SquarePants,'' who faces a lawsuit from his art dealer concerning what she says was his hiring of accomplices to burglarize her gallery, has fired back with his own suit, accusing her of fraud. The dealer, Margaret Howell of the HB Gallery in Huntington Beach, Calif., sued the artist, Todd
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/books/jagger-by-marc-spitz-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Settling a Score, and Matters of Manhood, on Behalf of Rock Royalty	JAGGER Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue By Marc Spitz Illustrated. 310 pages. Gotham Books. $26. The Rolling Stones' ''Bigger Bang'' album included a song called ''Oh No, Not You Again.'' A lot of readers may join in on that refrain at the news that the Stones are back on the bookshelves with ''Jagger,'' another rehashing of grievances between a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E4DF133BF932A0575BC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; MTV Awards Sets Audience Record	Just how many people were fascinated/flustered/baffled by Lady Gaga's gender-bending turn on the MTV Video Music Awards? Well 12.4 million people were watching on Sunday night, the biggest viewership for any show in the 30-year history of the cable channel and continuing the upward ratings trend for the annual awards. Last year's VMAs drew 11.4
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/movies/rebirth-a-911-documentary-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'REBIRTH'; After 9/11, Grappling With Grief and Rage	The next two weeks will bring lots of stories updating the lives of 9/11 survivors or of those who lost loved ones in the attacks, but few are likely to exhibit the care and persistence of ''Rebirth,'' a documentary by Jim Whitaker that stands as both a tribute and a study in healing. The film diligently tracks the lives of five people who were
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E2DC133BF932A0575BC0A9679D8B63	What's On Today	10 P.M. (BBC America) THE HOUR In Part 3 of this six-episode series about intrigue and seduction in the world of 1956 British television, an invitation to a weekend shooting party at the in-laws of Hector (Dominic West, above), the anchor of the news magazine ''The Hour,'' gives the reporter Freddie (Ben Whishaw) the chance to tease apart the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE5DB1738F93BA1575BC0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | AUG. 28 -SEPT. 3	Television Neil Genzlinger Love him or hate him, you may gain some respect for former President George W. Bush by watching ''THE 9/11 INTERVIEW,'' a straightforward sit-down on the National Geographic Channel in which he talks about the attacks and his emotions and decision-making as they unfolded. Comments by those at the center of things that day
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00EEDE123EF93BA1575BC0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Chapter Books: Sunday, August 28th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the August 28, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending August 13, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/arts/dance/sadlers-wells-bam-edinburgh-festival-and-arts-funding.html	Europe Braces for a Shift in the Arts	LONDON burns as disenfranchised youth loot and smash windows. Outside the Greek Parliament, the police, brandishing shields, confront screaming protesters. Tens of thousands camped in Madrid's Puerta del Sol square demonstrate against the soaring unemployment rate. These are some of the images emblazoned across newspapers and televisions over the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7DD123EF93BA1575BC0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction: Sunday, August 28th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the August 28, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending August 13, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/books/review/life-on-mars-by-tracy-k-smith-book-review.html	Gleams of a Remoter World	LIFE ON MARS By Tracy K. Smith 75 pp. Graywolf Press. Paper, $15. I won't blame you for not believing this: The photograph on the cover of Tracy K. Smith's ''Life on Mars'' is the same one I see every day on my computer desktop. It's a dramatic and vivid picture from the Hubble Space Telescope, with colors I imagine J. M. W. Turner would have
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507E3D81139F93BA1575BC0A9679D8B63	Correction	A review on Aug. 7 about ''The Pirates of Somalia,'' by Jay Bahadur, attributed an erroneous distinction to the hijacking of the United States cargo ship Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates in 2009. It was one of several -- not the first -- American-flagged vessels to be seized within 200 years. (At least two other such incidents preceded the Maersk
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE4D81139F93BA1575BC0A9679D8B63	Correction	Because of a production error, an entry on the e-book fiction best-seller list on Aug. 14 for ''Playing Dirty'' misstated the author's name and the publisher, and described the plot incorrectly. The author is Susan Andersen -- not Kiki Swinson, the author of a 2009 novel with the same title. And the publisher is HQN, not Kensington. (Andersen's
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E3D81438F93BA1575BC0A9679D8B63	CORRECTIONS	An essay last Sunday by the playwright Katori Hall about a staged reading in Russia of her play ''The Mountaintop,'' about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., misspelled the surname of an actor who belongs to the Satirikon theater company in Moscow. His name is Grigory Syatwinda, not Sywatinda.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E7DD123EF93BA1575BC0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction: Sunday, August 28th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the August 28, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending August 13, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/books/review/redeemers-by-enrique-krauze-book-review.html	The Pen and the Scepter	REDEEMERS Ideas and Power in Latin America By Enrique Krauze. Translated by Hank Heifetz and Natasha Wimmer. Illustrated. 538 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $29.99. Enrique Krauze is a well-known historian in Mexico. He is also a documentary filmmaker and television talking head renowned for his mellifluous basso voice, a publisher of elegant
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/movies/iron-crows-a-shipbreakers-tale-opens-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'IRON CROWS'; Documentary on Shipbreakers, and Where Tankers Go When They Die	The huge container ships and tankers that cross the world's oceans are crucial to the functioning of the global consumer economy, and yet they are also curiously marginal to our perception of the world. Many of us take for granted the goods they transport, and perhaps we think about how those goods reached us only when we fly over a major port city
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/books/disaster-was-my-god-by-bruce-duffy-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; The Prodigy Burned Out. Why Not Blame Mom?	DISASTER WAS MY GOD A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud By Bruce Duffy 360 pages. Doubleday. $27.95. Few artists willingly give up their art. Remember Nureyev's continuing to dance despite a damaged body that could no longer take him to the heights? Young artists who make a splash are even less likely to change course, typically seeking to
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arts/music/jerry-leiber-rock-n-roll-hero-an-appraisal.html	AN APPRAISAL; Heroes, and Pioneers, of the Rock 'n' Roll and Motown Canons: Igniting a Revolution, Starting With 'Hound Dog'	It was a rock 'n' roll shot heard 'round the world: the quasi-accusatory snarl of Elvis Presley growling, ''You ain't nothin' but a hound dog.'' Nowadays it's hard to imagine how shocked and offended a large segment of middle-class America, not to mention the traditional songwriting establishment, was by Jerry Leiber's slangy, ungrammatical lyric
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arts/music/nick-ashfords-songs-focused-on-staying-power-an-appraisal.html	AN APPRAISAL; Heroes, and Pioneers, of the Rock 'n' Roll and Motown Canons: Love With Staying Power	An element always in short supply around pop music is emotional realism as salve, rather than as shock or cudgel or propaganda. Crazy love often makes a good three-minute single. Patient love often doesn't. There was a time, though, in the mid-1970s, when some male and female songwriters in black pop figured out how to make healthy, mutual respect
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/movies/disney-allows-reproduction-of-up-house-in-utah.html	Up, Up and Away	HERRIMAN, Utah -- Cute is the Walt Disney Company's stock in trade, but there is nothing soft and cuddly about how it protects its intellectual property. This is a company that once forced a Florida day care center to remove an unauthorized Minnie Mouse mural. More recently, Disney told a stonemason that carving Winnie the Pooh into a child's
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arts/music/after-accidents-a-call-for-regulation.html	After Accidents, a Call for Regulation	It's been a tough summer for the outdoor concert business: four stage collapses, two of them fatal. The spate of accidents has shaken promoters and focused a spotlight on the lack of uniform standards in the United States for building temporary stages and for evacuating people at outdoor concerts in severe weather. ''With these recent events,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arts/music/knights-ensemble-gives-closing-naumburg-concert-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; In a Rite of Late Summer, Naumburg Concerts Finish	The Naumburg Orchestral Concerts had planned to present free performances by three ensembles in its four-concert series this summer, but only one -- the Knights, an enterprising young chamber orchestra -- made it through its programs as planned. That ensemble opened the organization's 106th season in June, with a lineup that included a commissioned
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/books/booktrack-introduces-e-books-with-soundtracks.html	Bells and Whistles For a Few E-Books	In the film versions of ''Pride and Prejudice'' the music jumps and swells at all the right moments, heightening the tension and romance of that classic Jane Austen novel. Will it do the same in the e-book edition? Booktrack, a start-up in New York, is planning to release e-books with soundtracks that play throughout the books, an experimental
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arts/music/liszt-a-piano-virtuoso-whose-genius-was-interpretation.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; The Musical Giant Of the 19th Century	In January, during my Top 10 Composers project, a two-week series of deliberative articles, blog posts and videos to come up with a list of the greatest composers in history, Liszt was never really a contender. Among comments from readers, there were surprisingly few calls to include him in this select group. But if this exercise, an intellectual
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E4D91538F937A1575BC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Photography Center to Lose Its Director	Willis E. Hartshorn, director of the International Center of Photography since 1994, announced on Tuesday that he would step down for health reasons. No successor has been named, and Mr. Hartshorn, known as Buzz, said he would remain in his post until the institution's board of trustees completed what it said would be ''an international search''
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE6D91739F932A1575BC0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | AUG. 21 - AUG. 27	Television Kathryn Shattuck Any real city dweller knows it's a zoo out there, what with resident pests like roaches, mice, bedbugs, raccoons and pigeons. But nothing says New York City quite like the patter of tiny clawed feet in wall spaces. The telltale appendage slipping beneath a Dumpster. The scream-inducing, full-frontal sighting at the most
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/theater/the-musical-saint-ex-illuminates-saint-exupery.html	Musical Couple Turn to Aviator And His Wife	TONIO and Consuelo, the wanderlusty aviator and the exotic widow at the center of the new musical ''Saint-Ex,'' give voice to their tempestuous relationship by singing, ''Love is not a gaze that's shared/But years spent gazing outward together.'' The sentiment is only partly undercut by the fact that Tonio -- better known as Antoine de
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/books/review/rebels-in-paradise-the-los-angeles-art-scene-and-the-1960s-by-hunter-drohojowska-philp-book-review.html	Paintin' U.S.A.	REBELS IN PARADISE The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Illustrated. 263 pp. A John Macrae Book/Henry Holt & Company. $32.50. For contemporary art in the 1950s and '60s, there was New York and that was it. So the old story goes. But it's wrong. If there's one thing that recent globally minded art history has taught
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00EFDE123EF932A1575BC0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction: Sunday, August 21st 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the August 21, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending August 6, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/books/review/childrens-books-about-troublemakers-by-a-j-jacobs.html	CHILDREN'S BOOKS; Middle School Mischief	TROUBLEMAKER By Andrew Clements. Illustrated by Mark Elliott 160 pp. Atheneum. $16.99. (Middle grade; ages 8 to 12) MIDDLE SCHOOL The Worst Years of My Life By James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts. Illustrated by Laura Park 281 pp. Little, Brown & Company. $15.99. (Middle grade; ages 8 to 12) JOURNAL OF A SCHOOLYARD BULLY Notes on Noogies, Wet
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/books/review/childrens-books-about-being-the-new-kid-by-daniel-handler.html	CHILDREN'S BOOKS; Settling In	YOU WILL BE MY FRIEND! Written and illustrated by Peter Brown 40 pp. Little, Brown & Company. $16.99. (Picture book; ages 4 to 8) MARSHALL ARMSTRONG IS NEW TO OUR SCHOOL Written and illustrated by David Mackintosh 32 pp. Abrams. $16.95. (Picture book; ages 4 to 8) SEA MONSTER'S FIRST DAY By Kate Messner. Illustrated by Andy Rash 36 pp. Chronicle.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E0DE123EF932A1575BC0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Chapter Books: Sunday, August 21st 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the August 21, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending August 6, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/books/review/editors-choice.html	Editors' Choice: Recent Books of Particular Interest	HOUSE OF HOLES: A Book of Raunch, by Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster, $25.) Baker's hilarious, extremely dirty novel is an episodic assortment of fantasies -- part Plato's Retreat, part Fantasy Island -- that celebrate desire, frailty and the comedy of life. THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY: Explanations That Transform the World, by David Deutsch
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05EFDE123EF932A1575BC0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Print & E-Book Fiction: Sunday, August 21st 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the August 21, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending August 6, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/arts/design/comic-book-art-showcased-in-books.html	Art Books Elevate Picassos Of Pulp	THE place of comic books at the cultural supper table has never been more secure. Summertime films have come to mean superhero movies. Comics-related museum shows and gallery exhibitions are a regular part of the art world palette. And the market for original comic-book art continues to be strong. Just this May a bold, full-page drawing of Batman
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE6DB1439F93BA2575BC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Victory for Author of 'The Help'	It's been a pretty good few days for Kathryn Stockett. The movie version of her mega-best-selling book, ''The Help,'' did well at the weekend box office and on Tuesday a lawsuit alleging that she had based a character in the book on a real person without permission was thrown out by a Mississippi judge. The lawsuit was filed in February by Ablene
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/crosswords/bridge/at-94-everett-jones-named-life-master-bridge.html	BRIDGE; Winning a Title of Life Master But Not for Being 94 Years Old	Last Sunday, Lucy and Everett Jones of Vero Beach, Fla., celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Not that special, you might think, but for both this is their third marriage. Fewer than five years ago Ev (as he is known) took up duplicate bridge. In January he became a Life Master. Not that special, you might think, but last Wednesday Ev had his
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/books/new-novels-a-small-hotel-q-girls-in-white-dresses.html	Newly Released	This month murder and romance are on tap, sometimes in the same novel. And while there's no shortage of heartache in this selection of fiction, these authors aren't shy about unabashed happy endings. MICE By Gordon Reece 330 pages. Viking. $24.95. Mr. Reece's debut novel is an odd little book, in a good way. It centers on a British mother and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/books/old-bailey-trials-are-tabulated-for-scholars-online.html	As the Gavels Fell: 240 Years at Old Bailey	For 240 years the grand parade of human greed, love, cruelty, longing, and foolishness was captured in the Proceedings, the published record of trials that took place at the Old Bailey, the central criminal court, in London. Now, powerful digital tools developed by an international team of researchers to search these trial reports and summaries
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E3D71539F93BA2575BC0A9679D8B63	ARTS BEAT; The Growing Pains of a Rising Network	It was only in May that an article in New York magazine described AMC as ''the fastest-rising network in America'' and wondered if that cable channel could ''survive its own success.'' Three months later that question seems more prophetic than ever. After rapidly building its brand of original programming around prestigious series like ''Mad Men''
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/arts/music/mike-prides-from-bacteria-to-boys-at-cake-shop-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Two Different Spins for a Noisy Room	Several songs into his show at Cake Shop on Tuesday night the drummer Mike Pride did something stubborn and contrary. He cued a ballad, ''Lullaby for Charlie,'' dedicated to his 8-month-old son. His four-piece band, From Bacteria to Boys, played it beautifully and quietly, in drifting waltz time. What made this feel counterintuitive, like an act of
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DB1539F93BA2575BC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Kiss Booted From Jackson Tribute	Organizers of a tribute concert for Michael Jackson in Britain scratched the rock band Kiss from the lineup on Tuesday after fans complained that the band's front man, Gene Simmons, had called Mr. Jackson a child molester, according to wire service reports. ''We have listened to Michael's fans and are grateful to have been alerted to these
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E2D81539F93BA2575BC0A9679D8B63	What's On Today	9 P.M. (VH1) 2011 DO SOMETHING AWARDS Jane Lynch (above, with Dax Shepard) returns as host of this ceremony honoring the best ''world changers'' who are 25 and younger, including five who will compete for $100,000. The finalists, voted on by viewers, are Sarah Cronk, a co-founder of the Sparkle Effect, which supports cheerleading squads that
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/theater/dinner-theater-performed-backstage-in-the-kitchen.html	THE ART OF SUMMER; Dinner Theater, Starring the Kitchen	When people say that a restaurant provides an evening of good theater, they are almost always referring to the high quotient of air kissing among a clientele with a high media profile. The people in the banquettes, not the dishes on the plates, are really the show at places like the Waverly Inn and the Monkey Bar and the Minetta Tavern. If you have
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/books/wendy-wasserstein-biography-by-julie-salamon-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; And Now, Wendy Gets Her Chronicles	WENDY AND THE LOST BOYS The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein By Julie Salamon Illustrated. 460 pages. The Penguin Press. $29.95. Wendy Wasserstein had a contract to write her memoir when she died, in 2006. The question she had asked herself, putting off the job, was: Could she ''reach that kind of depth?'' The more obvious question for those
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E2DE123EF937A2575BC0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Picture Books: Sunday, August 14th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the August 14, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending July 30, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E4DB1F31F937A2575BC0A9679D8B63	CORRECTIONS	An article last Sunday about the play ''Clybourne Park,'' an examination of race, gentrification and real estate, misstated part of the name of the San Francisco theater where it had its West Coast premiere in January. It is the American Conservatory Theater, not the American Repertory Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/arts/music/new-work-by-razika-dev-hynes-owlfood-canon-blue.html	PLAYLIST; Indie Sounds Abound: Some Playful, Some Pop	Blood Orange Music pours out of Dev Hynes, Texas born, England raised, and now living in New York. He was a member of the British band Test Icicles until 2007, until he went solo and called himself Lightspeed Champion for a few broadly melodic indie-rock records; now he's Blood Orange. The impressive and elegant first Blood Orange record, ''Coastal
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E4DB1F31F937A2575BC0A9679D8B63	CORRECTIONS	A profile on July 24 about the actress Olivia Wilde misspelled the name of the indie comedy in which she plays a competitor at a butter-carving competition. The movie is ''Butter,'' not ''Butte.''
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/books/review/nonfiction-chronicle.html	Nonfiction Chronicle	HALFWAY TO HOLLYWOOD Diaries 1980-1988 By Michael Palin Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, $32.50. If you want to know what the former Monty Python actor Michael Palin was doing at 9:55 a.m. on March 12, 1981, take heed: He was sitting at his writing desk at home in London, longing for coffee. This he recorded in his diary, along with other feelings he had
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/arts/television/romola-garai-and-dominic-west-in-the-hour-on-bbc-america.html	TELEVISION; British Reporters, Not Ad Men, In '50s, Not '60s	London -- ONE surprising notion that might strike you while watching ''The Hour'' -- BBC America's six-part series about a hard-hitting television news program in 1956 Britain and the men and women who work for it -- is that Peggy Olson didn't have it so bad. At least on ''Mad Men,'' the midcentury-period AMC drama, one gets the impression that
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/arts/music/as-record-sales-shrink-so-does-album-cover-art.html	The Incredible, Inevitable Shrinking Album Cover	WHEN the album designer Michael Carney submitted his proposed cover for the Black Keys' album ''Brothers'' last year, he and the band were a little anxious. Seeking a change from their previous, illustration-driven packaging, which he'd also designed, Mr. Carney devised the simplest of covers: two sentences -- ''This is an album by the Black Keys.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E1DE123EF937A2575BC0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Hardcover & Paperback Fiction: Sunday, August 14th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the August 14, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending July 30, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/books/review/inside-the-list.html	TBR; Inside the List	WONDERFUL TOWN: Amor Towles, whose first novel, ''Rules of Civility,'' hits the hardcover fiction list at No. 16, arrived in New York in 1989 with diplomas from Yale and Stanford and dreams of becoming a writer. But he quickly noticed that all his friends who were waiting tables and pursuing art on the side looked just as tired as the office drones
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/books/review/rules-of-civility-by-amor-towles-book-review.html	Manhattan Lights	RULES OF CIVILITY By Amor Towles 335 pp. Viking. $26.95. The saying ''May you live in interesting times'' has undeniable resonance for the investment executive-turned-/novelist Amor Towles. In 1989, he was set to go to China for two years to teach. When the Tiananmen Square massacre put an abrupt end to that plan, he headed for Manhattan. On his
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/arts/television/russian-dolls-on-lifetime-shows-immigrant-glam-review.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; Left the Volga, Kept the Vulgar	If the Soviet authorities had wanted to torture Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn beyond endurance, they would have forced him to watch ''Russian Dolls.'' And if wives want to scare the pants back on their errant husbands, they will show them ''Russian Dolls.'' To traditional, or let's say puritanical, Russians, a certain part of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, is
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00E0D81F31F932A2575BC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Another Obama's Memoir Is Coming to the U.S.	A memoir by Auma Obama, a half-sister of President Obama, will be published in the United States in May, St. Martin's Press said on Tuesday. The book was released in Germany last fall with a title that translates as ''Life Always Gets in the Way'' or ''Life Happens.'' Ms. Obama was born in Kenya and first met her younger brother in the 1980s, after
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/books/a-first-rate-madness-by-nassir-ghaemi-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; What Befits a Leader in Hard Times? An Intimate Knowledge of Insanity	A FIRST-RATE MADNESS Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness By Nassir Ghaemi 340 pages. The Penguin Press. $27.95. The premise of Dr. Nassir Ghaemi's book about leadership and mental illness is simple. It need not be reiterated as frequently as Dr. Ghaemi repeats it. But he begins ''A First-Rate Madness'' by writing, ''This book
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/arts/music/when-gridlock-is-music-the-streets-provide-a-serenade.html	THE ART OF SUMMER; The Contrapuntal Sounds of Gridlock	A red-white-and-blue sign at the corner of West Broadway and Watts Street in SoHo reads, ''Don't Honk -- $350 Penalty.'' It is, shall we say, not always heeded. This corner is a five-way crossing, where Broome Street forks into Watts, which leads to the Holland Tunnel, and crosses West Broadway, which has two-way traffic. The tunnel entrances
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E3D91630F932A2575BC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Catch Me If You Can' To Close Next Month	Based on a Steven Spielberg movie and reuniting much of the creative team that won eight Tonys for ''Hairspray,'' ''Catch Me If You Can'' came to Broadway with everything going for it -- except, as it turned out, audiences. The musical's producers announced on Tuesday that it would close on September 4, after 32 previews and 170 performances. It's
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9501E5D81730F932A2575BC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Adele Stays on Top, But for How Long?	This week on the Billboard charts Adele continues her remarkable run with a 12th week at No. 1, but big competition from Jay-Z and Kanye West is right behind her. Adele's ''21'' (XL/Columbia), the biggest hit of the year, had 76,000 sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan, bringing its total in the United States to 2.9 million. No album has had so
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E3DB1730F932A2575BC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; A Reborn 'Godspell' Finds Its Jesus	Hunter Parrish has found religion -- at least on Broadway. Mr. Parrish, who stars as a hunky troubled teenager on the Showtime series ''Weeds,'' and played a hunky mopey teenager in ''Spring Awakening,'' will next take on the role of Jesus in a revival of ''Godspell,'' its producers announced on Wednesday. The musical opened Off Broadway in 1971
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEFD81730F932A2575BC0A9679D8B63	TBS Cancels George Lopez Late Show	3:50 p.m. | Updated TBS on Wednesday cancelled George Lopez's late-night show, less than a year after the network moved ''Lopez Tonight'' from 11 p.m. to midnight to make room for Conan O'Brien. The decision seemed abrupt; TBS announced Mr. Lopez's show will end after Thursday's edition. But inside Turner Entertainment, which programs TBS, the move
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/theater/reviews/summer-shorts-5-with-ruby-rae-spiegel-review.html	THEATER REVIEW; Prepare to Kiss, a Bar Mitzvah Is Coming	After reading the bio of Ruby Rae Spiegel, a playwright in Series A of the annual new American play festival, this year titled ''Summer Shorts 5,'' I confess my first thought was that she must be the daughter of someone rich. How else could a teenager who just graduated from high school get her play produced alongside veterans like Neil LaBute and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/books/kevin-wilson-author-of-the-family-fang.html	Nurturing Weird Families In Tennessee	SEWANEE, Tenn. -- When writing his first novel two years ago Kevin Wilson didn't have to look far for inspiration. It was running back and forth above his study. His toddler son, Griff, was often up until 1 a.m., exhausting Mr. Wilson and his wife, Leigh Anne Couch, a poet, as they struggled through the inaugural days of parenthood. ''That first
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/07/theater/20110807-clybourne-7.html	Moving In	Race, real estate and “A Raisin in the Sun” come together in the play “Clybourne Park.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/07/theater/20110807-clybourne-2.html	Moving In	Race, real estate and “A Raisin in the Sun” come together in the play “Clybourne Park.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/07/theater/20110807TENANT_SS-5.html	‘The Tenant’	Photos of a rehearsal of the latest site-specific work from the Woodshed Collective.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/07/theater/20110807TENANT_SS-10.html	‘The Tenant’	Photos of a rehearsal of the latest site-specific work from the Woodshed Collective.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/07/theater/20110807TENANT_SS-3.html	‘The Tenant’	Photos of a rehearsal of the latest site-specific work from the Woodshed Collective.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/07/theater/20110807-clybourne-9.html	Moving In	Race, real estate and “A Raisin in the Sun” come together in the play “Clybourne Park.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/07/theater/20110807TENANT_SS-7.html	‘The Tenant’	Photos of a rehearsal of the latest site-specific work from the Woodshed Collective.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/07/theater/20110807TENANT_SS-9.html	‘The Tenant’	Photos of a rehearsal of the latest site-specific work from the Woodshed Collective.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/07/theater/20110807TENANT_SS.html	‘The Tenant’	Photos of a rehearsal of the latest site-specific work from the Woodshed Collective.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/07/theater/20110807-clybourne-8.html	Moving In	Race, real estate and “A Raisin in the Sun” come together in the play “Clybourne Park.”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E1D91331F935A3575BC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Viewers Flock To 'Big Brother' House	''Big Brother'' on CBS claimed the top spot among the broadcast networks on Thursday night in total viewers and in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic, with 7.3 million people tuning in, according to Nielsen. After the contestants voted to evict another member of the household, it was announced that a new twist would be added to the shows'
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/arts/music/4x4-baroque-music-festival-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Before Bach Arrived, Others Led the Way	The 4x4 Baroque Music Festival has developed a yearly tradition of including a program that puts the career of Johann Sebastian Bach -- who for many is still Baroque music entire -- into context with the work of his predecessors. These are figures on the outskirts of music history. But in the latter half of the 17th century they were part of a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/arts/television/jersey-shore-season-4-opens-in-florence.html	TV WATCH; Ciao, Jersey; Hello, Italy: No Culture Shock Here	The road signs point to Florence but they should read ''Welcome to the Jersey Shoro.'' Season 4 of ''Jersey Shore'' suggests a cultural collision between working-class Italian-Americans who favor fake tans and gold chains and call themselves guidos, and Florentines, who are among the most elegant and snooty of all Italians. (They look down on the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/crosswords/bridge/last-day-of-summer-nationals-bridge.html	BRIDGE; A Last-Round Win in Toronto Secures the Title for a Team	On the last day of the Summer Nationals in Toronto last Sunday, there was a close finish to the Roth Open Swiss Teams. Aaron Silverstein, Chris Willenken, Andrew Rosenthal and Bjorn Fallenius of New York; Michael Rosenberg of Cupertino, Calif.; and Peter Fredin from Sweden were leading, with one match to be played. But they lost to the team that
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/arts/music/road-from-memphis-booker-t-joness-solo-journey.html	He's a Soulful Survivor With New Music to Make	In a career that spans nearly 50 years Booker T. Jones has worn many hats: leader of the celebrated 1960s soul group Booker T. & the MG's, a writer of hit songs like ''Green Onions'' and ''Born Under a Bad Sign,'' sideman, producer and arranger. Until very recently, though, he had neglected the one facet that many musicians value above all others,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/arts/music/don-giovanni-at-mostly-mozart-festival-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Chalky Chorus Of Specters Who Dance And Crush	The Mostly Mozart Festival is billing its presentation of Mozart's opera ''Don Giovanni,'' featuring the conductor Ivan Fischer, the excellent Budapest Festival Orchestra and an admirable cast, as just a ''staged concert.'' While festival organizers deserve respect for their honesty in not inflating the scope of this venture, the ''Don Giovanni''
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/05/movies/planet-of-the-apes-6.html	Apes Unite	Images from “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/05/movies/planet-of-the-apes-4.html	Apes Unite	Images from “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/05/movies/planet-of-the-apes-3.html	Apes Unite	Images from “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/05/movies/planet-of-the-apes-5.html	Apes Unite	Images from “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/04/arts/dance/03NYCB_SS-14.html	NYCB MOVES	Images of the dancers in the new company taken by fellow dancers in Vail, Colo.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/04/arts/dance/03NYCB_SS-11.html	NYCB MOVES	Images of the dancers in the new company taken by fellow dancers in Vail, Colo.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/07/arts/design/20110807-zack.html	Room for Memories	An annotated look at a section of “Living Room,” an installation by the artist Maya Zack.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E5D61F3EF937A3575BC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Baby It's You!' Closing	Mama said there'd be days like this, but she didn't say that such a day would come so soon for ''Baby It's You!'' That Broadway jukebox musical, about the Scepter Records founder Florence Greenberg and her discovery of the girl group the Shirelles, will play its final performance on Sept. 4, its press representatives said on Wednesday. Though the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/arts/music/alison-krauss-and-union-station-music-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Bluegrass Archetypes, With Gentle Voices of Ardor and Melancholy	Tuesday night at the Beacon Theater, just before ''Bonita and Bill Butler,'' the dobro player Jerry Douglas tapped Alison Krauss's shoulder and whispered something in her ear. She laughed a bit, then stepped ever so slightly away from center stage, so that Dan Tyminski, the guitar and mandolin virtuoso in her band Union Station, could take on lead
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/crosswords/bridge/a-near-double-game-swing-at-the-spingold-bridge.html	BRIDGE; A Double Game Swing Missed, a Title Won	Two major titles were decided on Sunday, the last day of the Summer North American Championships in Toronto. The Spingold final was won by Team Monaco: Pierre Zimmermann, Franck Multon, Fulvio Fantoni, Claudio Nunes, Geir Helgemo and Tor Helness. In the 64-board match it defeated Nick Nickell, Ralph Katz, Bob Hamman, Zia Mahmood, Jeff Meckstroth
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/movies/the-mouth-of-the-wolf-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE MOUTH OF THE WOLF'; A Study of Time, Love And Decay in Genoa	''The places we walk through are an excavation of memory -- forbidden remembrances of a lost world,'' muses the unseen occasional narrator of Pietro Marcello's impressionistic, extravagantly poetic documentary ''The Mouth of the Wolf.'' In this melancholy rumination on time, love and decay, which opens a one-week engagement at the Museum of Modern
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E0DE1631F937A3575BC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Lauren Ambrose Is New 'Funny Girl'	The actress Lauren Ambrose, best known as the rebellious Claire Fisher in the HBO series ''Six Feet Under,'' was not an obvious first choice for the Barbra Streisand role in the Broadway-bound revival of the musical ''Funny Girl.'' But a combination of acting skill, comic timing, singing talent - including the high belt that is critical for
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9502E3DB1631F937A3575BC0A9679D8B63	ARTS BEAT; A Brazilian Touch for Comedy Central	From its beginnings in the United States, Comedy Central has expanded to become a global presence, with channels in countries like Britain, Poland, Israel and New Zealand. A comedy explosion in Brazil, brought on by ''a new generation of humorists out there who are acid, vibrant and clever,'' will see that cable channel make its debut early next
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE3DC1631F937A3575BC0A9679D8B63	ARTS BEAT; Tracking the Word on the Street	'MINING THE WEB FOR THE ''VOICE OF THE HERD'' TO TRACK STOCK MARKET BUBBLES' by Mark T. Keane, chairman of computer science, University College Dublin, and Aaron Gerow, graduate student at Trinity College Dublin. Proceedings of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Barcelona, July 2011. THE EXPERIMENT Stock market
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/arts/television/william-hurt-in-moby-dick-on-encore-review.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; Ahab Has a Wife and a Heart. Oh, and a Whale.	Some people argue passionately over which is the Great American Novel, ''Moby-Dick'' or ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.'' A new mini-series based on Herman Melville's novel tries to have it both ways, adding a fillip of Mark Twain to the immortal tale of Ahab and the white whale. That's at least what seems to be going on in the opening scene
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/arts/music/state-department-taps-william-for-china-effort.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; State Department Taps will.i.am for China Effort	The State Department is teaming up with the hip-hop artist will.i.am, a founder of the Black Eyed Peas, to organize a concert in Beijing this year to encourage cultural and educational exchanges between the United States and China. The announcement came after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met on Friday in Washington with will.i.am,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/arts/dance/eiko-koma-at-lincoln-center-out-of-doors-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; Into the Pool, Slowly but With Feeling	Forty years after they began to collaborate, the performance duo Eiko & Koma remain among New York's greatest and most extraordinary performers. Their particular secret is that, while moving with extreme slowness, they are masters of suspense. Watching, you're kept on tenterhooks: what will happen next? Last week they performed a new work,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/arts/music/the-kings-of-leon-are-feeling-the-heat.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; The Kings of Leon Are Feeling the Heat	Despite their image as road-hardened Southern boys, the Kings of Leon seem to have wilted over the weekend in the heat of Texas, where the band cut short a concert on Friday night in Dallas and postponed a show on Saturday in Houston. Before going offstage, promising but failing to return, the lead singer Caleb Followill told the Dallas audience,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E1DE133EF932A3575BC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Schwarzenegger Museum Opens in Austrian Village	A new museum honoring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the bodybuilder, movie star and former California governor, opened on Saturday in the Austrian village where he was born, Thal, near Graz, to coincide with his 64th birthday. The museum, located in the house where Mr. Schwarzenegger lived from birth until he departed in 1966 for England and then the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E7DE133EF932A3575BC0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Smurfs Are Blue, but They're Rolling in Green	Smurfs humiliated a cluster of Hollywood's heaviest weights at the weekend box office. Analysts had predicted that ''Cowboys & Aliens'' - starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, directed by Jon Favreau (''Iron Man'') and produced by Brian Grazer and Steven Spielberg - would easily dominate ticket sales. Instead, it was a photo finish with ''The
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/arts/music/oumou-sangare-at-celebrate-brooklyn-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; A Malian Singer Sets Her West African Message to a Dance Beat	Regal, righteous and funky, the Malian singer and songwriter Oumou Sangare commanded the stage of Celebrate Brooklyn! on Friday night at the Prospect Park Bandshell. Wearing a white caftan, a red necklace and a white headscarf that her movements kept shaking loose, Ms. Sangare praised and admonished: End forced child marriage, share good fortune,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/movies/magic-trip-reconstructs-footage-from-ken-keseys-bus-trip.html	Film Hitches A Weird Ride On Kesey's Bus	''Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place,'' a film by Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood that opens on Friday, is an exercise in what they call ''archival vérité.'' It's a documentary that uses old footage to recreate a documentary that Kesey intended to make about his 1964 cross-country bus trip -- the one so memorably chronicled in Tom
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/theater/reviews/julius-caesar-at-park-avenue-armory-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'JULIUS CAESAR'; Cry Havoc! The Blood Sport Called Politics	With the country mired in political stalemate and economic peril looming, imperialism suddenly doesn't sound so bad, does it? Well, not so fast. A visit to the Royal Shakespeare Company's blood-saturated production of ''Julius Caesar'' offers a harsh corrective to the idea that an alternative form of government would present a more appealing
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/arts/music/cro-mags-and-screaming-females-at-house-of-vans-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Muscling Through a Murky, Hardcore Night in a Box	People straighten up around John Joseph, the singer for the Cro-Mags. He reminds you that the best of his music, New York hardcore, has a history and a set of standards, musical and ethical; he has no time for what people choose to do outside of those standards. He's not hectoring you, exactly, about punk and veganism and the economy and your
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/arts/music/ensemble-phoenix-munich-cantus-apollos-fire-review.html	Complex Pleasures Rooted in Love, Delight and Song	THE little Shaker song ''Simple Gifts,'' by Joseph Brackett, comes with performance instructions built in. And when Joel Frederiksen and the Ensemble Phoenix Munich sing, '' 'Tis the gift to be simple,'' they clearly believe it. On their new CD, ''Rose of Sharon: 100 Years of American Music, 1770-1870'' (Harmonia Mundi HMC 902085), Mr. Frederiksen
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03EFDF123EF932A05754C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Graphic Books: Sunday, July 31st 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the July 31, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending July 16, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E4DE103FF932A05754C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | JULY 31-AUG 6	Film Neil Genzlinger ''THE STRAIGHT STORY'' was a startling departure for the director David Lynch when it came out in 1999: a G-rated story about an older man (Richard Farnsworth) in failing health who hits the highway on a riding lawn mower. ''Bravely defying conventional wisdom about what it takes to excite moviegoers, Mr. Lynch presents the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E0D7163EF932A05754C0A9679D8B63	Like Seaside Heights, but With a Duomo	FLORENCE, Italy IT was after 11 a.m. on their final day of filming here last month, and the cast members of ''Jersey Shore'' were waking up slowly. Mike, a k a the Situation, was making French toast in the open kitchen in a Jersey Shore-style version of a Renaissance apartment where the stars of this series, MTV's most watched reality show, were
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07EFDF123EF932A05754C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Mass-Market Fiction: Sunday, July 31st 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the July 31, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending July 16, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/movies/pietro-marcellos-mouth-of-the-wolf-follows-2-underdogs.html	Finding Poetry in a Couple's Pain	ROME FROM the golden age of neorealism to the firebrand provocations of Pier Paolo Pasolini, a wide swath of classic Italian cinema has concerned the plight of the downtrodden. This underdog empathy is the animating force behind the work of Pietro Marcello, one of the most striking new talents in contemporary Italian film. But while they continue a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE5DE103FF932A05754C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | JULY 31-AUG 6	Art Karen Rosenberg The Jesus who appears in early Rembrandts is a fairly conventional figure, true to earlier northern European icon paintings. But in the middle of Rembrandt's career, around the late 1640s, his image of Jesus underwent an extreme makeover. Many of these later pictures, based on studies of a live model who is thought to have been
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06EFDF123EF932A05754C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction: Sunday, July 31st 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the July 31, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending July 16, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/books/review/editors-choice.html	Editors' Choice | Recent Books of Particular Interest	AN ANATOMY OF ADDICTION: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine, by Howard Markel (Pantheon, $28.95.) An absorbing and well-documented account of the ways cocaine affected the careers of two clinical pathbreakers. INSIDE SCIENTOLOGY: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion, by Janet Reitman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E6DA153EF933A05754C0A9679D8B63	TELEVISION REVIEW; Two British Families Crack Jokes In Ways Familiar and Strange	The big news at BBC America this week was the announcement of ''Copper,'' its first original drama series. For the channel, it's a major step in establishing an independent identity; it's also a sign that that identity will be increasingly American. The show will be set in New York in the 1860s and produced by Yanks, including the veterans Tom
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E3D7133FF93BA15754C0A9679D8B63	ARTS BEAT; No Need to Swipe Again At This Art Exhibition	Most mornings, the Museum of Modern Art is as crowded as a Midtown subway station. So it didn't seem all that odd to witness two middle-school students, Ariel Rogiers, 13 and Javonna Cato, 12, from the Robert F. Kennedy School on the Upper East Side, lining up recently on the museum's third floor to check the balances on their MetroCards. A
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E7DD103FF93BA15754C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; U2 Documentary to Open Toronto Film Festival	Long before Bono and the Edge were best known as the composers of the Broadway musical ''Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,'' they and their U2 band mates Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. were more immediately associated with best-selling rock albums like ''Achtung Baby.'' It is this more felicitous time in the band's history that is revisited in
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03EEDA133FF93BA15754C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Lincoln Center Announces Morning Discussions	Business, not cultural affairs, will be on the breakfast menu at Lincoln Center this fall as the Center begins a morning series where leaders will ''discuss significant issues facing American society.'' Reynold Levy, the center's president is to announce the breakfast series on Tuesday. The Lincoln Center Dialogue series will be held at the David
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E7D91E3FF93BA15754C0A9679D8B63	What's On Today	10 P.M. (HBO Signature) WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (2010) Michael Douglas returns as the reptilian financier Gordon Gekko, who, after serving an eight-year prison sentence, has landed in the public spotlight once again for writing a critical and prescient book about the state of the markets. Shia LaBeouf (above right, with Mr. Douglas) is the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03E2DE1E3FF93BA15754C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Winehouse, After Death, Re-enters Album Chart	The numbers are in: Amy Winehouse, who died last Saturday at age 27, will re-enter the Top 10 of the Billboard album chart this week, with her music racking up greater sales in the days after her death than it had since January. Another British soul singer will retake the top spot on the Billboard album chart this week, with Adele claiming her 11th
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E4D61E3FF93BA15754C0A9679D8B63	ARTS BEAT; Is Justice Blind to Empathy?	'THE ANTI-EMPATHIC TURN' by Robin L. West, professor of law and philosophy at Georgetown University; Georgetown Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 11-97. THE ISSUE Ms. West states that throughout the 20th century the great jurists agreed that empathy -- the ability to share the perspectives of others -- was crucial to justice, that to
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/arts/design/smithsonian-art-museums-american-hall-of-wonders-review.html	EXHIBITION REVIEW; The World as America Dreamed It	WASHINGTON -- The first thing we see on entering the new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum here is a life-size painting of a formally dressed, graciously welcoming, aged gentleman. He is lifting a heavy red drape and gesturing as if inviting us to visit the marvels within. Beyond the curtain we glimpse walls lined with hundreds of
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/27/arts/20110727-GANDHARA.html	Gandhara Art at Asia Society	A long-planned exhibition of nearly 70 pieces of Buddhist art from Pakistan is set to open at the Asia Society.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/27/arts/20110727-GANDHARA-4.html	Gandhara Art at Asia Society	A long-planned exhibition of nearly 70 pieces of Buddhist art from Pakistan is set to open at the Asia Society.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/27/arts/20110727-GANDHARA-6.html	Gandhara Art at Asia Society	A long-planned exhibition of nearly 70 pieces of Buddhist art from Pakistan is set to open at the Asia Society.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/24/movies/07242011-wilde-ss-3.html	Olivia Wilde: A Busy Career	A range of roles lets Olivia Wilde show she’s more than a pretty face.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/arts/music/zach-condon-of-beirut-and-new-album-the-rip-tide.html	PLAYLIST | BEIRUT; Worldly Influences On a Young Artist	Zach Condon is growing up. Or trying to, anyway. At 25, Mr. Condon, better known as the songwriter behind the indie folk band Beirut, is already a music veteran, having arrived as a multi-instrumentalist teenager versed in global sounds: Balkan beats, French chanson, Mexican funeral. For Beirut's third full-length album, ''The Rip Tide,'' out Aug.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/arts/music/marc-andre-hamelin-at-mannes-college.html	King of Virtuosos Is Weary Of His Crown	WHEN Marc-André Hamelin gave a piano recital at Le Poisson Rouge in September, he displayed all the hallmarks of a first-rate artist: a stellar technique, poise and probing musicianship. He did so in a program consisting entirely of his own compositions, a rare feat in an era when the composer-pianist is an increasingly endangered species. Mr.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/arts/design/black-mirror-video-by-doug-aitken-in-greece.html	Can You Hear Me Now?	Venice, Calif. LIFE in the 21st century can feel like an infinite loop of security checkpoints, rolling luggage and brief electronic exchanges, at least to a constant traveler like the artist Doug Aitken, whose latest work, a video installation called ''Black Mirror,'' explores the placelessness and alienation of people in nonstop motion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/books/review/inside-the-list.html	TBR; Inside the List	ADVANCE MAN: A few weeks ago, I promised to eat my complete Harry Potter library if ''A Dance With Dragons,'' the eagerly awaited fifth installment in George R. R. Martin's ''Song of Ice and Fire'' fantasy series, didn't enter the hardcover fiction list at No. 1. That's probably still a safe bet, though I did wonder if I should start firing up the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E1DF123EF937A15754C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Mass-Market Fiction: Sunday, July 24th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the July 24, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending July 9, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E2DF123EF937A15754C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Series Books: Sunday, July 24th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the July 24, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending July 9, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E3D6153CF937A15754C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | JULY 24-JULY 30	Television Mike Hale HBO's Monday night documentary series, an oasis of seriousness and intelligence among the mostly mindless diversions of the summer television season, offers a combination of mystery, morality play and almost unbearable family tragedy in ''THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH AUNT DIANE'' (9 p.m. Monday). The title is taken from a phone
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E1DF123EF937A15754C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Hardcover & Paperback Nonfiction: Sunday, July 24th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the July 24, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending July 9, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03E2DF123EF937A15754C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Advice, How-To And Miscellaneous: Sunday, July 24th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the July 24, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending July 9, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/22/arts/design/0724-week-in-culture-phot-6.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, July 22	A slide show of images of cultural events this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/22/arts/design/0724-week-in-culture-phot-10.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, July 22	A slide show of images of cultural events this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/22/arts/design/0724-week-in-culture-phot-5.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, July 22	A slide show of images of cultural events this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/22/arts/design/0724-week-in-culture-phot-3.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, July 22	A slide show of images of cultural events this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/22/arts/design/0724-week-in-culture-phot-7.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, July 22	A slide show of images of cultural events this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/22/arts/design/0724-week-in-culture-phot.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, July 22	A slide show of images of cultural events this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/22/arts/design/0724-week-in-culture-phot-2.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, July 22	A slide show of images of cultural events this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/22/arts/design/0724-week-in-culture-phot-8.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, July 22	A slide show of images of cultural events this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/22/arts/design/0724-week-in-culture-phot-4.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, July 22	A slide show of images of cultural events this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/22/arts/design/0724-week-in-culture-phot-9.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, July 22	A slide show of images of cultural events this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/21/arts/design/20110722-NoseJob_ss-10.html	Nose Job	Aircraft nose cones are treated as canvases at a gallery in East Hampton.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/21/arts/design/20110722-NoseJob_ss-6.html	Nose Job	Aircraft nose cones are treated as canvases at a gallery in East Hampton.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/21/arts/design/20110722-NoseJob_ss-3.html	Nose Job	Aircraft nose cones are treated as canvases at a gallery in East Hampton.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/21/arts/design/Lucianfreudss-7.html	The Paintings of Lucian Freud	Mr. Freud, a grandson of Sigmund Freud, did paintings of nudes that evoked raves. He was dubbed “the greatest living realist” by one art critic in the late 1980s.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/21/arts/design/20110722-Ostalgia_ss-6.html	‘Ostalgia’	Images from an exhibition of art from and about Russia and the former Soviet bloc, now on view at the New Museum.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/21/arts/design/Lucianfreudss-5.html	The Paintings of Lucian Freud	Mr. Freud, a grandson of Sigmund Freud, did paintings of nudes that evoked raves. He was dubbed “the greatest living realist” by one art critic in the late 1980s.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/21/arts/design/20110722-NoseJob_ss-4.html	Nose Job	Aircraft nose cones are treated as canvases at a gallery in East Hampton.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/21/arts/design/20110722-Ostalgia_ss-2.html	‘Ostalgia’	Images from an exhibition of art from and about Russia and the former Soviet bloc, now on view at the New Museum.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/21/arts/design/20110722-NoseJob_ss-9.html	Nose Job	Aircraft nose cones are treated as canvases at a gallery in East Hampton.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/21/arts/design/Lucianfreudss-2.html	The Paintings of Lucian Freud	Mr. Freud, a grandson of Sigmund Freud, did paintings of nudes that evoked raves. He was dubbed “the greatest living realist” by one art critic in the late 1980s.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E0DE173CF93AA25754C0A9679D8B63	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Amorality on Display in London Extends to the Stage as Well	LONDON -- And so the sorry story continues, as people from the corridors of power confess their crimes and await their judgments. The glamorous favorite of the tyrant has fallen from her high perch, and it is rumored that further depths of corruption are waiting to be plumbed. Reputations everywhere are in tatters. Such was the view on Saturday
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/18/arts/music/20110718-annie-8.html	‘Annie Get Your Gun’	Photos of the Glimmerglass Festival production of the Irving Berlin musical.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/18/arts/music/20110718-knots-7.html	Village Voice/4Knots Music Festival	Photos from the free indie-rock concert at South Street Seaport.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/18/arts/music/20110718-knots-4.html	Village Voice/4Knots Music Festival	Photos from the free indie-rock concert at South Street Seaport.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/18/arts/music/20110718-annie-3.html	‘Annie Get Your Gun’	Photos of the Glimmerglass Festival production of the Irving Berlin musical.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/18/arts/music/20110718-knots-8.html	Village Voice/4Knots Music Festival	Photos from the free indie-rock concert at South Street Seaport.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/18/arts/music/20110718-knots-6.html	Village Voice/4Knots Music Festival	Photos from the free indie-rock concert at South Street Seaport.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/18/arts/music/20110718-knots-5.html	Village Voice/4Knots Music Festival	Photos from the free indie-rock concert at South Street Seaport.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/18/arts/music/20110718-knots-2.html	Village Voice/4Knots Music Festival	Photos from the free indie-rock concert at South Street Seaport.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/18/arts/music/20110718-annie-6.html	‘Annie Get Your Gun’	Photos of the Glimmerglass Festival production of the Irving Berlin musical.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E3DF123EF934A25754C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Nonfiction: Sunday, July 17th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the July 17, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending July 2, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/books/review/book-review-here-on-earth-by-tim-flannery.html	Who Made This Mess?	HERE ON EARTH A Natural History of the Planet By Tim Flannery Illustrated. 316 pp. Atlantic Monthly Press. $25. The Australian paleontologist and biologist Tim Flannery has earned his broad-brimmed field hat. Flannery is the discoverer of dozens of mammal and dinosaur species, extant and extinct, across Australia and Melanesia. In books like ''The
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E0D61439F934A25754C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | JULY 17-JULY 23	Art Randy Kennedy The artist EVA HESSE, who died at 34 in 1970, cut a brief but considerable path through the art world. She created a body of work that brought the idea of the body into the masculine verities of Minimalism, works that used repetition and reduction but with forms and ephemeral materials that suggested skin and assorted body parts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/books/review/book-review-the-last-werewolf-by-glen-duncan.html	Existential Howl	THE LAST WEREWOLF By Glen Duncan 293 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $25.95. It's easy to see why werewolves might feel under-celebrated these days. While vampires and zombies have stormed the multiplexes and best-/seller lists, and Dr. Frankenstein's monster has completed its cultural infiltration by transforming into the ubiquitous information appliances of
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/movies/summer-blockbusters-by-way-of-michael-bay.html	Summer Movies: Some Have a Blast	Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott, the co-chief film critics of The New York Times, answer your questions in a monthly column that appears in print and online. Here they discuss summer movies great and not, Michael Bay and le cinema du popcorn. You can write them at askthefilmcritics@nytimes.com. Q. Do you think it is possible or desirable (as some
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/movies/new-dvds-the-letter-1929-zazie-dans-le-metro-1960.html	VIDEO; A Tragic Actress's Twilight, Burning, Not Dimming	The Letter Long overshadowed by William Wyler's 1940 remake starring Bette Davis, the first filming, from 1929, of W. Somerset Maugham's stage play ''The Letter'' has re-emerged, thanks to a new DVD edition from Warner Archive. As the only surviving sound film of the radically innovative Broadway star Jeanne Eagels, the film is an important piece
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/books/review/poetry-chronicle.html	Poetry Chronicle	FLIES By Michael Dickman. Copper Canyon. Paper, $16. Frank O'Hara once wrote this, in a poem called ''Poetry'': ''The only way to be quiet / is to be quick, so I scare / you clumsily, or surprise / you with a stab.'' It's an instructive passage, not just because it moves with that conversational, come-bounce-along-with-me rhythm that became
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E4DF123EF934A25754C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: E-Book Nonfiction: Sunday, July 17th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the July 17, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending July 2, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFDE1439F934A25754C0A9679D8B63	CORRECTIONS	An essay on July 3 about the cultural meaning of the final Harry Potter movie misidentified the university where Henry Jenkins, a professor of communications, journalism and cinematic arts, teaches. He is a professor at the University of Southern California, not at the University of California.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/books/review/book-review-railroaded-by-richard-white.html	Robber Barons at Work	RAILROADED The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America By Richard White Illustrated. 660 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $35. ''Type of the modern! emblem of motion and power! pulse of the continent!'' Walt Whitman sang in praise of the railroad. When he published those lines in 1876, the vast network that connected West to East was being
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/15/movies/20110715_POTTER-7.html	Harry Potter Fans Turn Out in Droves for Final Film	Moviegoers came out in droves to watch the final addition to the Harry Potter film canon, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/15/movies/20110715_POTTER-2.html	Harry Potter Fans Turn Out in Droves for Final Film	Moviegoers came out in droves to watch the final addition to the Harry Potter film canon, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/15/movies/20110715_POTTER-4.html	Harry Potter Fans Turn Out in Droves for Final Film	Moviegoers came out in droves to watch the final addition to the Harry Potter film canon, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/15/movies/20110715_POTTER-9.html	Harry Potter Fans Turn Out in Droves for Final Film	Moviegoers came out in droves to watch the final addition to the Harry Potter film canon, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/15/movies/20110715_POTTER-10.html	Harry Potter Fans Turn Out in Droves for Final Film	Moviegoers came out in droves to watch the final addition to the Harry Potter film canon, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.”
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/24/books/review/bestsellers-weekly-graphic.html	Best Sellers Weekly Graphic: No. 1 Again	“Unbroken” has spent 13 weeks in the No. 1 spot on the hardcover nonfiction list. Since January 2010, four books have held the top spot seven weeks or more.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/15/movies/Harry-Potter-and-the-Devoted-Fans.html	Harry Potter and the Devoted Fans	Reader-submitted photos of Harry Potter fans in costume from around the world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/dining/romantic-options-for-an-anniversary-hey-mr-critic.html	HEY, MR. CRITIC; Romance With No Recipe	The season's weather has had no effect on the efforts of the people who deliver the mail to Mr. Critic's garret on West 41st Street. There were questions this week from people celebrating marriages and those who might be doing so soon, as well as from visitors from afar. You may as ever send your inquiries about where to eat in New York City to me
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/arts/design/arthur-segals-strasse-auf-helgoland-ii-at-the-met.html	THE HOT LIST | ART; At the Met, a Canvas Ahead of Its Time	The one thing I want to do this summer is swing by the 20th-century galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and spend some time with ''Strasse auf Helgoland II,'' a nearly abstract street scene painted in 1924 by the Romanian artist Arthur Segal (1875-1944), who was affiliated with everything from Post Impressionism to Cubo-Futurism, with
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/movies/salvation-boulevard-with-pierce-brosnan-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'SALVATION BOULEVARD'; An Evangelist, an Atheist And a Shooting That Tests Faith	The American culture war, that combustible, stupefying cocktail of religion, sex, politics and everything else that gets people hot and bothered, represents a rich vein of satiric and dramatic potential. George Ratliff's ''Salvation Boulevard,'' adapted from a novel by Larry Beinhart (''Wag the Dog''), suggests that it may sometimes be too rich.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/arts/design/judge-stops-changes-to-manufacturers-trust-company-landmark.html	Judge Halts Landmark's Alterations	A state Supreme Court judge has ordered renovations halted at a landmark office building at Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street that preservationists call a model of modernism. A former bank that was originally part of the Manufacturers Trust Company, it was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in the era of the gray flannel suit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/arts/dance/natalia-osipova-at-the-mariinsky-theater-in-giselle-in-3d.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; A Flying Giselle, Coming Right at You	Films of the two-act Romantic ballet ''Giselle'' go back almost 80 years. The clips of black-and-white silent film of Olga Spessivtseva (1932) and Margot Fonteyn (1937) used to be rare as gold dust; now you can see them on YouTube. The ancient film technology, however, makes anyone watching today frustrated by its obvious inadequacies. So it's
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507EFD61539F937A25754C0A9679D8B63	ARTS BEAT; Harry Potter's Musical Magic: A Genre of Rock Appears	The world of Harry Potter stretches far beyond the lines of admirers waiting for hours outside bookstores for the latest entry in the J. K. Rowling series or to see the most recent installment in the multibillion-dollar movie franchise, the final chapter of which opens Friday. Pottermania and its soundtrack have come crashing into libraries, school
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DE7DA153DF937A25754C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Beyoncé Math: '4' Equals No. 1	Beyonce holds the top spot on the Billboard album chart this week, with her ''4'' (Columbia) selling 115,000 copies in its second week out, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That is a 63 percent drop from last week, but still a healthy lead over Adele's ''21'' (XL/Columbia), which remains at No. 2 with 79,000 sales. Selena Gomez and the Scene's album
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E3DD1539F937A25754C0A9679D8B63	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Debut Albums Headed Into the Haze	It's the year of the woozy in indie rock, the time to get lost. Everywhere, everywhere is sludge. The haze began a few years ago as a response to a newfound embrace of classic, crisp melodies; a thick spread on top counteracted the rediscovered prettiness. Now, though, the suffocation is primary. It's there in the recent debut albums by Pure X and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/arts/television/womens-soccer-becomes-must-see-tv.html	THE TV WATCH; Daytime Show About Women Isn't Soap Opera	There is sweet surrender in watching the American soccer team at the Women's World Cup. It's a daytime television event that forces viewers to set aside routine tasks -- and attitudes built up over a lifetime. The nation is suddenly transfixed by a sport that plenty of Americans still consider foreign and even a little suspicious. (Glenn Beck, who
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/arts/music/brooklyn-rider-at-michael-schimmel-center-for-the-arts-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Foursome's Boundless Musical Map	Brooklyn Rider has found a handful of fascinating ways to keep its repertory both fresh and broad. Its involvement with Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project has helped this quirky string quartet understand musical styles beyond the Western mainstream and has put it in contact with potential collaborators who play non-Western instruments. Because a couple
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/arts/design/postcard-from-milan-15-long-minutes-with-last-supper.html	POSTCARDS; Just a Quick Bite With Leonardo	MILAN -- The setting can seem a lot like quarantine. The entrance, through several holding pens and sets of automatic doors, leads to an enormous, vaulted, semiprivate room, the patient stretched out to the right. A bedside crowd coos appropriately. Occasionally I have joined that crowd, before Leonardo da Vinci's ''Last Supper,'' in the former
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/books/george-r-r-martins-dance-with-dragons-sells-well.html	A Fantasy Book Revives Store Sales	Amid the growth of the e-book business and online retailers like Amazon, sales of print books in brick-and-mortar stores have been suffering all year. Not this week. Beginning Tuesday bookstores had a summer savior in the fantasy author George R. R. Martin, whose new book, ''A Dance With Dragons,'' the fifth installment of his ''Song of Ice and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/crosswords/bridge/roland-wald-of-bridge-base-online-executes-steppingstone.html	BRIDGE; Sniffing Out a Diamond Ruse, Then Finding a Steppingstone	Bridge Base Online broadcasts the best bridge from around the planet. But the toughest job is arranging commentators, experts who type about the bidding and play as it occurs. This task falls primarily on the shoulders of Roland Wald, who hails from Denmark but now lives in London. Also one of the best commentators, he occasionally sends me deals
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/books/shock-value-by-jason-zinoman-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Sons of Rosemary's Baby: Birth of the New Horror	SHOCK VALUE How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror By Jason Zinoman Illustrated. 274 pages. The Penguin Press. $25.95. As a cultural commodity that got any respect, the horror movie was dead by the early 1970s. The collapse of the studio system, the aging of its stars, the decline of
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/arts/music/reunited-soundgarden-at-the-prudential-center-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Delivering Squalls Of Grunge Anew	First came the drone: a buzzing swarm of electric guitar tones. A clear, arching guitar line rose out of it. Then bass and drums clobbered their way in with a riff, and Chris Cornell lofted his voice into the moaning, chantlike melody of ''Searching With My Good Eye Closed,'' intoning, ''I'm on my way/Lookin' for the paradigm.'' After 14 years
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/crosswords/bridge/dentists-coup-from-an-online-match-bridge.html	BRIDGE; Landing an Overtrick via Some Dental Work	Pair events are in some ways artificial because overtricks can count for so much. Chicago or teams, where making or breaking the contract is paramount, is a purer form of the game. Occasionally, though, that quest for the overtrick produces some good technical play, as in the diagramed deal from a 12-board fast pairs on Bridge Base Online
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/arts/dance/american-ballet-theaters-season-of-injuries-and-triumphs.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Injuries and Triumphs Color a Ballet Season	History often happens during American Ballet Theater's eight-week spring season, principally because of its stars. This season, which ended Saturday, was distinguished by three guest artists in particular: Alina Cojocaru (from the Royal Ballet of London) in three roles, with her enchanting radiance and heart-catching fragility, and Natalia Osipova
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E7DB1E30F932A25754C0A9679D8B63	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Revealing Glimpses Into Minds Most Mad	''Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.'' That well-turned observation was originally made about one Prince Hamlet, and doubtless it's useful advice regarding future heads of state. But the dictum applies equally to those who tread the stage. Few things test the mettle of an actor - or separate the artists from the hacks - like the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00EFD61639F932A25754C0A9679D8B63	What's On Today	9 P.M. (Syfy) WAREHOUSE 13 The second season left fans of this show wondering if Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly) had left the team at the titular warehouse in South Dakota where the United States government keeps objects and artifacts that everyday Americans might find disruptive to a peaceful night's sleep. With Myka's status up in the air, Steve Jinks
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/arts/television/abc-sends-greetings-to-hallmark-movies.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; ABC Sends Greetings To Hallmark Movies	The Hallmark Hall of Fame movie franchise has a new home on network television: ABC. A multiyear agreement, announced last week by Hallmark, came two months after CBS decided not to renew its deal to show the feel-good movies at greeting-card-buying times of the year. In a twist the Hallmark Channel will show the movies a week after they have their
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505EEDF1F3AF932A25754C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; A Job Change For Boston Curator	George T. M. Shackelford, chairman of art of Europe and curator of modern art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is moving to Texas to become senior deputy director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. A leading scholar of late 19th- and early 20th-century French art, Mr. Shackelford is co-organizing ''Degas and the Nude,'' with Xavier Rey,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00EFDD1339F932A25754C0A9679D8B63	MUSIC REVIEW; Tanglewood's Season Opens With Good Friends Like Verdi and Bellini	LENOX, Mass. -- James Levine has long been a mainstay of Tanglewood, though he will not appear at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home this season; shortly after resigning as the ensemble's music director in March Mr. Levine cancelled all engagements here. But the show went on with aplomb at Tanglewood's rainy opening night on Friday, with
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEEDC1F3AF932A25754C0A9679D8B63	Collector as Artist: A Last Look at a Barnes Foundation Vision	The Barnes Foundation, the stupendous collection of Impressionist and early modernist painting and sculpture amassed by Albert C. Barnes, a pharmaceutical tycoon, has been one of America's strangest and most affecting art museums from the day its doors opened in 1925 in the Philadelphia suburb of Merion. It is difficult now, looking at the artists
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E05E0D91230F933A25754C0A9679D8B63	DANCE; Greetings From Russia; The Feet Will Follow: Vladimir Shklyarov	Unlike several of his perhaps more diplomatically minded colleagues, Mr. Shklyarov, a principal who joined the Mariinsky straight out of the Vaganova Academy in 2003, had no trouble identifying his favorite role in this repertory. (He couldn't settle on one favorite place in New York.) ''Of course, it's the role of Ivanushka in 'The Little
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE1D91230F933A25754C0A9679D8B63	DANCE; Greetings From Russia; The Feet Will Follow: Yekaterina Kondaurova	Balletomanes are notoriously tribal in their loyalties. But when the Mariinsky performed in 2008 at City Center, there seemed to be something of a consensus on this striking first soloist , Ms. Kondaurova (right, as Anna Karenina), who even has a stateside nickname, ''Big Red.'' It makes sense that the city would fall for Ms. Kondaurova. The
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01E6DF123EF933A25754C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Advice, How-To And Miscellaneous: Sunday, July 10th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the July 10, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending June 25, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/movies/chris-evans-in-captain-america-the-first-avenger.html	Star-Spangled And Searching His Own Psyche	LOS ANGELES WHEN some actors land a potentially life-altering role, they celebrate that success with exorbitant purchases: new homes, sports cars, plastic surgery. When Chris Evans agreed to play Captain America, he went into therapy. For several weeks Mr. Evans, 30, had been wrestling with -- and repeatedly turning down -- the offer to play that
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/books/review/book-review-the-crimean-war-a-history-by-orlando-figes.html	For God and Nation	THE CRIMEAN WAR A History By Orlando Figes Illustrated. 576 pp. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company. $35. The Crimean War was the first major war to be covered by professional foreign correspondents, who reported on the disastrous blundering of commanders and the horrors of medical treatment at the battlefront. Today, we remember fragmentary
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E6DF123EF933A25754C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Graphic Books: Sunday, July 10th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the July 10, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending June 25, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/books/review/under-austens-spell.html	LETTERS; Under Austen's Spell	To the Editor: Miranda Seymour, reviewing ''A Jane Austen Education,'' by William Deresiewicz, and ''Why Jane Austen?,'' by Rachel M. Brownstein (June 12), ascribes to ''hatred born of surfeit'' Mark Twain's famous pronouncement about Austen to ''a friend'': ''Every time I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E1D91230F933A25754C0A9679D8B63	DANCE; Greetings From Russia; The Feet Will Follow: Yuri Smekalov	''We feel like, without him, just nothing is possible to do,'' Diana Vishneva said of the versatile Mr. Smekalov, a former soloist for the Eifman Ballet who is now a second soloist at the Mariinsky and also choreographs. He will perform in ''Anna Karenina'' (above, with Ulyana Lopatkina), ''Carmen Suite'' and ''The Little Humpbacked Horse.'' (He
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE7DF123EF933A25754C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Paperback Books: Sunday, July 10th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the July 10, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending June 25, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00E7DF1630F933A25754C0A9679D8B63	Online	Podcast Scheduled to appear this week: The Times's Bill Keller on a new history of the papacy; Eva Gabrielsson on her life with Stieg Larsson; Julie Bosman with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-/seller news. Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the Book Review, is the host. ExcerptsSelections from ''Clarence Darrow: American
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/arts/stamford-conn-antiques-centers-around-canal-street.html	Treasure Hunting Along the Old Canal	Stamford, Conn. I GREW up in Stamford, Conn., where we used to make fun of the city motto, ''Moving Forward for People.'' (Do some places move against people, or forward for other reasons?) Then the motto became rather joyless: ''Stamford, the City That Works.'' But there was some relief from the commuter-suburb boredom I endured as a child, and it
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/arts/charlie-gasparinos-workout-partner-is-a-new-york-city-park.html	URBAN ATHLETE; His Workout Partner? The City	THE EAST RIVER PARK in Lower Manhattan was animated on a recent morning: against a backdrop of the city skyline and the boat-dotted water, groups of children played on lush lawns, sunbathers basked in the sun's glow and joggers ran by on the paved path. And at the playground, Charlie Gasparino was in the middle of a grueling workout. Using the
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/movies/project-nim-about-a-chimpanzee-subjected-to-research-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'PROJECT NIM'; Some Humans and the Chimp They Loved and Tormented	''Project Nim,'' a new documentary by James Marsh, is a probing, unsettling study of primate behavior, focusing on the complex dynamics of power, sex and group bonding in a species whose startling capacity for selfishness and aggression is offset by occasional displays of intelligence and compassion. The movie also features a chimpanzee. His name
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E0D81E30F93BA35754C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Elizabeth Smart Hired To Work for ABC News	Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped at age 14 and was held by a Salt Lake City street preacher for nine months in 2002 and 2003, has joined ABC News as a paid contributor. An ABC spokeswoman said Thursday that she will ''help our viewers better understand missing person stories from someone with the perspective to know what a family experiences when
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E2DB1E30F93BA35754C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Swift Cancels More Shows	For the first time in her dizzying rise in country-pop, Taylor Swift has been sidelined by sickness, announcing that she had to cancel four concerts on her current tour because of bronchitis. It was the first time Ms. Swift, who at 21 has become one of the best-selling singer-songwriters in the United States, had postponed or canceled a show
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/realestate/house-tour-riverhead-ny.html	House Tour: Riverhead, N.Y.	HOW MUCH $699,000. Taxes: $7,745. WHAT A two-bedroom, two-bathroom house with 3,000 square feet on one acre. ABOUT Constructed in 1861 as a one-room schoolhouse, this building has been renovated and expanded into a contemporary house. A classroom that was added to the schoolhouse in 1917 is now the great room, with 12-foot ceilings, original tin
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/movies/the-ledge-with-charlie-hunnam-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE LEDGE'; Looking for Answers Before He Leaps	Will he or won't he? Jump that is. And what on earth could be bugging him? Those questions may or (more likely) may not grip you while watching Matthew Chapman's contrived psychological thriller, ''The Ledge.'' ''He'' is Gavin (Charlie Hunnam), an articulate, good-looking young hotel manager in Baton Rouge, La., who is threatening to leap off a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/arts/music/pop-and-rock-listings-july-8-14.html	The Listings	Pop Prices may not reflect ticketing service charges. Full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music. - Animal Collective (Tuesday) Animal Collective's most recent record, ''Merriweather Post Pavilion'' (Domino), from 2009, is a stunning feat: it's an odd (and oddly accessible) collection of swirling melodies, vocal bleating and beats that
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/arts/spare-times-for-july-8-14.html	Spare Times	Around Town Museums and Sites Brooklyn Historical Society: Architectural Tour (Sunday) Guided tour of the building that houses the Brooklyn Historical Society, designed by George Post and built in 1881. At 2 p.m., Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street, near Clinton Street, Brooklyn Heights, (718) 222-4111, brooklynhistory.org; free
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/movies/fading-of-the-cries-starring-brad-dourif-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW; Fading Of The Cries	Of the many questions raised by ''Fading of the Cries'' -- a nonsensical horror-romance hybrid with bats for brains -- perhaps the most salient is: What is Brad Dourif doing here? With a script that might have been written by three drunken monkeys and dialogue that would embarrass Herschell Gordon Lewis, this first feature from Brian A. Metcalf
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/06/arts/design/hadid.html	A Building’s Fluid Forms	A look at the Guangzhou Opera House, designed by Zaha Hadid.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/06/arts/design/hadid-5.html	A Building’s Fluid Forms	A look at the Guangzhou Opera House, designed by Zaha Hadid.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/06/arts/design/hadid-6.html	A Building’s Fluid Forms	A look at the Guangzhou Opera House, designed by Zaha Hadid.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/06/arts/design/hadid-3.html	A Building’s Fluid Forms	A look at the Guangzhou Opera House, designed by Zaha Hadid.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/06/arts/design/hadid-4.html	A Building’s Fluid Forms	A look at the Guangzhou Opera House, designed by Zaha Hadid.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/06/arts/design/hadid-7.html	A Building’s Fluid Forms	A look at the Guangzhou Opera House, designed by Zaha Hadid.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/06/arts/cy-twombly-art-3.html	The Art of Cy Twombly	Cy Twombly’s career slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/06/arts/20110706_TWOMBY-5.html	The Art of Cy Twombly	Cy Twombly’s career slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/06/arts/20110706_TWOMBY-2.html	The Art of Cy Twombly	Cy Twombly’s career slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/06/arts/cy-twombly-art-8.html	The Art of Cy Twombly	Cy Twombly’s career slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CEED6153EF930A35754C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction: Sunday, July 3rd 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the July 3, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending June 18, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E2D91031F930A35754C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | JULY 3-JULY 9	Classical Anthony Tommasini Nearly 30 years ago the English stage and film director Peter Brook brought to Lincoln Center a spare, gritty and reinterpreted version of Bizet's ''Carmen'' that mostly riveted drama critics and theatergoers but divided opera buffs. Now 86, Mr. Brook returns to New York for the Lincoln Center Festival's presentation of
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/books/review/book-review-long-drive-home-by-will-allison.html	Unintended Consequences	LONG DRIVE HOME By Will Allison 215 pp. Free Press. $22. In Tom Wolfe's ''Bonfire of the Vanities,'' the mistress of a Wall Street bond salesman mows down a black youth in the South Bronx, and he encourages her to keep driving. In Will Allison's second novel, ''Long Drive Home,'' another /middle-aged money man tries to cover up his role in a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04EED6153EF930A35754C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Print & E-Book Fiction: Sunday, July 3rd 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the July 3, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending June 18, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/arts/music/the-tradition-of-the-jazz-piano-solo.html	Lonely Voyage of Player,Piano and Audience	CRAIG TABORN was deep into a solo expedition one recent evening at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan, seeming for all the world like someone cracking a secret code. Poised for action at a grand piano, he disrupted an expectant stillness with a turbulent digression. With his left hand he formed the lopsided bass-clef vamp of a piece called
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CEED61731F930A35754C0A9679D8B63	Online	Podcast Scheduled to appear this week: Louisa Thomas on her book, ''Conscience,'' and World War I pacifism; Katie Roiphe on Pamela Haag's ''Marriage Confidential''; Julie Bosman with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-/seller news. Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the Book Review, is the host. ExcerptsSelections from ''Miss New
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/books/review/book-review-aristotles-nicomachean-ethics.html	Faith and Reason	ARISTOTLE'S NICOMACHEAN ETHICS Translated By Robert C. Bartlett And Susan D. Collins 339 pp. The University of Chicago Press. $35. Some time in the 1920s, the Conservative statesman F. E. Smith -- Lord Birkenhead -- gave a copy of the ''Nicomachean Ethics'' to his close friend Winston Churchill. He did so saying there were those who thought this
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/arts/july-3-9.html	THE WEEK AHEAD; July 3 -- 9	Dance Claudia La Rocco Dance fans in need of a quick escape from New York should Zip-Car it up to Bard College this week, when the Tero Saarinen Company will open the BARD SUMMERSCAPE 2011 arts festival. Mr. Saarinen, a Finnish choreographer, is presenting three works: the all-male trio ''Westward Ho!'' (1996); ''Wavelengths,'' (2000), a duet; and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/books/review/with-freud-in-mind.html	LETTERS; With Freud In Mind	To the Editor: Maurice Isserman's sympathetic review of Robert Jay Lifton's memoir, ''Witness to an Extreme Century'' (June 19), misses a major theme of the book. Lifton did indeed decide not to become a medical psychoanalyst, and was put off by what he considered the scholastic (or Talmudic) aspects of ordinary psychoanalytic doctrine. He's
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE7DF1030F930A35754C0A9679D8B63	Enter a Royal Ensemble, Preceded by Its Stage	THE Royal Shakespeare Company doesn't travel light. In mid-June a convoy of 46 shipping containers began to arrive at the Park Avenue Armory, having made the journey by truck and boat from Stratford-Upon-Avon to the Upper East Side of Manhattan. One container was filled with flat-packed hoop skirts and World War I uniforms. Another held a life-size
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/arts/music/david-borden-at-issue-project-room-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Continuing a Continuing Story by Renewing His Early New Music	David Borden formed his colorfully named ensemble, Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, in 1969, when he was experimenting with early Moog synthesizers and Minimalist compositional notions. Mr. Borden has composed prolifically for the group since then, and on Wednesday evening he brought his players to the Issue Project Room for an
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0D81E31F931A35754C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Chaplin Film Fails to Sell	When it comes to motion pictures, Charlie Chaplin is the man, no? Well, an all-but-forgotten short film featuring footage of the comic star failed to sell at a London auction, defying expectations that it might fetch a six-figure sum, Reuters reported. The reserve price on the film at Wednesday's sale was 100,000 ($160,000) at Bonhams auctioneers,
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/10/books/review/bestsellers-weekly-graphic.html	Best Sellers Weekly Graphic: 7 Going on 17	Janet Evanovich has had seven books on the hardcover fiction lists over the past three years.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/03/movies/harry-potter-timeline.html	Harry Potter and the Billion-Dollar Franchise	A look at how Harry Potter evolved from a figment of a teacher’s imagination into the foundation of an entertainment empire.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/dining/dining-well-with-children-on-peking-duck-hey-mr-critic.html	HEY, MR. CRITIC; What's Crunchy, Sweet and Used to Quack?	The digital mailman brought questions from an aunt, an art lover and a devoted granddaughter, all looking for places to eat well in Manhattan, according to their individual desires and needs. I tried to give them good counsel. You may send your own inquiries about dining in New York to dinejournal@nytimes.com. Q. My two nieces, ages 5 and 7, will
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/arts/design/museum-and-gallery-listings-for-july-1-7.html	The Listings	Art Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise listed. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/arts. Museums - American Folk Art Museum: 'Quilts: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum' (through Oct. 16) This exhibition celebrating quilts from the museum's collection reveals the optical vitality of these eminently
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/arts/music-and-art-at-moma-ps1-weekend-miser.html	Weekend Miser	Weekend Miser, who we hope returns from Los Angeles relaxed but not Botoxed, will be back on duty next week. In the meantime, we've scoured the Internet and rifled through her in-box to drum up a few less traditional ways to celebrate our country this holiday weekend. On Saturday MoMA PS1 kicks off its annual outdoor ''Warm Up'' series, which
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/arts/design/faberge-in-virginia-summer-reads-about-collecting.html	ANTIQUES; A Fabergé Exhibition Without 'Fauxbergés'	Whatever luxury accessory from the czars' households that an American collector could desire, Armand Hammer could probably make it materialize. In the 1920s and '30s Hammer, the manufacturing tycoon, helped supply Western currency to the Soviets, in exchange for their loot of aristocrats' Fabergé jewelry, Easter eggs, picture frames and stone
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/arts/design/john-oreilly-recent-montage.html	ART IN REVIEW; John O'Reilly	Tibor de Nagy Gallery 724 Fifth Avenue, near 57th Street Through July 29 John O'Reilly's first show at Tibor de Nagy is not his New York solo debut, though he hasn't been in the public eye all that long. Now 81, he made his small, intricate photo-collages in private for many years, supporting himself as an art therapist in a hospital in Worcester,
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/movies/ed-gass-donnellys-small-town-murder-songs-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS'; Violence Close at Hand Shakes a Bucolic Setting	Ed Gass-Donnelly's rural crime drama, ''Small Town Murder Songs,'' punctures the veneer of bucolic quiet in a mostly Mennonite farming community in Ontario. Beneath a deceptive calm, it uncovers a core of fear and loathing as ominous as the backwoods world of ''Winter's Bone.'' The protagonist, Walter (Peter Stormare), is a stocky, middle-aged
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/30/arts/design/20110701-wurtz.html	Wire, Buttons and Scraps of Humor	Photos of a new exhibition of works by the artist B. Wurtz.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/30/arts/design/20110701-wurtz-5.html	Wire, Buttons and Scraps of Humor	Photos of a new exhibition of works by the artist B. Wurtz.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/03/theater/20110703.html	How Do You Solve a Problem Like 'The __________ With the Hat'?	The Times asked several illustrators to come up with their own poster art for the Broadway show with the mostly designs for the show
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E1DA1131F933A05755C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Music Director Vows to Restore Philharmonic's Free Summer Concert Series	There will be no free concerts in the parks for the New York Philharmonic this summer. But Alan Gilbert, the orchestra's music director, has given his word that situation will change in 2012. ''I am making a personal promise that these beloved free concerts will return next summer and continue for many years to come,'' he wrote in a letter sent via
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/arts/design/strong-sales-for-german-artists-at-sothebys-in-london.html	Strong Sales in London For Some German Artists	LONDON -- Prices for contemporary German artists -- Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz and Blinky Palermo, among others -- soared to new levels at Sotheby's here on Wednesday night in an auction that featured 34 works from the collection of Count Christian Duerckheim, a German industrialist who became obsessed with what he calls ''the art of his time.''
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/arts/music/undead-jazzfest-with-bizingas-and-oliver-lake-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; A Wide-Ranging Festival Savors Some Late-Night Jazz	Among the many possible ways of gauging a good time at the second annual Undead Jazzfest, which wound down in the wee hours of Monday morning, there are a few that seem truest to the spirit of the event. If you were there, you might rate your experience by answering the following questions: Did you feel like a part of something vital and collegial?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/arts/music/brooklyn-academy-to-offer-arts-at-barclays-center.html	In Alliance, Nets Arena To Offer Arts	It's been a springboard for Brooklyn nostalgia, a debate about urban design and the politics of eminent domain and, depending on your perspective or basketball affiliation, a community uniter or divider. Now Atlantic Yards, the development that will bring the New Jersey Nets to downtown Brooklyn, will also be a cultural center. The Barclays Center,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E4DF1131F933A05755C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Follies' to Broadway	Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Danny Burstein and Ron Raines are set to reprise their starring roles in the Kennedy Center production of ''Follies'' when it opens Sept. 12 at the Marquis Theater on Broadway for a limited engagement, the show's producers said on Wednesday. The Tony-award winning musical, with a book by James Goldman and a score by
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9502E3DA1E31F933A05755C0A9679D8B63	What's On Today	9 P.M. (Current TV) 4TH & FOREVER Long Beach Polytechnic in Southern California claims the largest number of high school athletes who have gone on to play in the National Football League. In the latest installment of this reality series Coach Raul Lara, above, capitalizing on a win against Jordan High School, motivates his players to focus on a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/arts/design/performance-space-122-looks-back-as-it-closes-for-renovation.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; An Auld Lang Syne Kicks Off an Artistic Diaspora	Artists, festivals, theaters, trends: they come and go with dizzying frequency in this city. It's dangerous to get too attached to any one idea of New York's cultural fabric. Still, certain losses hit harder than others. Saturday night brought one such blow: the final show at Performance Space 122 before it vacates its storied East Village home, a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/books/the-american-heiress-by-daisy-goodwin-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES | 'THE AMERICAN HEIRESS'; Money May Not Buy You Love, but It Might Help You Land a Spouse	THE AMERICAN HEIRESS By Daisy Goodwin 468 pages. St. Martin's Press. $25.99. What should Daisy Goodwin have called her novel about a Gilded Age Newport belle who heads for England to marry her way into a title? It was published in Britain as ''My Last Duchess,'' since it makes abundant reference to the chilling Robert Browning poem of that name.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/arts/music/milton-nascimento-at-the-rose-theater-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW | 'MILTON NASCIMENTO'; Sometimes Pop Songs Double as Prayers	Milton Nascimento, the singer and songwriter who is one of Brazil's national treasures, played up his jazzy side on Friday night at the Rose Theater, the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. That's the facet of his songwriting that smoothly and stealthily poses and solves musical challenges: how to make odd meters strut like a samba, how to make a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/arts/music/mark-turner-quartet-at-village-vanguard-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Sometimes Even the Lulls Are Full of Action	A quartet under Mark Turner's name started an early set on Tuesday night at the Village Vanguard with some standards: Thelonious Monk's ''Crepuscule With Nellie'' and Bud Powell's ''Dance of the Infidels.'' Not long after the beginning, the music started to change from the inside out: known structures, unknown contents. And after that it became
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/arts/music/john-moran-saori-in-performance-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW | 'JOHN MORAN + SAORI'; Collaboration At 72 Beats Per Minute	''I'm supposed to remind you at this portion of the show that I'm a composer,'' John Moran announced just over halfway through ''John Moran + Saori (... in Thailand),'' the 2010 piece he presented in its New York premiere at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn on Friday evening, and repeated on Saturday. Anyone new to Mr. Moran's work probably
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/arts/music/inuksuit.html	MUSIC IN REVIEW; 'INUKSUIT'	Morningside Park The Miller Theater made a mighty contribution to the daylong festival Make Music New York on Tuesday in the form of an expansive 80-minute performance of John Luther Adams's ''Inuksuit'' (2009). Mr. Adams, who lives in Alaska, conceived this elastic percussion work as an outdoor piece for 9 to 99 players, and Melissa Smey, the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/arts/tracy-morgan-at-carolines-comedy-club.html	Comedian, Chastened, Gets Back To Laughs	About halfway through a raucous standup set on Saturday night in which he dispensed much unsolicited romantic advice and hit on several women seated near the stage, Tracy Morgan told the crowd at Carolines, the Times Square comedy club, he knew what it wanted to hear. ''You're all sitting here waiting for me say something about the controversy,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/arts/dance/amidst-by-pavel-zustiak-at-baryshnikov-arts-center-review.html	DANCE REVIEW | 'PAVEL ZUSTIAK & PALISSIMO COMPANY'; Fog Blurs Vision, and Lines, Between Performer and Audience	It was dark, and the air hummed with something ominous. A thick fog pressed in and the crowd, with a mix of familiar and unknown faces, was all made strange and a little sinister by the impenetrable haze. We were at ''Amidst,'' a new work by Pavel Zustiak, that is as much about the watchers as the watched. Part 2 of his ''Painted Bird'' trilogy
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/movies/bollywood-honors.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Bollywood Honors	''Dabangg,'' an action musical about a corrupt police officer, dominated the International Indian Film Academy awards, Bollywood's version of the Oscars, over the weekend. Directed by Abhinav Kashyap, above left, and starring Salman Khan, the film won six awards, including best picture, The Associated Press reported. The ceremony, part of a
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/movies/a-mission-to-see.html	MOVIE REVIEW; Vincent Wants to Sea	The title ''Vincent Wants to Sea'' is a painfully unpunny translation of the original German title ''Vincent Will Meer,'' a homophone of ''Vincent will mehr'' or ''Vincent wants more.'' Both titles boldly underline the metaphorical significance of the film's literal journey -- a road-trip from Munich to the Mediterranean by way of the Swiss Alps.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/theater/womens-project-announces-lineup.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Women's Project Announces Lineup	A new play by Catherine Trieschmann will headline the 2011-12 Women's Project lineup, the theater company announced. ''How the World Began'' focuses on a teacher in rural Kansas whose comments about the origins of the universe have unforeseen consequences. Directed by Daniella Topol (''Dead City''), the play is the follow-up to the highly praised
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/the-mechanic-muse-what-is-distant-reading.html	THE MECHANIC MUSE; Distant Reading	''Ars longa,'' the ancient saying goes, ''vita brevis.'' Art is long, life short, and the problem is intensifying. As the literary ars lurches exponentially more longa -- accommodating the printing press, ''Gravity's Rainbow,'' Google Books -- our collective TBR pile towers ever more vertiginously overhead. Which raises a question: What are we
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00E0D6153EF935A15755C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction: Sunday, June 26th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the June 26, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending June 11, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/PaperRow-t.html	Paperback Row	YOUR FACE TOMORROW: Volume Three -- Poison, Shadow and Farewell, by Javier Marías. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa (New Directions, $16.95.) In the final volume of Marías's disquieting novel, his narrator -- hired by MI6 in London as an ''expert translator or interpreter of people'' -- peers into the territory of torture as he returns home to
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/book-review-la-seduction-by-elaine-sciolino.html	The Rules: Version Française	LA SEDUCTION How the French Play the Game of Life By Elaine Sciolino Illustrated. 338 pp. Times Books/Henry Holt & Company. $27. In ''De la Séduction'' (''On Seduction''), the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard defined his subject as ''the mastery of the symbolic universe.'' His point was that in contrast to political power, which involves ''the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/letters-the-rights-of-the-people.html	LETTERS; 'The Rights of the People'	To the Editor: Two of the misleading impressions left by Jonathan Mahler's review of my book ''The Rights of the People'' (June 12) deserve clarification. My research was framed less by my first thought on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 -- ''There go our civil liberties'' -- than by my more nuanced second thought, as explained in sentences that
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/book-review-the-churchills-by-mary-s-lovell.html	Blenheim Confidential	THE CHURCHILLS In Love and War By Mary S. Lovell Illustrated. 624 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $35. ike his mother, Jennie Jerome, and his cousin-by-marriage Consuelo Vanderbilt, Winston Churchill's Aunt Lily Hammersley was an American heiress whose fortune, it was hoped, would assist in bailing out the Churchill clan's ever shaky finances.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E2DC1231F935A15755C0A9679D8B63	Putting A Little Punk In Your Pasta	JULIA CHILD had no tattoos. Nor was she ever called upon to explain the difference between ''shkoff'' and ''shkiaff.'' '' 'Shkoff' is to eat,'' explained Nadia G, the punk-rock-meets-Prada hostess of the ''Bitchin' Kitchen'' cooking show. '' 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/InsideList-t.html	TBR; Inside the List	WOMAN IN BLACK: When Ann Coulter last appeared on the hardcover nonfiction list in 2009, with ''Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America,'' some commentators asked whether the conservative attack dog had lost a bit of her sales bite. ''Guilty'' spent six weeks on the list -- an enviable showing by most standards, but a decline from
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE0DF1F3EF935A15755C0A9679D8B63	COMMENTS	Here's a sampling of readers' comments on Robin Pogrebin and Daniel J. Wakin's article about New York City Opera and its financial problems. ''The situation that City Opera now finds itself in cannot be blamed on its attempt to bring adventurous programming to 'the people.' The blame is on New York City's so-called leaders who don't care about
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/arts/television/hbo-to-show-hot-coffee-susan-saladoffs-first-film.html	TELEVISION; Documentary Gives Hot Issue Caffeinated Jolt	ONE day in 1992 Stella Liebeck spilled a cup of McDonald's coffee into her lap. Ever since, people have been fighting over what really happened. Undisputed: Ms. Liebeck sued McDonald's, and in 1994 a jury awarded her nearly $3 million, $2.7 million of which was punitive damages. The disputed part is all the rest: Ms. Liebeck and her legal action
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/movies/a-better-life-directed-by-chris-weitz-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'A BETTER LIFE'; Drifting Apart, Struggling Together	At one point in ''A Better Life,'' an emotionally resonant film about how we live now, the director Chris Weitz opens a scene with a pair of adorable, gap-toothed little girls belting into karaoke microphones, giving their charming all to a song with un-self-conscious gusto. He then cuts to three bald men, crammed tattooed arm to tattooed arm on a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/arts/design/among-antiques-lalique-snuffboxes-and-soviet-film-posters.html	ANTIQUES; Suddenly, Lalique Is Back in Vogue	The French luxury-glass maker Lalique has gone through three different owners in the past two decades, and its collection of design drawings and products, some dating back more than a century, ended up somewhat neglected in the shuffle. They have rarely been kept on regular view at the factory or the corporate offices. Lalique's current owner, Art
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/arts/spare-times-for-children-for-june-24-30.html	Spare Times	'THE OHMIES' In musicals the most entertaining moments usually occur onstage. In ''The Ohmies: Morning Wish Garden'' they happen in the audience. That's because the show aims to introduce simple yoga to children 3 to 8, who gather on a wide expanse of antimicrobial matting in front of the stage. Watching preschoolers throw themselves into poses
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/theater/young-gays-on-broadways-normal-heart-revival.html	Life Lessons in 'Normal Heart'	IAN SMITH was born and raised in the 1980s in Bangor, Me., a world away from the young gay men of New York City of that era who were among the first to die of complications from AIDS. Mr. Smith, 29, is gay himself, and in Manhattan he has heard stories about some of those men from their friends and lovers who survived. But nothing prepared him for
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/arts/design/mixed-messages-aids-art-words.html	ART IN REVIEW; 'MIXED MESSAGES': 'A(I)DS, Art + Words'	La MaMa La Galleria 6 East First Street, East Village Through July 3 All the art in ''Mixed Messages,'' this year's edition of the annual summer group show sponsored by Visual AIDS, is based on words. This theme of language in art is a bit shopworn, but the curator, John Chaich, brings some snap to it through his multigenerational choice of
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/arts/music/milos-karadaglic-at-le-poisson-rouge.html	MUSIC REVIEW | MILOS KARADAGLIC; No Easy Road	Milos Karadaglic is a 28-year-old guitarist from Montenegro who studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and is getting an enormous push from Deutsche Grammophon, which released his first CD, ''Mediterráneo,'' this week. The disc is likable but a bit odd. Its mostly Spanish program includes technique-testing barnstormers, like Albéniz's
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/arts/music/pop-and-rock-listings-for-june-24-30.html	The Listings	Pop Prices may not reflect ticketing service charges. Full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music. - Laurie Anderson and Bill Laswell (Thursday) This collaborative concert, billed as ''an evening of improvised beats and melodies,'' pairs the performance artist and musician Ms. Anderson with the bassist and record producer Mr. Laswell, a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/arts/spare-times-for-june-24-30.html	Spare Times	Museums and Sites Brooklyn Historical Society: 'A Conversation With Simon Dinnerstein' (Wednesday) ''The Fulbright Triptych,'' a 1974 family portrait by the artist Simon Dinnerstein, has generated spirited commentary from other artists as well as the public. Mr. Dinnerstein will speak about his work at 7 p.m. at 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/arts/weekend-miser.html	Weekend Miser	While Weekend Miser is off to Los Angeles, and probably not behaving in a very miserly fashion, we are left to our own devices to find cheap entertainment. She left behind a sheaf of papers (O.K., a bunch of e-mails) that is a bit overwhelming, but June is Gay Pride Month, so it's easy to find plenty of inexpensive things to do around the
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/movies/conan-obrien-cant-stop-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'CONAN O'BRIEN CAN'T STOP'; One Ticked-Off Comic, Venting to the Faithful	A thin-skinned, hyperkinetic entertainer under stress: that would describe the brash red-headed star, now 48, of Rodman Flender's tour documentary, ''Conan O'Brien Can't Stop.'' As revealed in the film, this high-strung showoff who often behaves like a fourth grader on the verge of a tantrum is a classic example of talent fueled by anger.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00EFD6123EF931A15755C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Bassett and Jackson To Reunite in King Play	Angela Bassett's only experience working with Samuel L. Jackson was in the early 1980s when she was an understudy, and he a star, in a Negro Ensemble Company production of ''Colored People's Time,'' a play of vignettes set between the Civil War and the Montgomery bus boycott. This fall the two actors will reunite on Broadway - as co-stars - for
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/theater/reviews/comic-book-theater-festival-at-the-brick.html	THEATER REVIEW | COMIC BOOK THEATER FESTIVAL; It's a Convention of Superheroes, Taking Over a Stage and a Nearby Van	''Our Greatest Year,'' Robert Attenweiler's tender and knowing inquiry into just why sports fans are so messed up, takes its time listening to what its characters say (or don't say) and why. As such, it is an oasis of psychological complexity among the bells and whistles of the Comic Book Theater Festival, which is currently stuffing the Brick
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/arts/dance/beth-gills-electric-midwife-at-chocolate-factory-dance-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; Symmetry and Geometry, in Mirror Image	The titles of dances often seem to have nothing to do with their content. But the name of Beth Gill's new work, which began a two-week run at the Chocolate Factory over the weekend, is ''Electric Midwife,'' and despite its non sequitur oddness, the title has a curious resonance after you've watched Ms. Gill's highly formal, minimalist female sextet
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E6DC123EF931A15755C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Giffords and Husband To Write a Memoir	Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and her husband, the astronaut Mark E. Kelly, have made a deal to write a memoir of their lives together, their publisher said on Tuesday. Read Julie Bosman's report on ArtsBeat. This is a more complete version of the story than the one that appeared in print. ARTS, BRIEFLY
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/arts/design/conner-prairie-interactive-history-park-review.html	THEME PARK REVIEW; Where Park Visitors Answer a Call to Battle	FISHERS, Ind. -- The drama unfolding here on the outskirts of Indianapolis involves a dashing, Kentucky-born guerrilla fighter, ruthless in plunder and genteel in manners. There's a pioneer fur trader, too, a man who negotiated with the Lenape Indians to move them out of central Indiana and lost his Lenape Indian wife and children in the bargain.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/arts/music/orchestra-of-the-league-of-composers-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Talk Frames Performance of Recent Works	''I wrote it when I was 100 years old'' is something few people besides Elliott Carter can say. Now 102, Mr. Carter, ever lively and lucid, was at the Miller Theater on Saturday evening to speak about his Concertino for Bass Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra, which received its American premiere with the Orchestra of the League of Composers, conducted
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/arts/design/chairman-of-christies-gets-qatar-post.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Chairman of Christie's Gets Qatar Post	Christie's chairman, Edward Dolman, left, has been named executive director of the Qatar Museums Authority to establish a network of museums in Doha, the capital, and to acquire art as well as to preserve the collections of the state. Mr. Dolman will divide his time among Doha, New York and London and will oversee the authority's various
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9502E4D7153EF931A15755C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Winehouse Cancels Tour	Fulfilling the expectations of everyone who predicted that her European tour would be short-lived, Amy Winehouse's European tour was short-lived. On Tuesday the troubled pop singer canceled the remaining dates of a planned 12-stop concert series after a Saturday performance in Belgrade, Serbia, in which she was seen meandering around the stage and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/arts/music/unions-and-city-opera-meet-about-next-season.html	Unions and Ailing City Opera Meet About Next Season	The troubled New York City Opera let some details about its next season dribble out on Tuesday during a meeting with its unions, which confronted the company's leader, George Steel, with symbolic votes of no confidence in his leadership. The meeting was the first major encounter between management and the unions since Mr. Steel, the general manager
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E2DE123EF931A15755C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Tracy Morgan Apologizes in Return to Nashville	2:19 p.m. | Updated Tracy Morgan made a public apology in Nashville on Tuesday morning for a standup performance he gave there this month that was widely condemned for its antigay remarks. At a news conference at the Nashville Convention Center Mr. Morgan said that he did not ''have an angry bone in my body'' and that he saw the events of recent
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/19/arts/design/20110619-WIC-ss-4.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, June 17	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/19/arts/design/20110619-WIC-ss-11.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, June 17	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/19/arts/design/20110619-WIC-ss-7.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, June 17	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/19/arts/design/20110619-WIC-ss-12.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, June 17	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/19/arts/design/20110619-WIC-ss-6.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, June 17	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/19/arts/design/20110619-WIC-ss.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, June 17	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/19/arts/design/20110619-WIC-ss-3.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, June 17	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/19/arts/design/20110619-WIC-ss-10.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, June 17	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/19/arts/20110619_blood_ss-6.html	Anna Paquin Grows Up	The actress returns for the fourth season of the HBO horror fantasy “True Blood,” beginning on June 26.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/19/books/review/19bookshelf-2.html	Bookshelf: Farm	New picture books about farms and farm animals.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/18/arts/television/20110618-ferguson-ss-2.html	Ferguson in France	Craig Ferguson took his “Late Late Show” to Paris for a week of shows as “Le Late Late Show Avec Craig Ferguson.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/18/arts/television/20110618-ferguson-ss-4.html	Ferguson in France	Craig Ferguson took his “Late Late Show” to Paris for a week of shows as “Le Late Late Show Avec Craig Ferguson.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/books/yale-announcing-150000-literary-prizes.html	A Writer's Estate to Yield $150,000 Literary Prizes	Yale University is announcing the establishment of some of the most lucrative literary prizes in America. Called the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes, they will be given annually starting in late 2012 or early 2013, with seven to nine grants of $150,000 each awarded to playwrights and writers of fiction and nonfiction. Awards for
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807E5DE1F3FF93BA25755C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; New Woody Allen Film Will Be on More Screens	Woody is going wide. Sony Pictures Classics said Thursday that it planned to increase the number of theaters showing Woody Allen's new time-traveling comedy ''Midnight in Paris,'' to 1,038 screens, the widest release of any of Mr. Allen's films. ''Midnight in Paris,'' which has been well-received by critics, has earned more than $16 million in the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/movies/the-pack-mentality-in-spring-films.html	No Season for Loners: People (and Penguins) Stick Together in Films	LOS ANGELES -- ''The films of a nation reflect its mentality in a more direct way than other artistic media.'' -- Siegfried Kracauer, ''From Caligari to Hitler.'' ''I'm actually part of this weird wolf pack.'' -- Stu Price, ''The Hangover Part II.'' If the season's movies have a message, it doesn't have much to do with the existential heroism of a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/arts/television/a-surprise-on-fox.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; A Surprise on Fox	The judges of ''So You Think You Can Dance'' made a surprise move on Thursday's results episode and opted not to eliminate any of the remaining contestants. But ratings for that Fox reality show were modest, according to Nielsen's estimates. The network finished in third place, garnering 6.3 million viewers for ''So You Think You Can Dance'' at 8
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405EFD8103EF93BA25755C0A9679D8B63	A Billionaire's Eye for Art Is to Shape Her Singular Museum	BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- The era of the world-class museum built by a single philanthropist in the tradition of Isabella Stewart Gardner, John Pierpont Morgan Jr. and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney may seem to have passed, but Alice L. Walton is bringing it back. Yet her mission is unlike those of her predecessors, or of more recent art patrons like
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/theater/reviews/armistead-maupins-tales-of-the-city-the-musical-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'TALES OF THE CITY'; When We Were Young and Gay, Under the Disco Ball	SAN FRANCISCO -- The intoxicating abundance of Armistead Maupin's beloved ''Tales of the City'' novels is one of their signal pleasures. Reading these intertwined stories of men and women searching for sex, love and themselves in the heady, indulgent atmosphere of San Francisco in the 1970s is like dipping into an inexhaustible bag of M&Ms, with no
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/arts/music/ludovic-morlot-conducts-the-philharmonic-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; A Stick in the Spokes Of a Philharmonic Night	When did young and relatively inexperienced become the safe choice when symphony orchestras pick new music directors? (As if I didn't know, Mr. Dudamel.) The youngish French conductor Ludovic Morlot returned to the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall on Thursday evening for the first time since it was announced that he would succeed Gerard
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/arts/dance/works-from-ben-munisteri-dance-projects-sally-gross-pascal-rioult-and-jody-oberfelder.html	Dance in Review	BEN MUNISTERI DANCE PROJECTS Dance Theater Workshop Each of the three pieces by Ben Munisteri that opened on Thursday at Dance Theater Workshop -- ''Catalog,'' ''Binary 2.0,'' ''Robot vs Mermaid'' -- seems to set up particular parameters and then explore how many permutations can be found within. In the 2009 ''Catalog,'' performed to music by
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/16/movies/human-rights-watch-6.html	Human Rights Watch Film Festival	Images of some of the films appearing in the festival, which runs June 16-30.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/16/movies/human-rights-watch.html	Human Rights Watch Film Festival	Images of some of the films appearing in the festival, which runs June 16-30.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/16/movies/human-rights-watch-7.html	Human Rights Watch Film Festival	Images of some of the films appearing in the festival, which runs June 16-30.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/16/arts/dance/Royal-5.html	Royal Danish Ballet at the Koch Theater	Royal Danish Ballet is performing a weeklong engagement at the David H. Koch Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/16/arts/dance/Royal-4.html	Royal Danish Ballet at the Koch Theater	Royal Danish Ballet is performing a weeklong engagement at the David H. Koch Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/16/arts/dance/Royal-6.html	Royal Danish Ballet at the Koch Theater	Royal Danish Ballet is performing a weeklong engagement at the David H. Koch Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/16/arts/dance/Royal-3.html	Royal Danish Ballet at the Koch Theater	Royal Danish Ballet is performing a weeklong engagement at the David H. Koch Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/16/arts/dance/Royal-2.html	Royal Danish Ballet at the Koch Theater	Royal Danish Ballet is performing a weeklong engagement at the David H. Koch Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/16/arts/dance/Royal-7.html	Royal Danish Ballet at the Koch Theater	Royal Danish Ballet is performing a weeklong engagement at the David H. Koch Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/16/arts/dance/Royal.html	Royal Danish Ballet at the Koch Theater	Royal Danish Ballet is performing a weeklong engagement at the David H. Koch Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/14/arts/music/20110614-bonnaroo-ss-14.html	A Big Tent at Bonnaroo	The 10th installment of the festival in Manchester, Tenn., included performances by a wide variety of acts in a multitude of genres.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/arts/dance/royal-danish-ballet-performs-napoli-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; A 'Napoli' Changed, Yet Unchanging	WASHINGTON -- Ballet is an art so laden with tradition that today's foremost practitioners all seem at most six degrees of separation from the leading lights of the Romantic period. This is nowhere more true than with the Royal Danish Ballet. The set for Act III of August Bournonville's ''Napoli'' (1842) features a bridge from which little children
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/arts/dance/gotham-dance-festival-sampler-julian-barnett-ashleigh-leite.html	DANCE REVIEW; An Afternoon of Aggressive Hair and Forlorn Boots	The Gotham Dance Festival wrapped up over the weekend with its second summer sampler matinee, and it was as mixed up as mixed bills can be. First, a little background: Over the past week and a half, the Joyce Theater has hosted the festival, produced by the Gotham Arts Exchange, as a way to introduce relatively new artists to its public. Saturday
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/arts/music/new-cds-by-barry-manilow-battles-and-ledisi-review.html	New Music	BARRY MANILOW ''15 Minutes'' (Stiletto) If something has been bothering Barry Manilow all these years, it's been tough to tell. Early in his career he was a master of temperate melancholy, giving lip service to romantic pain but never venturing a real tear. For the last decade or so he's been gamely homogenizing the great American songbook, his
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/arts/television/abc-family-nine-lives-of-chloe-king-and-switched-at-birth.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; A Television Family Tree That Bears Surprising Fruit	Midway through the first hour of ''The Nine Lives of Chloe King,'' television's latest capitulation to the vigorous appetite for fantastical 10th graders, the title character sits down to some cake with her mother and delivers a selective briefing of the day's events. For Chloe, it's been an intense 24 hours. Spurred on by an unfamiliar sense of
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/theater/bono-and-the-edge-explain-spider-man-back-story.html	Superstars Never Guessed the Size of 'Spider-Man' Challenges	In their fullest comments yet about the creative clashes this winter inside ''Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,'' Bono and the Edge, of U2 -- first-time Broadway composers -- said they originally embraced Julie Taymor's script and characters for the show but were wholly ill-prepared for putting her ambitious ideas onstage. They ultimately lost faith
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E7DF143FF937A25755C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Reports Say Clarence Clemons Has Suffered a Stroke	Clarence Clemons, the saxophonist who has played for nearly 40 years with Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band, has had a serious stroke, according to a Springsteen fan Web site with close connections to the band and tweets by associates of Mr. Clemons. The site, Backstreets.com, said that Mr. Clemons, 69, had undergone two brain surgeries at a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/books/untold-story-by-monica-ali-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Imagining A Secret Life For Diana	UNTOLD STORY By Monica Ali 259 pages. Scribner. $25. Staging one's own death or disappearance, or switching identities with someone else: it's not just a premise of witness protection (and witness protection comedies like ''Bird on a Wire''), but it's also the catalyst of classic works like Antonioni's landmark film ''The Passenger'' and Anthony
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E05EFD7173FF937A25755C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Carole King Memoir	Carole King, the longtime singer-songwriter, has written her first memoir, her publisher, Grand Central Publishing, said on Monday. The memoir, ''A Natural Woman,'' is scheduled for release in April 2012. Deb Futter, the editor in chief of the hardcover division for Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group, said in a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/arts/music/bonnaroo-festival-in-tennessee-wraps-up.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; It Was a Hot Time in Tennessee At the Snob-Free Bonnaroo Fest	MANCHESTER, Tenn. -- The 10th Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival ended on Sunday, and more than 85,000 people returned to civilian life, their ears ringing with too much music. Because it is a brand with a mysterious grip on hale young-adult Americans with mystical tendencies, because it broke little aesthetic ground and because it's a milestone year,
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/12/arts/music/20110612_BONNAROO-11.html	Bonnaroo: Day 3	Loretta Lynn, Hanggai, Alison Krauss and more.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/12/arts/design/20110612-otherworldly-6.html	‘Otherworldly’	More images from the exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/12/arts/design/20110612-otherworldly-3.html	‘Otherworldly’	More images from the exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/12/arts/design/20110612-otherworldly-4.html	‘Otherworldly’	More images from the exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/12/arts/design/20110612-otherworldly.html	‘Otherworldly’	More images from the exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/12/arts/design/06-12-11-Culture-Photos-3.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, June 10	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/12/arts/design/06-12-11-Culture-Photos-11.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, June 10	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/12/arts/design/06-12-11-Culture-Photos-2.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, June 10	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/12/arts/design/06-12-11-Culture-Photos-5.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, June 10	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/12/arts/design/06-12-11-Culture-Photos-9.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, June 10	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/06/19/books/review/bes.html	Best Sellers Weekly Graphic: Hurricanes, Serial Killers, Murder and Nazis	Erik Larson, the author of “The Devil in the White City,” has had four books on the hardcover nonfiction list.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/06/05/books/review/best.html	Best Sellers Weekly Graphic: Back in the Top Spot	Charlaine Harris’s “Dead Reckoning” is one of five books over the past year to spend three or more weeks at No. 1 on the hardcover fiction list.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/06/05/books/review/bestsellers-weekly-graphic.html	Best Sellers Weekly Graphic: Back in the Top Spot	Charlaine Harris’s “Dead Reckoning” is one of five books over the past year to spend three or more weeks at No. 1 on the hardcover fiction list.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03EFDB1E3CF932A25755C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Austen Manuscript Parts Are Both in New York	Beginning on Saturday the two manuscript parts of the unfinished and unpublished Jane Austen novel known as ''The Watsons'' will not be reunited, exactly, but will be closer they've been in almost 100 years -- just 35 blocks or so from each other. The first part of the manuscript, some 12 pages, was sold during World War I to benefit the Red Cross,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E2D91E3CF932A25755C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Inflatable Rat to Miss Tonys' Red Carpet	The Broadway stagehands' union will not have a picket line by the red carpet at the Tony Awards on Sunday evening, after reaching an agreement on Friday morning with the managers of the awards festivities to allow union workers to stage the carpet, according to representatives of both sides. The union and the Tony ceremony managers had been in a
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/theater/reviews/any-night-at-the-laba-theater-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'ANY NIGHT'; When Sleep Opens the Door to the Dark Side	Clearly, the romance at the forefront of ''Any Night'' has a very dark side. It's easy to spot the clues in the script, by its stars Daniel Arnold and Medina Hahn: the small indiscretions that anticipate bigger ones, the mysterious family tragedies with questionable veracity, the warnings of death. It all points in one direction: meet cute, leave
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F07E5DF1F3CF932A25755C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; No Charges in Kahlo Case	In a setback for the guardians of Frida Kahlo's work, the Mexican attorney general's office has declined to bring charges against two art dealers who say they have an enormous collection of paintings, keepsakes and letters that belonged to the artist. The Mexican trust that owns the copyright to Kahlo's work says that the works are fakes and last
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/arts/music/deborah-voigt-in-erwartung-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; She Can Be Tender, but She May Be a Killer, Too	A woman is wandering alone in the forest. She stumbles on the corpse of her lover. It gradually becomes possible, even probable, that she -- jealous and angry -- is the one who killed him. This is the grim plot of Schoenberg's Expressionist, Freud-influenced monodrama ''Erwartung'' (''Expectation''). There are few sopranos who can make the Woman,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/arts/dance/meredith-monk-revisits-girlchild-for-dance-theater-workshop-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; Multitasker Reverses the Aging Process	Well before just about every choreographer on the planet declared their allegiance to multidisciplinary work, Meredith Monk was creating pieces that defied characterization in their use of song, speech, movement, film and images. In the early-to-mid 1960s, when Ms. Monk was part of the radical group of artists beginning to show work at the Judson
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E2DB1E3CF932A25755C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; New Looney Tunes, With an Old Voice	That's not quite all for the motion-picture career of the Looney Tunes, or for Mel Blanc, the versatile voice artist and comedian who helped bring to life the animated antics of Daffy Duck and Tweety Bird. Those speech-impeded cartoon characters, along with Sylvester the Cat, Elmer Fudd, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner are set to return in a new
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/arts/music/peter-brotzmann-at-the-vision-festival-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; A Kind of Orthodoxy Built on Improvisation	The Vision Festival, a hand-sewn New York institution now in its 16th year, presents avant-garde jazz as a form of religion, complete with saints and sacraments, a clergy and a congregation. The sheer range of music gathered under its umbrella -- detailed compositions as well as top-to-bottom improvisations, in all manner of instrumental lineups --
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/09/arts/music/06092011SILK-11.html	Night at the Caravanserai	Yo-Yo Ma led Silk Road Ensemble in a cultural blend of music and dance to open the season Tuesday night at Central Park’s Summerstage.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/09/arts/music/06092011SILK-2.html	Night at the Caravanserai	Yo-Yo Ma led Silk Road Ensemble in a cultural blend of music and dance to open the season Tuesday night at Central Park’s Summerstage.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/09/arts/music/06092011SILK-10.html	Night at the Caravanserai	Yo-Yo Ma led Silk Road Ensemble in a cultural blend of music and dance to open the season Tuesday night at Central Park’s Summerstage.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/09/arts/music/06092011SILK.html	Night at the Caravanserai	Yo-Yo Ma led Silk Road Ensemble in a cultural blend of music and dance to open the season Tuesday night at Central Park’s Summerstage.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/09/arts/music/06092011SILK-7.html	Night at the Caravanserai	Yo-Yo Ma led Silk Road Ensemble in a cultural blend of music and dance to open the season Tuesday night at Central Park’s Summerstage.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/09/arts/music/06092011SILK-9.html	Night at the Caravanserai	Yo-Yo Ma led Silk Road Ensemble in a cultural blend of music and dance to open the season Tuesday night at Central Park’s Summerstage.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/09/arts/music/06092011SILK-4.html	Night at the Caravanserai	Yo-Yo Ma led Silk Road Ensemble in a cultural blend of music and dance to open the season Tuesday night at Central Park’s Summerstage.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/09/arts/music/06092011SILK-8.html	Night at the Caravanserai	Yo-Yo Ma led Silk Road Ensemble in a cultural blend of music and dance to open the season Tuesday night at Central Park’s Summerstage.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/09/arts/music/06092011SILK-3.html	Night at the Caravanserai	Yo-Yo Ma led Silk Road Ensemble in a cultural blend of music and dance to open the season Tuesday night at Central Park’s Summerstage.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/07/theater/20110607-darkly.html	‘Through a Glass Darkly’	Photos from the production at the New York Theater Workshop.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/07/theater/20110607-darkly-5.html	‘Through a Glass Darkly’	Photos from the production at the New York Theater Workshop.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/07/theater/Balm-6.html	‘Balm in Gilead’	Scenes from a production of the Lanford Wilson play at a warehouse in Brooklyn.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/07/theater/20110607-darkly-8.html	‘Through a Glass Darkly’	Photos from the production at the New York Theater Workshop.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/07/theater/20110607-darkly-3.html	‘Through a Glass Darkly’	Photos from the production at the New York Theater Workshop.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/07/theater/Balm-9.html	‘Balm in Gilead’	Scenes from a production of the Lanford Wilson play at a warehouse in Brooklyn.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/07/theater/20110607-darkly-7.html	‘Through a Glass Darkly’	Photos from the production at the New York Theater Workshop.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/07/theater/Balm-5.html	‘Balm in Gilead’	Scenes from a production of the Lanford Wilson play at a warehouse in Brooklyn.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/07/theater/Balm-2.html	‘Balm in Gilead’	Scenes from a production of the Lanford Wilson play at a warehouse in Brooklyn.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/07/theater/Balm.html	‘Balm in Gilead’	Scenes from a production of the Lanford Wilson play at a warehouse in Brooklyn.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/05/arts/design/06-05-11-Culture-Photos-7.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, June 3	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/05/arts/design/20110606-venice-ss-6.html	At the Bienniale	The 54th Venice Biennale, on view until November, includes a diverse array of exhibitions, from 89 countries, scattered across the city.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/05/arts/design/20110606-venice-ss-4.html	At the Bienniale	The 54th Venice Biennale, on view until November, includes a diverse array of exhibitions, from 89 countries, scattered across the city.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/05/books/review/05bookshelf-12.html	Bookshelf: Growing Up	Reviews of new picture books.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/05/books/review/05bookshelf-10.html	Bookshelf: Growing Up	Reviews of new picture books.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/05/books/review/05bookshelf.html	Bookshelf: Growing Up	Reviews of new picture books.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/05/books/review/05bookshelf-3.html	Bookshelf: Growing Up	Reviews of new picture books.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/05/books/review/05bookshelf-7.html	Bookshelf: Growing Up	Reviews of new picture books.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/05/books/review/05bookshelf-2.html	Bookshelf: Growing Up	Reviews of new picture books.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/05/books/review/05bookshelf-4.html	Bookshelf: Growing Up	Reviews of new picture books.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E6D6153EF936A35755C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Fiction: Sunday, June 5th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the June 5, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending May 21, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/books/review/book-review-popular-crime-by-bill-james.html	Tabloid Murders	POPULAR CRIME Reflections on the Celebration of Violence By Bill James Illustrated. 482 pp. Scribner. $30. Americans are generally not too kind when our cherished icons, literary or otherwise, indulge their interests in something other than what they are known for. No one really wanted Michael Jordan to play minor league baseball, or Stephen King
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/books/review/inside-the-list.html	TBR; Inside the List	LET'S GO CRAZY: Celebrities may rule the best-seller list, but psychopaths still rule the world. At least that's the hypothesis floated by Jon Ronson in ''The Psychopath Test,'' new at No. 11 on the hardcover nonfiction list. In the book, Ronson (inset) consorts with psychologists, corporate titans, madmen, Scientologists and a cabal of ''giant,
http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/books/review/book-review-wanderlust-by-elisabeth-eaves.html	Timbuktu of the Mind	WANDERLUST A Love Affair With Five Continents By Elisabeth Eaves 303 pp. Seal Press. Paper, $16.95. Travel and sexual conquest have long been cast as male impulses, from Casanova's far-flung affairs to the promiscuity of the modern adventure hero. ''Men know they are sexual exiles,'' Camille Paglia has written. ''They wander the earth seeking
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/books/review/book-review-infamous-players-by-peter-bart.html	Hollywood Babylonian	INFAMOUS PLAYERS A Tale of Movies, the Mob (and Sex) By Peter Bart Illustrated. 274 pp. Weinstein Books. $25. In 1967, when the lumbering old Hollywood studios were about to be shaken up by independent, visionary filmmakers, Peter Bart left his job as a New York Times reporter to become Paramount Pictures' No. 2 production executive. ''Infamous
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE7D6153EF936A35755C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Advice, How-To And Miscellaneous: Sunday, June 5th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the June 5, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending May 21, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E7D6153EF936A35755C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Series Books: Sunday, June 5th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the June 5, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending May 21, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/books/review/up-front-sam-sifton.html	Up Front	In the age of Google, it's not that hard to find a photograph of Sam Sifton -- but we're not about to make his day job, as the restaurant critic of The New York Times, any more difficult by printing one here. (Besides, he tells us he's taller now than in any extant picture, with much longer hair.) Sifton began writing about food in the early 1990s
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00E6D7173FF936A35755C0A9679D8B63	'Treme' Sharpens Its Focus On Food	THINK of New Orleans, and you just might think of jazz. Which is what ''Treme,'' HBO's drama about loss and renewal post-Katrina, built its reputation on in its inaugural season, with stories about struggling musicians and a radio D.J., and lengthy interludes showcasing some of the city's performers. But increasingly cuisine has ventured out of the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E4DA103CF936A35755C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | JUNE 5-JUNE 11	Classical Allan Kozinn Every summer Mannes College the New School for Music presents a parade of mini-festivals and institutes that offer master classes, roundtable discussions, lecture demonstrations and public concerts with contemporary music, the expanding guitar repertory and keyboard virtuosity among the subjects. The first in the series this
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/movies/some-days-are-better-than-others-review.html	Movie Review | 'Some Days Are Better Than Others'	Fans of the guitarist-writer-actress Carrie Brownstein and her goofy television show, ''Portlandia,'' will need to adjust their expectations for ''Some Days Are Better Than Others.'' Starring Ms. Brownstein and another indie-music hero, James Mercer of the Shins, the film uses Portland and other Oregon locations (shot very prettily by Greg Schmitt)
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/02/arts/20110603-pong-9.html	Ping-Pong in New York	From tiny novelty sets atop coffee tables to outdoor tables at Bryant and Tompkins Square Parks, ping-pong takes New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/02/arts/20110603-pong-4.html	Ping-Pong in New York	From tiny novelty sets atop coffee tables to outdoor tables at Bryant and Tompkins Square Parks, ping-pong takes New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/02/arts/20110603-pong-7.html	Ping-Pong in New York	From tiny novelty sets atop coffee tables to outdoor tables at Bryant and Tompkins Square Parks, ping-pong takes New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/02/arts/20110603-pong-2.html	Ping-Pong in New York	From tiny novelty sets atop coffee tables to outdoor tables at Bryant and Tompkins Square Parks, ping-pong takes New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/02/arts/20110603-pong-5.html	Ping-Pong in New York	From tiny novelty sets atop coffee tables to outdoor tables at Bryant and Tompkins Square Parks, ping-pong takes New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/02/arts/20110603-pong-10.html	Ping-Pong in New York	From tiny novelty sets atop coffee tables to outdoor tables at Bryant and Tompkins Square Parks, ping-pong takes New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/02/arts/20110603-pong-8.html	Ping-Pong in New York	From tiny novelty sets atop coffee tables to outdoor tables at Bryant and Tompkins Square Parks, ping-pong takes New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/02/arts/20110603-pong-3.html	Ping-Pong in New York	From tiny novelty sets atop coffee tables to outdoor tables at Bryant and Tompkins Square Parks, ping-pong takes New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/02/arts/20110603-pong.html	Ping-Pong in New York	From tiny novelty sets atop coffee tables to outdoor tables at Bryant and Tompkins Square Parks, ping-pong takes New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/30/arts/dance/20110530-africa-8.html	DanceAfrica 2011	Photos of the program at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/30/arts/dance/20110530-giselle-6.html	‘Giselle’	Diana Vishneva and Alina Cojocaru danced for American Ballet Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/30/arts/dance/20110530-africa-4.html	DanceAfrica 2011	Photos of the program at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/30/arts/dance/20110530-africa-2.html	DanceAfrica 2011	Photos of the program at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/30/arts/dance/20110530-giselle-8.html	‘Giselle’	Diana Vishneva and Alina Cojocaru danced for American Ballet Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/30/arts/dance/20110530-giselle-10.html	‘Giselle’	Diana Vishneva and Alina Cojocaru danced for American Ballet Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/30/arts/dance/20110530-africa-7.html	DanceAfrica 2011	Photos of the program at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/30/arts/dance/20110530-giselle.html	‘Giselle’	Diana Vishneva and Alina Cojocaru danced for American Ballet Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/31/arts/design/value-graphic.html	The Not-as-Hot Art Market for Formerly Hot Artists	The contemporary art market has boomed in the last 10 years, characterized by the steep ascent of artists like Gerhard Richter. But the work of some contemporary artists has not appreciated at the same rate.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E6DA133CF933A05756C0A9679D8B63	Don't Call Us, We'll Call You	In a Theater Talkback column at nytimes.com Ben Brantley asked readers to cast career-challenged celebrities in Broadway roles that could put them back on track. Here are some of their suggestions: Susan Lucci and Regis Philbin in ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' CHARLES Woodside, N.Y. Gary Busey, ''The Elephant Man.'' BRIAN Philadelphia Wesley
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01EED7153EF93AA15756C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction: Sunday, May 29th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the May 29, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending May 14, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DEFD7153EF93AA15756C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Advice, How-To And Miscellaneous: Sunday, May 29th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the May 29, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending May 14, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/books/review/to-end-all-wars.html	LETTERS; 'To End All Wars'	To the Editor: Christopher Hitchens, reviewing Adam Hochschild's ''To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918'' (May 15), describes the phrase attributed to Woodrow Wilson -- ''the war to end all wars'' -- as ''fatuous'' and ''an object of satire and contempt even as it was being uttered.'' Only Hitchens, the quintessential cynic,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE4DF173CF93AA15756C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | MAY 29-JUNE 4	Film Neil Genzlinger The Italian director GIANNI DI GREGORIO made a lot of people smile with ''Mid-August Lunch,'' his charming, subtle comedy about a middle-aged man -- played by Mr. Di Gregorio -- who suddenly finds himself caring not only for his 93-year-old mother but also for three other women her age. Stephen Holden, reviewing the film last
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/books/review/among-the-truthers.html	LETTERS; 'Among The Truthers'	To the Editor: In his review of Jonathan Kay's ''Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground'' (May 15), Jacob Heil/brunn says, of the beliefs of conspiracy theorists, that ''even to dignify it with the word 'theory' is probably to grant them more legitimacy than they deserve.'' The pejorative use of the phrase
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/theater/theaterspecial/joe-mantellos-heartfelt-return-to-acting.html	A Return to Acting That's From the Heart	JOE MANTELLO was a 22-year-old actor, trained in the classics and fresh to New York, when he set out for the Public Theater one snowy night in 1985 to see ''The Normal Heart,'' Larry Kramer's play about the first years of AIDS. Watching the protagonist Ned Weeks -- a blunt, opinionated gay man not unlike himself -- Mr. Mantello understood his need
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/books/review/book-review-the-forgotten-founding-father-noah-websters-obsession-and-the-creation-of-an-american-culture-by-joshua-kendall.html	Colonial Polymath	THE FORGOTTEN FOUNDING FATHER Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture By Joshua Kendall Illustrated. 355 pp. //G. P. Putnam's Sons. $26.95 Even if he had never written his famous dictionary, Noah Webster (1758-1843) would be regarded as one of the most interesting and influential figures of the early days of the American
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00EED7153EF93AA15756C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Hardcover & Paperback Nonfiction: Sunday, May 29th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the May 29, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending May 14, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E2DF173CF93AA15756C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | MAY 29-JUNE 4	Pop/Jazz Ben Ratliff I suppose there have been other people like JEN SHYU: disciplined vocalists who speak and sing in multiple languages, work with improvisation and composition and movement, feel at home both with quick-change rhythmic patterns and meditative long tones, use narrative poetry as a basis for songs, and use a two-stringed Taiwanese
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/arts/dance/for-cuban-dancers-finding-abroad-is-easy.html	Havana's Sphere of Influence	IN Cuba, where dancers -- especially male ones -- seem to grow like weeds, ballet is a noble profession. ''There every taxi driver knows the names of the dancers,'' Mikhail Baryshnikov said in a recent interview. ''This is unheard of. Try it in New York.'' But often at the National Ballet of Cuba, led by the indomitable Alicia Alonso, the soil
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/realestate/house-tour-cheviot-ny-victorian-home-with-hudson-river-views.html	House Tour: Cheviot, N.Y.	HOW MUCH $649,000. Taxes: $6,317. WHAT A three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom house with 2,872 square feet. ABOUT Unlike most waterfront properties along the Hudson River, this fully restored Victorian house is listed for well under $1 million. It is in Cheviot, N.Y., a hamlet dating to the 1700s and valued for its privacy, rolling meadows and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/arts/music/mirror-visions-ensemble-at-weill-recital-hall.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Songs of the Poets, in Chamber Settings	Unlike most chamber music enterprises, the Mirror Visions Ensemble is run by singers rather than instrumentalists, and its programs are shaped with an ear to the poetry of song texts rather than to overarching notions of musical style. The group, directed by Tobé Malawista, a soprano, includes Scott Murphree, tenor; Jesse Blumberg, baritone; and
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/movies/tied-to-a-chair-review.html	Movie Review | 'Tied to a Chair'	In ''Tied to a Chair'' Mario Van Peebles plays Billy Rust, a has-been film director who produces a new script with the help of a computer program, perhaps the same one used by Michael Bergmann, the writer and director of this unholy mess. Propelled by a pileup of random scenes, preposterous characters and pitiful dialogue, the film unwinds as Billy
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE4D7123AF934A15756C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; The Washington Opera Hires Glimmerglass Chief	Francesca Zambello, a busy director of opera and theater and the artistic and executive director of the Glimmerglass Festival, has been appointed artistic adviser of the Washington National Opera - heralding a possible link between the institutions, officials said on Wednesday. The appointment is part of the Washington company's reorganization as
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/arts/design/sotheby-antiquities-auction-includes-sarcophagus-panels.html	INSIDE ART; A Marble Persephone From the Marquess	Here are two things auction house experts live for: making a discovery and selling it. Several months ago Florent Heintz, head of Sotheby's antiquities department, consigned a Roman marble sarcophagus panel from about A.D. 190-200 for his June 8 auction in New York. There were no good photographs of it, but the panel was known to scholars even if
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/arts/design/museum-and-gallery-listings-for-may-27-june-2.html	The Listings	Art Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. Museums - American Folk Art Museum: 'Quilts: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum' Through Oct. 16. This exhibition celebrating quilts from the museum's collection reveals the optical vitality of these eminently pictorial
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/arts/dance/complexions-contemporary-ballet-at-joyce-theater-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; The Movements Between the Notes	Complexions Contemporary Ballet is one of the great mysteries of the dance world. Formed in 1994 by the artistic directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, the troupe continues on despite its dire level of choreography, which used to be soulless but is now sappy too. Before the dancing started on Tuesday night at the Joyce Theater, Mr.
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/theater/reviews/wtc-view-by-brian-sloan-at-59e59-theaters-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'WTC VIEW'; After 9/11, Changes In a View and in a Life	A World Trade Center view no longer exists by the beginning of ''WTC View,'' Brian Sloan's uneven account of tentative love and palpable loss in the weeks after 9/11. That description nearly found its way into a ''seeking roommate'' classified ad that Eric (Nick Lewis) placed on Sept. 10, 2001. By the time phone calls start coming in about the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05EEDC113AF934A15756C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Union Charges City Opera With Unfair Labor Practices	One of New York City Opera's key unions on Thursday charged the company with unfair labor practices and sought a court order blocking its proposed move out of Lincoln Center. The salvo from the American Guild of Musical Artists comes nearly a week after City Opera said it could no longer afford to stay at the arts complex. Opera officials have so
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/arts/television/american-idol-completes-its-10th-season.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Savviness And Stars Lift 'Idol'	''American Idol'' is becoming a bit like the Miss America pageant, bestowing a ceremonial title that's coveted, if not of much use once obtained. On Wednesday night the 17-year-old country singer Scotty McCreery was crowned the winner of the show's 10th season, having defeated the 16-year-old country singer Lauren Alaina. Nice -- now the real work
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/theater/elevator-repair-service-performs-at-new-york-public-library.html	3 Classic Novels. 22 Minutes. Why Not?	Elevator Repair Service has nothing to do with elevators. It's a theatrical troupe whose main job lately has been to stage unusual readings of classic American novels. Book in hand, the actors recite the text and pretty soon start behaving in ways that indicate how they've been taken over by it. The group has so far done the first chapter of
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/theater/reviews/sleeping-beauty-wakes-at-the-mccarter-theater-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES'; A Fairy Tale, Updated Without Ambien	PRINCETON, N.J. -- Chronic insomniacs may well view the heroine of ''Sleeping Beauty Wakes,'' a new musical at the McCarter Theater Center here, with a ravenous envy. She's been dozing peacefully for almost a millennium, without so much as a milligram of pharmaceutical assistance. As in the original fairy tale, tweaked in this modern update, when
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/arts/music/new-york-city-opera-departure-brings-questions.html	City Opera Departure Brings Questions	New York City Opera's decision to bail out of Lincoln Center raised the sounds of lamentation from company veterans and opera world officials on Monday, many of whom heard the news as a near death knell. The anguished expressions of regret came amid a deafening silence from Lincoln Center and City Opera officials, and leaders of other cultural
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E2D71F3DF937A15756C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Drama Desk Winners Are Announced	The new Broadway musical ''The Book of Mormon'' and the musical revival of ''Anything Goes'' each won five Drama Desk Awards on Monday night, while ''War Horse'' and ''The Normal Heart'' won for outstanding play and play revival at a ceremony honoring theater work on Broadway and Off Broadway. ''The Book of Mormon,'' one of this season's biggest
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CEEDA1F3DF937A15756C0A9679D8B63	What's On Today	8 P.M. (TCM) PLAYING THE PONIES Turner Classic Movies continues its tribute to horses and those who love them with ''Kids and Horses, Part 2.'' The lineup begins with ''The Black Stallion'' (1979), Carroll Ballard's adaptation of the Walter Farley novel about a boy (Kelly Reno, above) who becomes the soul mate of an Arabian steed after the two are
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E3DF173AF937A15756C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Merrily We Roll Along' Is Set for New Encores!	The telephones, intercoms, typewriters and piano keys of Franklin Shepard Inc. will soon be ringing, buzzing and tapping away again in a revival of ''Merrily We Roll Along'' that James Lapine will direct for the 19th season of New York City Center's Encores! program, press representatives for the musical-revival series said on Monday. ''Merrily,''
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/theater/wtc-view-brian-sloans-911-play-at-59e59.html	Revisiting Notes From a Roommate Search Begun on 9/10/01	On the night of Sept. 10, 2001, the filmmaker Brian Sloan put an advertisement online seeking a roommate for his two-bedroom apartment on the edge of SoHo. As much as the world changed the next morning, for some New Yorkers one thing stayed the same: the desire to live in or near the West Village. ''I was surprised to find all these messages on my
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/arts/music/new-cds-from-group-doueh-and-jadakiss-review.html	Critics' Choice: New CDs	JADAKISS ''I Love You (A Dedication to My Fans): The Mixtape'' (Def Jam) ''Hold You Down,'' by Jadakiss and Emmany, is a little splash of 1995, of 2001, of moments when hip-hop was really giving in to R&B, letting go of its stiff shoulders and mean mug. ''Never mind them side chicks and they issues/that ain't nothing but bad luck that they wish
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/arts/television/reality-tv-producer-mark-burnett-tackles-the-bible.html	Next for 'Survivor' Producer: Bible-Based Scripted Drama	In the beginning, Mark Burnett made a name as the most prominent producer of reality television. Now he's moving from Omarosa to Moses. In what Mr. Burnett is calling the ''most important project I have ever undertaken,'' he has made a deal with the History Channel to mount a 10-hour series based on the stories of the Bible. The project, which
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/23/theater/20110523-follies-3.html	‘Follies’	Photos from the revival at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/arts/design/cory-arcangels-video-games-at-the-whitney-art.html	I Sing The Gadget Electronic	ON a rainy April morning in what looked more like a makeshift office than an art studio, Cory Arcangel was deciding what drawings to produce for his survey show ''Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools,'' which opens Thursday at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Of two possible contenders, one would present the lyrics of the Miley Cyrus song ''Party in the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/arts/music/lady-gaga-has-a-new-album-born-this-way.html	MUSIC; The Queen Pop Needs Her to Be	EVEN for a rehearsal, Lady Gaga dresses up. She was preparing to headline the annual gala for the Robin Hood Foundation, a gathering of 4,000 of New York City's richest people to benefit antipoverty programs, in a ballroom at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on May 9. Her lipstick was a perfect cupid's bow, and her eyes, big as headlights,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E7D9153DF931A15756C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | MAY 22-MAY 28	Film Mike Hale The Museum of Modern Art's continuing, repeating series An Auteurist History of Film has its share of programs that could put a hummingbird to sleep. (Ever sat through Vincente Minnelli's ''Madame Bovary'' starring Jennifer Jones? I didn't think so.) But it also offers a lot of pearls, like this week's selection, Preston Sturges's
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/movies/the-tree-of-life-premieres-at-cannes.html	Pursuing Imperfection In Malick's Eden	CANNES, France TERRENCE MALICK, the reclusive filmmaker who dislikes having his photograph taken and has not given an interview since the 1970s, could hardly be more out of place than amid the swarming media circus that is the Cannes Film Festival. But thanks to his scarcity of output, his sphinxlike reticence and the near-religious fervor of his
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE4D7113DF931A15756C0A9679D8B63	Sad and Haunted Girls Who Couldn't Play Worth a Lick	THEY may be the most defensive album liner notes in rock history: ''The Shaggs love you and love to perform for you,'' begins one paragraph on the back of the 1969 LP ''The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World,'' a cult classic for its guilelessly awful music and otherworldly lyrics. ''You may love their music or you may not, but whatever you feel, at
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/books/review/up-front-tom-carson.html	Up Front	The critic Tom Carson has written about music, books, television and film for publications as diverse as The Village Voice and GQ. ''I love writing about movies, but they've become my primary topic by the luck of the draw,'' Carson said in an e-mail. ''One thing I miss about the alternative-weekly world I came out of is that we were all encouraged
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/books/review/InsideList-t.html	TBR; Inside the List	BIN LADEN BUMP: President Obama isn't the only one to get a numbers boost from the recent kill operation against Osama bin Laden. Books by and about Navy Seals have also been flying off the shelves. ''The Heart and the Fist,'' a memoir of derring-do in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond by Eric Greitens, a Rhodes scholar turned Navy Seal officer turned
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E2D7153EF931A15756C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction: Sunday, May 22nd 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the May 22, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending May 7, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E3D7153EF931A15756C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: E-Book Nonfiction: Sunday, May 22nd 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the May 22, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending May 7, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E2D7153EF931A15756C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Trade Fiction: Sunday, May 22nd 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the May 22, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending May 7, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/arts/dance/new-york-city-ballet-performs-balanchine-robbins-review.html	DANCE REVIEW | NEW YORK CITY BALLET; From the Classical World of Apollos and Fauns to a Romantic Passion	Some things that happened for the first time seem to be happening again. The first three ballets of Wednesday's program at New York City Ballet -- George Balanchine's ''Apollo,'' and Jerome Robbins's ''Afternoon of a Faun'' and ''Antique Epigraphs'' -- all address different aspects of innocence, with the world seeming new; it's heartening to see
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/movies/pirates-of-the-caribbean-on-stranger-tides-with-johnny-depp-opens.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES'; Whale Oil Explodes, And Buccaneers Bellow	It is fitting that what passes for a plot in ''Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides'' involves a search for the fountain of youth. This film, the fourth in a series that made its improbable and profitable leap from the theme park to the multiplex eight summers ago, represents an attempt to rejuvenate a flagging franchise. Whether the effort
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/arts/design/access-to-tools-and-whole-earth-catalog-at-moma-review.html	ART REVIEW; Empowering People of Spaceship Earth	For a generation that came of age in the late 1960s and early '70s, three unusual reference books were catalytic consciousness raisers. ''The Joy of Sex'' and ''Our Bodies, Ourselves'' are still in print; the third and possibly most influential of all is less familiar to people born after 1980: the Whole Earth Catalog. Brainchild of the visionary
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/movies/went-the-day-well-at-film-forum.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Bucking Up the British In the Midst of the Fight	Most of what happens in ''Went the Day Well?'' -- an undeservedly forgotten British film showing at Film Forum starting on Friday -- is a flashback. In the first scene, a friendly chap in a village churchyard addresses the camera, which is to say the audience, and supposes we want to hear about the big battle that happened in the town a few years
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/movies/children-of-god-review.html	Movie Review | 'Children of God'	A skinny white boy from Nassau falls for a buff black islander in ''Children of God,'' a lush Bahamian romance stalked by homophobia and religious hatred. Expanding his 2007 short film, ''Float,'' the Bahamian writer and director Kareem Mortimer introduces Jonny (Johnny Ferro), an introverted art student, to the aptly named Romeo (Stephen T.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/movies/lost-bohemia-review.html	Movie Review | 'Lost Bohemia'	''Lost Bohemia,'' a new documentary by Josef Astor, is a sad and spirited elegy for the Carnegie Hall Studios, which for more than a century provided working, living and teaching space for all kinds of artists on the floors above the famous concert hall. Mr. Astor, a photographer who moved into the building in 1985, pays tribute to his neighbors
http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/realestate/house-tour-palenville-ny.html	House Tour: Palenville, N.Y.	WHAT A two-bedroom, two-bath house. WHERE In Palenville, N.Y., in Greene County, about 110 miles from Midtown Manhattan. WHO Bob Malkin, a former owner of the Think Big! stores, and his wife, Barbara Pokras, a retired film editor known as Babs, talk about the house that overlooks a waterfall that they offer as a vacation rental. MR. MALKIN: About
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/arts/design/museum-and-gallery-listings.html	The Listings	Art Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. Museums - American Folk Art Museum: 'Quilts: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum' Through Oct. 16. Like its predecessor, the second two exhibitions celebrating quilts from the museum's collection reveals the optical
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/dining/restaurants-in-theater-district-and-near-the-ships.html	HEY, MR. CRITIC; Getting Your Sea Legs To Lunch	The digital courier delivered more inquiries about where to eat in New York City, and I endeavored to answer as best I could. You may direct your own restaurant questions to dinejournal@nytimes.com. Q. We will arrive in New York City by ship on a Sunday at 8 a.m. and will be staying for 24 hours. We will probably go to the theater in the afternoon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/arts/weekend-miser.html	Weekend Miser	Theater nerds all over the city are beginning to geek out about the 2011 Tony Awards. The ceremony isn't until June 12, but you can feed your theatrical beast at the American Theater Wing's free Tony documentary film series at the Times Square Visitor Center on Monday. A screening of ''Show Business: The Road to Broadway'' chronicles the evolution
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/arts/television/the-good-wife-ends-season-on-a-timely-notethe-good-wife-ends-season-on-a-timely-note.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Dirty Politics: From Halls Of Power to Hotel Suites	Had the sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, never surfaced, ''The Good Wife'' would have invented them. It is easy to imagine that the writers are already mining a story from his ugly circumstances for a forthcoming script. (And then moving on to an episode about Arnold
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/arts/television/americas-most-wanted-walsh-ponders-its-future.html	Considering Next Steps For 'Wanted'	Most TV shows have fans. ''America's Most Wanted'' has deputies. ''With your call, the bad guys fall,'' the host and producer John Walsh likes to say, reminding his viewers that he's working in partnership with them -- and with law enforcement -- to capture fugitives. He says the show has assisted in 1,149 captures since its premiere in 1988, an
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/movies/bob-dylan-in-movies-at-the-film-forum.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; His Back Pages, Captured on Film	Bob Dylan will turn 70 next Tuesday -- unless of course Judgment Day arrives in the meantime, an eventuality that Mr. Dylan might well take in stride. After all, the scope of his historical imagination stretches from before the flood to the end of days, and the man himself can sometimes seem to dwell outside of time altogether. Devotees who use the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/arts/18iht-LOOMIS18.html	OPERA REVIEW; Revival of a Passionate Operatic Triumph	PARIS -- The sleep sequence is what one remembers most vividly after more than 20 years -- the gentle combination of undulating flutes and strings joined by a male quartet, led by two tenors, in sweetly soporific music. Yet dozing off was the last thing one wanted to do in the thrall of such unusual ethereal sounds. In Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera,
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/17/arts/design/Library-4.html	A Library’s Treasures, From Gutenberg to Malcolm X	To mark the 100th anniversary of its flagship building on Fifth Avenue, the New York Public Library is putting some of its prize holdings on display.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/17/arts/design/Library-8.html	A Library’s Treasures, From Gutenberg to Malcolm X	To mark the 100th anniversary of its flagship building on Fifth Avenue, the New York Public Library is putting some of its prize holdings on display.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/17/arts/design/Library-2.html	A Library’s Treasures, From Gutenberg to Malcolm X	To mark the 100th anniversary of its flagship building on Fifth Avenue, the New York Public Library is putting some of its prize holdings on display.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/17/arts/design/Library-5.html	A Library’s Treasures, From Gutenberg to Malcolm X	To mark the 100th anniversary of its flagship building on Fifth Avenue, the New York Public Library is putting some of its prize holdings on display.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/17/arts/design/Library.html	A Library’s Treasures, From Gutenberg to Malcolm X	To mark the 100th anniversary of its flagship building on Fifth Avenue, the New York Public Library is putting some of its prize holdings on display.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/17/arts/design/Library-3.html	A Library’s Treasures, From Gutenberg to Malcolm X	To mark the 100th anniversary of its flagship building on Fifth Avenue, the New York Public Library is putting some of its prize holdings on display.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/15/arts/design/20110515_Allora_ss-7.html	Allora & Calzadilla	A look at the work of the two artists chosen to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/15/arts/design/20110515_Allora_ss.html	Allora & Calzadilla	A look at the work of the two artists chosen to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/15/arts/design/20110515_Allora_ss-2.html	Allora & Calzadilla	A look at the work of the two artists chosen to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/15/arts/design/20110515_Allora_ss-8.html	Allora & Calzadilla	A look at the work of the two artists chosen to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/15/arts/design/20110515_Allora_ss-3.html	Allora & Calzadilla	A look at the work of the two artists chosen to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/15/arts/design/20110515_Allora_ss-6.html	Allora & Calzadilla	A look at the work of the two artists chosen to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/15/books/review/15bookshelf-wheels-ss-8.html	Children’s Bookshelf: Wheels	Pamela Paul reviews new children’s picture books about bicycles, wagons and cars.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/15/books/review/15bookshelf-cats-ss-11.html	Children’s Bookshelf: Cats & Dogs	Pamela Paul reviews new children’s picture books about pets and working animals.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/15/books/review/15bookshelf-wheels-ss-10.html	Children’s Bookshelf: Wheels	Pamela Paul reviews new children’s picture books about bicycles, wagons and cars.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/15/books/review/15bookshelf-cats-ss-4.html	Children’s Bookshelf: Cats & Dogs	Pamela Paul reviews new children’s picture books about pets and working animals.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/books/review/young-adult-books-fallen-grace-by-mary-hooper.html	CHILDREN'S BOOKS; The Hard-Knock Life	FALLEN GRACE By Mary Hooper 309 pp. Bloomsbury. $16.99. (Young adult; ages 12 and up) Once upon a time, Henry Treece, Roger Lancelyn Green, Rosemary Sutcliff and Elizabeth George Speare -- all authors of historical novels for children -- were household names. The genre was so vibrant that writers like Joan Aiken and Susan Cooper could veer into
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/books/review/book-review-to-end-all-wars-by-adam-hochschild.html	Mortal Debate	TO END ALL WARS A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 By Adam Hochschild Illustrated. 448 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $28. Woodrow Wilson's fatuous claim about the European war of 1914-18 -- sarcastically annexed by Adam Hochschild for the title of this moving and important book -- was an object of satire and contempt even as it was being
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E7DA143AF936A25756C0A9679D8B63	Online	Podcast Scheduled for this week: Jane Goodall and the authors of two new children's books about her life, speaking with Pamela Paul; an interview with the writer Geoff Dyer; Julie Bosman with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-/seller news. Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the Book Review, is the host. ExcerptsSelections from ''To
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/books/review/childrens-books-about-bicycles-and-cars.html	CHILDREN'S BOOKS; Bookshelf: Wheels	ALONG A LONG ROAD Written and illustrated by Frank Viva. 40 pp. Little, Brown. $16.99. (Picture book; ages 3 to 6) A terrific debut from Viva, an award-winning illustrator and frequent cover artist for The New Yorker, this sleek and stylish travelogue follows a lone cyclist on a continuous path that runs from first page to last. With the road a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901EEDF103AF936A25756C0A9679D8B63	CORRECTIONS	Some picture credits with an article on May 1 about the spring art-auction season were incomplete. The credit for Warhol's ''Self Portrait'' is Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, courtesy Christie's; for Warhol's ''Liz #5 (Early Colored Liz),'' Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E5D7153EF936A25756C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Hardcover & Paperback Fiction: Sunday, May 15th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the May 15, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending April 30, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/arts/music/alex-turner-on-arctic-monkeys-suck-it-and-see.html	PLAYLIST | ARCTIC MONKEYS; Rock Star Tunes In to the Elders of the Tribe	SINCE 2006, when Arctic Monkeys appeared on the British music scene, Alex Turner, the frontman, has been acclaimed as a songwriter wise beyond his years. (He was 20 when the group hit it big, thanks in part to the tendency of the British press to trumpet and acclaim.) Through lineup changes and side projects, and a recent foray in New York with his
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/books/review/book-review-a-singular-woman-by-janny-scott.html	Dreams for Her Son	A SINGULAR WOMAN The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother By Janny Scott Illustrated. 376 pp. Riverhead Books. $26.95. On Jan. 1, 1985, Stanley Ann Dunham, better known as Barack Obama's mother, was living in Honolulu, where she had recently returned after years in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital. That New Year's Day, she recorded the following
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/books/review/war-correspondence.html	LETTERS; War Correspondence	To the Editor: Eric Foner, in his May 1 review of ''The Union War,'' by Gary W. Gallagher, notes the ''people in other nations'' who saw a Union victory in the Civil War as ''a harbinger of greater rights for themselves.'' One of those people was Karl Marx. Writing to Lincoln in November 1864, on behalf of the International Working Men's
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/books/review/InsideList-t.html	TBR; Inside the List	BERNIE MADOFF, BOOK REVIEWER:''The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust,'' by the New York Times financial reporter Diana B. Henriques, enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 10 this week. Liaquat Ahamed, who reviews the book in our May 15 issue, calls it ''riveting reading,'' a vivid portrait of ''a sad, hapless man who,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/arts/design/carter-mull-the-days-specific-dreams.html	ART IN REVIEW; Carter Mull: 'The Day's Specific Dreams'	Taxter & Spengemann 459 West 18th Street, Chelsea Through June 11 Carter Mull's first solo show is part newsroom, part darkroom. His subject is the life of print, from birth to its current death throes, though like most artists he's not an objective biographer. In ''Connection,'' Mr. Mull breaks a commercial for the iPhone 4 into 1,800 frames, each
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/arts/music/classical-musicopera-listings-for-may-13-19.html	The Listings	Classical Full reviews of recent music performances: nytimes.com/music. Opera - 'Ariadne auf Naxos' (Friday) The conductor Fabio Luisi draws a vibrant, nuanced performance of this Strauss work from the Metropolitan Opera orchestra and a strong cast in this revival of Elijah Moshinsky's imaginative 1993 production. The soprano Violeta Urmana brings
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/movies/the-topp-twins-untouchable-girls-review.html	Movie Review | 'The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls'	You may never have heard of Jools and Lynda Topp, country-singing lesbian twins from New Zealand, but it's not because of their retiring personalities. Boisterous, big-voiced and built to last, these musical sisters have carved successful careers by doing what most people only dream of: that is, exactly as they please. That much and more is made
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/arts/design/hungarian-silver-ethiopian-scrolls-and-maritime-art.html	ANTIQUES; Silver That Survived War and Centuries	Hungarian gilded-silver vessels and jewelry that narrowly escaped World War II looters will go on display on Friday for the first time in seven decades at a Christie's auction preview in New York. About 30 pieces, some dating to the 1600s, will be offered on Tuesday, including tankards engraved with cherubs and hunting scenes, and pendants and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/arts/music/dallas-symphony-orchestra-at-carnegie-hall-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Strife of '64, in Somber Tones	In September 2008, during the second week of his first season as music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden led the premiere of ''August 4, 1964,'' a 70-minute oratorio by the American composer Steven Stucky, with text by the librettist Gene Scheer. Written to commemorate the centennial of President Lyndon
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7D71238F930A25756C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; New York State Arts Official To Run American Theater Wing	The American Theater Wing, which is a presenter of the Tony Awards and has expanded theater education and internship programs in recent years, announced on Wednesday that its next executive director would be Heather Hitchens, who now holds the same position at the New York State Council on the Arts. During her nearly four years at the state arts
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/movies/everything-must-go-with-will-ferrell-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'EVERYTHING MUST GO'; A Picture Window on a Life Turned Inside Out	''Everything Must Go'' is the story of a middle-class man hitting bottom, for reasons that are both as obvious as the empty beer cans that pile up around him and as elusive as the never-seen wife who has just walked out of his life. In a single day the man, a midlevel Arizona sales executive named Nick Halsey (Will Ferrell), loses his job and
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/movies/vacation-review.html	Movie Review | 'Vacation!'	A girls-only getaway turns grisly in ''Vacation!,'' Zach Clark's low-key look at what happens when acid drops, and women go wild. Opening with a brief prologue in black and white before melting into postcard-pretty rainbow hues, this deceptively lightweight indie reunites four former college friends in a beach rental in North Carolina. With sexual
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/arts/design/mark-grotjahn-nine-faces.html	ART IN REVIEW; Mark Grotjahn: 'Nine Faces'	Anton Kern Gallery 532 West 20th Street, Chelsea Through June 25 Mark Grotjahn's new paintings are harsh, elegant things that enthrall the eye and splinter the mind. They emphasize painting as a psychic and bodily process fueled in part by the devouring and digesting of previous art to formulate a new synthesis. In particular, these large, vertical
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/arts/design/tibetan-collection-is-reinstalled-at-newark-museum-review.html	ART REVIEW; A Glow From Within And on the Surface	NEWARK -- This vulnerable and volatile city, stuck on the downside of a boom-and-bust cycle for decades, could be one of the most peaceful places on earth for the next few days. Beginning on Friday, a three-day meeting called the Newark Peace Education Summit convenes at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, near the city's struggling commercial
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/11/arts/design/chamberlain.html	Art Among the Wreckage	A look at a new exhibit of works by the artist John Chamberlain.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/11/arts/design/chamberlain-5.html	Art Among the Wreckage	A look at a new exhibit of works by the artist John Chamberlain.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/11/arts/design/chamberlain-9.html	Art Among the Wreckage	A look at a new exhibit of works by the artist John Chamberlain.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/11/arts/design/chamberlain-7.html	Art Among the Wreckage	A look at a new exhibit of works by the artist John Chamberlain.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/11/arts/design/chamberlain-2.html	Art Among the Wreckage	A look at a new exhibit of works by the artist John Chamberlain.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/11/arts/design/chamberlain-3.html	Art Among the Wreckage	A look at a new exhibit of works by the artist John Chamberlain.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/11/arts/design/chamberlain-4.html	Art Among the Wreckage	A look at a new exhibit of works by the artist John Chamberlain.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/15/theater/theaterspecial/20110515-tony-awards-critics-picks.html	And the Nominees Should Be ...	The theater critics of The New York Times make their Tony Award choices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/theater/on-arthur-laurents-memories-from-stephen-sondheim-and-others.html	Comparing Stage Notes On Laurents	Asked by New York Magazine to talk about the pugnacious writer Arthur Laurents in 2009, the composer Mary Rodgers Guettel responded bluntly, ''Call me back when he's dead.'' So I did. The answer remained: no comment. Since Mr. Laurents died only last week, at 93, this was surely good manners. Considering that he was one of the most formidable,
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/movies/city-of-life-and-death-from-lu-chuan-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH'; A Tale of Nanjing Atrocities That Spares No Brutal Detail	Two terrible faces stare out from ''City of Life and Death,'' a fictionalized telling of the Rape of Nanjing, a pair of indelible bookends for this anguished film. The first belongs to Lu (Liu Ye), who, with hundreds of other soldiers, has been rounded up by invading Japanese troops amid a frenzy of violence. The close-up of Lu's impassive face
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/08/movies/woody-allen-movies-2.html	Allen Abroad	A look at the films Woody Allen has made outside of New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/08/movies/woody-allen-movies-5.html	Allen Abroad	A look at the films Woody Allen has made outside of New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/08/movies/woody-allen-movies-6.html	Allen Abroad	A look at the films Woody Allen has made outside of New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/08/movies/woody-allen-movies.html	Allen Abroad	A look at the films Woody Allen has made outside of New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/08/movies/woody-allen-movies-4.html	Allen Abroad	A look at the films Woody Allen has made outside of New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/08/arts/20110508-WIC-ss-3.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, May 7	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/08/arts/20110508-WIC-ss-6.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, May 7	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/08/arts/20110508_noire_ss-6.html	Actors Take Lead Roles in New Video Game	L.A. Noire forgoes typical animation, instead using video of real actors — some 400 of them.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/08/arts/20110508-WIC-ss-2.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, May 7	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/08/arts/20110508-WIC-ss-16.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, May 7	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802EED8153EF93BA35756C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Picture Books: Sunday, May 8th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the May 8, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending April 23, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE3DA1F3BF93BA35756C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | MAY 8-MAY 14	Theater Ben Brantley Linguistically rich, thematically strange and infinitely theatrical, ''THE TEMPEST'' draws visionary directors the way Hamlet attracts ambitious actors. In recent decades Shakespeare's valedictory work has been interpreted as a post-colonial parable (on Broadway in 1995 by George C. Wolfe); as the fever dream of a single
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/arts/video-games/la-noire-from-rock-star-games.html	Video Game to Play In Vintage Gumshoes	LOS ANGELES A POSTAL clerk heading to work before dawn found a woman's naked body in a gutter a few blocks from City Hall, a silk stocking tied tight around her neck. The year was 1947, and it had only been a few months since the infamous ''Black Dahlia'' murder nearby. The city was on edge. Was a serial killer at work? The victim was Rosenda
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E6D7153EF93BA35756C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Nonfiction: Sunday, May 8th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the May 8, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending April 23, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/books/review/crime-novels-by-thomas-perry-belinda-bauer-chris-knopf-and-robert-b-parker.html	CRIME; The Departed	Maybe you've heard of him. Named after the foster father (Eddie the Butcher) who taught him his trade, and introduced almost 30 years ago by Thomas Perry in ''The Butcher's Boy,'' this cold-blooded professional killer is one of the immortals of the genre. Michael Schaeffer, to give this /antihero his current alias, seemed a bit mechanical when he
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E3DA1F3BF93BA35756C0A9679D8B63	CORRECTIONS	An entry in the August film listings last Sunday in the Summer Movies section, about ''Spy Kids 4,'' referred incorrectly to the actor Tony Shalhoub. He is not in the movie.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E2DA1F3BF93BA35756C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | MAY 8-MAY 14	Film Neil Genzlinger Inattentive readers of movie timetables who are looking for Jim Mickle's ''Stake Land,'' a recently released zombie film, but accidentally wander into ''SKATELAND'' are going to be perplexed. There's not a zombie, vampire or other ghoul in sight. Just a town full of young people waiting for their world to change. ''Skateland,''
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/books/review/selling-books-by-day-writing-them-by-night.html	ESSAY; Don't I Know You From the Dust Jacket?	Like all good independent bookstores, BookCourt in Brooklyn has a robust section of staff recommendations. There, nestled in with titles by Jennifer Egan, Haruki Murakami and David Foster Wallace, is ''Other People We Married,'' a collection of short stories by Emma Straub. A handwritten note taped to the wall below reads: ''I wrote this book.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/books/review/strategic-deployment.html	LETTERS; Strategic Deployment	To the Editor: Michael Beschloss's review of ''The Age of Airpower,'' by Martin van Creveld (April 24), confuses the issue of when and how to use air power in war. He correctly notes that modern wars -- especially ''asymmetrical,'' guerrilla-style combat -- cannot be won solely through strategic bombing; victory is possible only on the ground.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/arts/music/sonntag-by-karlheinz-stockhausen-in-cologne.html	An Operatic Conundrum Untangled	COLOGNE, Germany AFTER a triumphant premiere at the New York Philharmonic in 1971, the story goes, the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was approached by a strange figure. Clad in a goatskin cape, carrying a staff and holding a thick book, the man stood out even amid the colorful throng of hippies and bohemians who had shown up to hear
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/arts/the-bronx-for-fair-and-films-brooklyn-for-funk-and-photos.html	Weekend Miser	Manhattan has its charms to be sure, but this week misers may have to travel north or south to get the best deals. Head uptown on Thursday for the start of Bronx Week, a celebration of that borough's diverse art, food, music and culture. The program, in its 40th year, continues through May 22 with a fair that includes rides for children; a film
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/movies/daydream-nation-with-kat-dennings-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'DAYDREAM NATION'; Picking Up Extra Credit, And Teacher, After School	''Daydream Nation'' rolls elements of ''Juno,'' ''American Beauty,'' ''Donnie Darko'' and ''Twin Peaks'' into a potent blunt. When inhaled, it offers a harsh satirical whiff of the end of the world as imagined by a precocious teenage upstart with a bad attitude. Beckoning you to the apocalypse is its narrator, Caroline Wexler (Kat Dennings), a
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/movies/crazy-for-thimbles.html	Movie Review | 'Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story'	By the end of this perky, quirky documentary by Kevin Tostado, you might think that Monopoly, the durable board game, ranks right up there with the Bible in cultural and spiritual importance. It doesn't, of course, but don't tell that to any of the people who appear in this film; they are obsessed with the game beyond all reason and seem darned
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/arts/design/beach-houses-by-horace-gifford-and-andrew-geller.html	ANTIQUES; Renderings in the Sand	Midcentury-modern beach houses, their jaunty, angled forms clad in weathered cedar siding, have faced tear-down threats for two decades now. The archives of their architects, however, are sometimes enjoying better fates. Two scholars are sorting through faded color slides, rolled blueprints and musty photo albums related to low-slung houses perched
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/books/pulse-short-stories-by-julian-barnes-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Love, Loss, Change And Being English	PULSE By Julian Barnes 227 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $25. As his many novels and earlier short stories have demonstrated, Julian Barnes is one of those confident literary decathletes, proficient at old-fashioned storytelling, dialogue-driven portraiture, postmodern collage, and political allegory and farce. He's a true literary professional whose
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/arts/design/collecting-matisse-at-jewish-museum-review.html	ART REVIEW; What They Loved and What They Bought	''Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore,'' at the Jewish Museum, samples the extraordinary trove of European art amassed by two American spinsters in the first half of the 20th century. The Baltimore Museum of Art owns their collection -- all 3,000 pieces, including some 500 Matisses -- but others are free to tell the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/arts/design/crystal-bridges-museum-receives-800-million-from-walton-family.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Crystal Bridges Museum Receives $800 Million From Walton Family	The Walton Family Foundation has contributed $800 million to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Arkansas Times reported. The amount is thought to be one of the largest donations to an American museum. Founded by Alice L. Walton, the Wal-Mart heiress whose father, Sam Walton, opened his first store in Bentonville, Ark., in 1951, Crystal
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/05/arts/20110506-greenway-10.html	Cycling the Waterfront	The Manhattan Waterfront Greenway snakes for more than 28 miles along rivers, under bridges and through parks.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/05/arts/20110506-greenway-4.html	Cycling the Waterfront	The Manhattan Waterfront Greenway snakes for more than 28 miles along rivers, under bridges and through parks.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/05/arts/20110506-greenway-8.html	Cycling the Waterfront	The Manhattan Waterfront Greenway snakes for more than 28 miles along rivers, under bridges and through parks.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/03/arts/dance/0503WESTFEST-8.html	WestFest Dance Festival	The event on Sunday at the Westbeth Center for the Arts allowed audiences to wander through the building and stop for short performances along the way.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/03/arts/dance/0503WESTFEST-4.html	WestFest Dance Festival	The event on Sunday at the Westbeth Center for the Arts allowed audiences to wander through the building and stop for short performances along the way.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/03/arts/dance/0503WESTFEST-9.html	WestFest Dance Festival	The event on Sunday at the Westbeth Center for the Arts allowed audiences to wander through the building and stop for short performances along the way.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/03/arts/dance/0503WESTFEST.html	WestFest Dance Festival	The event on Sunday at the Westbeth Center for the Arts allowed audiences to wander through the building and stop for short performances along the way.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/03/arts/dance/0503WESTFEST-7.html	WestFest Dance Festival	The event on Sunday at the Westbeth Center for the Arts allowed audiences to wander through the building and stop for short performances along the way.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/03/arts/dance/0503WESTFEST-6.html	WestFest Dance Festival	The event on Sunday at the Westbeth Center for the Arts allowed audiences to wander through the building and stop for short performances along the way.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/03/arts/dance/0503WESTFEST-2.html	WestFest Dance Festival	The event on Sunday at the Westbeth Center for the Arts allowed audiences to wander through the building and stop for short performances along the way.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/03/arts/dance/0503WESTFEST-3.html	WestFest Dance Festival	The event on Sunday at the Westbeth Center for the Arts allowed audiences to wander through the building and stop for short performances along the way.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EED61F30F930A35756C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Kid Rock Defends Use of Confederate Flag	Kid Rock received an award from the Detroit branch of the N.A.A.C.P. on Sunday night despite the protests of picketers outside the ceremony who said he should not be using the Confederate flag during his performances. The Associated Press reported that about 50 protesters assembled outside the N.A.A.C.P.'s annual Fight for Freedom Fund dinner at
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE3DB1F30F930A35756C0A9679D8B63	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Reading Bin Laden and His World	Since 9/11, there has been an outpouring of books about Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, the Sept. 11 attacks and the war in Afghanistan. Below is an annotated list of some of the more useful ones.Some of these books are primarily concerned with giving the reader a bildungsroman-like account of Bin Laden's transformation into a charismatic leader from a
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/01/movies/summer-movies-coming-soon-13.html	Cowboys, Pirates, Cars and More	A look at some of the films coming to theaters this season.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/01/movies/summer-movies-coming-soon-14.html	Cowboys, Pirates, Cars and More	A look at some of the films coming to theaters this season.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/01/movies/michael-fassbender-3.html	Fassbender in Focus	A look at some of Michael Fassbender’s roles.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/01/movies/summer-movies-coming-soon-10.html	Cowboys, Pirates, Cars and More	A look at some of the films coming to theaters this season.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/01/movies/summer-movies-coming-soon-8.html	Cowboys, Pirates, Cars and More	A look at some of the films coming to theaters this season.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/01/movies/summer-movies-coming-soon-19.html	Cowboys, Pirates, Cars and More	A look at some of the films coming to theaters this season.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/01/movies/michael-fassbender.html	Fassbender in Focus	A look at some of Michael Fassbender’s roles.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/01/movies/michael-fassbender-6.html	Fassbender in Focus	A look at some of Michael Fassbender’s roles.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/01/movies/summer-movies-coming-soon-5.html	Cowboys, Pirates, Cars and More	A look at some of the films coming to theaters this season.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/01/movies/summer-movies-coming-soon-7.html	Cowboys, Pirates, Cars and More	A look at some of the films coming to theaters this season.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E4DD173BF932A35756C0A9679D8B63	The Week Ahead | May 1 - May 7	Theater Jason Zinoman ''I think maybe becoming a parent is an elaborate way of helping yourself tell time,'' Jerry says in one of his many searching meditations on impending fatherhood in Jonathan Marc Sherman's ''KNICKERBOCKER.'' The play, part of the Public Theater's Public Lab series, which presents short runs of new works, is a series of sharp
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E0D8153EF932A35756C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Picture Books: Sunday, May 1st 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the May 1, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending April 16, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E1DE1E39F932A35756C0A9679D8B63	REMIX; Styled to a T	The Designers Andrea Trimarchi, left, and Simone Farresin are Studio Formafantasma's Netherlands-based partners. The Idea After their successful 2010 installation in Milan, featuring everyday objects made of flour and agricultural waste, this year they showed designs made of pre-Bakelite plastics. The Look These plastics, replicated using early
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06E5DA103BF932A35756C0A9679D8B63	SUMMER MOVIES; Creating a God, With Links to Olivier	LOS ANGELES -- As he finished postproduction work on ''Thor'' here at Building 29 on the 20th Century Fox lot, Kenneth Branagh could often be found laboring in any of its massive chambers, from the pitch-black subterranean color-timing suite to the Howard Hawks audio-mixing theater, as cavernous and majestic as Valhalla. But when he needed a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE0D8153EF932A35756C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Series Books: Sunday, May 1st 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the May 1, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending April 16, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/movies/women-as-violent-characters-in-movies.html	SUMMER MOVIES; Gosh, Sweetie, That's a Big Gun	THE summer season brings the usual cavalcade of testosterone-fueled action heroes, including Thor, the Green Lantern, Captain America and Conan the Barbarian. But action-movie derring-do is not always an exclusively male preserve, and in the last year some women and girls -- Evelyn Salt, Lisbeth Salander and the lingerie-clad avengers of ''Sucker
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/movies/kenneth-branaghs-thor-film-of-marvel-comic-hero.html	SUMMER MOVIES; Creating a God, With Links to Olivier	LOS ANGELES -- As he finished postproduction work on ''Thor'' here at Building 29 on the 20th Century Fox lot, Kenneth Branagh could often be found laboring in any of its massive chambers, from the pitch-black subterranean color-timing suite to the Howard Hawks audio-mixing theater, as cavernous and majestic as Valhalla. But when he needed a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/books/review/book-review-libertys-exiles-by-maya-jasanoff.html	Exit the King's Men	LIBERTY'S EXILES American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World By Maya Jasanoff 460 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $30. Only a tiny fraction of the books written on the American Revolution are devoted to the loyalists -- the residents of the 13 colonies who chose to leave their homes rather than become citizens of the new republic. Such a nation-bound
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E1DD103BF932A35756C0A9679D8B63	SUMMER MOVIES; July	July 1 GENERAL ORDERS NO. 9 Robert Persons directed this nonfiction film about the state of Georgia. LARRY CROWNE After being laid off from his retail job, Larry (Tom Hanks) returns to college, where he meets a cranky but alluring communications professor (Julia Roberts). Mr. Hanks directed; with Taraji P. Henson, Nia Vardalos (also a co-writer of
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/arts/dance/boston-ballet-makeover-mikko-nissinen-dance.html	Boston Makeover, No Sugarcoating	Boston HERE is an unusual game to add to the list of competitive virtual activities: playing at being an artistic director, your choices measured against those made by the real head honchos. Imagine an armchair quarterback, with toe shoes. ''In my head I ran all the companies,'' Mikko Nissinen, 49, said, explaining the game he had amused himself
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/movies/sympathy-for-delicious-with-mark-ruffalo-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'SYMPATHY FOR DELICIOUS'; A Cynical Faith Healer Who Can't Fix Himself	Dean O'Dwyer (Christopher Thornton), a k a Delicious D, the paraplegic turntable artist turned faith healer at the center of ''Sympathy for Delicious'' is a paradox in a wheelchair. A cynical nonbeliever who discovers that he has a faith-healing gift that works 75 percent of the time, Dean is understandably miffed when he can heal others but can't
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/books/crime-series-to-continue-despite-authors-death.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Crime Series to Continue Despite Author's Death	Two popular series created by Robert B. Parker, the prolific mystery writer who died last year at the age of 77, will continue under two new authors, his publisher said on Wednesday. G. P. Putnam's Sons, Mr. Parker's publisher, said that the Spenser series, whose first-person hero is a tough Boston private detective, would now be written by Ace
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/arts/design/in-a-perfect-world.html	ART IN REVIEW; 'In a Perfect World'	Meulensteen 511 West 22nd Street, Chelsea Through Saturday The American artist and curator James Elaine moved to China in 2008, and the dozen young artists in this group show are some who have caught his eye there. All were born after the Cultural Revolution, so had no direct experience of the political realities that shaped an earlier generation
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/arts/design/julia-jacquette-water-liquor-hair.html	ART IN REVIEW; Julia Jacquette: 'Water, Liquor, Hair'	Anna Kustera 520 West 21st Street, Chelsea Through May 14 Like alcohol and other consumer products, art can be intoxicating and addictive. In this exhibition, Julia Jacquette serves up a sweet, three-part cocktail on this theme in a selection of glossy, photo-based oil paintings made with tenderly exacting care. Most alluring are her pictures of
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/movies/hoodwinked-too-hood-vs-evil-review.html	Movie Review | 'Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil'	From the Department of Needless Sequels comes ''Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil,'' another Weinstein Company bid to crack the overcrowded field of children's digital animation. A successor to the lackluster ''Hoodwinked!,'' with a cast of formidable voice talents, the film takes fairy-tale characters -- Little Red Riding Hood, the Wolf, the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/theater/theater-listings-april-29-may-5.html	The Listings	Theater Approximate running times are in parentheses. Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of current shows, additional listings, showtimes and tickets: nytimes.com/theater. Previews and Openings 'Be a Good Little Widow' In previews; opens on Monday. A widely commissioned emerging dramatist whose work will also be staged
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/movies/fast-five-with-vin-diesel-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'FAST FIVE'; Vrooooom! Vrooooom! Flex 'Em if You Got 'Em	At one point during the preordained throwdown between the two colossi who stride through ''Fast Five,'' Dwayne Johnson rips off his bulletproof vest with the practiced economy of a 17th-century courtesan flinging off her corset. His character, a professional tough guy bluntly named Hobbs, has just found his fugitive bad twin, Dom, the gnomic guru
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E1DF1F3BF93AA15757C0A9679D8B63	ART REVIEW; Mrs. Whitney's All-American Salon	On May 24 the Whitney Museum of American Art will break ground at the site of its future home in the meatpacking district. And in anticipation of its move there in 2015, the museum has cooked up a series of six back-to-back permanent-collection shows at its present location. The first of them, ''Breaking Ground: The Whitney's Founding Collection,''
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/arts/spare-times-for-children-for-april-29-may-5.html	Spare Times	'SNOW WHITE' By the time this show's wicked Queen says (mistakenly, of course) that she ate Snow White's heart ''with some fava beans and a nice Chianti,'' you've long since realized that you're not in the land of the Brothers Grimm anymore, or of Disney. This production, directed by Stephen Michael Rondel for the New Acting Company, brims with
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/movies/werner-herzogs-cave-of-forgotten-dreams-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS'; Herzog Finds His Inner Cave Man	What a gift Werner Herzog offers with ''Cave of Forgotten Dreams,'' an inside look at the astonishing Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc -- and in 3-D too. In southern France, about 400 miles from Paris, the limestone cave contains a wealth of early paintings, perhaps from as long ago as 32,000 years. Here, amid gleaming stalactites and stalagmites and a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807E3DA1730F934A15757C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Virginia Woolf' Returning to Broadway	George and Martha are coming back to Broadway in 2012, seven years since their last rounds of Get the Guests. Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater Company and the New York producers Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel - the team behind the Tony Award-winning ''August: Osage County'' and last season's ''Superior Donuts'' - will mount Steppenwolf's
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507E0DE173BF935A15757C0A9679D8B63	What's On Today	10 P.M. (National Geographic) THE ANGEL EFFECT Near death as he and two companions trekked for 36 hours over the mountains and glaciers of the sub-Antarctic South Georgia Island, the explorer Ernest Shackleton later wrote, ''It seemed to me often that we were four, not three.'' Years later a 9/11 survivor, an astronaut and a scuba diver would each
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/theater/reviews/the-house-of-blue-leaves-with-ben-stiller-and-edie-falco-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES'; A Papal Visit Has Dreamers Dreaming	What do you get when you take the ''sur'' out of ''surrealism''? That sounds like a question in search of a punch line. But few laughs emerge from the answers provided by the somber new revival of John Guare's ''House of Blue Leaves,'' which opened on Monday night at the Walter Kerr Theater. As directed by David Cromer -- and enacted by a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE4D61F31F935A15757C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Broadway Buoyed by Spring Break	Last week's school vacations were a boon for Broadway, with an unusually high numbers of musicals - 11 - each earning more than $1 million in ticket sales, according to box-office data released by the productions on Monday. Over all, Broadway shows grossed $28.9 million, up from $23.9 million the week before. ''The Lion King'' edged out the usual
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CEFD71F31F935A15757C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Not All Tickets Are Real For 'Book of Mormon'	In one of the least welcome signs of the success that the musical ''The Book of Mormon'' is enjoying on Broadway, representatives said on Monday that counterfeit tickets had been sold to and presented by theatergoers on at least five different occasions in recent weeks. Adam Miller, the company manager for ''The Book of Mormon,'' said in a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/books/imprint-for-chopra.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Imprint for Chopra	The guru and best-selling author Deepak Chopra will run his own small imprint at Random House, called Deepak Chopra Books, the company said on Monday. Dr. Chopra's imprint will be part of Harmony Books, the division of the Crown Publishing Group (itself a division of Random House) that publishes books on health, wellness and spirituality. Using his
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/arts/out-of-doors-lineup.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Out of Doors Lineup	The Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival will open on July 27 with Billy Bragg, the British punk-folk musician, and the United States premiere of his ''Big Busk,'' in which he invites audience members to sing as well as play along on their own guitars to some of his most popular songs, Lincoln Center announced. Mavis Staples, above, who won her
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E7DB1F31F935A15757C0A9679D8B63	Writer of 'Normal Heart' Has Follow-Up Message	''Are you the playwright?'' the young woman asked the bearded, bespectacled older man who was handing out fliers on Sunday night under the marquee of Broadway's Golden Theater. Indeed he was: At age 75, after decades trying to find a bigger platform than Off Broadway for his messages, Larry Kramer is making his Broadway debut with ''The Normal
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/books/diana-b-henriques-on-madoff-in-wizard-of-lies-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Post-Mortem on Madoff's Fraud While Scandal Is Still Quivering	By 1992 at the latest, and probably by 1987, Bernard Madoff had started the largest Ponzi scheme in history, whose existence was revealed only in December 2008 when, amid the devastation of the global financial crisis, Mr. Madoff ran out of money, confessed and was turned in by his dumbfounded sons. The fraud's collapse revealed paper losses of
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/books/book-country-an-online-site-by-penguin-group.html	Aspiring Authors Get Help Online	In the old days of publishing, getting your manuscript into the hands of an editor often meant mailing the unsolicited finished product to the offices of literary agents or editors, where it would receive a cursory look from an editorial assistant -- or none at all. A modern version of the slush pile is the online ''writing community,'' a Web site
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/books/review/book-review-save-me-by-lisa-scottoline.html	Bullies in the Burbs	SAVE ME By Lisa Scottoline 373 pp. St. Martin's Press. $27.99. Bullying is a topic that seems to push everyone's hot buttons (even President Obama recorded his own antibullying message). But while most attention centers on the damage done to kids, Lisa Scottoline, in her latest legal thriller, nimbly homes in on the ordeals inflicted on parents --
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/books/review/book-review-a-sea-in-flames-by-carl-safina.html	State of Petroshock	A SEA IN FLAMES The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout By Carl Safina Illustrated. 352 pp. Crown Publishers. $25. In April 2010, an explosion aboard the BP drill rig Deepwater Horizon killed 11 workers and caused the worst oil spill ever in American waters. Initially, government officials and BP officers denied the situation was serious. As details of
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E1D8153EF937A15757C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Advice, How-To And Miscellaneous: Sunday, April 24th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the April 24, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending April 9, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/theater/derek-jacobi-in-king-lear.html	For Derek Jacobi, Now Is the Time For a Certain Role	LONDON WHAT is the right age to play King Lear, as rich, anguished and demanding a role as any that Shakespeare wrote? Play it in your prime, before the specter of mortality has stared you in the face, and you risk seeming callow and implausible. Leave it too long, as some critics believed Laurence Olivier did when he played Lear in a 1984
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E0D8153EF937A15757C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Nonfiction: Sunday, April 24th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the April 24, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending April 9, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E1D8153EF937A15757C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Manga: Sunday, April 24th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the April 24, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending April 9, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E2D8153EF937A15757C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Paperback Books: Sunday, April 24th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the April 24, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending April 9, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/books/review/InsideList-t.html	TBR; Inside the List	X FACTOR: Manning Marable's long-awaited ''Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention'' hits No. 3 on the hardcover nonfiction list this week, trailing admiring reviews and eulogies for Marable, who died a few days before the book's publication. Marable has ''done as thorough and exhaustive a job as has ever been done in piecing together the life and
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9401E1D8153EF937A15757C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Graphic Books: Sunday, April 24th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the April 24, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending April 9, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/arts/music/the-pretty-reckless-jamie-woon-and-monchy-nathalia.html	PLAYLIST; Rowdy Muscularity and Sweet Harmonies	The Pretty Reckless Usually it falls to the writers to get a character purged from a network television series, but Taylor Momsen, who plays the naïve manipulator Jenny Humphrey on ''Gossip Girl,'' appears to be taking matters into her own hands. For the last two years her other alter ego has been as the frontwoman of the Pretty Reckless, a
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/22/arts/design/20110423-tunic-ss-11.html	Andean Tunics at the Met	The exhibition looks at the festive garments form south of the equator.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/22/arts/design/20110423-museum-ss-7.html	Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center	The $45 million museum opened in Skokie, Ill., two years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/22/arts/design/20110423-tunic-ss-7.html	Andean Tunics at the Met	The exhibition looks at the festive garments form south of the equator.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/22/arts/design/20110423-museum-ss-8.html	Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center	The $45 million museum opened in Skokie, Ill., two years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/22/arts/design/20110423-museum-ss.html	Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center	The $45 million museum opened in Skokie, Ill., two years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/01/books/review/bestsellers-weekly-graphic.html	Best Sellers Weekly Graphic: Nora Roberts & J.D. Robb	Nora Roberts, who also writes under the pseudonym J.D. Robb, has had five books on the hardcover fiction list since the start of 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/arts/television/isabella-rossellini-in-animals-distract-me-on-planet-green.html	Relishing the Role Of a Dog's Best Friend	FOR young Bau, there is a lot to learn yet. For instance, that it's not a good idea to walk your human full speed into a lamppost. Especially when your human has a money face. When she is, say, Isabella Rossellini. Ms. Rossellini is, of course, an actress of some renown, but during a recent stroll in Midtown Manhattan, she wasn't acting, she was
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/arts/television/cinema-verite-with-tim-robbins-and-diane-lane-review.html	TELEVISION REVIEW | 'CINEMA VERITE'; The First Airing of Dirty Laundry	In 1973, when PBS broadcast ''An American Family,'' that documentary series about the Loud family of Santa Barbara, Calif., seemed like television engagé: a camera-armed rebellion against the scripted contrivances of canned and conventional television. So it's telling -- almost a signal of surrender -- that ''Cinema Verite,'' an HBO movie about
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/movies/when-harry-tries-to-marry-by-nayan-padrai-review.html	Movie Review | 'When Harry Tries to Marry'	Calling your romantic comedy ''When Harry Tries to Marry'' is a no-win proposition. Producing smarm at the high level of ''When Harry Met Sally'' requires special talent, and when you fall short all you're left with is garden-variety smarm. Nayan Padrai's ''Marry'' starts with a premise sturdy enough to support a decent comedy. Harry (Rahul Rai), a
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/movies/exodus-fall-by-ankush-kohli-and-chad-waterhouse-review.html	Movie Review | 'Exodus Fall'	The moment it's evident that ''Exodus Fall'' is going to be a chore comes awfully early: the first scene after supertitles that set this would-be coming-of-age road trip movie in 1974. Three teenage siblings are stuck in the desert of White Sands, N.M., while the oldest, Kenneth, tries to change a tire on their aging station wagon. As a mysterious
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE1DF1731F933A15757C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; HBO Orders More 'Game of Thrones'	4:07 p.m. | Updated It may take uninitiated viewers a few episodes of ''Game of Thrones'' to fully understand the intertwined family rivalries of the Starks, Lannisters and Targaryens, but HBO isn't waiting that long to commit to more episodes of that fantasy series. On Tuesday, the network said it had ordered a second season of ''Game of
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07EFDC1731F933A15757C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; New Book From Coulter	The conservative columnist and author Ann Coulter has vowed to ''take on the liberal mob'' in her new book, ''Demonic,'' whose publication was announced on Tuesday. The book is scheduled for release on June 7 by Crown Forum, part of Random House. The publisher says Ms. Coulter will address topics including ''the Democratic Party's coddling of
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2DD1731F933A15757C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Metropolitan Opera to Make Japan Trip	The Metropolitan Opera, after saying its tour this June to Japan was in jeopardy because of safety concerns, announced on Tuesday that it would go ahead with the trip. Peter Gelb, the Met's general manager, said in a message to the company that its decision was based on a recent advisory from the State Department that ''health and safety risks''
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507EFDA1338F933A15757C0A9679D8B63	What's On Today	9 P.M. (HBO) SAVING PELICAN 895 (2011) ''When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe,'' the conservationist John Muir famously said. Irene Taylor Brodsky uses a variant of Muir's quotation to introduce this short documentary about the degreasing of an adolescent brown pelican rescued in
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07EEDD1731F933A15757C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Lovato Leaves 'Sonny With a Chance'	The Disney Channel star Demi Lovato is leaving her popular television show, ''Sonny With a Chance,'' the channel confirmed Tuesday. ''I don't think going back to 'Sonny' would be healthy for my recovery,'' Ms. Lovato told People magazine. ''Being in front of a camera would make me nervous.'' Ms. Lovato, 18, withdrew from a concert tour with the
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/theater/reviews/reading-under-the-influence-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'READING UNDER THE INFLUENCE'; Here's to the Ladies Who Lurch	Note to Tony Glazer: This was a cute idea. A group of affluent, white-wine-drinking Westchester County book-club women whose leader sells them to television as a reality show. But almost everything about ''Reading Under the Influence: The 'Real' Westchester Women's Book Club'' is not cute. Mr. Glazer's casually misogynist play, now at the DR2
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/books/alexandra-styrons-memoir-reading-my-father-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Recalling Childhood As a Styron	READING MY FATHER A Memoir By Alexandra Styron Illustrated. 285 pages. Scribner. $25. When Alexandra Styron, the youngest of the novelist William Styron's four children, was growing up, she writes in her new memoir, there was one inviolate rule in the house: ''Don't ask Daddy about his work.'' This was no simple edict to live by. Styron (1925-2006)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E5DC1731F933A15757C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Dark Knight' Cast Has a Familiar Look	The cast of ''The Dark Knight Rises,'' Christopher Nolan's third and final entry in his series of Batman movies, is looking increasingly like the cast of his 2010 summer blockbuster ''Inception,'' with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cotillard now officially on board for that superhero film. Warner Brothers Pictures said on Tuesday that Mr.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/movies/espn-sports-film-series-at-tribeca-festival.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; The Lives Sports Change Indelibly	Basketball as a way to rise above the reservation. Surfing as a way to get off the island (in this case, Papua New Guinea). Cricket as a way to transcend third-world stereotypes. Reaching for a foul ball as a way to ruin your life. Transformation may be the subject of every sports movie, in one way or another, but the seven documentaries that
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E3DE1F3EF933A15757C0A9679D8B63	A WORD WITH: JOSS WHEDON; A Midlife Crisis With Songs, And Other Ideas	In the pantheon of fantasy and science-fiction projects that Joss Whedon helped create, the Internet musical ''Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog'' can be easy to overlook: it's not his beloved television series that ran a healthy seven seasons (''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''), or its beloved spinoff (''Angel''), or his misunderstood television show that
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/17/arts/design/20110417-WIC-ss.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, April 17	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/17/arts/04172011_reality-slide-5.html	ComicCon for Aspiring Snookis	The Reality Rocks Expo, held in Los Angeles last weekend, was the first major fan convention for reality television fans.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/17/arts/04172011_FEY-slide-9.html	Comedy’s ‘Bossypants’	Tina Fey has written a bestselling memoir chronicling a career that has taken her from improv at Second City to “Saturday Night Live,” movies and “30 Rock.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/17/arts/04172011_FEY-slide-4.html	Comedy’s ‘Bossypants’	Tina Fey has written a bestselling memoir chronicling a career that has taken her from improv at Second City to “Saturday Night Live,” movies and “30 Rock.”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04E6DA1E39F934A25757C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | APRIL 17-APRIL 23	Television Kathryn Shattuck Any number of grandiose labels were pinned on John Muir (1838-1914) -- ''The Father of Our National Parks,'' ''Wilderness Prophet,'' ''Citizen of the Universe'' -- but the most accurate description was perhaps his own: a ''poetico-trampo-geologist-botanist and ornithologist-naturalist etc. etc.'' A force behind the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E05E3D8153EF934A25757C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Hardcover & Paperback Fiction: Sunday, April 17th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the April 17, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending April 2, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/books/review/master-statesman.html	LETTERS; Master Statesman	To the Editor: Henry A. Kissinger's excellent review of Jonathan Steinberg's ''Bismarck: A Life'' (April 3) correctly points out that political scientists credit the Prussian chancellor with some of the most significant feats of diplomacy during the 19th and 20th centuries. By unifying a loosely knit jumble of aristocratic entities into the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E1D71139F934A25757C0A9679D8B63	COMMENTS	Here's a sampling of reader responses to John Anderson's article about how hard it is to keep the surprise endings of today's movies a secret. ''Spoilers rarely have meaning for me for the films that I most enjoy. Even knowing the plot of 'Vertigo' does not change the tone of mystery, malaise and meaninglessness that haunts viewing the film now --
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E4D8153EF934A25757C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Series Books: Sunday, April 17th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the April 17, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending April 2, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/books/review/james-pattersons-success.html	LETTERS; James Patterson's Success	To the Editor: The April 3 graphic depicting James Patterson's many recent best sellers (''Writer in Residence'') states, ''James Patterson has had his name on the cover of eight books on the hardcover fiction best-seller list over the past year.'' I applaud the attention to Patterson's success, but I have to protest what I believe is a strong
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/15/theater/20110415-warhorse-8.html	‘War Horse’	Photos from the production at Lincoln Center Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/04/24/books/review/bestsellers-weekly-graphic.html	BEST SELLERS WEEKLY GRAPHIC; A Second Debut for ‘The Help’	Kathryn Stockett’s “The Help,” a tale of a young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi, tops today’s trade paperback list in its first week of release in that format.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/04/17/books/review/bestsellers-weekly-graphic.html	BEST SELLERS WEEKLY GRAPHIC; A 30-Year Run for Jean M. Auel	The Land of Painted Caves, the sixth book in Jean M. Auel’s ice age Earth’s Children series, debuts at No. 1 on the hardcover fiction list this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/arts/music/easter-services-programs-of-classical-music.html	Sanctuaries of Sound to Observe the Easter Holiday	A sampling of noteworthy musical presentations planned for the holiday season at churches and other sites in New York, from Friday through Easter Sunday, compiled by Anne Mancuso. All are free unless otherwise noted. (Churches accept donations. Unless noted, church choirs are featured in church concerts.) Friday New York University, Deutsches Haus,
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/movies/phillip-the-fossil-movie-review.html	Movie Review | 'Phillip the Fossil'	The title character of Garth Donovan's ''Phillip the Fossil'' walks a meandering line between antihero and hero. A superannuated New England townie -- at 29 (or so), he might as well be 50 to the teenagers he hangs out with -- Phillip sells steroids to the local jocks and has sex with high school girls while also trying to turn his life around by
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/movies/the-conspirator-directed-by-robert-redford-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE CONSPIRATOR'; History's Loose Ends, And a Tightening Noose	I happened to see ''The Conspirator,'' a new historical drama directed by Robert Redford, on the day that the Obama administration, reversing its earlier position, announced that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four others would be tried by a military tribunal for their suspected roles in the Sept. 11 attacks. This coincidence underscored the film's
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E7DD153EF936A25757C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Anything Goes' Extends Into 2012	Broadway's revival of ''Anything Goes'' won't be going anywhere any time soon. On Wednesday, Roundabout Theater Company announced that its production of that Cole Porter musical, starring Sutton Foster as the evangelizing nightclub singer Reno Sweeney and Joel Grey as the milquetoast gangster Moonface Martin, will extend its run by about six
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CEEDA123EF936A25757C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Media Executive to Run Arts Center in Newark	John Schreiber, a media executive, has been selected as the new president and chief executive of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in downtown Newark, the center's board announced on Thursday. Mr. Schreiber, who takes over on July 1, will replace the center's founding head of 22 years, Lawrence P. Goldman, who will lead the center's new
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/arts/design/josh-smith-brant-foundation-venice-biennale.html	INSIDE ART; Josh Smith in Venice And Connecticut	The New York painter Josh Smith calls Peter Brant ''the guy with the eye.'' It's an apt phrase for a well-known talent spotter and dealmaker who was in his 20s when he met Warhol and has since amassed one of the largest holdings of work by that Pop Art master. (Mr. Brant also owns Interview Magazine, which Warhol founded in 1969.) But his holdings
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/movies/fly-away-movie-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'FLY AWAY'; Movie Review | 'Fly Away'	Treading warily into territory that few dramas dare to explore, ''Fly Away'' is a defiantly unsentimental look at the complex codependency between a harried single mother and her severely autistic daughter. For Jeanne (Beth Broderick, excellent), each day is a bone-wearying struggle. Soothing her 15-year-old daughter, Mandy (Ashley Rickards),
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/arts/music/jon-nakamatsu-at-the-metropolitan-museum.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Muscularity And Grace In Sounds Of Romance	The pianist Jon Nakamatsu plays with the calm assurance that comes of having both a solid technique and a gentle, introspective, interpretive spirit. On past encounters, that combination has made him sound unduly reserved. But at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturday evening, Mr. Nakamatsu, who won the Van Cliburn International Piano
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E4DF123EF937A25757C0A9679D8B63	THEATER IN REVIEW; Nuevo Laredo	Dixon Place 161A Chrystie Street, near Delancey Street, Lower East Side Through April 23 ''In the ghost town of Nuevo Laredo, an assassin, a New Age drug lord and La Santa Muerte (St. Death) deal in the day-to-day business of Death, Faith and Rehab.'' Such is the succinct yet rather all-encompassing plot description in the news release for ''Nuevo
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/arts/music/james-taylor-at-carnegie-hall-music-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; A Distinctive American Voice, Ever Yearning for Home Sweet Home	James Taylor may be the foremost contemporary composer of what you might call American lullabies. ''Carolina in My Mind,'' ''Sweet Baby James,'' ''Shower the People,'' ''My Traveling Star'' and ''You Can Close Your Eyes,'' all of which he performed at a Carnegie Hall gala concert on Tuesday evening celebrating the hall's 120th year, share the same
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/arts/music/lonette-mckee-at-algonquin-oak-room-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; The Delivery: Eccentric. The Attitude: Carefree.	Nearly 24 years have passed since I first saw the pop-soul singer Lonette McKee perform a cabaret act at the now-defunct Ballroom in Chelsea and had the kind of epiphany that a nightclub critic rarely experiences. Here was a performer with a stylistic fluidity that encompassed jazz, pop-soul and standards and a rangy voice with an emotional catch
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/theater/reviews/one-night-with-fanny-brice.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'ONE NIGHT WITH FANNY BRICE'; A Funny Girl Strives to Survive	It's to the credit of the actress Kimberly Faye Greenberg and the writer-director-arranger Chip Deffaa -- with help from the passing decades -- that the solo show ''One Night With Fanny Brice'' ducks the formidably long shadow of Barbra Streisand and ''Funny Girl,'' the 1964 Broadway musical about Brice, the vaudevillian, Ziegfeld performer,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/crosswords/bridge/14card.html	BRIDGE; Choosing Between Leading Partner's Suit or Your Own	You pick up A-9-5-4-3-2 of spades and 8-4 of hearts. Your lefthand opponent opens one club, which is either natural or a balanced hand with 12 to 14 points; your partner overcalls one heart; and the responder on your right jumps to three no-trump. What do you do, lead the heart eight or try a surprise attack with the spade four? The United States
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E3D8143EF937A25757C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Cameron and Jackson To Try New Filming Style	Two of Hollywood's most progressive directors, James Cameron and Peter Jackson, are pushing forward with a new style of shooting that they say will make 3-D movies easier to watch. Film purists are likely to howl, and the majority of movie theaters don't have compatible projection equipment. On Monday Mr. Jackson caused a stir in cinema geek
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/arts/dance/dancebrazil-and-jelon-vieira-at-the-joyce-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; A Slave-Era Legacy Infuses a Brazilian Style With Fighting Moves	For better or worse, DanceBrazil has become something of a perennial at the Joyce Theater. The company, which opened a two-week season on Tuesday night, specializes in capoeira, the Brazilian form believed to have been started by slaves as a type of self-defense. Since it was prohibited, the movement form was disguised as dance. In theatricalizing
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E2D7153EF937A25757C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Stanford Chooses Firm For Art Building	The architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, which seems to get every big commission these days, has been selected for yet another one. Stanford University has chosen the firm to design its new home for the art and art history department, the university is to announce Thursday. The 90,000-square-foot Burton and Deedee McMurtry Building will
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/movies/sharjah-biennial-battles-the-director-caveh-zahedi.html	A Film Angers An Emirate Festival	In retrospect, perhaps the curators of the Sharjah Biennial, the huge contemporary art event now under way in the Persian Gulf region, should have thought twice before inviting the participation of an Iranian-American filmmaker whose biggest hit to date -- a quasi-documentary about himself was called ''I Am a Sex Addict'' and whose film before that
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/arts/music/eric-clapton-and-wynton-marsalis-at-lincoln-center-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Pairing Their Sounds And Sharing the Blues	Eric Clapton chose the songs and Wynton Marsalis laid out the musical territory for ''Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton Play the Blues,'' the Jazz at Lincoln Center concert at Rose Theater on Friday night, the first of two shows. It was a concert so fixated on elegant details that its blues were bloodless. Mr. Clapton selected songs recorded long
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE2DF1139F932A25757C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Jackson Poetry Prize	James Richardson has received this year's Jackson Poetry Prize, a $50,000 award presented to an American poet by Poets & Writers, a nonprofit organization for creative writers. Mr. Richardson's latest collection, ''By the Numbers: Poems and Aphorisms,'' was released by Copper Canyon Press in November and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/theater/reviews/were-gonna-die-by-young-jean-lee-at-joes-pub-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'WE'RE GONNA DIE'; Amid Catchy Choruses, Personal Tales of Life's Brutal Verities	The perky refrains in the freaky existential cabaret written and performed by the playwright Young Jean Lee are probably not going to be squeaked out by Britney Spears, wailed by Mariah Carey or even bellowed by the freak-flag-waving Lady Gaga anytime soon. One runs thus: ''Horrible things happen all the time.'' Kind of blunt, right? How about this
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/arts/music/detroit-symphony-returns-from-strike-to-a-giddy-reception.html	Detroit Symphony Returns to a Giddy Reception	DETROIT -- As the musicians took the stage, applause and cheering erupted. ''We love you guys!'' a concertgoer yelled. A violinist mouthed, ''Wow,'' another tapped her music stand with her bow in appreciation, and the awe-struck players stood facing a packed-to-the rafters audience for five minutes while the love flowed over them. The Detroit
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/arts/design/woody-woodpecker-and-shamus-culhanes-animation.html	That Noisy Woodpecker Had an Animated Secret	LOS ANGELES -- Sixteen years ago Tom Klein was staring at a Woody Woodpecker cartoon, ''The Loose Nut,'' when he started seeing things. Specifically, Mr. Klein watched that maniacal red-topped bird smash a steamroller through the door of a shed. The screen then exploded into images that looked less like the stuff of a Walter Lantz cartoon than like
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/arts/music/where-the-wild-things-are-at-city-opera-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Grab Your Wolf Suits And Open Your Ears	The New York City Opera, struggling to close a $5 million deficit, has postponed its announcement of its next season, which is troubling news for opera buffs and supporters of this essential company. But the audience that packed the David H. Koch Theater on Saturday afternoon for a special Family Opera in Concert event seemed anything but troubled.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/arts/music/unsound-festival-at-alice-tully-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Watching the Trees and Portraits Go By, on Wings of Violins	The Unsound Festival, a celebration of contemporary music with an emphasis on the avant-garde, has flourished in Krakow, Poland, since 2003, when it was started by Mat Schulz, an Australian writer who settled there in 1995. Last year Mr. Schulz brought an edition of the festival to New York, and it proved a lively addition to the city's thriving
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/arts/music/robert-browning-to-leave-his-world-music-institute.html	New York's Pioneering World Music Impresario Announces His Retirement	Since 1985 there have always been two things you could count on at a World Music Institute concert: stirring traditional sounds (and dance) from a faraway corner of the planet, and a dry yet thoughtful introduction by Robert Browning, the institute's founder and executive director. After the World Music Institute's 26th annual season wraps up next
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/crosswords/bridge/11card.html	BRIDGE; A Few Big Boards Decide a Junior Teams Title	The sixth White House Junior Teams tournament took place in the Netherlands late last month. Twenty-four teams from 20 countries (the Dutch had three teams competing and the Israelis two) played a 10-board round robin to qualify four teams for 24-board semifinals. The Israel Juniors team of Alon Birman, Dror Padon, Lotan Fisher and Ron Schwartz led
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/movies/russell-brand-is-up-and-down-at-movie-theaters.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Russell Brand Is Up and Down at Movie Theaters	''Hop'' was No. 1 at North American theaters for a second weekend in a row, selling an estimated $21.7 million in tickets for Universal Pictures (for a total of $68.2 million). But it was one of those weekends when a flop was the news: ''Arthur,'' a $40 million Warner Brothers remake starring Russell Brand, right, was a distant second with about
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5D8153EF933A25757C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Advice, How-To And Miscellaneous: Sunday, April 10th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the April 10, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending March 26, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E4DC1739F933A25757C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD: APRIL 10 - APRIL 16	Art Robin Pogrebin DIANNA MOLZAN earned her master's degree in fine arts from the University of Southern California in 2009. Now she is having her first solo museum show and New York debut at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The show, ''Dianna Molzan: Bologna Meissen,'' explores how her works incorporate elements of fashion, decorative arts,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E1DC1E39F933A25757C0A9679D8B63	CHILDREN'S BOOKS; BOOKSHELF: GREEN	CLOUDETTE By Tom Lichtenheld. 40 pp. Christy Ottaviano/Holt. $16.99. (Picture book; ages 3 to 7) Cloudette, an impeccably cute cloud, has ambitions that outpace her modest size. ''She wanted to make a brook babble. She wanted to make a waterfall fall. And she thought nothing would be more fun than giving some kids a day off from school.'' Her tale
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E7DE1439F933A25757C0A9679D8B63	James Brown And Al Pacino, Salsa Added	DANCER is probably not the first word that comes to mind when describing John Leguizamo. But that could change after watching this versatile actor and provocative writer's performance in ''Ghetto Klown,'' his latest autobiographical one-man Broadway show, now at the Lyceum Theater. Reviewing it for The New York Times, Charles Isherwood wrote of Mr.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06EED61739F933A25757C0A9679D8B63	COMMENTS	Here's a reader's response to Neil Genzlinger's comic essay about television reality shows -- actual and made up. ''How about 'I'll Eat It (if You Don't Want It)': People who have recently ended up on the street after losing their homes and savings compete with one another for food left on tables or thrown into the Dumpsters outside exclusive
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0D61230F933A25757C0A9679D8B63	CRIME; Courtroom Drama	With perfect (if shamelessly calculated) timing, THE FIFTH WITNESS (Little, Brown, $27.99), Michael Connelly's new legal mystery featuring Mickey Haller -- known in certain circles as the Lincoln Lawyer because he does business out of the back seat of his Town Car -- arrives in bookstores at the same time the feature film adapted from the first
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0D8113FF933A25757C0A9679D8B63	CLASSICAL RECORDINGS: ROSSINI: STABAT MATER	Vocal soloists; Orchestra and Chorus of the National Academy of St. Cecilia, conducted by Antonio Pappano. EMI Classics 6 40529 2; CD. AFTER composing 39 operas during a spectacularly successful two-decade run, Rossini retired from the field at 38, the wealthiest composer of his time, finally free to hobnob in artistic circles and indulge his
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E5D8153EF933A25757C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Advice, How-To And Miscellaneous: Sunday, April 10th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the April 10, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending March 26, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E6DF1330F933A25757C0A9679D8B63	Creation Myths	BASEBALL IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN The Secret History of the Early Game By John Thorn Illustrated. 365 pp. Simon & Schuster. $26. Among the many books that have educated us about the birth and infancy of baseball, John Thorn's extraordinarily detailed and well-documented ''Baseball in the Garden of Eden'' is the advanced seminar, the one that begins by
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07E6D8153EF933A25757C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Chapter Books: Sunday, April 10th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the April 10, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending March 26, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/arts/music/classical-musicopera-listings-for-april-8-14.html	The Listings	Classical Full reviews of recent music performances: nytimes.com/music. Opera - 'Capriccio' (Monday) This final opera from Strauss is a chatty work. A love triangle among a composer, a poet and a young widowed countess provides a narrative frame for an aesthetic debate about whether words or music are more important when the two are combined. The
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/realestate/08housetour.html	House Tour: Saugerties, N.Y.	WHAT Five-bedroom house on 12 acres overlooking the Hudson River WHERE Saugerties, N.Y., in Ulster County, 105 miles from Midtown Manhattan WHO In 2008, Dyan Machan, a journalist, and her husband, Johan de Meij, a composer and conductor, purchased a house they didn't love for a view they did. Ms. Machan recounts their journey: ''That waterfront
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E7D7153FF93BA35757C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; F.B.I. Files Reveal Details Of Notorious B.I.G. Investigation	The F.B.I. spent nearly two years investigating the 1997 killing of the hip-hop artist the Notorious B.I.G., focusing on a man the bureau suspected may have been the rapper's assassin, but ended its inquiry in early 2005 after prosecutors decided there was insufficient evidence to pursue a case, according to recently released F.B.I. records
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/movies/meet-monica-velour-stars-kim-cattrall-review.html	FILM IN REVIEW; Meet Monica Velour	Flimsier than the stage outfits of its female star, ''Meet Monica Velour'' may be a teen-geek fantasy but its execution is unexpectedly mature. The film's gangly centerpiece is Tobe (Dustin Ingram, owner of a face that will take a bit of growing into), a 17-year-old misfit whose cultural tastes are as backward as his social skills. Unlike his love
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/movies/movie-listings-for-april-8-14.html	The Listings	Movies Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases, movie trailers, showtimes and tickets: nytimes.com/movies. - '3 Backyards' (R, 1:28) The director Eric Mendelsohn's ability to evoke a child's-eye view of a lush suburban environment is the most seductive element in a
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/movies/ceremony-with-uma-thurman-and-lee-pace-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'CEREMONY'; Here Comes the Bride, a Wedding Crasher in Pursuit	''Babies with money'' is one character's all-too-accurate description of the guests at the Long Island wedding of Zoe (Uma Thurman) and Whit (Lee Pace) in Max Winkler's romantic comedy ''Ceremony.'' The willowy bride-to-be certainly acts like an infant. Throughout the movie, Ms. Thurman's facial expressions suggest a peevish spoiled child about to
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/movies/meeting-spencer-dissects-showbiz-machinations-review.html	FILM IN REVIEW; Meeting Spencer	It's not a backstage comedy, exactly, since the setting is Frankie & Johnnie's, the well-known theater-district steakhouse, but ''Meeting Spencer'' is all about showbiz machinations, cogitations and aspirations. The film, though, directed by Malcolm Mowbray, isn't quite savvy enough to compete with the slyest entries in that genre or madcap enough
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/movies/the-elephant-in-the-living-room-review.html	FILM IN REVIEW; The Elephant in the Living Room	After watching Michael Webber's alarming documentary ''The Elephant in the Living Room,'' you would be forgiven for believing that the State of Ohio is just one enormous, unfenced zoo. Focusing on the misguided and often unregulated American subculture of exotic-pet lovers, Mr. Webber pulls examples from several states -- including a reptile expo
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/arts/design/david-altmejd-at-andrea-rosen-gallery-review.html	ART IN REVIEW; David Altmejd	Andrea Rosen Gallery 525 West 24th Street Chelsea Through April 23 Vitrines the size of semi-trailers have been part of this season's relentless festival of bigness. First Anselm Kiefer at Gagosian Gallery, now David Altmejd. Mr. Altmejd's previous appearance at Andrea Rosen featured 12-foot-tall colossi in various materials and states of solidity.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/movies/born-to-be-wild-3d-is-an-imax-nature-film-review.html	FILM IN REVIEW; Born to Be Wild 3D	There appears to be a growing trend to let nature, which has already taken over large chunks of the television grid, invade movie houses as well; blame those marching penguins from back in 2005. This practice should probably be reined in before it goes much further, lest the eye-popping become commonplace. That said, ''Born to Be Wild 3D,'' the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/arts/music/midori-performs-at-japannyc-reviewelena-urioste-violinist-at-merkin-hall-review.html	MUSIC IN REVIEW	MIDORI Carnegie Hall Some of the classical music events offered as part of Carnegie's JapanNYC festival have included works by Japanese composers alongside staples of the Western canon. In an earlier program in the festival, Midori, the Japanese violinist, included a piece by Toshio Hosokawa in the lineup. But it was hard to discern the relevance
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/arts/dance/stephen-petronios-underland-at-joyce-theater-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; It's Nick Cave's World; They Just Dance in It	There's a visceral thrill to Stephen Petronio's choreography that is unlike anything offered by other contemporary choreographers. Legs whip round bodies with razor-edged ferocity; high, flying jumps erupt into the air; pelvises and torsos ripple through abrupt, unpredictable changes of direction, shifting from vertical to horizontal and back in
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/theater/reviews/macbeth-at-brooklyn-academy-of-music-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'MACBETH'; Ambition Doth Curse All Makes Of Men	That ambition can poison the hearts of small spirits as thoroughly as great ones is the unsettling message of the director Declan Donnellan's intimate, streamlined new production of ''Macbeth'' at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. As portrayed by the compelling actor Will Keen, Shakespeare's Scottish general is less a man of great distinction undone
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE0DF1539F934A35757C0A9679D8B63	What's On Today	10:30 P.M. (Showtime) SECRET DIARY OF A CALL GIRL In the show's fourth and final season the high-class London escort Belle (Billie Piper, above), occupying a luxurious new town house, unexpectedly expands her skill set when her madam, Stephanie (Cherie Lunghi), lands in jail for a stint, saddling Belle with her appointment book and her stable of
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/books/this-life-is-in-your-hands-by-melissa-coleman-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Back-to-the-Land Life Recalled in Dark and Light	THIS LIFE IS IN YOUR HANDS One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone By Melissa Coleman Illustrated. 325 pages. HarperCollins. $25.99. Melissa Coleman was born in 1969 to parents who were hippie pioneers. In 1968 they had moved to Cape Rosier, Me., to start an organic farm and devote every waking hour to its upkeep. They had gone there as
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/crosswords/bridge/07card.html	BRIDGE; A Slam Try and a Possible Way to Resist It	To begin today, look at only the West hand in the diagramed deal. What would you lead against six hearts? South opened one no-trump, showing 15 to 17 points. North responded two diamonds, a transfer bid indicating five or more hearts and any point count. After South completed the transfer with two hearts, North rebid three clubs, natural and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/arts/music/michael-tilson-thomas-revisits-the-thomashefskys-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Nu? Is This 2nd Ave.? No, It's Lincoln Center	In everything he does, from conducting the San Francisco Symphony to spearheading that orchestra's multimedia educational project ''Keeping Score,'' Michael Tilson Thomas brings thorough musicianship sparked with theatrical flair. On Tuesday night an audience that packed Avery Fisher Hall learned about the roots of Mr. Thomas's theatrical instincts
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/06/theater/06marie-slide-show-5.html	‘Marie and Bruce’	Images from the revival of Wallace Shawn’s 1979 portrait of marital misery at the Acorn Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/06/theater/06marie-slide-show.html	‘Marie and Bruce’	Images from the revival of Wallace Shawn’s 1979 portrait of marital misery at the Acorn Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/06/theater/06marie-slide-show-6.html	‘Marie and Bruce’	Images from the revival of Wallace Shawn’s 1979 portrait of marital misery at the Acorn Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/04/books/20110404POD-7.html	Pictures of the Day: Libya and Elsewhere	Photographs from Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen and Ivory Coast.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/04/books/20110404POD-4.html	Pictures of the Day: Libya and Elsewhere	Photographs from Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen and Ivory Coast.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/04/books/20110404POD-9.html	Pictures of the Day: Libya and Elsewhere	Photographs from Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen and Ivory Coast.
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/theater/reviews/three-men-on-a-horse-at-the-beckett-theater-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'THREE MEN ON A HORSE'; Another Outing for This Gambling Tale? What Are the Odds?	In this age of short-attention-span audiences, if you're going to perform an old-fashioned play the old-fashioned way -- that is, with two intermissions -- you'd better have a spark to inject into that third act to make audience members glad they stayed around. The Actors Company Theater, in its pleasant production of ''Three Men on a Horse'' at
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/arts/dance/cnd2-dances-nacho-duato-works-at-skirball-center-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; Proceeding Nacho Duato-Style, Like Fish Darting Through Water	The choreographer Nacho Duato ran the Compañía Nacional de Danza in Spain and its associated junior troupe, CND2, for 20 years until -- in a storm of recriminations with the Spanish government -- he left last year. Unsurprisingly, the companies won't retain the extensive repertory he created for them. At the Skirball Center on Friday night CND2
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/books/bossypants-by-tina-fey-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Tina Fey Is Greek And Also Teutonic, But She Isn't a Troll	BOSSYPANTS By Tina Fey Illustrated. 277 pages. Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown & Company. $26.99. ''Tina Fey is an ugly, pear-shaped, bitchy, overrated troll.'' Somebody once wrote that on a mean-spirited Web site, whence it could have vanished into oblivion. But Ms. Fey liked the remark too much to let it go. So she has used it (sans ''bitchy'') as
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/books/steinbecks-travels-with-charley-gets-a-fact-checking.html	A Reality Check for Steinbeck and Charley	In the fall of 1960 an ailing, out-of-sorts John Steinbeck, pretty much depleted as a novelist, decided that his problem was he had lost touch with America. He outfitted a three-quarter-ton pickup truck as a sort of land yacht and set off from his home in Sag Harbor, N.Y., with his French poodle, Charley, to drive cross-country. The idea was that
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/theater/reviews/agent-g-by-qui-nguyen-at-st-marks-church-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'THE INEXPLICABLE REDEMPTION OF AGENT G'; Identities as Elements to Play With and Juggle	''Who but De Palma would think of using old-movie trash, and even soft-core pornos, to provide 'heart' for a thriller?'' Pauline Kael asked in her rave review of Brian De Palma's ''Carrie.'' Qui Nguyen's new play, ''The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G,'' an ambitious entertainment about modern identity wrapped inside an exploitation drama about
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/crosswords/bridge/04card.html	BRIDGE; At the Jacoby, Some Trickery Helps Out The Winners	The winners of the Jacoby Open Swiss Teams at the Spring Nationals in Louisville, Ky., last month were Greg Hinze of San Antonio; David Yang of Darien, Ill.; Jacob Morgan of Madison, Wis.; Michael Polowan of New York; Dan Morse of Houston; and Steve Shirey of Fort Worth. Morse found a great defensive play on the diagramed deal from the final day.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/arts/television/his-way-hbo-documentary-on-jerry-weintraub-review.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; Producer Who Did It All, Not in a Shy Way	''His Way,'' an HBO documentary on Monday night about the veteran manager, promoter and producer Jerry Weintraub, is a nose-pressed-to-the-glass experience. It's as if Graydon Carter -- one of the film's producers -- has allowed you into the bar at his Waverly Inn just to gawk at the more privileged people being led into the back room. The film,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E5DC1F30F930A35757C0A9679D8B63	Master Statesman	BISMARCK A Life By Jonathan Steinberg Illustrated. 577 pp. Oxford University Press. $34.95 In the summer of 1862, Otto von Bismarck was appointed minister-president of Prussia. His highest previous rank had been ambassador to Russia. He had never held an administrative position. Yet with a few brusque strokes, the novice minister solved the riddle
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E0D81E3EF930A35757C0A9679D8B63	SOURCE; Sleeping Arrangements	A stylish night's rest -- and a place to stack that bedtime reading. SOURCE
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00EEDD113DF930A35757C0A9679D8B63	REMIX; Fast Company	Seventeen examples from Ralph Lauren's holdings of classic cars - including the sexy, slightly menacing 1955 Jaguar XKD shown here - will be featured in the exhibition ''The Art of the Automobile: Masterpieces of the Ralph Lauren Collection,'' opening April 28 at Les Arts Decoratifs in Paris. How do you say ''vroom'' in French? This is a more
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00EFD9173FF930A35757C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | APRIL 3 - APRIL 9	Dance Claudia La Rocco I'm not sure how I feel about recommending a work that incorporates strobe effects. Still with the strobe effects? Really? But if you're interested in seeing what's happening in the Australian dance scene, you've got a chance this week at Joyce SoHo with ''I Like This,'' by CHUNKY MOVE of Melbourne, which last performed in
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05EEDB1430F930A35757C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | APRIL 3 - APRIL 9	Pop Ben Ratliff Two complicated dudes are in town: MIKE WATT with the Missingmen, and DAN BEJAR with Destroyer. Mr. Watt, a bassist and singer who used to play in the Minutemen, the Southern California punk band, is streaking across the continent, playing 50 one-nighters with only two days off, performing his third unified concept album
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/movies/with-hanna-joe-wright-changes-direction.html	Finding an Original Heroine	FOR a director who made his name with the literary adaptations ''Pride and Prejudice'' and ''Atonement,''Joe Wright has a surprising view of the essence of cinema. ''Drama can be presented onstage, and beautiful pictures can be presented in a gallery, but really action is pure cinema,'' Mr. Wright said on the phone recently. By action, he said, he
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/books/review/book-review-dancing-in-the-glory-of-monsters-the-collapse-of-the-congo-and-the-great-war-of-africa-by-jason-k-stearns.html	Africa Abandoned	DANCING IN THE GLORY OF MONSTERS The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa By Jason K. Stearns 380 pp. PublicAffairs. $28.99. Some months ago, in a ditch beside one of the main streets of Bunia, a dusty, war-battered city in northeastern Congo, I noticed a small, broken-down, dull green armored car, the gun barrel in its turret tilted
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/arts/television/upstairs-downstairs-sequel-on-pbs-masterpiece.html	TELEVISION; Rose, Fetch Her Ladyship a Sequel	LONDON THIRTY-FOUR years ago the door closed firmly and finally on 165 Eaton Place, the longtime home in London of the upper-crust Bellamy family and its retinue of servants. Before the end the parlor maid, Rose Buck (Jean Marsh), took one final walk through the empty rooms, the ghosts of the past swirling and murmuring around her. She glanced back
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E6D8153EF930A35757C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Trade Fiction: Sunday, April 3rd 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the April 3, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending March 19, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407EED9153EF930A35757C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Picture Books: Sunday, April 3rd 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the April 3, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending March 19, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/arts/design/romare-bearden-at-michael-rosenfeld-gallery-review.html	ART REVIEW; Visions of Life, Built From Bits and Pieces	Romare Bearden (1911-88) spent more than 30 years striving to be a great artist, and in the early 1960s, when he took up collage in earnest, he became one. A small exhibition at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, organized to celebrate the centennial of Bearden's birth, delivers this message with unusual clarity. It contains only 21 collages, all
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/arts/music/wynton-marsalis-at-the-rose-theater-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Away From His Desk, Up on the Bandstand	Wynton Marsalis has been making albums for the last 30 years, since the release of his self-titled Columbia debut. Through all but the first six of those years, he has been not only a celebrated trumpeter and composer but also the public face of Jazz at Lincoln Center, an organization built around his vision, and in many ways still propelled by it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/books/malcolm-x-biographer-dies-on-eve-of-publication-of-redefining-work.html	On Eve of a Revealing Work, Malcolm X Biographer Dies	For two decades, the Columbia University professor Manning Marable focused on the task he considered his life's work: redefining the legacy of Malcolm X. Last fall he completed ''Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,'' a 594-page biography described by the few scholars who have seen it as full of new and startling information and insights. The book is
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/theater/tate-donovan-is-back-home-in-good-people.html	In a Broadway Role, Many Returns	''Lace curtain Irish'' is an acid-tipped verbal dart when it zips from the mouth of Frances McDormand's character, Margie, and hits Tate Donovan, as Mike, in the Broadway play ''Good People.'' Margie, bitter and unemployed, is stuck in Southie, a hardscrabble Boston neighborhood. Mike, a doctor, has left both her and the neighborhood behind. But
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9402E5DA1030F931A35757C0A9679D8B63	What's On Today	9 P.M. (Starz) EAT PRAY LOVE (2010) Julia Roberts, above with Javier Bardem, subduing her usual glamour but not extinguishing it entirely, stands in for Elizabeth Gilbert, the real-life author of the best-selling memoir about post-divorce globe-trotting, adapted here by Ryan Murphy. Billy Crudup is the husband Liz leaves before embarking on her
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/arts/dance/lucinda-childss-new-dance-with-second-avenue-company-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; Motion and Emotion Discover New Pairings	When springtime hits, student showcases are almost as ubiquitous as street fairs. And, yes, they can certainly be as annoying. But the Second Avenue Dance Company crowned its spring concert with a new work by the treasured minimalist choreographer Lucinda Childs that is optimistic, rigorous and, well, just a joy to behold. The dancers who make up
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/arts/design/urban-factories-at-skyscraper-museum-review.html	EXHIBITION REVIEW; The Height of City Manufacturing	I'm guessing that not even the most hard-bitten or nostalgic New Yorker would want to travel back to the days when the city was choked with waterfront factories and industrial squalor. But ''The Vertical Urban Factory,'' a small, intriguing show at the Skyscraper Museum in Battery Park City, makes you wonder what was lost on the way to our greener,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9501E5D61030F931A35757C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; CBS Declares Next Week Is 'Tweet Week'	If only CBS had thought of this when Charlie Sheen was still on one of its shows: taking a page from rival networks like ABC, CNN and Comedy Central, which have used Twitter to draw in and keep viewers watching shows like ''Piers Morgan Tonight'' and events like the Academy Awards or ''The Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump,'' CBS announced on
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/arts/dance/steven-rekers-people-get-ready-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; Song-and-Dance Man Shows His Two Sides	Steven Reker has something of a split personality that has made itself known on the stage. Over the last few years, he's appeared as either a dancer or a musician with a number of artists, including David Byrne, Yoshiko Chuma and Miranda July. On Thursday night at the Kitchen, he paid homage to both sides of himself -- as well as the idea of a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E5D61030F931A35757C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Intiman Theater To Stay Open	The Intiman Theater in Seattle, right, which is fighting for its survival, announced on Thursday that it had raised just over $450,000 in a seven-week emergency fundraising campaign and would stay open. The Intiman had previously said that it needed to raise $500,000 by the end of March and another $500,000 by September to keep operating, but
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/arts/video-games/sonys-mlb-11-the-show-review.html	VIDEO GAME REVIEW; A Game for Opening Day, With Stat Lovers in Mind	Pro football may be the nation's top spectator sport, but serious baseball nerds are the most frightening fans in the country. I'm not talking about the Bleacher Creatures at Yankee Stadium. When it comes to inebriated rowdiness, football fans are unsurpassed. (I went to several Eagles games at the old Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, including
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E6D6163CF932A05750C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Le Carré Rejects Booker Prize Nomination	The spy novelist John le Carre was chosen as one of 13 finalists for the Man Booker International Prize, the prize committee announced in Sydney on Wednesday. His response? No, thanks. ''I am enormously flattered to be named as a finalist of 2011 Man Booker International Prize,'' Mr. le Carre said in a statement issued through his literary agent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/arts/design/artists-to-transform-bowerys-roll-down-gates.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Artists to Transform Bowery's Roll-Down Gates	There probably won't be many New Yorkers mourning the death of the security roll-down gate, that unlovely after-hours face of the city's storefronts. In 2009 the City Council, citing high rates of graffiti, voted to begin slowly phasing out the gates in favor of rolling grilles. But for at least a couple of months this summer, roll gates and paint
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/arts/music/met-opera-weighs-whether-to-proceed-with-japan-tour.html	Possible Safety Risks Put Met Opera Tour to Japan 'in Jeopardy'	The Metropolitan Opera is debating whether to proceed with its scheduled Japanese tour in June, an ambitious trip that was several years in the planning and would be the Met's first to that country since 2006. Peter Gelb, the Met's general manager, met on Tuesday with union representatives about safety concerns and on Wednesday issued a statement
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEFDA1530F932A05750C0A9679D8B63	Dancing Past Censors: 1500s Chinese Erotica	BEIJING -- The Experimental Theater of Central Academy of Drama is tucked away in a warren of ancient streets named for goods long ago sold there -- Fried Bean Lane and East Cotton Alley -- that nowadays are lined with small shops and cafes. Never easy to find, the theater was particularly forbidding on a frigid evening in late January, when the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E1DA1530F932A05750C0A9679D8B63	What's On Today	9 P.M. (ABC) GREY'S ANATOMY: THE MUSIC EVENT Callie -- played by Sara Ramirez, who trained at Juilliard and won a Tony Award for her role as the Lady of the Lake in ''Monty Python's 'Spamalot' '' -- bursts into song in this special episode, when her character confronts a life-altering moment with Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) after a car accident. The
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/crosswords/bridge/31card.html	BRIDGE; From an Opponent's Mistake, an Opportunity	The winners of the Leventritt Silver Ribbon Pairs at the Spring Nationals in Louisville, Ky., this month were Richard DeMartino of Riverside, Conn., the president of the American Contract Bridge League in 2010, and John Stiefel of Wethersfield, Conn. To do well in a big pair event you must play well and cash in -- as DeMartino and Stiefel did in
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/arts/design/eric-fischls-america-now-and-here-project.html	Culture, Rolling Into Towns on Big Rigs	Trucks transport 70 percent of the freight in the United States, according to the Department of Transportation. And if a prominent New York artist and his friends have their way, a tiny fraction of that total -- six 18-wheelers full, to be exact -- will soon be a variety of cargo not usually found barreling down the interstate: art, fresh from
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/arts/television/in-chaos-on-cbs-freddy-rodriguez-cracks-the-cia.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; Can You Wear Silly Hats With Your Cloak and Dagger?	''Chaos,'' a new series beginning Friday on CBS is at once a deadpan sendup of the spy genre, in the manner of ''Get Smart,'' and something considerably less ambitious. The opening montage, a series of black-and-white cold war images making reference to intelligence foibles and occasions of malfeasance, offers a wry instant history of misguided
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E1D9163CF932A05750C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Judge Says Willie Nelson Won't Have to Sing	A Texas prosecutor's proposal that Willie Nelson sing his way out of a recent arrest for marijuana possession has all but gone up in smoke after a judge there rejected the idea. Kit Bramblett, the county attorney for Hudspeth County in West Texas, had suggested that Mr. Nelson pay a small fine and sing ''Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain'' at the
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/27/arts/design/03272011_LAKRA_Slide.html	Scrawling Style	A look at the work of the Mexican tattoo artist known as Dr. Lakra.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/movies/david-schwimmer-directing-trust-is-far-from-friends.html	Out of Character, in the Director's Chair	LOS ANGELES THE sun was hanging low over the Brentwood neighborhood when the roar began. At first the sound was barely distinguishable from the traffic noise rising from the 405 freeway, a quarter-mile away. But it soon grew in intensity, a gravelly drone. Was it some out-of-control bulldozer? A military gunship on a low run? No, it was David
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/books/review/crime-novels-by-henning-mankell-maisie-dobbs-michael-robertson-and-louis-bayard.html	CRIME; Mankell's Endgame	Henning Mankell has spoken: Detective Chief Inspector Kurt Wallander has solved his last case. Making this news more bitter, the alcoholic, diabetic, antisocial and perpetually dour Swedish detective is at his gloomy best in THE TROUBLED MAN (Knopf, $26.95). After his colleagues on the Ystad police force gave him a 50th-birthday party, Wallander
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00EFD9153EF934A15750C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Hardcover & Paperback Nonfiction: Sunday, March 27th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 27, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending March 12, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9501EFD9153EF934A15750C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction: Sunday, March 27th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 27, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending March 12, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E7DA1E3EF934A15750C0A9679D8B63	A Whole New Ball Game	BRANCH RICKEY By Jimmy Breslin 147 pp. Lipper/Viking. $19.95. CAMPY The Two Lives of Roy Campanella By Neil Lanctot Illustrated. 516 pp. Simon & Schuster. $28. In the summer of 1937, with the Dodgers holding down their familiar spot near the bottom of the National League, the cartoonist Willard Mullin drew the unforgettable image of the ''Brooklyn
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04EFD9153EF934A15750C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction: Sunday, March 27th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 27, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending March 12, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/books/review/book-review-witches-on-the-road-tonight-by-sheri-holman.html	Appalachian Gothic	WITCHES ON THE ROAD TONIGHT By Sheri Holman 264 pp. Atlantic Monthly Press. $24. It's October 1940 and Tucker, a writer, and his photographer girlfriend are on an assignment for the W.P.A., chronicling the landmarks and local history of Virginia. Driving along a dusty mountain road, they accidentally knock down a child. Though he seems unhurt, they
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E0D9153EF934A15750C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Chapter Books: Sunday, March 27th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 27, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending March 12, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/books/review/book-review-a-saving-remnant-the-radical-lives-of-barbara-deming-and-david-mcreynolds-by-martin-duberman.html	Free Radicals	A SAVING REMNANT The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds By Martin Duberman Illustrated. 298 pp. The New Press. $27.95. This detailed and absorbing dual biography begins with an explanation of the title. ''The phrase 'a saving remnant,' '' Martin Duberman writes, ''has historically referred to that small number of people neither
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/25/movies/20110326-LIZHIRSCH_SS-6.html	Al Hirschfeld Draws Elizabeth Taylor	Al Hirschfeld, the artist, did many illustrations of Elizabeth Taylor, who died Wednesday at 79.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/25/movies/20110326-LIZHIRSCH_SS-5.html	Al Hirschfeld Draws Elizabeth Taylor	Al Hirschfeld, the artist, did many illustrations of Elizabeth Taylor, who died Wednesday at 79.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/25/movies/20110326-LIZHIRSCH_SS-9.html	Al Hirschfeld Draws Elizabeth Taylor	Al Hirschfeld, the artist, did many illustrations of Elizabeth Taylor, who died Wednesday at 79.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/25/movies/mia-and-the-migoo-6.html	Hand-Drawn Adventures	Images from the animated film “Mia and the Migoo.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/25/movies/mia-and-the-migoo-2.html	Hand-Drawn Adventures	Images from the animated film “Mia and the Migoo.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/25/movies/20110326-LIZHIRSCH_SS-7.html	Al Hirschfeld Draws Elizabeth Taylor	Al Hirschfeld, the artist, did many illustrations of Elizabeth Taylor, who died Wednesday at 79.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/25/movies/mia-and-the-migoo-5.html	Hand-Drawn Adventures	Images from the animated film “Mia and the Migoo.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/25/movies/mia-and-the-migoo-4.html	Hand-Drawn Adventures	Images from the animated film “Mia and the Migoo.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/25/movies/mia-and-the-migoo-7.html	Hand-Drawn Adventures	Images from the animated film “Mia and the Migoo.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/25/movies/mia-and-the-migoo-3.html	Hand-Drawn Adventures	Images from the animated film “Mia and the Migoo.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/24/theater/20110324-wilson-5.html	The Worlds of Lanford Wilson	A look at the works of the playwright Lanford Wilson, who died Wednesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/24/theater/20110324-warplays-9.html	War Plays	A look at recent plays about war that have been produced on and off Broadway.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/24/arts/design/24museum-slide-show-10.html	The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust	Photographs of the recently opened museum and its collections.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/24/arts/design/20110325-prints-7.html	‘The Graphic Impulse’	Images from the new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/24/arts/design/24museum-slide-show.html	The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust	Photographs of the recently opened museum and its collections.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/24/arts/design/20110325-prints-6.html	‘The Graphic Impulse’	Images from the new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/24/arts/design/20110325-prints-3.html	‘The Graphic Impulse’	Images from the new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/24/arts/design/24museum-slide-show-5.html	The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust	Photographs of the recently opened museum and its collections.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/24/arts/design/24museum-slide-show-8.html	The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust	Photographs of the recently opened museum and its collections.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/24/arts/design/20110325-prints-5.html	‘The Graphic Impulse’	Images from the new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0DC103AF931A15750C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; A Fair-Use Ruling Against Richard Prince	A federal judge in Manhattan has ruled against the artist Richard Prince in a closely watched copyright case, finding that Mr. Prince - who is well known for appropriating imagery created by others - violated the law by using photographs from a book about Rastafarians to create a series of collages and paintings. The decision, handed down on Friday
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E1D9103AF931A15750C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; More Big Names Join Philharmonic's 'Company'	After the month that Jon Cryer just lived through, you'd think he'd had his fill of toxic bachelors. Instead, Mr. Cryer will spend some time away from ''Two and a Half Men,'' the CBS comedy on which he stars (starred?) with Charlie Sheen, in a semistaged production of ''Company'' for the New York Philharmonic. Mr. Cryer will play the role of David,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/arts/music/music-for-merce-at-roulette-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; For Composers, Bending the Notes for Cunningham	Movement and pulse are ingredients missing from some avant-garde music, whose arbitrary array of sounds can seem frustratingly static. But when combined with the brilliant works of Merce Cunningham, the revolutionary choreographer who died in 2009, sonic abstractions come to life. Cunningham, who commissioned famous and fledgling composers alike,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/arts/music/the-secret-agent-at-hunter-college-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Retelling the Tale of a Terrorist Plot	There is an old quotation, possibly apocryphal, attributed to Stephen King regarding the film Stanley Kubrick made of his novel ''The Shining'': ''I have my days when I think I gave Kubrick a live grenade on which he heroically threw his body.'' Similar thoughts arose during a performance of ''The Secret Agent,'' a new opera based on Joseph
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/arts/music/critics-choice-new-cds.html	Critics' Choice: New CDs	CHRIS BROWN ''F.A.M.E.'' (Jive) It will be some time before it's possible to listen to Chris Brown with just one set of ears. Two years ago he assaulted his girlfriend at the time, the singer Rihanna, and has been on a halting path to public rehabilitation ever since. Mostly, he's been reluctant to address the event, which puts an additional burden
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/movies/robin-hessmans-my-perestroika-about-post-soviet-life.html	Muscovite Lives, Entangled In History	MOSCOW -- The Meyersons of Moscow are not oligarchs or ex-K.G.B. agents, gangsters or alcoholics. They are a pair of public school teachers who have little in common with the stock characters often depicted in tales of this land. They disdain Communism, but warmly recall childhoods in the 1970s. They bristle at what they believe Vladimir V. Putin
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E3D7103AF931A15750C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; A Cheney Mini-Series	George W. Bush had a movie, ''W,'' made about him. Now Dick Cheney may be getting one as well, though for smaller screens. HBO confirmed on Monday that it was developing a mini-series about the political life of Mr. Cheney, the former vice president, emphasizing his decades-long effort to give more power to the executive branch of government. The
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E4DD1531F931A15750C0A9679D8B63	HUMANITIES 2.0: OLD BOOKS, NEW MEDIA; Giving Literature Virtual Life	BRYN MAWR, Pa. -- Prof. Katherine Rowe's blue-haired avatar was flying across a grassy landscape to a virtual three-dimensional re-creation of the Globe Theater, where some students from her introductory Shakespeare class at Bryn Mawr College had already gathered online. Their assignment was to create characters on the Web site theatron.org and use
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/theater/reviews/kin-by-bathsheba-doran-at-playwrights-horizons-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'KIN'; No Connection Is Too Far, or Unlikely	The truism that families come in all shapes and sizes is illuminated with haunting beauty in the new play ''Kin,'' by Bathsheba Doran. The daisy chain of relationships depicted in this exquisitely wrought comedy-drama, which opened on Monday night at Playwrights Horizons, moves through a couple of generations and across several American states and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/arts/music/music-in-review.html	Music in Review	ALINA IBRAGIMOVA, CéDRIC TIBERGHIEN Weill Recital Hall From the first notes the violinist Alina Ibragimova and the pianist Cédric Tiberghien played during their concert on Friday evening, it seemed clear that their objective was to engross and beguile rather than merely to dazzle. Ms. Ibragimova, a 25-year-old Russian violinist making her New
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9501EFD9133EF933A15750C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | MARCH 20 - MARCH 26	Art Nicolai Ouroussoff ''I AM STILL ALIVE: POLITICS AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN CONTEMPORARY DRAWING,'' at the Museum of Modern Art, is not out to cause political shock waves. A quiet show mostly made up of recent acquisitions, it explores the delicate, somewhat tenuous relationship between the psychological and emotional worlds of artists and the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/books/review/book-review-the-company-we-keep-by-robert-baer-and-dayna-baer.html	The Spies Who Loved Each Other	THE COMPANY WE KEEP A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story By Robert Baer and Dayna Baer 305 pp. Crown Publishers. $26. In ''The Company We Keep,'' Robert and Dayna Baer tell the story of two failed marriages and one triumphant one. The former C.I.A. officers describe why they chose to become spies, how they fell in love while working undercover
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE2D9153EF933A15750C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Fiction: Sunday, March 20th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 20, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending March 5, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/arts/mar-20-26.html	THE WEEK AHEAD; Mar. 20 -- 26	Theater Charles Isherwood Given our increasingly unliterary culture, it is hardly surprising that most Broadway musicals these days seem to be transcriptions of popular movies. This spring alone brings us ''Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,'' ''Sister Act'' and ''Catch Me If You Can,'' to say nothing of that infernally over-discussed musical based on
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/books/review/book-review-the-information-by-james-gleick.html	Data Deluge	THE INFORMATION A History. A Theory. A Flood. By James Gleick Illustrated. 526 pp. Pantheon Books. $29.95. The universe, the 18th-century mathematician and philosopher Jean Le Rond d'Alembert said, ''would only be one fact and one great truth for whoever knew how to embrace it from a single point of view.'' James Gleick has such a perspective, and
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E6D61F3EF933A15750C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | MARCH 20 - MARCH 26	Theater Charles Isherwood Given our increasingly unliterary culture, it is hardly surprising that most Broadway musicals these days seem to be transcriptions of popular movies. This spring alone brings us ''Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,'' ''Sister Act'' and ''Catch Me If You Can,'' to say nothing of that infernally over-discussed musical based on
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE2D9153EF933A15750C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Graphic Books: Sunday, March 20th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 20, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending March 5, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E2D9153EF933A15750C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Print & E-Book Fiction: Sunday, March 20th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 20, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending March 5, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E1D9153EF933A15750C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction: Sunday, March 20th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 20, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending March 5, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E1D9153EF933A15750C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Manga: Sunday, March 20th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 20, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending March 5, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/18/movies/nostalgia-for-the-light-6.html	A Documentary’s Stars	Images from “Nostalgia for the Light,” directed by Patricio Guzman.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/18/movies/nostalgia-for-the-light-2.html	A Documentary’s Stars	Images from “Nostalgia for the Light,” directed by Patricio Guzman.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/movies/desert-flower-tells-story-of-waris-dirie-review.html	Movie Review | 'Desert Flower'	''Desert Flower,'' a well-made film that depicts the remarkable life of the model Waris Dirie, manages to be both a classic feel-good story and about as far from a feel-good story as you can get. Ms. Dirie escaped an impoverished childhood in Somalia and, largely through serendipity, became a sought-after model. Eventually, in a magazine interview,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE5DF1431F93BA25750C0A9679D8B63	Spare Times	Latin American Arts Festival (Saturday): Preserving the traditional music of the Andes is the personal mission of Guillermo Guerrero, the founder and one of the six Andean musicians who make up the ensemble Tahuantinsuyo, which is among those performing at the American Museum of Natural History for this festival. Trained as an engineer, the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/arts/dance/martha-graham-dance-company-at-the-rose-theater-review.html	DANCE REVIEW; Brontës and Medea, Bent Into New Forms	In the repertory of Martha Graham, no consciousness reveals itself in anything so fluent as a stream. A soliloquy is seldom shaped as a steady progression of thought. Instead, contradictory impulses arrive in a startling sequence. The point often seems to be a special form of incoherence. The dancer seems stuck in one train of thought, then in a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/arts/design/museum-and-gallery-listings-for-march-18-24.html	The Listings	Art Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. Museums American Folk Art Museum: 'Eugene Von Bruenchenhein: Freelance Artist -- Poet and Sculptor -- Inovator -- Arrow maker and Plant man -- Bone artifacts constructor -- Photographer and Architect -- Philosopher,' through Oct. 9.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/arts/design/sonia-delaunay-show-at-cooper-hewitt-review.html	ART REVIEW; Swatches Illuminate A Painter's Other Art	It is the rare museum exhibition that bets most of the house on fabric swatches -- or, more politely, textile samples -- and succeeds. This is the impressive achievement of ''Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay,'' a sumptuous and enlightening show at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum that may change forever the way you look at dry
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/movies/nostalgia-for-the-light-chile-documentary-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT'; Chile's Past Is Present In the Desert	The Atacama Desert in northern Chile -- the setting of Patricio Guzmán's transfixing cinematic essay ''Nostalgia for the Light'' -- is a place where heaven and earth converge. Or some might say heaven and hell. Situated on the leeward side of the Chilean Coast range, more than 10,000 feet above sea level, it is one of the highest deserts and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/arts/design/paintings-by-jonas-wood-at-anton-kern-gallery-art-review.html	ART IN REVIEW; Jonas Wood	Anton Kern Gallery 532 West 20th Street Chelsea Through March 26 Jonas Wood's painting continues to mature impressively, gaining pictorial and psychological weight. More than ever his works negotiate an uneasy truce among the abstract, the representational, the photographic and the just plain weird. They achieve this with a dour yet lavish palette,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/arts/design/anxiety-on-the-fault-line.html	ART REVIEW; Anxiety on the Fault Line	''Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art,'' a piquant exhibition of dark-minded work at Japan Society and a kickoff event for Asia Week, was conceived as a sharp counterweight to the cult of cuteness -- kawaii -- that has been Japan's dominant aesthetic for decades. No one, of course, could have known that the show's
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/17/arts/design/20110318-kitty-3.html	‘Bye Bye Kitty!!!’	Images from the new exhibition at Japan Society.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/17/arts/design/20110318-maira.html	‘Crazy World’	Images from a new exhibition on the work of Maira Kalman.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/17/arts/design/17flood-ss-2.html	A Flooded Museum Innovates	Since a flood destroyed the University of Iowa Art Museum, new ways have been explored to show the collection.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/17/arts/design/17civil-ss-4.html	War Remembered in South	In remembering the Civil War, southern museums wrestle with double perspectives and conflicting sentiments alien to the North.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/17/arts/design/17museums-listings-ss-4.html	Exhibition Sampler	A peek at significant art exhibitions on this year’s calendar.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/17/arts/design/17estate-ss-3.html	Elegant Attire of a Cereal Heiress	An exhibit shows off wedding dresses and other riches of the Marjorie Merriweather Post family.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/17/arts/design/17civil-ss-9.html	War Remembered in South	In remembering the Civil War, southern museums wrestle with double perspectives and conflicting sentiments alien to the North.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/17/arts/design/17flood-ss-5.html	A Flooded Museum Innovates	Since a flood destroyed the University of Iowa Art Museum, new ways have been explored to show the collection.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/17/arts/design/20110318-maira-11.html	‘Crazy World’	Images from a new exhibition on the work of Maira Kalman.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/17/arts/design/17estate-ss-5.html	Elegant Attire of a Cereal Heiress	An exhibit shows off wedding dresses and other riches of the Marjorie Merriweather Post family.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/arts/music/emerson-quartet-and-james-galway-at-carnegie-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; From Twilight's Mysteries Right Up to the 25th Hour	Serious though they may be, the members of the Emerson String Quartet are clearly not above having a bit of fun, as parts of the concert the group presented at Carnegie Hall on Saturday evening made clear. Likewise the flutist James Galway, for all his popular appeal and crossover success, is eminently capable of turning in a high-minded,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/crosswords/bridge/14card.html	BRIDGE; A Bid Can Be Brave or Foolhardy, or Sometimes a Bit of Both	At the American Contract Bridge League's Spring North American Championships in Louisville, Ky., the Lebhar IMP Pairs, which ended Saturday, showed how international these tournaments have become. The event was won by Runar Lillevik and Oyvind Ludvigsen from Norway. They finished 5 international match points ahead of Jon Baldursson and Thorlakur
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400EFD61538F937A25750C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Footnotes	On Tuesday, Long Wharf Theater in New Haven announced that Ray Cullom was stepping down as its managing director. On Thursday, Mr. Cullom got a new job: the board of the Queens Theater in the Park announced that he had been appointed executive director. The Theater in the Park, located in the pavilion designed for the 1964 World's Fair by Philip
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/arts/music/les-arts-florissants-at-tully-scope-festival-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Rameau's Blend, the Toast of France	Quick, name the composer whose theater works are the hardest to pull off without staging. Wagner? You might think so, but certain near-static productions have shown how thoroughly his musical dramaturgy survives a lack of motion and scenery. Verdi? His greatest operas provide enough character depth and narrative impetus to go bare, as Riccardo Muti
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/books/spiral-paul-mceuens-thriller-about-a-cornell-professor.html	BOOK OF THE TIMES; Very, Very Bad Things, Very, Very Tiny Packages	SPIRAL By Paul McEuen 312 pages. Dial Press. $25. Paul McEuen's techno-thriller, ''Spiral,'' sounds like something written by Michael Crichton in his prime. It's actually better than a lot of what Mr. Crichton wrote once his prime was over. To tell a story in this vein the author must know a lot more than you do about some branch of arcane,
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/theater/reviews/kathy-griffin-wants-a-tony-review.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'KATHY GRIFFIN WANTS A TONY'; Look Out, Celebrities: Her Aim Is True	As just about any well-known actress who has made the mistake of going to Starbucks without makeup can attest, fame can be a cruel mistress. Her most tenaciously censorious handmaiden is surely Kathy Griffin, the flame-haired, torch-tongued stand-up comedian who has claimed the hypocrisies, peculiarities, misjudged plastic surgeries and occasional
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/arts/music/stage-door-canteen-broadway-and-word-war-ii-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; When We All Pulled Together, Like Those Boys in Uniform	The moment on Saturday evening that distilled the cheerful gung-ho spirit of the new Lyrics & Lyricists show, ''Stage Door Canteen: Broadway Responds to World War II,'' belonged to the song-and-dance man Jeffry Denman. As he strolled, cane in hand, onto the stage of the Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y, Mr. Denman was every inch the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/arts/music/the-great-judy-garland-new-york-pops-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Looking For the Gal That Got Away?	A recreation of one of ''the greatest nights in show business history'' promised the press release for ''The Great Judy Garland,'' the New York Pops concert at Carnegie Hall on Friday evening. The epochal event to be resurrected was Garland's famous comeback in the same hall 50 years ago, on April 23, 1961. As the orchestra played approximations of
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/arts/music/a-festival-of-japans-culture-proceeds.html	A Festival Of Japan's Culture Proceeds	When Carnegie Hall announcedJapan as the focus of this season's big festival, it did not seem a particularly pathbreaking subject. Now it seems prescient. As Japan struggles with a woeful trail of disaster, Carnegie is about to plunge into a 40-event exploration of that country's culture -- its music, films, visual arts, design and drama -- in the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E3DE153BF937A25750C0A9679D8B63	Hoping to Calm Turmoil, Aspen Festival Names Spano Director	The Aspen Music Festival and School, a rite of passage for many of the nation's leading musicians but an institution fraught with dissension in the recent past, has hired the conductor Robert Spano as its new music director. ''In terms of governance we're very clear on who's doing what and the way it works,'' Mr. Spano said. This is a more complete
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E7DF1F3FF930A25750C0A9679D8B63	COMMENTS	Here's a sampling of readers' responses to Charles McGrath's article about the new movie version of ''Jane Eyre.'' ''Mr. McGrath writes, 'Jane Eyre' is both a Gothic horror story and arguably the first and most satisfying chick-lit novel.' First of all, 'Jane Eyre' remains today a part of the English canon, you know the books we all learn in school
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE5D9153EF930A25750C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Children's Chapter Books: Sunday, March 13th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 13, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending February 26, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E4D9153EF930A25750C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Hardcover Advice, How-To And Miscellaneous: Sunday, March 13th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 13, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending February 26, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/movies/greg-mottolas-personal-touch-with-paul.html	Right Man to Handle an Irreverent Alien	SITTING down for a drink in a SoHo gastropub one frosty January night, Greg Mottola looked tired. For the last two years he had directed ''Paul,'' a quirky science-fiction comedy opening nationwide on March 18. The film involves two fanboys (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who double as screenwriters) encountering a foul-mouthed alien (voiced by Seth
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/movies/auto-remakes-directors-series-at-anthology-film-archives.html	A Director's Toughest Competition	IN the sausage factory of moviemaking the remake is an age-old temptation. For love or money (but usually money) studios have tapped old stories for different times, fresh stars and ambitious directors, streamlining conceits and translating inconvenient foreign languages. Fans of the originals usually cry desecration, and even talented remakers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/books/review/misunderstood-firebrand.html	LETTERS; Misunderstood Firebrand	To the Editor: The Scottish reformer John Knox is less broadly misogynistic than Miranda Seymour implies in her review of Helen Castor's ''She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth'' (Feb. 27). Knox does not in fact call women ''a monstrous regiment.'' In the title of his 1558 pamphlet, ''The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/books/review/book-review-the-executive-unbound-by-eric-a-posner-and-adrian-vermeule.html	The Inevitable Imperial President	THE EXECUTIVE UNBOUND After the Madisonian Republic By Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule 249 pp. Oxford University Press. $29.95. In ''The Executive Unbound,'' Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule, law professors at Chicago and Harvard, respectively, offer with somewhat alarming confidence the ''Weimar and Nazi jurist'' Carl Schmitt as their
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/arts/music/the-strokes-embrace-group-dynamics-in-a-new-album.html	Different Strokes	Jersey City FOR just a day the Strokes have gone dandy. In white tie and black, the last defiantly downtown rock band gathered here a few weeks ago to shoot the video for their new single, ''Under Cover of Darkness.'' Set in a gilded 1930s movie palace with fraying edges, it was a complicated affair. For a central shot the band members were
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/arts/television/women-bring-the-beatings-to-ncis-and-elsewhere.html	Sugar and Spice And Vicious Beatings	AS the producer in charge of the long-running CBS hit ''NCIS,'' Shane Brennan is also the man responsible for the image of its beautiful tomboy assassin, the former Mossad agent Ziva David. ''NCIS,'' now the top-rated drama on television, is known for its comic banter, its constant movie references and the smoldering eyes of its star, Mark Harmon.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E3D9153EF930A25750C0A9679D8B63	Best Sellers: Paperback Advice, How-To And Miscellaneous: Sunday, March 13th 2011	About the Best Sellers: These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the March 13, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending February 26, 2011. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/arts/music/pop-and-rock-listings-for-march-11-17.html	The Listings	Pop Prices may not include ticketing service charges. Full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music. The Allman Brothers Band (Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday) This archetypal Southern rock band is still on the road. Gregg Allman, the band's keyboardist and main singer, is more than ever its center since its co-founder, Dickey
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/realestate/11housetour.html	House Tour: Kingston, N.Y.	WHAT Three-bedroom house. WHERE Kingston, N.Y., in Ulster County, 97 miles from Midtown Manhattan. WHO James Aguiar, 44, a stylist and television host, and his partner, Mark Haldeman, 50, regional manager for Paul Smith retail, discussed the 1958 modern Hudson Valley-area house, designed by William van Benschoten, that they bought years after
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/theater/changing-julie-taymors-vision-in-spider-man.html	'Spider-Man': Turn On The Changes	Many of Julie Taymor's signature touches in Broadway's ''Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark'' would be cut or altered in the producers' new creative plan, which includes scaling back the villainess Arachne, dropping the ''Deeply Furious'' number of shoe-wearing spider-ladies, and reshaping the Geek Chorus of narrators, according to three people who work
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/books/the-tigers-wife-by-tea-obreht-book-review.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Luminous Fables In a Land Of Loss	THE TIGER'S WIFE By Téa Obreht 338 pages. Random House. $25. Téa Obreht's stunning debut novel, ''The Tiger's Wife,'' is a hugely ambitious, audaciously written work that provides an indelible picture of life in an unnamed Balkan country still reeling from the fallout of civil war. At the same time it explores the very essence of storytelling and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/dining/11mrcritic.html	HEY, MR. CRITIC; The Linguine and Clams Conundrum	This week brings questions about linguine and clams, critic bait and things you won't find in Detroit. As always, send your restaurant questions to me at dinejournal@nytimes.com. Q. Linguine with clam sauce. I'm on a two-headed quest: What should this dish have in it, and where should I go to eat it? For the former, to me, it's pasta, clams, salt,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/theater/priscilla-queen-of-the-desert-gets-broadway-makeover.html	A Broadway Makeover For 'Priscilla' Queens	IN the London production of the musical ''Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,'' the first character who commands the stage is a minor one, a drag queen named Miss Understanding who trades in risqué repartee. ''I'm so excited, I've had to use gaffer tape to contain myself,'' she says, then mimes ripping tape off her groin. ''Ow! I love a good
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/movies/juliette-binoche-in-kiarostamis-certified-copy-review.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'CERTIFIED COPY'; On the Road, Packing Querulous Erudition	The Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's delicious brain tickler, ''Certified Copy,'' is an endless hall of mirrors whose reflections multiply as its story of a middle-aged couple driving through Tuscany carries them into a metaphysical labyrinth. The travelers are a beautiful, high-strung woman, identified only as Elle or She (Juliette Binoche),
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/health/nutrition/11urbathlete.html	URBAN ATHLETE; Adventures of a Stair Master	FOR me, stair climbing is an exercise chaser. My real exercise is hard, sustained cardio, five times a week, at a gym these days, but a lifetime habit begun when I was an 8-year-old by running a half-mile before breakfast, around the block in Neenah, Wis. Still, I enjoy climbing stairs. And at work, at The New York Times building, I climb nine
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/travel/11tea.html	Sipping Serenity In the City	SOMETIMES you leave a meal at a New York restaurant more stressed out than when you arrived. You make a reservation, but they won't seat you until your whole party has arrived. The entree you want is no longer available. Your waiter disappears for a half-hour and returns only to nudge you out of the table so someone else can sit down. But there is
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/arts/music/evgeny-kissin-plays-liszt-at-carnegie-hall-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Romantics Meet (Composer and Pianist), and Sparks Fly	There was a fleeting moment during Evgeny Kissin's astonishing Liszt program at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday night when the prodigious command and utter naturalness of his pianism came through in an endearingly human way. He was playing an encore, ''Soirées de Vienne,'' Liszt's dazzling and decorative arrangement of some Schubert dances. At one
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/09/theater/20110309-peter-2.html	‘Peter and the Starcatcher’	Photos from the show at the New York Theater Workshop.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/09/theater/20110309-peter-6.html	‘Peter and the Starcatcher’	Photos from the show at the New York Theater Workshop.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/09/theater/20110309-peter-4.html	‘Peter and the Starcatcher’	Photos from the show at the New York Theater Workshop.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/09/theater/20110309-peter-3.html	‘Peter and the Starcatcher’	Photos from the show at the New York Theater Workshop.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/09/theater/20110309-peter-5.html	‘Peter and the Starcatcher’	Photos from the show at the New York Theater Workshop.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE6DC1E39F93AA35750C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Kennedy Center Lineup For 2011-12 Season	The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Tuesday morning announced its 2011-12 season, which will include a festival celebrating the music of Budapest, Prague and Vienna; a production of the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical ''Pal Joey,'' with a new book by Terrence McNally; and the Sydney Theater Company's
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/arts/design/african-art-museum-receives-3-million-gift.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; African Art Museum Receives $3 Million Gift	The Museum for African Art in New York has received a $3 million gift from the Ford Foundation toward the completion of its new home on Fifth Avenue, at 110th Street, which is scheduled to open in the fall, the museum said on Tuesday. In recognition of the gift the museum's lobby will be known as the Ford Foundation Lobby. The museum has raised $76
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/arts/music/shepley-metcalf-at-the-metropolitan-room-review.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Traveling to the Stars, No Joy or Romance Needed	You don't need to pore over the lyrics of Fran Landesman, the little-known New York-born songwriter and poet who has lived in London since the mid-1960s and is now 84, to get their drift. The song titles alone evoke the lives of ''bohemian sophisticates,'' as the rugged swingers of an earlier era were quaintly labeled. ''Spring Can Really Hang You
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E1DA1E39F93AA35750C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Phil Collins Explains His Musical 'Time Out'	He began as a child actor and later went on to enjoy enormous commercial success, both as a member of the progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist. But after nearly 50 years as a performer, the drummer and singer Phil Collins has announced his retirement. Or maybe he hasn't: it all depends how you interpret a statement Mr. Collins, one
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/theater/tracing-public-theater-executives-departure.html	Some Clues To Hasty Departure At the Public	The Public Theater parted ways with its executive director, Andrew D. Hamingson, last month because in the theater's transfer of shows to Broadway and London's West End he had exposed it to financial risks without fully informing the board, people involved with the productions say. In moving the new musical ''Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson'' to
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/06/arts/design/03062011_Gorey-10.html	Gothic Romance	More than 10 years after Edward Gorey’s death, his cult continues to grow.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/06/arts/design/03062011_Gorey-6.html	Gothic Romance	More than 10 years after Edward Gorey’s death, his cult continues to grow.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/06/arts/design/03062011_Gorey-4.html	Gothic Romance	More than 10 years after Edward Gorey’s death, his cult continues to grow.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/06/arts/design/03062011_Gorey-7.html	Gothic Romance	More than 10 years after Edward Gorey’s death, his cult continues to grow.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/06/arts/design/Culture-Photos-for-Week-14.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, Mar. 4	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/06/arts/design/Culture-Photos-for-Week-10.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, Mar. 4	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/06/arts/design/03062011_Gorey-1.html	Gothic Romance	More than 10 years after Edward Gorey’s death, his cult continues to grow.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/06/arts/design/Culture-Photos-for-Week.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, Mar. 4	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/06/arts/design/03062011_Gorey-2.html	Gothic Romance	More than 10 years after Edward Gorey’s death, his cult continues to grow.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/06/arts/design/Culture-Photos-for-Week-11.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, Mar. 4	A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/movies/05carmen.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'CARMEN IN 3D'; A Feisty Singing Gypsy, Right There on Your Lap	If you want to see ''Carmen'' in 3-D, get thee to an opera house! Yes, that's lower than low-tech thinking. But nothing in Julian Napier's ''Carmen in 3D,'' a film of a Royal Opera House production directed by Francesca Zambello, makes a very strong case for donning a pair of Buddy Holly-style glasses and settling in with popcorn for a nearly
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E5D61530F936A35750C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Dylan in China	It's not exactly Richard M. Nixon going to China, but it is someone who also made some memorable recordings in the 1970s: Bob Dylan is likely to play his first concerts in mainland China this spring, one year after a previously scheduled set of shows there fell through, Agence France-Presse reported. Mr. Dylan, who has previously performed in Hong
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E1D71E31F936A35750C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Recording Academy Responds to a Critic	Two weeks ago Steve Stoute, a marketing executive and music industry veteran, caused a stir by attacking the Grammy Awards in a full-page ad in the Sunday Styles section of The New York Times. In an 850-word open letter, Mr. Stoute criticized the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which bestows the Grammys, for giving top awards to
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E4DC1530F936A35750C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Award for Sondheim	Stephen Sondheim will be honored with the Olivier Special Award 2011 by the Society of London Theater, the society announced on Friday. The society said Mr. Sondheim would accept the award in person at the Olivier Awards on March 13 and that the ceremony - London's equivalent of the Tony Awards ceremony - would conclude with a tribute to him. It
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980DE3DA1530F936A35750C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Norman Foster to Design District in Hong Kong	The British architect Norman Foster has been selected to design the master plan for the 100-acre West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, his firm, Foster & Partners, announced on Friday. The harbor-front district, known as City Park, is to be a major hub for music, performing and visual arts that includes living spaces, galleries and studios.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/movies/05friends.html	Filming Couples in Motion While Being One Themselves	''Welcome to Ver-Bronx,'' the actor Jon Hamm said, inviting a group of visitors into the seemingly paradoxical setting of a Vermont-style log cabin on a waterfront strip nestled between the Throgs Neck and Bronx-Whitestone bridges. This real-life getaway, which, on a recent Friday, was the location for an independent movie called ''Friends With
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04EEDB1230F936A35750C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Joel Grey to Get Help From George C. Wolfe	One star can only do so much at once on Broadway, even if he's Tony and Academy Award winner Joel Grey. On Thursday the 78-year-old Mr. Grey (''Cabaret'') will begin preview performances as Moonface Martin in the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of ''Anything Goes'' on Broadway; opening night is April 7. This month he is also set to begin
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/theater/05circus.html	CIRCUS REVIEW; Where William Tell Is an Amateur	NEWARK -- You can buy all sorts of stuff from the concessionaires at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, but the things you may want the most after seeing this year's show aren't for sale. At the top of the list is a giant bicycle with huge tires that look like chocolate doughnuts; a group of clowns have a great time with it, and it
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/theater/reviews/05merchant.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'THE MERCHANT OF VENICE'; What Price a Pound of Flesh?	If you've scanned the headlines recently, you have no doubt been freshly reminded that the toxin of anti-Semitism has hardly been eradicated from contemporary culture. In the last couple of weeks it has surfaced spectacularly in the worlds of show business and fashion, blighting, if not ending, two major careers. How oddly fitting, in these strange
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/theater/05dead.html	I'm Not A Corpse (Except Onstage)	I think about death more than most people -- I write obituaries for a living, after all -- but stepping into a coffin, I didn't know what to expect. A corpse's-eye view of death, I figured, might be informative, but I had my trepidations; being killed and disposed of, even as a volunteer in front of an audience, was unnerving. I call it a coffin;
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/03/arts/20110304-reading-3.html	Naked Girls Reading	Photos from a literary reading at Madame X in the West Village.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/03/arts/20110304-reading-5.html	Naked Girls Reading	Photos from a literary reading at Madame X in the West Village.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/03/arts/20110304-reading-7.html	Naked Girls Reading	Photos from a literary reading at Madame X in the West Village.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/03/arts/20110304-reading-2.html	Naked Girls Reading	Photos from a literary reading at Madame X in the West Village.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/03/arts/design/20110304-armory-7.html	The Armory Show	Photos from the exhibition of contemporary and modern art.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/03/arts/design/20110304-armory-2.html	The Armory Show	Photos from the exhibition of contemporary and modern art.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/03/arts/design/20110304-armory-6.html	The Armory Show	Photos from the exhibition of contemporary and modern art.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/03/arts/design/20110304-armory-4.html	The Armory Show	Photos from the exhibition of contemporary and modern art.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/03/arts/design/20110304-armory-8.html	The Armory Show	Photos from the exhibition of contemporary and modern art.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/03/arts/design/20110304-armory-5.html	The Armory Show	Photos from the exhibition of contemporary and modern art.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/arts/video-games/01killzone.html	VIDEO GAME REVIEW; Violence Reigns With No Apologies	It's tough to take yourself seriously when you're writing about video games with names like Bulletstorm and Killzone 3. That's probably a good thing. Plenty of other titles provide ample grist for discussion of weighty topics like the place of video games in the artistic firmament and the evolving modalities of personal entertainment. But there are
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E3D8173EF932A35750C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; A Plan to Restore A Destroyed Buddha	German scientists said on Friday that it might be possible to reconstruct the smaller of the two Bamiyan Buddhas destroyed in Afghanistan by the Taliban in 2001, Agence France Presse reported. Conservators at Munich's Technical University have been studying fragments of the statues for the last 18 months and have concluded that the smaller one,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/arts/music/01jazz.html	A Season of Many Singers in Jazz at Lincoln Center	As was the case last year, singers look to be an especially high priority among the bookings in Jazz at Lincoln Center's coming season. On Tuesday, the organization announced the new season's schedule, which runs from this September through June 2012. Jon Hendricks will perform in the opening-night double bill with Jimmy Heath at Rose Theater (on
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E4D6173EF932A35750C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; From Charlie Chaplin To 'Where's Charley?'	Rob McClure, an actor who just played Charlie Chaplin in a world premiere musical but has comparatively few New York credits, has snagged the title role in ''Where's Charley?'' -- the part that won a Tony Award for Ray Bolger -- in the final production in the 2010-11 Encores! season of underappreciated musicals. Also filling out the show's cast are
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4DA173EF932A35750C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Douglas Carter Beane Joins 'Sister Act' Team	Sometimes even those with a direct line to the Almighty need a little assistance here on earth. That includes the creative team of ''Sister Act,'' the coming Broadway musical adapted from the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg comedy, which said on Monday that Douglas Carter Beane would join its roster to provide additional material to the show's book. Though
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/movies/awardsseason/01oscar.html	Younger Audience Still Eludes The Oscars	LOS ANGELES -- The Oscars tripped in their transition to a hipper, younger, media-mad future, attracting 12 percent fewer viewers than last year in the important 18-to-49 age bracket. Early ratings results for Sunday night's broadcast of the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony on ABC pointed toward an overall audience of 37.6 million, about 4 million
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE6D9143FF932A35750C0A9679D8B63	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Celebrities: See How They Fall	LONDON -- Fame kills. Or at the very least, it would appear, it destroys your health, your love life, your family and your sanity. The wages of celebrity are being assessed all over this city in productions that should give weighty pause to those who would be stars. Most conspicuously, there's ''Anna Nicole,'' the title character of the new opera
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E0DA113CF932A35750C0A9679D8B63	What's On Today	10 P.M. (13); 11 P.M. (49) ME FACING LIFE: CYNTOIA'S STORY In August 2004 Cyntoia Brown, 16, shot and killed Johnny Allen, a 43-year-old Tennessee real estate agent she said had picked her up for sex. Two years later Ms. Brown -- who had been born to a 16-year-old and adopted as a toddler -- was tried as an adult, found guilty of first-degree
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/arts/dance/01nycb.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; At City Ballet This Winter, You Could Sometimes See the Music	Though ballet is no better than other forms of dancing, its capacity for large-scale legibility have singular theatrical potency. Its shapes and lines beam far into space. When those geometries meet music, their union occurs not only in the bodies of the dancers: the music seems to animate the air around them. Paradoxically it is often felt more
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/arts/music/01ingrid.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Finding the Subtle Humor and Whimsy in Haydn	The Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter, in an interview about her recital at the 92nd Street Y on Sunday afternoon, described Haydn's humor as an essential part of his music and an aspect she always tries to emphasize. Humor is indeed integral to Haydn, even in minor-key works like the Sonata in E minor (Hob. XVI:34), which opened Ms. Fliter's
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/books/review/Monson-t.html	Untamable Tongue	MONTECORE The Silence of the Tiger By Jonas Hassen Khemiri Translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles 311 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $26.95. ''Does anyone at all understand anything about a story that is not their own?'' asks Kadir, one of the primary characters in Jonas Hassen Khemiri's ''Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger.'' It's an apt question in any
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/arts/design/27ligon.html	The Inside Story On Outsiderness	A STARTLING sight will soon be hanging in midair in the Madison Avenue window of the Whitney Museum of American Art, just a few blocks from Ralph Lauren, Prada and Gucci: a 22-foot-long neon sign spelling out the words ''negro sunshine.'' It's the work of the New York Conceptual artist Glenn Ligon, whose midcareer retrospective, ''Glenn Ligon:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E0D8173EF934A15751C0A9679D8B63	: Sunday, February 27th 2011	Weeks This Last On Week Week List 1 2 ALONE, by Lisa Gardner. ( Random House) A woman who survived a horrible childhood abduction may have tricked the Massachusetts police sniper Bobby Dodge into killing her husband. 2 3 TICK TOCK, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. ( Little, Brown) The New York detective Michael Bennett enlists the help of a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/arts/music/27watt.html	MUSIC; The Midlife Thing, The Nightmare Thing	THE bassist and bandleader Mike Watt, who once played in the great Southern California punk band the Minutemen and now spends half his life on the road with five different groups, turned 53 in December. He feels all right about it. ''It's not a totally lame place to be,'' he said last week by telephone from his home in San Pedro, Calif. ''My knee
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/books/review/Giry-t.html	Mosh Pit Diplomacy	HOW TO RUN THE WORLD Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance By Parag Khanna 256 pp. Random House. $26. The would-be foreign policy prodigy Parag Khanna made a splash with his first book, ''The Second World,'' in 2008, by announcing with great fanfare -- including a lengthy adaptation in The New York Times Magazine -- what everyone already knew:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/arts/television/27supernatural.html	TELEVISION; Heaven, Hell, Brothers and an Impala	IF you are neither 15 years old nor the sort of person for whom the term fan fiction has an ounce of resonance, then chances are that ''Supernatural'' is not in your DVR queue or even in your frame of reference. The series, now in its sixth season on the CW network, remains an invisibly pervasive cultural phenomenon: enormously popular and yet
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/arts/television/27breakout.html	To Catch a Thief (or a Murderer)	WHEN a convicted murderer or child predator or armed robber escapes from a maximum-security prison, two United States marshals, Charlie DuChamp (Laz Alonso) and Ray Zancanelli (Domenick Lombardozzi), try to track him down. And who better to help them catch a convict than a convict -- or three? That's the premise of ''Breakout Kings,'' a new drama
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/books/review/PaperRow-t.html	Paperback Row	THE MYTH OF THE RATIONAL MARKET: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street, by Justin Fox (Harper Business, $16.99.) Instead of emphasizing the errors and abuses of bankers in the 2008 financial crisis, Fox, a former business and economics columnist for Time magazine, zeroes in on the academics whose efficient-market theories enabled
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/arts/music/27harding.html	Prodigy Ages Into a Merely Young Conductor	LONDON SIGNIFICANT careers sometimes explode from chance events. This happened two decades ago in Manchester, England, when a teacher at a music school taped a rehearsal that his 16-year-old pupil was conducting. The tape was sent to the eminent conductor Simon Rattle, who no doubt gets sackfuls of such things. And there the matter might have
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/books/review/InsideList-t.html	TBR; Inside The List	BATTLE ROYALE: As secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld was a strong advocate for the so-called Revolution in Military Affairs, a strategy that relies on high-tech combat systems and smaller, more nimble forces. When it comes to book-selling, however, he's something of an old fogey. While his ''Known and Unknown'' may be No. 1 on the hardcover
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/arts/design/25galleries-FRANCESCOVEZ_RVW.html	ART IN REVIEW; Francesco Vezzoli: 'Sacrilegio'	Gagosian 522 West 21st Street Chelsea Through March 12 Like the stand-up comedian, the professional provocateur needs an acute sense of timing, flawless delivery, an extrasensory awareness of audience psychology and a basket of surprising ideas. The stunt that made Franceso Vezzoli famous, a lavishly produced, star-studded fake trailer for a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/arts/design/25galleries-GLENFOGEL_RVW.html	ART IN REVIEW; Glen Fogel: 'With Me ... You'	Participant Inc. 253 East Houston Street Lower East Side Through Sunday Hard to believe this is a first New York solo show for Glen Fogel, whose hypnotic, often subtly topical videos have been appearing regularly in the city for more than a decade, including in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Like much of what he does, the work at Participant Inc. is at
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/arts/music/25openjams.html	From City Folk, Toe-Tapping Country Sounds	ON a recent Saturday night, in a desolate corner of Red Hook, Brooklyn, a crowd gathered at Sunny's, a family-owned bar that's been soothing homesick sailors for well over a century. Outside, icy winds sliced across New York Harbor; inside, visitors clutched mugs of hot spiced cider, squeezing onto the handmade wooden benches flanking the back
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/arts/25kids.html	Spare Times: For Children	'KNUFFLE BUNNY: A Cautionary Musical' How do you turn a book into a rousing musical when its main character speaks only gibberish? For Mo Willems, the gibberish was at least familiar. A few years ago Mr. Willems, a best-selling author and illustrator of children's books, began adapting his own ''Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale'' (Hyperion Books
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/arts/design/25galleries-REEMORTON_RVW.html	ART IN REVIEW; Ree Morton: 'Selected Works, 1968-1973'	Alexander and Bonin 132 10th Avenue, near 18th Street Chelsea Through March 5 This is the first New York exhibition in 10 years devoted to the work of Ree Morton (1936-77), one of several artists -- many of them women -- who started skewing Minimal and Post-Minimal strategies in explicitly personal, mildly comical directions in the late 1960s and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/arts/music/25classical.html	The Listings	Classical Full reviews of recent music performances: nytimes.com/music. Opera - 'L'Africaine' (Wednesday) In its comeback season after several years of financial troubles and reduced programming, the Opera Orchestra of New York, which is prized by opera lovers for presenting concert performances of seldom-heard repertory, offers this real rarity
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE2DB1F3CF936A15751C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Bill Requiring the University of Iowa to Relinquish Pollock's 'Mural' Is Dropped	State legislation that would have forced the University of Iowa to sell Jackson Pollock's ''Mural'' - an 8-by-20-foot painting valued at more than $100 million - to raise money for the school has been dropped, The Des Moines Register reported. State Representative Scott Raecker introduced the bill this month as a way to create an endowment to pay
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/realestate/25housetour.html	House Tour: Pound Ridge, N.Y.	HOW MUCH $1,595,000. Taxes: $17,282. WHAT A four-bedroom, four-and-a-half bath house with 3,771 square feet and a detached two-car garage on 3.5 acres. ABOUT Open living spaces combined with charming nooks make this cedar-shingle house feel like a European farmhouse. The kitchen is in its own wing and features a floor-to-ceiling hearth with an
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E0DA1E3CF936A15751C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; James Earl Jones Elected For Revival of 'The Best Man'	When his time behind the wheel at ''Driving Miss Daisy'' comes to an end, James Earl Jones need not resort to reciting Justin Bieber lyrics for fun and profit (unless he wants to), as his next term of office on Broadway has been decided: Mr. Jones, a Tony Award winner for ''Fences'' and ''The Great White Hope,'' will next portray a former United
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/arts/design/25drawn.html	ART REVIEW; Authorship or Translation? Notes Toward Redefining Creativity	''Drawn From Photography,'' at the Drawing Center in SoHo, is all about the vulnerability of movements, some aesthetic, others political. It's a narrow slice of drawing today, encompassing a mere 13 artists, but it feels right for our moment of global trepidation. In formal terms it might be seen as a coda to the Museum of Modern Art's recent show
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/23/theater/20110223-burnout.html	‘Beautiful Burnout’	Images from the show at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/23/theater/20110223-carre-5.html	‘Vieux Carré’	Images from the Wooster Group’s production of Tennessee Williams’s play.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/23/arts/music/iht23-swissart23-1.html	Scenes From Geneva	Protesters are opposed to the closing of alternative music clubs.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/23/arts/music/iht23-swissart23-7.html	Scenes From Geneva	Protesters are opposed to the closing of alternative music clubs.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/23/arts/music/iht23-swissart23-6.html	Scenes From Geneva	Protesters are opposed to the closing of alternative music clubs.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/23/arts/music/iht23-swissart23-5.html	Scenes From Geneva	Protesters are opposed to the closing of alternative music clubs.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/23/arts/music/iht23-swissart23.html	Scenes From Geneva	Protesters are opposed to the closing of alternative music clubs.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/23/arts/music/iht23-swissart23-3.html	Scenes From Geneva	Protesters are opposed to the closing of alternative music clubs.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/23/arts/music/iht23-swissart23-2.html	Scenes From Geneva	Protesters are opposed to the closing of alternative music clubs.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/23/arts/music/iht23-swissart23-4.html	Scenes From Geneva	Protesters are opposed to the closing of alternative music clubs.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/20/arts/design/20110220_design21-5.html	And the Best Film Title Nominees Are...	If the Academy had decided to celebrated title design, what would we be toasting at the Oscar ceremony next Sunday? Alice Rawsthorn selects her nominees for this year’s strictly unofficial ‘‘Best Film Titles’’ award.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/20/arts/design/20110220_design21-3.html	And the Best Film Title Nominees Are...	If the Academy had decided to celebrated title design, what would we be toasting at the Oscar ceremony next Sunday? Alice Rawsthorn selects her nominees for this year’s strictly unofficial ‘‘Best Film Titles’’ award.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/20/arts/design/02202011_DIAL-6.html	Thornton Dial	Photos of the artist and his work.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/20/arts/design/20110220_design21-8.html	And the Best Film Title Nominees Are...	If the Academy had decided to celebrated title design, what would we be toasting at the Oscar ceremony next Sunday? Alice Rawsthorn selects her nominees for this year’s strictly unofficial ‘‘Best Film Titles’’ award.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/20/arts/design/02202011_DIAL-5.html	Thornton Dial	Photos of the artist and his work.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/20/arts/design/02202011_DIAL-4.html	Thornton Dial	Photos of the artist and his work.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/20/arts/design/20110220_design21-6.html	And the Best Film Title Nominees Are...	If the Academy had decided to celebrated title design, what would we be toasting at the Oscar ceremony next Sunday? Alice Rawsthorn selects her nominees for this year’s strictly unofficial ‘‘Best Film Titles’’ award.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/20/arts/design/20110220_design21-1.html	And the Best Film Title Nominees Are...	If the Academy had decided to celebrated title design, what would we be toasting at the Oscar ceremony next Sunday? Alice Rawsthorn selects her nominees for this year’s strictly unofficial ‘‘Best Film Titles’’ award.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/20/arts/design/20110220_design21-10.html	And the Best Film Title Nominees Are...	If the Academy had decided to celebrated title design, what would we be toasting at the Oscar ceremony next Sunday? Alice Rawsthorn selects her nominees for this year’s strictly unofficial ‘‘Best Film Titles’’ award.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/20/arts/design/20110220_design21.html	And the Best Film Title Nominees Are...	If the Academy had decided to celebrated title design, what would we be toasting at the Oscar ceremony next Sunday? Alice Rawsthorn selects her nominees for this year’s strictly unofficial ‘‘Best Film Titles’’ award.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/arts/music/20ring.html	SPRING PERFORMANCE: MUSIC; 'Ring' Resumes, With All Eyes On Brünnhilde	THERE is much at stake for the Metropolitan Opera with its new production of Wagner's ''Ring'' cycle. So the premiere of ''Die Walküre'' (April 22), the second installment of Robert Lepage's high-tech staging, will be the most anticipated event of the spring. The first installment, ''Das Rheingold,'' opened the Met's season in September. It
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/theater/20mormon.html	A Sweet Show, But With Lots Of Blasphemy And Cussing	NOT long into Act I of ''The Book of Mormon,'' a new Broadway musical comedy written and composed by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, two young Mormon missionaries arrive in Uganda after an arduous journey from Salt Lake City, during which they have suffered a cramped flight and the theft of their luggage. Their plight inspires the natives
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/books/review/Upfront-t.html	Up Front	In his distinguished career, Walter Isaacson has been the chairman and chief executive of CNN and the editor of Time magazine. He is now the president and chief executive of the Aspen Institute. But he is perhaps even more distinguished for being one of the country's most talented biographers, equally adept at tracing the lives of people who were
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9906E1D8173EF933A15751C0A9679D8B63	MANGA: Sunday, February 20th 2011	Weeks This Last On Week Week List 1 1 NARUTO. VOL. 50, by Masashi Kishimoto. ($9.99 VIZ Media) Naruto, ninja in training, learns more about his destiny and the fate of his universe. 2 1 BLACK BIRD, VOL. 7, by Kanoko Sakurakoji. ($9.99 VIZ Media) Misao Harada can see the magic hidden in the world, but it turns out to be a a power that demons wants
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/movies/20scott.html	FILM; Midwinter Ritual: When Good Actor Meets Bad Movie	LATE winter is traditionally a time to celebrate great acting, as the most distinguished performances of the previous year parade before us on their long march to the Oscars. At the moment, accordingly, those of us with deadlines and airtime to fill are busy trumpeting the artistry of Colin Firth and Annette Bening, Natalie Portman and Christian
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE2D8103BF933A15751C0A9679D8B63	Online	Podcast Scheduled to appear this week: Walter Isaacson on the life of Socrates; a conversation with the Book Review's new children's books editor, Pamela Paul; Julie Bosman with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-/seller news. Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the Book Review, is the host. ExcerptsSelections from ''Poems'' and
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9502E1D8173EF933A15751C0A9679D8B63	PAPERBACK GRAPHIC NOVELS: Sunday, February 20th 2011	Weeks This Last On Week Week List 1 48 SCOTT PILGRIM: PRECIOUS LITTLE LIFE, by Bryan Lee O’Malley. ($11.95 Oni Press) Meet Scott Pilgrim, twentysomething slacker, member of the band Sex Bob-Omb and would-be suitor of Ramona Flowers. 2 44 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD, by Bryan Lee O'Malley. ($11.95 Oni Press) Scott Pilgrim faces off against
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/19/arts/music/20110219-nicole-ss-8.html	‘Anna Nicole’	The opera based on the life of Anna Nicole Smith opened to raves in London.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/19/arts/music/20110219-nicole-ss.html	‘Anna Nicole’	The opera based on the life of Anna Nicole Smith opened to raves in London.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/19/arts/music/20110219-nicole-ss-9.html	‘Anna Nicole’	The opera based on the life of Anna Nicole Smith opened to raves in London.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E5D6143DF93BA25751C0A9679D8B63	Spare Times	'Portraits of Leadership: African American Entrepreneurs on Staten Island' (through Nov. 1) They have made their lives and their livelihoods on Staten Island and believe in giving back to their community. That is the thread that connects the eight individuals featured in a multimedia exhibition at the Staten Island Museum's History Center in Snug
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/arts/design/18galleries-JANETBIGGS_RVW.html	ART IN REVIEW; Janet Biggs: 'The Arctic Trilogy'	Winkleman Gallery 621 West 27th Street Chelsea Through March 12 The three short, related videos that make up Janet Biggs's debut show at Winkleman were filmed on glacial islands between the top of Norway and the North Pole. Playing on separate screens and in overlapping sequence, the pieces can be viewed in any order, though a gallery news release,
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/movies/18vanish.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'VANISHING ON 7TH STREET'; Disappearing People, Leaving a Lot of Clothes Behind	The something wicked that comes creeping like night in ''Vanishing on 7th Street,'' turning down the sun and seemingly sucking people right out of their homes, offices, cars and clothes, arrives without warning. One minute moviegoers are yukking it up at a multiplex in this generally nifty little horror flick, and the next minute they've
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/arts/design/18galleries-ANNABETBEZE_RVW.html	ART IN REVIEW; Anna Betbeze: 'Moss Garden'	Kate Werble Gallery 83 Vandam Street SoHo Through March 12 Flokati rugs, those fluffy white coverings traditionally handmade in the Pindus Mountains in Europe and prized by contemporary designers, become wild-and-woolly wall reliefs in Anna Betbeze's first New York solo. Ms. Betbeze dyes, scorches, shreds, shaves and otherwise attacks these shaggy
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/arts/design/18art.html	The Listings	Art Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. Museums American Folk Art Museum: 'Eugene Von Bruenchenhein: Freelance Artist -- Poet and Sculptor -- Inovator -- Arrow maker and Plant man -- Bone artifacts constructor -- Photographer and Architect -- Philosopher,' through Oct. 9.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/arts/dance/18dunderville.html	DANCE REVIEW; Geometry in Motion, With Costumes	Walter Dundervill is just fine with letting his imagination run wild, and that's evident in ''Aesthetic Destiny 1: Candy Mountain,'' performed at Dance Theater Workshop on Wednesday night, where the terrain of the stage is decorated with colorful polygons of varying sizes. Some are propped up like jagged mountains with strangely placed peaks and
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/movies/18immigration-tango.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'IMMIGRATION TANGO'; 'Immigration Tango,' International Love	It's fine to employ a plot device that's been used repeatedly. But you run into trouble when you use a familiar plot and do only the familiar with it. ''Immigration Tango,'' a pale romantic comedy, has this problem. An immigrant couple (he's from Colombia, she's from Russia) in Florida strike a deal with their best friends, an American couple: the
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/movies/18unknown.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'UNKNOWN'; Me, My Doppelgänger And a Dunk in the River	Liam Neeson's latter-day renaissance as an unlikely action star should give hope to performers and viewers of a certain age (i.e., over 40) everywhere. While that irrepressible exhibitionist Helen Mirren, born in 1945, continues to inspire legions of AARP members, one discarded garment at a time, Mr. Neeson, a comparative pup born in 1952, is doing
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/movies/18even.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'EVEN THE RAIN'; Discovering Columbus's Exploitation	Icíar Bollaín's bluntly political film ''Even the Rain'' makes pertinent, if heavy-handed, comparisons between European imperialism five centuries ago and modern globalization. In particular it portrays high-end filming on location in poor countries as an offshoot of colonial exploitation. The movie is set in and around Cochabamba, Bolivia's
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/movies/18now-and-later.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'NOW & LATER'; 'Now & Later' Explores Sex and Politics	Essentially a two-person play liberally sprinkled with gleaming, groovy, graphic sex, ''Now & Later'' exudes an amiably accessible vibe that softens the edges of its freewheeling explicitness. Lest we enjoy all this flesh without an ennobling context, the movie kicks off with Wilhelm Reich's assertion of the link between sexual repression and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/arts/music/16domingo.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Crazy Little Thing Called Love, in Some of Its Many Variations	The course of true love never does run smooth, as listeners at the New York Philharmonic's Valentine's Day concert were reminded during a lineup of songs about melancholic, suicidal and incestuous love. Alan Gilbert began the event at Avery Fisher Hall, where the stage was decorated with red flowers, by conducting a full-blooded rendition of the
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/theater/reviews/16green.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'GREEN'; Planets Named for Banks, And Snobbish Robots	''Green'' is a smart, evocative play title for the age we live in. But Chris Harcum's ''Green,'' at the Metropolitan Playhouse in the East Village, has nothing to say about sustainable fuels or chemical-free foods or any aspect of environmentalism. Green is just a guy's name. This guy, however, is one of the last human beings in the universe. Most
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/movies/16zero.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'ZERO BRIDGE'; Bridges Can Still Exist in a Divided Land	Tariq Tapa's debut feature, ''Zero Bridge,'' begins promisingly with a Kashmiri teenager being schooled in petty crime, a scene that's reminiscent of the Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke's ''Unknown Pleasures'' in its immediacy and bleak authenticity. The film loses momentum after that, handicapped by Mr. Tapa's sometimes sketchy screenplay and the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06EEDB133DF935A25751C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Gore Vidal Political Play	Are the Iowa presidential caucuses really less than a year away? How time flies. But an election year looms, as does the return of ''Gore Vidal's The Best Man,'' the deliciously tart (when done well) play about politics, campaigns and the presidency. Jeffrey Richards and his fellow producers announced on Tuesday that they would revive that 1960
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/theater/16vanessa-redgrave.html	A Reluctant Redgrave, On 'Daisy' And More	After more than 50 years of acting, Vanessa Redgrave understands the art of pausing and listening. At the heart of her latest Broadway play, ''Driving Miss Daisy,'' is a set of conversations between her snappish title character and James Earl Jones's Hoke, Daisy's chauffeur, whose decades-long friendship with Daisy forces her to face her own
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/15/arts/dance/214SWAN.html	Scenes From ‘Swan Lake’	New York City Ballet performed “Swan Lake” Friday night at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/15/arts/dance/214SWAN-7.html	Scenes From ‘Swan Lake’	New York City Ballet performed “Swan Lake” Friday night at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/15/arts/dance/214SWAN-4.html	Scenes From ‘Swan Lake’	New York City Ballet performed “Swan Lake” Friday night at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/15/arts/dance/214SWAN-2.html	Scenes From ‘Swan Lake’	New York City Ballet performed “Swan Lake” Friday night at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/15/arts/dance/214SWAN-8.html	Scenes From ‘Swan Lake’	New York City Ballet performed “Swan Lake” Friday night at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/13/arts/music/20110213-nixon-6.html	Nixon, China and History	Photos of President Richard Nixon’s 1972 trip to China, and photos from the Met’s new production of “Nixon in China,” the opera inspired by that visit.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/13/arts/music/20110213-nixon-3.html	Nixon, China and History	Photos of President Richard Nixon’s 1972 trip to China, and photos from the Met’s new production of “Nixon in China,” the opera inspired by that visit.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/13/arts/music/20110213-nixon-2.html	Nixon, China and History	Photos of President Richard Nixon’s 1972 trip to China, and photos from the Met’s new production of “Nixon in China,” the opera inspired by that visit.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/13/arts/music/20110213-nixon-1.html	Nixon, China and History	Photos of President Richard Nixon’s 1972 trip to China, and photos from the Met’s new production of “Nixon in China,” the opera inspired by that visit.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/13/arts/music/20110213-nixon-7.html	Nixon, China and History	Photos of President Richard Nixon’s 1972 trip to China, and photos from the Met’s new production of “Nixon in China,” the opera inspired by that visit.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/13/arts/20110214-GRAMMYS-5.html	Highlights From the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards	Arcade Fire captured the album of the year award at the Grammys for the “The Suburbs,” a surprise win that left Eminem shut out in all the top categories.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/13/arts/20110214-GRAMMYS-4.html	Highlights From the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards	Arcade Fire captured the album of the year award at the Grammys for the “The Suburbs,” a surprise win that left Eminem shut out in all the top categories.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/13/arts/20110214-GRAMMYS-13.html	Highlights From the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards	Arcade Fire captured the album of the year award at the Grammys for the “The Suburbs,” a surprise win that left Eminem shut out in all the top categories.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/13/arts/20110214-GRAMMYS-2.html	Highlights From the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards	Arcade Fire captured the album of the year award at the Grammys for the “The Suburbs,” a surprise win that left Eminem shut out in all the top categories.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/13/arts/20110214-GRAMMYS-7.html	Highlights From the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards	Arcade Fire captured the album of the year award at the Grammys for the “The Suburbs,” a surprise win that left Eminem shut out in all the top categories.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/arts/music/13beatmachine.html	MUSIC; Lots of Beats, But No Drum In Sight	FOR about 12 minutes at a recent installment of One Step Beyond, a monthly party at the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, no one danced. Instead people were clustered around the stage, watching dumbfounded as Araabmuzik pounded out live drumbeats with his fingertips on a pair of Akai MPC 2500s.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/arts/dance/13swan.html	First-Time Queen's Double Demands	DESPITE some recent requests for tickets there will be no performance of ''Black Swan'' at the David H. Koch Theater any time soon. That Oscar-nominated film has garnered so much attention that some potential audience members seem to think it's an actual ballet. It isn't, of course, but in a bit of interesting timing New York City Ballet is now
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE7D61538F930A25751C0A9679D8B63	CHILDREN'S BOOKS; Liberty or Death	FORGE By Laurie Halse Anderson 297 pp. Atheneum Books for Young Readers. $16.99. (Ages 10 and up) The specter of full-grown adults festooned in tricorn hats may have retreated in the post-Tucson landscape, but the American Revolution and its reputed lessons are still in the air, making this an interesting time for Laurie Halse Anderson to publish
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01EEDA173EF930A25751C0A9679D8B63	PAPERBACK BEST SELLERS: ADVICE, HOW TO AND MISCELLANEOUS: Sunday, February 13th 2011	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Saturday, January 29th 2011, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E2DF143BF930A25751C0A9679D8B63	Corrections	A report in the DVD column on Jan. 16 about the British television series ''Downton Abbey'' misidentified one of the characters who went down with the Titanic. It was James Crawley, an heir to the earl of Grantham -- not the earl himself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/movies/13putty.html	FILM; Indie Filmmaker's Seat-of-the-Pants Solutions	Baltimore IT was just after 8 a.m. on a cold, bright Monday in November, and Dimitri's Tavern, a locals-only spot in the Hampden neighborhood here, was an improbable hive of activity. The Budweiser flowed freely at the bar, where several regulars were already parked. In the adjacent room, home to a karaoke night that a Baltimore weekly once called
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/books/review/Jacobs-t.html	What Am I So Afraid Of?	I THINK I LOVE YOU By Allison Pearson 331 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $24.95. The British journalist Allison Pearson's frothy, peachy smoothie of a first novel, ''I Don't Know How She Does It,'' surged with a certain inevitability to best-seller glory when it was published in 2002. So-called chick lit, about shopping and dating and cocktails, was on the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04E3D8173EF930A25751C0A9679D8B63	BEST SELLERS: FICTION: Sunday, February 13th 2011	Weeks This On Week List BEST SELLERS: FICTION 1 0 1 TICK TOCK, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. ( Little Brown & Company) 2 3 37 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. ($27.95 Knopf) The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist. 3 4 4 THE INNER CIRCLE, by Brad Meltzer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/books/review/Bynum-t.html	Finding a Way	HOUSE OF PRAYER NO. 2 A Writer's Journey Home By Mark Richard 202 pp. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. $23.95. From the very first sentence of his unusual memoir, ''House of Prayer No. 2,'' Mark Richard brings together the vernacular and the performative. ''Say you have a 'special child,' '' the book begins, at once inviting us in folksy terms to suppose
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/movies/awardsseason/13movies.html	FILM; Hollywood's Whiteout Year: Few Blacks on Silver Screen	CRAMMED into this year's field of 10 best picture Oscar nominees are British aristocrats, Volvo-driving Los Angeles lesbians, a flock of swans, a gaggle of Harvard computer geeks, clans of Massachusetts fighters and Missouri meth dealers, as well as 19th-century bounty hunters, dream detectives and animated toys. It's a fairly diverse selection in
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/movies/11sky.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE SKY TURNS'; Return to a Spanish Village	In 2003 Mercedes Álvarez returned, with a video camera, to the village of her birth in a rocky, empty region of northern Spain. No one had been born there since she was, and now fewer than 20 people remained, one of whom died during the year she spent recording their lives for her documentary ''The Sky Turns.'' Receiving a belated New York
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/movies/11carancho.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'CARANCHO'; Crooked Lawyers and Broken People	Set in a featureless corner of Buenos Aires called La Matanza, ''Carancho'' dives into a nocturnal world of crooked lawyers and broken people. After informing us that traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for Argentines under 35, Pablo Trapero's insinuating thriller introduces the bottom feeders who profit from vehicular tragedy. Among
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07E0DE113BF932A25751C0A9679D8B63	Tripping the Light Creative, on the Sidewalks and Elsewhere	BROOKLYN BANYAbrooklynbanya.com. CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINEstjohndivine.org. CHELSEA MARKETchelseamarket.com. EXCELLENT DUMPLING HOUSEnymag.com/listings/restaurant/excellent-dumpling-house. HIGH LINEthehighline.org. JIMMY'S CORNERfacebook.com/jimmyscornernyc. MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE (100 Centre Street) nycourts.gov.MAX NEUHAUS:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/arts/dance/11dance.html	The Listings	Dance Full reviews of recent performances: nytimes.com/dance. Kyle Abraham and Friends (Friday and Saturday) The friends include the guest artists David Dorfman, Faye Driscoll and Alex Escalante, and the presentation is ''Heartbreak and Homies,'' a DanceNOW [NYC] Valentine show set to hip-hop, rock, jazz and soul songs about lovers breaking up. Mr.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/movies/11poetry.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'POETRY'; Consider an Apple, Consider the World	The women and few men sitting at their desks in the film ''Poetry'' have open faces and smiles. They're good pupils, these older people who have come to the cultural center to learn. Perhaps because they have chosen to be there, they don't have the look of sullen resentment and cultivated boredom that glazes the faces of the high school students
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/movies/11orgasm.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'ORGASM INC.'; The Link Between Female Sexuality and Corporate Profits	''What does an orgasm mean to you?'' the filmmaker Liz Canner asks of several women who appear in ''Orgasm Inc.'' The answers vary, but Ms. Canner is more interested in what orgasm means to the pharmaceutical industry. And by taking a playful approach to a deeply serious subject, she explores the link between female sexuality and corporate profits
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/theater/reviews/11interview.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'INTERVIEWING THE AUDIENCE'; If You Go to the Show, You May Just Land a Role	Time to face it. You are probably not going to be making an appearance on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show.'' The waning days of that celebrated syndicated chatfest are upon us, and if you have not yet received the call, it is unlikely that you will be joining Ms. Winfrey on the plush couches under the comforting lighting to discuss your memoir of a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/realestate/11housetour.html	House Tour: Piermont, N.Y.	HOW MUCH $1,599,000. Taxes: $17,775. WHAT A three-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath with 3,000 square feet. ABOUT Formerly the village firehouse, this handsome three-story dwelling is nestled in a row of boutiques, restaurants and cafes on the main street of Piermont's single-block downtown. In 2009 a complete renovation transformed this mid-1980s
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/nyregion/11miser.html	Weekend Miser	Do you really want to go with that same old candy-and-flowers routine this week? Here are some different takes on love that won't take it out on your credit card. On Saturday the singer-songwriter Tamar-kali and her sextet, the Psychochamber Ensemble, demonstrate love, desire, passion, infatuation and heartbreak through illusion, burlesque, aerial
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/movies/11carbon.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'CARBON NATION'; Kicking Our Fossil Fuels Habit	About 65 minutes into ''Carbon Nation,'' a peppy documentary about all sorts of technologies that might help us kick our fossil fuels habit, the film acknowledges its biggest shortcoming. ''If all these solutions are such great ideas,'' says the narrator, Bill Kurtis, ''why haven't they happened yet?'' Unfortunately, the director, Peter Byck,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/arts/09festival.html	The Arts Of Cuba, Set to Wow New York	The Cuban rumba and dance troupe Los Muñequitos de Matanzas hasn't performed in New York in nearly a decade. Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, which mixes Afro-Caribbean dance and classical European ballet and was founded in 1959, has never been to the United States. Neither have the socially conscious photographers Adonis Flores and Cirenaica
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/theater/09spider.html	'Spider-Man' Early Reviews Set Off A Storm	In a rare departure from custom, most of the nation's leading theater critics filed their long-anticipated reviews of Broadway's ''Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark'' for publication on Tuesday, even though that musical had not yet opened. They drew a sharp protest from the production about the fairness of assessing a show while its creative team is
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02EEDB1F38F93AA35751C0A9679D8B63	THEATER REVIEW | 'STARRY MESSENGER'; Galileo's Cosmic Cautionary Tale	Over the centuries, Galileo's trial in 1633 for defending heliocentrism -- that Earth orbits the Sun, not the other way around -- the Inquisition's finding that he was ''vehemently suspect of heresy'' and his recantation have grown far beyond just a seminal clash between science and religion. The Galileo affair has become general shorthand for
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E6D7173BF93AA35751C0A9679D8B63	What's On Today	10 P.M. (TV Land) HOT IN CLEVELAND They're calling this one ''Sisterhood of the Traveling Spanx'': an undergarment has mysterious effects on the lives of the women as Melanie (Valerie Bertinelli, above, with Jack Wagner) chases after a doctor (Mr. Wagner); Victoria (Wendie Malick) gets into a row with Melanie Griffith after an audition; Joy (Jane
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4D71030F93AA35751C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Lombardi' Producers To Tap Packers' Victory	The producers of the Broadway play ''Lombardi'' are hoping for a halo effect at the box office from the Green Bay Packers' victory in Sunday night's Super Bowl, ordering championship T-shirts to display at the theater, inviting Packers players to see the show, and planning a springtime media campaign linking the play to that storied N.F.L.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E3DD1130F93AA35751C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; LuPone and Colbert Join 'Company'	When the New York Philharmonicannounced in December that it would present a new semi-staged production of ''Company'' in the spring starring Neil Patrick Harris, it raised the questions of (a) where the peripatetic Mr. Harris finds the time for so many extracurricular activities and (b) what stars would share the stage with him in that Stephen
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/08/theater/20110208-spiderman-6.html	‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’	Photos from the new Broadway musical at the Foxwoods Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/08/theater/20110208-spiderman-2.html	‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’	Photos from the new Broadway musical at the Foxwoods Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/08/theater/20110208-spiderman-3.html	‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’	Photos from the new Broadway musical at the Foxwoods Theater.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/08/theater/20110208-spiderman.html	‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’	Photos from the new Broadway musical at the Foxwoods Theater.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E0DA173EF935A35751C0A9679D8B63	CHILDREN'S BEST SELLERS: PAPERBACK BOOKS: Sunday, February 6th 2011	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Saturday, January 22nd 2011, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E4DF1E39F935A35751C0A9679D8B63	Honoring Art, Honoring Artists	WHEN the Denver Art Museum's signature American Indian art galleries reopened last week after a seven-month overhaul, the biggest change wasn't the new display cases or the dramatic lighting. Rather, it was in a less obvious place: the wall labels. For the first time many of the works on display are attributed to individual artists instead of just
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/books/review/Belfiore-t.html	Fatal Flaws	JET AGE The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World By Sam Howe Verhovek Illustrated. 248 pp. Avery. $27 In Sam Howe Verhovek's ''Jet Age,'' a letter writer contemplates life at 35,000 feet. ''My darling,'' he says, ''the blue Mediterranean Sea is under us and the coast appears in the distance as a dark shadow. In the sky there is much
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/arts/music/06ethan.html	CLASSICAL RECORDINGS	ETHAN WICKMAN: 'Portals and Passages' Nicholas Phillips, pianist. Albany TROY1246; CD. WHEN I first heard a piece by Ethan Wickman, a composer based at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, during a 2007 concert by the New York quartet Flexible Music, I noted his name and went looking for recordings: alas, fruitlessly. But Mr. Wickman is a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/books/review/PaperRow-t.html	Paperback Row	LOSING THE NEWS: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy, by Alex S. Jones (Oxford University, $16.95.) Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard, offers a glimpse of the void we'll inhabit if the task of newspapers withers away. Without the ''iron core
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/books/review/Buskey-t.html	At What Cost	THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do By Eduardo Porter 296 pp. Portfolio/Penguin. $27.95. In 1992, Lawrence Summers, then the chief economist of the World Bank, caused a minor uproar when it was reported that he had signed a memo arguing that poor countries should lease out land to house waste produced by rich
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01E7D61539F935A35751C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | FEB. 6-FEB. 12	Television Ginia Bellafante ''TRAFFIC LIGHT,'' a new Fox comedy beginning at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, has the feel of something like ''Friends'' cross-pollinated with any number of CBS sitcoms. The premise: Three guys in their 30s, friends since college, are navigating their love lives and bromances. Mike (David Denman) is a married lawyer trying to
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/books/review/Rifkind-t.html	My Husband, the Stranger	A BOX OF DARKNESS The Story of a Marriage By Sally Ryder Brady Illustrated. 240 pp. St. Martin's Press. $23.99. Newly widowed after a 46-year marriage, Sally Ryder Brady looked for solace by reading memoirs and essays on grief by Joan Didion, Nora Ephron and Donald Hall. She found herself losing patience with these authors' attempts to avoid
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/arts/music/06requiem.html	INTO THE MUSIC; A Requiem So Big That Performing It Takes a Multitude	UNDERSTANDABLY, composers through the centuries have responded to the text of the Roman Catholic Requiem and its evocations of the day of wrath, the last trumpet and other apocalyptic images with music of high drama (Mozart) if not overt theatricality (Verdi). But in the case of the French composer Hector Berlioz and his ''Grande Messe des Morts''
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/movies/homevideo/06kehr.html	DVDS; Visions From 1951, Noir and Psychedelic	The Prowler The director Joseph Losey will forever be known for the ambitious films he made in England, with their Royal Academy of Dramatic Art casts and Harold Pinter screenplays: ''The Servant'' (1963), ''Accident'' (1967), ''The Go-Between'' (1970). But Losey arguably made his best movies in America, before the blacklist drove him into European
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E6DA1730F937A35751C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Elmo's World Is Expanding	Let other museums have their Picassos and Monets; when the National Children's Museum opens in Prince George's County, Md., in 2013, the big names in the galleries will be Cookie Monster, Elmo, and Oscar the Grouch. On Thursday, the museum announced a partnership with Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, in which the
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/movies/04grindhouse.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE'; Exploitation 101	AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE Opens on Friday in Manhattan. Directed by Elijah Drenner 1 hour 22 minutes; not rated The documentary ''American Grindhouse'' is Exploitation 101: a textbook-style history of the seamier side of the movie business. The director, Elijah Drenner, proceeds chronologically from the silent ''Traffic in Souls'' (1913) and the pivotal
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/books/04book.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Rumsfeld's Defense Of Known Decisions	KNOWN AND UNKNOWN A Memoir By Donald Rumsfeld Illustrated. 815 pages. Sentinel. $36. The title of former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's new memoir, ''Known and Unknown,'' comes from a remark he made about whether Iraq had supplied or was willing to supply terrorists with weapons of mass destruction. ''Reports that say that something hasn't
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE0D81638F937A35751C0A9679D8B63	What's On Today	10 P.M. (ABC) A BARBARA WALTERS SPECIAL: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH Ms. Walters interviews former President Bill Clinton, David Letterman, Regis Philbin, Charlie Rose and Robin Williams (above with Ms. Walters) about their experiences with heart disease and open-heart surgery. Or, as Mr. Williams calls it, ''the brotherhood of the cracked chest
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E7DB1638F937A35751C0A9679D8B63	Spare Times	Chinese Lunar New Year Celebrations (Saturday and Sunday) The rabbit may be the headliner, but other animals will have featured roles this weekend in celebrations of the Year of the Rabbit (Year 4708 in the Chinese calendar). The Wolf co-stars with Little Red Riding Hood in the Chinese Theater Works production of ''Little Red Riding Hood: The
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/movies/04dressed.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'DRESSED'; A Passion for Fashion	In ''Dressed,'' David Swajeski's listless profile of the young clothing designer Nary Manivong, a passion for fashion elbows aside every other emotion. Yet even those viewers who share the film's conviction that preparing a collection for New York Fashion Week is inherently fascinating may lose interest long before the final frock is fitted. That's
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/arts/television/04arts-AMERICANIDOL_BRF.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'American Idol' Keeps Rolling	The new season of Fox's ''American Idol'' continued to prove resilient in the ratings, leading Wednesday night with 24.9 million viewers, according to Nielsen's estimates, a slight improvement over the same night a year ago. The strong ratings for ''Idol'' in the 8 p.m. hour also provided a boost to Fox's ''Human Target'' at 9 (9.3 million), which
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/movies/04other.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE OTHER WOMAN'; A Home Wrecker Faces Many Challenges, Too	''The Other Woman'' is a not-bad movie (written and directed by Don Roos) based on a pretty good book (''Love and Other Impossible Pursuits'' by Ayelet Waldman). A signal virtue of both the film and the novel is the refusal to make the main character, a young New Yorker named Emilia, immediately or easily likable. Even though she is marked, from
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/arts/design/04galleries-ITALIANPAINT_RVW.html	ART IN REVIEW; 'Italian Paintings From the 17th and 18th Centuries'	Sperone Westwater 257 Bowery, between Houston and Stanton Streets Lower East Side Through Feb. 19 The occasion for this unusual event -- Italian old master paintings on the Bowery! -- is a new partnership between Sperone Westwater and the London gallery Robilant & Voena. The show takes up just one floor, the fourth, of Sperone Westwater's newish
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/arts/design/04galleries-JEPPEHEIN_RVW.html	ART IN REVIEW; Jeppe Hein	303 Gallery 547 West 21st Street, Chelsea Through March 5 With works like the dazzling ''360degrees Illusion'' (2007), a giant set of rotating, pinwheel-like mirrors, the Danish artist Jeppe Hein has played carnivalesque games with the architecture of various art spaces. But his current show, his second at the 303 gallery, takes the fun out of the
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/31/theater/20110131-milk-9.html	From Sketch to Stage: ‘Milk Train’	A look at David C. Woolard’s costume sketches for the revival of “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/31/theater/20110131-milk-3.html	From Sketch to Stage: ‘Milk Train’	A look at David C. Woolard’s costume sketches for the revival of “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/31/theater/20110131-milk-6.html	From Sketch to Stage: ‘Milk Train’	A look at David C. Woolard’s costume sketches for the revival of “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/31/theater/20110131-milk-2.html	From Sketch to Stage: ‘Milk Train’	A look at David C. Woolard’s costume sketches for the revival of “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/31/theater/20110131-milk.html	From Sketch to Stage: ‘Milk Train’	A look at David C. Woolard’s costume sketches for the revival of “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/31/theater/20110131-milk-8.html	From Sketch to Stage: ‘Milk Train’	A look at David C. Woolard’s costume sketches for the revival of “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/31/arts/design/20110131-summit-3.html	India Art Summit	Eighty-four galleries and 500 artists were represented at this year’s event in New Delhi.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/31/arts/design/20110131-summit-7.html	India Art Summit	Eighty-four galleries and 500 artists were represented at this year’s event in New Delhi.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/31/arts/design/20110131-summit-2.html	India Art Summit	Eighty-four galleries and 500 artists were represented at this year’s event in New Delhi.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/31/arts/design/20110131-summit-6.html	India Art Summit	Eighty-four galleries and 500 artists were represented at this year’s event in New Delhi.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/books/review/Burn-t.html	Topological Fiction	NIGHT SOUL AND OTHER STORIES By Joseph McElroy 293 pp. Dalkey Archive Press. Paper, $14.95. There's a problem with the way Joseph McElroy's fiction reaches the contemporary reader. While McElroy comes packaged as a postmodern novelist, the reader who picks up one of his books looking for the superficial imprint of his contemporaries -- black humor?
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E3DD1030F933A05752C0A9679D8B63	CALENDAR; Calendar	A guide to cultural and recreational goings-on around the state this week. Items may be submitted by mail to On the Towns, Sunday New Jersey Section, The New York Times, 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018-1405; or by e-mail to njtowns@nytimes.com. Comedy HASBROUCK HEIGHTS Bananas Comedy Club Mitch Fatel. Friday at 8 and 10:30 p.m. $25. Bananas
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/arts/design/30graves.html	A Top Architect Settles Into A New Niche	Princeton, N.J. SCRATCH most architecture wonks, and at some point they've studied the house that Michael Graves began creating for himself here in 1969. A 1920s furniture storehouse remade to evoke a Tuscan villa, it sits as solidly in the canon as it rests in the Italianate grounds he laid out around this laboratory for the classically inflected
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/books/review/Moaveni-t.html	The Anchor	THE NEXT BIG STORY My Journey Through the Land of Possibilities By Soledad O'Brien with Rose Marie Arce 321 pp. A Celebra Brook. $24.95. The CNN reporter Soledad O'Brien is the daughter of a white Australian father and a black Cuban mother. This heritage bequeathed her an immigrant's ideals about America's promise, as well as a striking appearance
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/books/review/Letters-t-REOPENINGTHE_LETTERS.html	LETTERS; Reopening The Case	To the Editor: Paul Collins's detective work in revealing the real person behind the pseudonymous Charles Felix is fascinating, and a great contribution to detective-fiction history (''Before Hercule or Sherlock, There Was Ralph,'' Jan. 9). But ''The Notting Hill Mystery'' was by no means the first detective novel. It was predated by two years with
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE2DA173EF933A05752C0A9679D8B63	CHILDREN'S BEST SELLERS: PAPERBACK BOOKS: Sunday, January 30th 2011	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Saturday, January 15th 2011, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/books/review/Letters-t-AFORMALVIRTU_LETTERS.html	LETTERS; A Formal Virtuoso	To the Editor: I was most gratified to see David Orr's generous praise of Richard Wilbur's new poetry collection, ''Anterooms'' (Jan. 9). I was especially pleased to see Orr credit Wilbur with being a ''formal virtuoso.'' For 60 years I have admired Wilbur's ''Praise in Summer,'' a meticulously constructed sonnet, and for over 50 years I have
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E6D81331F933A05752C0A9679D8B63	Corrections	A picture caption on Jan. 16 with an entry in the Watchlist column about the Web TV show ''Single Dads'' misidentified two of the actors. Pete Karinen -- not Brian Sacca -- is at the left. (The actor at the right holding a camera, who was not identified, is Mr. Sacca.) And the actor holding the dog is James M. Connor, not Mr. Karinen.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/books/review/Traub-t.html	The War Presidents	THE VIOLENCE OF PEACE America's Wars in the Age of Obama By Stephen L. Carter 255 pp. Beast Books. $24.99. One of the chief roles of the philosopher, from the time of Socrates, has been to discomfit citizens by forcing them to think about matters from which they would prefer to avert their eyes. Stephen L. Carter, a professor of law at Yale as well
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DEFDE1131F933A05752C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | JAN. 30-FEB. 5	Dance Claudia La Rocco As New York City Ballet moves into the third week of its winter season, the talk is sure to be about SUSAN STROMAN'S ''Frankie and Johnny and ... Rose.'' (There are four chances to catch it this week, beginning with Sunday's matinee.) Given Ms. Stroman's Broadway pedigree, her newest creation for City Ballet is likely to
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/arts/music/28helene.html	Recording As a Road To Recovery	INTERVIEWED in November 2006, the French pianist Hélène Grimaud spoke of her recent recovery from a series of dire illnesses -- pneumonia, leading to chronic fatigue syndrome and an infection that spread from her lungs to her heart -- and of her new Deutsche Grammophon recording, ''Reflections'': a mixed bag of orchestral, vocal and chamber works
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/arts/dance/28lemon.html	DANCE REVIEW; A Duet, Delicately Spun And Formally Elegant	Whenever Ralph Lemon's inevitable (and deserved) retrospective opens at the Museum of Modern Art, curators will have their pick of videos, drawings, sculptures, words and performances from his richly varied career. Chief among the glass-encased art paraphernalia will surely be a tattered, stained bunny costume or two. Trickster, political metaphor,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E7D71530F93BA15752C0A9679D8B63	Movie	RAGE (RABIA) Opens on Friday in Manhattan. Directed by Sebastián Cordero; written by Mr. Cordero, based on the novel by Sergio Bizzio; director of photography, Enrique Chediak; edited by David Gallart; music by Lucio Godoy; production design by Eugenio Caballero; costumes by Eva Arretxe; produced by Alvaro Augustín, Rodrigo Guerrero, Eneko
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/arts/28kids.html	Spare Times: For Children	'VELMA GRATCH & THE WAY COOL BUTTERFLY' Being the youngest child often has disadvantages, including hand-me-downs, distracted parents and a dearth of baby pictures in the family album (while Mom and Dad have enough of their firstborn to fill a feature-length documentary). But for Velma Gratch the biggest problem is her sisters' reputations. They're
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/dining/28mrcritic.html	HEY, MR. CRITIC; Egg and Cheese on a Bagel: The Quest for the Best	The mail brought a devilish question about breakfast bagels, while someone wanted to know where to get a drink and a bite after seeing ''The Merchant of Venice'' on Broadway. I tried to answer these queries and more. As always, you can send questions about where to go or what to eat in New York to dinejournal@nytimes.com. Q. This is a very simple
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/arts/dance/28dance.html	The Listings	Dance Full reviews of recent performances: nytimes.com/dance. - Souleymane Badolo (Friday and Saturday) Mr. Badolo is a sophisticated artist, as sensitive to performance nuances as he is to moments of heart-catching virtuosity. Any chance to see him up close and personal is an exciting prospect, and that's exactly what Dance Theater Workshop's
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/arts/design/28sculpture.html	ART REVIEW; Artifacts of an Imagined Time	Legions of modern artists have been attracted to things prehistoric, archaic and primordial. Gauguin painted fantasies of a South Pacific Eden. Picasso drew inspiration from African masks, which, misguidedly or not, he took for signs of timeless human ferocity. A traveler happening on Robert Smithson's ''Spiral Jetty'' could mistake it for a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/books/28arts-WEBBOOKMOVES_BRF.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Web Book Moves to Print	HarperCollins will publish a young-adult book that was originally submitted on Inkpop, its Web site for teenage writing. The book, a debut novel by Leigh Fallon, a South African living in Ireland, is scheduled for release in the fall, the publisher said on Thursday. Ms. Fallon first contacted literary agents about her novel, ''The Carrier of the
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/arts/28spare.html	Spare Times	Around Town Museums and Sites Jewish Museum (through Sunday) ''A Hanukkah Project: Daniel Libeskind's Line of Fire,'' an installation by Mr. Libeskind incorporating 40 Hanukkah lamps from the museum's collection, including an 18th-century piece and a 2004 work in green silicon. Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/arts/design/28condo.html	ART REVIEW; A Mind Where Picasso Meets Looney Tunes	The American artist George Condo made a splash in New York in the early 1980s with a line of surrealist-style figure paintings. It was tasty, erudite stuff, freaky but classy, a Mixmaster version of old master, with a big glop of Pop tossed in. Then he went to Europe, found an avid audience and stayed for a decade, mostly in Paris. To the New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/arts/music/25met.html	MUSIC REVIEW; The Sweeping Gestures Of a Swiveling Maestro	James Levine devoted the Met Orchestra's concert at Carnegie Hall on Sunday afternoon to two works, but they were big, demanding ones. Mozart's ''Posthorn'' Serenade (K. 320), despite a title that suggests a light entertainment, is as grand as most of his symphonies and, at 45 minutes, twice as long as most of them. And ''Das Lied von der Erde,''
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902EFD71231F936A15752C0A9679D8B63	What's On Today	8 P.M. (TCM) SPOTLIGHT: HAL ROACH STUDIOS They called it ''the lot that laughter built.'' From 1914 to 1960 the Hal Roach Studios, which set in motion the careers of Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd, Harry Langdon and the Our Gang crew, presented a prodigious number of comedy shorts, features and television series. This monthlong tribute concludes
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/movies/25sundance.html	Unflinching End-of-Life Moments	PARK CITY, Utah -- Most screenings at the Sundance Film Festival here are mob scenes -- half-frozen film lovers in a mad dash for limited seating, reporters skittering around in search of news nuggets, agents pacing the aisles. None of that hubbub was on display at the Sunday premiere of what is without question one of the most difficult-to-watch
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/theater/reviews/25misanthrope.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'THE MISANTHROPE'; Pity Molière's Poor Sap, Falling for All That He Despises	Molière is one of the greatest comic writers in the theatrical canon, but I have rarely seen actors performing his work who appear to believe it. They often strain and bellow and gesticulate in a way that suggests they suspect they need to make up for the material. The Pearl Theater's modest staging of ''The Misanthrope,'' a satire of polite
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/arts/design/25arts-REPUBLICANST_BRF.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Republicans Try to Abolish Arts Groups	A group of Republican lawmakers has called for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, each of which received $167.5 million in the last federal budget. The group, called the Republican Study Committee and comprising about 165 House Republicans, also called for eliminating the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E1D7133EF936A15752C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; A Musical Version Of Death's Holiday	Looks like it might be time for the Grim Reaper to put down his scythe and pick up a pitch pipe. A musical version of ''Death Takes a Holiday,'' the much-revived Alberto Casella play that tries to put a human face on the relentless pale rider, is being prepared by a team of creative heavyweights who will bring it to life for the Roundabout Theater
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/arts/music/25arts-FOOTNOTE_BRF.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Footnote	Alfred E. Mann, the brother of Robert Mann -- a founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet -- has donated $6 million to endow chairs in his brother's name. The money will establish chairs at the Manhattan School of Music, where Robert Mann, 90, has taught since 2006, and at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/arts/music/25choice.html	Critics' Choice: New CDs	DESTROYER ''Kaputt'' (Merge) ''Kaputt'' is a strange record, even by the standards of Destroyer, the band built around the Vancouver singer-songwriter Dan Bejar. It's deluxe on the surface and cheap underneath, its songs carefully planned in gesture but meager in structure and development, hip as hell but determinedly uncool. Basically it's Mr.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/arts/music/25song.html	MUSIC REVIEW; A Celebration of the Song Recital, And of the Potential of 4 Young Voices	In February 1961, Marilyn Horne, a young mezzo-soprano, made her Carnegie Hall debut in Bellini's ''Beatrice di Tenda'' opposite a rising Australian soprano named Joan Sutherland. The debut was unexpected: the production's final two performances were moved to Carnegie because of the extraordinary demand for tickets after its premiere at Town Hall.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E1D8133EF936A15752C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Another Jukebox Musical Takes Aim at Broadway	A spin through the musical genres presently represented on the nostalgic jukebox that is Broadway will land you on shows built around classic rockabilly and early rock (''Million Dollar Quartet''), hair metal (''Rock of Ages''), the disco-pop of ABBA (''Mamma Mia!'') and the modern punk of Green Day (''American Idiot''). Is there room for one more
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE6D91F3FF930A15752C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | JAN. 23-JAN. 29	Dance Jack Anderson REBECA TOMÁS views flamenco with a double vision. This New York flamenco artist is both a devoted traditionalist and a restless experimenter. She respects the achievements of her art, yet is eager to stretch its boundaries. At performances last year, for instance, she began a solo by playing Beethoven's ''Moonlight'' Sonata on
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E3DA173EF930A15752C0A9679D8B63	CHILDREN'S BEST SELLERS: SERIES: Sunday, January 23rd 2011	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Saturday, January 8th 2011, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E2D91F3FF930A15752C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | JAN. 23-JAN. 29	Film Neil Genzlinger Things get naughty next Friday and Saturday at the Landmark Loew's Jersey Theater, the restored movie house in Jersey City. The theater is offering ''BEFORE THE CENSORS: 4 NOTORIOUS PRE-CODE FILMS,'' with some classics from the early 1930s that got away with scandalous content because the stifling Hays Code was not yet being
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/books/review/Traister-t.html	Mad Women	A STRANGE STIRRING ''The Feminine Mystique'' and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s By Stephanie Coontz 222 pp. Basic Books. $25.95. Halfway through ''A Strange Stirring,'' the social historian Stephanie Coontz -- parsing the reception of ''The Feminine Mystique,'' Betty Friedan's 1963 examination of middle-class female repression and despair
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E2DA173EF930A15752C0A9679D8B63	BEST SELLERS: NONFICTION: Sunday, January 23rd 2011	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending Saturday, January 8th 2011, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E5D91F3CF930A15752C0A9679D8B63	Correction	Because of an editing error, a letter on Jan. 9 from the critic John Simon about Jonathan Galassi's translation of Giacomo Leopardi's ''Canti'' rendered Simon's own translation of the title of one of Leopardi's poems incorrectly. Simon translated ''L'infinito'' as ''The Infinite.'' A corrected version of the letter appears elsewhere on this page.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E3DA173EF930A15752C0A9679D8B63	CHILDREN'S BEST SELLERS: CHAPTER BOOKS: Sunday, January 23rd 2011	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Saturday, January 8th 2011, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/books/review/Letters-t-COMMONVALUES_LETTERS.html	LETTERS; Common Values	To the Editor: The review of Eugene Robinson's ''Disintegration,'' by Raymond Arsenault, struck me as both intellectually and analytically off base (''The Great Unraveling,'' Jan. 2). Arsenault begins with an unfair rebuke of my Harvard colleague Henry Louis Gates Jr., labeling as arrogant Gates's angry response to being arrested at his home by a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/movies/23feo.html	FILM; Faith, Family, Immigration And Homicide	Santa Monica. Calif. FEO ALADAG, whose debut film ''When We Leave'' is a family drama about an honor killing within the Turkish population of Berlin, is a blond Austrian who lives in Berlin with her husband, Züli Aladag, a Turkish-born German filmmaker. The film, made by the couple's production company, is Germany's entry for an Academy Award in
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/movies/23dargis.html	FILM; Master Strokes, Despite Stamp Of Hollywood	MAKING movies in Hollywood has never been easy, though maybe it should have been for the Austrian genius with a monocle screwed into his right eye and a dark, forbidding Weltanschauung lodged deep in his head. But life is cruel and filmmaking can be nearly as brutal, and so it was for Fritz Lang (1890-1976). ''I always fought very hard in
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/arts/design/21tibor.html	ART REVIEW; When Art Dallied With Poetry on 53rd Street	I don't believe in golden ages, but I do believe in golden moments. Culturally speaking, New York City has had its share, and one began at the end of 1950 when Tibor de Nagy Gallery opened on 53rd Street near Third Avenue in Manhattan. To the casual passer-by the undertaking couldn't have looked auspicious. The gallery was in a dumpy tenement
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/nyregion/21miser.html	Weekend Miser	It has been said that each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. Well, not so with this week's events. Buy, trade or donate unwanted items -- clothing, housewares, records and electronics in good, clean condition -- at Sunday's swap meet at Southpaw, the bar in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Free food, music and cheap drinks will be available
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/arts/design/21galleries-DEBORAHLUSTE_RVW.html	ART IN REVIEW; DEBORAH LUSTER: 'Tooth for an Eye'	Jack Shainman Gallery 513 West 20th Street, Chelsea Through Feb. 5 In 1988 Deborah Luster's mother was murdered by a hired killer. A decade later, still trying to come to grips emotionally with that death, Ms. Luster began taking photographic portraits of inmates, many of them convicted of violent crimes, in state prisons in Louisiana, where she
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/theater/reviews/21honey.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'HONEY BROWN EYES'; When War Begins, Nothing Is Normal	''War teaches you the value of an onion,'' one character explains while preparing dinner in the harrowing but credulity-straining ''Honey Brown Eyes.'' And while the promising young playwright Stefanie Zadravec makes it clear that such values can be almost meaningless in a world where soldiers discuss the relative sexual merits of 10- versus
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/arts/music/21chiara.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Classical-Pop Border, No Guards in Sight	After kicking off with an exciting eight-hour marathon on Monday, the Ecstatic Music Festival, devoted to collaborations by young artists working on the increasingly permeable border between classical music and pop, began in earnest on Wednesday evening with a concert by the Chiara String Quartet at Merkin Concert Hall. Programmed by the composer
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/realestate/21housetour.html	House Tour: Pleasantville, N.Y.	HOW MUCH $1,260,000. Taxes: $14,960. WHAT A four-bedroom, three-bath house with 3,450 square feet. ABOUTFrank Lloyd Wright built 3 of the 47 residences in this 100-acre community, Usonia Homes, incorporated in 1945. He was enlisted to approve the architectural plans for the houses that would be built here. The community is in an undulating
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/theater/reviews/21room.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'ROOM 17B'; In This Cubicle World, Actions Speak Loudest	It's tempting to say that Room 17B is like a lot of offices in Manhattan, especially the ones in the financial district: whatever work is being done in there is mysterious and produces no tangible product or benefit. But that's only partly true. While it's not clear what line of work the four inhabitants of Room 17B are in, they do generate
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E3DD103FF932A15752C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; New Orleans Jazz Festival Adds More Pop and Rock	The 42nd edition of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival will take place over two weekends this spring, from April 29 to May 1 and May 5 to 8, and its lineup continues a long trend toward ever-more-mainstream rock and pop. The headliners include Bon Jovi, Kid Rock, Arcade Fire, Jimmy Buffett, John Mellencamp, Tom Jones, Wilco, the Strokes,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E5DF103FF932A15752C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Anderson Cooper Joins 'How to Succeed' Revival	Anderson Cooper knows it's been a good, long while since he's seen a Broadway show - possibly as long ago as the late 1970s, when he was 11 and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, took him to see the original Broadway run of ''Evita.'' ''It's embarrassing, I know,'' said Mr. Cooper, the anchor of CNN's ''Anderson Cooper 360,'' in a telephone interview.
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/arts/television/21onion.html	TELEVISION REVIEW | 'ONION NEWS NETWORK'; Don't Just Skewer News, Go Make Up Your Own	Has it seemed to you lately that the fake-news business has run out of gas? That Jon Stewart and certainly ''Weekend Update'' on ''Saturday Night Live'' have grown predictable, even a little desperate? Hang on; there's a jump-start coming. The real question is whether your brain can handle the surge. ''Onion News Network,'' a flashy phony news show
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/19/arts/music/FANTASYCAMP2-8.html	Middle-Aged Campers, Rock n’ Roll Dreams	Attendees of Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp practice and perform under the tutelage of real rock stars.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/19/arts/music/FANTASYCAMP2-13.html	Middle-Aged Campers, Rock n’ Roll Dreams	Attendees of Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp practice and perform under the tutelage of real rock stars.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/19/arts/music/FANTASYCAMP2-9.html	Middle-Aged Campers, Rock n’ Roll Dreams	Attendees of Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp practice and perform under the tutelage of real rock stars.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/19/arts/music/FANTASYCAMP2-2.html	Middle-Aged Campers, Rock n’ Roll Dreams	Attendees of Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp practice and perform under the tutelage of real rock stars.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/19/arts/music/FANTASYCAMP2-5.html	Middle-Aged Campers, Rock n’ Roll Dreams	Attendees of Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp practice and perform under the tutelage of real rock stars.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/19/arts/music/FANTASYCAMP2.html	Middle-Aged Campers, Rock n’ Roll Dreams	Attendees of Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp practice and perform under the tutelage of real rock stars.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/19/arts/music/FANTASYCAMP2-4.html	Middle-Aged Campers, Rock n’ Roll Dreams	Attendees of Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp practice and perform under the tutelage of real rock stars.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/19/arts/music/FANTASYCAMP2-11.html	Middle-Aged Campers, Rock n’ Roll Dreams	Attendees of Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp practice and perform under the tutelage of real rock stars.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/19/arts/music/FANTASYCAMP2-10.html	Middle-Aged Campers, Rock n’ Roll Dreams	Attendees of Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp practice and perform under the tutelage of real rock stars.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/19/arts/music/FANTASYCAMP2-14.html	Middle-Aged Campers, Rock n’ Roll Dreams	Attendees of Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp practice and perform under the tutelage of real rock stars.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/arts/music/17dove.html	MUSIC REVIEW; How a Club Becomes A Salon For a Night	Thomas Bartlett, who performs as Doveman, doesn't hog the spotlight. Alongside his solo albums he has worked as a keyboardist and arranger for the National, Bebel Gilberto, Antony and the Johnsons, and others whose music is infused with pensive drama, and he applies his classical piano training for atmosphere and delicacy, not acrobatics. He shared
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/crosswords/bridge/17card.html	BRIDGE; The Quick Choice May Not Be the Right Choice	There are certain plays that we make almost without thinking -- then soon realize that we have made a mistake. This is an example (see Diagram 1): You, West, lead the heart ace against four spades: three, deuce (normal signals), nine. What would you do next? This is much easier when presented on paper and with a warning bell ringing. You know
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/arts/television/17law.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; The Law? She'll Do It Her Way, Thank You	It is at least a little amusing to think of Harriet -- Harry -- Korn as Ally McBeal several decades later, having never shed her menopausal weight gain and only ballooning further, thanks to a diet of grease and packaged cupcakes. Played by Kathy Bates with a likable cynicism, Harry is the fatigued and disaffected lawyer at the center of ''Harry's
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0D91E3CF934A25752C0A9679D8B63	How Do You Get Diddy to Show Up? Ask. And Ask. And ...	Sometimes it seems like good things can only occur in Chris Gethard's life if they are balanced out by other inauspicious events. On Friday afternoon, Mr. Gethard, 30, a boyish comedian with a gentle disposition, was playing basketball when another player collided with him, breaking his glasses, cutting his nose and sending him scrambling to
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/arts/music/17mona.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Romantic 1950s Rock With a Big Appetite	The video for ''Listen to Your Love,'' the first single by the Nashville band Mona, teems with context. Crammed tight are clips of drag-racing muscle cars, buxom real-life Vargas girls in their underwear, Marilyn and Elvis and more. In between are shots of the band members getting their slick hair just so, roughhousing and wearing perfectly tight
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/arts/music/17early.html	MUSIC REVIEW; A Band No Halftime Ever Saw	What is a marching band to do this time of year if it doesn't have a bowl game to accompany? An eccentric variant, the Symphonie des Dragons, playing mostly Baroque oboes and bassoons, set up shop on Thursday evening at the Morgan Library & Museum for a concert in the series presented by the Boston Early Music Festival, ''From the Court to the
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/arts/television/17human.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; Relocated to America, Still Bloodthirsty	The popular British series ''Being Human,'' about a werewolf, a vampire and a ghost sharing a run-down house in Bristol, isn't great television, and its use of scary monsters as a metaphor for adolescent (or in this case, 20-something) alienation has been old hat for well over a decade. (Yes, ''Buffy'' was that long ago.) But it has energy, and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/arts/music/17horne.html	MUSIC REVIEW; With Some Friends to Help, a Songwriter Reveals His World	The theater songs of the up-and-coming composer Lance Horne, performed by a cast of his friends at the Allen Room on Friday evening, exemplify the blunt melodic style that has become the new normal of Broadway musicals. Stretched in one direction, many of Mr. Horne's songs could be translated into ready-to-belt '80s-style rock power ballads.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02EFDE1E3FF934A25752C0A9679D8B63	WHAT'S ON TODAY	9 P.M. (13) DINOSAUR WARS In the summer of 1868 the paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh, on board a Union Pacific train on a sightseeing excursion through the country's newly opened Western frontier, realized that he was traveling through the greatest dinosaur burial ground of all time. But he had competition in his fossil hunting from his fellow
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01EFDC1F3CF934A25752C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Green Hornet' a Hero For Sony Pictures	''The Green Hornet'' was No. 1 at North American theaters over the weekend with about $34 million in ticket sales -- proof that a studio, in this case Sony Pictures Entertainment, can fix a troubled movie on the fly. After a sneak peak for ''The Green Hornet'' was greeted with ridicule from fanboys last summer, Sony performed triage. The film,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/movies/16scott.html	ARTS & LEISURE PREVIEW; Defy the Elite! Wait, Which Elite?	SOME people renounce liquor or sweets. My New Year's resolution for 2011 was to give up meta: no panels on the State or Future or Death of Criticism; no trolling the Internet looking for fights over first principles; no thumb suckers for the Sunday paper on the history or the essence of the critical profession. Enough of all that! Instead, a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E4DA173EF935A25752C0A9679D8B63	CHILDREN'S BEST SELLERS: PAPERBACK BOOKS: Sunday, January 16th 2011	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Saturday, January 1st 2011, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE4DA173EF935A25752C0A9679D8B63	PAPERBACK GRAPHIC NOVELS: Sunday, January 16th 2011	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Saturday, January 1st 2011, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE5DC113DF935A25752C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | JAN 16- JAN 22	Classical Allan Kozinn The Kaufman Center's ECSTATIC MUSIC FESTIVAL promises to trample the boundaries -- if any remain -- separating avant-garde classical composition, indie pop and a handful of hybrid styles that are virtually unclassifiable at this point. If you want a discussion of what it all means, the violist Nadia Sirota will moderate a
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/books/review/Robinson-t.html	Small Moments	BINOCULAR VISION New and Selected Stories By Edith Pearlman 375 pp. Lookout Books. Paper, $18.95. Why in the world had I never heard of Edith Pearlman? And why, if you hadn't, hadn't you? It certainly isn't the fault of her writing, which is intelligent, perceptive, funny and quite beautiful, as demonstrated in ''Binocular Vision: New and Selected
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/movies/16araki.html	FILM; Young and Restless Never Gets Old	WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. GREGG ARAKI got his start in the late 1980s as a guerrilla filmmaker with a spring-wound 16-millimeter camera, no budget to speak of and attitude to spare. After a couple of lo-fi efforts about the self-aware alienation of 20-something Angelenos, his nihilist road movie ''The Living End'' (1992) vaulted him to prominence as
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E4DA173EF935A25752C0A9679D8B63	BEST SELLERS: ADVICE, HOW TO AND MISCELLANEOUS: Sunday, January 16th 2011	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending Saturday, January 1st 2011, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/books/review/Jenkins-t.html	Following the Scent	THE SECRET OF CHANEL NO. 5 The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume By Tilar J. Mazzeo Illustrated. 281 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $25.99. Each 30-milliliter bottle of Chanel No. 5 is packed with the essence of a thousand jasmine flowers, the fragrance of a dozen May roses from Grasse and a heaping dose of aldehydes, the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05EEDA163AF935A25752C0A9679D8B63	Online	Podcast Scheduled for this week: Excerpts from a Book Review panel discussion with the novelist Jennifer Egan, author of ''A Visit From the Goon Squad,'' and Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of ''The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer''; Julie Bosman with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E6DB133CF935A25752C0A9679D8B63	DVDS; From the Vaults, Vintage Heroics Of All Kinds	The Black Pirate Amazing things can happen when a new technology confronts an old one. Released in 1926, Douglas Fairbanks's ''Black Pirate'' was the third feature film to be photographed in the early Technicolor process, and thanks to Fairbanks's immense popularity it was the first to be widely seen. Luckily the film was well preserved, and ''The
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/movies/14plastic.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'PLASTIC PLANET'; Celluloid Critique of Plastic's Perils	From pantyhose to Porta Potties, plastic -- the catch-all term for a wide variety of synthetic materials -- has infiltrated virtually every aspect of modern life. For the Austrian filmmaker Werner Boote, it's personal: plastic is, quite literally, in his blood. As we discover in ''Plastic Planet,'' it's probably in ours, too. And not just because
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/movies/14movies.html	The Listings	Movies Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases, movie trailers, showtimes and tickets: nytimes.com/movies. 'All Good Things' (R, 1:38) Andrew Jarecki (''Capturing the Friedmans'') fictionalizes a true crime involving the moneyed and bloodied of New York. The
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE2DE103CF937A25752C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; School Official Objects To August Wilson Play	The schools superintendent in Waterbury, Conn., is seeking to shut down a production of one of August Wilson's great dramas, ''Joe Turner's Come and Gone,'' because some of the teenage actors would have to utter the word ''nigger'' as called for in the script, according to a report in the city's Republican-American newspaper. The Waterbury Board of
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/arts/14spare.html	Spare Times	Around Town Museums and Sites Historic Richmond Town (Saturday) A performance of traditional songs and stories by Bob Conroy and Norm Pederson. Part of the Tavern Concert series; reservations necessary, Ext. 281. At 7:30 and 9 p.m., 441 Clarke Avenue, Staten Island , (718) 351-1611, historicrichmondtown.org; $15, $12 for members.20110113 Museum of
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/theater/14hill.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'HILLBILLY WOMEN'; Scraping By in Appalachia	So often in the small theaters of New York, it seems as if life stops at 30, so it's great to see a multigenerational cast on the stage at the ArcLight Theater in ''Hillbilly Women.'' The play, directed by Sondra Lee and staged by the Bleecker Company, has its problems, but it also has one particularly attention-getting performance that leaves you
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/realestate/14housetour.html	House Tour: Roxbury, N.Y.	WHAT Three-bedroom house. WHERE Roxbury, N.Y., in Delaware County, 157 miles from Manhattan. WHO The Manhattanites Christopher Durham, an actor and artist, and his best friend, Michael Mathis, a television and events producer. They talk about putting friendship to the test by buying a Catskills retreat together. MR. MATHIS Vacationing with a friend
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01EFDF103CF937A25752C0A9679D8B63	Spare Times	Martin Luther King's Birthday (Sunday and Monday) This year, the 25th in which the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been commemorated as a federal holiday, New Yorkers can participate in a variety of activities to celebrate his life and civic involvement -- like his March 1968 visit, above, to Corona, Queens, where he met with
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E1D9163FF937A25752C0A9679D8B63	What's On Today	9 P.M. (VH1) 16TH ANNUAL CRITICS' CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS The Broadcast Film Critics Association will bestow its honors at this ceremony broadcast live from the Hollywood Palladium. The show will feature appearances by Jon Hamm, Julianne Moore, Josh Brolin, Jesse Eisenberg, Sofía Vergara, Kevin Spacey, Emma Stone and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/13/theater/20110114-importance.html	Brian Bedford in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’	Images from the Roundabout Theater production.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/13/theater/20110114_STEWART-2.html	Ellen Stewart, Theater Pioneer	Ellen Stewart, the founder, artistic director and de facto producer of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, died in Manhattan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/arts/music/11choice.html	Critics' Choice: New CDs	CAGE THE ELEPHANT ''Thank You Happy Birthday'' (Jive) Matt Shultz's scratchy, wobbly, jumpy voice isn't pretty by any means. But it happens to be the perfect instrument for the manic desperation and sardonic defiance of his band, Cage the Elephant. Formed in Bowling Green, Ky., Cage the Elephant had enough success with its self-titled debut album
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/arts/television/11onion.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; Where Sports News Is Irreverent, and Scores Irrelevant	If you're looking for an argument for the continued relevance of print, you could do worse than ''Onion SportsDome,'' the latest product of the Onion satire factory. The 10-week show, beginning on Tuesday night on Comedy Central, is a note-for-note re-creation of ESPN's ''SportsCenter,'' complete with overblown music and graphics, snide banter and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/books/11book.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Of Home Fires Burning, Or Burning Up Homes	YOU KNOW WHEN THE MEN ARE GONE By Siobhan Fallon 226 pages. Amy Einhorn Books/G. P. Putnam's Sons. $23.95. Siobhan Fallon tells gripping, straight-up, no-nonsense stories about American soldiers and their families. It's clear from her tender yet tough-minded first book, ''You Know When the Men Are Gone,'' that she knows this world very well. The
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/arts/music/11vienna4.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; The Big 4 Of Vienna: One Faces Elimination	For any attempt to determine the top 10 classical composers in history, like the one we embarked on in the Arts & Leisure section on Sunday, the Viennese Classical period presents a special challenge. If such a list is to be comprehensive, let alone geographically diverse, how could 4 of the 10 slots go to composers -- Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/arts/television/11frontline.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; Lawlessness and Need Survive in Shaken Haiti	A question as we reach the first anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti: What is the most fundamental thing that needs to be restored to get the country back on its feet? Water service? Electricity? Medical care? A stark ''Frontline'' on PBS on Tuesday posits an even more basic answer: Haiti needs most of all to re-establish the rule of law. The
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/arts/television/11lights.html	TELEVISION REVIEW | 'LIGHTS OUT'; With a Life on the Ropes, Seeking Redemption in the Ring	If the Cinderella myth is to be believed, women feel oppressed by class, but men seem most daunted by age. That's why the two sexes cling to such different versions of that fairy tale. For women, it survives as a rescue fantasy -- the prince who lifts a young woman up from lower-class obscurity. Men usually prefer a ''Cinderella Man'' story, the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E6DE103CF932A25752C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Canadian Broadcaster Seeks Slot for 'The Kennedys'	A major Canadian broadcaster on Monday reaffirmed its plans to show ''The Kennedys,'' a television miniseries about that political family that was dropped by the History channel, while the project's producers continued to seek a new American broadcaster and disputed that the miniseries was historically inaccurate. Shaw Media, a division of the
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/10/theater/IDIOT-7.html	Billie Joe Armstrong Steps In	Billie Joe Armstrong, frontman of Green Day, rejoins the cast of “American Idiot.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/10/theater/IDIOT-8.html	Billie Joe Armstrong Steps In	Billie Joe Armstrong, frontman of Green Day, rejoins the cast of “American Idiot.”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/10/theater/IDIOT-2.html	Billie Joe Armstrong Steps In	Billie Joe Armstrong, frontman of Green Day, rejoins the cast of “American Idiot.”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E5DA173EF93AA35752C0A9679D8B63	HARDCOVER GRAPHIC NOVELS: Sunday, January 9th 2011	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending Saturday, December 25th 2010, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/books/review/Letters-t-LATINRHYTHMS_LETTERS.html	LETTERS; Latin Rhythms	To the Editor: Re Ed Park's essay ''One Sentence Says It All'' (Dec. 26): Latin scholars, that imperiled species, are not intimidated by the long, sprawling sentence. The periodic sentence is a staple of Latin prose. Phrases and clauses balance one another as each unit generates its own rhythm, until they coalesce in a unity that is all the more
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/books/review/InsideList-t.html	TBR; Inside the List	GUTENBERG MEN: The cover of the Jan. 9 Book Review contains a rare convergence of best sellers. The New York Times reporter David Carr (who spent three weeks on the nonfiction list with his 2008 memoir, ''The Night of the Gun'') reviews a biography by Douglas Coupland (whose novel ''Microserfs'' was a business best seller in 1995) about the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E5DA173EF93AA35752C0A9679D8B63	PAPERBACK GRAPHIC NOVELS: Sunday, January 9th 2011	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Saturday, December 25th 2010, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/arts/design/09lozano.html	Lee Lozano, Surely Defiant, Drops In	BY the time Lee Lozano died in 1999, her last high-profile artwork could fairly be judged a success. ''Drop Out Piece,'' begun in 1970, had consisted of removing herself from the New York art world, of which she was a highly visible member, and eventually disappearing altogether from the public eye. Her choice of burial, in an unmarked grave
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E5DA173EF93AA35752C0A9679D8B63	BEST SELLERS: FICTION: Sunday, January 9th 2011	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending Saturday, December 25th 2010, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E4DC143BF93AA35752C0A9679D8B63	COMMENTS	Here's a reader comment on Jon Pareles's column about the new simplicity in pop music. ''They say the hardest ice cream to make is a truly great vanilla, because the recipe's simplicity shows any flaws in the ingredients or the maker's skill. I think the same is true with pop or rock music. Pop, unlike opera or classical, is a simple medium,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/books/review/Letters-t-WHYWECELEBRA_LETTERS.html	LETTERS; Why We Celebrate	To the Editor: Alan Wolfe, in his review of Olivier Roy's ''Holy Ignorance,'' points out that ''Yule as we celebrate it today owes more to Charles Dickens than to Thomas Aquinas'' (''Faith and Modernity,'' Dec. 26). To take it a step further, Dickens probably owes his festive interpretation to his own political times, when the reigning monarch was
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/arts/television/09game.html	TELEVISION; 'Game' On: More Real Than Reality TV	DURING its first three seasons ''The Game,'' the dramedy about professional football players and the women who barely tolerate them, overflowed with cameos by black celebrities. There were singers like Musiq, rappers like Soulja Boy, athletes like Chad Ochocinco and more. Robin Givens and Rick Fox played themselves in recurring roles. These
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E5DA173EF93AA35752C0A9679D8B63	PAPERBACK BEST SELLERS: FICTION: MASS-MARKET: Sunday, January 9th 2011	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Saturday, December 25th 2010, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/movies/07country.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'COUNTRY STRONG'; I Am Woman. Hear Me Sob, Y'All.	The corn is as high as a mechanical bull's eye in ''Country Strong,'' a runny-mascara melodrama about a country-western superstar warbling, weeping and wailing her way back from another stint in rehab to the glare of the stage. Gwyneth Paltrow, working a deep-fried accent and a strategically conspicuous cross necklace, plays Kelly Canter, a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEEDA153BF934A35752C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Ex-Curator for Getty Speaks Out About Trial	Marion True, the former curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum who was accused by the Italian government of trafficking in looted artifacts, is now speaking out in her defense after never getting the chance to do so at her trial in Rome. The case against Ms. True, which dragged on for more than five years, ended abruptly in October
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/arts/design/07galleries-DONDUDLEY_RVW.html	ART IN REVIEW; Don Dudley	I-20 Gallery 557 West 23rd Street Chelsea Through Feb. 19 The exceptionally handsome arrangements of sleek, monochrome panels in this show might be taken for the works of a canny young Neo-Minimalist. Turns out, Mr. Dudley, 80, was an active player in the turn to hedonistic simplicity in painting in the late 1960s and early '70s, first as a Finish
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/arts/design/07rohlfs.html	ART REVIEW; A Marriage of Design, Aged in the Wood	Yankee ingenuity, visionary imagination and the particular aesthetic of the Arts and Crafts movement are a neat fit in ''The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs,'' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a small show tucked in among the period rooms in the American Wing. The exhibition is the first at a major museum to focus on Rohlfs (1853-1936), an
http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/arts/television/07cape.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; A Man With a Cape And a City to Salvage	The Gotham of Christopher Nolan's Batman movies (''The Dark Knight,'' ''Batman Begins'') is a bleak-looking place where the light is charcoal, and the mood is caught between 1970s Manhattan and Dante's ''Inferno.'' Crime rates are high; so too is the general misery index. A sense of grim deterioration is ever present. Palm City, the fictional
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/movies/07gogo.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'GO GO TALES'; A Bar Where Everybody Knows Your Pole Dance	Heaven, David Byrne likes to sing, is a bar where the band plays your favorite song and everyone leaves the party at the same time. Mostly, though, ''heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens,'' which pretty much describes the usual scene at Ray Ruby's Paradise Lounge. A gorgeously tawdry nirvana set in Manhattan, Paradise
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01E5DD133BF934A35752C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Broad Museum in Los Angeles Finds a Site	The philanthropists Edythe and Eli Broad unveiled plans on Thursday in Los Angeles for the museum that will be named after them and house their substantial collection of contemporary art. The three-story museum - to be designed by the firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro and called the Broad Art Foundation - will be near the Walt Disney Concert Hall and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/books/07book.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; New! Improved! Shape Up Your Life!	THE 4-HOUR BODY An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman By Timothy Ferriss 571 pages. Crown Archetype. $27. The New York Times Book Review's advice and miscellaneous best-seller list -- the place where self-help books go to eyeball one another -- is a boisterous rolling carnival of hustlers and hacks and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/nyregion/07monroe.html	Marilyn's Manhattan, Both Public and Private	A GIRL on a balcony: when I look out the rear window of my East 60th Street apartment, I see her as if I were watching an outdoor movie on a misty night. The girl I see is not Juliet but Marilyn, and the movie is ''The Seven Year Itch.'' A town house whose backyard meets mine appears in that 1955 film, in which Marilyn Monroe played the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E5D6133AF934A35752C0A9679D8B63	Marilyn's Manhattan, Both Public and Private	A girl on a balcony: when I look out the rear window of my East 60th Street apartment, I see her as if I were watching an outdoor movie on a misty night. The girl I see is not Juliet but Marilyn, and the movie is ''The Seven Year Itch.'' A town house whose backyard meets mine appears in that 1955 film, in which Marilyn Monroe played the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E6DB1538F937A35752C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Broadway Enters 2011 With Big Ticket Sales	Broadway did smashing business during the week of the New Year's holiday in spite of inconveniences related to the blizzard cleanup, with 16 musicals and one play (''The Merchant of Venice'') each drawing more than $1 million and contributing to a total take of $35 million, according to the Broadway League, the theater trade group that publishes
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/movies/04arts-FRENCHFILMFE_BRF.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; French Film Festival Offers Web Version	Cineastes won't have to leave their computers to see the work of emerging French filmmakers. UniFrance, a government-sponsored association of French Film industry professionals, in partnership with AlloCiné, an online Paris film directory, have organized a new online event called My French Film Festival and are offering it around the world for two
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/03/arts/dance/ailey-ss-5.html	A Family Reunion at City Center	Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater honored Judith Jamison, outgoing artistic director.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/03/arts/dance/ailey-ss-4.html	A Family Reunion at City Center	Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater honored Judith Jamison, outgoing artistic director.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/03/arts/dance/ailey-ss-8.html	A Family Reunion at City Center	Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater honored Judith Jamison, outgoing artistic director.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/03/arts/dance/ailey-ss-7.html	A Family Reunion at City Center	Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater honored Judith Jamison, outgoing artistic director.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/03/arts/dance/ailey-ss-10.html	A Family Reunion at City Center	Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater honored Judith Jamison, outgoing artistic director.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/03/arts/dance/ailey-ss-6.html	A Family Reunion at City Center	Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater honored Judith Jamison, outgoing artistic director.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/03/arts/dance/ailey-ss-2.html	A Family Reunion at City Center	Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater honored Judith Jamison, outgoing artistic director.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/03/arts/dance/ailey-ss.html	A Family Reunion at City Center	Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater honored Judith Jamison, outgoing artistic director.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/books/review/PaperRow-t.html	Paperback Row	A BOMB IN EVERY ISSUE: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America, by Peter Richardson (The New Press, $17.95.) The San Francisco Bay Area magazine Ramparts didn't live long -- it started in 1962 as a quarterly and folded in 1975 -- but this compact history credits the magazine with reviving the tradition of muckraking,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406E6DA173EF931A35752C0A9679D8B63	PAPERBACK BEST SELLERS: FICTION: TRADE: Sunday, January 2nd 2011	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Saturday, December 18th 2010, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E6D91530F931A35752C0A9679D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | JAN. 2-JAN. 8	Television Mike Hale ''The Closer'' chugs along, ''Law & Order: Los Angeles'' is better than expected, and now ''SOUTHLAND,'' another solidly above-average crime drama, returns for a third season (10 p.m. Tuesday, TNT). It feels as if the cop-show center of gravity (as opposed to forensics show or government-agent show) has clearly shifted west,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/books/review/Romm-t.html	In Aphrodite's Arms	THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF MAF THE DOG, AND OF HIS FRIEND MARILYN MONROE By Andrew O'Hagan 277 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $24 My grandmother was born to Polish immigrants in Brooklyn, the fifth of six children and the first to be born in America. It's safe to say that she struggled with the myth of the American dream. Some of her family
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/01/arts/design/01costa.html	Museum Wants to Return Objects, but There's a Hitch	The Brooklyn Museum is preparing to return about 4,500 pre-Columbian artifacts taken from Costa Rica roughly a century ago. Costa Rica had made no claim to the objects, which were exported in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Minor C. Keith, a railroad magnate and a founder of the United Fruit Company. And there were none of the conflicts,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E7DD1738F932A35752C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Finalists Announced For Oprah Winfrey Show	Oprah Winfrey's new cable network, scheduled to begin broadcasting Saturday, has announced the 10 finalists who will compete on ''Your OWN Show: Oprah's Search for the Next TV Star'' for the right to become hosts of a program on the network. They include Zach Anner, a travel guide who uses a wheelchair, who was involved in an online-voting
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/01/arts/design/01extravagant.html	ART REVIEW; To See a Universe in the Tiny Details Of Chinese Artifacts, Boxes to Birds	In 1969 the Conceptual artist Douglas Huebler produced his best-known artwork, a verbal statement announcing, ''The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.'' This made sense in the heyday of the countercultural revolution; manufactured objects were a major source of environmental and spiritual pollution.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505EEDD1738F932A35752C0A9679D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Michael Jackson Special Is Postponed	Following a barrage of complaints by some heirs and fans of Michael Jackson, the Discovery television network on Friday ''postponed indefinitely'' its plans to broadcast a re-enactment of the singer's 2009 autopsy. ''Michael Jackson's Autopsy: What Really Killed Michael Jackson'' was scheduled to be shown in several countries in Europe, though not
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907EED81139F932A35752C0A9679D8B63	A Literary Crowd Turns Out To Support a Friend in Need	The writer Charles Bock made a great many literary friendships during the years while he struggled to complete his first novel, ''Beautiful Children.'' When Mr. Bock's wife, Diana Colbert, was discovered to have leukemia and underwent a bone marrow transplant in the fall of 2009, many of those friends pitched in to offer household help. In October,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/01/arts/television/01arts-CBSLEADSWITH_BRF.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; CBS Leads With Reruns	CBS dominated another night of repeats in the ratings on Thursday as its sitcoms and crime shows easily led during every time slot of the night. According to Nielsen's estimates ''The Mentalist'' delivered the largest audience with 9.9 million viewers at 10 p.m. CBS's rerun of ''CSI'' was close behind at 9 with 9.2 million viewers, about as many as
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/theater/30arts-FOOTNOTE_BRF.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Footnote	Lincoln Center Theater's production of ''Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' will end its Broadway run at the Belasco Theater on Sunday, three weeks earlier than scheduled, the theater announced. When it closes it will have played 30 previews and 69 performances. ARTS, BRIEFLY
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/movies/30animate.html	Perfecting Animation, Via Science	Eitan Grinspun, the director of Columbia University's Computer Graphics Group, doesn't quite qualify as hairdresser to the stars. But if you want computer-generated hair (or fur) to look convincingly real when it is twisted, clumped, matted, coiled, soaked, dusty, wind swept, singed -- or just about anything else a film director could possibly
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/29/arts/television/survival-ss-4.html	Survivalist TV	Pre- and post-apocalyptic survival series now comprise a popular reality television sub-genre.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/29/arts/television/survival-ss-6.html	Survivalist TV	Pre- and post-apocalyptic survival series now comprise a popular reality television sub-genre.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/29/arts/television/survival-ss-2.html	Survivalist TV	Pre- and post-apocalyptic survival series now comprise a popular reality television sub-genre.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/29/arts/television/survival-ss-3.html	Survivalist TV	Pre- and post-apocalyptic survival series now comprise a popular reality television sub-genre.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/29/arts/television/survival-ss.html	Survivalist TV	Pre- and post-apocalyptic survival series now comprise a popular reality television sub-genre.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/29/arts/television/survival-ss-5.html	Survivalist TV	Pre- and post-apocalyptic survival series now comprise a popular reality television sub-genre.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/29/arts/design/mecca-ss-7.html	Reshaping Mecca	Controversial new building projects are going up all over the city, including next to the Grand Mosque.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/29/arts/design/mecca-ss-5.html	Reshaping Mecca	Controversial new building projects are going up all over the city, including next to the Grand Mosque.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/books/review/Gingerich-t.html	Starry Messenger	GALILEO Watcher of the Skies By David Wootton Illustrated. 328 pp. Yale University Press. $35. GALILEO By J. L. Heilbron Illustrated. 508 pp. Oxford University Press. $34.95. Galileo Galilei, ''martyr of science'' in the picturesque 19th-century expression, has undoubtedly attracted more biographers than Copernicus, Kepler, Newton and Einstein
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01EEDB173EF935A15751C1A9669D8B63	BEST SELLERS: NONFICTION: Sunday, December 26th 2010	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending Saturday, December 11th 2010, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9401EFDD143CF935A15751C1A9669D8B63	BOOK REVIEW; Correction	A brief report in the Inside the List column on Dec. 12 about the Swedish novelist Stieg Larsson referred incorrectly to one of his titles, ''The Exploding Castle in the Air.'' It was not a ''working title''; it is a translation of the Swedish title of the novel that was published in the United States as ''The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.''
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/books/review/Taylor-t.html	Oh, the Sweet Terror	LONG, LAST, HAPPY New and Selected Stories By Barry Hannah 459 pp. Grove Press. $27.50. Barry Hannah, who died of a heart attack on March 1, was a matchless stylist -- a word he'd most likely have hated, but all the same. Flip any of his eight novels and four previous story collections open and some rocket of prose will come bursting out: ''Celeste
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403EEDB173EF935A15751C1A9669D8B63	PAPERBACK BEST SELLERS: ADVICE, HOW TO AND MISCELLANEOUS: Sunday, December 26th 2010	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Saturday, December 11th 2010, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/books/review/Stanton-t.html	Notes From a Kidnapping	A ROPE AND A PRAYER A Kidnapping From Two Sides By David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill 362 pp. Viking. $26.95. After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Rohde says, he considered joining the military or becoming a paramedic. Instead, he was thrilled to be dispatched by his editors at The New York Times to
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/books/review/Letters-t-JUSTTHERIGHT_LETTERS.html	LETTERS; Just The Right Words	To the Editor: Gail Godwin, in her lovely essay ''Working on the Ending'' (Dec. 12), laments the ''slowdown of word retrieval'' but points out the companion benefit, ''an increased intolerance for the threadbare phrase.'' It's useful to remind all writers -- in particular, young ones -- that in the end it's the quality of the word retrieved that
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E05EEDB173EF935A15751C1A9669D8B63	CHILDREN'S BEST SELLERS: SERIES: Sunday, December 26th 2010	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Saturday, December 11th 2010, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E5DE173EF935A15751C1A9669D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | DEC. 26-JAN. 1	Pop Jon Pareles Lauryn Hill is emerging once more from a long maternity leave. This singer and rapper, who turned the Fugees into a pop phenomenon and whose 1998 album, ''The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,'' brought her five Grammy awards, has yet to release a studio follow-up to that album. While she has been raising five children, she has offered
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/books/review/Letters-t-HAILLAMPOONS_LETTERS.html	LETTERS; Hail, Lampoon Songbook	To the Editor: Bill Scheft, in his review of ''Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead'' (Dec. 5), is justly disappointed with Rick Meyerowitz's decision to limit his ''breathlessly thorough'' book on National Lampoon to just the magazine: ''No 'Radio Hour,' no albums, no stage shows.'' I miss most any discussion of the brilliance of the Lampoon music
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/24/realestate/24housetour.html	House Tour: Piermont, N.Y.	HOW MUCH $479,000; annual taxes, $10,571. WHAT A three-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath house with 1,762 square feet. ABOUT For urbanites who want a weekend experience in a river town but don't want a long drive, this historic stone house could be a nice match. It is just beyond Piermont's charming block of shops, cafes and services. And it is in
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/24/arts/music/24yumi.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Going Out on a Limb With a Koto and an Oud	The Rubin Museum of Art is devoted to the art of the Himalayas and South Asia, but its healthy list of classical and popular music programs is not required to reflect that mission. Even the museum's world-music series, Spiral Music -- so named because it takes place at the foot of a large spiral staircase -- ranges freely around the globe, often
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/24/arts/design/24vogel.html	INSIDE ART; The City as It Was, A Web Site Away	For decades photographers like Berenice Abbott and Samuel H. Gottscho captured New York City -- its streets and neighborhoods, landmark buildings and bridges, famous haunts and hangouts. And for decades thousands of these images and others dating from as early as the mid-19th century have been languishing in the storerooms of the Museum of the City
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEFDE1239F937A15751C1A9669D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; The Doors Light a Fire After Morrison's Pardon	3:49 p.m. | Updated One of Jim Morrison's final companions (on this plane of existence, anyway) is among those criticizing the state of Florida for its recent pardon of the singer, calling it ''politically motivated'' and ''the final act'' of a ''pointless passion play.'' Patricia Kennealy Morrison, an author who identifies herself as the widow of
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E7DE1731F937A15751C1A9669D8B63	What's On Today	8 P.M. (TCM) THE BISHOP'S WIFE (1947) On a night of Christmas classics, Henry Brougham (David Niven), an Episcopal bishop, prays for help in raising money to build a new cathedral and receives guidance in the form of Dudley, a dapper angel played by Cary Grant. Soon enough, Brougham starts to wonder if maybe Dudley isn't out to replace him -- both
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E6DA113EF937A15751C1A9669D8B63	Spare Times	'The Wreath: Interpretations' (through Jan. 6) A wreath shaped like a sea serpent may not be welcoming to many, but curious visitors might find it just the ticket at the Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, above, where a display of 30 offbeat holiday wreaths is on view. ''Giant Sea Serpent Wreath (Wreath of Revitalizations of Life)'' by Takeshi Yamada
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/24/arts/television/24arts-SHOPPINGNOTW_BRF.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Shopping, not Watching	In advance of Christmas few Americans opted to tune in to network television during prime time on Wednesday. According to Nielsen's estimates a rerun of CBS's ''Criminal Minds'' led the night with just 6.9 million viewers at 9 p.m., while a repeat of the network's 10 p.m. legal drama ''The Defenders'' drew 5.6 million. Although both shows delivered
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/24/arts/design/24galleries-THEROMANMOSA_RVW.html	ART IN REVIEW; 'THE ROMAN MOSAIC From Lod, Israel'	Metropolitan Museum of Art Through April 3 In 1996 construction workers widening a highway in the Israeli town of Lod stumbled on a major archaeological discovery: a Roman mosaic floor, dating from about A.D. 300. Once part of a grand private residence, it's now installed (temporarily) in a sunny corner of one of Manhattan's most refined public
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/24/arts/music/24jazz.html	The Listings	Jazz Full reviews of recent jazz concerts: nytimes.com/music. - The Bad Plus (Tuesday through Thursday) Since forming a decade ago, this acoustic power trio -- Reid Anderson on bass, Ethan Iverson on piano, David King on drums -- has been known for its canny twists on the pop repertory, something the band pushed to the limit with an album released
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/24/books/24publishing.html	E-Readers Under Christmas Trees May Help E-Books Take Root	The publishing industry used to be afraid of e-books. In 2010 it embraced them. Publishers expanded their digital divisions, experimented with video-enhanced e-books, worked on digitizing their older titles and made sure that new books were available simultaneously in e-book and hardcover editions. Now, having laid the tracks for digital growth,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/movies/20arts-LEGACY_BRF.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Imax Ticket Sales Lift 'Tron: Legacy'	A traditionally soft weekend for moviegoing -- all of that shopping to do, all of those holiday parties to attend -- proved no exception as ''Tron: Legacy'' opened to solid but not spectacular results, ''Yogi Bear'' underperformed, and Reese Witherspoon bombed in ''How Do You Know.'' ''Tron: Legacy,'' a $170 million sequel starring Jeff Bridges
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/arts/dance/20trocks.html	DANCE REVIEW; Part Goofy, Part Glorious, All Man	The first thing you should know about Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo's current engagement at the Joyce Theater is that there isn't a nutcracker in sight. The second is that a stage filled with snow isn't all there is to the notion of seasonal festiveness. This superb male group, known as the Trocks, appeared in all of its mallerina glory --
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/arts/design/20colonel.html	Faithful to Two Worlds: The Marines and the Artistic Life	WASHINGTON -- He's an artist on his way to his second war, and he wants to make one thing perfectly clear: He is not a Marine who paints, but a painter who fights. A series of Lt. Col. David Richardson's bold canvases, with their bright colors and geometric themes inspired by Homer's ''Iliad,'' is on view in ''Trojan War Years'' at the Ralls
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/arts/music/20war.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Adding Another Layer To 'War Requiem' Story	Benjamin Britten's ''War Requiem,'' commissioned for the 1962 consecration of a new cathedral in Coventry, England, where an old cathedral was destroyed by German bombing in World War II, was the great internationalist statement of a pacifist. To drive the point home in the first performance Britten wanted vocal soloists from Britain (Peter Pears),
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/crosswords/bridge/20card.html	BRIDGE; It May Seem Like a Sacrifice, But It Turns Into Much More	The diagramed deal occurred in the Barbara Kantor Memorial Flight A/X Swiss Teams during the Summer North American Championships in New Orleans. At the other table Maris Zilant of North Miami, Fla. (East), opened one spade; Susan Fuller of Miami (West) responded two no-trump, the Jacoby Forcing Raise, promising four-plus spades and at least
http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/arts/music/20toru.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Movies As a Form Of Music	The Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, an avid film buff, once said that he loved movies because he experienced them as music. Maki Takemitsu, his daughter, focused on her father's significant contributions to the movie world for a tribute she organized as part of Carnegie Hall's JapanNYC Festival. The concert on Friday evening at Zankel Hall
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/books/20portis.html	True Grit, Odd Wit: And Fame? No, Thanks	The arrival of the Coen brothers' movie ''True Grit'' on Wednesday is likely to bring Charles Portis a new surge of attention he has no use for. Mr. Portis, the author of the 1968 novel on which the new film is based (as was the 1969 John Wayne version) is allergic to fame. He's not a Pynchonesque recluse, exactly. He is occasionally spotted in
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/arts/music/20arts-OZAWASCHILDR_BRF.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Ozawa's Children Accept Award for Him	The confluence was almost perfect. The Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa was to receive the Shigemitsu Award for distinction in international cultural affairs after his Carnegie Hall concert with the Saito Kinen Orchestra on Saturday evening. The award, established a decade ago to honor Mamoru Shigemitsu, the Japanese foreign minister who engineered
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/arts/music/20contact.html	MUSIC REVIEW; New Music With the Energy of Youth	Arriving at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday night for the second of this season's New York PhilharmonicContact! concerts, you could wonder where the thrill had gone. Reports of previous installments in this admirable new-music imperative -- two last season and a third in November -- promised an air of excitement. But here in the Grace
http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/arts/television/20calling.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; Putting Faith Vocations To the Real-World Test	God never really shows up in the first half of ''The Calling,'' a two-part, four-hour look at seven young adults who are pursuing religious leadership roles. That makes for a frustrating first two hours; you wish some or all of these always-in-motion people would just sit still and talk about their ideas of God and religion and what they think the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00EFDB173EF93AA25751C1A9669D8B63	PAPERBACK BEST SELLERS: FICTION: TRADE: Sunday, December 19th 2010	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Saturday, December 4th 2010, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03EFDC143BF93AA25751C1A9669D8B63	SKETCHBOOK; Literary Underground	One Sunday afternoon this holiday season, as the literary professionals were putting finishing touches on their year-end lists of best books, citizen critics were busy just reading. On a No. 6 train between Astor Place and 125th Street full of shopping bags and bundled-up passengers lost in books analog and digital, we asked underground readers for
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/movies/19dargis.html	FILM; The Revolution Is Being Shot On Digital Video	IN the closing credits for his independent confection ''Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench,'' the young director Damien Chazelle doesn't just announce that he shot on film -- he also names the black-and-white stock: Eastman Kodak Double-X Negative Film 7222. It's a fitting coda to an enchantingly sincere romance about two people in love, or perhaps
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/arts/dance/19sulcas.html	Slowly Altering Expectations	It would be nice to tie up 2010 with some sweeping theme. But the truth is that when you are in the woods, all you can see is the trees. Except of course when someone else paints a picture of your particular forest, and you don't recognize it. Jennifer Homans's ''Apollo's Angels'' has gotten a lot of attention for its declaration that ballet is
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/books/review/Keillor-t.html	Riverboat Rambler	AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN Volume 1 Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith Illustrated. 736 pp. University of California Press. $34.95 Samuel L. Clemens was a cheerful promoter of himself, and even after he'd retired from the lecture circuit, the old man liked to dress up as Mark Twain in a fresh white suit and take a Sunday morning stroll up Fifth Avenue
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/arts/television/19bellafante.html	YEAR IN CULTURE; Machinations, Criminal And/or Familial	BOARDWALK EMPIRE (HBO) This drama about the machinations -- criminal, political, social, sexual -- in Atlantic City during Prohibition combines themes of HBO's two best series. Like ''The Sopranos,'' ''Boardwalk'' examines the conflicted ethics of New Jersey racketeers. Like ''The Wire,'' it explores the charcoal-gray territory where cities are
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/arts/music/19chinen.html	Renewal, the Sensual And Fraught Candor	1. JASON MORAN ''Ten'' (Blue Note) A pianist often hailed first for his ideas, Mr. Moran has spent the last decade forging an urgent, elegant style with the Bandwagon, which is to say the drummer Nasheet Waits and the bassist Tarus Mateen. This album, true to the pliable strength and tumbling grace of the band, doubles as a testament to jazz's
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/arts/television/19hale.html	YEAR IN CULTURE; Cartoons, Quarterbacks And Comedians	WHILE broadcast television limps through the least inspiring season of new shows in memory, here are 10 things that were worth watching in 2010, listed in alphabetical order. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: MY LAI (PBS) Barak Goodman tracked down both American troops and Vietnamese survivors to provide eyewitness accounts for his wrenching and comprehensive
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E0DB173EF93AA25751C1A9669D8B63	CHILDREN'S BEST SELLERS: PICTURE BOOKS: Sunday, December 19th 2010	Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Saturday, December 4th 2010, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E3DA1E3CF93AA25751C1A9669D8B63	CALENDAR	A guide to cultural and recreational goings-on in and around the Hudson Valley. Items for the guide should be sent at least three weeks in advance to westweek@nytimes.com, or by mail to Westchester Calendar, Metropolitan, 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018-1405. Seasonal BEACON Mount Gulian Historic Site ''Candlelight Tour,'' featuring actors
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/arts/music/17prince.html	MUSIC REVIEW; True Guitar Hero, With More Love and Less Leer	EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- ''Do you want me?'' Prince sang shortly into his concert at the Izod Center, his first of two shows here before he performs on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. He knew the answer would be an affirmative roar. And his opening song was a boast: ''Laydown,'' from his most recent album, ''20Ten'' (NPG), announced,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/nyregion/17miser.html	Weekend Miser	This week the miser offers a mixed bag of cheap events to help get you fired up or chilled out, depending on your holiday needs. Like ''A Very Yoga Christmas.'' If you're thinking of chanting and chai tea, think again. Not being a huge fan of the holidays, Joe Yoga created this show, now in its third year, to reflect his sense of family: the
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/16/arts/design/20101217-pistol-6.html	‘From One to Many’	Images from the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s new exhibition of works by the Italian artist Michaelangelo Pistoletto.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/16/arts/design/20101217-boakye-6.html	‘Any Number of Preoccupations’	Lynette Yiadom-Boakye has a new exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/16/arts/design/20101217-pistol-8.html	‘From One to Many’	Images from the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s new exhibition of works by the Italian artist Michaelangelo Pistoletto.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/16/arts/design/20101217-boakye-8.html	‘Any Number of Preoccupations’	Lynette Yiadom-Boakye has a new exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/16/arts/design/20101217-pistol-3.html	‘From One to Many’	Images from the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s new exhibition of works by the Italian artist Michaelangelo Pistoletto.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/16/arts/design/20101217-pistol-7.html	‘From One to Many’	Images from the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s new exhibition of works by the Italian artist Michaelangelo Pistoletto.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/16/arts/design/20101217-boakye-4.html	‘Any Number of Preoccupations’	Lynette Yiadom-Boakye has a new exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/16/arts/design/20101217-pistol.html	‘From One to Many’	Images from the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s new exhibition of works by the Italian artist Michaelangelo Pistoletto.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DE3DF1530F936A25751C1A9669D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 1935 Pricing at the Frick: No Charge on Thursday	Seventy-five years to the day after the Frick Collection first opened its doors to the public, the museum will turn back the clock to recreate at least one aspect of that 1935 inaugural morning: admission will be free. About 750 visitors took advantage of free timed tickets that first day, giving ''every evidence of enjoyment,'' according to an
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/arts/music/15usher.html	MUSIC REVIEW; The Adoration Aside, There Are Dangers to Being an R&B Heartthrob	A set piece of many concerts by male soul singers is the segment in which a woman is pulled from the crowd for an intimate serenade. It's reliable material: the woman, mesmerized; the singer, empowered; their interactions, varying degrees of cozy; the audience's screams, loud. But who's really in charge of these exchanges, the gifter or the giftee?
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/theater/reviews/15with.html	THEATER REVIEW | 'WITH AARON'S ARMS AROUND ME' AND 'THE MIRE'; The Borders That Love Crosses	Love and the meeting of cultures are explored in one-acts by Sophia Romma now at the Cherry Lane Theater. Directed by Charles Weldon for the Negro Ensemble Company as part of the troupe's recent takes on intolerance, ''With Aaron's Arms Around Me'' is plainspoken, while ''The Mire'' is a farcical fable. Each takes a refreshing, almost sideways
http://tv.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/arts/television/15years.html	TELEVISION REVIEW | 'PARIS THE LUMINOUS YEARS'; Paris Back When the Modernist Feast Was First Moveable	Paris isn't what it once was. And neither is PBS. And for that reason alone, ''Paris the Luminous Years'' is as illuminating about the state of public television as it is about Paris at the dawn of modernism. This film, which has its premiere on PBS on Wednesday, looks at the city that seduced the likes of Picasso, Chagall, Apollinaire, Diaghilev
http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/movies/15iamsecret.html	MOVIE REVIEW | 'I AM SECRETLY AN IMPORTANT MAN'; Taking an Insider's Look At Seattle's Outsider Poet	Peter Sillen is developing a specialty as a post-Beatnik preservationist. Having profiled the Atlanta musician Robert Dickerson in ''Benjamin Smoke'' (directed with Jem Cohen), he crosses the country to examine a performer with a similar set of influences and pathologies in ''I Am Secretly an Important Man,'' a portrait of the Seattle poet and
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/arts/music/15organ.html	Church Seeks To Replace Its Busy Organ	The language could not have been more dire. The organ of St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, a fixture on New York's church music scene, ''is on the verge of catastrophic failure'' and could ''go silent at any moment,'' the organist, John Scott, said in a flier handed out to concertgoers last week. The rector, the Rev. Andrew C. Mead, said it was near
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/books/15book.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; A Man Who Knew the People Who Mattered, and Wrote About Them	A VOICE FROM OLD NEW YORK A Memoir of My Youth By Louis Auchincloss 203 pages. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $25. When the novelist Louis Auchincloss died last January, at 92, his timing could hardly have been worse. J. D. Salinger died the next day, obliterating much of the attention that would have come Auchincloss's way. To put it in Holden
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E4D61430F936A25751C1A9669D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Dracula' Producers Fire Leading Lady	The producers of the Off Broadway revival of ''Dracula'' fired their star actress Thora Birch on Friday, four days before the play's first performance, the production's director and Ms. Birch said in interviews on Monday. Ms. Birch, a 28-year-old actress, is best known for the films ''American Beauty'' and ''Ghost World,'' and was preparing to make
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/14/movies/awardsseason/goldenglobenominations-12.html	Golden Globe Nominees	A look at some of the nominees for the 2011 Golden Globe Awards.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/14/movies/awardsseason/goldenglobenominations-20.html	Golden Globe Nominees	A look at some of the nominees for the 2011 Golden Globe Awards.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/12/arts/design/20101212-WIC-ss-11.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, Dec. 10	A selection of images of cultural events this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/12/arts/design/20101212-WIC-ss-12.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, Dec. 10	A selection of images of cultural events this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/12/arts/design/20101213-desert-6.html	A New City in Saudi Arabia	Photos of King Abdullah Economic City, a 65-square-mile development at the edge of the Red Sea.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/12/arts/design/20101212-WIC-ss-13.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, Dec. 10	A selection of images of cultural events this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/12/arts/design/20101213-desert-3.html	A New City in Saudi Arabia	Photos of King Abdullah Economic City, a 65-square-mile development at the edge of the Red Sea.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/12/arts/design/20101213-desert-9.html	A New City in Saudi Arabia	Photos of King Abdullah Economic City, a 65-square-mile development at the edge of the Red Sea.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/12/arts/design/20101212-WIC-ss-2.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, Dec. 10	A selection of images of cultural events this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/12/arts/design/20101212-WIC-ss-5.html	The Week in Culture Pictures, Dec. 10	A selection of images of cultural events this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/12/arts/design/20101213-desert.html	A New City in Saudi Arabia	Photos of King Abdullah Economic City, a 65-square-mile development at the edge of the Red Sea.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/12/arts/design/20101213-desert-8.html	A New City in Saudi Arabia	Photos of King Abdullah Economic City, a 65-square-mile development at the edge of the Red Sea.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE3D6103BF932A25751C1A9669D8B63	What's On Today	Noon (BBC America) A ROYAL ENGAGEMENT The network celebrates the coming nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton, above in St. James Palace, with a day of royal programming, starting with ''Art of Diana,'' an exploration of the life and philanthropic work of William's mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, who died in 1997. It continues with ''All
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980DE6D71E31F932A25751C1A9669D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Reality Is Tough: 'Hasselhoffs' Canceled	David Hasselhoff will have to come up with another way to mount a comeback. His reality show, ''The Hasselhoffs,'' has been effectively canceled by the channel that commissioned it, A&E, after only one night. The series was supposed to feature Mr. Hasselhoff, the former ''Baywatch'' star, managing the careers of his daughters but few people wanted
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E1DB143AF932A25751C1A9669D8B63	Canvas? Paint? No, Just Sound	LONDON -- The Turner Prize, awarded annually to a British artist 50 or younger, tends to be won by someone who pushes the definition of ''art'' in novel and provocative (or derivative and irritating, take your pick) ways. Britain's populist tabloids love to ridicule the prize, worth £25,000 (about $39,000 these days) to the winner, by, for
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E0D71E3BF932A25751C1A9669D8B63	Rebuilt Theater Opening Amid Debate	It has a storied past that includes names like Eugene O'Neill and Edward Albee, and on Saturday the newly renovated Provincetown Playhouse will be opened to the public by New York University, which says it spent $4.5 million restoring a building that has played an important role in Greenwich Village and theatrical history. The theater, part of four
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F07EFDF1F3BF932A25751C1A9669D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Walters and Winfrey Together Tie for Second	ABC's hourlong Barbara Walters interview special with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday night attracted 13.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen's estimates, enough to tie CBS's ''CSI'' as the second-most-watched show in prime time. Both shows lagged just slightly behind ''The Mentalist'' on CBS at 10 p.m., which garnered 13.3 million viewers. CBS led
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E6D81E3BF932A25751C1A9669D8B63	MUSIC REVIEW; Spices of the '60s in Lone Star Recipes	In the imaginary geography of pop, Texas is where thinkers get rowdy, restless, heartbroken and drunk. A Texas double bill, the Old 97's and Hayes Carll, lived up to the reputation on Thursday night at the Bowery Ballroom. The Old 97's, a band formed in Dallas in the mid-1990s and now from Austin, are brash enough for their main lead singer, Rhett
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E3DA1E31F932A25751C1A9669D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; It's Taylor Swift In New Pop-Art Portraits	The output of Taylor Swift has been known to elicit all sortsof reactions; in the case of the pop artist Peter Max it has inspired him to create this latest work (at right) in a series of paintings based on Ms. Swift's album covers. Mr. Max, whose psychedelic work has graced several presidential libraries as well as the 10-cent stamp for Expo '74,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E0DE113BF932A25751C1A9669D8B63	Raunchy Provocateur Exhibits a Different Passion	A perceptive listener might have recognized chords from ''Jesus Christ Superstar'' being pounded on a piano in a cramped rehearsal space on West 30th Street in Manhattan on Thursday night, but not the potentially sacrilegious way this musical was being performed. Standing in the center of the room, Peaches, the diminutive dynamo of raunchy
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E6DD113BF932A25751C1A9669D8B63	DANCE REVIEW; Laughing and Crying at Ghosts, Fictive and Real	Perhaps the best way to describe Jack Ferver's new ''Rumble Ghost,'' which reinterprets the 1982 horror film ''Poltergeist'' and later morphs into a psychodrama-therapy session, is that it's a piece of theater with some dancing and a lot of choreography. In any case, it's darkly funny. Mr. Ferver, who has written and choreographed the show, is a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E0D8173AF932A25751C1A9669D8B63	TELEVISION REVIEW | 'LOMBARDI'; Leadership on the Field Made Him a Legend	In the annals of life lessons, coach wisdom has become canonical and perhaps none more so than Vince Lombardi's, a fact that is news only to those whose exclusive contact with football has come from ''Friday Night Lights.'' Lombardi took over the Green Bay Packers in 1959, when the team was largely an object of derision, and led the franchise to
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/09/arts/design/20101210-museum-4.html	‘1001 Inventions’	Photos from the new exhibition at the New York Hall of Science.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/09/arts/design/20101209-rockwell-9.html	‘Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera’	Images from the new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/09/arts/design/20101209-rockwell-11.html	‘Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera’	Images from the new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/09/arts/design/20101209-rockwell-6.html	‘Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera’	Images from the new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/09/arts/design/20101209-rockwell-2.html	‘Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera’	Images from the new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/09/arts/design/20101210-museum-2.html	‘1001 Inventions’	Photos from the new exhibition at the New York Hall of Science.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/09/arts/design/20101209-rockwell-5.html	‘Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera’	Images from the new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/09/arts/design/20101210-museum-3.html	‘1001 Inventions’	Photos from the new exhibition at the New York Hall of Science.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/09/arts/design/20101209-rockwell.html	‘Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera’	Images from the new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/09/arts/design/20101209-rockwell-3.html	‘Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera’	Images from the new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
http://tv.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/arts/television/07girls.html	TELEVISION REVIEW; When Your Gay Friend Has Issues	The new Sundance series ''Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys'' takes place in a world where the words ''fag hag'' are not spoken. Oddly enough, this world appears to exist inside the same New York City where many of us live. To make sure that we get the point, the show takes a break during its premiere on Tuesday night, after introducing us to its
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06EED91230F934A35751C1A9669D8B63	THEATER REVIEW | 'DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?'; Empathy Put to Test, For Humans And Robots	Ridley Scott's 1982 ''Blade Runner'' is a stylish action movie starring Harrison Ford as Deckard, a bounty hunter in pursuit of coolly attractive androids. Philip K. Dick's ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,'' the 1968 book it's based on, is a very different novel of ideas, at its essence about an unhappily married man. In a twist that sounds
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/arts/video-games/07assassin.html	VIDEO GAME REVIEW; Adventurously Bashing Borgias Amid the Clamor of Old Rome	Perched like a ballet dancer atop the giant, majestic flagpole rising from the pinnacle of Castel Sant' Angelo, I survey the seven hills of the ancient city rolling to the horizon before me. In the distance below, beyond streets teeming with merchants and thieves, beggars and courtesans, I spy the Colosseum and the Pantheon. Directly beneath me, in
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/books/07book.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Marilyn, Dostoyevsky And Me, Her Pup	THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF MAF THE DOG AND OF HIS FRIEND MARILYN MONROE By Andrew O'Hagan 277 pages. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $24. Brian the dog here. You know, the talking dog from ''Family Guy'': best-selling author, actor, television writer, movie director, song-and-dance ace, civil rights crusader and, yes, animal companion. Because of my
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E0DB1739F934A35751C1A9669D8B63	MUSIC REVIEW; Crescent City Comes To Entertain Bagel City	Starting with a parade (down an opera-house aisle) and ending nearly three hours later with a jam session, Red Hot + New Orleans brought a generous Crescent City spirit to the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Friday night to kick off a two-night stand. Trombone Shorty, who also plays trumpet, was curator of the show, the latest of the Red Hot
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/arts/music/07society.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Voyage Across Centuries, With Bach as Anchor	Few musicians have had such a wide-ranging musical life as the American pianist Stephen Prutsman. In his teens and 20s in California he played keyboards in rock bands and piano in jazz clubs. But he had thorough conservatory training and won prizes in major international competitions. He has explored world music, arranging and composing some 40
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/movies/07shoah.html	Maker of 'Shoah' Stresses Its Lasting Value	Even at 85, Claude Lanzmann is not one to rest on his laurels or shirk a controversy. A quarter of a century after his documentary ''Shoah'' transformed the way the world regarded the Holocaust, the film is about to be re-released in the United States -- an event he welcomes as long overdue. Then again, Mr. Lanzmann also argues that ''Shoah'' is
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E4D6133FF934A35751C1A9669D8B63	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Lingua Dramatica: Interpreting the Playwright's Tongue	Watching the Atlantic Theater Company's exquisite productions of ''The Collection'' and ''A Kind of Alaska,'' two short plays by Harold Pinter, I almost forgot that the cast was speaking in a foreign language. Technically, of course, Pinter wrote in English. But as is true of most great dramatists, his syntax, locutions, rhythms and silences make
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/arts/music/07christie.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Very Old Instruments Embraced by the Young	In my experience of concerts presented by the Juilliard School's historical performance department -- admittedly limited, in only the program's second season -- I have been more impressed with performances by students than with those by faculty members. Not incidentally, perhaps, those student performances were almost all overseen by the formidable
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/arts/music/07arts-CITYOPERATOP_BRF.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; City Opera to Perform Rufus Wainwright Work	An opera by the singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright is coming to Lincoln Center -- just not the Metropolitan Opera, for which it was originally conceived. Instead New York City Opera said on Monday that the company would produce it sometime next season. The Met and Lincoln Center Theater originally commissioned the work, ''Prima Donna.'' But the Met
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/books/review/Anderson-t.html	Holiday Books: Maps	At the time of his death in 1799, George Washington owned over 90 atlases and maps, probably one of the largest collections of its kind in 18th-century America. That Washington possessed so many is hardly surprising. From his youthful days as a surveyor through his long military career to his defense of America's post-Revolutionary territorial
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/arts/music/05playlist.html	PLAYLIST; Some Blustery Gospel, Some Blaring Metal	The Rev. Johnny L. Jones ''Most preachers,'' the Rev. Johnny L. Jones explained in a recent interview, ''get their power going up,'' or working to a climax during preaching or singing. ''I moan at the end. Most of my power is given by coming down, after I've gone up.'' Now 74, Mr. Jones -- also known as Hurricane -- is a Bobby Bland-type singer,
http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/books/review/Stevens-t.html	Holiday Books: Movies	No Marx Brothers movie exemplifies the divine anarchy of Julius, Leonard, Arthur and Herbert Marx as purely as the 1933 Paramount comedy ''Duck Soup.'' It was the last film in which all four brothers -- stage-named Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo -- appeared together on-screen. Unlike their earlier Paramount films (or those that would come after
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E7DB1E31F936A35751C1A9669D8B63	THE WEEK AHEAD | DEC. 5-DEC. 11	Television Ginia Bellafante We are in the middle of a VINCE LOMBARDI moment, a cultural ''run to daylight,'' if you will. ''Lombardi,'' a play about Lombardi, the N.F.L. Hall of Fame coach, is on Broadway. It stars Dan Lauria, probably best known as the father on ''The Wonder Years,'' as Lombardi, whose Green Bay Packers were football's gold
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/movies/05scott.html	Unsinkable Captain Of Spoofs	''SURELY you can't be serious.'' That line, said not by Leslie Nielsen but to him (by Robert Hays, the ostensible male lead of ''Airplane!,'' the movie in question), might be taken to sum up Mr. Nielsen's career, or at least the part of it that people are most likely to remember. Of course Mr. Nielsen could be serious. ''I'm serious! And don't call
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/books/review/Heller-t.html	Visuals	A graphic designer can't have too many books of typography. These specimen books nourish and replenish, inform and delight. I own more than 100 type catalogs and manuals dating to the late 19th century, and I know other designers (or design lovers) who have compiled even larger and rarer stashes. This holiday season, it's a safe bet that type books
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/books/review/Drzal-t.html	Holiday Books: Food	Seized by a ''strange and self-indulgent notion,'' Christopher Kimball resolved to spend two years recreating a 12-course high Victorian dinner party on an authentic period coal stove installed in his 1859 Boston town house, making everything from the calf's foot gelatin to the puff pastry to the food coloring. Served to a dozen celebrity guests --
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/books/review/EdChoice-t.html	Editors' Choice	APOLLO'S ANGELS: A History of Ballet, by Jennifer Homans (Random House, $35.) The question of classical ballet's survival lies at the heart of this definitive history, which traces dance across four centuries of wars and revolutions, both artistic and political. SELECTED STORIES, by William Trevor (Viking, $35.) Trevor's collection is frequently
http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/books/review/Zacharek-t.html	Jack-the-Lad Is Back	THE ELEPHANT TO HOLLYWOOD By Michael Caine 304 pp. Henry Holt & Company. $28 In 1992 Michael Caine published an entertaining and superbly written memoir, ''What's It All About?,'' filled with stories about his childhood in London's scruffy Elephant and Castle district (called the Elephant by the locals); his rise to fame in films like ''Zulu'' and
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/books/review/Coates-t.html	Holiday Books: Classics	Greece and Rome are always with us: Consciously inspired by a noble ideal of the Roman Republic, America's founders created a Senate, built a Capitol and wrote under pseudonyms like Publius, Brutus and Cato; in the Federalist Papers, some of them specified the new Constitution's greatest deviation from the Roman model: ''the total exclusion of the
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/arts/music/03radio.html	MUSIC REVIEW; Restraint Layered Over Scales of Expression	''We're shy people,'' Johan Duncanson of the Radio Dept. told a sold-out Bowery Ballroom audience on Wednesday night, in one of his few moments of stage patter beyond song titles and thank yous. That would account for his vocals, subdued and submerged in the mix, and for the melancholy and reticence in the Radio Dept.'s lyrics: ''Words fail me all
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/books/03book.html	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; The Flesh and Blood Behind the AK-47	THE GUN By C. J. Chivers Illustrated. 481 pages. Simon & Schuster. $28. It is no accident that C. J. Chivers opens ''The Gun,'' his bold history of the AK-47, not with the loud crack that is the report of the rifle but with the monstrous bang of the first detonation of a Soviet nuclear bomb. As Mr. Chivers's detailed history then skirts as far back
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/arts/music/03pop.html	The Listings	Pop Prices may not include ticketing service charges. Full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music. Badly Drawn Boy (Friday and Saturday) Damon Gough, who records as Badly Drawn Boy, is an introverted, smoky-voiced, folk-rocking songwriter. His concerts can be more like filibusters than shows, but there's talent amid the dross. With Justin
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/arts/design/03vogel.html	INSIDE ART; Adding Green Space to MoMA With Tropical Terrariums	The Museum of Modern Art lobby -- that awkward space designed by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi -- spans a city block, making it as much a thoroughfare as a museum entrance. People flood the place throughout the day, ducking in from the cold, avoiding street traffic or simply using it as a meeting spot. For curators at the museum, the
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/dining/03mrcritic.html	HEY, MR. CRITIC; Looking for Old Brooklyn? Nosh This Way	Send me your own dining questions via dinejournal@nytimes.com or Twitter.com/samsifton. Q. Recently, my wife and I left Manhattan in search of space and quiet and ended up in Fort Greene. It's a great area, with nice restaurants and awesome farmers' and flea markets. But I yearn to find those familiar locations that we adore so in the city, like
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/arts/music/03grammys.html	Youth and Perseverance Get Nods From Grammys	These days the Grammy Awards have a special fondness for two things: youth and a good comeback. At the nominations ceremony for the 53rd annual Grammys, broadcast from Los Angeles on Wednesday night, Eminem was the big leader, with 10 nods for ''Recovery,'' the album that has brought him back into favor with critics and his fans. (It's the
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E7DD123EF930A35751C1A9669D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Katie Couric to Fox? Yes, for 'Glee' Episode	She may not sing, but the ''CBS Evening News'' anchor, Katie Couric, will at least make a cameo on Fox's special episode of ''Glee'' after the Super Bowl on Feb. 6. A spokesman for Ms. Couric confirmed Thursday that she had been booked by the show but shared no further information. The studio that produces ''Glee,'' 20th Century Fox, declined to
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E7DC153EF930A35751C1A9669D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 1990s Return on IFC	While the IFC cable channel stakes its future on a slate of original comedies aimed at young male viewers who like to stay up until the wee hours, it is also looking to the recent past to help build its library. On Thursday IFC said it had acquired the rights to four breakthrough comedy shows from the 1990s, a not-too-long-ago era when David Cross
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/arts/music/03jazz.html	The Listings	Jazz Full reviews of recent jazz concerts: nytimes.com/music. - Ambrose Akinmusire (Friday and Saturday) Mr. Akinmusire, a recent addition to the Blue Note Records roster, is a sharply proficient trumpeter whose vision for small-group jazz accommodates elements of groove as well as swing. He spent last month as an artist in residence at the Jazz
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E1DD1E31F930A35751C1A9669D8B63	No Headline	QUEEN OF THE LOT Opens on Friday in New York. Written and directed by Henry Jaglom; director of photography, Hanania Baer; edited by Ron Vignone; produced by Rosemary Marks; released by Rainbow Releasing. Running time: 1 hour 54 minutes. WITH: Tanna Frederick (Maggie Chase), Noah Wyle (Aaron Lambert), Christopher Rydell (Dov Lambert), Peter
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/01/arts/design/Sargent-4.html	John Singer Sargent’s Impressionist Stage	Paintings from the exhibition “Sargent and Impressionism” at the Adelson Galleries in Manhattan.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/01/arts/design/Sargent-5.html	John Singer Sargent’s Impressionist Stage	Paintings from the exhibition “Sargent and Impressionism” at the Adelson Galleries in Manhattan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/theater/01musical.html	Untested Musicals Take Over Broadway	The 2010-11 Broadway season is shaping up as a bounty of new musicals with ambitious original scores. But new songs, untested on Broadway, come with risk, both artistically and -- especially this season -- financially. More than $135 million is on the line in the 11 new musicals that are opening this season. Ten of them have original music,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E4D6123CF932A35751C1A9669D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Winter's Bone' Wins Big At Gotham Film Awards	True to form, the Gotham Independent Film Awards remained scrappy and unpredictable, awarding its biggest prizes Monday night to ''Winter's Bone.''Debra Granik's film, a drama about an Ozark family, won awards for best feature and best ensemble performance. ''We just felt very lucky that we came across this beautiful story,'' Ms. Granik said of the
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/arts/television/01arts-MISSINGDANCI_BRF.html	ARTS, BRIEFLY; Missing 'Dancing,' ABC Loses Top Spot	Without ''Dancing With the Stars'' on its Monday schedule, ABC fell to second place in the night's ratings as CBS and its all-repeat lineup took the lead. According to Nielsen estimates, just six million viewers watched ABC's spinoff series ''Skating With the Stars'' from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Reruns of sitcoms including ''Two and a Half Men'' (11.2
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/arts/dance/01nutcracker.html	CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Tales Within Tales Create a Tale of Two 'Nutcracker' Productions	The original source of the ''Nutcracker'' story, E. T. A. Hoffmann's novella ''Nutcracker and Mouseking'' (1816), is a good example of what's called metafiction. It's a story within a story within a story: some characters pass from one layer to another, while others don't. We can see why the heroine, Marie, is perplexed that most of those she knows
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/arts/television/01simpsons.html	Friendly Enemies on Fox: 'Simpsons' and O'Reilly	''The Simpsons'' has certainly never been shy about biting the corporate hand that feeds it -- witness the recent opening-credit sequence of that Fox animated comedy, created by the underground artist Banksy, that imagined 20th Century Fox as a nightmarish third-world sweatshop. Lately ''The Simpsons'' has been taking potshots at its corporate
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/arts/music/01eisenstadt.html	MUSIC REVIEW; A Melting Pot of All Kinds of Rhythms, Harmonies and Vamps	Harris Eisenstadt, a drummer and composer originally from Toronto, takes a fixer's approach to music making, looking for ways to fit the pieces together. He works along jazz's progressive fringe but doesn't generally set out to make a ruckus. In his own music especially, he often seems intent on extracting consonance from dissonance or forging
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E3DA1F3EF932A35751C1A9669D8B63	What's On Today	7:30 P.M. (Showtime) THE OTHER CITY (2010) According to recent figures from the Epidemiology Annual Report for Washington, at least 3 percent of the residents of that city are living with H.I.V. or AIDS -- the highest rate in the nation, rivaling that of some African countries. The crisis, some say, is fueled by a volatile combination of politics,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E3DC113CF932A35751C1A9669D8B63	ARTS, BRIEFLY; A Second Collapse at a Pompeii Site	ROME -- Less than a month after Pompeii's so-called House of Gladiators collapsed into rubble, portions of a garden wall at the nearby House of the Moralist fell down on Tuesday, prompting new calls to better safeguard the city buried by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Antonio Varone, Pompeii's director of excavations, said the house -