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Summer Movies: The Sweet, The Light And The Loud Trailer: 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' Trailer: 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' Trailer: 'The Hurt Locker' Trailer: 'Whatever Works' Trailer: 'Julie An
The summer-movie slate looks like a typically airheaded one, from Land of the Lost to the naughty new spoof Bruno. But fear not: We found a few dramas — even some foreign weepies — to help tide you over.
Categories: Arts Education and Advocacy
Writing On The Sly, Nathaniel Rich's Secret Debut
It took over five years for Nathaniel Rich to finish his first novel — maybe because he was writing The Mayor's Tongue secretly, first as a college student, and then while writing film criticism during the day.
Categories: Arts Education and Advocacy
Corey Haim, Actor, Dies at 38
Mr. Haim was an actor whose status as a teenage heartthrob of the 1980s gave way to substance abuse and rehabilitation as an adult.
Categories: Arts Education and Advocacy
The Mouse That Roared: Turning to the Internet to Catch a Favorite TV Show
With new devices making it easy to stream Internet content to a television, more people are watching cable shows for free.
Categories: Arts Education and Advocacy
Theater Review | 'Girls in Trouble': Jonathan Reynolds Views Abortion From Kennedy Era to Now
While Jonathan Reynolds’s assault on assumptions about the right to choose abortion is likely too crude to make theatergoers re-evaluate their positions, it did make me reconsider my view of political theater.
Categories: Arts Education and Advocacy
Bridge: As the Championships Begin, Revisiting a 2009 Highlight
The American Contract Bridge League’s Spring North American Championships start on Thursday in Reno, Nev.
Categories: Arts Education and Advocacy
Film: Yvan Attal at Rendez-Vous With French Cinema
Rendez-Vous With French Cinema may lack a certifiable masterpiece, but it offers a fair number of B-plus or better adult features, and no real duds.
Categories: Arts Education and Advocacy
Music Review | Grawemeyer Players: Award-Winning Works by Lutoslawski, Kurtag and Currier
The Grawemeyer Players, a faculty ensemble from the University of Louisville, performed works by winners of the university’s annual composition prize at Weill Recital Hall.
Categories: Arts Education and Advocacy
Music Review | Ying Quartet: Barber’s Centenary Celebrated at Morgan Library & Museum
On Tuesday, the centenary of Samuel Barber’s birth, the Ying Quartet performed the composer’s Op. 11 String Quartet in Gilder Lehrman Hall at the Morgan Library & Museum.
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Dance Review | Lyon Opera Ballet: Works by Cunningham, Forsythe and Marin at the Joyce Theater
The Lyon Opera Ballet opened its weeklong season at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday with works by Merce Cunningham, William Forsythe and Maguy Marin.
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‘The Nose,’ and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera
Three critics for The New York Times discuss the music, the art and the literary threads of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of the Shostakovich opera “The Nose.”
Categories: Arts Education and Advocacy
Books of The Times: James Hynes’s ‘Next’: A Job Interview to End All Interviews
In James Hynes’s new novel, a middle-aged man on a one-day trip to Austin, Tex., for a job interview comes full to life at long last.
Categories: Arts Education and Advocacy
Archive and Historical Society Exhibition for Grateful Dead
An exhibit at the New-York Historical Society is the first large-scale showing of items from the Grateful Dead archive.
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A Futures Site Coming to Bet on Movie Ticket Sales
A virtual futures exchange is being assembled to allow people to bet money on a film’s box office success.
Categories: Arts Education and Advocacy
Australian authors protest China visa refusal (Reuters)
Reuters - More than 90 Australian authors signed a letter on Thursday protesting against China's refusal to grant a visa to one of the country's most celebrated novelists because he was HIV-positive.
Da Vinci -- painter, inventor and now action hero (Reuters)
Reuters - Warner Bros. is turning Leonardo into an action-adventure hero. No, not DiCaprio, but Da Vinci.
EMI Music Names a New Chief
Charles Allen was named executive chairman of EMI Music. He replaces Elio Leoni-Sceti, who is leaving the company.
Categories: Arts Education and Advocacy
Snooki Slept Here. Your Turn.
The Seaside Heights house used in the first season of “Jersey Shore” is for rent — for $2,500 a night.
Categories: Arts Education and Advocacy
The Mouse That Roared: Turning to the Internet to Catch a Favorite TV Show
With new devices making it easy to stream Internet content to a television, more people are watching cable shows for free.
Categories: Arts Education, Arts Education and Advocacy
Archive and Historical Society Exhibition for Grateful Dead
An exhibit at the New-York Historical Society is the first large- scale showing of items from the Grateful Dead archive.
Categories: Arts Education, Arts Education and Advocacy
