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Books of The Times: Grass’s Fact and Fiction, Fighting to a Draw

Posted: June 27th, 2007, 3:01am GMT

Günter Grass’s chronicle of his first 32 years is a verbally dazzling but often infuriating piece of work.

In a Tough Hearing, Smithsonian Is Urged to Find a New Chief Fast

Posted: June 26th, 2007, 11:16pm GMT

Senator Dianne Feinstein declared at a hearing on Tuesday that the museum complex should move quickly to replace its ousted top executive.

Music Review | Wilco : Expressing Unsteadiness in Lyrics, but a Clear Focus in Delivery

Posted: June 26th, 2007, 11:00pm GMT

Jeff Tweedy seemed loose and agreeable and Wilco sounded lean and combustible at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Monday night.

Hollywood Scrambles as Strike Looms

Posted: June 26th, 2007, 10:02pm GMT

In Hollywood’s upper reaches this week, few are bothering to count past two. As in Adam Sandler has already booked his two “pre-strike” pictures, so let’s try Vince Vaughn.

Theater Review | 'Gone Missing': Checking the Lost and Found of Life

Posted: June 26th, 2007, 9:58pm GMT

This revised and expanded version of “Gone Missing,” by the downtown theater troupe the Civilians, is fresh, breezy and very funny.

Movie Review | 'Live Free or Die Hard': Pick Your Poison: Fists or Fireballs

Posted: June 26th, 2007, 9:55pm GMT

In “Live Free or Die Hard,” Bruce Willis is ready to earn our love again by performing the same lovably violent, meathead tricks as before.

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Sexy, Scary and Often Naked: That’s Acting!

Posted: June 23rd, 2007, 11:40pm GMT

Asia Argento is one of those rare actors whose mere presence instantly makes a movie less predictable.

Art: Tender Is a Toast to Avatars of the Lost Generation

Posted: June 23rd, 2007, 11:36pm GMT

Muses to Fitzgerald, friends of Picasso, Sara and Gerald Murphy are finally getting a show of their own.

On This Rock, Build a Future for Musicals

Posted: June 23rd, 2007, 11:15pm GMT

There are signs that audiences and artists are more at ease with the marriage of rock or pop music and traditional narrative theater.

Music: Music That Thinks Outside the Chamber

Posted: June 23rd, 2007, 11:07pm GMT

A number of performers are questioning the traditional expectations of chamber music, causing mixed reactions among the purists and the newcomers.

Music: It Takes a Tough Man to Tell a Bad Joke

Posted: June 23rd, 2007, 10:48pm GMT

To their fans’ delight, Brad Paisley and Toby Keith are unafraid to look silly.

Television: A Brave New World for TV? Virtually

Posted: June 23rd, 2007, 10:44pm GMT

Virtual reality might finally be the medium that unites the passive experience of watching television with the interactive potential of the Web.

Romancing the Rose in Its Infinite Splendor

Posted: June 22nd, 2007, 5:02am GMT

After a comprehensive refurbishing, the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden is presenting its largest and most varied collection ever.

Art Review | 'Documenta 12': Asking Serious Questions in a Very Quiet Voice

Posted: June 22nd, 2007, 2:33am GMT

The show in Kassel, Germany, sustains its reputation for being an idiosyncratic, concept-driven affair.

ABC Says It Was Outbid for Paris Hilton Interview

Posted: June 22nd, 2007, 12:47am GMT

ABC News said it lost its bid because the network was unwilling to make a “high six-figure deal” with the Hilton family.

Movie Review | 'A Mighty Heart': Using the Light of a Star to Illuminate Ugly Truths

Posted: June 21st, 2007, 11:35pm GMT

“A Mighty Heart” is effectively fashioned, as jolting as it is polished, as well as a surprising, insistently political work of commercial art.

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Movie Review | 'Sicko': Open Wide and Say ‘Shame’

Posted: June 21st, 2007, 11:30pm GMT

Michael Moore has never before made a film that stated his bedrock ideological principles as clearly and accessibly as “Sicko.”

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Reflections on Baryshnikov’s Latest (Not Last) Legs

Posted: June 21st, 2007, 11:19pm GMT

The ballet superstar brings his wide-ranging and eclectic interests to the stage in a tribute to Hell’s Kitchen, the neighborhood of his multidisciplinary center, this weekend.

Books of The Times: For a Corrupt New York, a Lawman Who Fit In

Posted: June 20th, 2007, 1:25pm GMT

In the autumn of 1912, when Lt. Charles Becker went on trial for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, a notorious gangster, the story held the front page of the city’s 14 dailies for weeks on end.

Examining Black-Latino Relations, Gently

Posted: June 20th, 2007, 2:47am GMT

David Lamb’s play “Platanos & Collard Greens” represents the strongest evidence at the moment of the blunt racial divide that marks so much cultural consumption.

Theater Review | 'One Thing I Like to Say Is': You May Call It a Daydream. She Just Calls It Her Life.

Posted: June 20th, 2007, 12:38am GMT

Amy Fox’s sensitive new play nicely captures something of the loneliness and childlike joy of letting your imagination wander.

Competing Visions for Governors Island

Posted: June 19th, 2007, 11:18pm GMT

Five proposals for the 40-acre park area at the southern half of Governors Island offer the clearest evidence so far of what the island’s future could hold.

Music Review | 'True Colors Tour' : Power to the People (and Some Pop Too)

Posted: June 19th, 2007, 11:16pm GMT

Timed to coincide with Gay Pride Week and presented by Logo, MTV Networks’ gay-and-lesbian-themed cable channel, the True Colors Tour advanced a clear anti-discriminatory agenda.

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Dance Review | 'Romeo and Juliet': Shakespeare’s Doomed Lovers, Acting and Dancing

Posted: June 19th, 2007, 10:53pm GMT

Kenneth MacMillan’s “Romeo and Juliet” has proved itself a fluent mixture of dance and acting, absorbing in its response to both Shakespeare’s story and Prokofiev’s score.

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Some Cities Will Get Early Look at ‘Sicko’

Posted: June 19th, 2007, 10:00pm GMT

The Michael Moore documentary will open on Friday on a single screen in New York after being pirated on YouTube.

Books of The Times: A Literary Dynasty, Warts and All

Posted: June 19th, 2007, 1:28am GMT

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With this “autobiography” of his family, Alexander Waugh demonstrates that he’s inherited the literary gene in spades, as well as a gift for very funny, coruscating prose.

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‘The Kingdom’ Gambles That Entertainment Can Trump Politics

Posted: June 19th, 2007, 12:48am GMT

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“The Kingdom,” a film about the F.B.I.’s pursuit of Islamic bad guys in Saudi Arabia, may show that buddy bonding and boisterous action can bridge the deepest cultural chasm.

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Savion Glover’s Objections to Festivals Reflect a Schism in the Tap World

Posted: June 18th, 2007, 10:13pm GMT

The biggest name in tap won’t be found at the annual Tap City festival at the Duke on 42nd St.

Report Faults Oversight by Smithsonian Regents

Posted: June 18th, 2007, 9:49pm GMT

In a high-profile mea culpa the Smithsonian Institution issued a report saying that its Board of Regents had failed to provide the oversight that might have prevented extravagant spending by its former chief executive.

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Music Review | Brooklyn Philharmonic: Handel Instead of Tchaikovsky With the Rockets’ Red Glare

Posted: June 18th, 2007, 9:08pm GMT

It was a good choice to end the Brooklyn Philharmonic’s little concert at the South Street Seaport on Saturday night with Handel’s “Music for the Royal Fireworks.”

Theater Review | 'Eurydice': The Power of Memory to Triumph Over Death

Posted: June 18th, 2007, 9:03pm GMT

Sarah Ruhl’s tender-hearted comedy opened at the Second Stage Theater in a rhapsodically beautiful production.

Music Review: A Festival With More Than Just Jam-Bands

Posted: June 18th, 2007, 12:30am GMT

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This year two of Bonnaroo’s three headliners — Tool and the Police — came from way off the jam-band circuit.

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TV Review | 'Simon Schama's Power of Art': Matching Masterpieces With History’s Flash Points

Posted: June 18th, 2007, 12:04am GMT

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“Power of Art” teaches as much about the power of storytelling on television as it does about the history of art.

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Music Review: Hey, Giovanni, Put a Shirt on. You’ll Catch Cold.

Posted: June 17th, 2007, 11:54pm GMT

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The Royal Opera House in London revived Francesca Zambello’s grippingly spare and psychologically probing staging of “Don Giovanni.”

Theater Review | 'The Argument' and 'Dinner Party': Checking In With Glimmer Twins, Plato and Aristotle

Posted: June 17th, 2007, 7:23pm GMT

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Meet Aristotle sporting Doc Martens, and hear Plato interpreted by the light of a disco ball at the Target Margin Theater’s new kooky klassics double feature.