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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 11:35pm GMT
8 P.M. (Nickelodeon) THE LAST DAY OF SUMMER (2007) Will tomorrow never come? Luke Malloy, a tweenage rocker who’s afraid of taking the stage and of taking the bullying that’s sure to arrive on the first day of middle school, wishes for a long, hot summer and gets stuck in time. Jansen Panettiere (above center, with Jon Kent Etheridge, left, and Eli Vargas), the younger brother of Hayden (the “Heroes” star), plays Luke.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 11:29pm GMT
Mr. Prigov was a prolific and influential Russian poet and artist who at one point was incarcerated in a Soviet psychiatric hospital as punishment for his work.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:57pm GMT
The Frick Collection offers a gem of a show on ormolu-mounted porcelain jars.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:56pm GMT
Reviews of Alex Hay at Peter Freeman, “Creative Growth” at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, “Not Your Parents’ MTV” at Postmasters and more.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:55pm GMT
Christie’s will not confirm that he is the seller, but experts familiar with his collection have identified it as his painting.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:53pm GMT
The Guggenheim Museum’s spirited if sometimes disjointed display of works from its collection offers a good argument for expansion of its New York branch.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:43pm GMT
The Museum of Modern Art’s show is a touching, sometimes melancholy portrayal of Russia’s architectural ferment and the brutality with which it was ultimately suppressed.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:35pm GMT
As a travelogue and an exercise in improving foreign relations, the History Channel’s show on martial arts is charming and, despite its subject matter, harmless.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:34pm GMT
Marion Verbruggen showed a tremendous measure of subtlety, variety of color and outright virtuosity with a wooden pipe with a program of Baroque works at the Frick Collection on Wednesday afternoon.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:33pm GMT
Everything about “The Last Day of Summer” will remind you, and not in a good way, of “Groundhog Day.”
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:23pm GMT
“My First Time” is a new Off Broadway play in which four actors recount stories about people’s first sexual experiences.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:22pm GMT
For many Harry Potter fans, the release of the final installment is a great excuse for a big shindig, from London to Los Angeles.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:15pm GMT
This engaging little musical, whose cheery voice could be heard only intermittently in the big, bad Broadway production, has been liberated at last.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:14pm GMT
Also prominent on the list of this year’s Emmy nominees were “Heroes,” “30 Rock” and “Ugly Betty.”
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:13pm GMT
Lew Tabackin set at Smalls on Wednesday contained a few originals, a ballad standard full of fast, braying lines and some ’50s jazz that ran parallel to bebop.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:07pm GMT
Thousands of people will gather on a hillside farm this weekend in Ancramdale, N.Y., about two and a half hours north of New York City, to hear and play bluegrass.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 9:52pm GMT
The ensemble So Percussion’s studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is an experimental sound factory, where ceramic pots, metal objects and typewriters are crammed in among an array of traditional instruments.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 9:48pm GMT
“Goya’s Ghosts,” the new feature from the director Milos Forman, is an unwieldy mix of political satire and lavish period soap opera.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 9:47pm GMT
The end may be nigh in “Sunshine” — the Sun is dying, as is, alas, poor Earth — but director Danny Boyle is having a grand old time.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 9:46pm GMT
“I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry” is sporadically funny, casually sexist, blithely racist and about as visually sophisticated as a parking-garage surveillance video.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 8:22pm GMT
The documentary “Walking to Werner” is a deeply self-reflexive work, perpetually at risk of disappearing into its own iris.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 7:58pm GMT
Setting the record straight literally and figuratively, “In Search of Mozart” is an adamantly linear, myth-busting stride through a prodigiously talented life.
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 7:47pm GMT
Beware films with protagonists depicted as vastly more sensitive than their fellow characters. The result may be a crock like “Cashback.”
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Posted: July 19th, 2007, 7:09pm GMT
Cameras roll on Tom Cruise film, premiere is planned for Hemingway play, BBC suspends editors and more culture news.