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The TV Watch: Along Come Joneses, in Two Takes on Reality
Posted: August 23rd, 2007, 2:34am GMT
Fox’s new reality show “Anchorwoman” posits that even an untutored bikini model can be a newscaster and Court TV’s new offering suggests that even a veteran television personality cannot handle a live talk show on her own. -
Arts, Briefly
Posted: August 23rd, 2007, 2:13am GMT
Out for a Sunday drive, rapper jailed, resting up and more culture news. -
Art Review | Robert Gober:: Against Delusion: Robert Gober’s Nuts-and-Bolts Americana
Posted: August 23rd, 2007, 2:12am GMT
The grand retrospective for the American sculptor Robert Gober at the Schaulager museum in Basel, Switzerland, is drawing a chorus of superlatives. -
Foxy Brown Is Jailed for Violating Probation
Posted: August 23rd, 2007, 1:32am GMT
The rap singer was jailed by a Manhattan judge for violating her probation after she was arrested on charges she hit a neighbor with a BlackBerry. -
Godfather of Soul; Father Many Times Over
Posted: August 23rd, 2007, 1:03am GMT
Since the death of James Brown, about a dozen people have asked for DNA tests to determine if the late singer was their father. -
Edward Avedisian, Artist Who Painted Bold and Bright, Dies at 71
Posted: August 23rd, 2007, 12:57am GMT
Edward Avedisian helped establish the hotly colored but emotionally cool abstract painting that succeeded Abstract Expressionism in the early 1960s. -
Rose Bampton, Versatile Met Singer, Dies at 99
Posted: August 23rd, 2007, 12:56am GMT
Rose Bampton was an American opera singer who switched from mezzo-soprano to soprano and sang leading roles in both ranges at the Metropolitan Opera. -
Dance Review | 'Invisible Wings': Under the Night Sky, a Vivid History Lesson
Posted: August 23rd, 2007, 12:39am GMT
It would be nice to feel unmitigatedly positive about Joanna Haigood’s “Invisible Wings,” an ambitious site-specific evocation of slave culture and history, linked to the history of the land that the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival now inhabits. -
Her Journey, All True
Posted: August 23rd, 2007, 12:38am GMT
In the last two years Laura Albert has lost, in no particular order, her livelihood, her boyfriend, a piece of her identity, quite possibly her apartment and a civil fraud trial in Manhattan. -
Music Review | Mostly Mozart Festival : First on the Clarinet, Later With the Baton
Posted: August 22nd, 2007, 11:15pm GMT
The Mostly Mozart Festival’s namesake has had competition for the limelight this summer from an impressively eclectic lineup of composers. -
Books of the Times: Mystery and Mirth on the Streets of Laos
Posted: August 22nd, 2007, 11:14pm GMT
Laos may seem an unlikely setting for a series of terrifically beguiling detective novels steeped in local color and history. -
Music Review | Dave Holland Sextet: Multiplying the Middle Ground
Posted: August 22nd, 2007, 11:12pm GMT
Among other things, the bassist Dave Holland specializes in a sly manipulation of scale. -
Dance Review | Repertorio Español : Strike a Pose (There’s Nothing to It), and Dance, Priestesses, Dance
Posted: August 22nd, 2007, 11:05pm GMT
Like very high priestesses of separate and ancient religious cults, the dance soloists Pilar Rioja and Roxane D’Orléans Juste have come together to share a program, “2 Styles, 1 Passion,” at Repertorio Español. -
Theater Review | 'Fair Game': Presidential Candidates, Beware Your Children
Posted: August 22nd, 2007, 11:03pm GMT
Karl Gajdusek’s play would be much better if it were half as full of twists and closet skeletons. -
Bridge: At a European Tournament, Adventures in Distribution
Posted: August 22nd, 2007, 11:02pm GMT
The inaugural European University Bridge Cup, which took place in Bruges, Belgium, Aug. 4 to 9, was won by Paris-Sud. -
Music Review | Pauline Oliveros: Worldwide Collaborators, Both Listening and Playing
Posted: August 22nd, 2007, 11:01pm GMT
The distinction between listening and mere passive hearing has been a focus of the 75-year-old composer Pauline Oliveros for decades. -
Passion for Film Spurs New Festivals, but Grueling Work Keeps Them Going
Posted: August 22nd, 2007, 10:58pm GMT
The inaugural American Cinematic Experience Film Festival tries to stand out from a crowded list of film festivals in New York. -
‘Kid Nation’ Parents Gave Show Free Rein
Posted: August 22nd, 2007, 10:52pm GMT
Children who participated in “Kid Nation” were required to do whatever they were told by the show’s producers at all times or risk expulsion from the show. -
HBO’s Rivals Say It Has Stumbled, Though Catching Up Is Tough
Posted: August 22nd, 2007, 10:44pm GMT
Has HBO, the pay-television channel stocked with so many outstanding shows that it declared itself in a category all its own — as in “It’s not TV, it’s HBO” — finally tumbled from its pedestal of prestige? -
Cue the Film Awards Season and Strike a Somber Note
Posted: August 22nd, 2007, 10:43pm GMT
The films at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival foreshadow a darker movie awards season to come. -
Critic’s Choice: New DVDs
Posted: August 14th, 2007, 1:31pm GMT
New this week is a look at the early films of Sam Fuller and a new collection of Charlie Chan movies. -
Television Review | 'Gaza E.R.' : In Gaza, Even a Hospital Is a Battlefield
Posted: August 14th, 2007, 1:12am GMT
Like a lot of documentaries, “Gaza E.R.,” tonight on PBS’s “Wide Angle” series, makes a grim subject a little more palatable by occasionally tossing in some humanism via a likable character. -
Arts, Briefly
Posted: August 14th, 2007, 1:11am GMT
New York Philharmonic is invited to North Korea, attacked and charged in India, NBC confirms its plans for a fourth hour of “Today” and more culture news. -
Child’s Play Has Become Anything but Simple
Posted: August 13th, 2007, 11:55pm GMT
The tension between how children spend their free time and how adults want them to spend it runs through “Children at Play: An American History” like a yellow line smack down the middle of a highway. -
Music | Bard Music Festival : Reputation Isn’t Fixed. Sometimes You Hear It Grow.
Posted: August 13th, 2007, 11:17pm GMT
By the mid-20th century, even among many British composers and critics, Edward Elgar was patronized as a product of the Victorian era, an unquestionably skilled but ponderous composer, given to lofty pathos. -
Theater Review | Summer Shorts: A Playfest, and Brevity Is the Soul of It
Posted: August 13th, 2007, 11:16pm GMT
The vast majority of the nine plays in Series B of the mini-festival Summer Shorts had some kind of “gotcha.” -
Books of the Times: These Moors, This Realm of Evil, This Tortured Isle
Posted: August 13th, 2007, 11:13pm GMT
The “moors murders” — the serial sex killings of five children and the burial of four on the high border country between Yorkshire and Lancashire — stirred horrified revulsion throughout 1960s Britain. -
Art Review | 'Breath' : A Little Night Art as Visual Counterpoint for Mozart Festival
Posted: August 13th, 2007, 11:12pm GMT
The real action at the Mostly Mozart Festival takes place inside Lincoln Center’s halls, so “Breath,” a multimedia work, could be seen as an accompaniment, not the main attraction. -
Music Review | Zefiro: The Winds of Europe, in Sounds of the 1800s
Posted: August 13th, 2007, 11:11pm GMT
The Italian period-instrument ensemble Zefiro’s American debut, presented by the Mostly Mozart Festival, was devoted to Mozart’s Serenade in B flat, the “Gran Partita.” -
It Ain’t ‘Damn Yankees’ but It’s Got Legs
Posted: August 13th, 2007, 10:56pm GMT
Members of Broadway and Off Broadway shows trade their costumes for cleats when they play for the Broadway Show League. -
Television Review | 'i-Caught': TV Meets the Web. All Is Safe.
Posted: August 13th, 2007, 10:54pm GMT
Do enough people care about the stories behind viral videos to make “i-Caught,” which had its premiere last week on ABC, a viable prime-time television concept? -
Forget Naming That Tune, Try Naming Those Lyrics
Posted: August 13th, 2007, 10:49pm GMT
“The Singing Bee,” an old-fashioned summertime hit on NBC in which contestants try to complete the lyrics of popular songs, began with a walk down Broadway. -
Merv Griffin, Television Innovator, Dies at 82
Posted: August 13th, 2007, 10:01am GMT
One of TV’s most popular talk-show hosts, Merv Griffin also created some of the most successful game shows. -
Elizabeth Murray, 66, Artist of Vivid Forms, Dies
Posted: August 12th, 2007, 11:55pm GMT
Elizabeth Murray was a New York painter who reshaped Modernist abstraction into a high-spirited, cartoon-based language of form. -
It May Look Like Chaos, but It’s the Fringe
Posted: August 12th, 2007, 9:55am GMT
This year's New York International Fringe Festival offers nearly 200 productions and a battle to stay eclectic. -
A Beloved Woodstock Nation Site Goes on Sale, for $8 Million
Posted: August 12th, 2007, 4:09am GMT
The owners of “Yasgur’s Farm,” a house and piece of land made famous by the 1969 Woodstock music festival, are selling the property and moving to Arizona. -
The Man Who Asked Hard Questions
Posted: August 12th, 2007, 3:05am GMT
Behind Ingmar Bergman’s unblinking inquiries of God and death and love was a filmmaker’s filmmaker. -
Correction: Singers Grounded by Sacred Roots
Posted: August 12th, 2007, 3:00am GMT
Correction: Singers Grounded by Sacred Roots -
Correction: Linz's Favorite Son, a Danish Quartet, a Soprano's Velvety Lasso
Posted: August 12th, 2007, 2:59am GMT
Correction: Linz's Favorite Son, a Danish Quartet, a Soprano's Velvety Lasso -
Correction: Twilight of the Sun King
Posted: August 12th, 2007, 2:58am GMT
An article on July 29 about Philippe de Montebello’s tenure at the Metropolitan Museum of Art misstated the title the museum’s board granted him in 1999. While retaining the title of director, he was named chief executive, not president. -
The Man Who Set Film Free
Posted: August 12th, 2007, 2:56am GMT
In “L’Avventura” and other works, Michelangelo Antonioni showed the possibilities not only of cinema, but of life. -
Architecture: A Museum to Get Lost In, and How Israel Is Fixing It
Posted: August 12th, 2007, 2:16am GMT
The Israel Museum embarks on an $80 million expansion and renovation that will transform the way a visitor navigates and experiences it. -
Ulrich Plenzdorf, 72, Writer for German Film and Stage, Dies
Posted: August 12th, 2007, 12:59am GMT
Mr. Plenzdorf was a German screenwriter and playwright whose works include “The New Sufferings of Young W.” -
Music: Jazz Fanfare for a New New Orleans
Posted: August 11th, 2007, 9:58pm GMT
The jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard wants to rebuild New Orleans, one note at a time. -
Dance: With Crews and Zoos, a B-Boy World
Posted: August 11th, 2007, 9:11am GMT
How do you say b-boy in Korean? Break dancing rejuvenates itself on a global stage. -
Two Outlaws, Blasting Holes in the Screen
Posted: August 10th, 2007, 9:31pm GMT
The notoriety of the movie “Bonnie and Clyde” has long since eclipsed that of its real-life models. -
Smoldering Auteur With a Short Fuse
Posted: August 10th, 2007, 4:40pm GMT
Can a director be too independent for independent film? The career of the writer and director Tom DiCillo would suggest it’s true. -
Art: Cybermural: The Web as the Wall
Posted: August 10th, 2007, 4:37pm GMT
An online travelogue strongly suggests a new twist on the Los Angeles muralism of the 1970s. -
Music: Another Ovation for Joachim (Who?)
Posted: August 10th, 2007, 4:33pm GMT
A Mitteleuropean violinist helped form modern culture: white, male, dead and vital. -
Classical Recordings: Hotshots Older and Younger; Offstage Opera
Posted: August 10th, 2007, 4:32pm GMT
Christian Tetzlaff performs sonatas by Bach, David Fray tackles Boulez and the Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra does Hartke. -
Playlist: Cheerful New Zealand Pop and Spooky Louisiana Rock
Posted: August 10th, 2007, 4:03pm GMT
Reviews of new releases by Linda Thompson, Zap Mama, Marie Knight, Brunettes, Dax Riggs and more. -
Television: Charm the Children, Tickle the Parents
Posted: August 10th, 2007, 4:01pm GMT
With “Yo Gabba Gabba!” a couple of young fathers try to redefine the kids’ show. -
Same Old Aliens, but New Neuroses
Posted: August 10th, 2007, 11:59am GMT
Few narratives in American popular culture have proved as durably resonant — or as endlessly adaptable — as “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” -
DVD: The Future: Bright. The Fashion: Blinding.
Posted: August 9th, 2007, 4:00pm GMT
“Space: 1999,” now on DVD, was less science fiction than a trippy journey through the Me Decade of the ’70s, with a focus on mind control, demonic possession and the quest for nirvana. -
Literary Critic Leaves New Republic for New Yorker
Posted: August 7th, 2007, 5:14pm GMT
James Wood, a senior editor at The New Republic, where he has been the literary critic for the past 12 years, is leaving to become a staff writer at The New Yorker. -
Baron Elie de Rothschild Is Dead at 90
Posted: August 7th, 2007, 10:22am GMT
Baron Elie oversaw the restoration and ascent of the renowned wine estate Château Lafite Rothschild after World War II. -
Books of the Times: SoHo Loft, ’70s Ambience, Near Ninth Circle of Hell
Posted: August 7th, 2007, 8:29am GMT
The heroine of Irini Spanidou’s novel is a woman who seems like a less famous, less glamorous version of Edie Sedgwick, Warhol’s doomed superstar. -
Arts, Briefly
Posted: August 7th, 2007, 12:36am GMT
Ingmar Bergman archive in peril, Lindsay Lohan is said to be back in rehab, reggae songs in Anglican hymnal and more culture news. -
Music Review | Caramoor International Music Festival: Beethoven’s Final Sonatas Blossom in Complex Simplicity
Posted: August 6th, 2007, 11:58pm GMT
The last 3 of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas did not sound easy when Mitsuko Uchida played them on Sunday afternoon at the final concert of this year’s Caramoor International Music Festival. -
Music Review | Glimmerglass: Four Trips to Hell and Back at the Opera
Posted: August 6th, 2007, 11:54pm GMT
In his first summer as the general and artistic director of Glimmerglass Opera, Michael MacLeod is acknowledging the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi’s “Orfeo” by presenting it, as well as three other works based on the Orpheus myth. -
Theater Review | 'The Corn Is Green': Rescuing a Student From a Life in the Mines
Posted: August 6th, 2007, 11:54pm GMT
Kate Burton displays appealing zest in the Williamstown Theater Festival’s spirited revival of Emlyn Williams’s 1938 comedy. -
Lee Hazlewood, ‘Boots’ Songwriter, Dies at 78
Posted: August 6th, 2007, 11:49pm GMT
Lee Hazlewood was the songwriter behind hits by Duane Eddy, Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra, including Ms. Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin.’” -
Museums | King Center: In King’s Footsteps, Others Try to Dream
Posted: August 6th, 2007, 10:58pm GMT
There is something so intimate about the connection of Auburn Avenue with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his movement that I feel grateful that its vantage point survives. -
Theater Review | 'Summer Shorts': Quick Bites of Theater Off a Menu of One Acts
Posted: August 6th, 2007, 10:49pm GMT
Of the four pieces in Series A of this festival, two were negligible, one was earnest, and one, which initially seemed like a train wreck waiting to happen, proved quirky, distinctive and funny. -
Critic’s Choice: New DVDs
Posted: August 6th, 2007, 10:46pm GMT
The films in this Brigitte Bardot collection represent the kind of day-in, day-out work that movie stars were once obliged to pursue. -
Four Masterworks Stolen From a French Museum
Posted: August 6th, 2007, 10:00pm GMT
Five armed and masked thieves walked into a museum in Nice, France, and stole two Impressionist paintings and two canvases by Jan Brueghel the Elder. -
Still Here, by Being Stubborn, Not Mellow
Posted: August 6th, 2007, 9:55pm GMT
What do rappers lose when they get older? In the case of Bun B and Pimp C, two rappers in their 30s from Port Arthur, Tex., who perform together as UGK, the answer is, not much. -
Television Review | 'Baldwin Hills' : Posh Princes and Princesses of the Hills
Posted: August 6th, 2007, 9:49pm GMT
“Baldwin Hills” would seem to have two main goals: to give a (primarily) black audience an alternative to teenage reality shows and to break down stereotypes by offering the rest of the world documentary proof that affluent African-American enclaves like Baldwin Hills actually exist. -
Music Review | Vans Warped Tour: Punk on Parade, With Flexible Marching Orders
Posted: August 6th, 2007, 1:14am GMT
The lineups at the Vans Warped Tour reflect a thriving but decentralized genre in which established bands, rising stars and grizzled veterans seem more or less equally important. -
Mummy’s Log: Visited Scan God in Land of the Dead
Posted: August 5th, 2007, 11:45pm GMT
North Shore University Hospital is helping unveil the mysteries of a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy belonging to the Brooklyn Museum. -
TV Review | 'White Light, Black Rain': Chilling Details, 62 Years Later, of the Ground Zero in Japan
Posted: August 5th, 2007, 10:04pm GMT
The stories of survivors of the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the wrenching focal point of this documentary by Steven Okazaki. -
Books of the Times: A Celebrated Artist Dies, Then His Life Gets Difficult
Posted: August 5th, 2007, 10:04pm GMT
A painter casts a long shadow in Kate Christensen’s mischievous new novel. -
Tonight's TV Listings: What’s on Tonight
Posted: August 5th, 2007, 10:00pm GMT
7 P.M. (Bravo) INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO Michelle Pfeiffer, left, waxes philosophic about her life, career and the films she made on her ascent to stardom, from her role as Elvira Hancock, the icy arm candy of Tony Montana (Al Pacino) in “Scarface,” to her current incarnation as the shellacked Velma Von Tussle in “Hairspray.” The famously beautiful Ms. Pfeiffer also offers this nugget about filming a love scene: “It’s awkward,” she says. “Sometimes people’s wives show up. It’s like, ‘Hey, how you doin’?’ ”. -
TV Review | 'Lights! Action! Music!': In Praise of Film Scores (Didn’t You Hear Them?)
Posted: August 5th, 2007, 9:56pm GMT
This show is a fluffy, disorganized, woefully incomplete compendium of interviews and film clips about movie music. -
Bridge: The Bidding Rises to Slam, So the Defense Has a Puzzle
Posted: August 5th, 2007, 9:55pm GMT
You are on lead against a slam freely bid by your opponents. What does it mean if your partner doubles? -
Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: August 5th, 2007, 9:51pm GMT
New releases from Plies, Okkervil River, Crowded House and Bruce Hornsby. -
Connections: Reconsidering the Role of the Warrior in Our Post-Enlightenment World
Posted: August 5th, 2007, 9:48pm GMT
Throughout history warriors are revered. Except for now, it seems, and particularly in the West. -
Third in ‘Bourne’ Series Tops Weekend Box Office
Posted: August 5th, 2007, 9:33pm GMT
The thriller “The Bourne Ultimatum” sold a strong $70.2 million in tickets, giving Universal Pictures one of the strongest openings in its history. -
Dance Review | 'La Bayadère': The Bolshoi’s Whiz Kids on Display in London
Posted: August 5th, 2007, 9:29pm GMT
The Bolshoi Ballet is becoming less colossal in scale but has a much greater appetite for detail in both acting and dancing. -
Music Review | Beethoven's Akademie: Just Like Beethoven’s Big Night, but Longer
Posted: August 5th, 2007, 9:26pm GMT
The Mostly Mozart Festival presented more than two and a half hours of music, mostly drawn from the Akademie, a concert held in Vienna in 1808. -
Music Review | Beyoncé: Romance as a Struggle That She Will Win
Posted: August 5th, 2007, 9:21pm GMT
Beyoncé‘s two-hour set was a brilliant pop extravaganza that kept the songs at its center. -
Art Review | Banks Violette: Heavy Metal and Light: Always Serve Chilled
Posted: August 5th, 2007, 9:10pm GMT
The visceral heat and rage of heavy metal have been tamed and reduced to nonthreatening levels in new works by Banks Violette. -
Arts, Briefly
Posted: August 5th, 2007, 6:09pm GMT
Madonna’s adoption of a Malawian boy is delayed, Joe Scarborough may be appointed the permanent replacement for Don Imus on MSNBC and more culture news. -
Art Review | William Ranney: Creating a Myth With Canvas and Paint
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 10:57pm GMT
The Philadelphia Museum of Art offers an unabashedly nostalgic but visually delightful retrospective of William Ranney, a lively and beloved supplier of homespun imagery. -
Books of The Times: An Ocean of Air
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 10:57pm GMT
Gabrielle Walker exposes the Earth’s atmosphere for what it is, a restless, dynamic superhero, entrusted with the sacred mission of protecting our planet, nurturing life and even making love possible. -
Antiques: Brass: Roll it, Spin it or Stamp it,to Suit Your Fancy
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 10:55pm GMT
One of the small, must-see shows this summer is “A Brass Menagerie” at the Bard Graduate Center. It will make you smile. -
Art in Review
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 10:50pm GMT
“Genesis, I’m Sorry” at Greene Naftali, Dustin Yellin at Robert Miller, “Ceci N’est Pas ...” at Sara Meltzer Gallery and more. -
Inside Art: Bragging With Brocade in Baroque-Era Tapestries
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 10:48pm GMT
On the way to the Met: over-the-top tapestries. -
Underground Renaissance Man: Watch the Aesthetic Walls, Please
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 10:45pm GMT
The New York Transit Museum’s gallery in Grand Central highlights many of the lushly colored Arts and Crafts influenced mosaics designed for the city’s subways back in the late teens and 1920s. -
Art Review | Peter Young: Kandy-Colored Dot-Flake Streamline Maverick
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 10:41pm GMT
Two shows reintroduce a process-oriented formalist with a sharp painterly intelligence, a genius for color and a penchant for the tribal and spiritual. -
Theater Review | 'Election Day': Who Knew Carrying Out a Civic Duty Could Be So Tricky?
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 10:04pm GMT
This outrageous comedy by Josh Tobiessen features a couple of remember-the-name performances from a young cast. -
Dance Review | Diquis Tiquis: Shining Light on Inner Lives to Explore Them on the Stage
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 10:03pm GMT
The Costa Rican duo merge dance, theater and mime to create tableaus rich with absurdist humor that tend to spotlight the anguish of a complex interior life. -
Movie Review | 'Hot Rod': Never Pick a Fight With a Washing Machine
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 10:01pm GMT
“Hot Rod” might be called the poor man’s “Eagle vs. Shark.” Poor certainly describes the quality of the filmmaking. -
Movie Review: Life, Assembled One Room at a Time
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 10:00pm GMT
Beautifully photographed, the elliptical, often mysterious and wholly beguiling film “Colossal Youth” looks and sounds as if it were made on another planet. -
Movie Review | 'The Willow Tree': Blind Man’s Dark Paradise, Laid to Waste by the Gift of Sight
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 9:59pm GMT
“The Willow Tree” examines the traumatic shocks experienced by a blind professor of literature whose eyesight is miraculously restored. -
Movie Review | 'Blame It on Fidel': A Little Girl in the Eye of Her Family’s Political Storms
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 9:58pm GMT
Julie Gavras’s wonderful film, “Blame It on Fidel,” views its ideological conflicts through the eyes of a smart, willful child. -
Movie Review | 'If I Didn’t Care': Big Money, Big Houses and Big, Nasty Demons
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 9:57pm GMT
“If I Didn’t Care,” a noir set in the Hamptons, stokes the tempting fantasy that this elite enclave on the southeastern shore of Long Island is the seat of all evil. -
Movie Review | 'El Cantante': When the Salsa Throbs, a Singer’s Soul Is Revealed
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 9:56pm GMT
Whenever Marc Anthony takes the stage as Héctor Lavoe in “El Cantante,” he unleashes his charisma and shows that, whatever his limitations as an actor, he is a brilliant performer. -
Movie Review | 'Becoming Jane': Our Wit-Lit Heroine Avoids Marrying a Juiceless Man
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 9:53pm GMT
“Becoming Jane” is an imitation screen adaptation of an Austen-like novel that imagines the author’s romantic life at 20. -
Music Review | The St. Lawrence String Quartet: Bringing Serious Muscle to an Already Brawny Beethoven
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 9:51pm GMT
The quartet gave an almost impeccable, powerful performance of the Grosse Fuge at the Kaplan Penthouse on Wednesday. -
Dance Review | Le Corsaire: In London, Pirates of the Coliseum, With an Imperial Majesty
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 9:50pm GMT
To look for new life in the Bolshoi Ballet, this “Corsaire” proves an excellent place to start. -
Theater Review | 'Masked': A Family Torn Apart by Deception, Betrayal and War
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 9:44pm GMT
In this powerful play by Ilan Hatsor, three Palestinian brothers are locked in a life-and-death struggle over issues of deception and betrayal. -
TV Review | 'TV Review | 'The Company': Cloak-and-Dagger in All Its Charm
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 9:43pm GMT
TNT’s spicy drama about the Central Intelligence Agency harks back to the days when the lines of battle were clearly drawn, and the enemy played by the same rules and was easy to spot. -
Movie Review | 'The Bourne Ultimatum': Still Searching, but With Darker Eyes
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 9:39pm GMT
For Jason Bourne, who rises and rises again in this fantastically kinetic, propulsive film, resurrection is the name of the game, just as it is for franchises. -
Music Review | The Police: Sing Along With Sting, One More Time
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 9:26pm GMT
Reunited, the Police bypass the old battles and return to the old group dynamic. -
Arts, Briefly
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 6:51pm GMT
Italy plans to drop civil lawsuit against Getty, Dolly Parton has a record label, R. Kelly trial scheduled and more culture news.