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Bridge: Bringing the Art of Bidding to Botswana
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 10:24am GMT by By PHILLIP ALDER
John Pain, the manager of the English Bridge Union’s education department, traveled to Botswana, to coach teachers and tournament directors so they could spread the message of bridge.
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TV Decoder: Ratings: Barack Obama, and All the Rest
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 9:20am GMT by By BENJAMIN TOFF
Senator Barack Obama may have earned record-breaking ratings for his acceptance speech.
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Theater: Gloom (and Rain) Set Tone for Plays at Festival
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 9:08am GMT by By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
The British writers presenting work this year at the Traverse Theater, the locus of much of the most ambitious playwriting at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, were in a gloomy frame of mind.
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Music: Some Kind of Refined Monster
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 8:26am GMT by By BEN RATLIFF
To move ahead, Metallica looks back, with an album evoking its mid-’80s sound.
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Jeannette Eyerly, Writer for Teenage Girls, Dies at 100
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 5:39am GMT by By WILLIAM GRIMES
Ms. Eyerly was one of the first writers for young adults to deal with themes like unwanted pregnancy, alcoholism and drugs.
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Movie Review | 'Disaster Movie': Chipmunks With Rabies? That Is So L L Not Cool J
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:29am GMT by By NATHAN LEE
“Disaster Movie,” the latest disposable parody of disposable Hollywood movies, has a shelf life of about five minutes, tops.
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Movie Review | 'College': Student Weekend of Raunch and Geek Empowerment
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:28am GMT by By LAURA KERN
Pity today’s teenage audience. Their latest cinematic temptation is yet another tiresome fraternities-are-wild offering.
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Entertainment Events
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:27am GMT
Dance and music events.
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Music Review | Raphael Saadiq and Janelle Monáe: Multiple Visions of Soul Music’s Past and Future
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:25am GMT by By NATE CHENIN
Raphael Saadiq, a retro-soul specialist, and Janelle Monáe, a cyber-soul fabulist, offered multiple visions of the music’s past and future at the Highline Ballroom on Wednesday.
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Music Review | Simone Dinnerstein: A Berlin Concert, Recorded and Then Partly Recreated
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:25am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein played a short recital billed as a record release party for her second CD, “The Berlin Concert,” Thursday at Le Poisson Rouge.
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Music Review: Childlike Voice, Grown-Up Issues, Constant Dancing
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:24am GMT by By JON CARAMANICA
At Le Poisson Rouge on Thursday night, the Swedish singer Lykke Li conveyed everything important with her body, shaking with a ferocity that was always on.
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Dealer Who Sold Portrait Joins Leonardo Debate
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:22am GMT by By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
Kate Ganz, the dealer who sold the portrait of a young woman, has come forward to say that she does not think it is by the Renaissance master.
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Television Review: 2 Men to the Rescue After Woman’s Trial by Fire
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:22am GMT by By ANITA GATES
“For the Love of Grace,” an attractive but lifeless Hallmark Channel movie, operates on the oversimplified premise that one traumatic event can destroy people and another can make them whole.
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Arts, Briefly: Pay Cuts at Smithsonian
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:20am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
The Smithsonian Institution plans to cut the salaries of its highest-paid employees.
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Arts, Briefly: Michael Jackson Is 50
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:19am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
On Friday the king of pop turned 50.
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Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:18am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
A Christian version of the popular video game Guitar Hero will arrive in stores in the United States next month.
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Arts, Briefly: Injured Valkyrie Extras Are Offered Settlement
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:18am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
A German film studio has offered to negotiate a settlement with a dozen extras who were injured on the set of the movie “Valkyrie.”
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Arts, Briefly: New Book for Laureate
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:16am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish writer, published a new book in Turkey on Friday.
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Arts, Briefly: Duchovny in Rehab
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:15am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
David Duchovny has entered a rehabilitation center for sex addiction.
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Arts, Briefly: Sydney Orchestra Admits to Fakery
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:15am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
The orchestra mimed its entire performance at the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in 2000 in Sydney, Australia.
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Studio War Involving ‘Watchmen’ Heats Up
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:15am GMT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY
The legal brawl continues between lawyers for Warner Brothers and lawyers for 20th Century Fox over the rights to “Watchmen.”
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A Writer Enjoying a Revival After a Very Long First Run
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:13am GMT by By PATRICIA COHEN
The York Theater Company’s decision to fully revive “Enter Laughing: The Musical” is something of a validation to its author, Joseph Stein.
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Chinese Extravaganza Uses Valley as a Backdrop
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:12am GMT by By DAVID BARBOZA
“Zen Shaolin” is a grand spectacle that is part cultural event, part tourist attraction, with a dash of Hollywood and an intriguing blend of high and pop culture.
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Movie Review | 'Babylon A.D.': Savior or Sinner? It Can Be Tough to Tell
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:10am GMT by By A. O. SCOTT
The only explicable thing about “Babylon A.D.” is that it was not screened in advance for critics.
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Movie Review | 'Youssou N’Dour: Return to Gorée' and 'Bethânia: Music Is Perfume': A Different Drum
Posted: August 29th, 2008, 10:00pm GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
The music documentaries “Youssou N’Dour: Return to Gorée” and “Maria Bethânia: Music Is Perfume” are mellow as buttermilk and twice as nutritious.
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Movie Review | 'I Served the King of England': Hot Dogs to Haute Cuisine, Then Back Down Again
Posted: August 29th, 2008, 5:22pm GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
There is hardly a moment in this film in which you are not aware that its absurdist view of the human condition was shaped by traumatic 20th-century events.
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Movie Review | 'Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild': Gay Again
Posted: August 28th, 2008, 11:56pm GMT by By NATHAN LEE
There’s nothing generic about “Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!” This wretched gaysploitation number is, in fact, the worst gay sequel ever.
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Movie Review | 'My Mexican Shivah': Jewish Ritual and Mariachi Bands
Posted: August 28th, 2008, 11:43pm GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
What raises this uninhibited hybrid above C level is a director, Alejandro Springall, with a flair for the surreal and a cast that knows its way around a stereotype.
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Movie Review | 'Year of the Fish': A Chinatown Fairy Tale
Posted: August 28th, 2008, 11:17pm GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Year of the Fish” updates an ancient Chinese version of the “Cinderella” story with imagination, charm and just the right amount of sweetness.
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Ralph Young, Sandler & Young Singer, Is Dead at 90
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 6:00am GMT by By FRANK PRIAL
Mr. Young was a singer best known as the English-language half of the popular multilingual duo Sandler & Young.
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Jerry Ford, 83, Man Behind the Models, Dies
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 5:59am GMT by By ERIC WILSON
Mr. Ford, with his wife, Eileen, established one of the most recognizable modeling agencies in the world.
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Tad Mosel, TV Dramatist, Dies at 86
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 5:38am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Mosel’s dramatic scripts for live television were regularly featured in prime-time programming in the 1950s, and his play “All the Way Home” won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1961.
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Fred Crane, Scarlett’s Suitor in the Film ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Dies at 90
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 5:34am GMT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mr. Crane was one of Scarlett O’Hara’s twin beaus and spoke the opening line in “Gone With the Wind.”
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Laurence Urdang, Language Expert Who Edited Dictionaries, Dies at 81
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 5:33am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Urdang was a prolific lexicographer who had a hand in more than 100 dictionaries and other reference books.
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Arts, Briefly: A New Judge Joins ‘Idol’ Panel
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 4:15am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER; Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
“American Idol” is adding a fourth judge: Kara DioGuardi, a songwriter and producer.
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Where Tradition Has Ruled, a Home for Contemporary Art
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:17am GMT by By SOMINI SENGUPTA
The art that Anupam Poddar and his mother have collected will be exhibited in a new space in what will be, in effect, India’s first contemporary art museum.
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New DVDs: His Wicked, Wicked Ways Go West
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:00am GMT by By DAVE KEHR
Errol Flynn, Hollywood’s unruly swashbuckler, is also a forgotten hero of the western.
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Books of The Times: Behold the Kind-of Hero, in a Sort-of Civil War
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:56am GMT by By RICHARD EDER
“Man in the Dark” is the latest product of Paul Auster’s more than 20-year career as the most meta of American metafictional writers.
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Theater Review | 'Hamlet': ‘Hamlet’ Outdoors: The Setting’s the Thing
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:55am GMT by By ANDY WEBSTER
Gorilla Rep’s production was presented on a gently sloping stretch of grass in Fort Tryon Park, and the ingenuity of its staging was impressive.
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Music Review: Distinctive Sounds Arise Amid Two Different Spaces
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:54am GMT by By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
The venerable Emerson String Quartet is accustomed to performing in glittering concert halls. But it seemed entirely comfortable at Joe’s Pub.
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Music Review: A Voice That Smolders but Still Plays It Cool
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:53am GMT by By NATE CHINEN
Through much of her show, Melody Gardot weighed vulnerability against seductiveness, without really taking sides.
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Music Review | Roots of American Music Festival: From Back-Porch Ease to a Taste of the Wild
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:52am GMT by By NATE CHINEN
The Roots of American Music Festival, held last weekend in Damrosch Park, adopted a flexible definition of roots music in an effort to build bridges and audiences.
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Dance Review: A Shot of Political Urgency on an Outdoor Double Bill
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:52am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS
Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely expressed outrage at the current American political climate; David Dorfman Dance filled out the second half of the show on Thursday night.
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Arts, Briefly: Warner Brothers Sues Over Indian Film
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:51am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
Warner Brothers has filed a lawsuit over an Indian film, “Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors,” because the studio says the title is too similar to that of the Harry Potter series.
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Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:50am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
Actor John Turturro will be the the New School for Drama’s distinguished artist in residence for the 2008-9 academic year.
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Arts, Briefly: Bob Marley Statue for Serbia
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:50am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
A statue of Bob Marley was unveiled in a Serbian village during a rock festival on Saturday.
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Arts, Briefly: Portrait of Murderer Upsets British
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:49am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
The use of a murderer’s portrait in a video at an event in Beijing has drawn outrage from the mayor of London and the British prime minister.
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Arts, Briefly: Olympics Ratings Set Record
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:49am GMT by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
NBC’s coverage of the Summer Olympics was the most-viewed event in American television history, according to data provided by Nielsen Media Research.
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Arts, Briefly: McCartney Sets Concert in Israel
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:45am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
More than 40 years after the Beatles first proposed a concert in Israel, a date has been set for Paul McCartney to play there.
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Arts, Briefly: Sean Connery Unveils His Autobiography
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:44am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
Sean Connery celebrated his 78th birthday on Monday with a trip to the Edinburgh International Book Festival to promote his autobiography, “Being a Scot.”
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Music Review: Giving Chamber Repertory Some Dashes of Adventure
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:43am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN
The Zukofsky Quartet seems intent on looking past the favorites of the quartet repertory and exploring works that may not yet have had a fair hearing.
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Television Review: English Lad, Welsh Lass and Cheeky Pals
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:40am GMT by By GINIA BELLAFANTE
“Gavin & Stacey,” which begins Tuesday on BBC America, became a hit in Britain resting on the rather simple premise that no two people come together alone.
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A World of Imports in TV’s New Season
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:38am GMT by By BILL CARTER
Among the new entries on the fall television lineup and the lists of projects in development, a significant percentage started with an idea hatched in some distant locale.
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Art Review: Layers to Comment on Layers of Imagery
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:35am GMT by By KAREN ROSENBERG
Artists male and female, young and old, famous and fledgling are all represented in the Met’s “Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium Since 1960.”
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Antsy Adolescents Romp at Edinburgh Festivals
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 9:27am GMT by By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Significant shows at the Edinburgh International Festival and the Festival Fringe considered the anxieties and preoccupations of contemporary youth.
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John Russell, Art Critic for The Times, Dies at 89
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 8:17am GMT by By WILLIAM GRIMES
Mr. Russell contributed elegant, erudite art criticism for more than a half century to The Sunday Times of London and The New York Times.
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An Architect Unshackled by Limits of the Real World
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 7:03am GMT by By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
These are lonely times for Lebbeus Woods, the irreverent architect whose dark and moody renderings made him a cult figure among students and academics.
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Media Talk: Caucasus War Draws Interest
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:52am GMT by By PRADNYA JOSHI
How did the Russia-Georgia conflict draw big coverage in a busy news week? The media placed it in a cold war context in terms Americans could grasp.
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Advertising: America’s Commercials at the Olympics
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:52am GMT by By STUART ELLIOTT
A roundup of the Olympic Games from an ad-watcher’s point of view. Some ads were worthy of gold, while others deserved some baser metals.
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Arts, Briefly: Lavigne Show Goes On
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:39am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
Just days after the government of Malaysia ordered the promoters of a concert by the pop singer Avril Lavigne to be postponed, the decision has been reversed.
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Bridge: At Senior Swiss Teams, Victory by Just 2 Points
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:38am GMT by By PHILLIP ALDER
Senior events, for players 55 and older, will continue to get stronger.
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Theater Review | 'Cymbeline': The Plot’s a Tangle; Its Setting, Not at All
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:36am GMT by By BEN BRANTLEY
Nature takes its course in high style in the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s inspiriting production of “Cymbeline.”
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On TV, Timing Is Everything at the Olympics
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:34am GMT by By BILL CARTER
Getting U.S. stars like Michael Phelps to perform live in prime time was just one of the moves that set up the spectacular success NBC achieved in the Beijing Games.
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Dance Review: A Mystical Merger of Traditions, Past and Present
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:34am GMT by By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
It was too bad that the last half of the closing performance comprised the three dreariest works of the Erasing Borders festival.
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Music Review: A Spot of Mexico in Upper Manhattan
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:31am GMT by By JON CARAMANICA
The Unidos Tour featured, among others, the wildly popular tejano-norteño group Intocable and the genre-tweaking duranguense group Los Horóscopos de Durango.
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Arts, Briefly: Hot Lixx Rocks Finland
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:28am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
An American who goes by the stage name Hot Lixx Hulahan won the 2008 Air Guitar Championship in Oulu, Finland.
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Arts, Briefly: Casting Notes
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:26am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
Second Stage Theater has found the three main dudes for its production of “Boys’ Life.”
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Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:26am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
The New York-bound production of “Vanities — A New Musical” announced Feb. 2 as the date of its first preview.
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Arts, Briefly: Biden Book Is a Hit
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:24am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
“Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics,” a memoir by Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., has become a best-selling title.
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Arts, Briefly: Hey, Enfants: Allons!
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:24am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
The French Institute Alliance Française has announced the lineup for “Crossing the Line 2008,” a festival of music, dance, theater and the visual arts.
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Arts, Briefly: ‘Thunder’ Stays on Top
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:24am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
The controversial comedy “Tropic Thunder” held onto first place at the box office for the second weekend.
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Arts, Briefly: Ed McMahon Avoids Foreclosure on Home
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:23am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
The television personality Ed McMahon has finally found a buyer for his six-bedroom home in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Arts, Briefly: Madonna Gets Political
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:22am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
Madonna kicked off her Sticky & Sweet Tour at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.
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Arts, Briefly: Hopper Site Endangered
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:21am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
A zoning decision in the town of Truro, Mass., could have an affect on a view once enjoyed by the painter Edward Hopper.
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Music Review: A Sense of Loss Pervades the Mostly Mozart Finale
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:19am GMT by By STEVE SMITH
Loss and transformation were the themes of this year’s Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, and the final program offered some of both.
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Books of The Times: A Texas Babe to Join the Brethren (Any Dissenting Opinions?)
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:10am GMT by By JANET MASLIN
An anomalously funny thing happened to Christopher Buckley on his way to the “Supreme Courtship”: nothing funny occurred to him.
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Helping War Widows on Road Ahead
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:05am GMT by By TIM ARANGO
A new documentary and a Web site offer compassion and practical information for war widows.
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Dance Review: Thanks to Chopin, Isadora Duncan’s Hop, Skip and a Jump to the Masters
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 4:03am GMT by By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
Dances by Isadora, an all-female group, performed on the Lawn at Battery Park as part of the Downtown Dance Festival.
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Media Talk: Can Hollywood Help LinkedIn?
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 3:23am GMT by By BROOKS BARNES
As LinkedIn struggles to remain relevant in an ever more socially networked world, the Internet company has found a constituency that might need its help.
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Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: August 24th, 2008, 9:11pm GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
New releases from the Game, B. B. King and Solange.
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Leroy Sievers, 53, Journalist Who Wrote of Cancer Battle, Dies
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 6:06am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Sievers was a television news producer who covered more than a dozen wars but became best known to the public as he chronicled his illness for NPR in a blog called “My Cancer.”
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Hollywood Joins Memphis for a Farewell to Isaac Hayes
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 6:06am GMT by By SHAILA DEWAN
Actresses, Scientologists, musicians, politicians and Memphis residents paid tribute to singer Isaac Hayes.
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Dorival Caymmi, Singer of Brazil, Is Dead at 94
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 6:03am GMT by By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Mr. Caymmi, a Brazilian singer and songwriter, helped lay the foundations of bossa nova.
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Theater Review | Summer Shorts 2, Series B: The Stage Is Alive With the Sound of Cells
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:31am GMT by By WILBORN HAMPTON
“PeopleSpeak,” a witty and acerbic play, is the best of Series B of the Summer Shorts 2 festival at 59E59 Theaters.
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Television Review: Searching for Justice, Settling for Truth
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:31am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
“The Judge and the General,” on the PBS series “P.O.V.,” follows the efforts of a Chilean judge to bring the dictator Augusto Pinochet to justice for some of the crimes committed by his regime.
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Music: Prokofiev, a Russian in Exile Who Became a Soviet at Home
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:30am GMT by By STEVE SMITH
Most of the concerts at the Bard Music Festival on Saturday and Sunday centered on a single issue: What effect did returning to Russia have on the composer’s music and career?
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Music Review | The Gaslight Anthem: Telling Stories Inside Stories, in Songs With Shades of Punk and Pop
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:30am GMT by By JON CARAMANICA
The Gaslight Anthem brought rich, punk storytelling and shades of another Jersey export to the Knitting Factory on Saturday.
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Fox Is Allowed to Press Warner Over Rights to ‘Watchmen’
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:28am GMT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY
The dark heroes of Warner Brothers’ “Watchmen,” set for release next March, have a new problem on their hands: A federal judge has ruled that they may belong to 20th Century Fox.
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Theater Review | 'Elizabeth Rex': Shakespeare Cast Party by Royal Command
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:28am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
There’s a ripping good performance taking place in a barn on West 21st Street in Manhattan. The play is “Elizabeth Rex.”
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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: Larisa Shepitko
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:27am GMT by By DAVE KEHR
Two harsh but hauntingly beautiful fables — “Wings,” released in 1966, and “The Ascent,” from 1977 — are the best-known films of the director Larisa Shepitko.
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Music Review | Ron Miles and Bill Frisell: Two’s a (Quietly Harmonious) Crowd
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:25am GMT by By NATE CHINEN
Trumpeter Ron Miles and guitarist Bill Frisell evinced their uncommon musical rapport at the Jazz Standard on Thursday.
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Video Game Review: A Conquer-the-World Strategy Game That’s at Home in the Living Room
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:25am GMT by By SETH SCHIESEL
Melding intellectual depth with a relatively easy-to-grasp graphical presentation, Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution is by far the best strategy game to grace a living room console.
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Arts, Briefly: Rhode Island Gallery Nears Completion
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:21am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
Construction continues on the Chace Center, the Rhode Is
