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Media Talk: A Rare CD by Today’s Hot Boy Band: Bids Start at $160. Do I Hear $200?
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 6:00am GMT by By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
To teenage girls this summer, few things are hotter than the Jonas Brothers, and the sole album on their back list, the out-of-print “It’s About Time.”
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Jewish Channel Offers Issues, History and Offbeat Movies
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:52am GMT by By JOANNE KAUFMAN
Elie Singer has prevailed in creating a cable outlet that’s been labeled the “Jewish HBO.”
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Screen Actors Guild Is Divided Against Itself
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:50am GMT by By BROOKS BARNES
Infuriated by hard-line tactics used by SAG leaders in contract talks with studios, a less militant collection of actors has started a campaign to take over the guild.
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Media Outlets Are Seeking a Campaign Bounce of Their Own
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:48am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Voter interest in the presidential race may be soaring, but many media companies are struggling to translate coverage into repeat readers and viewers -- or revenue.
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Bridge: You Don’t Have X-Ray Vision? No Second Chance for You
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:44am GMT by By PHILLIP ALDER
Running simultaneously with the Spingold Knockout Teams at the Summer North American Bridge Championships, which finished last Sunday in Las Vegas, was the Mini Spingold I.
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Television Review | 'The Largest Chinese Restaurant in the World': 700 Orders of Moo Goo Gai Pan? Sure. Is That to Go?
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:42am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
This odd little mini-series profiles a restaurant in Hunan Province that seats 5,000 guests, employs more than 300 chefs and goes through 700 chickens and 200 snakes in a week.
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Music Review: A Quartet Investigates a Mutant Jazz Landscape
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:41am GMT by By NATE CHINEN
The Vijay Iyer Quartet trafficks in a surging, complex, mutant strain of post-bop, steeped in portent and incident.
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Music Review: A Queen of Country Holds Court in Concert
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:41am GMT by By JON CARAMANICA
Ms. Lynn was in moments discomfitingly frail, yet her once radical songs proved durable.
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Music Review: Floating, Personalizing and Performing
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:40am GMT by By STEVE SMITH
Everyone knows about the three B’s of classical music: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. The pianist David Holzman introduced a new wrinkle with three A’s: austere, abstract and academic.
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Music Review: Artful Dodging Between Mozart and Webern
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:39am GMT by By JAMES R. OESTREICH
Surely, it can’t have been the first time in the 42-year history of the Mostly Mozart Festival that anyone has booed.
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Dance Review: Energizing Modern Dance With a Martial-Arts Kick
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:38am GMT by By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
Much of DanceBrazil’s performance looked not like real dancing so much as a classroom-type demonstration of bravura technique.
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Solzhenitsyn, Literary Giant Who Defied Soviets, Dies at 89
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:35am GMT by By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN
The Nobel Prize-winning author, whose literary struggles revealed the afflictions of Soviet Communism, has died.
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Arts, Briefly: Christina Applegate Battling Cancer
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:33am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
The actress Christina Applegate, 36, has been told she has breast cancer and is expected to make a full recovery, the Associated Press reported.
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Arts, Briefly: City Ballet to Announce Winter Season
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:33am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
The New York City Ballet’s 2009 winter repertory season, to run Jan. 6 through March 1, will include three world premieres among its highlights.
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Arts, Briefly: ‘The Dark Knight’ Triumphs Again
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:32am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
For the third week, the Warner Brothers Batman movie “The Dark Knight” took the top spot at the weekend box office.
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Arts, Briefly: Theater Notes for the New Season
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:32am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
News about the new season at the Vineyard Theater and two festivals at 59E59 Theaters.
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Arts, Briefly: Shia Labeouf Injury May Affect Film’s Story
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:32am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
The actor Shia LaBeouf, who was injured in a car accident last month, was hurt more seriously than initial news accounts suggested, The Associated Press reported.
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Arts, Briefly: A Homecoming for Madonna
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:31am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
Madonna attended the Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan to introduce “I Am Because We Are,” her documentary about orphans in Malawi.
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Television Review: Girls, Gunfire and Despair: Senior Year for 4 Iraqi Boys
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:31am GMT by By MIKE HALE
This film follows four Iraqis -- a Sunni, a Shiite, a Kurd and a Christian -- through their senior year of high school in 2006-7.
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Music Review: From Handel, Faithlessness and Devotion
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:30am GMT by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
The countertenor David Daniels sang magnificently in the title role of Handel’s “Radamisto,” the Santa Fe Opera’s first presentation of the work and Mr. Daniels’s company debut.
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Abroad: With Flemish Nationalism on the Rise, Belgium Teeters on the Edge
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:29am GMT by By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
In its escalating dysfunction Belgium demonstrates the inextricable link between culture and nationhood.
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The TV Watch: Eco-Emeril on Planet Green, With Mayo and Inconsistency
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:28am GMT by By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
On Planet Green, a new channel that measures good citizenship by the carbon footprint, Emeril Lagasse leaves a huge caloric wake.
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A Textbook Example of Ranking Artworks
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:24am GMT by By PATRICIA COHEN
The economist David Galenson is convinced that the type of economic analysis that explains the $4-plus gas at the pump can also explain the greatest artists of the last 100 or so years.
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Books of The Times: A Dead Polygamist Leaves Lots of Wives and One Big Mystery
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:22am GMT by By JANET MASLIN
There are many indications that David Ebershoff conducted prodigious research to write his novel about polygamy.
