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Architecture Review: Olympic Stadium With a Design to Remember
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 11:26am GMT by By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
The National Stadium reaffirms architecture’s civilizing role in a nation that is struggling to forge a new identity out of a maelstrom of inner conflict.
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Reverence for Solzhenitsyn, but No National Mourning
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 5:21am GMT by By CLIFFORD J. LEVY
The response raised the question of whether Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s work still resonates in today’s Russia.
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Music Review | 'La Clemenza di Tito': The Quality of Mercy, Explained in an Opera
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:40am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN
Edward Gardner led a polished and lucid performance of Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” on Sunday at the Rose Theater as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival.
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Theater Review | 'Summer Shorts 2, Series A': Characters on the Brink in a Festival of One-Acts
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:40am GMT by By WILBORN HAMPTON
Neil Koenigsberg’s funny and touching “On a Bench” is by far the best of the four one-acts in Series A of the festival Summer Shorts 2.
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Music Review | 'Rock the Bells': The Comforts of Hip-Hop Past, With Pals and Collaborators Along for the Ride
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:39am GMT by By JON CARAMANICA
This tour thrilled with reunion performances by two of the most innovative hip-hop acts of the early 1990s: the Pharcyde and A Tribe Called Quest.
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TV Review | 'From G’s to Gents': Being a Thug Ain’t Smart, It Ain’t Chic, It Ain’t Etiquette
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:38am GMT by By MIKE HALE
The evil genius of “From G’s to Gents,” a new reality show on MTV, is that it encourages exactly the kind of behavior it pretends to abhor.
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TV Review | 'Food Detectives': Private Eye for the Food Guy: Cuisine Sleuths on the Case
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:37am GMT by By MIKE HALE
Those who complain that the Food Network’s best days are in the not-too-recent past will only feel more disillusioned after watching Ted Allen’s new show, “Food Detectives.”
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Theater Review | 'Animals Out of Paper': Works Well With Paper, Has Trouble With Life
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:33am GMT by By ANITA GATES
Rajiv Joseph’s “Animals Out of Paper” is alternately wrenching and funny.
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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: ‘The Inglorious Bastards’
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:32am GMT by By DAVE KEHR
Now that Quentin Tarantino’s remake of the 1978 action film, “The Inglorious Bastards,” may finally be produced, a three-disc edition of the original comes to DVD.
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Arts, Briefly: Football Arrives With a Touchdown
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:31am GMT by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by Julie Bloom
Preseason football coverage lifted NBC to No. 1 in the ratings on Sunday night.
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Arts, Briefly: Outrage Over Cover-Up
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:31am GMT by Compiled by Julie Bloom
A painting in the Palazzo Chigi in Rome, where the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi holds news conferences, has been altered to cover a female breast, The Guardian reported.
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Arts, Briefly: Big Sales for Twilight
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:30am GMT by By JULIE BOSMAN; Compiled by Julie Bloom
“Breaking Dawn” by Stephenie Meyer, sold 1.3 million copies in its first 24 hours on sale, according to the publisher, Hachette Book Group.
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Arts, Briefly: Opera News Awards
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:30am GMT by Compiled by Julie Bloom
The winners of the awards are the sopranos Natalie Dessay and Renée Fleming, the mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, the baritone Sherrill Milnes and the composer John Adams.
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Arts, Briefly: Morgan Freeman Seriously Hurt in Crash
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:29am GMT by Compiled by Julie Bloom
The Oscar-winning actor was injured in a car accident on Sunday near his home in Tallahatchie County in Mississippi, The Associated Press reported.
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Arts, Briefly: Jacksons to Reunite
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:29am GMT by Compiled by Julie Bloom
With the exception of Michael Jackson, the Jackson brothers have confirmed that they will attend the Urban Awards next month, The Associated Press reported.
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Arts, Briefly: Sale of Grand Theft Is Halted in Thailand
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:28am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
Sales of the video game were halted in Thailand after a teenager said he had killed a taxi driver while trying to recreate a scene from the game, The Times of London reported.
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Arts, Briefly: Fall for Dance Lineup Announced
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:28am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
The festival, which will run from Sept. 17 to 27 at City Center in Manhattan, will focus on young choreographers on the rise and will feature dance companies and choreographers from around the world.
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Arts, Briefly: Dreamworks to Meet With Disability Groups
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:27am GMT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY; Compiled by Julie Bloom
DreamWorks executives have agreed to meet with representatives of disabilities organizations to discuss the portrayal of a developmentally handicapped character in the coming movie “Tropic Thunder.”
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Arts, Briefly: ‘White Christmas’ Coming to Broadway
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:27am GMT by By JULIE BOSMAN; Compiled by Julie Bloom
A new stage adaptation of Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” is coming to Broadway in November, the producers announced.
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Theater Review | 'All the Rage': All God’s Children Got Guns, and a Few Axes to Grind, Too
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:26am GMT by By ANDY WEBSTER
For those who relish a good wallow in depravity, “All the Rage,” a play by Keith Reddin, answers the need.
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‘Hair’ Revival: A Time Warp for Tears and Fun
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:26am GMT by By PATRICIA COHEN
Will the latest incarnation of the musical “Hair” be able to capture the feeling of immediacy and relevance it had 41 years ago?
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East Village, Before the Gentry
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:24am GMT by By COLIN MOYNIHAN
A book of photography documents a lost time and place: Tompkins Square Park in the 1980s.
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America’s Got a Yen for Summer Talent Show
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:20am GMT by By BILL CARTER
The days of creating big reality-show hits in the summer may be over. Still, at least one expert in the field, a gentleman named Simon Cowell, would beg to differ.
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Books of The Times: Lessing Looks Back on Shadows and Parents
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:19am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Doris Lessing once declared that “fiction makes a better job of the truth” than straightforward reminiscence. This observation does not apply to her latest book.
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Music: Schumann and Fantasy at Festival in Santa Fe
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:18am GMT by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
The five-week Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is fortunate to have the attractive and acoustically vibrant St. Francis Auditorium as its principal setting.