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Movie Review | 'What We Do Is Secret': In Search of Posthumous Adulation

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 11:24pm GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

“What We Do Is Secret” reveals its hero, Darby Crash, as a disaffected egotist and a magnet for needy weirdoes.

Movie Review | 'Spirit of the Marathon': On the Run

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 11:16pm GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS NATHAN LEE

A symphony of snapping sinews and pumping thighs, “Spirit of the Marathon” makes you feel like a slug.

Movie Review | 'Passing Poston': Bearing Witness to a Historical Disgrace

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 11:07pm GMT by By NATHAN LEE

“Passing Poston” recollects one of the most shameful episodes in United States history: the forced internment of American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II.

Movie Review | 'The Forgotten Woman': Stigmatized by Society

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 10:59pm GMT by By NATHAN LEE

“The Forgotten Woman,” about the marginalization of widows in India, has visual beauty, graceful compassion and understated anger.

Movie Review | 'Last Stop for Paul': An Arrival for the Dearly Departed

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 10:47pm GMT by By NATHAN LEE

“Last Stop for Paul” follows two goofy dudes, Charlie (Neil Mandt) and Cliff (Marc Carter), as they gallivant around the globe in search of adventure.

Steal This Hook? D.J. Skirts Copyright Law

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 2:50pm GMT by By ROBERT LEVINE

The D.J. Girl Talk’s rising profile has put him at the forefront of a group of musicians who are challenging the traditional restrictions of copyright law.

Design Notebook: And Now, to Try and Catch the Wind

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 7:43am GMT by By ALICE RAWSTHORN

Democratic Ecology, an eco-friendly line of products by the renowned designer Philippe Starck, will include products like windmills and solar panels.

Notes on the Environment at Mostly Mozart Festival

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 7:40am GMT by By JULIE BLOOM

The grief that runs through Mozart’s Requiem is most often associated with human life, but two of the works in this year’s Mostly Mozart Festival explore a different kind of loss: environmental.

Books of The Times: Coldblooded Commerce in Coldblooded Contraband

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:58am GMT by By JANET MASLIN

In “The Lizard King,” Bryan Christy dissects the global trade in reptile trafficking.

Music Review | Concerto Italiano: Period Instruments Played With a Sense of Roman Brio

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:58am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

On Monday and Tuesday at the Rose Theater the Mostly Mozart Festival presented Concerto Italiano, a Roman ensemble founded in 1984.

Music Review | Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra: A Young Man Pays a Visit to New York

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:57am GMT by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

Lionel Bringuier made a good first impression in his New York debut on Tuesday night, conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall.

Theater Review | 'Twelve Ophelias': Get Thee to a Pool, Girlfriend

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:57am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER

“Twelve Ophelias,” a free summer show outdoors at the McCarren Park Pool, is too fragmentary to be much more than a curiosity.

Bridge: Eau-de-Cologne Pre-Empt Leads to a Victory

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:56am GMT by By PHILLIP ALDER

The winners of the Open Swiss Teams on the final day, July 27, at the Summer North American Bridge Championships in Las Vegas also led after the first day.

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Dance Review | Monica Bill Barnes & Company: Dancing to the ‘Jailhouse Rock’ in the Wide-Open Spaces of Sightseer Land

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:55am GMT by By ALASTAIR MACAULAY

Monica Bill Barnes & Company put on a site-specific dance performance at the River to River Festival on Tuesday.

Theater Review | 'Suspicious Package': The Price of Admission Includes a Starring Role

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:54am GMT by By ANDY WEBSTER

Scavenger hunts, cinema, the game of Clue, video and Microsoft’s Zune media player converge in “Suspicious Package,” a distinctly 21st-century form of participatory theater.

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Music Review | American Idols Live: For the Latest ‘American Idol’ Finalists, Another 15 Minutes of Fame

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:53am GMT by By JON CARAMANICA

Patriotism and a few big notes were on display at the American Idols Live concert on Tuesday night.

Arts, Briefly: Talent Scores Big

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:52am GMT by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

“America’s Got Talent,” on NBC, won a resounding victory in the ratings on Tuesday, attracting 12.4 million viewers from 9 to 11 p.m., according to Nielsen’s estimates.

Arts, Briefly: Flip-Flop at the Top

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:52am GMT by By BEN SISARIO; Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

The top two acts on last week’s Billboard chart swapped places this week. Sugarland’s “Love on the Inside” (Mercury Nashville) rose one spot to No. 1.

Arts, Briefly: A Missing Guitar

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:52am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

First the equipment for Iggy Pop and the Stooges was stolen; now the members of Iron Maiden are missing a guitar.

Arts, Briefly: Movie Wins R Rating

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:52am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

Kevin Smith, the director of the movies “Clerks” and “Chasing Amy,” has won an appeal to lower the rating for his new comedy from NC-17 to R.

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Arts, Briefly: ‘Osage County’ Will Go to the Big Screen

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:51am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

The award-winning Broadway play “August: Osage County” will become a movie, Playbill has reported.

Arts, Briefly: A Reading for Dissidents

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:50am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

On Thursday, the eve of the opening of the Beijing Olympics, the PEN Center will present a night of readings dedicated to dissident Chinese writers.

Arts, Briefly: First Shakespeare Theater Discovered

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:50am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

Archaeologists in London have unearthed the remains of what is believed to be one of the earliest playhouses in the city and the first to present a Shakespeare play.

Arts, Briefly: Steven Tyler Memoir

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:50am GMT by By JULIE BOSMAN; Compiled by Julie Bloom

Ecco, a division of HarperCollins, has acquired the rights to a memoir by Steven Tyler, below, the 60-year-old lead singer of Aerosmith. The book will go into Mr. Tyler’s childhood in the Bronx, his music career, his relationship with his four children “and all of the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll imaginable,” the publisher said in a statement on Wednesday. Daniel Halperin, the publisher of Ecco, who has described himself as an avid fan of Aerosmith since the 1970s, will edit the book, which is to be published in 2009.

Music Review | Greg Osby: A Progressive Who Knows How to Be Here Now

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:49am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

The alto saxophonist Greg Osby has routinely been assessed over the last 20 years as a jazz progressive, the sort of musician who constantly pushes forward.

Public Theater Names New Executive Director

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:47am GMT by By JULIE BOSMAN

In his last post at the Atlantic Theater Company, Andrew D. Hamingson ushered “Spring Awakening” to Broadway.

Music Review | Eddie Vedder: He Sings, He Broods, He Jams as a Solo

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:43am GMT by By BEN RATLIFF

Eddie Vedder’s concert at the United Palace on Tuesday lacked swing, artifice, lightness, whatever could add some emulsion to two hours of brooding and righteousness.