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Music Review: Cue the Shrieking Girls for the Band of Their Moment
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 10:43am GMT by By JON CARAMANICA
There is little point in listening to the Jonas Brothers independent of a horde of preteenage girls, like the ones who made up most of the crowd at this concert.
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Music: Jersey City Serenades Miss Liberty With a New Rock Festival
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 6:14am GMT by By NATE CHINEN
The All Points West rock festival was extremely well organized for a maiden effort. But almost every pleasure point came with a trade-off.
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Arts, Briefly: Ibsen at Irish Repertory
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 5:56am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BOSMAN
The Irish Repertory Theater will open its season with “The Master Builder” by Henrik Ibsen.
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Mahmoud Darwish, Leading Palestinian Poet, Is Dead at 67
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 5:42am GMT by By ETHAN BRONNER
Mr. Darwish’s prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting.
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Bridge: A Rich Man in Las Vegas, Trying His Luck at Bridge
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 4:01am GMT by By PHILLIP ALDER
Warren E. Buffett, the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha, used to compete in a number of tournaments, but when online bridge became easy, he found that more convenient.
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Books of The Times: Thanks to Today’s Global Youth, a Rosy Tomorrow?
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 4:00am GMT by By JANET MASLIN
“The Way We’ll Be” is John Zogby’s blue-sky assessment of our prospects for the future.
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Music Review: Quote Him, Promote Him, Start Singing Him Now
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:59am GMT by By STEVE SMITH
Everyone knows that all the world’s a stage, but the current season at Glimmerglass Opera suggests a variant: All the stage’s a Globe.
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Connections: Voodoo and New Orleans: Two Cultures of Permeable Boundaries
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:59am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Boundaries between life and death seem permeable in the humid heat of New Orleans.
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Arts, Briefly: A Different Tune for Imus
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:53am GMT by By JACQUES STEINBERG; Compiled by JULIE BOSMAN
New West Records plans to release “The Imus Ranch Record,” in which 13 artists selected by Don Imus perform cover versions of songs chosen by Mr. Imus.
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Arts, Briefly: Unstoppable: Iron Maiden
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:53am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BOSMAN
Iron Maiden has asked to be removed from consideration for an award, BBC News reported.
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Arts, Briefly: ‘Dark Knight’ Stays on Top
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:52am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BOSMAN
“The Dark Knight” earned an estimated $26 million over the weekend, giving it top honors for the fourth consecutive week.
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Arts, Briefly: Seacrest Name on New Year’s Special
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:51am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BOSMAN
Ryan Seacrest, the heir apparent to Dick Clark, has been given an official role in the annual New Year’s Eve special on ABC.
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Arts, Briefly: Fort Ticonderoga in Financial Crunch
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:51am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BOSMAN
The trustees for Fort Ticonderoga, the historic site in upstate New York, are considering the sale of valuable artifacts to escape a financial crunch, according to The Associated Press.
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Arts, Briefly: Olympic Opener Sets Foreign Record
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:50am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BOSMAN
NBC’s coverage of the opening-night Olympics ceremony on Friday attracted an average of 34.2 million viewers.
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Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:50am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BOSMAN
The actor Richard Dreyfuss is suing his father and uncle.
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Arts, Briefly: Every Breath They Took
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:50am GMT by By ELIZABETH JENSEN; Compiled by JULIE BOSMAN
The public television stations WNET and WLIW got a substantial windfall from the sold-out final concert by the Police at Madison Square Garden.
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Television Review: All the World’s a Mall, and Quite a Tuneful World It Is
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:49am GMT by By SUSAN STEWART
“American Mall” is to “High School Musical” as “The Little Mermaid” is to “The Mickey Mouse Club”: older, wiser, marginally sexier — and pretty wonderful.
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Television Review: Diddy, Tiffany and Luke: Celebreality Triple-Header
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:47am GMT by By MIKE HALE
VH1’s three new reality shows don’t make too much of an effort to rise above the clichés of their genres. But there are some laughs to be had.
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Dockside Contender Coulda Had a Sad End
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:46am GMT by By JASON ZINOMAN
A new British production of the stage adaptation of the film “On the Waterfront” is playing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Dance Review | Morphoses/the Wheeldon Company: Rocky Mountain Mixtape From a High-Flying Troupe
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:45am GMT by By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
The Vail International Dance Festival’s enthusiastic, intimate atmosphere maintained the Morphoses dreamlike quality.
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Media Talk: Forthright or Clueless? Kathie Lee Draws Fire
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:34am GMT by By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
Viewers and guests are weighing in with stinging criticism against Kathie Lee Gifford and her apparent knack for interrupting guests on the “Today” show.
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Media Talk: Endorsement From Winfrey Quantified: A Million Votes
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:33am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
Two economists contend that Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama last year gave him a boost of about one million votes in the primaries and caucuses.
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The Classic Rock Magazine Is Switching to a Smaller, Rack-Friendly Size
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:32am GMT by By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
With the Oct. 30 issue, which will go on sale Oct. 17, Rolling Stone, published by Wenner Media, will adopt the standard size used by all but a few magazines.
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Show Skewers Martha Stewart, With Her Blessing
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:16am GMT by By BROOKS BARNES
Can Martha Stewart take a pie in the face — even one she baked? Fine Living Network, about to unveil a new comedy series — “Whatever, Martha!” — is about to find out.
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Isaac Hayes, Singer-Songwriter Who Defined ’70s Soul, Is Dead at 65
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 12:40am GMT by By BEN SISARIO
Mr. Hayes’s strutting funk arrangements in songs like “Theme From ‘Shaft’ ” defined the glories and the excesses of soul music.
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Nationwide ‘Thunder’ Boycott in the Works
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 12:11am GMT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY
A coalition of disabilities groups is expected to call for a national boycott of the coming film “Tropic Thunder” because of what they see as the movie’s open ridicule of the intellectually disabled.
