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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.