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The Saturday Profile: In Mozambique, Singing a Song of Sanitation and Hoping to Change Habits

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 5:55am GMT by By BARRY BEARAK

While Feliciano dos Santos, one of southern Africa’s leading musicians, sings about love and sorrow, he is better known for songs of a more peculiar sort.

Russert Tribute to Be on Tuesday

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 5:21am GMT

A tribute to Tim Russert, the NBC newsman and who died on June 13, is to be held from 12:30 to 2 p.m. on Tuesday at St. Peter’s Church at Citigroup Center, Lexington Avenue at 54th Street.

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Arts, Briefly: Casting Ahoy for ‘On the Town’

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 5:05am GMT by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

The New York City Center’s Encores! series revival of “On the Town” has announced its full cast.

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Arts, Briefly: Sotheby’s Suffers Losses on Guaranteed Prices

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 5:04am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

Disappointing art auctions in London and Hong Kong this month cost Sotheby’s $15 million in losses on guarantees to sellers, Bloomberg News reported.

Dance Review | Wave Rising Series: Effortless Leverages From Floor to Air

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:52am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

On Wednesday night at John Ryan Theater in Brooklyn, the second gala in the Wave Rising Series showcased the six companies that will perform through this weekend.

Theater Review | 'The Doll Sisters': Returning to New York to Retell an Ancient Tale

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:50am GMT by By ANITA GATES

“The Doll Sisters” is a genteel and seductive play-with-marionettes now at the Annex Theater at La MaMa E.T.C.

Dance Review | Tami Stronach Dance: The Lengths That Love Will Go to, Stilts and All

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:49am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

Tami Stronach’s “But it’s for you,” which had its premiere on Thursday at Danspace Project in St. Mark’s Church, depicts the grim, obsessive end stages of love.

Bridge: From a Very Close Finish, Several Lessons in Defense

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:45am GMT by By PHILLIP ALDER

If you are thinking that today’s deal looks familiar, do not be alarmed: it was used in last Saturday’s column.

Music Review | Musica Sacra: A Decisive Bach Moment, Delivered With Drama

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:44am GMT by By JAMES R. OESTREICH

Musica Sacra performed Bach’s “St. John Passion” at the Rose Theater on Wednesday evening.

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Dance Review | Dance Theater Workshop: Who’s Watching Whom? Only the Mirror Can Tell

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:42am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

“Sublime is Us,” a dance piece by Luciana Achugar that is performed before a large mirror, is alternately fascinating and boring.

Movie Review | 'Roadside Romeo': Bollywood: Often Energetic, Now Animated

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:38am GMT by By RACHEL SALTZ

“Roadside Romeo” is something new under the Bollywood sun: sophisticated computer-generated animation that uses stars to voice the characters.

Movie Review | 'Saw V': Grand Guignol, by Way of the Tool Shed

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:38am GMT by By NATHAN LEE

The latest and least of the “Saw” films is just plain boring and even a little tame — albeit by the standards of a genre that helped bring the phrase “torture porn” into the lexicon.

Music Review | Lynda Carter: Former Ambassador of the Amazons, Singing the Tunes of Her Muses

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:36am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

Onstage, Lynda Carter, who opened a one-week engagement at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency on Tuesday, blends the confidence of a beauty queen with the attitude of a blues singer.

Movie Review | 'Passengers': Lost Luggage Is the Least of Their Worries

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:34am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

“Passengers” is a supernatural thriller so mechanically inept and lacking in suspense that it doesn’t even pass muster as lowbrow Halloween-ready entertainment.

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Dance Review | RoseAnne Spradlin: Andy Warhol, a Beaded Curtain and a ’60s Sensibility

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:33am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

RoseAnne Spradlin’s newest work, “Blue Liz,” shown on Thursday night at the Kitchen, finds its spark in Warhol’s 1963 painting “Blue Liz as Cleopatra.”

Music Review | St. Lawrence String Quartet: Drawing on the Optimism in African Gumboot Dance

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:31am GMT by By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER

The St. Lawrence String Quartet gave the premiere of David Bruce’s lively “Gumboots” for clarinet and string quartet on Thursday at Zankel Hall.

Arts, Briefly: A Rock Musical About, Yes, Cleopatra

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:31am GMT by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

The director Steven Soderbergh, whose body of work includes the films “Schizopolis,” “Kafka” and “Ocean’s Thirteen,” is planning to make a rock ’n’ roll musical about Cleopatra.

Charging Bias by Theaters, Female Playwrights to Hold Meeting

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:29am GMT by By PATRICIA COHEN

Frustrated by what they describe as difficulty in getting their work produced, some female playwrights will air their grievances with New York theater representatives on Monday.

Arts, Briefly: World Series Whiffs Against CSI on CBS

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:29am GMT by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

CBS’s prime-time shows topped Fox’s coverage of the World Series on Thursday night.

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Arts, Briefly: Guns N’ Roses and Free Soda

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:27am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

Dr Pepper announced earlier this year that it would give a free soda to everyone in the United States if the Guns N’ Roses album “Chinese Democracy” came out. Now, the beverage company will have to drink its words.

Arts, Briefly: Mediator Is Selected in Actors Guild Impasse

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:27am GMT by By BROOKS BARNES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

A federal mediator will try to break the contract stalemate between Hollywood’s major film and television studios and the Screen Actors Guild.

Arts, Briefly: Radar and 02138 Fold

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:25am GMT by By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA; Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

Two magazines with upscale appeal, Radar and 02138, folded on Friday.

Arts, Briefly: Council Votes to Remove Banksy Mural in London

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:25am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

A council in London has ordered that a 23-foot Banksy mural must be removed from the wall of a building on Newman Street.

For CW, a New Plot: Improved Ratings

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:22am GMT by By BILL CARTER

The once-foundering CW Network is offering a few indications this fall that it may have found a key to survival: high school kids in expensive clothes.

For Once, CNN Takes News Less Seriously

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:20am GMT by By DAVE ITZKOFF

“D. L. Hughley Breaks the News,” which has its premiere Saturday on CNN, represents the channel’s belated (and risky) entry into the genre of news delivered with a satirical smile.

Dance Review | American Ballet Theater: Inconsolable in Their Gloom and Grief

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:16am GMT by By ALASTAIR MACAULAY

American Ballet Theater danced Jiri Kylian’s dreary “Overgrown Path” with the kind of bleak intensity and restrained anguish that it is all about at Thursday night’s company premiere.

Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Hearing a Classical Score With a Contemporary Ear

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:12am GMT by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

The conductor David Robertson, a regular guest of the New York Philharmonic, led the orchestra through works by Brahms, Mozart and Bartok on Thursday night.

2 Relatives of Jennifer Hudson Reported Slain

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 2:17am GMT by By MITCHELL L. BLUMENTHAL

The mother and brother of the Academy Award-winning actress were reportedly found shot to death in Chicago.

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