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Sasha Frere-Jones: Annie's underground mainstream.
Sasha Frere-Jones Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:00:00 -0000
There is a recurring aversion on the part of American labels to foreign singers, and it sometimes amounts to a mutual distrust. Kylie Minogue, the tiny Australian who has annexed most of Europe, has had only three hits here. Girls Aloud, the devilishly clever flagship act of the producer Brian . . .
Hilton Als: Deconstructing “Romeo and Juliet.”
Hilton Als Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:00:00 -0000
Shakespeare had his tacky side—an innate showmanship that kept audience members in their seats at the Globe. He knew what turned people on, and why: youth-oriented plots and subplots were guaranteed to excite theatregoers, if only because the adults in the crowd would delight in knowing what . . .
Ariel Levy: In her new memoir, Elizabeth Gilbert gets married.
Ariel Levy Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:00:00 -0000
Late one cold November night, in the suburbs of New York, a thirty-one-year-old blonde was sobbing on her bathroom floor. She didn’t want to be married anymore, she realized: “I was trying so hard not to know this, but the truth kept insisting itself . . .
Andrea Thompson: Joseph Leonard, in Greenwich Village.
Andrea Thompson Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:00:00 -0000
paragraph class="noindent">This new restaurant takes the pose of a shabby-chic apartment: it’s furnished with distressed bookshelves stocked with weathered volumes, a vintage typewriter, a blue seltzer bottle, and beat-up suitcases with stickers from “Villa Medici—Roma.” A mirrored medicine cabinet in . . .
2010 upcoming albums preview.
Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:00:00 -0000
paragraph class="noindent">Year-end roundups tend to look backward, but if there’s one thing recent music history has taught us it’s that there’s not much recent music history. These past twelve months have brought further evidence of Balkanization in the pop market, and . . .
Richard Brody: The best DVD boxed sets of 2009.
Richard Brody Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0000
paragraph class="noindent">Late 2009 saw the release of some exceptional DVD boxed sets that deserve mention before the arrival of the new year’s crop. The Soviet director and actor Boris Barnet’s warmhearted, clear-eyed comic sensibility is showcased in the 1926 serial “Miss Mend . . .
