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Chiwoniso Plays Zimbabwean 'Rebel' Music
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:07:00 -0400
On her new album, Rebel Woman, Chiwoniso shows off an assertive style that no other female singer in Zimbabwe can match. In her songs, she stands up for her country's children and poor. One of the most compelling voices in African music today, she confidently borrows from other genres — especially American ones.
William Parker Quartet's 'Petit' New Album
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:22:00 -0400
The third album from the William Parker Quartet is named Petit Oiseau, after a character in a poem written by Parker. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead assesses whether the album — whose French title translates to "Little Bird" — takes flight.
Robert Jordan, Hemingway's Bipartisan Hero
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:44:00 -0400
Though fierce political opponents, John McCain and Barack Obama agree on a literary matter: Each picks Ernest Hemingway's 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, featuring the stoic freedom-fighter Robert Jordan, as a favorite.
NYT > Arts
Music Review: Faust Unleashing a Destroyer of Worlds
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:48:24 -0000
The Metropolitan Opera presented its own staging of “Doctor Atomic,” by the British film director Penny Woolcock in her Met debut.
Theater Review | 'To Be or Not to Be': Greasepaint Can Be Mightier Than Pen or Sword
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:00:13 -0000
This walking corpse of a comedy has the spring, color and freshness of long-refrigerated celery.
The TV Watch: For Times Like These, Pep Talks and Hugs
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:52:56 -0000
In the hours and days since the stock market crashed, then fluttered back to life, television has spun an uplifting riches to rags narrative out of a shattered and murky economic picture.
Arts & Culture
Vince Aletti: Gilbert & George, at the Brooklyn Museum.
Vince Aletti Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The world of Gilbert & George, now on gaudy, overwhelming display at the Brooklyn Museum, revolves around the artists themselves, a pair of Brits dressed in conservative suits--or in nothing at all. On the evidence of some hundred photographs and drawings made between 1970 and 2006, the couple’s work, which . . .
Louis Menand: Is texting here to stay?
Louis Menand Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Is texting bringing us closer to the end of life as we currently tolerate it? Enough people have suggested that it is to have inspired David Crystal to produce “Txtng: The Gr8 Db8” (Oxford; $19.95). “I don’t think I have ever come across a topic which has attracted more . . .
John Lahr: Martyrdom and marriage onstage.
John Lahr Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:00:00 -0000
In Robert Bolt’s 1960 hit “A Man for All Seasons” (now in a Roundabout Theatre Company revival, at the American Airlines, under the direction of Doug Hughes), Cardinal Wolsey (Dakin Matthews) asks Sir Thomas More (Frank Langella) a question that is meant to wrong-foot him. “Take you altogether, Thomas . . .
Christian Science Monitor | Arts & Entertainment
Will downturn hit Hollywood?
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0500
The box office may not be recession-proof this time.
Review: 'Frontrunners'
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0500
Documentary follows the insanely competitive race for student council president at Stuyvesant High School in New York City.
Review: 'The Express'
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0500
The story of Ernie Davis, the first black athlete to win college football's highest trophy, is milked for inspirational uplift – and clichés.
