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By BRET McCABE
September 23, 2008
On their respective new albums, Brooklyn's TV on the Radio and Glasgow's Mogwai update the formulas that have made them indie sensations over the past decade to varying degrees of success.
Ripped From a Romance Cover
Jazz DVDs Invite You To Watch and Learn
The Art of the Octet
Eri Yamamoto Finds the Keys to the City
Run-DMC, Metallica, Stooges Lead HOF Nominees
Personal Demons, Powerful Messages
Kern's Killer Soprano
Barker, DJ AM Expected To Recover After Crash
Ahmad Jamal Strikes Up the Orchestra
Carnegie Hall Goes All-Bernstein
Record Labels Gamble on Memory Cards
Raising Jazz's Unimpeachable Spirit
Deborah Voigt's Bold Gambit
George Michael Arrested, Apologizes
In the Buff and Boffo
Singing in the City
Pulling Out the Stops
A World of Jazz
Cue the Violins
What Becomes a Legend Most?
Maazel and Bronfman Light It Up
A Requiem for Pavarotti
The Presidential Treatment
A Gauzy Haze, a Holy Relic
Pavarotti Widow Plans Book Tribute
New Mozart Piece Discovered
Maazel at Bat, for a Final Season
A Quirky Youth, a Comic Opera, and an Old Master
Iannis Xenakis's Architectural Sound
A No-Show, a Young Star, and a Mercurial Russian Maestro
Dance Your Childhood Away
Jon Langford Saves Wales With Song
Jonathan Lethem, Brooklyn's Newest Literary Rock Star
Louis Armstrong: Home and Away
Kenny Burrell: Guitar Hero
50 Years, and Miles Left To Go
Jazz Goes to the Movies
McCarren Park Pool Gets Watered Down
P.S.1 'Warm Up' Cools Down With Jonathan Kane
Charlie Parker Jazz Festival: Cool Jazz in Harlem
Traditional Progressions: Delta Spirit and Obi Best
 'Che': It's a Long Story
By BRUCE BENNETT
September 30, 2008
Steven Soderbergh's two-part, 268-minute "Che," which will make its premiere at the New York Film Festival on October 7, makes for a good, though ultimately somber, day at the movies. But the distortions of history reflected in the film are of a fun-house-mirror magnitude.
Down in the Delta, Hope Is a Stranger: 'Ballast'
Stripping Down the Comic With Alan Moore
Surveying a Week of Stories
Paul Newman, Actor, Succumbs to Cancer at 83
New York Film Festival Goes Around the World and Back
NYFF Opens Albert Lewin's Magic Box
A British Artist Plumbs the Politics of Hunger
Barbet Schroeder Can't Be Killed
'The Lucky Ones': Nothing Salves the Soul Like a Road Trip
'Eagle Eye': Let It Go to Voicemail
A Spike in the War Chest
If You Can't Punch Someone, Run Him Over
'Nights in Rodanthe': Contrived Hollywood Archetype Seeks Same
'Choke': Hard To Swallow
Movies in Brief: 'Wild Combination'
Movies in Brief: 'The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela'
'Alexander Nevsky': Chopping Down the Grand Teutons
MoMA Snatches Two From the Art House
A Director Creates 'Ballast' in His Soul
Italian Director Florestano Vancini Dies
The Melting Pot
Cantet Jumps to the Head of 'The Class'
Salvaging a Forgotten Director
Savannah Festival To Honor Malcolm McDowell
Passing Strange, Moving on to Life at IFC Center
Vojtěch Jasný's Cinema of Freedom
An Unspeakable Act: 'Hounddog'
Fight for Your Right To Fight: 'Battle in Seattle'
Buying and Selling Justice in Rio: 'Elite Squad'
Doom With a View: 'Lakeview Terrace'
How the West Was Lost: 'Appaloosa'
Seeing Things for the First Time: 'Ghost Town'
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: 'The Duchess'
Spike Lee Goes to War
Dragging Kennedy Into a New Fight
Lean-Spirited: Film Forum Celebrates David Lean
IFP Runs on Platform of Change
'Burn After Reading': This Movie Will Self-Destruct in 95 Minutes
'Righteous Kill': The Case of the Vanishing Legacies
The Dark Knight: Orson Welles's 'Don Quixote'
Robert Downey's No-Budget Genius
This Old House: Godfrey Cheshire's Family History
The Spirit of Robert Flaherty Lives at BAM
Alan Ball Is Looking for Trouble
Latinbeart 2008: The Heart of Latin America Is Strong
'Mister Foe': The Boy Who Cried Mother
'Everybody Wants To Be Italian': Love Is Never Saying ... Anything
'August Evening': A Repressed Family in the Land of the Free
'Save Me': Nothing a Little Praying Can't Fix
'Ping Pong Playa': Balls of Mild Frustration
Pacino & De Niro Circle Back To Each Other
'Shoot the Piano Player': Sing Us a Song of Doubt and Sin
Giant 'Steps' for Alfred Hitchcock
'Sukiyaki Western Django': Imitation Takes the Form of Foolishness
'The Pool': Life Is Better in the Water
'A Secret': Never Safe
Charlton Heston at Lincoln Center: The Man of the People
'I Served the King of England': Czechs and Balances
Chris Smith: American Director
Lifetimes To Go in Old Mexico: 'My Mexican Shivah'
Also Opening This Weekend: 'Ben X'
Also Opening This Weekend: 'College'
'Year of the Fish': We're Not in Disneyland Anymore
'Day of Wrath': Dreyer's Tyranny of the Heart
Public Library Liberates Trove of 16 mm Films
Aliens, Criminals, and Other Carpenter Tools
Also Opening This Weekend: 'Young People F---ing'
Pasolini's Cruel Masterpiece
'Traitor' Cuts to the Chase
MacArthur Foundation Awards 'Genius Grants'
By CARYN ROUSSEAU
September 23, 2008
CHICAGO — An evolutionary geneticist in Germany, a Nigerian-born writer, and an architectural historian who studies ancient bridges are among 25 recipients of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants." The $500,000 fellowships were announced…
Baldwin Book Rails Against Family Court System
Gioia Leaves NEA After Changing Debate Over Arts Funding
By KATE TAYLOR
Metropolitan Museum Takes a Bold Step
By KATE TAYLOR
Takashi Miike's Crime Wave
Modern Art on an Ancestral Estate
Atlantic Antic Lives On
Laying Claim to an Outsider's Art
By KATE TAYLOR
The World of Warhol TV
Busta Rhymes Denied Entry Into Britain
Heather Locklear Booked for DUI
By Associated Press
September 29, 2008
Heather Locklear was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of a controlled substance in the upscale Santa Barbara area, authorities said Sunday.
NBC's 'Life' & 'Chuck': It's All in Your Head
I Am Man, Hear Me Out
Color Safe at the Emmy Awards
By PIA CATTON
'30 Rock,' 'Mad Men,' 'Damages,' 'John Adams' Win Big at Emmys
'First Among Equals' Peeks Into Thatcher's England
'House': The Doctor Will Scold You Now
HBO's 'True Blood': Love Bites
'Sons of Anarchy': Mob Mentality
'90210': Leave Your Morals With the Maid
Michael Phelps To Present at MTV Awards
A Bronx Tale: Tony Curtis
'Gavin & Stacey': Love and Lust, in an English Manner
Jonathan Ames Gets Real in a Graphic Novel
By DAN AVERY
September 30, 2008
For Jonathan Ames, writing himself into his own work is standard procedure. The Brooklyn author has recounted his neuroses and sexual misadventures in nonfiction essays, and peppered novels, such as "Wake Up, Sir!" and "The Extra Man," with characters…
All Alone: Two New Books on Loneliness
Drowning in the Desert: Miriam Toews's 'The Flying Troutmans'
The New Face of Philanthropy
A Universe of Books: Borges's 'Library of Babel'
Timothy Ryback's 'Hitler's Private Library'
The Great Rambam: Joel Kraemer's 'Maimonides'
Book-Burning and Other Bibliocausts
Why We Fight: Martin van Creveld's 'The Culture of War'
A Peculiar Association: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
By ADAM KIRSCH
Agnès Humbert's Wartime Diary 'Résistance'
The Crime Scene: A Great Pair
The Novel as Idyll: Julián Ayesta's 'Helena, or the Sea in Summer'
Dominick Dunne Returns to O.J. Trial
Dominick Dunne Stricken at Simpson Trial
Swedish Intrigue on an Isle: 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'
By MARTHA MERCER
Real Stories of Anorexia Challenge Stereotypes
Kate Taylor's new book sheds light on a misunderstood disorder.
Six Finalists Named for Goldman Sachs Book Prize
García Lorca Family Assents To Opening of Mass Grave
New Bushnell Books To Star Teen Carrie Bradshaw
The Making of Benjamin Disraeli: Adam Kirsch's New Biography
Against Oblivion: 'The Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow'
By ADAM KIRSCH
Hiding Behind the Spines: 'Anonymity' by John Mullan
Boy Wonder: James Kelman's New Novel
In Search of Watteau: Jed Perl's 'Antoine's Alphabet'
The Crime Scene: Russian Front
The Laureate of Hard Luck: 'The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões'
The Campaign Season: Fall Nonfiction
Striding Forward: Fall Fiction
Agatha Christie Tapes Discovered
An Empire of Blood: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
By ADAM KIRSCH
The Magic Mountain: Adalbert Stifter's 'Rock Crystal'
By ADAM KIRSCH
 Balanchine's Muse, Preserving Her Master
By VALERIE GLADSTONE
September 22, 2008
Suzanne Farrell restores the radical luster of 'Pithoprakta,' Valerie Gladstone writes.
Fall for Dance Opens With Pomp and Pageantry
A Taste for the Global
Around the World at City Center
Bolshoi Director Ratmansky Joins ABT
Community Movement: Marking an Anniversary Through Dance
Standing To See Jill Johnson's 'The Copier'
Finding Spirit and Sound on a Lunch Break
Move in and Around Manhattan
Fearless at Battleworks
Iraq War Veterans, in Their Own Words: 'In Conflict'
By JOY GOODWIN
September 29, 2008
As a source of firsthand information about American soldiers' experiences in the Iraq war, "In Conflict," a documentary theater project now at the Barrow Street Theatre, is irreproachable. Artistically, however, Douglas Wager's adaptation of Yvonne…
A Wizard Casts His Spell in the Stable: 'Equus'
Mamet Versus Mamet
By KATE TAYLOR
Decent Melodies, Bad Wigs: 'A Tale of Two Cities'
A Pre-Feminist Fantasyland: 'The Marvelous Wonderettes'
Lost Boy: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's 'King of Shadows'
New $200K Playwriting Prize Goes to Kushner
Into the Breach, Out of the Chaos: 'Beast' and 'Anger/Nation'
Dancers, Ogres & Horses
Stratford Festival's Richard Monette Dies at 64
Acquavella To Show Wynn's Damaged Picasso
By Bloomberg News
September 29, 2008
A $139 million Picasso painting damaged by billionaire owner Stephen Wynn when he somehow poked his elbow through it will be publicly shown for the first time since the 2006 mishap.
China's new rich in $256 million auction
Art Deco Shows Its Roots
Modular Modernism Reborn
Fleming, Mattila, and Damrau Ignite the Opera Season
London Street-Art Auction Disappoints
Those Who Can, Teach
Bring Back the Venetian Lollipops
The Magical From the Mundane
By LANCE ESPLUND
Woody Allen Makes Opera Debut
A Visit to the Venice Biennale of Architecture
Reading Between the Linens: Cecily Brown at Gagosian Gallery
Rare Female Portrait by Francis Bacon Up for Sale
Six Centuries of Theatrical City Scenes at N-YHS
Great-Granddaughters To Lead Wagner Festival
Monet Thief Sentenced to Five Years
Director: Half of Gagosian's Sales Are to Russians
Elton John's Brooch Up for Sale
Rem Koolhaas's Lou Costello Tower
Munch's 'Vampire' Heads to Auction
Armstong Officially Elevated by Guggenheim Foundation
Fantastical Form in TriBeCa: Herzog & de Meuron's 56 Leonard St.
Victorian Never Looked So Good
Sotheby's to Sell Works From a Neglected Field
Titian Showcased in Athens
A Park Avenue Tower Stands Corrected
Christie's Adds $130M Fall Auction
Pompeii Transported to Washington, D.C.
What Treasures Hide in Dusty Piles
Sotheby's Stands Tall With Hirst
Hirst's Shark Sells for $17m at Auction
A Gray Area From a Red Revolution
By LANCE ESPLUND
Hirst Dealer: No 'Mountain' of Unsold Works
Political Ephemera Through the Ages
The Art World Embraces the Wow Factor
By LANCE ESPLUND
To Venice: Some Unsolicited Advice
Venice's Famed Piazza San Marco Could Use Some Focus
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