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<title>Actress Estelle Getty Remembered</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Actress Estelle Getty, who played the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on the long-running television show The Golden Girls has died. She was 84. The show about four female retirees sharing a house in Miami ran from 1985-92. Getty won two Emmys for her role.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Golden Girls&#x27; Star Estelle Getty Dies At 84</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV's The Golden Girls, has died. She was 84, and had suffered from dementia in recent years.]]></description>
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<title>Alexander Calder&#x27;s Jewelry Gets Its Due, Finally</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Alexander Calder is famous for large public art and delicate mobiles. But he also created deceptively simple and elegant jewelry that, for the first time, is the focus of an exhibition. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is its initial stop on an international tour.]]></description>
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<title>A Record Haul For &#x27;The Dark Knight&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Batman set a record this weekend. The new movie The Dark Knight has pulled in more than $155 million, a record U.S. box office weekend. The film got a huge boost from interest in the late Heath Ledger's role as The Joker.]]></description>
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<title>Flying High Again With &#x27;The Hawk&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fresh Air's jazz critic has a listen to a re-issue of The Hawk Flies High, the 1957 album from tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins &mdash; who's often credited with legitimizing that instrument in the jazz world.]]></description>
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<title>She Says It&#x2019;s True, Her Memoir of Forging</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/books/24forg.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lee Israel forged more than 400 letters from Noël Coward, Dorothy Parker and other literary celebrities, a criminal career she recounts in her book, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”    
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<title>Music Review: Onstage in the U.S., if Not on the Air</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/music/23mich.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[In George Michael’s grown-up persona, frankness and vulnerability mix with dance beats and the old sex-symbol charm.    
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<title>Growth on James Levine&#x2019;s Kidney Is Seen to Be Cancerous</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/music/23levi.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is expected to recover fully.    
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<title>CNN Trains Its Lens on Race</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/television/23cnn.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[CNN explores how black people are feeling, thinking and doing in the two-part “Black in America” series.    
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<title>Music Review: At Tanglewood, a Composer Nears the Century Mark</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/music/23cart.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[To celebrate the life of Elliott Carter, who turns 100 on Dec. 11, the Tanglewood Music Center is devoting this year’s programs entirely to his music.    
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<title>Music Review: Tearful Tales Punctuated by Plenty of Grins</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/music/23kare.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The songs Karen O, the lead singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, performed as part of her side project Native Korean Rock & the Fishnets were teeming with heartbreak and the residue of love gone sour.    
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<title>&#x2018;Dark Knight&#x2019; Star Denies Assault</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Christian Bale, Warner Brothers’ latest Batman in its smash hit “The Dark Knight,” denied allegations of assault made against him by his mother and sister.    
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<title>Estelle Getty, &#x2018;Golden Girls&#x2019; Matriarch, Dies at 84</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/television/23getty.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ms. Getty’s portrayal of a crabbily charming octogenarian on the television sitcom “The Golden Girls” gave new prominence to elderly characters in prime time.    
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<title>Architecture: Lost in the New Beijing: The Old Neighborhood</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/arts/design/27ouro.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A construction boom tied to the Olympics is threatening two types of housing in China’s capital.    
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<title>Celebrations in Cinema by a Longtime Aficionado of Point and Pli&#xE9;s</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Film Society of Lincoln Center is honoring Dominique Delouche, a filmmaker whose documentaries celebrated great ballet dancers.    
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<title>The TV Watch: Obama Overseas! In Presidential Mode! Back Home, It&#x2019;s McCain in a Golf Cart.</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/us/politics/23watch.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Split-screen contrasts made it seem as if Barack Obama was on a state visit while his opponent chafed at the perks of an incumbent.    
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<title>Television Review: The Leech&#x2019;s Good Name, Restored at Last</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/television/23nova.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[“Nova ScienceNow,” a science program in a newsmagazine format, will leave laymen of almost any age feeling smarter and better informed.    
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<title>Video Games: The World&#x2019;s a Stage for Interactive Entertainment as Creativity Glows</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/television/23vide.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The game industry is surging both financially and in cultural relevance, and over four days at E3 last week it was obvious why.    
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<title>At New York&#x2019;s Temple to Bach, a High Priest Arrives to Conduct</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/music/23bach.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[If New York has a Bach temple, it is Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on Central Park West.    
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<title>Dance Review: Steamy Noon in the Summer: A Barque, High-Rises and Thou</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/dance/23makt.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[“Maktub” is a brief but intensely muscular exploration of partnering set to an eclectic collection of recorded music, including Matmos, Max Richter and the Balanescu Quartet.    
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<title>Movie Review | &#x27;Boy A&#x27;: Trying to Pay the Interest on His Debt to Society</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An ingenuous 24-year-old man-child is at the center of John Crowley’s wrenching melodrama “Boy A.”    
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<title>Books of The Times: Creating a Wave and Riding It to Film&#x2019;s Pantheon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Richard Brody demystifies Jean-Luc Godard’s legend to elucidate his life, his times and his work.    
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<title>Entertainment Events</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Music and dance events around the city.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Savage Loses Advertisers</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/23arts-SAVAGELOSESA_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A group of seven Mississippi talk radio stations has dropped Michael Savage’s nationally syndicated radio program over comments the host made last week.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: At the Movies Announces New Hosts</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/23arts-ATTHEMOVIESA_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz will take over as hosts of the nationally syndicated movie review show “At the Movies.”    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Perlman Withdraws From Concerts</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/23arts-PERLMANWITHD_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Itzhak Perlman withdrew from concerts at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Ill., because he was still recovering from rotator cuff surgery on his left shoulder.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Los Angeles Times Folds Books Section</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/23arts-LOSANGELESTI_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Times will announce long-rumored changes to its book review coverage next weekend.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Gossip Girl Lifts Ban</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/23arts-GOSSIPGIRLLI_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The tumultuous lives of Blair, Serena, Chuck and their wealthy New York friends will return to the Internet after a decision by the CW network to lift a ban on streaming its show “Gossip Girl” online.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Apatow Returns to Stand-Up</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/23arts-APATOWRETURN_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Judd Apatow, the writer and director of “Knocked Up” and the producer of the forthcoming “Pineapple Express,” has taken to the comedy-club stage again.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: A Production Venture for a Film Director</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/23arts-APRODUCTIONV_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Media Rights Capital has announced the formation of the Night Chronicles, a new financing and production company in partnership with the director M. Night Shyamalan.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: High School Musical Drops in Ratings</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/23arts-HIGHSCHOOLMU_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Day 2 of ABC’s new reality series “High School Musical: Get in the Picture” sank further in the ratings on Monday after a low-rated debut one night earlier.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Footnotes</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/arts/23arts-FOOTNOTES_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[DC Comics will start a new thriller imprint next summer; the Barnes Foundation has selected Olin Partnership as the landscape architect for its new art education center; Colm Wilkinson will appear at Town Hall.    
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<title>Why I Came West</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The title of this memoir is somewhat misleading: despite early chapters on Bass&#8217;s journey from his childhood home, in Texas, and his years as an oil geologist in Mississippi, much of the book is a lament over the relentless development of the wild spaces of Montana--specifically, the Yaak Valley&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>To This Day</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Published in 1952 and now translated into English for the first time, Agnon&#8217;s final novel presents an eccentric tour through First World War Berlin. The narrator, a Galician-born Jew from Palestine, is stranded in Germany, passing his days in search of a place to spend the night amid a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Unforgotten</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In Joseph Roth&#8217;s novel of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, &#8220;The Radetzky March,&#8221; there is an extraordinary scene in which the varied soldiers of that vast, improbable portmanteau parade in Vienna before the Hapsburg emperor, Franz Joseph. Uniformed men stream by, Austrians, Italians, Hungarians, Slovenians, and--most remarkably and most exotically&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Theatre</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS 
        Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information.   
          
          
        ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER 
        Second Stage&#8217;s Uptown Series concludes with this play by Rajiv Joseph, an origami-themed love story. Giovanna Sardelli directs. In previews. (McGinn/Cazale, Broadway at 76th St. 212-246-4422.) 
          
        BUFFALO&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Readings and Talks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[WORD FOR WORD&#8221; 
        Bryant Park&#8217;s reading series continues on July 23 at 12:30 with Joyce Carol Oates, who will discuss her latest novel, &#8220;My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike,&#8221; which is about a case much like the JonBenet Ramsay murder. (Sixth Ave. at 42nd St. For&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Paradise Lost</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In September, 1922, after the Turkish forces of Mustafa Kemal defeated a Greek army that had recklessly occupied the Anatolian city of Smyrna, members of Smyrna&#8217;s Greek, Armenian, and expatriate communities were killed, raped, and robbed. Soon, a half million people were trapped on the port&#8217;s narrow wharves, the city&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>On the Horizon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MOVIES 
        FAN CLUB 
        July 30-Aug. 14 
        Starting in the nineteen-thirties, Kashiko Kawakita (who died in 1993) advanced Japanese cinema by importing world cinema masterworks to Japan, discovering great Japanese films and supporting their release, and arranging financing for emerging directors. Walter Reade offers a tribute to her with&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Night Life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ROCK AND POP 
        Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it&#8217;s advisable to call ahead to confirm engagements.  
          
          
        B. B. KING BLUES CLUB &#38; GRILL 
        237 W. 42nd St. (212-997-4144)--July 23: Jefferson Starship is piloted by the guitarist, sci-fi buff, and Jefferson Airplane founder Paul Kantner. Unlike the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Movies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPENING 
          
        AMERICAN TEEN 
        A documentary, directed by Nanette Burstein, about five high-school seniors in Indiana. Opening July 25. (In limited release.) 
          
        BAGHEAD 
        Reviewed below in Now Playing. Opening July 25. (Empire 25 and Sunshine Cinema.) 
          
        BOY A 
        A drama, directed by John Crowley, about a notorious twenty-four-year&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Heavy Weather</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The huge J. M. W. Turner retrospective at the Met is no relaxing summer show. Hot and bothersome, it is a barrage of guileful effects, surveying the artist&#8217;s lifelong campaign to surprise and impress--when not shocking and awing--British sensibility. Indisputably masterful, Turner invested little watercolors of quotidian subjects&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Hand to Hand</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/07/28/080728gonb_GOAT_notebook_acocella</link>
<description><![CDATA[Dominique Delouche&#8217;s &#8220;Katia and Volodia&#8221; (1988)--about Vladimir Vasiliev and Ekaterina Maximova, the Bolshoi&#8217;s star couple during the nineteen-sixties--shows us the famous pair dancing in chandelier-hung rehearsal rooms and riding a sleigh to their cozy dacha: a smoothly cropped picture of their lives in the Soviet Union&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Fantasy Suite</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2008/07/28/080728crth_theatre_als</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sam Shepard&#8217;s &#8220;Kicking a Dead Horse&#8221; (at the Public, under the playwright&#8217;s direction) feels like a summing up of sorts, though not an ending. Given Shepard&#8217;s protean skill as a writer, a performer, and a director, it&#8217;s difficult to imagine him coming to the end of anything; he simply moves&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Euro Visions</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Like many people, I was under the impression that the new Meryl Streep film was called &#8220;Mamma Mia.&#8221; The correct title is, in fact, &#8220;Mamma Mia!,&#8221; and, in one keystroke, the exclamation mark tells you all you need to know about the movie. Billy Wilder tried the same trick with&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Dance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PILOBOLUS 
        The company concludes its annual residency at the Joyce. (175 Eighth Ave., at 19th St. 212-242-0800. July 22-23 at 7:30, July 24-25 at 8, and July 26 at 2 and 8.) 
          
        360 DANCE COMPANY 
        The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council&#8217;s &#8220;Sitelines&#8221; series continues, with this troupe of former Martha Graham&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Cost</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/07/28/080728crbn_brieflynoted3</link>
<description><![CDATA[Robinson&#8217;s fourth novel is an engrossing tale of a patrician family&#8217;s unravelling during a summer in Maine. Julia Lambert is a divorced artist, trying to entertain her oppressive, former neurosurgeon father (he points out everything that&#8217;s wrong with his daughter&#8217;s run-down cabin) and her self-effacing mother, who is&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Classical Music</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/classical/2008/07/28/080728gocl_GOAT_classical</link>
<description><![CDATA[CONCERTS IN TOWN 
          
        INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD INSTITUTE AND FESTIVAL 
        July 23 at 8:30: The final week of the pianist Jerome Rose&#8217;s annual series begins with a recital by Philippe Entremont, who won widespread renown for his recordings in the nineteen-fifties and sixties only to move on to a somewhat less&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Black and White</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Among the many great innovations of the 1968 Broadway hit &#8220;Hair&#8221; (now in revival at the Delacorte)--noise as music, color-blind casting--perhaps none was more titillating, and incendiary, than the show&#8217;s interest in miscegenation. In the musical, a black dude named Hud--part of the tribe of hippies&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Art</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES 
          
        METROPOLITAN MUSEUM 
        Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--&#8220;J. M. W. Turner.&#8221; Through Sept. 21. |  &#8220;Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe.&#8221; Through Sept. 21. |  &#8220;Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy.&#8221; Through Sept. 1. |  &#8220;Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the Victoria and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Above and Beyond</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/above/2008/07/28/080728goab_GOAT_above</link>
<description><![CDATA[MID-SUMMER POW WOW 
        The Queens County Farm Museum, a little patch of working green in the big metropolis, presents its twenty-ninth annual Thunderbird American Indian Mid-Summer Pow Wow. More than forty Indian nations are involved in the event, which features chanting, drumming, and dance contests. (For more&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Turf War</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/07/21/080721crbo_books_kolbert</link>
<description><![CDATA[In 1841, Andrew Jackson Downing published the first landscape-gardening book aimed at an American audience. At the time, Downing was twenty-five years old and living in Newburgh, New York. He owned a nursery, which he had inherited from his father, and for several years had been publishing loftily&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Theatre</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS  
        Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information.   
           
          
        ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER 
         Second Stage&#8217;s Uptown Series concludes with this play by Rajiv Joseph, an origami-themed love story. Giovanna Sardelli directs. In previews. (McGinn/Cazale, Broadway at 76th St. 212-246-4422.)  
          
        AROUND&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Sister</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This suspenseful first novel is set in a crumbling Dorset mansion and features two aging sisters, reunited after a separation of nearly fifty years. Virginia is the sensible older sister who stayed, carrying on the family tradition of lepidopterology, while the reckless and free-spirited Vivien left to lead a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Road to Baghdad</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2008/07/21/080721crte_television_franklin</link>
<description><![CDATA[Generation Kill,&#8221; a new miniseries on HBO, is based on a 2004 book by Evan Wright, which is an expanded version of a three-part series that was published in Rolling Stone, in 2003, about the time Wright spent embedded with a Marine battalion in Iraq. It&#8217;s not necessarily the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Readings and Talks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 
         From the fifties until his death, in 1966, Frank O&#8217;Hara worked at the Museum of Modern Art and wrote poetry during his lunch break. On July 16 at noon, the poets Lee Ann Brown, Dan Chiasson, Hettie Jones, Vincent Katz, and Philip Schultz visit the museum&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Past Shock</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/07/21/080721crci_cinema_denby</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the new Batman film, &#8220;The Dark Knight,&#8221; many things go boom. Cars explode, jails and hospitals are blown up, bombs are put in people&#8217;s mouths and sewn into their stomachs. There&#8217;s a chase scene in which cars pile up and climb over other cars, and a truck gets lassoed&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Panhandlers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When &#8220;The Last Picture Show&#8221; came out, in 1971, it was acclaimed not only as the breakout hit of a young gun (the director, Peter Bogdanovich, was still in his early thirties) but also as a dusty remembrance of things past. The movie was set twenty years before, in a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>On the Horizon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ABOVE AND BEYOND  
        PUSHING BUTTONS  
        July 25-27  
        William Schimmel, who has played the accordion with major orchestras, jazz bands, and pop stars, directs and moderates the annual American Accordionists&#8217; Association Master Class &#38; Concert series. (www.ameraccord.com.)  
           
        CLASSICAL MUSIC  
        WOLFGANG WHO?  
        July 29-30  
        Mozart will be a potent but partial presence at&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and About Mayakovsky</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/07/21/080721crbn_brieflynoted3</link>
<description><![CDATA[At the height of his fame, in the nineteen-twenties, the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was arguably the leading figure in Soviet art. Perhaps only Walt Whitman--whom Mayakovsky passionately admired--wrote with similar breadth and exhilaration. This volume offers some of Mayakovsky&#8217;s best works in vivid translations, and interleaves them&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Night Life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ROCK AND POP  
        Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it&#8217;s advisable to call ahead to confirm engagements.  
           
          
        B. B. KING BLUES CLUB &#38; GRILL 
         237 W. 42nd St. (212-997-4144)--July 17: Greg Brown, a bona-fide American songwriting treasure, works to expand the scope of traditional roots music (he&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Movies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPENING  
          
        BEFORE I FORGET 
         Jacques Nolot directed and stars in this drama, about an aging gay man who must cope with his loneliness. In French. Opening July 18. (IFC Center.)  
          
        THE DARK KNIGHT 
         Reviewed this week in The Current Cinema. Opening July 18. (In wide release.)  
          
        THE DOORMAN 
         A mockumentary&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Just Say Yaz</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/07/21/080721gonb_GOAT_notebook_frerejones</link>
<description><![CDATA[Called Yazoo in England--and Yaz over here--Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet were a duo only from 1982 to 1983, just enough time for them to score three dance hits (&#8220;Don&#8217;t Go,&#8221; &#8220;Situation,&#8221; and &#8220;Nobody&#8217;s Diary&#8221;) that, by themselves, justify the existence of Eighties Nights. Clarke played the music&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Infernal Opera</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When Mozart placed a loud, dark, bone-chilling chord of D minor in the first bars of &#8220;Don Giovanni,&#8221; he set a new precedent for operatic curtain-raisers: instead of charming his listeners into paying attention, he would stun them into submission, with intimations of the awakening of the dead&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Horror Upon Horror</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A portfolio of photographs of Zimmermann&#8217;s &#8220;Die Soldaten,&#8221; by Sylvia Plachy.]]></description>
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<title>Dance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PILOBOLUS 
         The company continues its annual residency at the Joyce. (175 Eighth Ave., at 19th St. 212-242-0800. July 15-16 and July 21-22 at 7:30, July 17-18 at 8, and July 19 at 2 and 8. Through July 26.)  
          
        &#8220;DANCE OUT!&#8221;  
         In a new addition to the free-summer-dance calendar&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Classical Music</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CONCERTS IN TOWN  
          
        (LE) POISSON ROUGE 
         This new club (see Night Life) is devoted to creatively presenting music of all kinds to a stylish young audience; Ronen Givony&#8217;s genre-defying &#8220;Wordless Music&#8221; series, whose concert venues used to be sprinkled throughout the city, will take up residence here. July 16&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>City of Thieves</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/07/21/080721crbn_brieflynoted1</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the six years since his critically praised d&#233;but, &#8220;The 25th Hour,&#8221; Benioff has produced a story collection and a handful of screenplays, including the blockbuster &#8220;Troy.&#8221; The imprint of his film work is evident in this novel, a finely honed but too easily sentimental adventure story set during the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Bordeaux/Burgundy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pitte, a specialist in wine geographies, relates a long and fierce oenophile war in this charming history. Although Bordeaux wine has been an engine of innovation in the world of viticulture--British and Dutch merchants began marketing it in the late seventeenth century, and the Bordeaux bottle, whose familiar profile&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Art</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES 
          
        METROPOLITAN MUSEUM 
        Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--&#8220;J.M.W. Turner.&#8221; Through Sept. 1. |  &#8220;Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe.&#8221; Through Sept. 21. |  &#8220;Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy.&#8221; Through Sept. 1. |  &#8220;Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Above and Beyond</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/above/2008/07/21/080721goab_GOAT_above</link>
<description><![CDATA[BARD ON THE RUN 
         More than twenty years ago, Jess Winfield, an actor, writer, and producer from Los Angeles, helped create the Reduced Shakespeare Company, a guerrilla-theatre troupe that, early in its history, condensed all of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays into a single piece, and has since boiled down the Bible&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Garden of Last Days</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/07/07/080707crbn_brieflynoted1</link>
<description><![CDATA[Dubus&#8217;s follow-up to &#8220;House of Sand and Fog&#8221; is inspired by the rumored visit of 9/11 hijackers to a strip club shortly before their attacks. In the fictional Puma Club, in Sarasota, Florida, a twenty-six-year-old named Bassam al-Jizani watches Spring, a stripper, undress, and finds&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Readings and Talks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[SUNDAYS AT SUNNY&#8217;S&#8221;  
         Tim McLoughlin reads from his contribution to the anthology &#8220;Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth,&#8221; and Anya Ulinich offers selections from her novel, &#8220;Petropolis.&#8221; The photographer Shelley Seccombe will discuss and display images from her book, &#8220;Lost Waterfront: The Decline and Rebirth of Manhattan&#8217;s Western Shore&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>On the Horizon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE THEATRE  
        LET THE SUN SHINE IN  
        July 22-Aug. 31  
        Last year&#8217;s concert of &#8220;Hair: The American Tribal Love Rock Musical,&#8221; at the Delacorte Theatre, was so successful the Public Theatre decided to give it a full-fledged production. Jonathan Groff stars, at Shakespeare in the Park. (www.publictheater.org.)  
           
        ART&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Night Life</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/nightlife/2008/07/07/080707goni_GOAT_nightlife</link>
<description><![CDATA[ROCK AND POP 
        Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it&#8217;s advisable to call ahead to confirm engagements.  
           
          
        &#8220;AFRO-PUNK&#8221; 
         This annual festival features film screenings at the Brooklyn Academy of Music along with concerts by a number of bands in a newly built skate park outside the academy&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Heavenly Bodies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, the Cin&#233;math&#232;que Fran&#231;aise, in Paris, screened a vintage Technicolor print of Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s &#8220;Vertigo,&#8221; made with the dye-transfer process, and it was a revelation: the deep and rich colors suggested the lurid mysticism of El Greco and the romantic darkness of Goya. The tone befits&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Feeling Alright</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/07/07/080707gonb_GOAT_notebook_frerejones</link>
<description><![CDATA[If you find fireworks a little quiet, consider a trip to Battery Park on July 4th, where Sonic Youth and the Feelies (the latter reunited after almost two decades) will be playing a free concert together. To be wildly reductive about the whole thing: the Feelies are the logical extension&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Dionysian Darling</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When Euripides&#8217; &#8220;The Bacchae&#8221; premi&#232;red, in 405 B.C., it took the Dionysia prize. Since then, the tragedy has been interpreted by authors as diverse as Joe Orton and Wole Soyinka. Certainly Tennessee Williams must have been inspired by the work, too, given its central premise: a young god named Dionysus&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Dance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE 
         The men are dashing, the women are delightfully frisky, and there are enough waltzes to satisfy every taste in Ronald Hynd&#8217;s 1975 ballet remake of Franz L&#233;har&#8217;s beloved turn-of-the-century operetta &#8220;The Merry Widow.&#8221; The story--which hinges on the schemes to marry off a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Collections of Nothing</title>
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<title>&#x27;Clean&#x27; squads in the hunt at Tour de France</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Even as doping scandals plague the race, three teams that disavow drugs are making a strong showing.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired&#x27;</title>
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<title>Review: &#x27;Space Chimps&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This animated feature about chimp astronauts more than pales in comparison to WALL-E.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Mamma Mia! The Movie&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This loopy ABBA musical has Meryl Streep playing a superannuated American hippie running a funky hotel on a Greek island and preparing for her daughter's marriage.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;The Dark Knight&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The latest Batman movie is a relentlessly bleak take on the comic book, with a superb performance by Heath Ledger as the Joker.

   
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<description><![CDATA[The Scottish rider, once banned from the sport for two years for doping, now competes with a team pioneering a new drug-testing model.

   
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<title>The art of summer in NYC</title>
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<title>All the world on stage</title>
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<description><![CDATA[New International theater festival in California offers audiences a window on foreign cultures – and shared stories.

   
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<title>Six picks: recommendations from the Monitor staff</title>
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<title>Last innings for Yankee Stadium</title>
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<title>Review: &#x27;The Exiles&#x27;</title>
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<title>Review: &#x27;Journey to the Center of the Earth&#x27;</title>
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<title>Review: &#x27;Hellboy II: The Golden Army&#x27;</title>
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