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<title>Multi-Culturalism Explained In One Word: Hapa</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a guest commentary, the program's outgoing Intern, Kristin Lee, describes how she explains her multi-cultural roots, and why she embraces the term "HAPA" to describe her heritage.]]></description>
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<title>Reporter Helen Thomas Gets An HBO &#x27;Thank You&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Documentarian Rory Kennedy, who's won acclaim and awards for her documentaries American Hollow and The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, turns her lens on legendary White House correspondent Helen Thomas. David Bianculli has a review.]]></description>
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<title>Bringing Bollywood To The U.S.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An Indian conglomerate has acquired more than 200 movie screens across the United States in the past year. The company, Reliance, is using the theaters to showcase Indian films. Now it's grabbing headlines for reported plans to set up a new movie venture with Steven Spielberg.]]></description>
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<title>Bonnie Hammer, Small-Screen Mastermind</title>
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<description><![CDATA[At Sci Fi, she helped the cable channel shed its geeky image with shows like the dark, political Battlestar Galactica. And since she took over at USA, the network has been on fire.]]></description>
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<title>Guerrilla Ad Campaign Pushes Boundaries</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Troy Hitch talks about You Suck at Photoshop, a hit series of Web videos created to explore viral marketing concepts. Hitch is the creative director for the agency Big Fat Brain.]]></description>
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<title>Don&#x27;t Let Go Of That Family Silver Too Easily</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Shady appraisers and deceptive antiques dealers are a hazard to be avoided when trying to dispose of old &mdash; and potentially valuable &mdash; family belongings.]]></description>
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<title>Denver&#x2019;s Unconventional Art, Ready for the Convention</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/design/21arti.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Denver is hoping to declare its emerging artistic identity to the world next week when the gaze of the global news media and political power turns on the city.    
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<title>Generation Mix: Youth TV Takes the Lead in Diversity Casting</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/television/21disn.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[If network television is in a down cycle in roles for minority actors, children’s television — the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon in particular — seems headed in the other direction.    
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<title>Dance Review: A Spirit of South Asia Is Moving in Manhattan</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/dance/21batt.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The borders that “Erasing Borders,” a four-day festival of Indian dance, means to erase are multiple.    
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<title>Television Review: A Comic Seeks Herself and Finds a New Series</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/television/21cho.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[“The Cho Show,” Margaret Cho’s continued adventures in finding herself, shows us the comic as she rebuilds her identity.    
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<title>Theater Review | &#x27;Hattie ... What I Need You to Know&#x27;: The Triumph and Pain of a Hollywood Trailblazer</title>
<link>http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/theater/reviews/21hatt.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[“Hattie ... What I Need You to Know” attempts to tackle what it meant that the first African-American to win an Academy Award did so playing a loyal slave.    
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<title>Dance Review: Some Noontime Frolics Amid the Cityscape</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Douglas Dunn & Dancers began a week of free lunchtime performances on the Elevated Acre in Lower Manhattan, and everything seemed serendipitous.    
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<title>Theater Review | &#x27;Noon Day Sun&#x27;: That Southern Belle of Detroit Is a Woman of Mystery</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The melodrama is high, and so is the cliché count in “Noon Day Sun,” an exploration of racial identity and related themes that is as seductive as a soap opera.    
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<title>Books of The Times: How a Jihadist Curtailed a President&#x2019;s Authority</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/books/21turl.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Mahler chronicles Salim Hamdan’s journey from street urchin to jihadist, as well as the lives of the lawyers who transformed him into an international symbol in the war on terror.    
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<title>Newly Released</title>
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<description><![CDATA[August is supposed to be the time for breezy beach reads. But a crop of books released this month suggests otherwise.    
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<title>Dance Review: Feminine Beauty Is a Thing With Feathers</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/dance/21host.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Richard Move’s “Hesperornis Regalis (Seabird),” the first part of his weeklong “Hostile Takeover” installation, features a performer at the South Street Seaport, festooned in feathers.    
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<title>Television Review: The Cops Who Keep Fifth-Period Math Safe and Sound</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/television/21prin.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[“The Principal’s Office,” a delightfully dumb reality series, documents the handling of disciplinary matters large and small at a variety of schools.    
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<title>Television Review: A Reality Check for Beauty Salons on the Edge of Failure</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/television/21taba.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[In “Tabatha’s Salon Takeover,” the unfailingly blunt Tabatha Coffey will spend each episode of her series turning around a failing enterprise.    
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<title>LeRoi Moore, 46, Saxophone Player, Dies</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/music/21moore.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mr. Moore’s fevered riffs embroidered the distinctive music of the Dave Matthews Band with florets of jazz and funk.    
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<title>Ronnie Drew, Folk Singer and Guitarist Who Founded the Dubliners, Dies at 73</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/music/21drew.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Known for his distinctive long white beard and deep voice, Mr. Drew also sang with the Pogues and other rock bands.    
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<title>George Deem, 75, Artist Inspired by Master Painters, Is Dead</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/arts/design/19deem.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mr. Deem admired master painters so much that he spent his own career repainting their works, albeit with clever alterations.    
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<title>Bridge: Comeback for a Knockout Championship</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When a team wins a knockout championship that runs for several days, there’s usually one pivotal set that kept it in the event.    
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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>In Beijing, No Making Heads or Tails of a New Building</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/sports/olympics/21apartment.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A mysterious dragon-shaped building called the Pangu Plaza has Chinese newspapers abuzz with rumors about important guests residing within.    
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<title>NBC to Acquire British Production Agency for International Unit</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/business/media/21nbc.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[NBC Universal said that it had signed an agreement to acquire an independent production agency in Britain, giving it a base of operations for international expansion.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Lavigne May Have to Skip Malaysia</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/21arts-LAVIGNEMAYHA_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Fans in Malaysia won’t get to see Avril Lavigne perform, at least not this month.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Bravo Auction Helps Housekeeper</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/21arts-BRAVOAUCTION_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[An online auction of a portrait of Zoila Chavez, housekeeper for Jeff Lewis, the obsessive-compulsive Los Angeles real-estate speculator, fetched $10,050 when it closed on Tuesday night.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Cast Changes at the Met</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/21arts-CASTCHANGESA_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Plácido Domingo is returning to the role in which he made his official Metropolitan Opera debut.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: The New Yorker Festival Announces Its Lineup</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/21arts-THENEWYORKER_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A town hall meeting on race and class in America will be among the highlights of the ninth annual New Yorker Festival from Oct. 3 to 5.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Theater Changes for Mamet Plays</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/21arts-THEATERCHANG_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[It’s a game of musical chairs for new Broadway productions.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Jonas Brothers Take the Lead</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/21arts-JONASBROTHER_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Jonas Brothers are all over the Billboard Top 10 this week.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Olympics Coverage Keeps NBC Ahead</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/21arts-OLYMPICSCOVE_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Drawing an average of more than 25 million viewers during prime time, NBC’s Olympic coverage remained No. 1 in the ratings on Tuesday.    
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<title>Arts, Briefly: Footnotes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Galassi has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Maxwell E. Perkins Award for distinguished achievement in the field of fiction, by the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction.    
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<title>Traffic</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On the face of it, traffic is a simple problem: too many cars occupy too little asphalt. But why does creating new roads induce more people to drive? Why does removing signs and markings seem to make roads safer? And why do countries with corrupt governments suffer more traffic fatalities&#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.   
          
          
        FELA! 
        Bill T. Jones directs and choreographs a new musical about the Nigerian composer, performer, and political activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti. With a book by Jim Lewis and Jones and additional lyrics by&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Forbidden World</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In 1600, Rome&#8217;s Campo de&#8217; Fiori, now a nice plaza lined with caf&#233;s, was one of the city&#8217;s execution grounds, and on Ash Wednesday of that year Giordano Bruno, a philosopher and former priest accused of heresy by the Inquisition, was taken there and burned. The event was carefully timed&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Challenge</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In November, 2004, thirty minutes after a military commission convened at Guant&#225;namo Bay to try Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden&#8217;s former driver, news came that halted the proceedings: Hamdan had won a lawsuit, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, brought on his behalf by a diverse group of lawyers. Mahler is the author&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Summertime Blues</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ever since Eugene O&#8217;Neill and his cohorts first rehearsed the burgeoning master&#8217;s lines in the dunes of Provincetown in the nineteen-twenties, and Tennessee Williams fell in love with the place in the late nineteen-thirties, the tip of the Cape has been home to a number of writers and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Signs of Life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If hip-hop&#8217;s declining popularity bothers Nas, he will need to have a stern talk with himself. His 2006 album, &#8220;Hip Hop Is Dead,&#8221; was one of the loudest complaints to date about the genre&#8217;s lack of direction (and a pulse). But maybe Nas needed to renounce hip-hop so&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Readings and Talks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MCNALLY JACKSON BOOKS 
        The independent bookstore, which recently changed its name, presents a reading from the new anthology &#8220;Who Can Save Us Now? Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories.&#8221; The book&#8217;s editors, Owen King and John McNally, will be joined by the contributors Kelly Braffet, Lauren Grodstein, and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>On the Horizon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MOVIES 
        AMERICAN DIRECTOR 
        Aug. 29-Sept. 1 
        Chris Smith, an independent director who began his career with the diptych-like pair of films &#8220;American Job&#8221; (a narrative fiction) and &#8220;American Movie&#8221; (a documentary), ranges quite a bit further afield for his latest film, &#8220;The Pool,&#8221; which is a fictional project&#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)--Aug. 21: Bobby (Blue) Bland, B. B. King&#8217;s longtime touring partner, lends some authenticity to this Times Square club. Aug&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Movies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPENING 
          
        DEATH RACE 
        A science-fiction thriller in which an ex-con (Jason Statham) must take part in a deadly car race. Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. Opening Aug. 22. (In wide release.) 
          
        HAMLET 2 
        A comedy, directed by Andy Fleming, starring Steve Coogan as a high-school teacher&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Mark the Music</title>
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<description><![CDATA[William Shakespeare felt a certain ambivalence toward music as an art, if his words are any guide to his thoughts. The plays overflow with merry songs, sweet airs, and other healthy-minded sounds, but they also contain many instances of music causing mischief, telling lies, or casting shadows. In &#8220;Measure&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Hello, Columbus</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/skyline/2008/08/25/080825crsk_skyline_goldberger</link>
<description><![CDATA[Huntington Hartford&#8217;s old Gallery of Modern Art--the white marble bonbon that stood at 2 Columbus Circle from 1964 until a couple of years ago--was a hard building to love but became an even harder one to hate. Excoriated by critics when it went up, then championed by preservationists&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Dance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[DOWNTOWN DANCE FESTIVAL 
        All styles are welcome at this wide-ranging festival of free dance organized by Jonathan Hollander, of Battery Dance Company, from re-creations of Isadora Duncan&#8217;s revolutionary works (IsadoraNOW) to &#224; la page modern dance (Battleworks). Hollander is also spicing things up with two days (Aug. 18-19&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Classical Music</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/classical/2008/08/25/080825gocl_GOAT_classical</link>
<description><![CDATA[CONCERTS IN TOWN 
          
        MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL 
        An exceptionally diverse season at Lincoln Center comes to a close. Aug. 19-20 at 8: Osmo V&#228;nsk&#228;, the disciplined director of the Minnesota Orchestra, leads the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in music in the keys of three flats by Mozart (the Serenade for Winds&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Black and White and Dead All Over</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/08/25/080825crbn_brieflynoted1</link>
<description><![CDATA[The assistant managing editor of the New York Globe, a broadsheet newspaper based in midtown Manhattan, is murdered in his office. Suspects include disgruntled beat reporters, ambitious editors, and conniving board members, and the only person who really seems to know what&#8217;s going on is Bashir, the Afghan coffee-cart&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Art-House Dodger</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/08/25/080825gonb_GOAT_notebook_denby</link>
<description><![CDATA[The basic plot of Robert Bresson&#8217;s &#8220;Pickpocket,&#8221; from 1959 (playing at Film Forum on Aug. 20), is derived from that of &#8220;Crime and Punishment&#8221;: an isolated and severe young man (Martin LaSalle) becomes a philosophical criminal who asserts his sense of superiority in larcenous acts while also longing to be&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Art</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/2008/08/25/080825goar_GOAT_art</link>
<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;Framing a Century: Master Photographs, 1840-1940.&#8221; Through Sept&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Alfred and Emily</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/08/25/080825crbn_brieflynoted2</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the first half of this unusual blend of fact and fiction, Lessing imagines fulfilled lives for her parents, Alfred Tayler and Emily McVeagh, in an England untouched by the First World War. Emily becomes a nurse and an activist, and never has children; Alfred becomes a farmer and the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Above and Beyond</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/above/2008/08/25/080825goab_GOAT_above</link>
<description><![CDATA[RUMBLE IN THE (CONCRETE) JUNGLE 
        The Rumblers Car Club, a close-knit group of automobile enthusiasts founded by, among others, Roger Miret, a singer for the local hardcore punk band Agnostic Front, throws its eighth annual &#8220;Kustom Kills and Hot Rod Thrills&#8221; show. It is expected to draw some three&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Vanity Cases</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/08/25/080825crci_cinema_lane</link>
<description><![CDATA[Make sure that you take your seat for &#8220;Tropic Thunder&#8221; in good time, because all the best jokes are at the start. Before it gets under way, you have to sit through the usual slew of previews and commercials, and there is a delectable moment when you realize that these&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Strokes of Genius?</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/nakedcampaign/strokesofgenius</link>
<description><![CDATA[Steve Brodner draws Obama the pragmatist and an idealistic supporter.]]></description>
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<title>Young Loves</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/08/11/080811crci_cinema_denby</link>
<description><![CDATA[Woody Allen&#8217;s &#8220;Vicky Cristina Barcelona&#8221; has a natural, flowing vitality to it, a sun-drenched splendor that never falters. Two young American women go to Barcelona for the summer--Vicky (Rebecca Hall), who is bright, skeptical, and cautious, and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson), more adventurous than her friend but unformed and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Voice of Choice</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/08/11/080811gonb_GOAT_notebook_als</link>
<description><![CDATA[If Anita O&#8217;Day didn&#8217;t invent the role of the hip white chick, she certainly held the patent on it. All you have to do is watch Bert Stern&#8217;s strange, almost hallucinatory 1958 documentary, &#8220;Jazz on a Summer&#8217;s Day,&#8221; to get a fairly good idea of O&#8217;Day&#8217;s particular talents. In the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>USA Today</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2008/08/11/080811crte_television_franklin</link>
<description><![CDATA[USA has distinguished itself in recent years as the oddball network--home of the misfits and safe haven for the dysfunctional. And that&#8217;s not just the viewers. The network&#8217;s slogan is &#8220;Characters welcome,&#8221; as in &#8220;That guy&#8217;s a real character.&#8221; The best illustration of the slogan is &#8220;Monk&#8221;--the series&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Theatre</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/theatre/2008/08/11/080811goth_GOAT_theatre</link>
<description><![CDATA[OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS 
        Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information.   
          
          
        A DAY IN DIG NATION 
        Michael McQuilken wrote (with Tommy Smith) and performs this one-man show, about the pitfalls of a technology-driven society. Opens Aug. 13. (P.S. 122, at 150 First&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Delighted States</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/08/11/080811crbn_brieflynoted1</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ostensibly devoted to the problem of literary translation, this provocative treatise rambles through the Western canon from Cervantes to Bellow, treating novelists less as subjects than as characters in a sprawling intercontinental epic. Thirlwell revels in the anecdotal (Italo Svevo studied English with James Joyce) and the serendipitous (the French&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Spiral Jetta</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/08/11/080811crbn_brieflynoted3</link>
<description><![CDATA[Facing a midlife crisis of sorts, Hogan, a &#8220;recovering art historian,&#8221; took a three-week trek in search of the American Sublime. Her destinations were &#8220;monuments of American land art,&#8221; including Robert Smithson&#8217;s &#8220;Spiral Jetty,&#8221; a coil of earth and rock built in the Great Salt Lake in 1970. Short&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Readings and Talks</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/readings/2008/08/11/080811goab_GOAT_above1</link>
<description><![CDATA[BRINGING DOWN THE GREAT FIREWALL OF CHINA&#8221; 
        According to the PEN American Center, more than forty writers and journalists are currently in prison in China. In advance of the summer Olympics in Beijing, the center has arranged for Edward Albee, Russell Banks, Jessica Hagedorn, Francine Prose, and others to read&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>On the Horizon</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/horizon/2008/08/11/080811gohz_GOAT_horizon</link>
<description><![CDATA[CLASSICAL MUSIC 
        LATE ROMANTIC 
        Aug. 29-31 
        The big-shot summer festivals have run their course by Labor Day. But Woodstock&#8217;s Maverick Concerts series offers a rich weekend of events that includes a piano recital devoted to music by Schubert and David Del Tredici and a chamber-orchestra concert, led by&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Night Life</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/nightlife/2008/08/11/080811goni_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.  
          
          
        ALL POINTS WEST MUSIC &#38; ARTS FESTIVAL 
        Liberty State Park, N.J. (212-307-7171)--This new gathering attempts to bring a Coachella-like vibe to the metropolitan area. Radiohead is one of the headliners&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Movies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPENING
          
        ANITA O&#8217;DAY: THE LIFE OF A JAZZ SINGER 
        A documentary about the singer, directed by Robbie Cavolina and Ian McCrudden. Opening Aug. 15. (Cinema Village.) 
          
        BEAUTIFUL LOSERS 
        Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard directed this documentary, about the intersection of such nineteen-nineties subcultures as skateboarding, punk, hip-hop, and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Hue Turn</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/08/11/080811gonb_GOAT_notebook_aletti</link>
<description><![CDATA[At a time when museums, galleries, and collectors&#8217; homes are full of massive color prints by Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, and Thomas Ruff, the idea that color photographs were once not just unfashionable but unsalable seems impossibly quaint. &#8220;When Color Was New,&#8221; a smart, compact show at the Julie Saul&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>French Disconnections</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In his last theatrical comedy, &#8220;Trafic&#8221; (Criterion), from 1971, the French director Jacques Tati, in his familiar role of Monsieur Hulot, plays the designer of the &#8220;camping car,&#8221; a Rube Goldbergesque contraption that offers such odd amenities as a radiator grille that flips out to become a barbecue grill. 
                The&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Fire and Ice</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/08/11/080811gonb_GOAT_notebook_acocella</link>
<description><![CDATA[The dance form known as stepping was invented by fraternities at black colleges around the nineteen-twenties. The students did these drills, presumably as a show of both power and togetherness, at initiation ceremonies. Eventually, stepping moved into the quad, where the houses started holding competitions, each trying to prove&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Dance</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/dance/2008/08/11/080811goda_GOAT_dance</link>
<description><![CDATA[MONICA BILL BARNES 
        In &#8220;Game Face,&#8221; Barnes and seven collaborators take on the business world, in a work commissioned by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council&#8217;s &#8220;Sitelines.&#8221; (Robert Wagner, Jr., Park, just north of Battery Park. 212-219-9401. Aug. 5-7 and Aug. 11-14 at noon and 1.) 
          
        HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO 
        The&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Conflict of Interests</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/08/11/080811crat_atlarge_lemann</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a year saturated with political conversation, can there be any topic that has not yet been discussed? Well, here&#8217;s one: 2008 is the centenary of a curious and mesmerizing book that was long considered the most important study of politics and society ever produced by an American--&#8220;The Process&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Classical Music</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/classical/2008/08/11/080811gocl_GOAT_classical</link>
<description><![CDATA[CONCERTS IN TOWN 
          
        MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL 
        The next two weeks bring a bounty of musical riches, both foreign and domestic. Here are some highlights: Aug. 6 at 10:30: Jeremy Denk--one of the most versatile and admired pianists in the city--performs Schubert&#8217;s Sonata in B-Flat Major, D. 960&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Callas Kissed Me . . . Lenny Too!</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/08/11/080811crbn_brieflynoted4</link>
<description><![CDATA[John Gruen, a Jewish refugee from Europe and former G.I., came to New York in 1949 looking for a way to achieve &#8220;some sort of stardom.&#8221; This entertaining memoir, strewn with exclamation points, recounts his search, as he flings himself at famous and influential people to further his careers as&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Balanchine Variations</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/08/11/080811crbn_brieflynoted2</link>
<description><![CDATA[This book&#8217;s essays on twenty Balanchine ballets are based on pre-performance lectures. That&#8217;s bad--the essays are too short--and it&#8217;s good, because, for the lay reader, they are perfect Friday-night previews of a Saturday matin&#233;e. But this is armchair reading, too. With each ballet, Goldner addresses a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Art</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/2008/08/11/080811goar_GOAT_art</link>
<description><![CDATA[MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES 
          
        METROPOLITAN MUSEUM 
        Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--&#8220;J. M. W. Turner.&#8221; Through Sept. 21. | As Renaissance Florence and Rome rediscovered classical art, a penchant developed for inlay and carving of semiprecious hard stone (pietre dure, in Italian). The craze swept neighboring countries, and &#8220;Art of the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Above and Beyond</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/above/2008/08/11/080811goab_GOAT_above</link>
<description><![CDATA[ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATRE 
        The dance troupe celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a series of free performances and classes in all five boroughs, including an all-day street party on Aug. 9 outside its home at City Center, on Fifty-fifth Street, in Manhattan. (For more information, visit www.alvinailey.org&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>McGaffin</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/nakedcampaign/mcgaffin</link>
<description><![CDATA[Steve Brodner maps McCain&#8217;s global gaffes.]]></description>
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<title>The Theatre</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/theatre/2008/08/04/080804goth_GOAT_theatre</link>
<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. Opens Aug. 4. (McGinn/Cazale, Broadway at 76th&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Russian Arc</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/08/04/080804gonb_GOAT_notebook_lane</link>
<description><![CDATA[Although the reputation of Andrei Tarkovsky, twenty-two years after his death, remains secure, his admirers are understandably divided. For every viewer who rejoices in the historical glories of &#8220;Andrei Rublev,&#8221; there is another who will veer toward the apocalyptic grandeur of his later works, like &#8220;The Sacrifice.&#8221; Perched quietly&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>On the Horizon</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/horizon/2008/08/04/080804gohz_GOAT_horizon</link>
<description><![CDATA[MOVIES 
        COPS AND ROBBERS 
        Aug. 8-Sept. 11 
        The theme of crime and punishment has a distinctive flavor in each country, and the French cinema has a special way with the underworld milieu. Film Forum&#8217;s &#8220;French Crime Wave&#8221; series features such classics as Jules Dassin&#8217;s &#8220;Rififi,&#8221; Jean-Pierre Melville&#8217;s &#8220;Bob&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>O Albion!</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/08/04/080804gonb_GOAT_notebook_ross</link>
<description><![CDATA[While some classical record labels have lost artistic focus or disappeared altogether amid crises in the music business, boutique operations like Nonesuch, ECM, Harmonia Mundi, and BIS have gone from strength to strength, with each new release extending a personal vision. New Albion, which was founded in Northern California twenty&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Movies</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/revivals/2008/08/04/080804gomo_GOAT_movies</link>
<description><![CDATA[OPENING 
          
        AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL 
        A documentary, directed by Darryl Roberts, about the national obsession with plastic surgery. Opening Aug. 1. (Cinema Village.) 
          
        FROZEN RIVER 
        Reviewed below in Now Playing. Opening Aug. 1. (Angelika Film Center and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.) 
          
        IN SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS 
        Reviewed this week in The&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Dance</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/dance/2008/08/04/080804goda_GOAT_dance</link>
<description><![CDATA[BATTLEWORKS DANCE COMPANY 
        Robert Battle&#8217;s new &#8220;Reel Time&#8221; has a tribal intensity, part African and part rocking out. &#8220;Ella&#8221; is a tour-de-force solo, as is &#8220;In/Side.&#8221; Other pieces on the program include &#8220;Juba,&#8221; created for the Ailey company, and &#8220;Overture,&#8221; set to Bach. (Joyce Theatre, 175 Eighth&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Blast from the Present</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/recordings/2008/08/04/080804gore_GOAT_recordings_greenman</link>
<description><![CDATA[Richie Havens and Joan Baez aren&#8217;t much older than the senior class of classic rockers--they&#8217;re both sixty-seven, the same age as Bob Dylan, the same age that John Lennon would be. But, in the popular imagination, they&#8217;re forever fixed in an earlier time: Havens in August, 1969, when&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Above and Beyond</title>
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<title>Review: &#x27;Star Wars: The Clone Wars&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[New series of animated 'Star Wars' adventures retraces old ground with the same leaden dialogue as the originals.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Henry Poole Is Here&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some touching moments in this tale of a man who doesn't believe in miracles but desperately needs one.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Tropic Thunder&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Daring satire pushes buttons as it parodies the moviemaking business.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Vicky Cristina Barcelona</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Set in sun-burnished Spain, Woody Allen's latest offering celebrates as well as pokes fun at hot-blooded Latin stereotypes.

   
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<title>Mexican street art with an edge</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Oaxaca's art first burst onto the city's walls in 2006 after protesters clashed with police.

   
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<title>TV dramas&#x27; foreign accent</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This fall a quarter of the new dramas will be adaptations of shows from overseas.

   
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<title>CD Reviews: Reggae &#x2013; the authentic, the new, and the flamenco-flavored</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Latin reggae with a salsa tinge; Augustus Pablo's trance-inducing tunes; edgy, synthesized dance-hall grooves from British label Greensleeves; and more.

   
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<title>Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor staff</title>
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    http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0815/p16s01-algn.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lyrical songs from Randy Newman, a charming screwball comedy out on DVD, a novelist's hysterical satire of the media, and more.

   
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<item rdf:about="http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/08/13/screen-wars-stealing-tv%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98eyeball%e2%80%99-share/">
<title>Screen wars: stealing TV&#x27;s &#x2018;eyeball&#x27; share</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Television, the long-dominant medium, becomes just one of many video outlets.

   
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<item rdf:about="http://features.csmonitor.com/olympics08/2008/08/12/increased-professionalism-keeps-swimmers-in-the-pool/">
<title>Increased professionalism keeps swimmers in the pool</title>
<link>http://features.csmonitor.com/olympics08/2008/08/12/increased-professionalism-keeps-swimmers-in-the-pool/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Athletes supported by generous endorsements are able to swim well past their college years.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Pineapple Express&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Black comedy about the adventures of two potheads is fitfully amusing but over the top on gross-out gore.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Red&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A dog's killing leads the owner to seek first restitution and ultimately revenge.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Elegy&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Based on a Philip Roth novel, 'Elegy' traces the passionate entanglement of an aging professor with a strikingly beautiful student, played by Penélope Cruz.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sisterhood sequel boasts same sporty cast but little emotional depth.

   
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<title>Reinventing rumba, Catalan style</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Barcelona-based bands wrap the traditional Spanish gypsy music into urban rhythms in an ever-evolving new fusion.

   
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<title>Designing the places we wait</title>
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<description><![CDATA[New book on lobbies and waiting rooms explores the creative beauty of spaces for times in between.

   
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<title>Jump higher, swim faster: Olympians blast past old barriers</title>
<link>http://features.csmonitor.com/olympics08/2008/08/10/jump-higher-swim-faster-olympians-blast-past-old-barriers/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Athletes are pushing their bodies to new limits, setting times never before recorded, and wringing from a few frantic airborne seconds a new twist or turn that previous generations thought fantastical.

   
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<title>Whose play is this, anyway?</title>
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<description><![CDATA['Anastasia' was a seasoned actress who got the general gist of Oscar Wilde's words.

   
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<title>Young indie crowd takes vinyl for a spin</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Novelty and nostalgia boost sales, as audiophiles argue that nothing beats vinyl's warm sound.

   
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<item rdf:about="http://features.csmonitor.com/olympics08/2008/08/05/olympic-torch-%e2%80%93-and-cyclists-in-masks-%e2%80%93-arrive-in-beijing/">
<title>Olympic torch &#x2013; and cyclists in masks &#x2013; arrive in Beijing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[China tries to choreograph a happy ending to its troubled international tour.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Frozen River&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Affecting drama about a mother who smuggles illegal immigrants from Canada to the US has startlingly good acting.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Latest Mummy movie races through the catacombs of ancient China, with yetis and terra-cotta armies not far behind.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Swing Vote&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Political comedy uses wild premise to serve up a civics lessons without much substance.

   
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<title>Review: &#x27;Man on Wire&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Documentary about the French wire walker who walked between the World Trade Center towers, 110 stories up, examines the heroic and flat-out crazy aspects of the feat.

   
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<title>Video-gaming strives for respect. Is it a sport?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A virtual ‘torch relay' heralding the World Cyber Games ends next week in Germany. It's part of an effort to bring video-game competition into the mainstream.

   
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