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The Pop Hit Of The Summer
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:00:00 -0400
Katy Perry's I kissed A Girl, the No. 1 hit this summer, is a celebration of teenage sexual experimentation. That's not so strange, but this pop hit features a young woman gleefully mulling same-sex smooching.
In New Biographical Ad, McCain Targets Obama
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:00:00 -0400
Sen. John McCain has a new biographical ad out. It's called "Love" and it touts McCain's time in Vietnam. Jonathan Martin, a writer at Politico, says the ad strikes a very different tone from a biographical ad the Obama campaign recently released.
Happiness, Hope Inspire Miami Pop Artist
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:14:00 -0400
Romero Britto's bold outlines, bright colors and simple images appeal to children, public officials and art collectors. Britto says there's a reason his work is so popular: It makes people happy. But is it serious art?

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A Private Dance? Four Million Web Fans Say No
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:02:25 -0000
“Dancing,” which more than four million people have viewed on YouTube, is the online equivalent of a platinum hit, seeping from one computer to the next like a virus.
Music Review: Levine Wages Berlioz’s Trojan War
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:43:45 -0000
James Levine opened the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer season at Tanglewood with a concert performance of Berlioz’s biggest, meatiest and most hair-raisingly passionate score, the opera “Les Troyens.”
Books of The Times: Hush, Hush, Sister Dearest, Your Fall Was an Accident
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:47:45 -0000
“The Sister” is powered by the same sort of confidently rendered literary suspense that propelled Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” onto best-seller lists.

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The Theatre
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER Second Stage’s Uptown Series concludes with this play by Rajiv Joseph, an origami-themed love story. Giovanna Sardelli directs. Previews begin July 14. (McGinn/Cazale, Broadway at 76th St . . .
The Garden of Last Days
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Dubus’s follow-up to “House of Sand and Fog” 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 . . .
Symphony of Millions
Alex Ross Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
In March, Chen Qigang, a Chinese composer who is supervising the music program for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics, received a National Spirit Achievers Award at a press event in Beijing. He was one of ten artists and businesspeople to receive the prize, which came courtesy of . . .

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Art: W. Eugene Smith: Art, Not News: The Life magazine lensman finds a new context at Silverstein
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
The Life magazine lensman finds a new context at Silverstein (By R.C. Baker)
Art: The Met's Century of Photography: A striking, revealing lineup of giants from photography's first hundred years
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
A striking, revealing lineup of giants from photography's first hundred years (By Leslie Camhi)
Dance: Compagnie Maguy Marin: Moving Days: How many steps does it take to make a world?
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
How many steps does it take to make a world? (By Deborah Jowitt)
Theater: Macbeth 2008: Opposite Poles: TR Warszawa's Shakespeare made vivid—and almost invisible
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
TR Warszawa's Shakespeare made vivid—and almost invisible (By Michael Feingold)
Theater: Misha Shulman's Brunch at the Luthers: Duck, motherfucker
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Duck, motherfucker (By GARRETT EISLER)

 

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