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<title>A Fleeting Memory Of Carlos Fuentes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mexican literary legend's passing this week spurred a particular recollection from NPR's Linton Weeks, who spent time with him in 1995.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;The Chemistry Of Tears&#x27; And The Art Of Healing</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/2012/05/16/152279010/the-chemistry-of-tears-and-the-art-of-healing?ft=1&#x26;f=1008</link>
<description><![CDATA[After a museum conservator's lover dies, she becomes consumed with reanimating a 19th-century silver swan automaton. Critic Heller McAlpin says that Peter Carey's new novel is part historical, part fanciful and completely wonderful.]]></description>
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<title>Even Your Mother Will Approve Of Vegetable Chips</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/2012/05/15/152748537/even-your-mother-will-approve-of-vegetable-chips?ft=1&#x26;f=1008</link>
<description><![CDATA[If you're like most Americans, you love chips, particularly potato chips. But that gloriously crunchy, fried snack isn't that good for you. These baked veggie chips are a health food in comparison. By making your own, you control what goes into them, and what stays out.]]></description>
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<title>In Writing, Fuentes  Shed Light On Poverty, Inequality </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Carlos Fuentes, one of the most influential Latin American writers, died Tuesday at a hospital in Mexico City at the age of 83. He was instrumental in bringing Latin American literature to an international audience, and he used his fiction to address what he saw as real-world injustices.]]></description>
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<title>Remembering Mexican Writer Carlos Fuentes</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/2012/05/15/152777952/remembering-mexican-writer-carlos-fuentes?ft=1&#x26;f=1008</link>
<description><![CDATA[Robert Siegel talks to literary critic Alan Cheuse, a writing teacher at George Mason University, about the legacy of Carlos Fuentes. The Mexican writer died Tuesday at the age of 83.]]></description>
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<title>Home Video Picks: &#x27;Being John Malkovich&#x27;</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/05/15/152760122/home-video-picks-being-john-malkovich?ft=1&#x26;f=1008</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob Mondello recommends the Criterion Collection's Blu-ray release of Being John Malkovich, directed by Spike Jonze and starring Malkovich, John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and Catherine Keener.]]></description>
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<title>Vermont Beer Makers Bring Back Old-Time Maple Sap Brews</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/05/15/152694105/vermont-beer-makers-bring-back-old-time-maple-sap-brews?ft=1&#x26;f=1008</link>
<description><![CDATA[Boiling down the last of the season maple sap and brewing a strong dark beer to share in the summer was a common tradition on Vermont farms a couple of generations ago. The practice had all but died out but is being revived now, thanks to a handful of local brewers.]]></description>
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<title>Audra McDonald: Shaping &#x27;Bess&#x27; On Broadway</title>
<link>http://www.npr.org/2012/05/15/152693314/audra-mcdonald-shaping-bess-on-broadway?ft=1&#x26;f=1008</link>
<description><![CDATA[The actress is nominated for her fifth Tony Award for the Broadway musical Porgy and Bess. "There's very few quiet moments for Bess," she says. "They're all very big, very emotional. ... And to commit to that night after night after night is very difficult."]]></description>
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<title>Fox Rolls Out Its New Fall Shows, Including One From Mindy Kaling</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fox doesn't have as many holes to fill as the other networks, but they've still got a handful of new fall shows.]]></description>
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<title>Latin Pop Group Man&#xE1; Draws Adoring Crowds</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Maná, a rock group that sings only in Spanish, has been attracting fans, both recent immigrants and others, in the United States for decades.


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<title>String Cheese Incident Takes On Ticketmaster</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The band String Cheese Incident is making a symbolic end run to protest what it considers high ticket-sales fees.


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<title>Arts &#x26; Leisure: Steve Kazee of &#x2018;Once&#x2019; Knows About Pain</title>
<link>http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=0f3afbbd7200cbf296aaae569fb7bbb7</link>
<description><![CDATA[Steve Kazee, whose Broadway role in “Once” is that of a man who is coming off a breakup and whose mother has died, is coming off breakup and lost his mother last month.


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<title>New Delay in Opening Museum for African Art</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Museum for African Art has been forced to delay the opening of its new location in East Harlem because it has not raised enough money.


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<title>Dance Review: American Ballet Theater&#x2019;s Opening-Night Gala</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On Monday evening the American Ballet Theater offered exhilarating sections amid a largely predictable series of bedroom pas de deux and fouetté turns.


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<title>Movie Review: &#x2018;The Dictator,&#x2019; Sacha Baron Cohen&#x2019;s New Comedy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sacha Baron Cohen’s newest creation, Admiral General Aladeen, is the star of the new comedy “The Dictator.”


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<title>Special Report: Cannes Festival: They&#x27;ll Always Have Cannes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For better or worse the Cannes International Film Festival seems more than ever a model of stability, at a time when other major European festivals are working through regime changes.


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<title>Carlos Fuentes, Mexican Novelist, Dies at 83</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mr. Fuentes was Mexico’s elegant public intellectual and grand man of letters whose panoramic novels captured the complicated essence of his country’s history.


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<title>Arts &#x26; Leisure: Bethany Cosentino With New Sound on &#x2018;The Only Place&#x2019;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bethany Cosentino is no longer hiding on the new Best Coast album “The Only Place.”


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<title>ArtsBeat: A Deadly Night in the Boxing Ring Is Grist for an Evening at the Opera</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Opera Theater of St. Louis and Jazz Theater of St. Louis have commissioned an opera by Terence Blanchard based on the life of the boxer Emile Griffith, whose battering of Benny Paret in 1962 resulted in Paret's death.


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<title>ArtsBeat: Don&#x27;t Stop the Press! &#x27;Newsies&#x27; Run Is Now Open-Ended</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Newsies," the hit Broadway musical from Disney, is doing far too well to close in August as planned.


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<title>ArtsBeat: Broadway Musical &#x27;Priscilla, Queen of the Desert&#x27; to Close</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The musical, about a team of drag performers journeying through remote Australia in a camping (and camp) bus, will play its final show at the Palace Theater on June 24.


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<title>Theater Review: &#x2018;Are You There, McPhee?&#x2019; by John Guare, at Berlind Theater</title>
<link>http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=2981dae5d16b5fa3e746bb21a64de149</link>
<description><![CDATA[“Are You There, McPhee?,” the new John Guare play, is a dizzying comic fantasy about the terrors of childhood, the confusions of adulthood and much more.


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<title>Theater Review: &#x2018;American Jornalero,&#x2019; at the Intar Theater</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In “American Jornalero,” by Ed Cardona Jr., day laborers hope for work but must brace for confrontation.


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<title>Books of The Times: &#x2018;I Am Forbidden,&#x2019; a Novel by Anouk Markovits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two Hasidic girls, united as a result of Nazi persecution, pursue opposite paths in this novel by Anouk Markovits.


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<title>Movie Review: &#x2018;Elena,&#x2019; by Andrei Zvyagintsev, Set In and Around Moscow</title>
<link>http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=7fe51d82b53343b5fe2b9d8b41dd41f1</link>
<description><![CDATA[“Elena,” by Andrei Zvyagintsev, follows a married couple and their class resentments.


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<title>Television Review: &#x2018;Bones of Turkana,&#x2019; a PBS Profile of Richard Leakey</title>
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<description><![CDATA[“Bones of Turkana,” on PBS, is a look at the life and work of Richard Leakey, especially the discovery of the 1.6-million-year-old Turkana Boy.


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<title>Music Review: Milwaukee and Nashville Symphonies at Carnegie Hall</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Nashville Symphony performed in the last two concerts of the Spring for Music festival at Carnegie Hall.


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<title>Music Review: Look &#x26; Listen Festival at Pratt Manhattan Gallery</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The finale of the Look & Listen Festival included performances by Derek Bermel, Michael Brown and Brooklyn Rider.


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<title>Music Review: Christine Brewer at Alice Tully Hall</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The soprano Christine Brewer gave a recital, featuring a poem from her daughter as well as works by Barber, Ives and Arlen, at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday afternoon.


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<title>Advertising: Broadcasters Pitch Programming for Hispanics - Advertising</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nine cable channels and broadcast networks are offering advertisers a way to reach the Hispanic population, up from five at the upfronts presentations last year.


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<title>Eating, Live Butchery and, Oh Yeah, Music</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A gastronomic Summer of Love kicks off with the Great GoogaMooga festival in Prospect Park, where star chefs are the headliners, upstaging the musical acts.


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<title>The Scoop: New York City iPhone App</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Get a selection of the listings on your iPhone with The Scoop, The Times’s guide to what to eat, see and do in New York.


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<title>Breaking Conductors&#x2019; Down by Gesture and Body Part</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Demystifying the movements of conductors, with the help of seven top practitioners, including Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic.


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<title>The Week Ahead: May 13 &#x2014; 19</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A selection of cultural events.


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<title>Life of a &#x2018;Salesman&#x2019;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Charles Isherwood leads an online discussion about Arthur Miller’s classic play.


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<title>Special Section: Museums</title>
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<description><![CDATA[From art classes taught by artists to programs to fight childhood obesity, education is a growing mission at museums.


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<title>Silvia Killingsworth: Atera in Tribeca review.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[paragraph class="noindent">New York has seen cupcake and fried-chicken fads, but the city&#8217;s current food idol is the ramp, a limp and unassuming wild onion harvested in early spring. Ramps are featured in several dishes at the forager chef Matthew Lightner&#8217;s Atera, in Tribeca&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Lorrie Moore: Richard Ford&#x26;#8217;s terse poetry in &#x26;#8220;Canada.&#x26;#8221;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Richard Ford is a writer of jangling personal fascination to many in the literary world. Charming and charmed, he is an embodiment of interesting and intimidating contradictions: a Southern childhood, a Midwestern education, a restless adulthood occurring not just in New York and New Jersey but in seemingly every state&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>James Wood: Laurent Binet&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;HHhH&#x26;#8221; and historical fiction.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The American Ambassador&#8217;s residence in Prague was built in the late nineteen-twenties by Otto Petschek. The Petscheks were among the wealthiest families in Czechoslovakia, and the mansion was lavish: long curving corridors, ornate bathrooms, a swimming pool in the basement. The Petscheks were also German-speaking Jews&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Hilton Als: Nathan Lane in Robert Falls&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;The Iceman Cometh.&#x26;#8221;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Is Nathan Lane his generation&#8217;s Ethel Merman? While watching him take on the role of Theodore (Hickey) Hickman in Robert Falls&#8217;s complicated, intellectually bracing staging of Eugene O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s &#8220;The Iceman Cometh&#8221; (at the Goodman, in Chicago), I kept imagining Lane&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: The Theatre</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PageBreak -->OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS 
Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. 
  
COCK 
The Royal Court produced this play by Mike Bartlett, directed by James Macdonald, about a man who breaks up with his boyfriend and falls in love with&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[goatTitle-->WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART 
The German filmmaker Werner Herzog talks about contemporary art, as well as his contribution to the Biennial, with the co-curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders. (945 Madison Ave., at 75th St. 212-570-3600. May 17 at noon.) 
  
BOWERY POETRY CLUB 
Marion&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: On the Horizon</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/horizon/2012/05/21/120521gohz_GOAT_horizon</link>
<description><![CDATA[CLASSICAL MUSIC 
DONE AND DONE 
May 29 
Late spring isn&#8217;t exactly a bustling time for Carnegie Hall, as the venue winds down for the off-season. But there is one big feast of music left, offered by Lang Lang, who brings his dashing style and prodigious technique to&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Night Life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PageBreak -->ROCK AND POP 
Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it&#8217;s advisable to check in advance to confirm engagements. 
  
BEST BUY THEATRE 
Broadway at 44th St. (800-745-3000)&#8212;May 17: The Adicts are a long-running British punk band whose look is&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Movies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PageBreak -->OPENING 
  
AMERICAN ANIMAL 
Matt D&#8217;Elia directed and stars in this comedy, about a terminally ill man who goes wild when his roommate (Brendan Fletcher) abandons him. Opening May 18. (In limited release.)  
  
BATTLESHIP 
An action thriller, based on the board game&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Dance</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/dance/2012/05/21/120521goda_GOAT_dance</link>
<description><![CDATA[goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET 
In addition to repeat performances of the season&#8217;s new ballets&#8212;Benjamin Millepied&#8217;s &#8220;Two Hearts&#8221; and Peter Martins&#8217;s &#8220;Mes Oiseaux&#8221;&#8212;this week brings the return of Balanchine&#8217;s rapturous &#8220;Liebeslieder Walzer&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Classical Music</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PageBreak -->OPERA 
  
NEW YORK CITY OPERA 
To round out City Opera&#8217;s first season away from Lincoln Center, George Steel has come up with a true novelty&#8212;&#8220;Orpheus,&#8221; a work by the Baroque master Georg Philipp Telemann, staged at a new venue&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Art</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PageBreak -->MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES 
  
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM 
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)&#8212;&#8220;Tom&#225;s Saraceno: Cloud City.&#8221; Through Nov. 4. |  &#8220;Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversation.&#8221; Through Aug. 19. |  &#8220;The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde.&#8221&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond</title>
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<description><![CDATA[goatTitle-->SACRED SITES OPEN HOUSE WEEKEND 
The New York Landmarks Conservancy has arranged for a number of houses of worship to receive visitors. They include the Temple Emanu-El (the world&#8217;s largest synagogue), the Church of the Incarnation (featuring windows by William Morris, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Emily Nussbaum: How Shonda Rhimes&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;Scandal&#x26;#8221; portrays race.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2012/05/21/120521crte_television_nussbaum</link>
<description><![CDATA[8220;Scandal,&#8221; the new ABC series created by Shonda Rhimes and starring Kerry Washington, is the first network TV drama with a black female lead character since 1974. That was the year of &#8220;Get Christie Love!,&#8221; a blaxploitation-inflected crime series starring Teresa Graves&#8212;best known&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>David Denby: Jean Cocteau&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;Orpheus&#x26;#8221; at Anthology Film Archives.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2012/05/21/120521gonb_GOAT_notebook_denby</link>
<description><![CDATA[Jean Cocteau&#8217;s &#8220;Orpheus,&#8221; from 1950 (at Anthology Film Archives May 19-20), is a magical feast made at a time when magic was produced by nothing more than the malleability of the human body and by the (now peculiar) properties of the film medium, with its twenty&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Books: Wenguang Huang&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;The Little Red Guard&#x26;#8221; review.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2012/05/21/120521crbn_brieflynoted2</link>
<description><![CDATA[Humor is not the first thing one expects from a memoir that occupies itself with burial rites, but this lively chronicle of a Maoist-era family and its contraband coffin inspires as many laughs as it does tears. Huang begins his story in 1973, when, at the age of nine&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Books: David Vann&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;Dirt&#x26;#8221; review.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2012/05/21/120521crbn_brieflynoted3</link>
<description><![CDATA[Though set in the nineteen-eighties (with cassette tapes and &#8220;Bonanza&#8221; reruns but no cell phones or e-mail), this California-gothic novel essentially takes place in the realm of myth. Galen, the twenty-two-year-old antihero, lives with his mother in the sequestered walnut orchard where&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Books: Anuradha Roy&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;The Folded Earth&#x26;#8221; review.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2012/05/21/120521crbn_brieflynoted4</link>
<description><![CDATA[Secret romances abound in this novel of life in a Himalayan hill station. The narrator, a young widow, slips into a relationship with an enigmatic trekking guide. A village girl runs away from her forbidding grandmother to find the cook who charmed her and then moved to the city with&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Books: Anne Enright&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;Making Babies&#x26;#8221; review.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2012/05/21/120521crbn_brieflynoted1</link>
<description><![CDATA[8220; &#8216;MARRIED WOMAN HAS CHILDREN IN THE SUBURBS&#8217;&#8212;it&#8217;s not exactly a call to arms,&#8221; Enright acknowledges at the start of this collection of wry memoir pieces on motherhood. Apart from a few gestures toward gender politics (&#8220;Why should your time, as a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Ben Greenman: Father John Misty on tour.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2012/05/21/120521gonb_GOAT_notebook_greenman</link>
<description><![CDATA[Though Josh Tillman is best known as the drummer for the indie-folk outfit Fleet Foxes, he is also J. Tillman, a solo act responsible for such fragile, desolate records as &#8220;Cancer and Delirium&#8221; and &#8220;Singing Ax.&#8221; Earlier this year, Tillman left Fleet Foxes to focus&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Anthony Lane: &#x26;#8220;Dark Shadows,&#x26;#8221; &#x26;#8220;Hysteria&#x26;#8221; reviews.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2012/05/21/120521crci_cinema_lane</link>
<description><![CDATA[The new Tim Burton film, &#8220;Dark Shadows,&#8221; stars Johnny Depp, but then it&#8217;s hard to think of a Burton film that doesn&#8217;t. The pact between them makes Dietrich and von Sternberg seem like passing acquaintances, and one wonders if there is any character, historical&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Sasha Frere-Jones: Pedrito Martinez Quartet&#x26;#8217;s clave rhythm.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2012/05/14/120514crmu_music_frerejones</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Cuban-born percussionist and singer Pedrito Martinez does not look much like a priest or a bearer of ancient culture. With his high cheekbones, dazzling smile, and gently tapered Mohawk, the thirty-eight-year-old looks about half his age, and has the charisma of a mainstream star, which&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Joan Acocella: Henry Hitchings on proper English.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/05/14/120514crbo_books_acocella</link>
<description><![CDATA[For a long time, many English speakers have felt that the language was going to the dogs. All around them, people were talking about &#8220;parameters&#8221; and &#8220;life styles,&#8221; saying &#8220;disinterested&#8221; when they meant &#8220;uninterested,&#8221; &#8220;fulsome&#8221; when they meant &#8220;full&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Joan Acocella: Doug Fullington performs Marius Petipa at the Guggenheim.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2012/05/14/120514gonb_GOAT_notebook_acocella</link>
<description><![CDATA[At most performances of &#8220;Swan Lake&#8221; and &#8220;The Sleeping Beauty,&#8221; you&#8217;ll see the words &#8220;after Petipa&#8221; in the program. That&#8217;s Marius Petipa, who headed Russia&#8217;s Imperial Ballet in the second half of the nineteenth century. As for the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Hilton Als: Cecil Taylor at the Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2012/05/14/120514gonb_GOAT_notebook_als</link>
<description><![CDATA[The eighty-three-year-old jazz pianist Cecil Taylor is an utterly brilliant and unique American artist, which doesn&#8217;t mean that he budges an inch in terms of seducing us into accepting his greatness. For the most part, our monumental poets and musicians and performers make little or&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Hannah Goldfield: Thirstbar&#x26;#224;vin in Prospect Heights review.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/tables/2012/05/14/120514gota_GOAT_tables_goldfield</link>
<description><![CDATA[paragraph class="noindent">Scientists have suggested that food tastes better when you have to work for it. In an experiment at Johns Hopkins, in 2010, mice were confronted with two levers, one that dispensed a treat after being pressed only once, another that required fifteen presses before it released a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: The Theatre</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PageBreak -->OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS 
Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. 
  
COCK 
The Royal Court produced this play by Mike Bartlett, directed by James Macdonald, about a man who breaks up with his boyfriend and falls in love with&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[goatTitle-->&#8220;ARTS IN MIND&#8221; 
This series, about creativity and mental health, continues on May 9 at 8 with the comedian Maria Bamford, who will discuss the inner lives of comics with the writers Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and Joshua Wolf Shenk and the psychiatrist Donald Rosen. (New School&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: On the Horizon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CLASSICAL MUSIC 
ICE CAPADES 
May 24 
The Metropolitan Opera finishes its season this week, and the countdown to summer begins. Miller Theatre&#8217;s lineup concludes with the International Contemporary Ensemble (known, to one and all, as ICE), performing music by the contemporary Greek iconoclast Georges Aperghis, including&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Night Life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PageBreak -->ROCK AND POP 
Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it&#8217;s advisable to check in advance to confirm engagements. 
  
BEST BUY THEATRE 
Broadway at 44th St. (800-745-3000)&#8212;May 12: Overkill might not be able to count itself among thrash metal&#8217&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Movies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PageBreak -->OPENING 
  
A BAG OF HAMMERS 
Jason Ritter and Jake Sandvig star in this drama, as a pair of car thieves who raise a neglected young boy. Directed by Brian Crano; co-starring Rebecca Hall. Opening May 11. (In limited release.) 
  
DARK SHADOWS 
A&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Dance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET 
This year&#8217;s spring gala has an extra sheen of glamour, with its chic &#8220;&#224; la fran&#231;aise&#8221; theme, costumes by Gilles Mendel and Rodarte, and Natalie Portman as honorary chair. Even Balanchine&#8217;s wondrous &#8220;Symphony in C&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Classical Music</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PageBreak -->OPERA 
  
METROPOLITAN OPERA 
The Met wraps up its &#8220;Ring&#8221; cycle, and its season, this week. &#8220;Siegfried,&#8221; which earned some of the best reviews of Robert Lepage&#8217;s four productions, features a strong cast (including Deborah Voigt, Stephen Gould, and Bryn&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Art</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PageBreak -->MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES 
  
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM 
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)&#8212;&#8220;The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde.&#8221; Through June 3. |  &#8220;Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition.&#8221; Through July 8. |  &#8220;Rembrandt at Work: The Great Self&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond</title>
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<description><![CDATA[goatTitle-->BROOKLYN HEIGHTS HOUSE AND GARDEN TOUR 
The Brooklyn Heights Association&#8217;s annual self-guided tour, which includes five historic residences, is scheduled for May 12, from 1 to 5. (For more information, call 718-858-9193, or visit thebha.org.) 
  
&#8220;SONGS FOR UNUSUAL CREATURES&#8221; 
The composer&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: Paul Preston&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;The Spanish Holocaust&#x26;#8221; review.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2012/05/14/120514crbn_brieflynoted3</link>
<description><![CDATA[Barely a month into the military coup that sparked the Spanish Civil War, in 1936, the caretaker of a Granada cemetery was driven mad by the executions being carried out there. His replacement soon had to move away from the site, &#8220;because the shots and the cries and screams&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Books: John Sutherland&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;Lives of the Novelists&#x26;#8221; review.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2012/05/14/120514crbn_brieflynoted4</link>
<description><![CDATA[Billed as &#8220;A history of fiction in 294 lives,&#8221; this chatty, companionable, undogmatic tome of capsule biographies is arranged chronologically, from John Bunyan (1628-88) to Rana Dasgupta (1971-). Like David Thomson&#8217;s &#8220;Biographical Dictionary of Film,&#8221; this prose brick is designed to be skimmed, dipped&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Books: Herta M&#x26;#252;ller&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;The Hunger Angel&#x26;#8221; review.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2012/05/14/120514crbn_brieflynoted1</link>
<description><![CDATA[Written in terse, hypnotic prose, this moving novel by a recent Noble laureate is set in a Russian Gulag at the end of the Second World War. The narrator, Leo Auberg, a member of Romania&#8217;s German-speaking minority, arrives at the age of seventeen and remains for five&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Books: Aimee Phan&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;The Reeducation of Cherry Truong&#x26;#8221; review.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2012/05/14/120514crbn_brieflynoted2</link>
<description><![CDATA[Propelled by the need to understand her splintering, sprawling Vietnamese family, the eponymous protagonist of this d&#233;but novel stitches together a multigenerational account drawn from the clandestine correspondence among her parents and grandparents. The journey of the Truongs from war-torn Vietnam to the West is beset by&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Alex Ross: The Nashville Symphony plays Charles Ives.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2012/05/14/120514gonb_GOAT_notebook_ross</link>
<description><![CDATA[Of all the otherworldly sounds that composers invented in the twentieth century, nothing quite matches the cosmic shudder of the opening of Charles Ives&#8217;s unfinished &#8220;Universe Symphony,&#8221; in which nineteen percussionists and a piccolist, each playing in a different meter and at a different tempo, generate&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Anthony Lane: &#x26;#8220;The Avengers,&#x26;#8221; &#x26;#8220;Headhunters&#x26;#8221; reviews.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2012/05/14/120514crci_cinema_lane</link>
<description><![CDATA[If you are a Marvel fan, then &#8220;The  Avengers&#8221; will feel like Christmas. Thanks to the merry doings of the director, Joss Whedon, all your favorite characters are here, as shiny and as tempting as presents under the tree. You get Tony Stark, better known as Iron Man&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Thomas Mallon: John Irving&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;In One Person.&#x26;#8221;</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/05/07/120507crbo_books_mallon</link>
<description><![CDATA[Readers looking for bears&#8212;often seen riding motorcycles or being set free from zoos in John Irving&#8217;s fiction&#8212;will find only a human, subcultural variant of the species in his new novel, &#8220;In One Person&#8221; (Simon &#38; Schuster). Bill Abbott, the earnestly bisexual narrator&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Richard Brody: Shirley Clarke&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;The Connection&#x26;#8221; at IFC Center.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In 1961, the director Shirley Clarke transformed Jack Gelber&#8217;s Off-Broadway play &#8220;The Connection&#8221;&#8212;about a quartet of jazz musicians and their junkie friends waiting for their heroin dealer in a run-down loft&#8212;into a disturbing meta-movie. (It opens May 4 at&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>James Wood: Hilary Mantel&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;Bring Up the Bodies&#x26;#8221; and Thomas Cromwell.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/05/07/120507crbo_books_wood</link>
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<title>Hilton Als: &#x26;#8220;Nice Work If You Can Get It,&#x26;#8221; &#x26;#8220;The Columnist,&#x26;#8221; &#x26;#8220;A Streetcar Named Desire&#x26;#8221; reviews.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nostalgia can be such a comfort, reversing time and washing away the years of regret, loneliness, weight gain, and bad investments. &#8220;Nice Work If You Can Get It,&#8221; a new musical, with a book by Joe DiPietro (at the Imperial), is nostalgic not only for the classic American&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: The Theatre</title>
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<description><![CDATA[PageBreak -->OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS 
Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. 
  
THE CARETAKER 
Jonathan Pryce stars in the 1960 Harold Pinter play, in which two working-class brothers in West London take in a homeless man. Christopher Morahan directs&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[goatTitle-->BOOKCOURT 
Peter Kaminsky discusses his new book, &#8220;Culinary Intelligence: The Art of Eating Healthy (and Really Well).&#8221; (163 Court St., Brooklyn. 718-875-3677. May 1 at 7.) 
  
WHITE SWALLOW READING SERIES 
Marie Howe, Dorothea Lasky, and Alex Dimitrov read from their poetry. (Cornelia Street Caf&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Emily Nussbaum: &#x26;#8220;Game of Thrones&#x26;#8221; review.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2012/05/07/120507crte_television_nussbaum</link>
<description><![CDATA[For critics, sorting through television pilots is an act of triage. Last year, when &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; landed on my desk, I skimmed two episodes and made a quick call: we&#8217;d have to let this one go. The HBO series, based on the best-selling fantasy&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Books: William Boyd&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;Waiting for Sunrise&#x26;#8221; review.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2012/05/07/120507crbn_brieflynoted4</link>
<description><![CDATA[In 1913, when this novel opens, the improbably named protagonist, Lysander Rief, has one main concern: his psychosexual blockage. The dilettante actor has moved to Vienna to begin&#8212;with the help of an analyst there&#8212;a wholesale excavation of his past. (At one point, Rief consults Sigmund Freud&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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<title>Books: Victor Cha&#x26;#8217;s &#x26;#8220;The Impossible State&#x26;#8221; review.</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2012/05/07/120507crbn_brieflynoted1</link>
<description><![CDATA[8220;Industrialized,&#8221; &#8220;urbanized,&#8221; and &#8220;high tech&#8221; are not words one typically associates with North Korea. Yet, in the wake of the Second World War, as China and the U.S.S.R. vied for influence in the Korean peninsula, it was just that. Since then, political paranoia, economic&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. (Subscription required.)]]></description>
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