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We have, the historian Jacques Barzun told us back in the 1980s, the culture we deserve. But perhaps it would be more accurate to say we have the culture we tolerate.
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Dallas -- In his quest for the presidency, Texas governor Rick Perry says three things: His state's economy is better than America's. Low taxes and small government are the...
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The caustically hilarious Kathy Griffin is playing Carnegie Hall on November 12 as part of the New York Comedy Festival—a career turn that surely merited a high-culture...
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A procedural on the political manipulation of medium and message, George Clooney’s fourth directorial effort is bookended with scenes of media-op prepping. In the first,...
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What do you call a pop-up that gets a permanent home? A plop-down, perhaps? It's a timely question, since Maharlika has gone brick-and-mortar on First Avenue in the East...
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Rosarito Fish Shack is an establishment that, perhaps too cannily, mixes a pair of current trends into one restaurant package. The first is the mania for fish tacos, found on...
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What does it say about the current state of jazz that this fall's most eagerly anticipated "new" release is a Miles Davis concert package from 1966? (The only real competition...
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At the end of September, Facebook announced its grand plans to hook itself into as many aspects of its users' lives as possible. Information provided by...
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Sharp-edged, fast, frequently funny, and extremely well-realized in Walter Bobbie's taut, speedy production, Jeff Talbott's The Submission (Lortel Theatre) has one little...
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When you enter the theater at Classic Stage Company—one of the Atlantic's homes as it completes its mainstage renovation—for Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling,...
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There’s a proud tradition of making sprawling novels into blockbuster musicals (Les Miz, Phantom, the list goes on). Would-be adaptors get a little literary street cred,...
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In HBO's sprawling fantasy epic Game of Thrones, major characters die (decapitations, molten crowns) with alarmingly unsentimental frequency. So, if you miss Drogo, the...
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Dir. Wes Anderson (2001).
A comic fairytale about a J.D. Salinger family living in the memory of their F.A.O. Schwartz childhood, Anderson’s ensemble piece is as at once...
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Dir. Azazel Jacobs (2011).
Jacobs’s sweet, strange Breakfast Club revision concerns an obese 15-year-old high school pariah. There’s very little here that’s...
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"See I know how to rap, it's simple but/All I did was read a Russell Simmons book," rapper Swift of D12 admits on "My Band," a back-and-forth with a spotlight-stealing Eminem....
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When the Smoker's Club Tour first rolled through New York last October, Curren$y had dropped the first of his two breakthrough Pilot Talk albums; Big K.R.I.T. was riding the...
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The city's sassiest big jazz band plays the music of Sly Stone, who according to the New York Post currently resides in a small camper parked on the streets of Crenshaw. Slide...
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Dir. Luis Buñuel (1962).
Buncha Mexico City swells throw a dinner party which no one seems able to leave. Buñuel’s metaphorically charged sitcom is classic...
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Dir. Hiyao Miyazaki (2001).
Anime master Miyazaki cooks up one nutty fruitcake—an Alice in Wonderland story in which a ten-year-old girl finds herself in a literal ghost...
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Dir. Charles Chaplin (1947).
For his first movie since The Great Dictator (1940), Chaplin abandoned the Little Tramp to play a comic version of the French serial killer Henri...
