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SXSW 2012: 'Gimme the Loot,' Ginger Baker doc take top prizes
24 Frames"Gimme the Loot," Adam Leon's tale of two teenage graffiti artists in the Bronx, won the grand jury prize for narrative feature at the South by Southwest film festival, organizers announced Tuesday. "Beware of Mr. Baker" -- Jay Bulger's examination of how... -
Lance Armstrong doping investigation closed with no charges
L.A. NOWFederal prosecutors in Los Angeles announced Friday they were closing an investigation into “allegations of federal criminal conduct” by members and associates of a racing team owned by cyclist Lance Armstrong.... -
Dick Cheney memoir 'In My Time' already making waves
Jacket CopyFormer Vice President Dick Cheney tells it his way in the memoir "In My Time" to be released next week.... -
Disaster-flick auteur Roland Emmerich takes on William Shakespeare
Culture MonsterThe idea that Roland Emmerich -- the disaster-flick auteur behind "Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012" -- was taking on William Shakespeare for his next movie project struck many as strange, incongruous and just plain wrong. What... -
Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Julie & Julia' on Starz
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of July 4 - 10 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here FRENCH COOKING: Meryl Streep stars as chef and author Julia Child...... -
Dance review: ABT's 'The Sleeping Beauty' at the Music Center
Culture MonsterThe “Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center” season that delivered artistic epiphanies with two important historic reconstructions – the Joffrey Ballet’s marvelous staging of Frederick Ashton’s “Cinderella” (1948) and Merce... -
'West Side Story' with a Spanish accent
When they got together at the Beverly Hills Hotel in August 1955, their legs dipping in the pool, Arthur Laurents and Leonard Bernstein were wrestling with a problem 3,000 miles away: They were trying to recast the "Romeo and Juliet" story for a modern-...Tags: Leonard Bernstein, YouTube, Arts and Culture, Theater, Academy Awards
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That Bernstein feeling
Times Music CriticSAN FRANCISCO -- On Nov. 14, 1943, 25-year-old Leonard Bernstein made his debut conducting the New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall. A last-minute substitute for Bruno Walter, he landed on the front page of the New York Times. The next year he...Tags: Leonard Bernstein, Arts and Culture, Theater, Opera (genre), Culture
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'The Canterbury Tales'
The Canterbury Tales
A New Unabridged Translation by Burton Raffel
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Modern Library: 624 pp. $35
Chaucer himself was a translator, people forget, his most important work along those lines being "The Romance of the Rose" and...Tags: Geoffrey Chaucer, Arts and Culture, Anglicanism, Flatulence, Literature
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Astral Weeks: A bread-and-circus future
My heart sinks when I open a new SF or fantasy novel for potential review, only to see the word " Prologue." Though not necessarily long, these scene-setters can be inscrutable, particularly when you realize you're holding Volume 3 in the second of four...Tags: Cat (animal), Hospitals and Clinics, Vietnam War (1955-1975), September 11, 2001 Attacks, Gaming
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Music review: Andrey Boreyko leads L.A. Phil at Disney Hall
Culture MonsterAndrey Boreyko -- the chief conductor of the Bern Symphony Orchestra in Switzerland and as of this fall the music director of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra -- may not have the most glamorous, high-powered publicity buildup in the world. But...... -
Gérard Grisey’s spacetime epic receives its U.S. premiere at REDCAT
Culture MonsterFriday night, REDCAT was packed. A red-blooded audience filled every seat. Red-blooded musicians occupied every inch of the black-box stage. There was excitement in the air. Many concert presenters would consider a mainly young audience giving eager and...
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