Never Forget. You’re Reminded.
Collective tragedy becomes a cinematic genre that plays to hearts, minds and awards.
How Axl Rose Spent All That Time
“Chinese Democracy” is the Titanic ship of rock albums: It’s outsize, lavish, obsessive, technologically advanced and, all too clearly, the end of an era.
A Whirlwind Named Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim arrives in New York this week, complete with a breakneck schedule.
Pages That Weren’t Meant for Stages
Novels can be moving. Theater can be moving. So why don’t novels make moving theater?
Forever Screwball, Forever Fearless
Carole Lombard, the beautiful, fearless screwball of her time, gets a retrospective.
Layers of Devotion (and the Scars to Prove It)
The physicist-turned artist Enrique Martínez Celaya has bled for his work. Literally.
Billionaire Offers Arts Bailout in Los Angeles
The philanthropist Eli Broad has offered $30 million to help rescue the Museum of Contemporary Art if the trustees and other patrons also step up their donations.
Bette S. Garber Dies at 65; Saw the Beauty in Big Rigs
Among the small but lively fraternity of photojournalists who specialize in documenting trucks and truckers, Ms. Garber was considered the foremost in the country.
That’s Cedric the Serious Actor to You
Cedric the Entertainer’s new aspirations and references are to Tony nominations, theater gossip, and the moral and syntactical universe according to David Mamet.
Like ‘The West Wing,’ Only With Sports
“Sports Night” was Aaron Sorkin’s effort to reimagine the traditional situation comedy as something that could be literary and not necessarily laugh-a-minute funny.
Point Toe, Click Mouse
Chris Elam expands the reach of new dance from occasional live productions to an engaged Web audience.
Saving That Landscape, in Pictures at Least
An advocate emerges to protect the often disregarded plaza, garden and scenic memorial.
Actors’ Union Talks Break Down
The Screen Actors Guild inched closer to a strike after two days of talks with an alliance of Hollywood studios apparently broke down.
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Video: UrbanEye
Melena Ryzik surveys the full range of New Yorks cultural offerings. This episode: an annual benefit for the Moth, an organization dedicated to the art of oral storytelling.
Podcast: Music
New music from Butch Walker and Shontelle and the singer Ana Brun joins us in our studio.
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