| 09/03/2010 04:14 AM
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Once Around the Park, Then Farewell
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Getting ready to leave New York, but already missing the High Line, the Shakespeare Garden and more.
 
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| 09/03/2010 05:23 AM
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Time Marches ... Backward!
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The Museum of Modern Art and TCM are revisiting ?The March of Time? series, short films created from 1935 to 1951 that examine foreign affairs and social issues.
 
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| 09/03/2010 03:43 PM
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Movie Review | 'Going the Distance': Nothing Keeps Them Apart Except a Continent
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In ?Going the Distance,? Drew Barrymore and Justin Long are young lovers struggling through a cross-country romance.
 
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| 09/03/2010 04:15 AM
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Flouting the Mainstream, Forgoing a Corporate Stamp
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This weekend?s All Tomorrow?s Parties music festival in Monticello, N.Y., promises to be hugely loud and, as always, sponsor free.
 
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| 09/03/2010 04:13 PM
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Art Review: Antics Aside, a Dalí of Constant Ambition
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An exhibition counters the notion that late work by Dalí is bad, and that most Dalí is late work.
 
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| 09/03/2010 04:23 AM
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Movie Review | 'Machete': Growl, and Let the Severed Heads Fall Where They May
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Robert Rodriguez?s splatter comedy ?Machete? is a live-action comic book with roots in the pungent swamp of 1970s B movies.
 
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| 09/03/2010 03:16 PM
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Loving the Lowbrow (It Has Its Own Hall of Fame)
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?Bad art? ? rescued from trash heaps and thrift shops ? has become a genre in itself, with its own fans.
 
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| 09/03/2010 06:58 PM
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Arts & Leisure Preview: 'Boardwalk Empire,' Harvey Pekar, Cherry Jones and More
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Wisdom, insights and observations from this weekend's Arts & Leisure section.
 
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| 09/03/2010 06:17 PM
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Book Review Podcast: Isabel Wilkerson
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Featuring Isabel Wilkerson on her history of the Great Migration, "The Warmth of Other Suns"; and Sean Wilentz on his book "Bob Dylan in America."
 
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| 09/03/2010 07:09 PM
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Good Day for Paul Hogan: 'Crocodile Dundee' Star Can Return to U.S.
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Mr. Hogan had been prevented from leaving Australia, where authorities said he owed millions in unpaid taxes.
 
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| 09/03/2010 05:20 PM
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In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution
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For many composers, synthesizers are last decade. Innovations like the mutantrumpet and the flute with a glissando headjoint are expanding the range of concert sounds.
 
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| 09/03/2010 04:45 AM
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Art Review: Landscapes Framed by a Chevy
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Lee Friedlander?s ?America by Car,? opening Saturday at the Whitney Museum, consists of black-and-white photographs taken from inside cars.
 
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| 09/03/2010 04:41 AM
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Books of The Times: Simon Wiesenthal, the Man Who Refused to Forget
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A detailed biography of the legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal shows him to be a complicated hero, an angel with dirty wings.
 
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| 09/03/2010 03:19 PM
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Movie Review | 'A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop': Remade in China: Coen Brothers? Tale of Infidelity and Revenge
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The director Zhang Yimou honors the unlikely affinity between himself and Joel and Ethan Coen with a remake of their movie ?Blood Simple.?
 
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| 09/03/2010 04:45 AM
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Art Review: A Language Explorer Who Heard Echoes of Africa
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Lorenzo Dow Turner dug deep to find many African-inflected elements in the Gullah language and culture.
 
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| 09/03/2010 06:58 PM
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A Symphony of Steel
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In lots throughout New York City, drums are being pounded in preparation for the Steel Band Panorama Competition.
 
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| 09/03/2010 04:05 PM
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Vance Bourjaily, Novelist Exploring Postwar America, Dies at 87
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Mr. Bourjaily?s novels often explored what it meant to be an American at a particular historical moment.
 
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| 09/03/2010 05:03 AM
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Cammie King, Scarlett and Rhett?s Girl, Dies at 76
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Ms. King played Scarlett O?Hara and Rhett Butler?s ill-fated little girl, Bonnie Blue Butler, in ?Gone With the Wind.?
 
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| 09/03/2010 04:50 AM
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Art Review: The Allure of the Homespun in the Maw of the Digital Age
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?Underground Pop,? at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y., highlights the tension between college-trained sophistication and fictions of naïveté.
 
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| 09/03/2010 04:14 AM
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Theater Review | 'It Must Be Him': Has-Been Writer Hopes to Break Out of a Slump
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In ?It Must Be Him,? a comedy by Kenny Solms, Peter Scolari plays a television writer who?s trying to revive his career.
 
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| 09/03/2010 04:28 AM
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Movie Review | 'The Winning Season': Redemption as a Team Sport
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An alcoholic finds self-respect as the coach of a high school girls? basketball team in ?The Winning Season.?
 
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| 09/03/2010 04:28 AM
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Movie Review | 'Last Train Home': A Family Caught in the Wheels of China?s Industrial Locomotive
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This documentary by Lixin Fan traces the conflicts between married migrant factory workers in Guangzhou and their daughter, strains partly resulting from China?s accelerating economy.
 
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| 09/03/2010 05:00 AM
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Antiques: Furniture as Sculpture: A Craftsman?s Legacy
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An exhibition about the Pennsylvania carver and sculptor Wharton Esherick, known for his mid-20th-century undulating furniture, opens on Sept. 7 in galleries at the University of Pennsylvania.
 
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| 09/03/2010 04:28 AM
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Movie Review | 'Etienne!': Rodent Road Trip and Human Bonds
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A boy loses his rodent and finds a girl in ?Etienne!,? a sunny-sweet fable about healing wounds with the balm of the open road.
 
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| 09/03/2010 04:23 AM
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Movie Review | 'Our Beloved Month of August': A Film Within a Film
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The Portuguese director Miguel Gomes blurs the line between nonfiction and fiction.
 
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| 09/03/2010 04:23 AM
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Movie Review | 'Clear Blue Tuesday': A Post-9/11 Pop Musical
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The film about living in New York post-9/11, is earnest and well meaning and, while dangerously sentimental at times, never quite crosses the line into maudlin.
 
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| 09/03/2010 03:17 PM
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Movie Review | 'Prince of Broadway': A Street Hustler Becomes a Reluctant Father
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Like its subject, the movie is sharp, charismatic and so light on its feet we never know which way it will turn.
 
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| 09/03/2010 05:30 AM
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Movie Review: ?Max Manus?
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?Max Manus? is a solidly acted biopic of World War II derring-do.
 
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| 09/03/2010 05:30 AM
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Movie Review: White Wedding
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The bungled wedding story and the road movie collide happily in ?White Wedding.?
 
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| 09/03/2010 05:47 AM
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The Tipsy Diaries: The Kitchen Sink in Your Drink
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It?s an infuse-a-palooza out there, as infused spirits make serious headway in bars and restaurants of all kinds.
 
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| 09/03/2010 05:00 AM
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Urban Athlete: Chorus-Line Calisthenics
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For beginning hoofers or advanced, Broadway dance routines can be an alternative to the gym.
 
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| 09/03/2010 04:50 AM
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A Miniature-Golf Odyssey (Obstacles Included)
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A tour of miniature-golf courses among the five boroughs.
 
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| 09/03/2010 03:43 PM
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Educational Deals this Weekend
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Free superhero-fueled tutoring in Brooklyn, gardening classes for Young Sprouts near Battery Park and Sunday night fun on the Lower East Side.
 
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| 09/03/2010 04:28 AM
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House Tour: New Preston, Conn.
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On Lake Waramaug, a converted boathouse has a stone foundation, a wraparound deck and direct access to the water.
 
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| 09/03/2010 04:30 PM
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Arts & Leisure Preview: The Unfinished Tale of an Unlikely Hero
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Harvey Pekar, the obsessive chronicler of everyday lives, was collaborating at the end of his life on a Web project whose fate in print remains uncertain.
 
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| 08/26/2010 03:25 PM
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The Week Ahead: Aug. 29 ? Sept. 4
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A listing of cultural events this week.
 
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| 09/03/2010 02:07 PM
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Review: In Venice, Feting Architecture (or Is It Art?)
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Under the curatorship of Kazuyo Sejima, the 12th Architecture Biennale is above all marked by its diversity, unified under the usefully unspecific overarching title of ?People meet in architecture.?'
 
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| 09/03/2010 02:30 AM
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Review: Venice Festival Opens With Glimpses Into the Pitfalls of Passion
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Darren Aronofsky?s in-competition movie ?Black Swan? and Tran Anh Hung?s ?Norwegian Wood? tell of the agonies of professional dancing and of triangles within triangles.
 
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| 09/02/2010 05:00 AM
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Crescendo, in Double Time
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Russians entered the French festival scene this summer with an open throttle and an open checkbook.
 
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| 09/01/2010 04:30 AM
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Venice Gears Up for 67th Film Festival
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The film festival opens Wednesday and continues through Sept. 11 and will present dozens of features from 34 countries.
 
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| 08/31/2010 06:46 AM
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Beijing Opera, a Historical Treasure in Fragile Condition
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Fans of the Beijing Opera Academy of China fear that it could fall victim to modernization as the economy surges, but the government is helping support the art form.
 
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| 08/30/2010 07:00 AM
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Design: An Italian Designer?s Homage to His Native Country
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In a dazzlingly ambitious exhibition at La Triennale Design Museum in Milan, Alessandro Mendini has assembled a collection of objects to illustrate Italy.
 
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