THE RIGHT STUFF

By MARY HUHN

GET onboard tomorrow, when the O'Jays bring the sound of Philadelphia to the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts (on the campus of Lehman College; 250 Bedford Park Blvd...more >

By DAN AQUILANTE

THE Ataris concert at the Bowery Ballroom Wednesday seemed as doomed as the computer games from which the band snagged its moniker. The guitars wouldn’t stay in tune, the sound was sucking so hard...more >

MEGA CONCERT BRINGS TOGETHER THE BEST OF THE CARRIBBEAN COUNTRY’S ACTS

By SANDRA GUZMAN

Dominican Independence Day will come early in New York when A-list Dominican performers take center stage tonight at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. According to Vidal Cedeño, one of the...more >

By KYLE SMITH

SHIFTING the self-deprecating japery of "High Fidelity" from a record store to a quiz show makes "Starter for 10" a sweetly endearing date movie. When a working-class nerd...more >

By KYLE SMITH

'AMAZING Grace" isn't quite an accurate title for this entertaining history lesson, but no one will ever write a song titled "Amazing 20-Year Period of Parliamentary Maneuvering to...more >

By KYLE SMITH

WE have a report of a comedy in progress, ma'am. I need you to show me any explod ing whale guts, men in short- shorts, or handcuffed chick ens you may have on the premises. Whoa, you say...more >

By V.A. MUSETTO

JAPANESE director Katsuhito Ishii, best known to fans of Asian cinema for "Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl," a violent 1998 chronicle of a fashion-conscious hit man, makes a 360-degree...more >

By LOU LUMENICK

'THE Astronaut Farmer," a charming, low-key Capra- esque fable from reformed hip sters Mark and Michael Polish ("Northfork"), is the sort of movie you hardly ever see being...more >

By LOU LUMENICK

THE press material for "Gray Matters," a deadly coming-out comedy, notes that its debuting director, Sue Kramer, has sold a bunch of unproduced screenplays. Small wonder. There isn'...more >

By V.A. MUSETTO

THE Taiwanese sex musical "The Way ward Cloud" is notable for its bizarre uses of watermelons. I won't give you the details because my editor would just cut them out. But you will...more >