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CAR TALK
I just finished reading Bryonn Bain's "Three Days in NYC Jails" [September 24-30] and would have found it quite disturbing if not for the fact that I am a man of...
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After an intense night of essential avant-garde cinema at Anthology Film Archives, discerning hipsters who need to remove their chunky plastic specs and refresh their parched...
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WEDNESDAY
OCTOBER 8
Film
'BUS 174'
Brilliant filmmaking—literally—José Padilha's feature uses a reality TV analogue to The Taking of Pelham One Two...
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I know the electro thing is so passé, but really, you should make an exception for Opti-Grab, three local cuties who do the old-skool thang pretty well. When they rap...
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With exhibitions of John Currin, Arshile Gorky, and Lucas Samaras on its fall schedule, the Whitney Museum of American Art should perk up. It better, because this institution...
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The Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra uses her camera the way a paleontologist uses carbon dating, to reveal the evolutionary layers hidden beneath appearances. Her...
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The first picture in Stephen Shore's current show is of a half-eaten cheeseburger, a packet of fries, and a plastic-lidded cup of ice milk on an outdoor table at a McDonald's...
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Fanny is the portrait of two ladies erased by history. In 1829, Frances "Fanny" Wright was the most controversial woman in America: the first female to speak out against...
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No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey's, or That used to be the Tic Toc Lounge," writes Colson Whitehead,...
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What were some of the models, literary or otherwise, for your book in 13 parts, The Colossus of New York? Well, in terms of voice, definitely Dos Passos's Camera Eye and...
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What do viruses that pass from online hosts to silicon carriers, books that teach the most powerful aspects of culture and train readers to use that knowledge to their...
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Outing Ambassador Wilson's wife as a covered CIA employee is another predictable step in the Bush government crude witch hunt politics.
Washington is...
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VOODOO VINCE
For: Xbox
Developer: Beep Industries
Publisher: Microsoft
Rating: 9 (out of 10)
Voodoo: It's led to some messed-up stuff, like that blood-drenched sex scene...
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Kay report just adds to the queasy feeling that the U.S. intelligence community has been way off in its Iraq analysis. While Bush today was using the...
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Whatever the outcome of today's California-recall vote, the fallout from the Davis-Schwarzenegger match-up is likely to continue well into next year's...
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): "I've been practicing radical authenticity lately," my Aries friend Steve told me. "I'm revealing the blunt truth about unmentionable subjects to...
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I usually hate feel-good movies—they're so formulaic and manipulative that they make me feel awful—but School of Rock is the exception to every slide rule, a...
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"A pack of bodies raging with alacrity, whipping razor-like in perilous weaves, in a hurt-ling intelligence," say the program notes for Ballett Frankfurt's BAM performances....
