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 Midnight Stampede to 'The Dark Knight' Sets Record
By RYAN NAKASHIMA, Associated Press
July 19, 2008
Nothing dark about Batman's first night at the box office. "The Dark Knight" lit up cash registers during its midnight debut, stealing away with a record $18.5 million from 3,040 theaters, distributor Warner Bros. said Friday. That bested the 2005…
'The Human Condition' — in 10 Hours
Movies in Brief: 'Take'
Movies in Brief: 'Felon'
Movies in Brief: 'Transsiberian'
'Space Chimps' on a Wild Ride Through Outer Space
A Happy Sing-Along: 'Mamma Mia!'
Love in a Tsunami's Aftermath: Assarat's 'Wonderful Town'
England's Answer to Tony Soprano: 'A Very British Gangster'
Julian Schnabel Revisits Lou Reed's 'Berlin'
It's Our Earth, Now What Do We Do With It?
By EDWARD GLAESER, Special to the Sun
July 18, 2008
Political movements are often built on literary foundations. Abolitionism owed much to "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Progressivism had Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell. Books, fiction or not, have the power to convince us impressionable readers that we face dire…
The World Inside Our Heads: 'Human' by Michael Gazzaniga
Man-Eaters: Carole Travis-Henikoff's 'Dinner With a Cannibal'
The Ruined City of Smyrna: Giles Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
The Crime Scene: New Looks at Old James Bond
Coming of Age in Tokyo: Natsuo Kirino's 'Real World'
Stanley Plumly's Romance With Keats
Dylan Thomas Prize Finalists Announced
Reduced Shakespeare: Jess Winfield's 'My Name Is Will'
'Midnight's Children' Named Best of the Bookers
Heidi Fleiss Dreams of a Brothel
By BRENDAN BERNHARD
July 18, 2008
From "b----es to birds" — that would be the crude but accurate summation of Heidi Fleiss's journey from being Hollywood's "Madam to the Stars" to a reclusive collector of macaws, African gray parrots, cockatoos, and other brilliantly plumed creatures…
Basic Cable Breaks Into Emmy Noms
'Mad Men,' 'Damages' Get Emmy's 'Best-Series' Nod
'The Cleaner' Invokes a Higher Power
'Generation Kill': Introducing the Latest Generation
Actors Union Reaches Deal With Studios
'Burn Notice': Firearms and Foreplay
Back to the Spotlight
Obama Ties Comedians' Tongues, Soccer Takes Manhattan
NBC Dramatically Ups Online Olympics Coverage
Numbers Up at Christie's in First Half of Year
By Bloomberg News
July 18, 2008
Christie's International said auction and private sales increased by 10% worldwide in the first half of 2008, driven by new buyers from the Middle East, Russia, and Asia. Christie's sold $3.6 billion of art and collectibles over the six months…
Beatrix Potter Watercolor Sets Record
Christie's Names Head of Its Asian Operations
An Apocalyptic State of Mind
An Architecture Show That's Better Than the Book
'Home Delivery': Playing House at MoMA
Smears, Scribbles, and Scratches: Twombly at the Tate Modern
Christie's Will Sell YSL's Art Collection
James Brown Auction Will Go Forward
New Museum Plans Emerging Artist Triennial
 The Mega-Meta-Micro-Musical
By ERIC GRODE
July 18, 2008
If you see only one mega-meta-micro-musical this year, make it "[title of show]." A defiantly insider and yet sneakily inclusive musical about two guys who write a musical about two guys who write a musical, "[tos]," as it's known, lovingly demolishes…
Second Stage Buys a Broadway Theater
'The Strangerer': An Existential Crisis in Coral Gables
Sam Shepard's Horseplay
Baby Doom: Durang's 'The Marriage of Bette and Boo'
Giving a Boost to off-off-Broadway
Standing Up From the Ghetto: Don Reed's 'East 14th'
Unlikely 'Paradise Lost' Broadway-Bound
Town Hall Revives Broadway Festival
Halley Feiffer's Indie Success on Stage and Screen
Peter Martins Inducted Into Dance Hall of Fame
By Associated Press
July 16, 2008
Peter Martins, ballet master in chief of the New York City Ballet, is the newest member of the National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame. The 51-year-old native of Denmark was inducted Monday night at the museum in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where the…
ABT's Copeland, Lane Win Annenberg Fellowships
The Open-Air Artistry of City Parks Dance
Pilobolus's Shadowy Netherworld
A 'Giselle' With Speed and Style
Finding Movement Across the Globe
Spanning the Pilobolus Spectrum
ABT's 'Merry Widow': A Ballerina's Holiday
At ADF's Ark Dance Studio, Not Your Average Student Dance
American Dance Festival Preps the Next Generation
Bobby Durham, 71, Jazz Drummer Toured With Greats
By WILL FRIEDWALD, Special to the Sun
July 10, 2008
Bobby Durham, a jazz drummer known for his energetic, propulsive style, as well as for the high-flying musical company that he kept, died in Italy on Monday. He was 71, and had been ill with lung cancer and emphysema, a singer who had toured with him…
Pressler Plays On
New York Grand Opera's 'Traviata' in the Park
China Bans Björk, Other Entertainers
Boy-Band Svengali Ordered To Pay $300M
The Philharmonic's All-Star Game
Lang Lang To Auction Red Piano
Guns N' Roses Releases Song Through Video Game
Rare Jewels From the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players
Mellencamp Brings Farm Aid to Northeast
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