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Music Review | 'Six Saturdays With Messiaen': Reverence and Rapture, Expressed by an Organ

If anything could convince a committed disbeliever to question that stance, it might be the organ music of Olivier Messiaen.

Music Review | 'Lucia di Lammermoor': A Scottish Castle, Ruled by a Soprano

Diana Damrau had an impressive outing as Lucia in the Mets revival of Mary Zimmermans inventive 2007 production of Lucia di Lammermoor.

Music Review | Vicente Fernndez: Mexican Star Holds Forth on a Long Thirsty Evening

The Mexican ranchera star Vicente Fernndez owned the stage with a studied theatricality, businesslike in his looseness.

Dance Review | Morphoses: The Essence of a Dancer, Revealed With Ease

Christopher Wheeldon is a choreographer with an instinctive grasp of dancers and their abilities.

Dance Review | Richard Alston Dance Company: Celebrating a Leader of Britains Modern-Dance Vanguard

The Dance Umbrella festival in London celebrated Richard Alstons 40th year of creating dance.

Books of The Times: Couple Creates an Empire by Felling Trees and Anyone in Their Way

Ron Rashs fourth novel, Serena, will prompt instant interest in his first, second and third.

Hes Flying With Eagles While Staying Inside the Den of the Grizzly Bear

Department of Eagles creates graceful, surreal, inward-looking pop that finds both unadorned sorrows and elaborate, circuslike wonderment.

Its a Healthy Marriage of Faith and Filmmaking

The film Fireproof, about a firefighter who saves his marriage by turning to God, has become a box office success.

Television Review | '17 Kids and Counting'; 'Opportunity Knocks': O.K., but Can You Get a Cab in New York?

17 Kids and Counting has the potential to keep the culture wars raging; there is something vaguely depressing about the way Opportunity Knocks debunks family mythology.

The Future of Reading: Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers

Publishers, authors and even libraries are embracing video games to promote books to young readers.

Music Review | Madonna: Aerobic, Not Erotic: The Concert as Workout

Time obsesses Madonna on her Sticky and Sweet Tour, which made its first American stop at the Izod Center.

Letter: Linda Ronstadt: Mariachi and the Pop Star

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Letter: Sitcoms and Taboos: Behind the Humor

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Letter: Worst Buildings: Razing the Garden

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War and Sex: Whos Afraid of Sarah Kane?

Soho Rep is facing the challenge of staging Sarah Kanes Blasted, a play bursting with audacious violence and wriggling with metaphor.

Young and Out to Redefine Whats Real

Afterschool, a film by Antonio Campos, wrestles with the complications of young life in a YouTube world.

DVD: The Network Never Liked Them Best

Uncovering the rage beneath the laughter on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

Dance: A Giants New Right Hand

Seeing the possibilities, and fun, in Mikhail Baryshnikovs artistic risks.

Film: Gambling With a Return to the Mideast

Can Body of Lies, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, finally make the Iraq war entertaining?

Art: Swimming With the Big Fish at Last

Its not every day that a painter with a 40-year career gets to feel like a hot young thing, but Mary Heilmann is coping.

Arts, Briefly: Mets Subsidized Seats for Doctor Atomic

A pair of philanthropists may have helped put tickets to the Metropolitan Operas production of Doctor Atomic within reach.

Television Review | 'The Last Enemy': Surveillance and a Virus Grow in a Puddle of Murk

Somewhere inside The Last Enemy, a five-part BBC mini-series airing on PBS, is an intriguing thriller, but it would take a team of dramaturgical archaeologists to find it.

Film: Wong Kar-wais Phoenix Project, Rising at Last

Ashes of Time Redux is a martial-arts movie that took years to film and more years to restore.

Arts, Briefly: Writers File Complaint Against Tyler Perry

The Writers Guild of America West has filed a complaint against Tyler Perrys production studio after the studio fired four writers for the TBS comedy House of Payne who were seeking union representation.

Arts, Briefly: Charges Filed in Attack on Publishers Home

Three men have been charged in the firebombing attack on the North London home of a book publisher who planned to release the Sherry Jones novel The Jewel of Medina.

Arts, Briefly: Springsteen for Obama

The big draw for a crowd of nearly 50,000 at a get-out-the-vote rally in Philadelphia was not Senator Barack Obama, whose campaign was sponsoring the rally, but Bruce Springsteen.

Arts, Briefly: S.N.L. Keeps It Political

Once again, Saturday Night Live led off the weekends show with Tina Fey as the Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska.

Arts, Briefly: Israel Below the Surface

Tickets are on sale for the second annual Other Israel Film Festival, which is dedicated to showcasing the lives of Arab citizens of Israel.

Music: Her Citys Not Gone, and Neither Is She

Chrissie Hynde has a new lineup and new influences on the first Pretenders release in six years.

Theater Review | '13': Stranger in Strange Land: The Acne Years

Though it features a buoyant score and a book that dances on the borders of bad taste, 13 ultimately feels as pre-processed and formulaic as High School Musical.

 

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