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Sasha Frere-Jones: Political beats.
After Barack Obama conceded defeat at the New Hampshire primary last January, the Black Eyed Peas’ Will.i.am selected quotes from his concession speech and set them to music--sort of. The video for Will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” features a clutch of celebrities singing (or speaking), over Obama and a few . . .
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Sasha Frere-Jones: Pink's progress.
Funhouse,” the new album by Alecia Moore, who calls herself Pink, has already spawned an enormous hit--her first solo No. 1 in the U.S.--called “So What,” an explosion of brattiness and rock-star entitlement that is both maddening and hard to shake. There are cracks in “Funhouse,” though . . .
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Peter Schjeldahl: The New Orleans Biennial beckons.
New Orleans is smaller and poorer than it used to be, as I have confirmed on my first visit there since the floods attendant on Hurricane Katrina obliterated a large part of the city and left much of the rest a mud-gray mess, traces of which aren’t hard to . . .
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Kelefa Sanneh: "Fringe" and "The Mentalist."
During the last episode of the first season of “Lost,” after the castaways had endured yet another near-death experience on their not quite deserted island, the loopy old survivalist known as Locke turned to the valiant doctor, Jack, and delivered his verdict. “You’re a man of science,” he said . . .
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John Lahr: David Rabe's America.
On the wall of David Rabe’s television room, at his home in Connecticut, is a photograph of him as a football player at Loras Academy, the Catholic high school in Dubuque, Iowa, where he was a hard-driving running back and linebacker; in the image, he is being tackled, pushed . . .
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Hilton Als: On With the Show
The late filmmaker John Cassavetes directed his wife and muse, the lovely actress Gena Rowlands, in seven films, in his famously intimate, improvisatory way. In their early movies--particularly the raw and underrated “A Child Is Waiting”(1963)--Cassavetes established the theme he would pursue throughout his career: the seemingly . . .
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Goings on About Town: The Theatre
OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS
Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information.
THE BLACK MONK
Kevin Newbury directs a chamber musical by Wendy Kesselman, based on the Chekhov story about an artist from a small village who must negotiate the challenges of his rising success . . .
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Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks
MCNALLY JACKSON BOOKS
The sixties vets Ed McClanhan, the author of the newly published autobiographical short-story collection “O the Clear Moment,” and the novelist Robert Stone take a look back at the consequential decade. (52 Prince St. No tickets necessary. Nov. 19 at 7.)
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK . . .
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Goings on About Town: Papabubble
Remember those pallid sourballs petrifying in the dish on your grandmother’s coffee table? They are still there, even if your grandmother isn’t. The sweets at Papabubble, on the other hand, may well have been confected today--you can witness a batch of hard candy being made every couple of hours . . .
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