http://www.ey3news.com/content/topic_000030_page.shtml Updated with the latest news for Arts en-gb Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:00:32 EST Copyright: (C) Ey3News.com, see http://www.ey3news.com/terms_and_conditions.shtml for terms and conditions of reuse http://www.ey3news.com/ http://www.ey3news.com/images/icons/ey3news_logo_rss.gif http://www.ey3news.com SHE was an international model, fashion photographer and acclaimed war correspondent; he was one of the greatest artists of his generation. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219646 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219646 2007-08-10 18:01:41 POLAND has rejected calls to return German cultural treasures, including original manuscripts of Goethe, Beethoven, Mozart and Bach held in Polish archives since the Second World War, calling such demands "entirely groundless". http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219647 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219647 2007-08-10 18:01:41 JK ROWLING failed yesterday in a bid to block the media from using a paparazzi snap taken of her wheeling her two-year-old son along an Edinburgh street. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219648 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219648 2007-08-10 18:01:41 A CONGOLESE student has begun legal action in Belgium to have the comic book Tintin in the Congo declared racist and removed from book stores. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219649 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219649 2007-08-10 18:01:41 THE campaign for a £20 million national photography centre in the old Royal High School has been boosted after rival plans for a military museum on the site were abandoned. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219650 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219650 2007-08-10 18:01:41 A HORROR book in which giant bugs take over Edinburgh has finally hit the shelves. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219651 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219651 2007-08-10 18:01:41 THE course of true love never did run smooth, wailed Shakespeare's thwarted lover Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219641 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219641 2007-08-10 18:01:40 IT WAS one of Scotland's leading venues in the golden age of music hall, when everyone from George Formby to screen legends Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin took to its opulent stage. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219642 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219642 2007-08-10 18:01:40 THE jazz and Broadway tunes of Leonard Bernstein's modern operetta Candide open the 61st Edinburgh International Festival tonight, in a sold-out opening concert at the Usher Hall. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219643 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219643 2007-08-10 18:01:40 A PAINTING worth £1.7 million by the British artist Sir Joshua Reynolds has been damaged by a hammer-wielding vandal at the National Portrait Gallery in London. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219644 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219644 2007-08-10 18:01:40 THE opera star Luciano Pavarotti has been admitted to hospital for observation in his hometown of Modena in northern Italy. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219645 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219645 2007-08-10 18:01:40 A collection of Bob Dylan's artworks, including variations on published drawings and sketches, is to open later this year at a museum in the eastern German city of Chemnitz. On display in the exhibition, called "The Drawn Blank Series," will be more than 200 colored versions of pictorial motifs from a book of drawings and sketches that Dylan produced between 1989 and 1992. The book attracted the attention of Ingrid Mössinger, a curator at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz museum, who approached Dylan about the possibility of displaying his works. In a statement released by the museum, Dylan said, "If not for this interest, I don't know if I even would have revisited them." The show begins Oct. 28 and ends Feb. 3. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219206 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219206 2007-08-10 18:01:27 Less than a month after Marcus Luttrell was discharged from the U.S. Navy - having served with the elite Seals, survived a fierce battle in Afghanistan and earned a Navy Cross for combat heroism - "Lone Survivor," his memoir of the 2005 battle and his rescue, became a best seller. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219186 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219186 2007-08-10 18:01:26 The film, directed by Leon Ichaso, chronicles the life of the salsa singer Hector Lavoe, played by Marc Anthony. Ichaso's generosity with musical moments compensates both for Anthony's shortcomings and for the frenetic incoherence of his own storytelling. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219187 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219187 2007-08-10 18:01:26 The heroine of Irini Spanidou's novel is a woman who seems like a less famous, less glamorous version of Edie Sedgwick, Warhol's doomed superstar. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219188 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219188 2007-08-10 18:01:26 Carlo Alessandro Pisoni scours cemeteries of Lake Maggiore, patiently transcribing epitaphs for a Web site that he hopes will craft an ever-sharper picture of this northern corner of Italy. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219189 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219189 2007-08-10 18:01:26 The largest ever loan of artifacts from China's famed terracotta army started on its way to London on Thursday, official Chinese media reported Thursday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219190 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219190 2007-08-10 18:01:26 The legendary folk musician celebrates his 60th birthday, and the 40th year after the release of "Alice's Restaurant," the 18-minute song and album that put him on the map. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219191 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219191 2007-08-10 18:01:26 A 16-year-old French boy translated all 759 pages of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" within days of its July 21 release and posted online. Now he has spent a night in jail and faces charges of intellectual property violation. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219192 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219192 2007-08-10 18:01:26 The works have been held in Polish archives since World War II. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219193 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219193 2007-08-10 18:01:26 A collection of Bob Dylan's artworks, including variations on published drawings and sketches, is to open later this year at a museum in the eastern German city of Chemnitz, the museum said Wednesday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219194 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219194 2007-08-10 18:01:26 Nicholas Kulish, the Berlin bureau chief for The New York Times, was embedded with the U.S. marines in 2003 and he has brought home a story worthy of his literary idols. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219195 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219195 2007-08-10 18:01:26 Somewhere in the last dozen years, after Deng Xiaoping's proclamation that "to be rich is glorious" and Bill Clinton's use of the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House to bunk campaign contributors, bicycle racing's creed of suffering and sacrifice took a big hit. Neither fit in the dot-com epoch. People stopped talking about the sport as a metaphor for life; lately, it's the other way around. Is the Tour de France undermined by illegal activity? Isn't life? Has celebrity replaced achievement? Read the People column. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219196 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219196 2007-08-10 18:01:26 Outward hatred for Jews and Russians may have belied a secret passion for some of their greatest musical works, if a recently discovered cache of records proves to be the remains of Adolf Hitler's private music collection. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219197 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219197 2007-08-10 18:01:26 A new book on Italy's political class has become somewhat of a phenomenon, catching the wave of a widespread national malaise. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219198 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219198 2007-08-10 18:01:26 In two decades, country and western festivals have sprung up in many parts of France, sparked by an abiding fascination with trappings of the American frontier as well as by a craze for line dancing that has grown in the past 15 years. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219199 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219199 2007-08-10 18:01:26 Baron Elie oversaw the restoration and ascent of the renowned wine estate Château Lafite Rothschild after World War II. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219200 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219200 2007-08-10 18:01:26 When the Frankfurt Book Fair took the rare step of inviting a region rather than a country to showcase its literary talent, Catalonia picked writers who publish only in Catalan — the language of this proud patch of northeast Spain that considers itself a nation within a nation. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219201 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219201 2007-08-10 18:01:26 "The Nocturnal Side of Reason," the theme this year of the festival is seemingly antithetical to Mozart, who is traditionally regarded as a quintessential Enlightenment figure. Expressing a skeptical view of reason, Jürgen Flimm, the artistic director, asks in the program book "Who has ever heard of a rational love?" http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219202 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219202 2007-08-10 18:01:26 During the 150th anniversary of his birth, Edward Elgar's music is being played in many places from January to December, the rare as well as the familiar works. But exactly what Elgar stood for and what is unique about his music are more than ever being questioned. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219203 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219203 2007-08-10 18:01:26 Eighteen stories above the streets of Buenos Aires, inside a gutted prison, the young artist Seth Wulsin, from Rockland County, New York, was smashing windows to transform one of Argentina's darkest historical sites into a transitory artwork. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219204 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219204 2007-08-10 18:01:26 Two of the works were by the Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder, while the others were by the Impressionist artists Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219205 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219205 2007-08-10 18:01:26 Mark Monahan reviews Tripod at the Bosco Tent and God's Pottery at Pleasance Cavern. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219080 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219080 2007-08-10 18:01:20 Ivan Hewett reviews Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem, followed by Mahler’s 10th Symphony. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219084 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219084 2007-08-10 18:01:20 Rupert Christiansen muses on the fate of the arts now that National Lottery money is being diverted elsewhere. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219085 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219085 2007-08-10 18:01:20 Sarah Crompton reviews the Bolshoi's Spartacus at the London Coliseum. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219086 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219086 2007-08-10 18:01:20 James Hawes reviews Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219087 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219087 2007-08-10 18:01:20 Jake Kerridge reviews thrillers http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219088 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219088 2007-08-10 18:01:20 Elena Seymenliyska reviews Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips and Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219089 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219089 2007-08-10 18:01:20 Siddhartha Deb reviews Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219090 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219090 2007-08-10 18:01:20 Kate Chisholm reviews Filming: a Love Story by Tabish Khair http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219091 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219091 2007-08-10 18:01:20 Matthew Rye reviews Prom 36: BBC National Orchestra of Wales and David Atherton. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219038 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219038 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Comedian Janey Godley tells Alison Shaw what she is looking forward to seeing at the festival. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219039 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219039 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Mark Ravenhill agreed to write a new play every day - then he lost his memory. Dominic Cavendish reports. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219040 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219040 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Judd Apatow, the man behind some of the biggest comedy hits in recent years including the soon-to-be released Knocked Up, tells Will Lawrence how he gets laughs out of serious situations. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219041 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219041 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Tim Robey reviews Rush Hour 3, Waitress, The Walker, License to Wed, Transylvania, Henry V and Billy Liar. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219042 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219042 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Mark Brown reviews The End of Everything Ever at Pleasance 2 and Night Time at Travese at The Drill Hall. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219043 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219043 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Dominic Cavendish at the Edinburgh Festival reviews 'Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live' at the Traverse and 'Debbie Does Dallas - The Musical' at E4's Udderbelly Pasture http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219044 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219044 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Sukhdev Sandhu reviews Sony Pictures' animated penguin adventure Surf's Up, and 1983 hip-hop documentary, Wild Style. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219045 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219045 2007-08-10 18:01:19 By Gerard O'Donovan http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219047 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219047 2007-08-10 18:01:19 When Oliver Stone released his 2004 epic about the life of Alexander the Great, it was instantly branded a flop and became the film that critics loved to hate. Now, two remakes and 45 minutes of extra footage later, he hopes he’s finally got it right. He talks to Rebecca Davies. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219049 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219049 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Christopher Tayler reviews Reading Comics by Douglas Wolk http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219050 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219050 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Toby Clements reviews In Search of the Buccaneers by Anthony Gambrill and Empire of Blue Water by Stephan Talty http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219051 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219051 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Jane Stevenson reviews Galileo, Antichrist: a Biography by Michael White http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219052 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219052 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Duncan Fallowell reviews The Death of Socrates by Emily Wilson http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219053 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219053 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Frances Wilson reviews The Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219054 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219054 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Jim White reviews Tommy's Honour by Kevin Cook and Tales from the Q School by John Feinstein http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219055 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219055 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Jonathan Bate reviews The Letters of John Murray to Lord Byron http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219056 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219056 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Richard Davenport-Hines reviews Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled by Tim Heald http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219057 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219057 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Adam Tooze reviews Hitler's Beneficiaries by Götz Aly http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219058 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219058 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Our regular review of the reviews http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219059 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219059 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Ophelia Field reviews The Visible World by Mark Slouka http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219060 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219060 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Mark Sanderson at large in a world of books http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219061 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219061 2007-08-10 18:01:19 David Robson reviews The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219062 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219062 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Susanna Yager reviews crime fiction http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219064 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219064 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Jane Shilling reviews Cheating At Canasta by William Trevor http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219065 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219065 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Damian Thompson reviews Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician by John Worthen http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219066 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219066 2007-08-10 18:01:19 John Adamson reviews Robert Schumann: Life And Death Of A Musician By John Worthen http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219067 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219067 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Alex Peake-Tomkinson, Caroline McGinn, Toby Clements, Peter Robins, Max Porter, Heather Thompson, Nicholas Bagnall and Katie Owen review the latest paperbacks. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219068 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219068 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Sarah Crompton reviews Grease the musical at Piccadilly Theatre. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219069 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219069 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Geoffrey Norris reviews Bach Collegium Japan and Cleo Laine and John Dankworth. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219070 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219070 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Hard-Fi frontman Richard Archer talks to Neil McCormick about suburban defiance - and his mother's death on the eve of his breakthrough. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219071 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219071 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Geoffrey Norris is amazed by Colin Currie's arduous preparation for a live recital. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219072 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219072 2007-08-10 18:01:19 He grew up in near-slavery, survived the chain gang and played with America's greatest blues musicians. At 92, David 'Honeyboy' Edwards is still going strong. He talks to Garth Cartwright. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219073 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219073 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Sophie Ellis Bextor is left a little cold by Prince at the O2. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219074 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219074 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Elena Seymenliyska reviews Paco Peña at Sadler's Wells. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219075 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219075 2007-08-10 18:01:19 'The Bacchae' boasts a top director, a red-hot writer - and Scottish theatre's great exile, Alan Cumming. They talk to Dominic Cavendish. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219076 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219076 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Dominic Cavendish reviews Macbeth: Who is that Bloodied Man? at the Old University Quad and Exits and Entrances at the Assembly Rooms. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219077 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219077 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Comedian Michael McIntyre tells Alison Shaw what he is looking forward to seeing at the festival. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219078 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219078 2007-08-10 18:01:19 Mark Monahan reviews Stewart Lee at Udderbelly and Rob Deering at Baby Belly 1. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219079 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219079 2007-08-10 18:01:19 When he wasn’t talking, B.B. King, who was headlining his own tour at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden, played tunes that have been lodged in his sets for quite a while and were worn but deep. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218354 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218354 2007-08-10 18:01:00 Cable television has always feasted on the summer audiences abandoned by the largely vacationing broadcast networks, but this season has been a spectacularly good one. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218355 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218355 2007-08-10 18:01:00 Put together — amassed is the word — by the painter Keith Mayerson, “NeoIntegrity” at Derek Eller Gallery is striking for its size alone. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218356 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218356 2007-08-10 18:01:00 Backed by strong support from military blogs and right-wing pundits, “Lone Survivor,” with its action-packed narrative and patriotic tone, has emerged as one of the summer’s biggest publishing success stories. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218357 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218357 2007-08-10 18:01:00 A reasonable assumption might be that the closing of six theaters in the last two years is ushering in the decline of commercial Off Broadway. But it turns out the situation is more complicated than that. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218358 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218358 2007-08-10 18:01:00 A high-ranking official has resigned from the Smithsonian Institution after acknowledging that he destroyed a transcript from an important Board of Regents meeting. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218359 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218359 2007-08-10 18:01:00 The Metropolitan Opera plans to expand still further its live high-definition simulcasts into movie theaters around the world. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218360 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218360 2007-08-10 18:01:00 Theater is our most venerable showcase for language. For the noir-besotted writer and director Ian W. Hill, however, it’s more an animate postmodern notebook. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218361 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218361 2007-08-10 18:01:00 How have female bounty hunters become a feature of the modern world? http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218362 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218362 2007-08-10 18:01:00 An exhibition’s art is in the bag, Win for J. Lo, loss for O. J., Winding ‘Bronx Tale’ bound for Broadway and more culture news. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218363 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218363 2007-08-10 18:01:00 Acoustic folk, Gypsy swing and country can all crop up in violinist Jenny Scheinman’s music, in ways that elude classification. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218364 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218364 2007-08-10 18:01:00 Joe Andoe’s book — which is divided into short anecdotes given painterly names (“Spontaneous Radiance,” “Keepsake,” “Tire Patch,” “Head Case”) — catalogs teenage antics with aplomb. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218365 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218365 2007-08-10 18:01:00 James Wood, a senior editor at The New Republic is leaving to become a staff writer at The New Yorker. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218366 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218366 2007-08-10 18:01:00 Louis Moyse was a flutist, composer and founder of the Marlboro Music School and Festival. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218367 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218367 2007-08-10 18:01:00 David Shaw was a Tony Award-winning writer for stage, screen and television. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218368 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218368 2007-08-10 18:01:00 For half her life the 37-year-old French actress Julie Delpy has been trying to direct. There was the screenplay she wrote at 17 that captured the interest of a French publisher but never made it to the big screen. There were two shorts, including her self-financed experimental film in 2002, "Looking for Jimmy," that she never found the backing to finish. And numerous other screenplays she'd write and show around but never seemed to get off the ground. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216000 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216000 2007-08-10 06:01:13 Gabrielle Walker exposes the Earth's atmosphere for what it is, a restless, dynamic superhero, entrusted with the sacred mission of protecting our planet, nurturing life and even making love possible. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216001 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216001 2007-08-10 06:01:13 Like Holmes, Poirot, Marple, Marlowe, Smiley and other predecessors, Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko just doesn't know when to stop digging because he is almost dysfunctional when doing anything else. Renko's turf is, of course, Russia. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216002 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216002 2007-08-10 06:01:13 A reading of Martin Cruz Smith's five Renko novels set in Russia offers an incisive encapsulation of Soviet and post-Soviet travails over the last few decades. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216004 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003216004 2007-08-10 06:01:13 SHE was the prima ballerina whose career at the Royal Ballet came to an abrupt end following a row with her leading man. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214834 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003214834 2007-08-06 18:01:33