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After Financial Ruin, Plotting America's 'Comeback'
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:18:00 -0500
David M. Walker is the former comptroller general of the United States. His book, Comeback America, details the current financial crisis and offers his ideas on controlling spending and restoring fiscal responsibility in the United States.
Vince Gilligan: The Man Behind 'Breaking Bad'
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:00:00 -0500
Vince Gilligan created the Emmy Award-winning drama Breaking Bad, starring Bryan Cranston as a high-school chemistry teacher who becomes a meth dealer to secure his family's finances. Gilligan tells David Bianculli why he chose Cranston for the role — and why he thinks Breaking Bad is different from every other show on TV.
Excerpt: 'Eclipse of the Sunnis'
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:30:00 -0500
Excerpt: 'Eclipse of the Sunnis'

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Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:26:14 -0000
There’s something both touching and disturbing at the heart of “Claude Parent: Graphic and Built Works.”
South by Southwest to Honor Film and TV Title Sequences
By MICHAEL CIEPLY Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:25:27 -0000
In a competition at the South by Southwest festival, film and television titles get the credit(s).
Food Stuff: A New Anthology of Gastronomica Magazine
By FLORENCE FABRICANT Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:44:39 -0000
“The Gastronomica Reader” is an anthology of more than 40 essays from the thought-provoking food magazine.

Arts & Culture

Vince Aletti: Robert Adams’s noctural landscapes.
Vince Aletti Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 -0000
The forty-five black-and-white photographs in Robert Adams’s current show at the Matthew Marks gallery, “Summer Nights, Walking,” are about the American landscape after dark, when serenity can turn to dread with the snap of a twig. Made between 1976 and 1982 in the . . .
Peter Schjeldahl: “Skin Fruit,” at the New Museum.
Peter Schjeldahl Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 -0000
The art world is peculiarly suited to dramatize a problem, or at least a syndrome, of the present day: that of abominable wealth, by which I mean the effect of huge fortunes on people who don’t have them. The global tide of prosperity that rose in the past . . .
Nancy Franklin: “The Pacific” on HBO.
Nancy Franklin Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 -0000
8220;The Pacific,” a ten-part miniseries that begins Sunday on HBO, is a companion piece to the channel’s “Band of Brothers,” which chronicled a company of paratroopers in the 101st Airborne Division from training to D Day, and on to Germany, through Holland and . . .

Christian Science Monitor | Arts/Entertainment

Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor staff
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:05:51 -0000
HBO’s World War II blockbuster ‘The Pacific,’ Norah Jones’s new tour, ‘Up in the Air’ on DVD, and more.
Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor staff
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:11:09 -0000
Henning Mankell's latest thriller, gripping 'Poldark' drama on DVD, comedy all week on CMT, and more.
A celebration of Mexican art
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:23:54 -0000
Art institutes around Los Angeles pull out all the stops in honor of Mexico's bicentennial with a rich display from its 3,000 years of history.

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