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Charlie Brown: Authenticity and Honesty
Sat, 10 May 2008 10:56:00 -0400
Charlie Brown was born in 1950, at a time of cautious optimism about America's global role after World War II, and about the average guy's day-to-day prospects back in the states.
Oprah's Closet Now Open to Fans
Sat, 10 May 2008 10:17:00 -0400
A newly opened store in Chicago allows Oprah Winfrey fans to take their adoration to a whole new level. Now they can buy her cast-off clothes and shoes.
Circus Family Is Ready for a Safety Net
Sat, 10 May 2008 00:01:00 -0400
After spending 10 years traveling the world in a 1962 double-decker bus that maxes out at 33 mph, the Sprockets Circus family is ready for the next attraction: a home. The trip taught its members some valuable lessons about their fellow man.

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Television: Take My Wife. Please. I’ll Take Yours.
Sat, 10 May 2008 13:03:10 -0000
A son of the suburbs, inspired by his parents’ adventures, takes TV back to the ’70s with “Swingtown.”
Film: Mike Tyson Film Takes a Swing at His Old Image
Fri, 09 May 2008 22:49:03 -0000
Mike Tyson, his days as heavyweight champion long behind him, finds himself on an unlikely path forward as a new documentary about his life makes its premiere at Cannes.
Music: Memoirs of a Girl From the East Country (O.K., Queens)
Sat, 10 May 2008 08:16:32 -0000
In her memoir, Bob Dylan’s former girlfriend looks back at their time in Greenwich Village in the 1960s with affection.

Arts & Culture

Post Toastie
The New Yorker Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Steve Brodner toasts Hillary Clinton.
Yentl Illness
Anthony Lane Mon, 05 May 2008 04:00:00 -0000
A musical about a chain-smoker with the power of reincarnation: what are the chances of remaking that nowadays? Few movies feel more comically rooted in their era than Vincente Minnelli’s bizarre extravaganza of 1970, “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,” screening May 9 at the Rubin Museum . . .
Wild Gift
Sasha Frere-Jones Mon, 05 May 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Matt Wolf’s documentary, “Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell,” reconstructs the emergence and all too quick dissolve of the musician and composer, who died of AIDS in 1992--as well as the rise and fall of the downtown New York community that nurtured him. A young man from Oskaloosa . . .

Christian Science Monitor | Arts & Entertainment

Noteworthy: The best in recent kids' CDs
Fri, 09 May 2008 01:00:00 -0500
From Brian Setzer's orchestral fun with classical music clichés to a Parents' Choice Award winner by Dr. Noize, these albums will delight young ears.
Noteworthy: A roundup of recent jazz releases
Fri, 09 May 2008 01:00:00 -0500
Former Coltrane pianist McCoy Tyner returns for an elegant romp, Bill Dixon's all-star orchestra explodes, and Nicole Mitchell does the unthinkable: make flute-led jazz a force to be reckoned with.
Noteworthy: A roundup of recent pop releases
Fri, 09 May 2008 01:00:00 -0500
Neil Diamond sheds the schmaltz; Lenny Kravitz – inspired throwback or tired mimic?; Madonna delivers on dance; Santogold's belated debut.

Village Voice Arts

Art: Olafur Eliasson's Anti-Sublime Enchantment: The Icelandic Dane brings his lab studies to MOMA and P.S.1
Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400
The Icelandic Dane brings his lab studies to MOMA and P.S.1 (By Leslie Camhi)
Art: Leigh Ledare: My Mom's Crotch: Unsettlingly intimate photographs at Andrew Roth
Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Unsettlingly intimate photographs at Andrew Roth (By R.C. Baker)
Theater: Deb Margolin's Time Is the Mercy of Eternity Sparkles: A new sampler of one-act plays at the West End Theatre
Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400
A new sampler of one-act plays at the West End Theatre (By John Beer)
Theater: Yellow Moon's ADD Drama: Spastic production should slow down
Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Spastic production should slow down (By GARRETT EISLER)
Theater: Vengeance Can Wait: A Short-Lived Joy: P.S. 122 should've kept this thing around longer
Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400
P.S. 122 should've kept this thing around longer (By Alexis Soloski)

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