Fri, Oct 10, 2008, 1:02am
Happy-Go-Lucky, the new film by British writer/director/playwright Mike Leigh, starts with a shot of Poppy (Sally Hawkins) happily speeding through London on her bicycle.
Fri, Oct 10, 2008, 1:00am
Though Wong Kar Wai is not a director for everyone, he is undeniably a great one. The auteur is known for such original and romantic films as Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love, and his 2007 debut in English, My Blueberry Nights.
Fri, Oct 10, 2008, 12:54am
Friday, Oct. 10
Grizzly Bear, The National
Fri, Oct 10, 2008, 12:48am
The scroll Autumn Forests at Yushan (1668) by Wang Hui is too idyllic to be true. The mountains are impossibly large and vertical.
Fri, Oct 10, 2008, 12:37am
There are 2,027 bridges in New York City. Over the past two years, I’ve walked across 19, ridden across maybe 10 more, and been intrigued by countless others from afar. Altogether, that leaves about 1,978 bridges that were totally off of my radar.
Fri, Oct 10, 2008, 12:28am
Impressive and costly renovations of two major science museums—San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington—have been catching a lot of press recently. What about New York’s own American Museum of Natural History?
Thu, Oct 9, 2008, 10:34pm
As I sat watching the most recent presidential debate last Tuesday, I found myself marveling at the short limbs of Senator John McCain.
Thu, Oct 9, 2008, 10:07pm
In 1947, seven years before Brown v. Board of Education, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Orange County affirmed the decision of Mendez v.
