Mon, Jan 26, 2009, 11:06pm
Slumdog Millionaire, the Oscar nominee set in Mumbai, is a menagerie of many things—social realism, fantasy, and black comedy. In the swirl of all those artistic elements, the film manages to elucidate the complexity of India’s extremist violence.
Mon, Jan 26, 2009, 11:00pm
Rauschenberg. Chamberlain. Ruscha. Samaras. Warhol.
Mon, Jan 26, 2009, 10:56pm
CORRECTION APPENDED.
Last Friday, the Miami City Ballet held a gala performance at New York City Center featuring works by George Balanchine and Twyla Tharp. It was a homecoming of sorts for artistic director Edward Villella, a former principal dancer of the New York City Ballet.
Mon, Jan 26, 2009, 10:52pm
I arrived at the LionPAC-sponsored “Rally of Solidarity and Peace for Israel and its Neighbors” a bit before noon, and found about 50 (it later swelled to about 100) participants gathered around the American and Israeli flags on the sundial.
Mon, Jan 26, 2009, 10:52pm
As we stand in the midst of a global financial crisis, there are billions of people for whom this experience is not new—those who were excluded from the financial system to begin with.
Mon, Jan 26, 2009, 10:14pm
As President Barack Obama completes his first week in office, I want to take this chance in my first column to discuss the implications of our president’s racial categorization. Like Obama, I am a biracial American.
Mon, Jan 26, 2009, 9:52pm
Wall Street collapsed, and the media should have lucked out. The financial crisis was great fodder for exciting news coverage—the entire planet tuned in to watch global stock exchanges play worldwide limbo, and as the U.S.
