4.29.2011

4.26.2011

Lollapaloozanniversary! It begat Bonnaroo and Coachella. This year, the musical brainchild of Perry Farrell is turning 20, and daddy loves what the kid has turned into. More in Music Here’s the lineup. Name a band. Any band. Odds are good they’ll be there.Photo: Simon Fernandez, republished under...

4.23.2011

Hollywood, N.Y. Huffington Post: A decade old, the Tribeca Film Festival transplants movies’ indie spirit and celebrates the revival of a neighborhood. More in Movies Vanity Fair: The ten films to watchTHR: Ten years after, the festival founders look back at the building of “a hectic love letter...

4.19.2011

Incomplete return:  Examining The Pale King “It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish,” writes David Foster Wallace in The Pale King, his vast unfinished novel, a book that for Alicia J. Rouverol of The Monitor is “every...

4.18.2011

4.16.2011

Happy birthday, Little Tramp He may have been pop culture’s first global superstar, and more than 30 years after his passing, his impact on modern film as an actor, writer, director and composer is indelible. The films of Charlie Chaplin (born 122 years ago today) will be shown this month in several...

4.15.2011

NYC: From Japan, art previews life The “Bye Bye Kitty!” exhibition at the Japan Society in New York through June 16, was planned well before the disaster that struck Japan on March 11. The uncannily prescient exhibition showcases the work of 16 artists grappling with issues of life, death, struggle and a sense of powerlessness before the forces of nature and man.Video source: VOA N...

Peanuts, the graphic novel It's time to welcome back an old favorite: A new graphic novel of the revered cartoon characters presents the old familiars of childhood in a bold new format, one that offers a fresh take on Charles M. Schulz’s comic meditations on longing, security and the need for...

4.10.2011

Sidney Lumet (1924-2011) Lumet, one of modern film’s most prolific directors and perhaps the last of those who came of age in the creative hothouse of 1950’s television, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 86. Gregg Kilday of The Hollywood Reporter surveys the life of “the actor’s director”...

4.07.2011

Athol Fugard ... and the Tony The celebrated South African playwright, never a Tony Award winner despite 35 years of writing powerful plays as Blood Knot and Master Harold … and the Boys, will receive a special lifetime achievement award in June, the Los Angeles Times reports.Photo: Gina Ferazzi/Los...

4.04.2011

Katie unbars the door Katie Couric, for almost five years the anchor of the CBS Evening News, is leaving the post, according to a network executive who told The Associated Press on Sunday night. More in Television Couric’s departure caps a long period of chafing and discontent that reflected, more than anything else, a clash of cultures. More in Televisi...

4.03.2011

4.02.2011

Manning Marable dies The author and pre-eminent scholar of African American history dies in New York at 60, on the eve of publication of an expansive re-examination of Malcolm X. Cornel West said Marable “kept alive the democratic socialist tradition in the black freedom movement.” William...