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  • Shares Near 6-Year Low, With More Losses Feared
    by By JACK HEALY
    19 Nov 2008 at 11:22pm
    As the stock market tumbled to its lowest level in nearly six years, Wall Street traders and many ordinary Americans were asking the same question: Where, oh where is the bottom?


  • Stocks Are Hurt by Latest Fear: Declining Prices
    by By VIKAS BAJAJ
    19 Nov 2008 at 11:30pm
    The Dow fell below 8,000 as concern spread that the economy might be facing a chronic and debilitating decline in prices.


  • Hurt by Losses, Pension Funds Criticize Rules
    by By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
    19 Nov 2008 at 11:30pm
    Some of the nation?s biggest companies are pushing Congress to roll back rules requiring them to put more money into their pension funds.


  • Patience and Politeness as Minnesota Recounts Senate Ballots
    by By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
    19 Nov 2008 at 11:24pm
    Civility marked the opening of the statewide hand recount to determine whether Al Franken or Norm Coleman had won the U.S. Senate race.


  • New York Police Fight U.S. Over Eavesdropping
    by By DAVID JOHNSTON and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
    19 Nov 2008 at 11:30pm
    The New York Police Department wants the FBI and the government to loosen their approach to the law that governs electronic surveillance.


  • Talks Continue as Bill Clinton Is Said to Accept Terms of Obama Team
    by By PETER BAKER and HELENE COOPER
    19 Nov 2008 at 11:30pm
    Mr. Clinton agreed to restrictions on his business and philanthropic activities if Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes secretary of state, associates said.


  • Matthiessen Wins National Book Award Fiction Prize
    by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    19 Nov 2008 at 11:08pm
    Judges for the National Book Awards gave the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen?s ?The Shadow Country,? a revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s.


  • Iran Said to Have Enough Nuclear Fuel for One Weapon
    by By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER
    19 Nov 2008 at 10:35pm
    Iran has produced enough nuclear material to make a single atom bomb, though it is unclear if the country has achieved the necessary technical advances to create a bomb.


  • Study Finds Teenagers? Internet Socializing Isn?t Such a Bad Thing
    by By TAMAR LEWIN
    19 Nov 2008 at 11:27pm
    Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to the MacArthur Foundation.


  • Al Qaeda Coldly Acknowledges Obama Victory
    by By MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE
    19 Nov 2008 at 11:30pm
    Al Qaeda?s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, sought to dampen enthusiasm for Mr. Obama?s election by saying that the ?new face? of America only masked a ?heart full of hate.?


    NYT > Arts

  • Formerly Lavish Music Patron Is Convicted of Fraud
    by By DANIEL J. WAKIN
    19 Nov 2008 at 8:31pm
    A federal jury in Manhattan on Wednesday convicted Alberto W. Vilar on 12 counts of fraud.


  • Matthiessen Wins National Book Award Fiction Prize
    by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    19 Nov 2008 at 10:44pm
    Judges for the National Book Awards gave the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen?s ?The Shadow Country,? a revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s.


  • Clive Barnes, Critic, Dies at 81
    by By WILLIAM GRIMES
    19 Nov 2008 at 8:13pm
    As a critic in Britain and later for The New York Times, Mr. Barnes helped bring dance to a broad audience with an exuberant style.


  • For ?60 Minutes,? a Jump in Ratings
    by By JACQUES STEINBERG
    19 Nov 2008 at 7:42pm
    ?60 Minutes? on CBS has been the most-watched program in the nation the last two weeks ? including the full episode on Sunday devoted to Steve Kroft?s interview with Barack and Michelle Obama.


  • Tragedy Tomorrow, Economic Woes Tonight
    by By PATRICIA COHEN
    19 Nov 2008 at 1:10pm
    Those in the industry wonder not only about empty theaters, but also about the effect on the stream of creative work.


  • Legal Tangles of ?Project Runway? Keep It Frozen on the Catwalk
    by By EDWARD WYATT
    19 Nov 2008 at 11:43am
    Producers have already shot segments for the series?s sixth season, but those new episodes are unlikely to be seen for several months, according to people involved in the case.


  • Broad Decides to Build His Own Museum
    by By EDWARD WYATT
    19 Nov 2008 at 4:03am
    Less than a year after the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened a museum named for Eli Broad, Mr. Broad is considering opening his own museum just down the street.


  • Theater Review: Brothers in Flimflammery on a Continental Sojourn
    by By BEN BRANTLEY
    19 Nov 2008 at 3:17pm
    It?s raining greenbacks in ?Road Show,? the latest version of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman?s long-aborning, ever-evolving and eternally slender musical about curdled American dreams.


  • Books of The Times: V. S. Naipaul, a Man Who Has Earned a Knighthood, a Nobel...
    by By DWIGHT GARNER
    19 Nov 2008 at 4:44pm
    ?The World Is What It Is? is one of the sprightliest, most gripping, most intellectually curious and, well, funniest biographies of a living writer to come along in years.


  • Movie Review | 'Harvard Beats Yale 29-29': Back in 1968, When a Tie Was No Tie
    by By MANOHLA DARGIS
    19 Nov 2008 at 11:18am
    Kevin Rafferty makes the case for remembrance and for the art of the story in his preposterously entertaining documentary ?Harvard Beats Yale 29-29.?


  • Lincoln Center and WNET Team Up
    by By ROBIN POGREBIN
    19 Nov 2008 at 2:16pm
    A glass-walled public television studio will open on Lincoln Center?s renovated campus in a creative collaboration between the performing arts center and WNET.org, the two organizations said Tuesda...
  • Music Review | Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: Navigating Bernstein With Loose...
    by By ALLAN KOZINN
    19 Nov 2008 at 11:50am
    As part of Israel?s 60th-anniversary celebration, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra visited Carnegie Hall on Sunday and Monday with the young Venezuelan firebrand Gustavo Dudamel on the podium.


  • Theater Review: Peanuts, Cracker Jack and Some Illegal Juice
    by By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
    19 Nov 2008 at 12:37am
    ?Back Back Back,? a new play by Itamar Moses about baseball?s steroids scandal, could actually use a little juicing itself.


  • Music Review | Kirov Orchestra and Chorus: Prokofiev Did Relish a Good Epic
    by By JAMES R. OESTREICH
    19 Nov 2008 at 12:24am
    The orchestra, led by Valery Gergiev, did rough justice to music full of loose and rough edges in its performance of works by Prokofiev at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday.


  • Music Review | Warsaw Philharmonic: Among the Familiar, Hidden Treasure From ...
    by By STEVE SMITH
    19 Nov 2008 at 12:32am
    The latest orchestra to have its mettle tried by the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was the Warsaw Philharmonic.


  • Circus Review | 'Birdhouse Factory': Unhappy Workers Show the Tricks of the T...
    by By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
    19 Nov 2008 at 12:33am
    With its highly skilled clowning, mime, acrobatics and contortion, ?Birdhouse Factory? provides a refreshing reinterpretation of traditional circus.


  • Theater Review | 'My Vaudeville Man!': Back When Vaudeville Was King, and Tap...
    by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
    19 Nov 2008 at 12:35am
    Directed and choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, this show is based on the life of the tap dancer Jack Donahue.


  • Theater Review | 'Lillian Yuralia': Healing Hearts: One Crotchety, Two Confused
    by By ANITA GATES
    19 Nov 2008 at 12:35am
    Barbara Eda-Young?s authorial restraint, and taut direction by Austin Pendleton keeps a story about a family on the Lower East Side touching but never saccharine.


  • Arts, Briefly: Yo-Yo Ma Named Musician of the Year
    by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
    19 Nov 2008 at 12:28am
    The cellist Yo-Yo Ma, above, has been named musician of the year by Musical America, the industry publication. Mr. Ma was awarded the honor for his mastery of ?traditional classics from the baroque...
  • Arts, Briefly: James Bond Box Office Lowered by a Quantum
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    19 Nov 2008 at 12:26am
    When final weekend box-office figures were reported for ?Quantum of Solace,? the movie saw its record-breaking numbers stirred, but not dramatically shaken.


  • Arts, Briefly: He?s a Scream: Kinison Gets a Biopic
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    19 Nov 2008 at 12:28am
    Dan Fogler, start working out your vocal cords: the burly actor, below, who was a Tony winner for ?The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,? has been cast as the burly comedian Sam Kinison in a ...
  • Arts, Briefly: Steinway Sons Gets Order for 165 Pianos
    by By DANIEL J. WAKIN; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    19 Nov 2008 at 12:30am
    A vast fleet of pianos is expected to arrive in Cincinnati next month, part of the largest order ? by number of instruments ? ever filled by the Steinway & Sons piano company. The College-Conservat...
  • Arts, Briefly: An Apollo Premiere for Dreamgirls Tour
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    19 Nov 2008 at 12:25am
    The 2009 national tour of ?Dreamgirls,? the musical by Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen oh-so-loosely based on the Supremes, will have its premiere at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.


  • Arts, Briefly: Criminal Charges Sought for Suge Knight
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    19 Nov 2008 at 12:25am
    The district attorney?s office of Clark County, Nev., is seeking criminal charges against the hip-hop mogul Marion Knight, known as Suge, below, The Associated Press reported. A criminal complaint ...
  • Arts, Briefly: Jackson?s Next Video: A Court Testimony
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    19 Nov 2008 at 12:29am
    A lawyer for Michael Jackson, below, said that the pop star may be too sick to travel to London to testify in a suit filed against him by a Bahrainian prince, The Associated Press reported. Sheik A...
  • Arts, Briefly: NPR Chooses Designer for New Offices
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    19 Nov 2008 at 12:30am
    National Public Radio announced that it had chosen the firm Hickok Cole Architects to design its new headquarters in Washington. The firm, led by Michael E. Hickok and Yolanda Cole, was chosen over...
  • Arts, Briefly: Dancing Wins, Sun Rises in East
    by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    19 Nov 2008 at 12:24am
    Drawing an average of 19.7 million viewers, ABC?s ?Dancing With the Stars? delivered Monday night?s largest television audience, according to Nielsen?s estimates. The reality competition helped the...
  • Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    19 Nov 2008 at 6:04pm
    Parsons the New School for Design will begin offering a Master of Fine Arts degree in interior design starting in its fall 2009 session, the school announced Tuesday. The two-year program, which wi...
    NYT > Music

  • Formerly Lavish Music Patron Is Convicted of Fraud
    by By DANIEL J. WAKIN
    19 Nov 2008 at 8:08pm
    A federal jury in Manhattan on Wednesday convicted Alberto W. Vilar on 12 counts of fraud.


  • Music Review | Kirov Orchestra and Chorus: Prokofiev Did Relish a Good Epic
    by By JAMES R. OESTREICH
    19 Nov 2008 at 12:24am
    The orchestra, led by Valery Gergiev, did rough justice to music full of loose and rough edges in its performance of works by Prokofiev at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday.


  • Music Review | Warsaw Philharmonic: Among the Familiar, Hidden Treasure From ...
    by By STEVE SMITH
    19 Nov 2008 at 12:32am
    The latest orchestra to have its mettle tried by the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was the Warsaw Philharmonic.


  • Music Review | Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: Navigating Bernstein With Loose...
    by By ALLAN KOZINN
    19 Nov 2008 at 11:50am
    As part of Israel?s 60th-anniversary celebration, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra visited Carnegie Hall on Sunday and Monday with the young Venezuelan firebrand Gustavo Dudamel on the podium.


  • Music Review | Kirov Orchestra and Chorus of the Maryinsky Theater: A Brisk P...
    by By Steve Smith
    18 Nov 2008 at 12:08am
    A concert performance by the conductor Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra and Chorus of the Maryinsky Theater at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday was a reminder that Prokofiev?s ?Love for Three Oran...
  • Music Review | American Composers Orchestra: A Wide-Ranging Evening With Cymb...
    by By STEVE SMITH
    17 Nov 2008 at 11:42pm
    During a return engagement on Friday night Jeffrey Milarsky authoritatively conducted the American Composers Orchestra in five disparate works, including three commissioned premieres.


  • Music Review | Ani and Ida Kavafian: Violin Duo Celebrating Milestone, Helped...
    by By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
    18 Nov 2008 at 12:06am
    The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center hosted a concert in honor of the violinist sisters Ani and Ida Kavafian, who made their Carnegie Hall debut as a duo 25 years ago.


  • Music Review | Andrea Marcovicci: Cheek to Cheek With Fred Astaire and Other ...
    by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
    18 Nov 2008 at 12:07am
    Andrea Marcovicci?s new show, ?Marcovicci Sings Movies II,? at the Oak Room, is an extensively altered and improved revival of one she performed there 21 years ago.


  • Music Review: A Dark and Ghostly Work, Bereft of High Spirits
    by By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
    18 Nov 2008 at 12:08am
    The violinist Vadim Repin played Prokofiev?s spooky violin scales at the end of the first movement in his Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor with eerie, barely audible pianissimos during a performance ...
  • Music Review | Garrick Ohlsson: Pianist Celebrates Scriabin as Angular Impres...
    by By ALLAN KOZINN
    17 Nov 2008 at 12:39am
    The pianist Garrick Ohlsson brought fingers, fortitude and a freewheeling imagination to his all-Scriabin recital on Saturday evening at the 92nd Street Y.


  • Totally Over: Last Squeals for ?TRL?
    by By BEN SISARIO
    18 Nov 2008 at 8:02pm
    The afternoon video show, which ended Sunday after being an MTV flagship for 10 years, was just a little too 20th-century to survive the YouTube age.


  • Music Review | Matt Haimovitz: Plug in Cello, Add D.J. and Club, Then Stir
    by By STEVE SMITH
    17 Nov 2008 at 12:35am
    The cellist Matt Haimovitz, no stranger to offbeat spaces, played at Le Poisson Rouge on Thursday.


  • Critics? Choice: New CDs
    by By JON CARAMANICA
    17 Nov 2008 at 9:06pm
    Nickelback seems eager to shed at least a little of its politeness on ?Dark Horse,? its sixth album ? by far its loosest and most jagged in years.


  • Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Philharmonic Past Speaks to Its Future
    by By JAMES R. OESTREICH
    17 Nov 2008 at 12:59am
    Alan Gilbert led the New York Philharmonic through suites from ?On the Waterfront? and ?West Side Story? on Friday as part of an ongoing festival honoring Leonard Bernstein.


  • Music Review | 'Things to Ruin': Cynicism, Too, Needs a Laureate to Give It S...
    by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
    17 Nov 2008 at 12:57am
    ?Things to Ruin,? by theater composer Joe Iconis, isn?t a political revue per se, but its 19 songs express a fed-up attitude in the final days of the Bush era.


  • Arts, Briefly: These Guitars Are Not Gently Weeping
    by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
    17 Nov 2008 at 12:37am
    A new track from the Beatles? Paul McCartney hopes to unleash ?Carnival of Light,? a 14-minute experimental Beatles track recorded in 1967 but never released.


  • Arts, Briefly: Melee at Music Awards
    by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
    17 Nov 2008 at 12:38am
    A 27-year-old man was in critical condition on Sunday after being stabbed when a brawl broke out at the sixth annual Urban Music Awards ceremony at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday night.


  • Arts, Briefly: Uneasy Lies the Head
    by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
    17 Nov 2008 at 12:38am
    ?I realize that my place and position in history is that I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade,? the rapper Kanye West said in an interview with The Associated Press.


  • Arts, Briefly: Town Hall Announces Its New Season
    by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
    17 Nov 2008 at 12:36am
    A folk fiddler, a salsa star and a bossa nova singer are among the headliners scheduled for the 2009 season at Town Hall, which will begin Jan. 23.


  • Music: Pop Music?s Dreamgirl Awakens Her Earthy Side
    by By ALAN LIGHT
    17 Nov 2008 at 2:31pm
    Beyoncé Knowles on her study of the life of Etta James and how it altered the direction of her new album.


  • Music: Sound of Woodwinds, Calling for Change
    by By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
    17 Nov 2008 at 1:54pm
    A quintet with twin goals: to lift the presence of blacks and Hispanics in classical music and to expand the repertory for woodwind quintets.


  • Playlist: Savvy Jazz Veterans and Fiery Rock Newcomers
    by By NATE CHINEN
    14 Nov 2008 at 12:43am
    Reviews of releases by Sonny Rollins, James Moody and Hank Jones, White Denim, Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid, and Bill Carrothers.


  • Peter Levinson, Publicist and Biographer of Jazz Greats, Is Dead at 74
    by By DOUGLAS MARTIN
    16 Nov 2008 at 4:40am
    Mr. Levinson, a music publicist, parlayed his close familiarity with jazz personalities into rich and sometimes intimate biographies of them.


  • Music Review | 'Marie Galante': A Woman Wronged in Old Tale by Weill
    by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
    14 Nov 2008 at 11:44pm
    On Thursday night the enterprising Opéra Français de New York presented an elaborate and overdue production of Kurt Weill?s ?Marie Galante,? its American premiere, at Gould Hall.


  • Music Review | Don Byron: Celebrating 50 Years With Four Parties
    by By PETER KEEPNEWS
    15 Nov 2008 at 1:36am
    Don Byron, a clarinet virtuoso, is performing with a different ensemble every night for the Jazz Standard?s four-night celebration of his 50th birthday.


  • Arts, Briefly: Music Director Departs Columbus Symphony
    by By DANIEL J. WAKIN; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    15 Nov 2008 at 12:03am
    Columbus Symphony Orchestra announced on Thursday that Junichi Hirokami, its music director, would be moving on, calling it a mutual decision.


  • Juanes, the Colombian Rocker, Sweeps the Major Awards at the Latin Grammys
    by By JON PARELES
    14 Nov 2008 at 3:06am
    Juanes picked up awards for Album of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Album, Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the ceremony on Thursday.


  • Music Review | AC/DC: Rock of a Certain Age, Complete With Inflatable Doll
    by By JON CARAMANICA
    14 Nov 2008 at 2:33am
    At Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, the 35-year-old band remained committedly lowbrow with its flamboyant stagings and remarkably familiar-sounding new songs.


  • Seattle Bids Tuba Man a Sad Goodbye
    by By WILLIAM YARDLEY
    18 Nov 2008 at 3:03pm
    More than 1,000 people attended a memorial service for Edward Scott McMichael, a busker with perfect pitch and an improbable horn whom most people in Seattle knew as Tuba Man.


  • Music Review | Gil Shaham: Energy From a Composer Can Fuel a Player?s Flight
    by By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
    14 Nov 2008 at 2:44am
    The violinist Gil Shaham is ideally suited to convey the energetic optimism of Khachaturian?s Violin Concerto, which he performed with the New York Philharmonic on Wednesday.


  • Music Review | 'Kafka Fragments': When Everyday Actions Become Existential Ev...
    by By ALLAN KOZINN
    14 Nov 2008 at 2:52am
    Dawn Upshaw whispers, shrieks and sings with ravishing warmth, and she moves easily from the mundane to the comic to sheer terror.


  • Music Review | Baby Jane Dexter: Songs of Speculation, Found in Unlikely Places
    by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
    14 Nov 2008 at 2:23am
    When belting in the expansive chest voice that dominated Wednesday?s show at the Metropolitan Room, Baby Jane Dexter exerted a formidable command.


  • Music Review | Juilliard School: One-Act Operas Fashioned Into a Marital Mora...
    by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
    14 Nov 2008 at 2:26am
    The conductor James Conlon continues to find ways to revitalize programming at the Juilliard School with ?Trilogy,? a piece fashioned from little-known one-act works, two Russian and one German.


  • C.M.A. Again Picks Chesney as Entertainer of the Year
    by By JON PARELES
    17 Nov 2008 at 11:59am
    For the fourth time, the Country Music Association?s gave its top award to Kenny Chesney on Wednesday.


  • Music Review | Brian Stokes Mitchell: Did Someone Say an Impossible Dream? No...
    by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
    12 Nov 2008 at 11:55pm
    Brian Stokes Mitchell seized the moment on Tuesday evening when he opened a too-short five-night engagement at Feinstein?s at Loews Regency.


  • Mitch Mitchell Dies at 62; Drummer for Jimi Hendrix
    by By BEN SISARIO
    13 Nov 2008 at 1:17am
    Mr. Mitchell, a jazzy and versatile drummer, was one of two Englishmen in the Jimi Hendrix Experience.


  • Music Review | Jeremy Denk: Soul Mates on the Wild Side: Transcendental Ives ...
    by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
    13 Nov 2008 at 12:08am
    In his exciting sold-out recital at Zankel Hall on Tuesday night the pianist Jeremy Denk paired Charles Ives?s ?Concord? Sonata and Beethoven?s ?Hammerklavier? Sonata.


  • Now That?s What I Call Marketing: Pop Hits and More
    by By BEN SISARIO
    12 Nov 2008 at 12:41am
    ?Now That?s What I Call Music!? has been a reliable blockbuster for 10 years by sticking to a simple, recognizable brand.


  • Music Review | Kirov Orchestra of the Maryinsky Theater: Velvet Passion for P...
    by By ALLAN KOZINN
    12 Nov 2008 at 12:41am
    Prokofiev, like Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, is in these musicians? fingers and souls, and their performance of ?Romeo and Juliet? could hardly have been more passionate or vividly characterized.


  • Music Review | David (Honeyboy) Edwards: Some Well-Aged Blues From the Missis...
    by By AMANDA PETRUSICH
    13 Nov 2008 at 10:56pm
    David (Honeyboy) Edwards?s 11-song, half-electric, half-acoustic set at the B. B. King Blues Club and Grill on Monday was a mix of traditional covers and original compositions.


  • Music Review | 'Music in Exile': Piano Works by Those Who Escaped the Nazis
    by By ALLAN KOZINN
    13 Nov 2008 at 10:58pm
    The series, ?Music in Exile: Émigré Composers of the 1930s,? which opened on Sunday, focuses mostly on composers who escaped to Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States during the Nazi era.


  • Music Review | Boz Scaggs: A Voice With Timbre and Topography
    by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
    12 Nov 2008 at 12:37am
    A tablespoon of blues and two teaspoons each of soft-rock, jazz and traditional pop: that recipe only begins to describe the stylistic ingredients in the music of Boz Scaggs, who opened at the Blue...
  • An Appraisal: Taking Africa With Her to the World
    by By JON PARELES
    11 Nov 2008 at 2:26pm
    To be the voice of a nation speaking to the wider world is a tough mission for any performer. To be the voice of an entire continent is exponentially more difficult. Both were mantles that the Sout...
  • Music Review | Kirov Orchestra of the Maryinsky Theater: When Prokofiev?s Sco...
    by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
    11 Nov 2008 at 12:13am
    On Sunday afternoon at Avery Fisher Hall, Valery Gergiev conducted the Kirov Orchestra of the Maryinsky Theater in the first of four programs devoted to theatrical works of Prokofiev.


  • Music Review | Met Chamber Ensemble: Musical Tent Big Enough for a Mix of Styles
    by By STEVE SMITH
    11 Nov 2008 at 12:28am
    It must be great fun for James Levine to concoct the programs he presents with the Met Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall.


  • Music Review | Conor Oberst: A Singer?s Enthusiasm Now Reigns Where Emotion O...
    by By JON CARAMANICA
    11 Nov 2008 at 12:30am
    Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes shimmied intensely alongside his other group, the Mystic Valley Band, at Terminal 5 on Sunday, while performing material from his recent solo album.


  • Music Review | Wenge Musica BCBG: Congolese Soukous Beats, Spirited and Dance...
    by By JON CARAMANICA
    11 Nov 2008 at 12:23am
    Wenge Musica BCBG, the acclaimed Congolese soukous band, brought its long, intricate songs, elaborate drumming and wall of vocals to the Fillmore New York on Saturday night.


  • Music Review: The Guarneri String Quartet and The Metropolitan Museum Artists...
    by By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
    11 Nov 2008 at 12:33am
    Reviews of performances by the Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert and the Guarneri String Quartet.


  • Music Review: A Big Electronic Party in Celebration of Survival
    by By BEN RATLIFF
    11 Nov 2008 at 12:27am
    Psychic TV?s show at Club Europa on Sunday night, its first performance since Lady Jaye Breyer?s death, was suffused with sweetness and good feeling.


  • Music Review | 'La Damnation de Faust': Between Hell and Heaven, a World of M...
    by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
    10 Nov 2008 at 8:57am
    The video wizardry on stage should not obscure the big news of the Metropolitan Opera?s ?La Damnation de Faust?: the magnificent performances of the opera and chorus.


  • Miriam Makeba, 76, Singer and Activist, Dies
    by By ALAN COWELL
    11 Nov 2008 at 11:22am
    Ms. Makeba was a South African singer whose voice stirred hopes of freedom in her own country even though her music was formally banned by the apartheid authorities she struggled against.


  • Alas, Poor City Opera: Without Galvanizing Director-to-Be, What Next?
    by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
    10 Nov 2008 at 1:41am
    With the departure of its director, Gerard Mortier, and finances in turmoil, the New York City Opera has scrapped Mr. Mortier?s production plans and begun the search for a new leader.


  • Music in Review
    by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
    9 Nov 2008 at 6:18pm
    Tetzlaff Quartet at Zankel Hall and ?Petite Messe Solennelle? at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola.


  • Music Review | Bang on a Can All-Stars: Strange Dreams, Channeled Into Music
    by By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
    10 Nov 2008 at 1:29am
    The genre-blurring group Bang on a Can All-Stars played a well-attended concert at Le Poisson Rouge on Saturday, meshing elements of jazz, rock, classical and world music.


  • Music Review | Steve Tyrell: Presiding Spirit at Party: Geniality
    by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
    10 Nov 2008 at 1:43am
    Steve Tyrell, a good ole boy from Houston with an aw-shucks charm and an easygoing machismo, began his fourth season at the Café Carlyle last week.


  • Thomas Dunn, an Early-Music Conductor, Is Dead at 82
    by By MARGALIT FOX
    10 Nov 2008 at 3:04am
    Mr. Dunn was a prominent conductor whose work helped animate the early music revival that took place in the mid-20th century and afterward.


  • Music: My Music, MySpace, My Life
    by By JON CARAMANICA
    9 Nov 2008 at 11:56am
    Stressing young love and personal connections, Taylor Swift expands country music?s audience.


  • Music: The Weill (Almost) Nobody Knows
    by By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH
    9 Nov 2008 at 2:31am
    As champions of Kurt Weill always point out, there is more to his catalog than ?The Threepenny Opera.? Two new projects will bring some of his lesser-known productions to the stage.


  • Playlist | Jared Followill: Sounds Like Other Decades? Just One of the Attrac...
    by By WINTER MILLER
    9 Nov 2008 at 2:30am
    Jared Followill of Kings of Leon discusses music by M83, Glasvegas, She & Him, Chairlift and Animal Collective.


  • Fantasies Old and New, Names Familiar and Fresh
    by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
    7 Nov 2008 at 4:29pm
    Reviews of recordings by David Greilsammer, Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela and Ursula Oppens.


  • For Copland Musicians, 10th Season of Seclusion and Nurture
    by By ROBERTA HERSHENSON
    10 Nov 2008 at 2:36pm
    Aaron Copland?s modest house ? recently named a National Historic Landmark ? will be the nurturing home to nine successive composers.


  • Red Bank: Basie Theater Renovation Turns Back the Clock 82 Years
    by By COLEEN DEE BERRY
    8 Nov 2008 at 9:12pm
    Many volunteered time, work or money to help restore the theater, including Bruce Springsteen and his band, who played a benefit concert raising $3 million.


  • A Night Out With | Joseph Arthur: Doing Things You?re Not
    by By LIZA GHORBANI
    8 Nov 2008 at 11:22pm
    Hanging out with Joseph Arthur, the singer, songwriter and artist, who has created his own little artistic paradise in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn.


  • Bold Impresario and City Opera Part Ways
    by By DANIEL J. WAKIN
    8 Nov 2008 at 4:23am
    The departure of Gerard Mortier came 21 months after New York City Opera had staked its future on his vision.


  • Conductor Defends Russia, to Strains of Prokofiev
    by By DANIEL J. WAKIN
    10 Nov 2008 at 5:00pm
    Few other conductors have become so involved in the public realm as Valery Gergiev, whose Kirov Orchestra will perform at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday and Monday.


  • Music Review | The Hold Steady | Drive-By Truckers: For the Toughest of Hard ...
    by By JON CARAMANICA
    7 Nov 2008 at 11:34pm
    The Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers, who co-headlined at Terminal 5 on Thursday, share a commitment to underdogs but have different ways of expressing it.


  • Child?s Garden of Hip-Hop (for Mom to Love, Too)
    by By MOTOKO RICH
    7 Nov 2008 at 11:39pm
    The book ?Hip Hop Speaks to Children,? which features lyrics by Mos Def, Kanye West and Queen Latifah, as well as poems by Maya Angelou and Gwendolyn Brooks, has become a modest hit.


  • Music Review | The Smashing Pumpkins: Burly Riffs, Long Jams and Rage
    by By JON PARELES
    8 Nov 2008 at 7:59am
    The Smashing Pumpkins? lineup has changed and Billy Corgan still annoys as well as enthralls, but the music has stayed explosive.


  • Music Review | Composer Portraits: Milton Babbitt: Side by Side in a Marathon...
    by By Allan Kozinn
    8 Nov 2008 at 4:14am
    Noting the fuss over Elliott Carter?s impending centenary, partisans of the music of Milton Babbitt, 92, are getting their ducks in a row.


  • Music Review | Florence Henderson: Pondering if Carol Brady Ever Had Any Work...
    by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
    7 Nov 2008 at 11:54pm
    A remarkably youthful Florence Henderson reviews her life, from her impoverished childhood in Kentucky to fame and fortune.


  • Music Review | 'Olivier Messiaen at 100': Glimpsing the Apocalypse
    by By ALLAN KOZINN
    7 Nov 2008 at 11:50pm
    ?Olivier Messiaen at 100,? a centenary tribute at Symphony Space on Thursday, included exquisite examples of the composer?s idiosyncratic, wholly expressive style.


  • Jheryl Busby, 59, Reviver of the Motown Label, Dies
    by By DENNIS HEVESI
    8 Nov 2008 at 4:25am
    Mr. Busby was a music executive who helped return an industry giant to the top of the charts.


  • Techno-Alchemy at the Opera
    by By DANIEL J. WAKIN
    7 Nov 2008 at 2:05pm
    A production of Berlioz?s ?Damnation de Faust? at the Metropolitan Opera introduces an unprecedented level of technological stagecraft to the house.


  • Hearts Full of Sorrow
    by By BEN RATLIFF
    6 Nov 2008 at 8:27pm
    A history of the events and people who defined the Mississippi blues.


  • Jimmy Carl Black, Rocker, Dies at 70
    by By BEN SISARIO
    7 Nov 2008 at 12:43pm
    Mr. Black was the acerbic drummer of Frank Zappa?s mischievous, innovative band the Mothers of Invention.


  • Music Review | Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra: Songs With a Politic...
    by By BEN RATLIFF
    12 Nov 2008 at 1:16am
    Charlie Haden?s Liberation Music Orchestra makes use of folk forms, marches and anthems, but it?s all rearranged, put through a prism, warped a little, forced into broader meanings.


  • Music Review | 'Arjuna?s Dilemma': Warrior Prince From India Wrestles With De...
    by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
    6 Nov 2008 at 10:14pm
    ?Arjuna?s Dilemma,? an opera based on the Bhagavad-Gita and presented at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, has an appealing and unabashedly eclectic score.


  • Music Review | Lang Lang and Christoph Eschenbach: The Flame of Beethoven, Ca...
    by By STEVE SMITH
    6 Nov 2008 at 10:12pm
    Lang Lang and Christoph Eschenbach returned to Beethoven?s First Concerto with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall on Wednesday night.


  • A Man of Many Talents, Eager to Use Them All
    by By ALLAN KOZINN
    11 Oct 2008 at 10:20pm
    Caleb Burhans is part of a new generation that doesn?t feel compelled to specialize and works easily in classical, rock and much in between.


  • Classical Music/Opera Listings
    by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
    14 Nov 2008 at 3:46am
    CLASSICAL.


  • Pop and Rock Listings
    by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
    14 Nov 2008 at 2:54am
    POP.


  • Jazz Listings
    by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
    14 Nov 2008 at 2:54am
    JAZZ.


    NYT > Television

  • For ?60 Minutes,? a Time to Report From the Top of the Ratings
    by By JACQUES STEINBERG
    19 Nov 2008 at 3:32pm
    ?60 Minutes? on CBS has been the most-watched program in the nation the last two weeks ? including the full episode on Sunday devoted to Steve Kroft?s interview with Barack and Michelle Obama.


  • Legal Tangles of ?Project Runway? Keep It Frozen on the Catwalk
    by By EDWARD WYATT
    19 Nov 2008 at 11:43am
    Producers have already shot segments for the series?s sixth season, but those new episodes are unlikely to be seen for several months, according to people involved in the case.


  • Totally Over: Last Squeals for ?TRL?
    by By BEN SISARIO
    18 Nov 2008 at 8:02pm
    The afternoon video show, which ended Sunday after being an MTV flagship for 10 years, was just a little too 20th-century to survive the YouTube age.


  • Training a Gimlet Eye on the News Media and Finding Them Wanting
    by By BRIAN STELTER
    18 Nov 2008 at 11:35am
    ?The IFC Media Project,? a six-part series that has its premiere on the Independent Film Channel on Tuesday, calls itself a ?user?s guide to how the news gets made.?


  • Arts, Briefly: Football Draws Viewers
    by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    17 Nov 2008 at 11:44pm
    The Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins were a winning matchup on Sunday, lifting NBC to No. 1 in the night?s ratings and easily leading the evening among adults 18 to 49.


  • Arts, Briefly: Katt Williams Seeks Medical Care
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    17 Nov 2008 at 11:43pm
    The comedian Katt Williams is ?incredibly fatigued? and has sought medical attention and canceled a performance in Las Vegas.


  • Arts, Briefly: Lipstick Jungle Lives
    by By BILL CARTER; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    17 Nov 2008 at 11:44pm
    Reports of the demise of ?Lipstick Jungle? may have been premature.


  • Arts, Briefly: New Morning Host Becomes Eclectic
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    17 Nov 2008 at 11:44pm
    KCRW, a Santa Monica, Calif., public radio station, has named Jason Bentley as its new music director and host of its influential show ?Morning Becomes Eclectic.?


  • No Mystery: Ratings Heat Up for ?NCIS?
    by By BILL CARTER
    18 Nov 2008 at 5:13am
    ?NCIS,? a six-year-old series on CBS that lands on few magazine covers and enjoys almost no love from critics, is suddenly the hottest show on the air.


  • Wallace Shawn on ?Gossip Girl?? It?s Not Inconceivable
    by By DAVE ITZKOFF
    17 Nov 2008 at 3:06am
    The protean Wallace Shawn, an actor, playwright and emissary from the New York intelligentsia, has a recurring role on the prime-time CW soap opera.


  • Yes, They All Do Think They Can Dance
    by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
    17 Nov 2008 at 12:39am
    ?So You Think You Can Dance? is gearing up for its fifth season, and roughly 900 hopefuls answered an open casting call in Brooklyn on Thursday.


  • television: Making Beautiful Music on ?Ugly Betty?
    by By NISHA GOPALAN
    14 Nov 2008 at 9:52pm
    For Val Emmich, landing a role on a hit TV show has also meant a chance to promote his new CD.


  • Drugs and Sex (and Politics and Motherhood)
    by By KATHRYN SHATTUCK
    17 Nov 2008 at 3:11pm
    Annabeth Gish of Showtime?s ?Brotherhood? talks about a career still unfurling.


  • Video Game Review | Gears of War 2: In a Complex Gaming Age, Faith in the Sim...
    by By SETH SCHIESEL
    15 Nov 2008 at 12:04am
    At the thrill-ride level, Gears of War 2, for the Xbox 360, is one of the most satisfying games of the year. But it suffers by taking itself far too seriously.


  • Election?s Over, So What?s Next for the Cable News Channels?
    by By BILL CARTER
    15 Nov 2008 at 12:09am
    For all the news media outlets that set viewership records in recent months, the looming question after Senator Barack Obama?s election is: What happens now?


  • Television Review | 'Filth': Mary?s War Against Potty Mouths on TV
    by By ANITA GATES
    15 Nov 2008 at 12:09am
    In ?Filth,? a ?Masterpiece Contemporary? presentation on PBS stations, a middle-aged Englishwoman creates the Clean Up TV campaign and fights for what she sees as common decency.


  • Television Review | 'In the Footsteps of Marco Polo' | 'Expedition Week': A B...
    by By NEIL GENZLINGER
    15 Nov 2008 at 12:27am
    ?In the Footsteps of Marco Polo? on public television documents the coolest vacation idea ever minus the numbing slickness of National Geographic?s ?Expedition Week,? which still manages to intrigu...
  • Arts, Briefly: Guitar Hero Sales Aren?t Topping Charts
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    14 Nov 2008 at 11:59pm
    Sales results for Guitar Hero: World Tour did not rock as hard as earlier versions.


  • Arts, Briefly: CBS Wins Thursday
    by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    15 Nov 2008 at 12:04am
    For the sixth consecutive week CBS averaged the most television viewers on Thursday, according to Nielsen?s estimates.


  • Arts, Briefly: Silverman Book Deal
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    14 Nov 2008 at 11:58pm
    Sarah Silverman is closing out 2008 with a book deal.


  • Television Review | 'Ricky Gervais: Out of England': He?s Out for Laughs, and...
    by By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
    14 Nov 2008 at 2:21am
    Onstage, Ricky Gervais blends the slimy self-delusion of David Brent, his character on the original version of ?The Office,? with the aggrieved hostility he perfected in ?Extras? on HBO.


  • Television Review | 'The Meow Mix Think Like a Cat Game Show': Do You Trust Y...
    by By NEIL GENZLINGER
    14 Nov 2008 at 2:48am
    ?The Meow Mix Think Like a Cat Game Show? on Game Show Network is a lame attempt to use game-show trappings to disguise what is nothing more than a lengthy cat food commercial.


  • Arts, Briefly: Bell Tolls for Two Series
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    14 Nov 2008 at 2:40am
    Fox has announced that it is pulling the plug on its sketch comedy series ?Mad TV.?


  • Arts, Briefly: Country Rules the Night
    by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    14 Nov 2008 at 2:37am
    ABC?s broadcast of the 42nd annual Country Music Association Awards attracted an average of 15.9 million viewers on Wednesday, lifting the network to No. 1 in the night?s ratings.


  • A Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence
    by By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
    17 Nov 2008 at 12:01pm
    The claim of credit for the Sarah Palin-Africa anecdote is just the latest ruse by Martin Eisenstadt, who turns out to be a very elaborate hoax that has been going on for months.


  • A Bit of a Nasty Giggle Puts the BBC Under Fire
    by By SARAH LYALL
    12 Nov 2008 at 11:54pm
    Shock-jock behavior leads to apologies and resignations at the BBC.


  • Arts, Briefly: Big Win for CBS, Even Bigger for ?NCIS?
    by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    13 Nov 2008 at 7:03pm
    On Tuesday CBS?s crime drama ?NCIS? delivered the largest audience in the series?s six seasons.


  • Arts, Briefly: Two Women Join ?SNL?
    by By BILL CARTER; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    13 Nov 2008 at 7:03pm
    Two new female cast members, Michaela Watkins and Abby Elliott, will join the show on Saturday as featured players.


  • Arts, Briefly: ?Morning Joe? Now With Seven-Second Delay
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    13 Nov 2008 at 7:04pm
    Over the years Joe Scarborough?s penchant for speaking his mind has won him a Republican seat in the House of Representatives and a hosting job on MSNBC.


  • The TV Watch: Rehashing ?08 and Rehearsing, Perhaps, for ?12
    by By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
    12 Nov 2008 at 7:05am
    In her many appearances this week, Sarah Palin is on a speed date with history, upending protocol as she goes.


  • On ?Tonight,? McCain Declines to Lay Blame
    by By SARAH WHEATON
    12 Nov 2008 at 3:01am
    Aside from wryly indicting his own personality, John McCain declined to speculate on why he lost, and he defended his running mate, Sarah Palin.


  • Television Review | 'Top Chef': Trying to Stand the Heat in a Pressure Cooker
    by By GINIA BELLAFANTE
    18 Nov 2008 at 5:08am
    The ?Top Chef? kitchen exquisitely mirrors a certain kind of creative workplace where the obsessively gifted flounder in the face of the coolly confident.


  • For ?The Magic Garden,? It?s Spring All Over Again
    by By DAVE ITZKOFF
    11 Nov 2008 at 12:25am
    ?The Magic Garden,? a cheerful, low-budget children?s show from the 1970s and early ?80s, was recently released on DVD, providing its creators and fans the opportunity to reflect on its charms.


  • Television Review | 'Cha$e': In Real-Life Video Game, Contestants Are Fish in...
    by By MIKE HALE
    11 Nov 2008 at 12:32am
    ?Cha$e,? a Sci Fi Channel series, releases 10 contestants into an area of Los Angeles with the goal of avoiding a team of hunters who affect a ?Matrix? black-suit-and-sunglasses look.


  • Arts, Briefly: New Deal for Keith Olbermann
    by By BRIAN STELTER; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    11 Nov 2008 at 12:20am
    Keith Olbermann, the anchor of ?Countdown? on MSNBC, has extended his contract through the next presidential election season.


  • Arts, Briefly: NBC Fine-Tunes Its Crime Shows
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    11 Nov 2008 at 12:21am
    NBC continues to shore up its newly reorganized Wednesday-night lineup, which is centered on crime dramas.


  • Arts, Briefly: Football Games Score
    by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    11 Nov 2008 at 12:19am
    Football delivered winning ratings for both NBC and CBS on Sunday.


  • Now Screening | Hollywood Webisodes
    by By BEN CRAWFORD
    13 Nov 2008 at 5:01pm
    Internet videos, the phenomenon that started with ?virals? like ?the Numa Numa Dance? and skits like Will Ferrell and Adam McKay?s ?The Landlord? on FunnyorDie.com, are suddenly being taken serious...
  • Flagging ?Heroes? Attempts Self-Rescue
    by By EDWARD WYATT
    10 Nov 2008 at 1:12am
    With ratings for the television series down 20 percent from those of a year ago, NBC took action last week, firing two co-executive producers.


  • Video Game Review | Fallout 3: Mad at Washington? What if It Were Gone?
    by By SETH SCHIESEL
    10 Nov 2008 at 4:13pm
    Washington is a ruin in Fallout 3 from Bethesda Softworks, one of the most ambitious single-player role-playing games in recent years.


  • Television: Out From Under All That Big Hair
    by By REBECCA CATHCART
    9 Nov 2008 at 2:26am
    On ?Sons of Anarchy,? Katey Sagal asks Peggy Bundy to step aside.


  • DVD: The Show That Turned the Mockery Into the Message
    by By DAVE ITZKOFF
    9 Nov 2008 at 2:26am
    ?Mystery Science Theater 3000? may have been the first television show in which the commentary was more important than what was being commented on.


  • Water Mill: An Otherworldly Opera That Speaks Klingon
    by By AILEEN JACOBSON
    8 Nov 2008 at 6:23pm
    Star Trek fans rejoice: a Klingon Opera is being developed and selections will soon beam down at the Watermill Center.


  • The TV Watch: Donning the Presidential Mantle to Brave a Storm of Questions o...
    by By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
    8 Nov 2008 at 1:47am
    Barack Obama?s first press conference as president-elect was a deftly diplomatic performance, with no mistakes and few improvisations, and that is hardly surprising.


  • Culture: A Genial Explorer of Literary Worlds
    by By A. O. SCOTT
    7 Nov 2008 at 11:44pm
    The critic John Leonard, who died Wednesday at 69, brought to his work a combination of open-mindedness and skepticism and the willingness to be enthralled and enraged, inflamed and entertained.


  • Before Obama, There Was Bill Cosby
    by By TIM ARANGO
    7 Nov 2008 at 11:30pm
    An idea seems to be gaining traction that improbably has Bill Cosby and Karl Rove in agreement: ?The Cosby Show? succeeded in changing racial attitudes enough to make an Obama candidacy possible.


  • Television in Review
    by By MIKE HALE
    7 Nov 2008 at 10:23pm
    Popular in Australia, ?Summer Heights High,? which is being given a high-profile run on HBO beginning Sunday night, may not resonate with American viewers.


  • Arts, Briefly: Co-Host Is Fired From Wendy Williams Radio Show
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    7 Nov 2008 at 11:48pm
    Wendy Williams announced on Thursday?s broadcast that her longtime co-host, Charlamagne Tha God, had been fired, along with much of the show?s production staff.


  • Arts, Briefly: Despite Arrest, the Show Goes On
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    7 Nov 2008 at 11:47pm
    Days after fending off Internet rumors that he had died, the comedian Katt Williams nearly saw the demise of his Carnegie Hall debut when he was arrested the night before the show.


  • Arts, Briefly: ?CSI? Flexes Muscle
    by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    7 Nov 2008 at 11:46pm
    The crime drama ?CSI? delivered the largest television audience Thursday night as 18.1 million viewers tuned in, lifting CBS to No. 1 in the night?s ratings.


  • Music Review | Florence Henderson: Pondering if Carol Brady Ever Had Any Work...
    by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
    7 Nov 2008 at 11:54pm
    A remarkably youthful Florence Henderson reviews her life, from her impoverished childhood in Kentucky to fame and fortune.


  • Can We Laugh? Yes, We Can
    by By DAVE ITZKOFF
    7 Nov 2008 at 11:31am
    A post-election question for comics: What?s funny, and what?s fair game, about a President Barack Obama?


  • Television Review | 'Whale Wars': Hunting the People Who Hunt the Whales
    by By NEIL GENZLINGER
    10 Nov 2008 at 10:54pm
    ?Whale Wars,? which has its premiere Friday on Animal Planet, follows a band of self-appointed warriors as they try to thwart Japanese whalers in the waters off Antarctica.


  • Arts, Briefly: The Rest Is Cylons: Auction Helps Bid 'Galactica' Farewell
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    6 Nov 2008 at 10:04pm
    The studio that produces ?Battlestar Galactica? will offer fans an opportunity to purchase memorabilia at a two-day auction in January.


  • Arts, Briefly: That Democratic Institution, 'American Idol', Returns
    by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
    6 Nov 2008 at 10:01pm
    The eighth season of ?American Idol,? the Fox reality series, will have its premiere over two nights on Jan. 13 and 14.


  • John Leonard, 69, Cultural Critic, Dies
    by By MARGALIT FOX
    8 Nov 2008 at 3:01pm
    Mr. Leonard, an influential, visible cultural critic, was known for the breadth of his knowledge, the depth of his inquiries and the lavish passion of his prose.


  • Black TV Is Wearing Its Politics on Its Sleeve
    by By BRIAN STELTER
    6 Nov 2008 at 1:48am
    BET, cable?s most prominent channel that features programs for black viewers, celebrated Barack Obama?s presidential victory by dropping its regular schedule.


  • Television | The Week Ahead
    4 Jan 2008 at 7:04pm
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