Literature as a creator of dialogues that deepen and explore the dynamic between different generations is a theme of a multi-day event at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center his weekend, through Tuesday, Feb. 28. Read More... More on Writing
The $26 billion foreclosure settlement deal announced this month arrived in the final throes of Hollywood's annual awards season. It also arrived too late for my neighbor, a screenwriter and director who moved out of her two-bedroom house the week before last, after her bank foreclosed on the property.Read More...
Gay sex is a touchy subject in India. A 148-year-old colonial law, overturned by the Delhi high court in 2009, deemed same-sex relationships as "unnatural offenses". For over a century, Indians have been wrestling with what's considered "natural" versus "unnatural" by the government, and after a recent slip of the tongue by […]
Tuesday, Aug. 30 at 9pm on PBS (Check local listings). John O'Neill, the FBI's expert on Al Qaeda, warned of its threat. But his maverick style doomed his career.
After the largest recorded earthquake in Japan set off a nuclear disaster, its people are facing a generation-defining moment as they question their lifestyle and dependency on nuclear power. In The Atomic Artists, FRONTLINE journeys with Marco Werman of PRI's The World as he meets Chim↑Pom, a provocative group of young artists making headlines as […]
Martin Savidge in the Worldfocus studio. Martin Savidge, who hosted the show for much of its run, comments on the end of the program: Well, gang, our nightly global road trip has come to an end. There’s no point dwelling on the why. Sometimes that is just the way it is. Even so, I will miss the show [...]
If there's anything remarkable about President Obama's new Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, it's that it hasn't raised much of a ruckus in Silicon Valley.
Tuesday, Aug. 30 at 9pm on PBS (Check local listings). John O'Neill, the FBI's expert on Al Qaeda, warned of its threat. But his maverick style doomed his career.
Many workers in these tough times are turning to M.B.A. programs that let them earn a degree in half the time, often at a fraction of the cost. (See the full report)
This year's winners include: a tool to identify new disease strains, an artificial hand, a solar-powered base station for mobile phones and paper-thin flexible speakers.
In January, family, friends and colleagues of the late CBS newsman Andy Rooney gathered in New York City to remember his life and times. We want to share the wonderful stories, recollections, and remembrances from this memorial service with our viewers.
Extreme sports: "Birdmen" who soar off cliffs in wingsuits; a climber who scales sheer mountain faces without climbing ropes; and divers who swim with Great White sharks. They're all on 60 Minutes Presents: Going to Extremes, hosted by Steve Kroft on Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Scientists have found the secret recipe behind the spectacular variety of dog shapes and sizes, and it could help unravel the complexity of human genetic disease.
“In Philadelphia, reporters wonder whether major layoffs announced last fall don’t presage the folding of the Philadelphia Daily News which, unlike the Inquirer, has been losing money.” So wrote Matt Cooper in a 1987 story about Knight Ridder. Matter of fact,… Read more
State and local governments are almost as pressed as newspapers these days to shave expenses in the face of falling revenues. That has given fresh impetus to efforts that would allow municipalities to post all or some of their legal… Read more
“The death of display advertising has been greatly exaggerated,” Randall Rothenberg, CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, said last week at the trade organization’s MIXX conference. True, rectangular “banner” ads, in-stream video commercials and other so-called online “display” advertising… Read more
The 81st-annual Academy Awards will be hosted by Hugh Jackman. The ceremony will be televised on Feb. 22 at 8 p.m. (EST) on ABC from Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre.
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Richard Jenkins THE VISITOR
Frank Langella FROST/NIXON
Sean Penn MILK
Brad Pitt THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Mickey Rourke THE WRESTLER
Josh Brolin MILK
Robert Downey Jr. TROPIC THUNDER
Philip Seymour Hoffman DOUBT
Heath Ledger THE DARK KNIGHT
Michael Shannon REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
Anne Hathaway RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
Angelina Jolie CHANGELING
Melissa Leo FROZEN RIVER
Meryl Streep DOUBT
Kate Winslet THE READER
Amy Adams DOUBT
Penélope Cruz VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
Viola Davis DOUBT
Taraji P. Henson THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Marisa Tomei THE WRESTLER
BOLT
KUNG FU PANDA
WALL-E
CHANGELING
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE DARK KNIGHT
THE DUCHESS
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
CHANGELING
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE DARK KNIGHT
THE READER
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
AUSTRALIA
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE DUCHESS
MILK
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
FROST/NIXON
MILK
THE READER
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
THE BETRAYAL (NERAKHOON)
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
THE GARDEN
MAN ON WIRE
TROUBLE THE WATER
THE CONSCIENCE OF NHEM EN
THE FINAL INCH
SMILE PINKI
THE WITNESS – FROM THE BALCONY OF ROOM 306
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE DARK KNIGHT
FROST/NIXON
MILK
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Class
Departures
Revanche
Waltz With Bashir
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE DARK KNIGHT
HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
DEFIANCE
MILK
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
WALL-E
“Down to Earth”
WALL-E
“Jai Ho”
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
“O Saya”
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
FROST/NIXON
MILK
THE READER
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
La Maison en Petits Cubes
LAVATORY – LOVESTORY
OKTAPODI
PRESTO
THIS WAY UP
AUF DER STRECKE (ON THE LINE)
MANON ON THE ASPHALT
NEW BOY
THE PIG
SPIELZEUGLAND (TOYLAND)
THE DARK KNIGHT
IRON MAN
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
WALL-E
WANTED
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE DARK KNIGHT
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
WALL-E
WANTED
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE DARK KNIGHT
IRON MAN
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
DOUBT
FROST/NIXON
THE READER
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
FROZEN RIVER
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
IN BRUGES
MILK
WALL-E
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The Ronald S. Lauder Collection – Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century, Germany, Austria, and France Selections from one of the finest private art collections in the world are on view at Neue Galerie through April 2nd, to mark the tenth anniversary of this museum. The exhibition “The Ronald S. Lauder Collection [...]
After 50 years of research that uncovered nearly 60,000 entries, the compilers of the Dictionary of American Regional English have published the work’s fifth and final volume.
By the nineteen-twenties, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney had amassed an impressive collection of the works of living American artists. She wanted to give five hundred pieces to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but she was refused. So she opened her own museum, in Greenwich Village, in 1931. The Whitney, which moved to its present location in 1966, has a substant […]
The casts of the Tony Award-winning revival of Anything Goes and the upcoming Ghost visited "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" during Broadway week on "Late Night" to perform musical numbers from the shows.
Montclair State University will present a benefit production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues as part of the V-Day Campaign, which raises funds and awareness to end violence against women and girls, March 5-6 at the University's Memorial Auditorium.
F. Murray Abraham stars in the Classic Stage Company’s revival of Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo,” about the conflict between champions of progress and the church in Renaissance Italy.
“Shakespeare’s Sisters,” a survey at the Folger Shakespeare Library spanning 200 years of largely unsung female writers, begins with examples from the Elizabethan era.
Nadia Denton, the former director of the BFM International Film Festival and the author of the book The Black British Filmmaker's Guide to Success, will discuss, along with a few experts, on how filmmakers can fund, market and distribute their own movies. The lecture will take place at the British Film Institute at the Southbank Centre in London on Satu […]
Director Mary Harron has never shied away from edgy material. Her early career was marked by the wicked one-two punch of "I Shot Andy Warhol" and of course, the contemporary classic "American Psycho." She followed up those films with the pinup biopic "The Notorious Bettie Page" and has also peppered her CV with TV work on shows […]
Filed under: Movie News, CinematicalBlake Lively might not be taking her planned trip down the Yellow Brick Road. Lively, who won critical acclaim for her role in Ben Affleck's 'The Town,' is now first in line for the female lead in Oliver Stone's 'Savages,' a story about two Laguna Beach marijuana kingpins who are forced to wor […]
Filed under: Cinematical, Best and WorstDirector Sidney Lumet, who passed away April 9 at the age of 86, may not have been a "name" director like Steven Spielberg or Alfred Hitchcock (at least not to the general public), but you certainly know the names of his films. From 1957's '12 Angry Men,' to 'Dog Day Afternoon,' […]
In December we learned that J.J. Abrams would be shooting the Star Trek sequel on film, and sending the footage to be post converted into 3D. At the time, Abrams said that he was talking about shooting in IMAX, but was noncommittal: “I would love to do it,” he said. “IMAX is my favorite format; [...]
The year was 2011 and, if you remember correctly, San Diego Comic-Con had some serious issues with their badge sales. Because a large portion of badges sold out at the event the year before, demand for 2011 badges was at an all time high. This resulted in several server crashes and reschedules of sales. For [...]
Some interesting Times Talks events coming up, unfortunately the one I really want to go to is sold out. 2.23.12 Election 2012: Behind the Scenes Get an insider perspective to the 2012 election and find out what goes on behind the scenes with New York Times correspondents Jim Rutenberg, Jeff Zeleny and Helene Cooper. Moderated [...]
The Tobolowsky Files Live at The Bell House (02/28/12) Buy Tickets Hey folks, as you may know by now, I’m a big fan of The Tobolowsky Files, so I just wanted to give you a couple of updates on the live show and the podcast. First off, Stephen has just released episode 54 of his [...]
Silent black-and-white film “The Artist” has won six prizes at France’s annual cinema awards Cesars, including best film and best actress. Iranian drama “A Separation” won the award for best foreign film.
FRANCE 24 film critics Jon Frosch and Lisa Nesselson dissect the main categories of the Academy Award nominations. Will French black-and-white silent film "The Artist" take home Oscar gold? And does it deserve to? Answers to all that, and more.
Australian born artist Anthony Lister is showing at the Lyons Wier Gallery in New York City from March 19 through to April 19.A lot of my favorite artists are painters that never really give up using the pencil (line). Painterly paintings are good but so are paintings that look like drawings. I guess I like painterly drawings or linear paintings. I like pain […]
I'm really good at making lists. I'm a list person. Without lists I watch too much tv, surf the web, or read too much.I create lists that are too ambitious as I rarely ever complete the jobs on them. Which in some ways shows the masochist in me as I know I'm setting myself up to fail, but in other ways it gets me off my fanny (I have always wa […]
We're busy cleaning up last night's Art Fag City Rob Pruitt Art Awards and Auction at Site 109, so we won't be posting today. (It went SO well). We'll be posting photos as soon as we have them though, so stay tuned for that!
The New Yorker wasn’t being hyperbolic when it claimed that “one may be forgiven for wanting to cheer”; Hendrickson annihilates the monotonous etiquette that’s become standard procedure around here.
"Sunday Morning" correspondent Mo Rocca visits the house of John Tyler, who became America's 10th President after President Harrison died - the first Vice President to assume the office. Rocca also meets President Tyler's grandson.
First off! THE OSCARS ARE SUNDAY. We’re live-blogging the red carpet for Vulture starting Sunday afternoon at 3pm PT (we’ll toss up a link here), and of course we’re be tweeting the hell out of it @FugGirls, so please join us. Next week will be MAJOR here at GFY, so make sure you pop by Read More ...
Molly Sims, the model-turned-actress known for her modeling for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues, her acting on the NBC series "Las Vegas" and her work as the host of "Project Accessory," has announced that she is expecting her first child. Sims...(read more)
Since David Beckham announced last summer that he was working on a new bodywear line, ladies everywhere have been holding their breath in anticipation. Well, the wait is over, and now you can see the soccer star in all his glory -- and without most of...(read more)
From A Hamburger Today It's a race to the bottom. In light of Pete Wells's New York City burger comparison this week in the New York Times, Gawker asked its readers to help find the city's worst burger. The criteria: no national fast food chains, no contrarianism, and you must share why the burger is so bad. So far, readers have suggested fast […]
We'll see you at the NYC meetup at Radegast on Saturday (map it here)! We plan to be there from 2 p.m. onwards into the afternoon, so swing by. But here's an incentive to get there early: the first 20 people who show up get a free Serious Eats reusable Baggu bag. You want one, you know you do. If you're not part of the early wave, you can stil […]
UPPER WEST SIDE — Bar Boulud is launching a "Saturdays at the Tasting Table" series, where guests can try six to eight different wines picked by sommelier Michael Madrigale, with small plates and charcuteries. Tickets for these afternoon tastings are available online. [EaterWire] MIDTOWN — Flo Fab has a peek at the menu for Vitae, the n […]
An anonymous reader writes "Foxconn is insisting that it has done no wrong. But it has hired Burson-Marsteller to deal with the press failout from recent child labour allegations. Burson-Masteller is a PR heavy hitter called in when outfits have big image problems. It handled Tylenol poisonings, and, according to Corporate Watch, the Bhopal disaster, an […]
New submitter elashish14 tips this news, snipped from Ars Technica: "Apple has been forced to disable push e-mail delivery for iCloud and MobileMe users in Germany this week. The move is thanks to a recent injunction awarded to Motorola as part of the ongoing patent dispute between the two smartphone makers.... The patent at issue relates to older pager […]
There were plenty of dunks, layups and threes. Defense? Not so much. Kyrie Irving had 34 points to take MVP honors as Team Chuck topped Team Shaq in the Rising Stars Challenge.
The final installment of the Border War will be a showdown of top-five teams. Kansas will prevail, predicts Seth Davis, who also makes picks on Vandy-UK, Syracuse-UConn and more.
This device is a wheelchair steering "wheel" in the form of a dental retainer instrumented with sensors that are activated by a tongue piercing. Georgia Institute of Technology engineers devised the Tongue Drive System prototype for people with high-level spinal cord injuries. From Wired UK: The output signals from the sensors are wirelessly transm […]
In 1972, Dr. Ediwn Land introduced the first one-step instant camera, the Polaroid SX-70. According to Charles and Ray Eames' short promotional documentary about the camera, embedded below, the SX-70 was designed from the beginning to topple "barriers between the photographer and his subject." It was, the Eames said, "a system of noveltie […]
In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Wolff Olins CEO Karl Heiselman discusses the controversial London 2012 logo, designing the culture of Wolff Olins and his views on branding and popularity.
It is ten o’clock on Sunday morning, and sunlight is streaming into the River East Art Center in Chicago, Illinois. Dave Landsberger, Eric Plattner, and I are surrounded by four elementary school girls ordering us to write them poems on the subjects of “cats,” “school,” “chocolate” and “sisters.” We roll […]