Whether through sheer coincidence or masterful timing, the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway revival of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People opened last Thursday in the wake of Occupy Wall Street’s first anniversary. When the play’s main character, Thomas Stockman (Boyd Gaines) declares that “the enemy is the liberal-minded majority,” it’s as though he were […]
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CSI: David Byrne
An investigation of music’s power by one of its great polymaths
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“I Want to Stare Death in the Eye”
In posthumously published Mortality, Christopher Hitchens attempts desire voiced in Hitch-22.
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If the Tibetan Can’t Go to the Homeland…
… in which art creates reality.
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“Hillz” Clinton Was Always Cool
What’s behind the former First Lady and current Secretary of State’s image rehabilitation?
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The Fashion Week Bill of Rights
Two veteran runway models work to bring safe labor practices to the glamour industry.
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Woody Allen’s Excellent Adventure
Midnight in Paris is nothing more than a dilettante’s guide to the City of Lights.
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A Quick-Step Forward
Dancing with the Stars challenges ballroom dancing’s rigid gender roles.
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Rosie the Riveter and the Ironies of Bentonville
When the doors swung open this morning on Alice Walton’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas-funded to the tune of $1.4 billion by the Walton Family Foundation-one of its prize possessions was Norman Rockwell’s iconic World War II-era painting of Rosie the Riveter. The painting features a confident, insouciant Rosie on her […]
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Pro-Prop 8 Effort To Disqualify Judge Walker Fails
Dahlia Lithwick writes about Prop 8 supporters effort to disqualify Judge Vaughn Walker, who ruled that Prop 8 was unconstitutional, because he is gay and in a committed relationship: And what of the argument that Judge Walker stood to benefit personally from his own ruling in the Prop 8 case? Wouldn’t—by this logic—a straight judge […]