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Monday, September 8th, 2008
4:00 am	Sasha Frere-Jones: Laptops go live. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2008/09/15/080915crmu_music_frerejones Last December, a friend and I went to a release party for Mary J. Blige’s “Growing Pains” album. Near huge screens showing Blige videos, a d.j. was playing records on two turntables. The d.j.’s eyes, however, were trained on an Apple MacBook on a shelf above them. As a . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	Paul Rudnick: The Lord Bod http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/09/15/080915sh_shouts_rudnick Lord’s Gym, a 10,000 square foot fitness center . . . meshes prayer and push-ups. The gym offers classes including “Yogod,” its take on yoga. . . . Spaghetti-strap tank tops and short shorts are not allowed. . . . Per Heistad, who travels often for business and is a self-described gym rat, said he did . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	Nick Paumgarten: Square Meal http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/tables/2008/09/15/080915gota_GOAT_tables_paumgarten For ten years, Yura’s, the airy Madison Avenue muffin/latte/turkey-roll shop, has served the lionesses of Carnegie Hill as a mid-morning caffeinating hole and late-afternoon reheatable-meal hunting ground. Square Meal is the restaurant next door, in the bottom floor of a town house. Yura is . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	L. S. Asekoff: The Gate of Horn http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/09/15/080915po_poem_asekoff Forgive me if I seem a bit at sea but you woke me from a dream of words I was setting to music I’ll want you to transcribe for me--a quatrain Shakespeare wrote when he was eleven, “The uncertain glory of an April day.” At my age, what is . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	Joan Acocella: Bhutanese dance at the Rubin Museum. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2008/09/15/080915gonb_GOAT_notebook_acocella All traditional dance suffers by being seen out of context. The Bhutanese cham, or demon-subjugation dances, date back to the eighth century, when Tantric Buddhism spread from Tibet to Bhutan. But to view them in their native monasteries you’d have to get on a plane and go to the . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	Jennifer Kahn: The complicated death of a 9/11 hero. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/09/15/080915fa_fact_kahn In January, 2006, shortly after James Zadroga died at his parents’ house, in Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, Dr. Gerard Breton received a call from the Ocean County Medical Examiner’s Office. A retired hospital pathologist, Breton now conducts autopsies for the county on contract. Compared with its more violent neighbors . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	Harry Clifton: The Eel http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/09/15/080915po_poem_clifton In the crowded yard, in the oily blue smoke Of an eel supper, the eel looks on. He is home for the summer. She is home for the summer, Metamorphosing, the one in the other, Androgynous, ambivalent, slipping in and out Of the local, the universal, Reading about itself, in . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	Goings on About Town: Vienna Blood http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/recordings/2008/09/15/080915gore_GOAT_recordings_platt None of the great composers had a more unfortunate talent-to-luck ratio than Franz Schubert. “Fierrabras,” one of his ten completed operas, is a case in point. Though commissioned by Vienna’s prestigious Kärntnertortheater in 1823, it was rejected for performance; Viennese audiences finally heard it in 1988. Now it . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	Goings on About Town: The Theatre http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/theatre/2008/09/15/080915goth_GOAT_theatre OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. ANGER/NATION The Kitchen premières a new play by Radiohole, about the nineteenth-century temperance leader Carry A. Nation. Opens Sept. 11. (512 W. 19th St. 212-255-5793.) BEAST New York Theatre Workshop opens . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/readings/2008/09/15/080915goab_GOAT_above1 BUCKMINSTER FULLER SYMPOSIUM Engineers, architects, artists, and writers discuss the polymathic innovator, who is currently the subject of a show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. (The Great Hall, Cooper Union, 7 E. 7th St. For more information, visit www.whitney.org. Sept. 12-13.) BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL Joan Didion, Richard Price . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	Goings on About Town: On the Horizon http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/horizon/2008/09/15/080915gohz_GOAT_horizon MOVIES CITY OF ANGLES Sept. 17-Oct. 19 Despite California’s superior light and climate, New York remained a center of movie production during the big-studio era. In conjunction with the publication of Richard Koszarski’s “Hollywood on the Hudson,” MOMA offers films made in New York between 1920 and 1939 . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	Goings on About Town: Night Life http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/nightlife/2008/09/15/080915goni_GOAT_nightlife ROCK AND POP Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it’s advisable to call ahead to confirm engagements. ABRONS ARTS CENTER 466 Grand St., at Pitt St. (212-598-0400)--Sept. 13: The drummer Amir Ziv’s quartet Kotkot, which features the guitarist Marc Ribot, the percussionist Cyro Baptista (of Beat the . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	Goings on About Town: Movies http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/revivals/2008/09/15/080915gomo_GOAT_movies OPENING BURN AFTER READING Reviewed this week in The Current Cinema. Opening Sept. 12. (In wide release.) THE FAMILY THAT PREYS Tyler Perry directed this comedy, about the matriarchs of two families, one rich, the other poor. Starring Alfre Woodard and Kathy Bates. Opening Sept. 12. (In wide release.) FLOW . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	Goings on About Town: Dance http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/dance/2008/09/15/080915goda_GOAT_dance DANSCORES BY OFELIA LORET DE MOLA The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s “Sitelines” series comes to a close with “Available Space,” in which the Mexican-born choreographer unleashes her anti-establishment opinions and conventional modern-dance vocabulary on City Hall Park. Mexican punk musicians add to the street-theatre cacophony. (Enter . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	Goings on About Town: Classical Music http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/classical/2008/09/15/080915gocl_GOAT_classical OPERA DICAPO OPERA: “THE CRUCIBLE” Under the leadership of its director, Michael Capasso, and its artistic adviser, Tobias Picker, New York’s third professional opera company has staked out an ambitious new season. It begins with an offbeat production of Robert Ward’s stiff but tuneful opera (based on the Arthur Miller . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	Goings on About Town: Art http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/2008/09/15/080915goar_GOAT_art MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES METROPOLITAN MUSEUM Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--“J. M. W. Turner.” Through Sept. 21. | “Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717).” Through Jan. 4. | “Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe.” Through Sept. 21. | “Royal Porcelain . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/above/2008/09/15/080915goab_GOAT_above CHRISTMAS ON MARS” The slightly psychedelic Oklahoma-based rock ensemble the Flaming Lips has been around since the early eighties. Their career has had its aberrations, such as the 1993 hit song “She Don’t Use Jelly,” and its critical successes, including the 2002 album “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.” Not . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	David Denby: Burn After Reading and Trouble the Water. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/09/15/080915crci_cinema_denby The new Coen brothers picture, “Burn After Reading,” is a very black comedy set in a blanched, austere-looking Washington, D.C.--an uninspiring and uncomfortable place in which everyone betrays everyone else, and the emotional tone veers from icy politeness to spitting rage and back again. “Burn After Reading” has . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	Danyal Mueenuddin: A Spoiled Man http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/09/15/080915fi_fiction_mueenuddin There he stood at the stone gateway of the Harounis’ weekend home above Islamabad, a small bowlegged man with a lopsided, battered face. When the American wife’s car drove up, turning off the Murree road, Rezak saluted, eyes straight ahead, not looking at her. She sat in the back and . . . (Comment on this)
4:00 am	Claudia Roth Pierpont: The man who taught rulers how to rule. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/09/15/080915crat_atlarge_pierpont One method of torture used in Florentine jails during the glorious days of the Renaissance was the strappado: a prisoner was hoisted into the air by a rope attached to his wrists, which had been tied behind his back, and then suddenly dropped toward the floor as many times as . . . (Comment on this)