Arts + Entertainment
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Karen Black Magic
In case you were wondering, Karen Black, whose acting career has spanned the last five decades, has never seen Karen Black Like Me, the infamous...
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Word Smiths
It's hard to say what's tougher about Steve Connell and Sekou (tha misfit)'s two-man show, The Word Begins -- the raw-to-bleeding wordplay, the street-hard posturing...
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Female Trouble
What's so remarkable about The Taming of the Shrew is that, despite all the changes to the status of women in the last century, Shakespeare's...
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Law and Disorder
''I'm not a miracle worker,'' scowls Michael Clayton (George Clooney) to a self-important client of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen, a corporate law firm for whom...
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Melissa Warming
Melissa Etheridge reassures herself that she's fine on her bright and boisterous new single ''Message to Myself.'' The song is suspiciously sunny and sweet. It...
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Coming Home
He created a stir earlier this year by stripping Macbeth down to its bare essentials. But one Shakespearean tragedy performed entirely in the buff is...
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Spiritual Shenanigans
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip... Maybe I have TV Land on the brain, but director...
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Soundwaves
Kylie Minogue RED-BLOODED VALENTINE?... Chances are it'll be February before we get more love from Kylie Minogue. But many an American gay boy will consider...
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Full House
What's so enthralling about Synetic Theater's production of The Fall of the House of Usher, is how thoroughly it braids conventional theater with dance and...
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Facial Expressions
You probably know their names. You may even personally know some of the 28 people featured in the Rainbow History Project's new exhibit of portraits,...
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Tough Lessons
When Ernest J. Gaines' novel A Lesson Before Dying was published in 1993 it found fast fame. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, awarded a National...
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Dangerous Liaisons
David Cronenberg's films have always been uneasy creations, disturbing excursions into the human psyche and its corporeal container. His earliest gore-enriched works, The Brood, Scanners...
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The Good German
It's hard to think of one without the other. Just as Microsoft often comes to mind when you think about Apple, so you wonder about...
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Heartbreak Hotel
It's awfully hard not to smile when presented with director Mariusz Trelinski's modern take on Giacomo Puccini's highly revered classic, La Boheme. There is something...
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Beatle Mania
Like space, Across the Universe has supernovas shining bright, and black holes that suck all matter into oblivion. In between, there are a lot of...
