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What do expensive arts centers and the city’s non-landowning working class have in common? Both are increasingly relocating outside the District limits! (The difference being the former are doing so by choice.) WaPo’s Anne Midgette explains how the area’s newest performing-arts facilities are being built in the ’burbs (Arena Stage notwithstanding), and what that [...]
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Holidays are done with. Back to business. I rang in the New Year at a Drive-By Truckers show in New York. The devil-daring southern rockers, who are releasing yet another album next month, are scheduled to play two dates at the 9:30 Club in February. Go.
I can't touch WaPo's David Malitz, however, on concert expertise. [...]
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Some Christmas leftovers: Sufjan Stevens teams up with the brothers Dressner on a few more Xmas tracks. You can get 'em here. Also, TBD has a roundup of film-based skirmishes in a War on Christmas of sorts (though not the one Bill O'Reilly et al. or That Guy Who Used [...]
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It’s about that time of year when culture writers start making lists, checking them twice, and publishing them to readers desperate to impose quantitative order on everything. Over at WaPo, T.V. critic Hank Steuver crowns Louis C.K.'s "Louie," which deserves it as much as anything; and also nods to “Work of Art,” one of [...]
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The Smithsonian-“Hide/Seek” furor made Frank Rich’s column this week, with Rich reiterating the seminal role of cultural hemhorroid Bill Donahue in inciting a conservative outcry against a video component of the exhibit showing Jesus being eaten by Jewish ants or something.
TBD reports that conservatives are now turning their hot air guns on WaPo art critic [...]
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Behold, the iPad’s new killer app: censorship activism! On Saturday, two men showed the controversial, Christ-composting video, A Fire in My Belly, on an iPad in the National Portrait Gallery to protest its much-ballyhooed removal from the museum’s new “Hide/Seek” exhibit. The men were then themselves removed and asked never to return.
Another activist [...]
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Hope you all had a fine Thanksgiving. Brisk roundup this morning, let’s get to it!
-In WaPo, Anne Hornaday has the lowdown on all the selections and snubs of Oscar’s round one cut for documentary films. As far as docs with artists as their subjects, Banksy prevailed over Joan Rivers and Vik Muniz.
-Leslie Nielsen, [...]
Kanye West’s new album is officially out, and is reportedly maximal enough to move markets. WaPo’s Click Track offers a steady stream of Kanye stuff, and Best Westhoff offers his own take on My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted Fantasy here on City Paper. The New York Times also spills some generous ink.
When John Updike died, not [...]
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On the day Facebook is scheduled to fire its new e-mail client deep into the heart of the Gmail-using masses, WaPo discusses the company’s utterley vaccuous logo, and enlists a conceptual design firm to do some mock-ups of a better one. Ponders writer Blake Gopnik: “Doesn't creating the most-seen image, ever, come with a [...]
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Well, the reviews are in: Kanye West is a brilliant composer, a bad news analyst, and a bit of a pill when it comes to having to explain himself while someone else is at the engineering switch. The best part of Kanye’s appearance on Today, I think, is when Matt Lauer appoints himself interlocutor [...]
