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Dance: A Dancer Returns
"Bugsy Siegel. As soon as I thought of it, I knew that was my story," Melissa Barak said. She was speaking of her newest, yet-to-be-titled City Ballet commission-which will premiere in the company's...
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Movies: The Lady Auteur
April may be the cruelest month for some, but in Hollywood-land, it’s the start of the big-big blockbuster season that will keep theaters stocked up on exploding 3-D robots, superheroes and...
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Opera: Thomas Hampson, Baritone and Big Thinker
“I’m sure they told you,” the baritone Thomas Hampson said recently with a smile. “If you ask me a question, I’ll go on.” It’s true. There are some people who speak in sentences. Others speak in...
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Pop Music: Brooklyn’s Latest Band Buzz
One night in November 2009, at Damon Dash's short-lived Tribeca basement venue, Under 100, Alexis Krauss, one-half of the buzzy Brooklyn noise-pop duo Sleigh Bells, walked up to her microphone stand...
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Theater: Green Day’s Soldier Stark Sands
Stark Sands probably never thought of himself as a casting director's go-to choice for a young GI. But take a glance at the 31-year-old Dallas native's résumé and a pattern emerges: He's played...
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TV: Bryan Cranston on Breaking Bad’s Dark Side
Bryan Cranston woke up on the morning of Wednesday, March 24, and went for a long run over the Williamsburg Bridge and back. Then he ate lunch, did some writing for a new children's show he's working...
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Classical Music: A Cellist on the Verge
On a recent weekend at Carnegie Hall, the young cellist Alisa Weilerstein had been assigned to the Maestro Suite. It's a comfortable but somewhat unnerving place. When you're inside, it's hard to...
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Dance: A Good Season
As always, the two big companies wheel into Lincoln Center and overlap between April 29 (City Ballet Opening Night Gala) and July 10 (ABT’s final Romeo and Juliet). ABT is also unveiling a production...
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