The Wall Street Journal Arts & Entertainment
The Wall Street Journal Arts & Entertainment The fifth anniversary of the floods sparked diverse feelings in New Orleans. In a city known for culture, most were well expressed through music.
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Producers say female viewers want to see a woman take down the enemy, preferably with a little bloodshed.
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The National Gallery of Art's opulent and slightly confusing "German Master Drawings" takes us on a wonderful art journey, even if it's not an especially German one.
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Kicking off its fall season, Dance Theater Workshop presents visual artist Tony Orrico in a "live drawing" event that amounts to an installation and performance.
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A posthumous retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles looks at the paintings, sculptures and photographs created by Dennis Hopper.
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Every once in a while, a singer with talent manages to push through based on hard work and hustle.
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What happens when an artist finds someone else has been "restoring" his work?
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"Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion" is a collection of 32 hand-tinted works currently on display at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art.
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A massive boxed set of Miles Davis recordings mixes already-available recordings with kitschy souvenirs.
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The botanical society in a California town thought it was honoring surfers when it erected a 16-foot tall statue of one riding a wave. Instead, it inspired a wave of humiliation for the hapless bronze dude.
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The film company who bought the rights to Nicholas Sparks's new novel, "Safe Haven," on sale Sept. 14, is launching online and print promotions for the story--a year ahead of the movie version's release.
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ABC's first-season show "Modern Family" took home the Emmy Award for best comedy, as a crop of new television shows—and new winners—displaced some of the gala's mainstays.
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Richard Pasquarelli's digital paintings are making construction sites around the city a little nicer to look at.
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Despite their brevity, the Preludes loom large musically. Pianist and music historian David Dubal explores and explains them.
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A museum outside Paris tells the story of the French Underground during World War II.
It's Journalism, But Is It Art?A group show highlighting emerging photojournalists premiered Wednesday night at Panda on the Lower East Side.
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Tamar-kali's music has all the hallmarks of classic punk rock.
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"The Tillman Story" casts new light on a tragedy; Turkey's Reha Erdem talks about his lyrical "Times and Winds."
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When people ask "What's good on TV?" it's fun to steer them to cheerful oddities like MTV's "Bully Beatdown."
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"Another Part of the Forest" at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wis., throws a dramatic punch comparable in weight to "The Little Foxes."




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In "A Journey," Tony Blair, Britain's former prime minister, describes his political rise, his attempts to transform the Labour Party and his stalwart support of America—with troops and eloquence—during the Iraq war. Martin Rubin reviews.
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Some of the city's hottest chefs and restaurateurs are increasingly being targeted by lawsuits filed by a handful of attorneys on behalf of small numbers of employees.
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There's a place where first impressions are even more crucial than at a job interview or at dinner with future in-laws: the courtroom.
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This year may end up being the worst of the past five years for airline crashes worldwide, and that doesn't count some high-profile military and private-plane fatal accidents that killed major political figures.
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The all-electric Nissan Leaf sedan is a homely -- but thrilling -- commuting appliance, Dan Neil writes.
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A look deep into the numbers suggests it will be a good year for Ohio State and Oklahoma, not so much for Texas.
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Aside from offering great music, this weekend's All Tomorrow's Parties festival opens the Criterion Collection vault for a roster of cinema gems.
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From the campy fun of "Planet of the Vampires' to the heartrending artistry of Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights," the city's repertory theaters have a lot to offer this weekend.
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Electronic music from Electric Zoo hits Randall's Island Park this weekend, Mudhoney will play at the Bowery, and Brazilian megastar Ivete Sangalo is slated to sing at Madison Square Garden.
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Spend five minutes with Emmy winner Archie Panjabi and it quickly becomes clear how far removed she is from her character on CBS's "The Good Wife."
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Boiling it all down, the core root of the pre- and after-parties surrounding the Emmy Awards, it seems, are beauty products, writes Marshall Heyman.
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The photographer Herman Leonard, who died Aug. 14 at age 87, used shadow, light and smoke to create indelible images of jazz masters.
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—Jim Fusili on 2009's best rock and pop music“Many of the best recordings seemed to encapsulate the changes in popular music over the past few years—genre-mashing, crosscultural communication, the re-emergence of the singer-songwriter and the joys of sophisticated chamber pop, among them—while others took familiar traditions in new directions.”