Arts and Entertainment

Willie Nelson at 70 Willie Nelson at 70

On April 30, Willie Nelson turned 70, celebrating with the release of his latest greatest-hits collection.

Oct 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

The Avengers The Avengers

Ghosts are notorious for getting stuck in time. Having lost track of the ongoing world, they will revisit certain hours as obsessively as they haunt a fatal spot.

Oct 23, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Love Streams Love Streams

Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, which opened this year's New York Film Festival on a somber but resonant note, is perhaps the finest western ever to be set in South Boston.

Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Rush Limbaugh’s Inner Black Child Rush Limbaugh’s Inner Black Child

Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain attracted considerable attention some years back; it was widely read as a fictionalized version of literary critic Anatole Broyard's life.

Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams

Pay Artists, Not ‘Owners’ Pay Artists, Not ‘Owners’

Eben Moglen has been representing parties sued by the recording industry and is working on a book about the death of intellectual property.

Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eben Moglen

What’s On K Street? What’s On K Street?

HBO's new political program is a vivid (and disgusting) expression of our decayed democracy.

Oct 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / William Greider

Judgment Day Judgment Day

The antigay bias that permeates the Republican Party can be clearly seen in Bush's judicial appointments. Among the unalloyed homophobes Bush has nominated for the federal benc...

Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Doug Ireland

Rhapsody in Blue Rhapsody in Blue

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey

Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / K. Leander Williams

Death and Glory Death and Glory

The premature deaths in the past year of Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer ought to be enough to make the most pious among us angry at The Man Upstairs.

Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

French Connections French Connections

The setting is a one-room schoolhouse, which is momentarily unoccupied except for a pair of turtles.

Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

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