Arts and Entertainment

A Green Ground Zero A Green Ground Zero

The debate over how to redevelop the World Trade Center site has revolved around several key concerns: the commercial interests of the real estate industry, the public's desire...

Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amanda Griscom and Will Dana

The Art of 9/11 The Art of 9/11

Mama, build me a fence!

Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Map to Ground Zero Map to Ground Zero

The footprints of clashing interests.

Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Philip Nobel

Auteur, Auteur! Auteur, Auteur!

The streets of lower Manhattan are deserted--also spotlessly clean and glowing in the light of the golden hour--when the studio head takes the movie director outside to tell hi...

Aug 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Mayor of My Hometown The Mayor of My Hometown

It's only August, but I'll go out on a limb and congratulate the Village Voice's Keith Harris for what I feel confident will stand the test of time as the stupidest comment of ...

Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Scene of the Crime Scene of the Crime

Bob Dylan at Newport

Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

The Play’s the Thing The Play’s the Thing

Like life itself, good movies sometimes change the subject on you in midparagraph. You think you're watching the story of an elderly man in mourning, buoying himself up against gr...

Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Beauty Tips and Politics Beauty Tips and Politics

Hot media news: Women want hard-hitting reports on issues that affect them.

Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Lauren Sandler

Screening Our Politics Screening Our Politics

Like Pop-Up Video--one of the many things the movie-industry left never anticipated--ancillary factoids keep imposing themselves on Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner's Radical Hollywood:...

Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson

The Forgettable & Forgotten The Forgettable & Forgotten

Dispatches from adolescent territory reach me occasionally through my niece Michelle, who has moved into her teen years like the Wehrmacht hitting Belgium. Her most recent posting...

Jul 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

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