Web » Web http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web Web And Web Search, Internet Web Search, Meta Web Search Sat, 05 May 2012 11:40:41 +0000 en hourly 1 Anthony Lane: “The Avengers,” “Headhunters” reviews. http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-05-112801/anthony-lane-the-avengers-headhunters-reviews/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-05-112801/anthony-lane-the-avengers-headhunters-reviews/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2012/05/14/120514crci_cinema_lane If you are a Marvel fan, then “The Avengers” will feel like Christmas. Thanks to the merry doings of the director, Joss Whedon, all your favorite characters are here, as shiny and as tempting as presents under the tree. You get Tony Stark, better known as Iron Man . . .

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-05-112801/anthony-lane-the-avengers-headhunters-reviews/feed/ 0 Books: Benjamin Busch’s “Dust to Dust” review. http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112651/books-benjamin-buschs-dust-to-dust-review/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112651/books-benjamin-buschs-dust-to-dust-review/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2012/05/07/120507crbn_brieflynoted2 In this memoir, Busch, an actor and a former U.S. Marine, narrates his life in terms of materials and elements rather than stories and characters. Vignettes from his childhood, in upstate New York, his two deployments in Iraq, and his more recent family life on a farm in Michigan are . . . (Subscription required.)

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112651/books-benjamin-buschs-dust-to-dust-review/feed/ 0 Thomas Mallon: John Irving’s “In One Person.” http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112652/thomas-mallon-john-irvings-in-one-person/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112652/thomas-mallon-john-irvings-in-one-person/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/05/07/120507crbo_books_mallon Readers looking for bears—often seen riding motorcycles or being set free from zoos in John Irving’s fiction—will find only a human, subcultural variant of the species in his new novel, “In One Person” (Simon & Schuster). Bill Abbott, the earnestly bisexual narrator . . . (Subscription required.)

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112652/thomas-mallon-john-irvings-in-one-person/feed/ 0 Emily Nussbaum: “Game of Thrones” review. http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112653/emily-nussbaum-game-of-thrones-review/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112653/emily-nussbaum-game-of-thrones-review/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2012/05/07/120507crte_television_nussbaum For critics, sorting through television pilots is an act of triage. Last year, when “Game of Thrones” landed on my desk, I skimmed two episodes and made a quick call: we’d have to let this one go. The HBO series, based on the best-selling fantasy . . .

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112653/emily-nussbaum-game-of-thrones-review/feed/ 0 Richard Brody: Shirley Clarke’s “The Connection” at IFC Center. http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112654/richard-brody-shirley-clarkes-the-connection-at-ifc-center/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112654/richard-brody-shirley-clarkes-the-connection-at-ifc-center/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2012/05/07/120507gonb_GOAT_notebook_brody In 1961, the director Shirley Clarke transformed Jack Gelber’s Off-Broadway play “The Connection”—about a quartet of jazz musicians and their junkie friends waiting for their heroin dealer in a run-down loft—into a disturbing meta-movie. (It opens May 4 at . . . (Subscription required.)

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112654/richard-brody-shirley-clarkes-the-connection-at-ifc-center/feed/ 0 Goings on About Town: Dance http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112655/goings-on-about-town-dance-128/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112655/goings-on-about-town-dance-128/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/dance/2012/05/07/120507goda_GOAT_dance goatTitle–>NEW YORK CITY BALLET
The first week of the season offers a mix of familiar and rarely seen works by Balanchine and Robbins. The three Balanchine programs all feature the seldom performed “Kammermusik No. 2,” an angular, modernist work in the vein of “Agon.&#8221 . . .

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112655/goings-on-about-town-dance-128/feed/ 0 Reeves Wiedeman: ESPN’s Mel Kiper on N.F.L. draft day. http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112656/reeves-wiedeman-espns-mel-kiper-on-n-f-l-draft-day/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112656/reeves-wiedeman-espns-mel-kiper-on-n-f-l-draft-day/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2012/05/07/120507ta_talk_wiedeman When ESPN asked the National Football League, in 1980, if the network could broadcast its annual player draft, the league said, “Sure, but why would anyone want to watch it?” Back then, the event was held on a Tuesday morning, in a hotel. The draft is now a . . . (Subscription required.)

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112656/reeves-wiedeman-espns-mel-kiper-on-n-f-l-draft-day/feed/ 0 David Denby: “The Five-Year Engagement,” “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” reviews. http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112657/david-denby-the-five-year-engagement-the-best-exotic-marigold-hotel-reviews/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112657/david-denby-the-five-year-engagement-the-best-exotic-marigold-hotel-reviews/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2012/05/07/120507crci_cinema_denby The director Nicholas Stoller, one of the bright young men brought along by the producer-director Judd Apatow (who might as well be running his own studio), began by making the soft, Hawaiian-aired romantic comedy “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” (2008). He then moved to rougher terrain, in &#8220 . . . (Subscription required.)

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112657/david-denby-the-five-year-engagement-the-best-exotic-marigold-hotel-reviews/feed/ 0 Peter Schjeldahl: Frieze New York on Randall’s Island. http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112658/peter-schjeldahl-frieze-new-york-on-randalls-island/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112658/peter-schjeldahl-frieze-new-york-on-randalls-island/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/05/07/120507fa_fact_schjeldahl This year, the Armory Show art fair, which was held in March in two cavernous, steel-raftered halls on the Hudson River piers in the West Fifties, came with an official artist: Theaster Gates. A charismatic thirty-nine-year-old Chicago “urban planner, educator, composer and social catalyst,&#8221 . . . (Subscription required.)

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112658/peter-schjeldahl-frieze-new-york-on-randalls-island/feed/ 0 Adam Gopnik: Hollande, Sarkozy, and democracy in France. http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112659/adam-gopnik-hollande-sarkozy-and-democracy-in-france/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112659/adam-gopnik-hollande-sarkozy-and-democracy-in-france/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2012/05/07/120507taco_talk_gopnik The Presidency of France’s Fifth Republic is a monarchical role, shaped to the elongated scale and the grand manners first of Charles de Gaulle and then of François Mitterrand. Although Jacques Chirac more recently gave the role a distinctly sleepy, roi fainéant flavor, it . . .

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112659/adam-gopnik-hollande-sarkozy-and-democracy-in-france/feed/ 0 Peter Robinson: “Another Twilight.” http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112660/peter-robinson-another-twilight/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112660/peter-robinson-another-twilight/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2012/05/07/120507po_poem_robinson Allow the point of the Coccodrillo
its hazy cypress trees in profile
like a rough sketch for the Isle
of the Dead, as seen from yellow

stucco, his Villa Igea where Lawrence
finished “Sons and Lovers,” wild thyme
scenting olive-grove grass, crime
scenery come back to more . . . (Subscription required.)

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112660/peter-robinson-another-twilight/feed/ 0 Goings on About Town: Art http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112661/goings-on-about-town-art-131/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112661/goings-on-about-town-art-131/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/2012/05/07/120507goar_GOAT_art PageBreak –>MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde.” Through June 3. | “Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition.” Through July 8. | “Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the . . .

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112661/goings-on-about-town-art-131/feed/ 0 Patricia Marx: Biblical retractions. http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112662/patricia-marx-biblical-retractions/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112662/patricia-marx-biblical-retractions/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2012/05/07/120507sh_shouts_marx Yes, there were slipups. I changed “Pharisee” to “Philistine” and “the corner of Locust Valley and Donkey Drive” to “Road to Damascus.” When I said it rained for forty days and forty nights, I neglected to add “not in a row . . . (Subscription required.)

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112662/patricia-marx-biblical-retractions/feed/ 0 David Owen: The stars of “Oddities” on Science Channel. http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112663/david-owen-the-stars-of-oddities-on-science-channel/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112663/david-owen-the-stars-of-oddities-on-science-channel/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2012/05/07/120507ta_talk_owen Among the many items on display at Obscura Antiques & Oddities, on Avenue A between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets, is a leathery, somnolent-looking human head. “It’s an old medical preparation,” Evan Michelson, who is one of the store’s two co-owners, explained. &#8220 . . . (Subscription required.)

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112663/david-owen-the-stars-of-oddities-on-science-channel/feed/ 0 Mark Singer: Ghetto Film School screens “Prank” at HBO. http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112664/mark-singer-ghetto-film-school-screens-prank-at-hbo/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112664/mark-singer-ghetto-film-school-screens-prank-at-hbo/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2012/05/07/120507ta_talk_singer Say you’re a reasonably precocious high-school student in New York City and you believe a college admissions committee would take proper note if you were to make a short film in China featuring actors who, because they happen to be Chinese, speak only Chinese. Your to-do . . . (Subscription required.)

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112664/mark-singer-ghetto-film-school-screens-prank-at-hbo/feed/ 0 Books: William Boyd’s “Waiting for Sunrise” review. http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112665/books-william-boyds-waiting-for-sunrise-review/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112665/books-william-boyds-waiting-for-sunrise-review/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2012/05/07/120507crbn_brieflynoted4 In 1913, when this novel opens, the improbably named protagonist, Lysander Rief, has one main concern: his psychosexual blockage. The dilettante actor has moved to Vienna to begin—with the help of an analyst there—a wholesale excavation of his past. (At one point, Rief consults Sigmund Freud . . . (Subscription required.)

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112665/books-william-boyds-waiting-for-sunrise-review/feed/ 0 Louise Erdrich: “Nero.” http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112666/louise-erdrich-nero/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112666/louise-erdrich-nero/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2012/05/07/120507fi_fiction_erdrich He was the second, or perhaps the third, Nero owned by my grandparents. With a grocery store that included a butcher shop and a slaughterhouse, they could feed as many dogs as they liked. Nero, a mixture of fierce breeds in a line known locally as guard dogs, was valued . . . (Subscription required.)

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112666/louise-erdrich-nero/feed/ 0 Ben McGrath: Daniel Pinkwater on “The Hare and the Pineapple.” http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112667/ben-mcgrath-daniel-pinkwater-on-the-hare-and-the-pineapple/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112667/ben-mcgrath-daniel-pinkwater-on-the-hare-and-the-pineapple/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2012/05/07/120507ta_talk_mcgrath Not long ago, Daniel Pinkwater opened his front door, in the Mid-Hudson Valley, to greet a person who had come to mow his lawn. “Pineapples don’t have sleeves!” the mower blurted out. This was the same week in which Roger Sterling dropped acid, on &#8220 . . .

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112667/ben-mcgrath-daniel-pinkwater-on-the-hare-and-the-pineapple/feed/ 0 Leo Carey: Littleneck in Gowanus review. http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112668/leo-carey-littleneck-in-gowanus-review/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112668/leo-carey-littleneck-in-gowanus-review/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/tables/2012/05/07/120507gota_GOAT_tables_carey paragraph class=”noindent”>A clam shack by the Gowanus Canal? It sounds like the setup for a joke, as God only knows what freakish mollusks lurk in that fetid post-industrial waterway. Never fear: Littleneck sources its seafood from more pellucid waters up and down the New England coast, and . . .

]]> http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112668/leo-carey-littleneck-in-gowanus-review/feed/ 0 Goings on About Town: Movies http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112669/goings-on-about-town-movies-133/ http://dtcwebmedia.com/Web/2012-04-112669/goings-on-about-town-movies-133/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Web http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/revivals/2012/05/07/120507gomo_GOAT_movies PageBreak –>OPENING

THE AVENGERS
In this action film, directed by Joss Whedon, the Marvel Comics superheroes (including Iron Man, the Hulk, and Captain America) join forces to save the world. Starring Robert Downey, Jr., Mark Ruffalo, and Scarlett Johansson. Opening May 4. (In wide release.)

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