Count the books now on store shelves that “reconstruct the crimes” that triggered the global meltdown. Count the Goldman Sachs jokes on late night TV. Count the hours that C-Span will devote to congressional inquiries into what happened, why it happened, and who is ultimately to blame. Forensics is a necessary process if we’re to…
Bangkok became a flaming battleground Wednesday as an army assault forced anti-government protest leaders to surrender, enraging followers who shot grenades and set fire to landmark buildings, cloaking the skyline in black smoke.
Plot twist for arts reporting Tuesday March 16, 2010 | 14:33 by András Szántó in New York City | permalink This wasn’t supposed to happen. Arts journalism is supposed to be going down the tubes. But here in New York, two arts sections are being expanded, with professional writers, editors, and, for now, what counts…
Dr. Jennifer Ashton discussed an upcoming drug that will improve sex drive in women. video attached
Roberta Smith devoted an article in “The Week in Review” section of the New York Times to the guessing game about the anonymous buyer. Bemoaning the “irksome” secrecy of art sales, she conjured a rogue’s gallery of possible bidders, including “Buyer X,” a “puppet master,” a “Russian oligarch” fearing “home invasion or too much unfriendly attention from Vladimir Putin,” and “someone with vast sums of money stashed in a Swiss bank account or a dubious tax shelter.” All very James Bond. Buyer X must be smiling.
The 40-year-old Silsby told the court earlier she thought the children were orphans whose homes were destroyed in the earthquake. But she lacked the proper papers to remove them from the country at a time when the government was restricting adoptions to prevent child trafficking in the chaos that followed the earthquake.
The Svengali of Pop Art by Annie Cohen-Solal May 13, 2010 As the art market comes back to life, an exclusive excerpt from a new biography of Leo Castelli, the dealer who discovered Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol. VIEW OUR GALLERY. From 1958 to 1981, in order of appearance: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg,…
If you have in your acquaintance a person between the ages of 8 and 14, you’ve probably seen them reading The Lightning Thief or another book in the Percy Jackson young-adult fantasy series by Rick Riordan. That series, about an ordinary kid who discovers he’s actually half Greek god, ended after five books last year….
A 24-year-old Arab American from Michigan beat out 50 other women to take the 2010 Miss USA title Sunday night, despite nearly stumbling in her evening gown. Rima Fakih of Dearborn, Mich., won the pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip after strutting confidently in an orange and gold…
Stone’s challenge this time around was to make his protagonist, Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf), a hotshot, 20-something banker, sympathetic in an age when fresh-out-of-school Wall Street types are vilified as bottle-service-swilling douchebags. On the face of it, the casting of LaBeouf, whose grating, agitated swagger has never seemed more appropriate than in a trading room, runs counter to that goal. But his character is redeemed by the following “good-guy” factors: