Theater Review | 'Marie and Bruce'
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“Marie and Bruce,” Wallace Shawn’s 1979 portrait of marital misery, has been revived at the Acorn Theater.
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Ai Weiwei receiving the Kassel prize in Kassel, Germany.
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The comedian Norm Macdonald, a “Saturday Night Live” alumnus with notable career ups and downs, is about to star in his own sports show on Comedy Central.
Rec Room Treasures: Special Hand-Me-Down Paintings
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Paintings that a family thought were cheap reproductions turned out to be the work of Jasper F. Cropsey of the Hudson River School.
Television Review | ‘Breaking In’
Devilish Job, for a Slacker or a Schemer
By MIKE HALE
Bret Harrison portrays a student who goes to work for Christian Slater’s security company, which has some questionable business practices, in the Fox sitcom “Breaking In.”
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Television Review | ‘Extreme Couponing’
Miles of Aisles, Endless Opportunities to Save
By JON CARAMANICA
“Extreme Couponing,” a new show on TLC about people really committed to savings, finds thrills in thrift.
Video Game Review
The Course Is the Star of a Celebrity’s Game
By SETH SCHIESEL
With Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters, Electronic Arts has produced a superb game worthy of the Masters moniker.
Books of The Times
‘In the Basement of the Ivory Tower’
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A poorly paid adjunct professor has unhappy news to deliver: Not every American kid is cut out for college.
Movie Review | 'Blank City'
That ’80s Moment When Nothing and (Almost) Everything Mattered
By A. O. SCOTT
The documentary “Blank City” looks at iconoclastic downtown New York filmmakers in the late 1970s and early ’80s.
Inside Arts
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Larry Rohter talks to Ben Ratliff about the new wave of Fado music from Portugal; Jon Caramanica on Britney Spears’ new album “Femme Fatale”; and Nate Chinen on jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire.
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Mining Reality
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A series on West Virginia miners offers something new, in terms of both coal-mining narratives and reality TV.
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Clifford Odets's Dentist, Anything but Painless
By MATT WOLF
''Rocket to the Moon'' at the National Theatre is the latest in the parade of American works showing on London stages.
A Tortured Russian Poet's Twisted World
By GEORGE LOOMIS
"Akhmatova'' explores the life of the Russian poet during three chapters of country's turbulent history.
New York Subway’s Long Dance With a Typeface
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
Clean and easily readable, Helvetica was a perfect match for the city’s jumble of subway lines. It just took city officials a few decades to realize it.
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Playing Catch-Up in E-Books
By ERIC PFANNER
Outside the United States, the digital book business is still in its infancy and has problems to resolve before taking off.
Rome Makes Room for Contemporary Art
By RODERICK CONWAY MORRIS
As two new museums open, galleries spring up around the city.
Soviet Photographs in a Rough-and-Tumble Auction
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Images of war and life, beauty and pain, sell unevenly at Drouot in Paris.
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