The Wii U, which is to be released on Sunday, includes the new Wii U GamePad, a roughly 10-by-5-inch touch-screen controller.
The Wii U’s main selling point is a new touch-screen controller that is a cross between the iPad Mini and a traditional video game controller.
The auction brought in $412.2 million, the highest total ever for a contemporary art auction at Christie’s, as collectors bid on the work of blue-chip artists for the second night in a row.
An engaged couple takes a last swing at the wild side while visiting an awards ceremony for cinematic pornography in the Broadway premiere of “The Performers.”
Louise Erdrich won the fiction award for her novel “The Round House,” while other awards were given for nonfiction, poetry, young people’s literature and American letters.
Rod Stewart kisses and tells and kisses and tells and makes heaps of hits over four decades as a performer, according to his autobiography, “Rod.”
Christopher Plummer reprises his stage role in “Barrymore,” about a hypothetical John Barrymore comeback.
At their best, the essays in David Foster Wallace’s “Both Flesh and Not” remind us of his capacity to make leaps from the mundane to the metaphysical with breathtaking velocity.
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November 15, 2012
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On One Direction’s new album, “Take Me Home,” the group is rushing through its gestation period on the way to the magic that may await on the other side.
Herculaneum, despite having Pompeii as its neighbor, has become a textbook case of successful archaeological conservation.
Some new TV series have been blessed with standout performances, coming from actors as varied as Brett Gelman, J D Souther and Lucy Punch.
In “This Is 40” Mr. Apatow is at the helm, his wife, Leslie Mann, and their daughters are in the cast, and the characters have grown up.
“A Man Vanishes” starts out as a documentary about a missing person, but as it goes on actors pose as investigators and soon there are no lines between fiction and reality.
Mr. Wyatt-Brown was a historian who documented how honor played a special role in the antebellum South and its institution of slavery.
Heiner Goebbels’s “I went to the house but did not enter,” at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, sets writing by T. S. Eliot, Maurice Blanchot and Samuel Beckett to music in three tableaus.
When strangers insist you’re someone you’re not, you get used to disappointing them.
In “Jab Tak Hai Jaan,” the final film by the director Yash Chopra, a bomb defuser finds himself in a love triangle.
“Soulographie: Our Genocides,” a series of 17 plays by Erik Ehn, is being presented at La MaMa, the first time they have been presented as a group.
How 20-something designers, bloggers, editors and stylists who grew up with rap music are bringing bravado to men’s wear.
Klaus Biesenbach, director of MoMA P.S. 1, is committed to rebuilding the Rockaways after Hurricane Sandy.
In Gregory S. Moss’s new play, “Billy Witch,” teenage summer campers comically experience sexual awakening.
The English tenor Toby Spence, currently singing in Thomas Adès’s “Tempest” at the Met, gave his first New York recital at the Frick Collection on Sunday.
Complexions Contemporary Ballet started off its two-week stint at the Joyce with a packed, two-and-a-half hour bill.
Far more bridge books are written for intermediates than for any other level of player.
Cabula6 brought its three-part film-based performance-lecture series, “The Angola Project,” to Dance New Amsterdam.
With their father murdered and their mother dead of cancer, the Ammon twins try to make sense of their lives. A new documentary might help.
Radical moves have helped for Ray Cappo, the singer for the heavy metal band Youth of Today, to lead the way from a life as a rocker to one as a spiritual coach.
In “Coney,” David Johnston uses distinctive characters to paint a portrait of that urban island playground.
Sue Raney, the 72-year-old singer, delivered a range of classics on Thursday at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency.
We’ve asked select performers for the New York Comedy Festival to share their best clean joke. Vote for your favorite.
Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln, Naomi Watts in “The Impossible,” Anna Karenina returns and more.
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The Royal Danish Ballet, one of the world's great classical companies, had never danced "La Bayadère," an important full length ballet, until now.
A Christie's sale brought in $412.2 million on Wednesday evening, the highest total ever for a contemporary art auction.
Celebrity and name repetition drove stupendous results at Sotheby's contemporary art sale on Tuesday evening, with buyers spending a total $375 million for 58 of the 69 works on offer.
Matt Wolf reviews the plays "People," "NSFW" and "Daddy Long Legs," currently showing in London.
A rare revival of Ralph Vaughan Williams's opera based on "The Pilgrim's Progress'' exalts faith and virtue.
The evolution of the tools we have used for cooking and eating is the theme of a new book, "Consider the Fork," by the British historian Bee Wilson.
The art scene in the Portuguese city of Guimarães has flourished since it was declared a European Capital of Culture for 2012 and awarded the European subsidies that go with the title.
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