Jeremy C. Baron & Ryan Schreiber report: That trio of increasingly mild-mannered, true-to-roots rappers, The Beastie Boys, are making dollaz dollaz off To the 5 Boroughs : The album has just been RIAA-certified as a platinum release, having sold over one million copies to the fine, upstanding citizens of the United States of America.
After Jonathan Franzen's mother died, he was faced with the job of selling the family home - but could he fulfil her expectations? The acclaimed author of The Corrections reflects on real estate, the agonies of adolescence and the cost of letting go of the past.
It's 10am on a Sydney Saturday, a week or so out from Christmas, and I decide to go surfing during a three-hour break from work. The aircon is busted in my car and it's already 35C outside and rising. It's unbearably hot, even hotter with the windows DOWN, and feels like a blast furnace. The wax is melting off my surfboard and dripping onto the rear seat but I finally arrive at Bondi after
LAST year, while visiting New York, I saw that Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, the duo behind "Ragtime," one of my favorite musicals of all time, had a new show at Lincoln Center.
Has David Lynch jumped the shark? Even audiences accustomed to the director's patented deadpan hoodoo may find "Inland Empire," which has its American premiere Sunday at the New York Film Festival, too much of a vertiginous in-joke — and one lacking any decipherable punch line. The film may (or may not) track an epic meltdown, as Nikki, an actress played by Laura Dern, spends much if its three
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For more than five agonising years, Lucie Blackman's mother has waited for justice for her beautiful daughter. Imagine her torment, then, knowing that the man who has apparently put all this in jeopardy is none other than Lucie's father, Tim, her ex-husband
A breathtaking issue of the New Orleans Review should win awards for capturing the city as no place else has: Entirely through the eyes of its native writers.