Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton found dead
msnbc - 01/06/2009 20:40
Punk guitarist Ron Asheton of The Stooges has been found dead in his Ann Arbor home. He was 60. City police Sgt. Brad Hill says there were no signs of foul play, and the ...
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Cuba allows access to Hemingway papers
msnbc - 01/06/2009 02:40
Cuba on Monday began accepting requests for electronic access to more than 3,000 documents from Ernest Hemingway's home on the island, including the unpublished epilogue ...
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91-year-old wins Costa Book Award
msnbc - 01/06/2009 02:00
Sebastian Barry won the Costa Book Awards' best novel prize on Monday for "The Secret Scripture," and 91-year-old Diana Athill became the oldest ever category winner with...
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Vincent Ford Dies at 68; Inspired Classic Bob Marley Songs
nytimes - 01/05/2009 09:20
Writing credit and royalties for “No Woman, No Cry,” “Positive Vibration,” “Roots Rock Reggae” and “Crazy Baldheads, ...
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A Love Supreme
nytimes - 01/05/2009 09:20
A passionate history of music’s path to cultural primacy, full of entertaining anecdotes and trivia from the worlds of classical, jazz and pop.
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Music Review | New York Philharmonic: A Hefty Sound for Bach and a Piano-Centric Strauss and Szymanowski
nytimes - 01/05/2009 09:20
There was not much magic in the New York Philharmonic’s performance of the “Brandenburg” Concerto No. 2.
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Picasso, Matisse prints stolen in Berlin
msnbc - 01/02/2009 18:03
Thieves stole works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and others from a Berlin gallery over the New Year's holiday, police said Friday.
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Jazz Listings
nytimes - 01/02/2009 09:20
JAZZ.
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Pop and Rock Listings
nytimes - 01/02/2009 09:20
POP.
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Classical Listings
nytimes - 01/02/2009 09:20
CLASSICAL.
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Arts, Briefly: The Dead Come Back, and So Do the Allmans
nytimes - 01/02/2009 09:20
The Dead opened the new year by setting dates for its first concert tour since 2004.
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Arts, Briefly: Prince Plans a Hat Trick
nytimes - 01/02/2009 09:20
Prince is planning to release not one but three albums in 2009, all without benefit of a record label.
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Arts, Briefly: Haggard to Sing Smoke-Free
nytimes - 01/02/2009 09:20
Merle Haggard plans to give his first concerts since undergoing surgery for lung cancer two months ago.
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At Knitting Factory, a Final Manhattan Show
nytimes - 01/01/2009 13:20
For a downtown club’s last night in Manhattan, a cacophonous “Auld Lang Syne” was appropriate.
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'Terminator' to be preserved in film registry
msnbc - 12/30/2008 16:04
One of Arnold Schwarzenegger's most famous one-liners will be back for generations to come, now that 1984's "The Terminator" has been selected for preservation in the nat...
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'Phantom of the Opera' sequel due in 2009
msnbc - 12/30/2008 03:03
A new "Phantom of the Opera" is coming to Broadway, and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber hopes to open the sequel in London and Shanghai as well.
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5Top: Songs you didn't hear on the radio in 2008
msnbc - 12/29/2008 23:00
It's not too late to hear some of 2008's best and most underplayed music. From Kylie Minogue to Be Your Own Pet, here are some songs that should have gotten more attentio...
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Hollywood's happy, even without a record year
msnbc - 12/29/2008 18:40
Hollywood loves breaking box-office records, yet studio executives aren't griping that their 2008 lineup will fall a bit shy of the all-time high set a year earlier. Movi...
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Betty Freeman, Patron of New Music, Dies at 87
nytimes - 01/07/2009 09:00
Ms. Freeman was one of the most influential patrons of contemporary composers over the last 40 years and long the keeper of a famously gracious musical salon in Los Angel...
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Music Review | Christian McBride: Part Concert, Part Chat: Two Guys Talking Music
nytimes - 01/07/2009 09:00
The bassist Christian McBride kicked off “Conversations With Christian,” a yearlong series of onstage dialogues, with words and music, at Dizzy’s Clu...
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Music Review: Revisiting the Rare, in Search of a Surprise
nytimes - 01/07/2009 09:00
Among the works on the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players’s Monday program at Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church were unusual glimpses of Glinka and Puccini.
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Judging an Elusive Artist by His Distinctive Covers
nytimes - 01/07/2009 09:00
Barney Bubbles’s lusciously witty artwork for bands like Hawkwind and Elvis Costello and the Attractions has made him a hero to young designers.
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Chris Pine puts his own spin on 'Trek's' Kirk
msnbc - 01/07/2009 00:40
Pine believes the new movie will give audiences a sense of hope - something he feels has been lacking in other sci-fi box office hits.
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Oprah adds Holocaust story disclaimer
msnbc - 01/06/2009 22:00
Oprah has yet to comment on the debunked story of a Holocaust survivor who claimed to have met his future wife in a Nazi concentration camp. But a brief disclaimer on the...
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Princess Mia and Meg Cabot are moving on
msnbc - 01/06/2009 17:20
In final 'Diaries' book, klutzy teen royal Mia will graduate from high school
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Music Review | Yefim Bronfman: Where Undercurrents of Electricity Crackle Beneath a Serene Surface
nytimes - 01/06/2009 09:40
Yefim Bronfman’s chamber music concert with musicians from the New York Philharmonic seemed to owe something to Carnegie Hall’s Perspectives program.
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Five ways to turn your film into Oscar bait
msnbc - 01/06/2009 03:23
Lots of movies try to give the Academy what it wants, but few succeed. But if you're a studio head, think about giving us a history lesson in an easily digestible bite or...
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Older rockers definitely have new tricks
msnbc - 01/06/2009 00:20
Don't forget about Elvis Costello, Juliana Hatfield and James McMurtry while you're listening to that Fleet Foxes album.
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National Society of Film Critics picks 'Bashir'
msnbc - 01/05/2009 22:00
Sean Penn, who stars in "Milk," and "Happy-Go-Lucky's" Sally Hawkins were named best actor and actress on Saturday by the National Society of Film Critics, positioning th...
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January is the saddest movie month of the year
msnbc - 01/05/2009 20:23
If you're a moviegoer, the transition from December to January is a rough one, like falling asleep in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and waking up in the dystopia of "Bl...
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Writer Inger Christensen dies at 73
msnbc - 01/05/2009 17:20
Best-known for her mathematically structured poems, novels and essays.
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Hawaiian clothing pioneer Shaheen dies
msnbc - 01/05/2009 17:00
Alfred Shaheen, who is credited with creating the modern Hawaiian garment industry, has died at age 86. Elvis Presley wore a shirt he designed on the cover of his 1961 so...
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Reopening a Pianist’s Treasury of Chopin
nytimes - 01/05/2009 09:20
The pianist Nadia Reisenberg is a good example of dedicated artists with lower profiles who influence classical music from within and enjoy productive and important caree...
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