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NPR Topics: Arts & Entertainment

'Twilight': For Teens, A Swooningly Risky Romance
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:01:00 -0500
Morning Edition's movie critic is not, and never has been, a 13-year-old girl. But Catherine Hardwicke's dead-on screen take on Stephenie Meyer's vampire books makes him wish he could be — if only to get the full effect.
'Bolt': A Show-Biz Hero With More Bark Than Bite
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:00:00 -0500
An animal actor, convinced his TV-show superpowers are real, scrambles to find his way from New York back to Hollywood. Kids will have a fine time, says critic Mark Jenkins, but adults might develop an allergy.
'Were The World Mine': 'Tis Definitely Fairy Time
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:00:00 -0500
How's a much-bullied gay teen to get his revenge? Well, if he's starring in a musicalized A Midsummer Night's Dream, and he stumbles upon a working formula for Puck's love potion ...

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Music: How Axl Rose Spent All That Time
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:21:18 -0000
“Chinese Democracy” is the Titanic ship of rock albums: It’s outsize, lavish, obsessive, technologically advanced and, all too clearly, the end of an era.
Music Review: Making Girls Dance: All in a Night’s Work
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:23:39 -0000
Girl Talk set off instant pandemonium as its set began at Terminal 5.
Book Prizes Awarded With Nod to History
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:04:41 -0000
Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,” while Peter Matthiessen won the fiction award for “Shadow Country.”

Arts & Culture

Sasha Frere-Jones: Political beats.
Sasha Frere-Jones Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 -0000
After Barack Obama conceded defeat at the New Hampshire primary last January, the Black Eyed Peas’ Will.i.am selected quotes from his concession speech and set them to music--sort of. The video for Will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” features a clutch of celebrities singing (or speaking), over Obama and a few . . .
Sasha Frere-Jones: Pink's progress.
Sasha Frere-Jones Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 -0000
Funhouse,” the new album by Alecia Moore, who calls herself Pink, has already spawned an enormous hit--her first solo No. 1 in the U.S.--called “So What,” an explosion of brattiness and rock-star entitlement that is both maddening and hard to shake. There are cracks in “Funhouse,” though . . .
Peter Schjeldahl: The New Orleans Biennial beckons.
Peter Schjeldahl Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 -0000
New Orleans is smaller and poorer than it used to be, as I have confirmed on my first visit there since the floods attendant on Hurricane Katrina obliterated a large part of the city and left much of the rest a mud-gray mess, traces of which aren’t hard to . . .

Christian Science Monitor | Arts & Entertainment

Jazz in the spotlight
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:00:00 -0500
Some old-timers impress with their strengths and some one-of-a-kind talents display growing versatility.
New York's freshest shows
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:00:00 -0500
From ancient sculpture to Van Gogh's night inspirations, the best of this season's art.
Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor staff
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:00:00 -0500
Classic puzzlers in a crisp new book, Jack Bauer is back in a '24' movie, Stephen Colbert croons his way into Christmas, and more.

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