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‘News From Heaven’
By JENNIFER HAIGH
Reviewed by JANET MASLIN
“News From Heaven” is Jennifer Haigh’s collection of stories about the lives and secrets of people in Bakerton, Pa.
Pure Dance, Pure Finale
By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
Lois Greenfield
Trisha Brown, performing “Foray Forêt” (1990), has been a leading choreographer for decades.
Trisha Brown, a leading choreographer for more than 50 years, will present her last two dances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this week.
By JENNIFER HAIGH
Not Like the Old Boss: Hip-Hop’s Spirit Guide
By JON CARAMANICA
ASAP Yams is the behind-the-scenes — or not so behind-the-scenes — presence in the career of the expansive hip-hop artist ASAP Rocky.
Interactive Feature
Popcast: ASAP Rocky Arrives
To Heighten the Art? Take It to Vegas
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Michael Mayer’s new production of “Rigoletto,” set in 1960s Las Vegas, will continue the Metropolitan Opera’s attempts to wake up its opera revivals.
The Right Tone for a Sensitive Zombie
By MEKADO MURPHY
It was a challenge to develop makeup for Nicholas Hoult’s sensitive zombie in “Warm Bodies,” which opens on Friday.
Trailer: 'Warm Bodies'
Those Cute Spies Around the Corner
By JEREMY EGNER
In “The Americans,” which has its premiere on Wednesday, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys portray K.G.B. agents posing as American suburbanites in 1980s Virginia.
Video Excerpt
Collateral Damage in an Adult World
By KEN JOHNSON
A retrospective at the International Center of Photography on the photojournalist Chim shows his eye lingering on children caught in grown-up battles.
ArtsBeat
Theater Talkback: Defying Expectations Off Broadway
By BEN BRANTLEY
Some theater companies performing Off Broadway are using disabled actors, sometimes deliberately making a point of their disabilities.
Balthazar Korab, Architectural Photographer, Dies at 86
By DAVID W. DUNLAP
Mr. Korab was one of a handful of commercial photographers who introduced postwar architecture to Americans.
The Carpetbagger
‘Fruitvale,’ Drama With Little Advance Buzz, Wins at Sundance
By BROOKS BARNES
“Fruitvale,” written and directed by the first-time filmmaker Ryan Coogler and produced by Forest Whitaker, won the film festival’s top prize.
Directors Favored, Directors Snubbed: What’s Going On?
By MICHAEL CIEPLY
Recent history indicates that if you win the guild’s feature award, you’ll win a directing Oscar, and your movie will be named best picture. But this year, maybe not.
Fuse Channel's Music News Show, 'Fuse News,' to Start in February
January 27, 2013
'Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters' Leads at the Box Office
January 27, 2013
A 17th-Century Masterpiece Discovered at the Ritz in Paris
January 25, 2013
'Argo' Leads Producers Guild Awards
January 27, 2013
Slamdance Dispatch: Outside the Gifting Suite
January 27, 2013
Oscars Will Highlight Musicals (Well, 3 Musicals Anyway)
January 25, 2013
Inside Arts
Theater Review | 'Airswimming'
Solace in a Sea of Insanity
By ANITA GATES
Based on a true story, “Airswimming” chronicles the lives to two women institutionalized for giving birth out of wedlock in 1920s England.
Theater Review | 'The Truth Quotient'
You Can Choose Your Friends, and Maybe Your Family, Too
By CATHERINE RAMPELL
In “The Truth Quotient” a billionaire hires a company to create pleasant doppelgänger robots of dead relatives with whom he had not always had good relations.
Music Review
Contemporary Composers Bring Britain Into the Musical Spotlight
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
The New Juilliard Ensemble focuses on contemporary British composers in the school’s Focus! 2013 Festival of free concerts this week.
Reimagining a Classic, Goo Included
By PATRICK HEALY
The creative forces behind the stage version of “Once” are reimagining “The Glass Menagerie” for a run at the American Repertory Theater.
Leaving the Cage to Crash the Multiplex
By DAVID PEISNER
Mixed martial arts champions are trying to breaking into cinema through low-budget fight films.
Paths to Expiring, in Alphabetical Order
By ERIK PIEPENBURG
“The ABCs of Death” is a horror anthology film that assembles 26 shorts that each contain a demise.
Comeback, a Scene at a Time
By JOE RHODES
Fifteen years after her comedy, “Grace Under Fire,” was canceled, Brett Butler is back on series television, working with Charlie Sheen.
‘Most Israelis Are Not Listening’
By JODI RUDOREN
“The Gatekeepers,” an Israeli documentary about the occupation of the Palestinian territories, has captured the attention of the world, but not that of its most relevant audience.
Snapshot | Jessie Ware
From Note Pads to Shoulder Pads
By ZACH BARON
The British soul singer Jessie Ware, recently nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize, is advancing on the United States after her recent full-length album, “Devotion,” and a new EP.
DVD
Living Large and Living Dead
By DAVE KEHR
“Our Man Flint,” “White Zombie” and “Murder Is My Beat” arrive on DVD.
Playlist
Textures From Near, Far and Out of a Psychedelic Haze
By BEN RATLIFF
New CDS out this week include offerings from Föllakzoid, Dawn Richard, Aruán Ortiz, and Jessika Kenney and Eyvind Kang.
Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Verdi and Puccini Biographer, Dies at 86
By MARGALIT FOX
Ms. Phillips-Matz’s examinations of two of opera’s most important composers focused on their lives, not musicology.
Lives
We Were Joy Division
By PETER HOOK
Everything came easily for the new-wave band. Only later did they see how lucky they were.
Character Study
All the Tour’s a Stage
By COREY KILGANNON
When Maria Mansfield conducts tours at Lincoln Center, it can get hilarious, risqué or weepy, depending on how she’s feeling the part that day.
What I Wore
A Teenager With a Stylist
By BEE-SHYUAN CHANG
What the 15-year-old actress Chloë Grace Moretz wore in Paris on Jan. 21 during the spring 2013 couture shows.
Arts | Connecticut
A Tenor With ‘Breath and Imagination’
By SYLVIANE GOLD
A musical at Hartford Stage tells the story of the tenor Roland Hayes, the first African-American vocalist to receive international acclaim.
Arts | Long Island
Boundless Curiosity About Bloodsuckers
By AILEEN JACOBSON
“Attack of the Bloodsuckers!” — an exhibition at the Long Island Children’s Museum — encourages children to learn the beneficial aspects of creatures like fleas, lice and bedbugs.
Arts | New Jersey
Fascination With a Medium, and the Lives of Women
By MARTHA SCHWENDENER
“In the Company of Women: Prints by Mary Cassatt,” an exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, runs through March 3.
Arts | Westchester
Skills Honed When the River Was Still the Highway
By SUSAN HODARA
The Arts Exchange presents a multimedia exploration of the construction of watercraft along the Hudson River and the north and south shores of Long Island Sound.
Streetscapes
A Twist on the Town House
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Clarence True, the architect and developer, is known for his picturesque town houses.
Where Did Time Go? It Still Feels Like 1983.
By ANDY LANGER
As their debut album, “Texas Flood,” is rereleased, Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon recall the old days and recording the album with Stevie Ray Vaughan at Jackson Browne’s studio in 1983.
Video
In Performance: America Ferrera in ‘Bethany’
By ERIK PIEPENBURG
The actress performs a scene from Laura Marks’s new drama at City Center.
Interactive Feature
Church Portraits Speak to the Earthly World
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Ribera’s portraits, hidden up high and in the darkness of a church in Naples, Italy, are, like the city, expressions of the spiritual embedded in the profane.
The Listings
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What's on Television
Chess Column
Chess
Two of the World’s Best in a Game for the Ages
By DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN
A match at a Netherlands tournament between Viswanathan Anand and Levon Aronian might have been on par with some of the best games in history.
Bridge Column
Bridge
District 3 Winter Regional
By PHILLIP ALDER
The A/X Swiss Teams at the District 3 Winter Regional in Rye Brook, N.Y., were held last Sunday.
Visualizing the Many Ways to Say 'Peace'
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
From white doves to rainbow stripes, countless images have come to stand for peace. "Signs for Peace'' provides a visual history of the evolution of various peace symbols.
The Shifting Styles of Manet’s People
By SOUREN MELIKIAN
Édouard Manet shows himself to be a persistently changing artist in the exhibition “Manet: Portraying Life” at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
British Paintings, Great and Small, Gathered on New Web Site.
By STEPHEN CASTLE
A British national Web site catalogues as many oil paintings in the country as possible -- and makes some that haven't been seen in decades available for free.
Theater Review
Tentative Optimism for Children in London Theater
By MATT WOLF
"No Quarter,'' written by Polly Stenham, concludes with some hope for the next generation, while "Hansel and Gretel'' shows the director Katie Mitchell's playful side.
Bringing Fresh Interpretations to Vintage Verdi and Handel
By GEORGE LOOMIS
Productions of Verdi in Venice and Handel in Vienna work hard to bring freshness to well-used material.
Artistry of the Pharaohs
By MELISSA EDDY
The Neues Museum is celebrating a bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti that "fell" into its hands 100 years ago.
It's a Spaceship! No, It's a Time Machine
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
When it was introduced in the 1960s, Kodak's Carousel was a dazzling innovation.
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