- July 24, 2006
- Weekend in New England: Part II
The Williamstown Theatre Festival, now in full swing, brings acclaimed actors and directors to the Berkshires. Five bright spots worth the trip.
- July 24, 2006
- Winkie
Winkie, Clifford Chase’s bizarre first novel, is far more than a one-note indictment of human-rights abuses. It’s also a parable, a bedtime story, and a phenomenal character study of a teddy bear.
- July 24, 2006
- Curious Georges
Georges Simenon, prolific genius of literary reduction, takes readers on a very bad road trip.
- July 24, 2006
- Was It Like a Prayer . . . Come True?
This week Madonna, bearing cross, hits the Garden for a return engagement. We asked concertgoers at the first set of New York shows what they thought of her dancing, singing, Christian-baiting, and S&M equestrian ensembles.
- July 24, 2006
- Reality-TV Index
A recurring guide to which shows are worth investing in, and which ones to avoid.
- July 24, 2006
- Life on Mars
Manchester police detective Sam Tyler (John Simm) is in hot pursuit of a serial killer who’s kidnapped Tyler’s girlfriend when he’s hit by a car and knocked all the way back into 1973, where the cops are innocent of cell phones, DNA profiles, and scruples about roughing up suspects and planting evidence.
- July 24, 2006
- Ever-Changing-Mood Music
The genre-busting cult musician Theo Bleckmann tries his hand at the great American songbook.
- July 24, 2006
- Inspector Lewis
What could have been a disaster or an insult—bringing Kevin Whately’s Robbie Lewis back to Oxford after the death of John Thaw’s Inspector Morse—turns out instead to be one of the most satisfying two-hour Mystery!s in years.
- July 17, 2006
- A South Fork Story
They were the center of the Jazz Age social set and the models for F. Scott Fitzgerald characters. They served chilled sherry to Ernest Hemingway on the French Riviera. But Gerald and Sara Murphy’s romance started and ended in the Hamptons, where her self-made-millionaire father owned 600 acres—property that would be worth well over $1 billion today. Here’s a look at a piece of the lost Hamptons, through never-before-seen family photos dug out of boxes in the estate’s old garage.
- July 17, 2006
- One Hell of a Divorce
In Ken Kalfus’s 9/11 satire, the war at home has never been nastier.
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