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Blasts from the past are aiming to hit big again this season. Critics Ty Burr and Wesley Morris offer an early look.
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Here's the story of 14 shows and that dark moment when Matthew Gilbert realized they were heading into a tailspin.
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Alsop, And Others, American Academy
Marin Alsop gets elected into the American Academy of Arts...
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Invoking the spirit of Shakespeare
With no script to follow, Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt learned to improvise: He co-wrote a comedy inspired by the Bard's notorious lost play, "Cardenio."

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A civil union is no big deal, and that's a big deal
Despite the decade's fraught politics about gay unions, the subject is not exactly making for incendiary TV in 2008.
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'Speed Racer'
Watching "Speed Racer," the new summer lollapalooza from the Wachowski brothers, is like being force-fed a Costco-size bag of your favorite candy.Music

N.E.R.D. ramps up production
N.E.R.D.'s third album "Seeing Sounds," which is out June 10, draws on heavy rock, funk, and soul.
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African bodies of evidence
Dartmouth College's exhibit "Black Womanhood" explores representations of the black female body through history.
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Review
'American Crime' is tough viewing
The fact that the made-for-cable movie "An American Crime" is so disturbing to watch testifies to the power of its grim atmospherics.
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Liv Tyler splits from husband
Actress Liv Tyler and British rocker Royston Langdon reportedly have ended their five-year marriage, but said they will remain on good terms for the sake of their son Milo. (BANG)
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A grim analysis of the economy
Kevin Phillips's central thesis is that the finanical-services sector has taken on far too great a share of the country's economy.














