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For its realistic portrait of a bomb squad in Iraq, The Hurt Locker won six Academy Awards, including “Best Picture.” Yet the small truths within this film implicitly condone the larger lies that took us into that war in the first place. The Hurt Locker. A film directed by Kathryn Bigelow. At the Ritz at the Bourse, Fourth and Ludlow Sts. (215) 925-7900 or www.landmarktheatres.com. view full article |
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Music
Orchestra’s new season (good news)
The Orchestra’s inane marketing
Black audiences and classical music
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Music Reviews
Jasmine Choi flute recital
Reich, Glass and Bryars at Annenberg
Marcantonio Barone piano recital
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Art
Barnes Day in the ‘Inquirer’
The vanishing art postcard
The Barnes architects make their case
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Art Reviews
Gabriel Orozco at MOMA in New York
‘Picasso and the Paris Avant-Garde’ at the Art Museum (3rd review)
‘Picasso and the Paris Avant-Garde’ at the Art Museum (2nd review)
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Theater
Who should play Helen Keller?
Sport vs. theater: ‘Chad Deity’ and ‘Grace’
Summer camp for show biz hopefuls
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Theater Reviews
‘Romeo and Juliet’ at the Arden
Bill Cain’s ‘Equivocation,’ Off-Broadway
‘A Behanding in Spokane’ on Broadway
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Opera
Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle (Part 6: ‘Götterdämmerung’)
Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle (Part 5: ‘Siegfried’)
Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle (Part 4: ‘Die Walküre’)
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Opera Reviews
Tan Dun’s ‘Tea’ by the Opera Company (3rd review)
Bellini’s ‘Sleepwalker’ by Curtis Opera
Tan Dun’s ‘Tea’ by the Opera Company (2nd review)
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Dance
Dancing for his life in Rwanda
Alex Ketley: A choreographer’s failure
Merce Cunningham’s final challenge
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Dance Reviews
Pennsylvania Ballet’s ‘Program II’
Pink Hair Affair’s ‘Take It Off’
New Zealand’s Black Grace at the Kimmel
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Cross-Cultural
‘The Hurt Locker’ and the endless war
Chile: Left wing and right, together
On hating Haiti
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Cross-Cultural Reviews
Jason Reitman’s ‘Up in the Air’ (2nd review)
James Ellroy’s ‘Blood’s A Rover’
‘Avatar’ vs. ‘The Imaginarium’
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