Manohla Dargis on the hideous-sounding Taken: PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). A veritable tasting menu of death, courtesy of knives, fists, electricity and guns of various calibers.
Entries from January 2009
January 28, 2009
Last chance — 3 Decades of Acquisitions at the Metropolitan Museum
The “Philippe show,” as it is known around the joint, closes on Sunday. I was going to make this a Ten Minutes at the Met entry — I went up to the show thinking I’d find just two or three objects to point you to — but I couldn’t do it. There’s just [...]
January 24, 2009
on the road
The Haruspex is making a rare venture beyond the five boroughs; I’m off to Philadelphia for the day to sing shapenote at the Keystone Convention. There won’t be much time for tourism, but hey, I’ve seen the Liberty Bell (it looks like a big bell with a crack in it). I’m due back Sunday to [...]
January 19, 2009
Ten minutes at the Metropolitan Museum — two new paintings
I had this idea that a series of posts drawing attention to small things at the Big Tomb would be worthwhile: stuff for the ten minutes or half hour of attention you have after you’ve seen the big special exhibition. It might be a smaller loan show, but more often would be a bit [...]
January 17, 2009
Renaissance Street Singers’ loft concert 2009, Feb. 22 and March 1
Friends: The Streetsingers’ 2009 Loft Concerts will be on Sunday afternoons Feb. 22 and March 1, at 3:00. The programs are identical (see below) and each concert will be followed by a party that will, like all Streetsingers parties, include open singing of RSS repertory (participation optional, of course). If you’d like to [...]
January 17, 2009
gilbert & george on the way out
Between one thing and the next, I had a few minutes to spend at the Brooklyn Museum last Saturday night. Some of it I used up sitting in the stairwell looking out at the glowing night snow falling on the parking lot, the junior Statue of Liberty, and some dogs — I love that plain, [...]
January 4, 2009
Best Books of 2008 (sez me)
My friends over at Readerville are all posting their Best Books of 2008 and I just jumped in myself. These aren’t books published in 2008 necessarily (though some are).
So it turned out I liked quite a lot of books this year, although it was still difficult to rate them. I tried to [...]
