Movie Review: ‘What to Expect When You’re Expecting,’ With Cameron Diaz
Movie Review: ‘What to Expect When You’re Expecting,’ With Cameron Diaz Melissa Moseley/Lionsgate Elizabeth Banks and Brooklyn Decker in “What to Expect When You’re Expecting.” Where do babies come from? If you don’t want your child to know the answer, you might direct him or her to “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” since a young viewer will emerge from it without much of a clue. Or you might provide a summary: Sometimes when a mommy and a daddy love each other very much (or have hooked up after a few drinks on a warm evening), special music starts to play. Then the mommy throws up, urinates on a stick (not always in that order), gets very large and starts to scream. The daddy puts on a funny blue hat, a doctor stares hard at the mommy’s knees, and a few minutes later a nurse walks in with a baby. [...]
On ‘America’s Got Talent,’ Howard Stern becomes a beloved uncle: TV review
On ‘America’s Got Talent,’ Howard Stern becomes a beloved uncle: TV review Somewhere along the way to the collapse of Western civilization, pioneer shock-jock Howard Stern became a sweet old man, perhaps staving off our multimedia Armageddon. At least that’s the story line presented along with Stern’s canny decision to join — at a reported fee of about $ 20 million — NBC’s goony amateur performance competition, “America’s Got Talent,” as its newest judge. Despite the predictable howls of the Parents Television Council, which fruitlessly needled the network to reconsider putting Stern on what some consider a family-friendly variety show, Monday night’s seventh-season premiere was mostly business as usual. Hank Stuever Hank Stuever is The Washington Postâs TV critic and author of two books, âTinselâ and âOff Ramp.â Archive Stern, 58, is hardly the loaded pistol he used to be. By now, his self-deprecating jokes about his gawky looks and the [...]
Music Review: Violinist Irvine Arditti in Hilda Paredes Concert at Miller Theater
Music Review: Violinist Irvine Arditti in Hilda Paredes Concert at Miller Theater When Melissa Smey became the executive director of the Miller Theater at Columbia University in 2009, she inherited a programming philosophy largely defined by a charismatic, highly visible predecessor: George Steel, now the general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera. No newcomer, Ms. Smey had worked with Mr. Steel at Miller since 2001. Most of what she has presented since taking over has fitted the mold of what she previously helped Mr. Steel to build. Richard Termine for The New York Times The guest violinist Irvine Arditti, left, with Nuiko Wadden and John Pickford Richards, members of the ensemble Signal. Breaking news about the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia and more. A sortable calendar of noteworthy cultural events in the New York region, selected by Times critics. Go to Event Listings [...]
Music Review: António Zambujo’s Fado at Skirball Center
Music Review: António Zambujo’s Fado at Skirball Center António Zambujo gave an exquisite whisper of a concert on Saturday night at the Skirball Center at New York University. Mr. Zambujo is a fado singer from Portugal who has won the style’s major awards, including the Amália Rodrigues Foundation prize as best male fado singer. He upholds fado’s sense of longing and tragic dignity as he brings it into modern close-up. Breaking news about the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia and more. A sortable calendar of noteworthy cultural events in the New York region, selected by Times critics. Go to Event Listings » Mr. Zambujo paid obeisance to fado’s history. His set included songs associated with fado’s two most indelible singers, Ms. Rodrigues and Alfredo Marceneiro. Yet he is discreetly pushing fado in directions of his own. He connects fado both to the regional music of southern Portugal, [...]
Off the Shelf: In ‘iDisorder,’ a Look at Mobile-Device Addiction – Review
Off the Shelf: In ‘iDisorder,’ a Look at Mobile-Device Addiction – Review I DON’T know about you, but I’ve always found the debate about what our mobile devices are doing to us — to our behaviors, our manners, our minds — at least as interesting as reports about what we’re doing with these devices. What about that gent who was talking loudly into his Android phone on the Metro-North train this morning? Was he really that obnoxious before we all went wireless — or did the device somehow change him? And what about all those young people who spend hours upon hours texting and sexting and Facebooking? What kinds of adults will they become? Is the casual anonymity of Internet discussion turning us into boors? What did we once do with all the hours we now spend obsessively checking e-mail and texts? Smoke? Larry D. Rosen, a California psychologist, is [...]
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Music Review: Spring for Music at Carnegie Hall
Music Review: Spring for Music at Carnegie Hall Brian Harkin for The New York Times Spring for Music, with Justin Brown leading the Alabama Symphony, on Thursday at Carnegie Hall. In essence, the Spring for Music festival at Carnegie Hall is a “contest in programming,” as Elliott Forrest from WQXR radio put it on Wednesday night in a brief onstage interview with Jacques Lacombe, the music director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. This venture, now in its second year, has other goals: for example, making Carnegie Hall debuts possible for regional orchestras like the Alabama Symphony, which played on Thursday night. But encouraging ensembles to think creatively about programming is the defining mission, well met by these two orchestras in the third and fourth programs of this year’s series, which began on Monday. Wednesday’s concert was the 22nd time that the 89-year-old New Jersey Symphony has crossed the Hudson [...]
SEC Opens Review of J.P. Morgan
SEC Opens Review of J.P. Morgan BY JEAN EAGLESHAM The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun reviewing J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s disclosures related to the $ 2 billion trading loss announced by the company Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter. The review is at an early stage and hasn’t progressed to the status of a formal investigation, this person said. Such reviews are routine after public companies report unexpected losses that send their stock prices sharply lower. As a regulator, the SEC oversees J.P. Morgan’s disclosures to investors and the New York company’s broker-dealer operations. The Federal Reserve regulates the bank holding company of J.P. Morgan, … BY JEAN EAGLESHAM The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun reviewing J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s disclosures related to the $ 2 billion trading loss announced by the company Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter. The [...]
Review decision on scrapping of schemes: BSP to Akhilesh govt
Review decision on scrapping of schemes: BSP to Akhilesh govt Slamming the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party government for scrapping schemes launched by the previous Mayawati regime, the opposition Bahujan Samaj Party today asked it to review its decision. “Besides cancelling various schemes, the SP government has renamed Dr Ambedkar Samagra Gram Vikas Yojna after socialist thinker Ram Manohar Lohia. “This is not only unfortunate but also amounts to showing disrespect to Dr Ambedkar,” BJP leaders Swami Prasad Maurya and Naseemuddin Siddiqui told a press conference here. Condemning the state government for scrapping schemes started by the then Mayawati dispensation, they asked the Akhilesh government to review its decision. Maurya and Siddiqui, leaders of the opposition in the Vidhan Sabha and the Vidhan Parishad respectively, said their party would raise the issue in the upcoming state assembly session. They said the schemes meant for uplift of villages had been discontinued. In [...]
