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  • China’s Legacy: Let a Million Museums Bloom

    Most art is an unsettled category in China and museums have complicated uses.
  • Music Review: A Hungry 50 Cent, Working Hard for the Money

    G-Unit’s show at the Nokia Theater on Tuesday night figured to be full of tumult, but instead 50 Cent and the remaining members of G-Unit were on their best behavior.
  • The ’60s Begin to Fade as Liberal Professors Retire

    Hired during an expansion in higher education, baby boomers are being replaced by a new generation.
  • Ex-Leader at Spoleto Calls Ouster Political

    Francis Menotti broke a long silence on Wednesday and accused Italian politicians of callously throwing him out of the festival founded by his father, the composer Gian Carlo Menotti.
  • Books of The Times: The Real Lincoln Bedroom: Love in a Time of Strife

    Daniel Mark Epstein’s careful parsing of the Lincoln marriage interweaves the crisis-filled, mercurial career of Abraham Lincoln with an equally rocky tale of man and wife.
  • Channeling the Voices of Africa’s Lost Children

    The Rev. Uwem Akpan is a Nigerian and a Jesuit priest who has just published a debut collection of stories about the dark side of human experience.
  • Movie Review | 'The Wackness': Summer of ’94, With Boy, Girl, Love and Dope Sales

    “The Wackness” makes a good-faith effort to steer clear of coming-of-age story clichés, and succeeds and fails in roughly equal measure.
  • Music Review: A Mediterranean Cruise

    In the second installment of this year’s Summertime Classics series at Avery Fisher Hall on Tuesday, the New York Philharmonic offered a program that was meant as a tour of the Mediterranean.
  • Music Review: A Low-Profile Band Reaches Its Next Stage After a Break of 17 Years

    On Tuesday night the old songs were as precise and galvanizing as ever. And the Feelies were their old, undemonstrative selves onstage.
  • Music Review: As Saloon Swinger, Wopat Tries a Little Tenderness

    In a fundamental way Tom Wopat, who is performing Thursdays through July 31 at the Metropolitan Room, is a keeper of the flame of the Sinatra saloon tradition.
  • Armed With a New Label, Funk Singer Unleashes a New Act

    Nikka Costa’s third record, “Pebble to a Pearl,” comes out in September, and Ms. Costa played a prerelease gig at the Bowery Ballroom on Monday.
  • Theater Review | 'Marko the Prince': Balkan Tale: Blood Ties, and Ties to Home

    “Marko the Prince” is an ambitious portrait of a fictional shell-shocked village on the border of Bosnia and Serbia in the summer of 1992.
  • Bridge: In One Room, a Slam; in the Other, Down Five

    The European Team Championships finished in Pau, France, last Saturday.
  • Arts, Briefly: Broadway’s Lights Will Stay On

    After two and a half months of talks Actors’ Equity Association reached a tentative agreement with the Broadway League, averting a strike.
  • Arts, Briefly: The Village Voice Avoids a Strike

    Employees at the free weekly The Village Voice avoided a strike by agreeing to a three-year contract Wednesday morning with Village Voice Media. “We got a deal 3 o’clock this morning,” said Tom Robbins, a Voice columnist and shop steward for the United Auto Workers Local 2110. “We won a good victory for unions.” He added that the contract did not require union members to pay any portion of the premiums of their health care, and it also calls for a raise. The contract was unanimously ratified by the membership on Wednesday morning. “We had a celebratory drink of a little Scotch,” Mr. Robbins said, “and then went home.”.
  • Arts, Briefly: Tatum O’Neal Pleads Guilty

    The actress Tatum O’Neal, below, who was arrested in June on a charge of cocaine possession, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in Manhattan on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported. Judge Elisa Koenderman of Manhattan Criminal Court ordered Ms. O’Neal, 44, to spend two half-day sessions in a drug treatment program and pay a $95 fee. If she follows through, the case will be dismissed.
  • Arts, Briefly: Shakira Signs With Live Nation

    Shakira, above, has become the latest pop star to leave a major record company for Live Nation, the international touring giant that has begun signing marquee names for lucrative all-purpose contracts. After months of speculation Shakira, the 31-year-old Colombian singer of Lebanese descent who is a strong international touring draw, has signed a 10-year deal that encompasses tours, recordings, sponsorship and merchandise. Neither Shakira’s representatives nor Live Nation would disclose the value of the deal, but people close to the negotiations, who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss them, said that depending on Shakira’s performance over the 10 years, it would probably be worth $70 million to $100 million. Shakira’s contract with Epic Records calls for three more albums — one in English, one in Spanish and a compilation — but the touring and other rights of the Live Nation deal would begin immediately.
  • Arts, Briefly: NBC Show Draws Fire

    The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry said that NBC should end “The Baby Borrowers,” a reality television show that separates babies and toddlers from their parents and places them temporarily with teenage strangers. “A child’s sense of security should not be gambled with,” said Robert Hendren, the president of the academy. NBC has said that the “Baby Borrowers” is a social experiment that can educate teenagers on the responsibilities of parenting. The parents are able to monitor their children through video cameras.
  • Arts, Briefly: Music at the Museum

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art will feature classical music and rock in its concert series this fall. In addition to Itzhak Perlman, above left, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra playing Saint-Saëns’s “Carnival of the Animals” and the farewell season of the Guarneri String Quartet, artists including Patti Smith, above right, Richie Havens and Lesley Gore will be featured. Music from Mali, Mexico, Spain and Turkey will also be performed.
  • Arts, Briefly: Coldplay Remains No. 1

    After a big opening, Coldplay’s new album, “Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends” (Capitol), lost two thirds of its sales in its second week out, but it is still the No. 1 album in the country, selling 249,000 more copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter III” (Cash Money/Universal) was No. 2 with 209,000, and Disney’s “Camp Rock” soundtrack, with the teenage stars Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers, was No. 3 with 169,000 sales. The new Mötley Crüe album, “Saints of Los Angeles” (Mötley), opened at No. 4 with 99,000, and Three 6 Mafia’s new “Last 2 Walk” (Hypnotize Minds/Columbia) bowed at No. 5 with 77,000. Shinedown’s new release, “The Sound of Madness” (Atlantic), was No. 8 with 50,000 sales.
  • Arts, Briefly: The Show May Go On

    The Wilmette Theater hopes to come to the rescue of a beleaguered production of “Ragtime.”
  • Arts, Briefly: America’s Got Viewers

    “America’s Got Talent” raised NBC’s ratings on Tuesday as 12 million viewers tuned in to the talent competition from 9 to 11 p.m., according to Nielsen’s estimates. NBC led the night over all by a small margin, finishing third in the 8 p.m. time slot with “Celebrity Family Feud” (7 million), behind ABC’s “Wipeout” (9.4 million) and CBS’s “NCIS” repeat (8 million). CBS ranked second for the night in total viewers with “48 Hours Mystery” at 9 (7.6 million) and a “Without a Trace” rerun at 10 (6.7 million), but among adults 18 to 49 the network finished last. ABC and Fox shared second place in that demographic. Fox earned the night’s highest ratings in that age group with “Hell’s Kitchen” at 9, although the show drew a modest audience with 7.9 million total viewers. Fox struggled during the 8 p.m. hour, however, with “The Moment of Truth” (4.6 million). ABC’s ratings dropped off following “Wipeout,” as the network garnered 6.3 million at 9 for “I Survived a Japanese Game Show” and 5.7 million at 10 for “Primetime.”.
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