• Bound to a Rocking Chair, Wishing Upon a Star
  • Country and Rock, Delivered With Rawness
  • In Verse, a Hoodlum’s Rage and War’s Spoils
  • Woody Allen’s Talk Therapy: Audiobooks by a Technophobe
Bound to a Rocking Chair, Wishing Upon a Star

Bound to a Rocking Chair, Wishing Upon a Star

As part of its third program at the Joyce Theater, Pilobolus unveiled a work that broke the company’s artistic mold. For “Contradance,” receiving its New York premiere on...

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Country and Rock, Delivered With Rawness

Country and Rock, Delivered With Rawness

HOBOKEN, N.J. — John McCauley, gaunt and scraggly, clutched an electric guitar at Maxwell’s here on Monday night, finger-picking a lone song, “Houston, TX,” by himself. His band,...

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In Verse, a Hoodlum’s Rage and War’s Spoils

In Verse, a Hoodlum’s Rage and War’s Spoils

Listen. Listen harder. That’s what the British playwright Howard Barker needs you to do during “Gary the Thief” and “Plevna: Meditations on Hatred,” his two short, dense plays...

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Woody Allen’s Talk Therapy: Audiobooks by a Technophobe

Woody Allen’s Talk Therapy: Audiobooks by a Technophobe

With the possible exception of his invention of the orgasmatron, Woody Allen is not necessarily known as an early adopter of cutting-edge technology. Still, Mr. Allen has taken...

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Skateboarding Glides Into New Phase

Skateboarding Glides Into New Phase

GOLDENDALE, Wash. — Here in the high desert east of the Cascades, where towering windmills quietly whir overhead, skaters hurtle downhill along a ribbon of blacktop six at...

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Armstrong Pushes for a Stage Win but Falls Short

Armstrong Pushes for a Stage Win but Falls Short

PAU, France — In the closing moments of Tuesday’s stage of the Tour de France, just as in the old days when he dominated this race, Lance Armstrong...

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International Players Keep Rising to the Top in Major Tournaments

International Players Keep Rising to the Top in Major Tournaments

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — The results of the last two major golf championships — a resounding seven-stroke victory by Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa at the British Open...

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