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Still King of the Cinematic Slopes

No true fan of Warren Miller ski movies has a favorite, and it’s not because each of the 60 is special in its own way, but because they are all pretty much the same. In “Dynasty,” Bryce Phillips takes flight on a slope at Crystal Mountain in Washington. ...

From ERIC KONIGSBERG, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Warren Miller,  Time Warner Inc.

Quite Big in Britain, Not Quite in the U.S.

That the artist Tracey Emin had asked to be interviewed at her hotel swimming pool and showed up in a bathing suit would probably mean more to readers in her native England, where her self-revelatory and at times exhibitionist tendencies are well known. ...

From ERIC KONIGSBERG, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tracey Emin,  Royal Academy of Arts,  Tate Gallery,  Damien Hirst,  Madonna

Low Turnout at City Clinics for Free Swine Flu Vaccine

Perhaps it was fear of crowds that kept the crowds away on Sunday from the clinics offering free swine flu vaccinations to schoolchildren. Or, maybe, as some of the few who did show up suggested, the small numbers could be attributed to a wariness ...

From ERIC KONIGSBERG, The New York Times,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thomas A Farley,  New York University

Collecting Headlines Funnier Than This

Headlines in the satirical weekly newspaper The Onion tend to function both as punch line and setup, in that order. They are the heart of the paper, and not only the first thing anybody reads, but also, unlike headlines in real newspapers all over the ...

From ERIC KONIGSBERG, The New York Times,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Todd Hanson,  Washington Post Company,  New York Times Company,  Barack Obama,  Taliban

Comedy: It’s Not a Bad Time to Be Funny in the City

IF you are of the view that nurture trumps nature, you might not have predicted a career as a professional comic for Kumail Nanjiani. He grew up in Pakistan “Not necessarily a very funny place,” he says and had never seen a moment of stand-up comedy ...

From ERIC KONIGSBERG, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: HBO,  Zach Galifianakis,  Jerry Seinfeld,  Bill Maher,  Ricky Gervais

In His Own Literary World, a Native Son Without Borders

SEATTLE The author Sherman Alexie doesn’t believe there is such a thing as selling out. He has no qualms about his commercial breakthrough’s coming when he wrote a young-adult novel, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” despite the fact ...

From ERIC KONIGSBERG, The New York Times,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Sherman Alexie,  New York Times Company

Artists Salute Undersung Multitasker

Ron Warren thinks it’s a pretty good time to be him. On the wall to the left of his desk at the Mary Boone Gallery in Chelsea, he can see a portrait of himself wearing a crown of cupcakes, by the painter Will Cotton. To his right, in an adjacent room, ...

From ERIC KONIGSBERG, The New York Times,  18 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Richard Tuttle,  Jean-Michel Basquiat,  Julian Schnabel

Write What You Know: Reflections of a Wayward Soul

CLINTON, Wash. When Pete Dexter invites you to his house for dinner at 6 p.m. but says it’s fine to show up any time before 10, you can tell that he means it because he adds, “I’ve been late my whole life.” Pete Dexters new novel, Spooner, draws ...

From ERIC KONIGSBERG, International Herald Tribune,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Wild Bill Hickok,  University of Chicago,  New York Yankees,  Harvard University

Culture Warriors’ (Serious) Fun House

IT probably makes sense to start at the end of the journey. In this case that would mean beginning with the finished artwork, an installation by Mike Kelley and Michael Smith titled “A Voyage of Growth and Discovery,” which occupies the ground-floor ...

From ERIC KONIGSBERG, The New York Times,  25 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Mike Kelley,  Michael Smith,  Burning Man,  Ken Johnson,  New York Times Company

ArtsBeat: Repairs Needed at Shakespeare’s Grave

The roof above William Shakespeare’s grave is in danger of caving in, and the Stratford-upon-Avon church where it is situated is hurriedly trying to raise £50,000, or about $80,000, for repairs, BBC News reported. The supporting beam of the chancel, ...

From ERIC KONIGSBERG, The New York Times,  22 Sep 2009

Related Topics: William Shakespeare,  BBC,  Dan Brown,  Anne Hathaway,  Neil Patrick Harris

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