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This week's links to NAJP members' work:
Martin Bernheimer on Thomas Hampson and "Song of America" (Financial Times)
Martin Bernheimer on "Götterdämmerung" at the Met (Financial Times)
Laura Bleiberg reviews La La La Human Steps and "New Work" (Los Angeles Times)
Robert Christgau on Bhi Bhiman and "Bhiman" (NPR)
Michael Feingold reviews "The Road to Mecca" (The Village Voice)
Michael Feingold reviews Kevin Spacey in "Richard III" (The Village Voice)
Christopher Hawthorne on Peter Zellner's Matthew Marks Gallery (Los Angeles Times)
John Horn on "Hugo" and the other Oscar contenders (Los Angeles Times)
Ann Hornaday on Liam Neeson in "The Grey" (The Washington Post)
Ann Hornaday on Glenn Close in "Albert Nobbs" (The Washington Post)
Lawrence B. Johnson on Lyric Opera of Chicago's "Aida" (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Lawrence B. Johnson on Muti's "Carmina Burana" (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Michael Kimmelman on housing projects' architectural lessons (The New York Times)
Glenn Lovell reviews Liam Neeson in "The Grey" (CinemaDope.com)
Mark Mobley writes a Philip Glass birthday tribute (NPR)
Renee Montagne on "Consent of the Networked" author Rebecca MacKinnon (NPR)
Ann Powers on Lana Del Rey (NPR)
Ann Powers on the Bob Dylan tribute "Chimes of Freedom" (NPR)
Craig Seligman reviews Cullen Murphy's "God's Jury" (Bloomberg News)
Marcia B. Siegel reviews Monica Bill Barnes and Company (The Boston Phoenix)
Calvin Wilson on Ensemble Español (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Linda Winer on Signature Theatre Company's new four-stage complex (Newsday)
Linda Winer on Cynthia Nixon as Vivian Bearing in "Wit" (Newsday)
And in books:
Will Hermes' "Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years In New York That Changed Music Forever" (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) was published in November.
This week's links to NAJP members' work:
Robert Campbell on Frank Gehry's house and its AIA award (The Boston Globe)
Francis Davis compiles the Rhapsody jazz critics' poll (Rhapsody)
Michael Feingold reviews "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" (The Village Voice)
Matthew Gurewitsch on Swedish soprano Katarina Dalayman (The New York Times)
Matthew Gurewitsch on a prime, unrecorded Wagnerienne (beyondcriticism.com)
John Horn does a roundtable with Scorsese, Clooney et al (Los Angeles Times)
Ann Hornaday reviews Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation" (The Washington Post)
Ann Hornaday reviews "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" (The Washington Post)
Julie Lasky goes desk shopping with Arthur Phillips (The New York Times)
Glenn Lovell reviews "Red Tails" and "Haywire" (CinemaDope.com)
Renee Montagne interviews "Red Tails" screenwriter John Ridley (NPR)
Ann Powers on Bruce Springsteen's "We Take Care of Our Own" (NPR)
Ann Powers on (still) watching "American Idol" (NPR)
Craig Seligman on Adam Johnson's "The Orphan Master's Son" (Bloomberg News)
Marcia B. Siegel reviews Wim Wenders' "Pina" (The Boston Phoenix)
Laura Sydell on the shutdown of Megaupload (NPR)
Laura Sydell on legality and illegality at Megaupload (NPR)
Linda Winer on major revivals for three women: Edson, Vogel and Howe (Newsday)
And in print:
Mark Rozzo on the reopening of the Met Museum's American Wing (Town & Country)
This week's links to NAJP members' work:
Martin Bernheimer reviews "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" (Financial Times)
Laura Bleiberg on the lives of several concert dancers (Los Angeles Times)
Robert Christgau on the music of 2011, with Dean's List (Barnes & Noble Review)
Michael Feingold reviews "The Peony Pavilion" (The Village Voice)
Michael Feingold reviews "How the World Began" (The Village Voice)
Matthew Gurewitsch reviews videos of the Vienna Phil with opera stars (Opera News)
John Horn on Oliver Stone's "Savages" (Los Angeles Times)
Ann Hornaday reviews "The Iron Lady" (The Washington Post)
Ann Hornaday on Roger Corman and "Corman's World" (The Washington Post)
Lawrence B. Johnson on Diane D'Aquila as "Elizabeth Rex" (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Lawrence B. Johnson on Chailly's quick and sure Beethoven (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Glenn Lovell reviews Mark Wahlberg in "Contraband" (CinemaDope.com)
Glenn Lovell on the best, worst, most overrated movies of 2011 (CinemaDope.com)
Nancy Malitz on the Berlin Philharmonic's streaming ways (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Ann Powers on Tim McGraw's "Emotional Traffic" (NPR)
Kenneth Turan reviews "Pina" (Los Angeles Times)
Calvin Wilson on musicians continuing John Coltrane's legacy (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Linda Winer reviews "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" (Newsday)
Linda Winer on Athol Fugard on the New York stage (Newsday)
This week's links to NAJP members' work:
Martin Bernheimer on the N.Y. Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall (Financial Times)
Laura Bleiberg on three faces to watch in dance in 2012 (Los Angeles Times)
Larry Blumenfeld on Jonathan Batiste and jazz on the subway (The Village Voice)
Robert Campbell on a long-ago neighborhood's enduring unity (The Boston Globe)
Patti Hartigan on using theater to teach social skills (Harvard Education Letter)
Patti Hartigan on designing "God of Carnage" (The Boston Globe)
Christopher Hawthorne on the death of Ricardo Legorreta (Los Angeles Times)
Ann Hornaday reviews "Pariah" (The Washington Post)
Michael Kimmelman on parking lots as architecture (The New York Times)
Craig Seligman reviews "Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion" (Bloomberg News)
Craig Seligman reviews a trio of royal biographies (Bloomberg News)
David Streitfeld on Amazon and used Kindles (The New York Times)
Laura Sydell on Rick Santorum's stubborn Google problem (NPR)
This week's links to NAJP members' work:
Martin Bernheimer on "The Enchanted Island" at the Met (Financial Times)
Martin Bernheimer on New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall (Financial Times)
Larry Blumenfeld on bassist Richard Bona (The Wall Street Journal)
Robert Christgau on 10 books about the subprime-etc. crisis (Barnes & Noble Review)
Laura Collins-Hughes on Mike Daisey and New Year's Eve (The Boston Globe)
Francis Davis on 2011's musical bounty (The Village Voice)
Michael Feingold reviews "Lysistrata Jones" (The Village Voice)
Michael Feingold reviews Molly Smith Metzler's "Close Up Space" (The Village Voice)
Michael Feingold envisions Theater Yet to Come (The Village Voice)
Bill Goldstein interviews Stephen Sondheim about "Look, I Made a Hat" (NBC)
Matthew Gurewitsch introduces his Wagnerian Twitter series (beyondcriticism.com)
Matthew Gurewitsch salutes Eye on Dance at 30 (beyondcriticism.com)
Christopher Hawthorne on nature, urbanism and LA's Plaza (Los Angeles Times)
Christopher Hawthorne on books that examine LA as it is or was (Los Angeles Times)
Jan Herman on Ed Sanders's new memoir, "Fug You" (Straight Up)
Ann Hornaday reviews "The Artist" (The Washington Post)
Ann Hornaday reviews "We Bought a Zoo" (The Washington Post)
Ann Hornaday reviews "War Horse" (The Washington Post)
Michael Kimmelman on Madrid Río and urban transformation (The New York Times)
Julia M. Klein interviews Jeffrey Kluger about "The Sibling Effect" (aarp.org)
Glenn Lovell reviews "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (CinemaDope.com)
Karen Michel on the dissolution of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (NPR)
David Streitfeld on HybridBooks (The New York Times)
David Streitfeld ventures to Best Buy for a Kindle (The New York Times)
Kenneth Turan reviews "In the Land of Blood and Honey" (Los Angeles Times)
Kenneth Turan reviews "The Adventures of Tintin" (Los Angeles Times)
Kenneth Turan reviews "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" (Los Angeles Times)
Calvin Wilson on "Ghost Protocol" director Brad Bird (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Also:
Matthew Gurewitsch has started a yearlong commentary on Wagner's "Ring" on Twitter: @Ring366
This week's links to NAJP members' work:
Martin Bernheimer on "Peter and the Wolf" at the Guggenheim (Financial Times)
Martin Bernheimer on "La Fille du Régiment" at the Met (Financial Times)
Michael Feingold remembers Vaclav Havel (The Village Voice)
Michael Feingold reviews Jordan Harrison's "Maple and Vine" (The Village Voice)
Matthew Gurewitsch reviews Jamie James's "Rimbaud in Java" (beyondcriticism.com)
Christopher Hawthorne on Occupy's architectural symbolism (Los Angeles Times)
Christopher Hawthorne on the Esther McCoy revival (Los Angeles Times)
Jan Herman on Christopher Hitchens going off into the wild blue yonder (Straight Up)
Jan Herman on Clayton Patterson and "Legends of the Lower East Side" (Straight Up)
Ann Hornaday reviews "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" (The Washington Post)
Ann Hornaday reviews "A Dangerous Method" (The Washington Post)
Lawrence B. Johnson on Salonen's Mahler Sixth (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Glenn Lovell reviews "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" (CinemaDope.com)
Nancy Malitz on "A Christmas Story, The Musical!" (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Nancy Malitz on Anonymous 4's "Secret Voices" (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Renee Montagne interviews Diablo Cody (NPR)
Laurie Muchnick on the year's best books (Bloomberg News)
Ann Powers on the best of the year's Top 40 songs (NPR)
András Szántó on American art museums' mission statements (The Art Newspaper)
Kenneth Turan reviews Roman Polanski's "Carnage" (Los Angeles Times)
Kenneth Turan reviews "Mission Impossible -- Ghost Protocol" (Los Angeles Times)
Calvin Wilson on Adam Sage and Missouri Ballet Theatre (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Linda Winer reviews Molly Smith Metzler's "Close Up Space" at MTC (Newsday)
Linda Winer reviews "Lysistrata Jones" on Broadway (Newsday)
This week's links to NAJP members' work:
Laura Bleiberg on "Debbie Allen's Hot Chocolate Nutcracker" (Los Angeles Times)
Laura Bleiberg on Pennington Dance Group & Yorke Dance Project (Los Angeles Times)
Larry Blumenfeld on Trombone Shorty (Jazziz)
Larry Blumenfeld on the Curtis Brothers (The Wall Street Journal)
Robert Christgau on Frank Ocean (MSN Music)
Robert Christgau on The Roots (MSN Music)
Michael Feingold reviews "Bonnie & Clyde," the Broadway musical (The Village Voice)
Michael Feingold reviews Zoe Caldwell in "Elective Affinities" (The Village Voice)
Patti Hartigan on a new "Snow Queen" at the ART (The Boston Globe)
Christopher Hawthorne on Ice Cube and the Eameses (Los Angeles Times)
Will Hermes on Jeff Mangum (OccupyWriters)
Ann Hornaday on David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen (The Washington Post)
Ann Hornaday at the Spy Museum with Gary Oldman (The Washington Post)
Lawrence B. Johnson on "Elizabeth Rex" (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Julia M. Klein reviews "Charles Dickens at 200" (The Wall Street Journal)
Julia M. Klein on "The Collector" (Obit Magazine)
Glenn Lovell reviews Michael Fassbender in "Shame" (CinemaDope.com)
Glenn Lovell reviews Takeshi Kitano's "Outrage" (CinemaDope.com)
Nancy Malitz on "Follies" Broadway babies then and now (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Nancy Malitz on Everding's 25-year-old Chicago "Flute" (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Tom Moon on The Roots' "undun" (NPR)
Ann Powers on her top 10 albums of the year (NPR)
Ann Powers on the new crop of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees (NPR)
Marcia B. Siegel on reimagining contemporary dance (The Boston Phoenix)
Laura Sydell on the professionalization of online video (NPR)
Calvin Wilson on jazz saxophonist Greg Osby (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Linda Winer reviews "Once" at New York Theatre Workshop (Newsday)
Linda Winer reviews Lydia R. Diamond's "Stick Fly" on Broadway (Newsday)
This week's links to NAJP members' work:
Alicia Anstead on "The Brother/Sister Plays" (WGBH)
Martin Bernheimer reviews "Faust" at the Metropolitan Opera (Financial Times)
Martin Bernheimer on "The Enchanted Island" at the Met (Promenade Magazine)
Robert Christgau on Nile Rodgers' "Le Freak" (The New York Times)
Michael Feingold reviews Pearl Theatre's "Richard II" (The Village Voice)
Michael Feingold on the Metropolitan Playhouse's "Jazz Singer" (The Village Voice)
Jason Gross' Electronic Music Survival Guide (Perfect Sound Forever)
Christopher Hawthorne on SFMOMA demolishing its Botta stairs (Los Angeles Times)
John Horn on George Clooney and his Satellite Sentinel Project (LA Times Magazine)
John Horn on selling "Shame" with an NC-17 rating (Los Angeles Times)
Ann Hornaday reviews Steve McQueen's "Shame" (The Washington Post)
Michael Kimmelman on Alexander Garvin and public spaces (The New York Times)
Julia M. Klein on Biltmore (The Wall Street Journal)
Julia M. Klein on two memoirs of madness (Columbia Magazine)
Adam Langer reviews Peter Nadas' "Parallel Stories" (The New York Times)
Julie Lasky interviews the authors of "Unassisted Living" (The New York Times)
Renee Montagne interviews Harvey Weinstein (NPR)
Ann Powers on the Grammy nominations' Kanye snub (NPR)
John Rockwell on Kenneth Gross' "Puppet" (The New York Times)
Mark Rozzo profiles writer Nik Cohn (The New York Times Magazine)
Kenneth Turan reviews Steve McQueen's "Shame" (Los Angeles Times)
Linda Winer on "Elective Affinities" and site-specific theater (Newsday)
Linda Winer reviews Stephen Sondheim's "Look, I Made a Hat" (Newsday)
Douglas Wolk on McPhee and Orenstein's "Infinite Jest" (The New York Times)
This week's links to NAJP members' work:
Laura Bleiberg on Benjamin Millepied's L.A. Dance Project (Los Angeles Times)
Robert Campbell on postmodern architecture's new moment (The Boston Globe)
Robert Christgau on Jonathan Lethem (The New York Times Book Review)
Robert Christgau on Ellen Willis and Paul Nelson (Barnes & Noble Review)
Michael Feingold reviews J.T. Rogers' "Blood and Gifts" (The Village Voice)
Michael Feingold reviews "Wild Animals You Should Know" (The Village Voice)
Christopher Hawthorne on designing the London Olympics (Los Angeles Times)
Christopher Hawthorne recommends modernist holiday gifts (Los Angeles Times)
Ann Hornaday reviews Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" (The Washington Post)
Ann Hornaday reviews "The Swell Season" (The Washington Post)
Lawrence B. Johnson on the new play "Burning Bluebeard" (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Michael Kimmelman on housing designed for the lives we live (The New York Times)
Glenn Lovell reviews Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" (CinemaDope.com)
Glenn Lovell reviews Alexander Payne's "The Descendants" (CinemaDope.com)
Nancy Malitz on postage-stamp Pinter at Writers' Theatre (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Ann Powers on holiday pop music as a force for good (NPR)
John Rockwell on Martha Clarke's "Angel Reapers" (The New York Times)
John Rockwell on conductor René Jacobs (The New York Times)
Calvin Wilson on jazz trumpeter Jeremy Davenport (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Linda Winer on a year of "Spider-Man" (Newsday)
And in print:
Mark Rozzo on Keith Richards' family: Patti Hansen and their daughters, Theodora and Alexandra Richards (Town & Country)
This week's links to NAJP members' work:
Martin Bernheimer on "Dark Sisters" at Gotham Chamber Opera (Financial Times)
Martin Bernheimer on "Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher" at Carnegie Hall (Financial Times)
Timothy Cahill on Roko Belic's documentary "Happy" (Art & Document)
Laura Collins-Hughes on Lydia Diamond and "Stick Fly" (The Boston Globe)
Michael Feingold on "The Blue Flower" at Second Stage (The Village Voice)
Michael Feingold on "Standing on Ceremony" at the Minetta Lane (The Village Voice)
Patti Hartigan on "The Nutcracker" as drama, not dance (The Boston Globe)
Christopher Hawthorne on the proposed NFL stadium for L.A. (Los Angeles Times)
Jan Herman on Richard Sargent's décollage billboards (Straight Up)
John Horn on Martin Scorsese and "Hugo" (Los Angeles Times)
John Horn on "Top Chef: Texas" (Los Angeles Times)
Ann Hornaday on the role of Hawaii in "The Descendants" (The Washington Post)
Ann Hornaday on this holiday season's crop of movies (NPR)
Julia M. Klein on "Anonymous" (Obit Magazine)
Julia M. Klein on the Dublin Writers Museum (The Wall Street Journal)
Glenn Lovell reviews Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar" (CinemaDope.com)
Glenn Lovell reviews Adam Sandler's "Jack and Jill" (CinemaDope.com)
Nancy Malitz on Contempo's matchmaking with jazz fans (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Renee Montagne interviews Diane Keaton (NPR)
Ann Powers on Kate Bush's "50 Words for Snow" (NPR)
Ann Powers on "Michael Jackson: Immortal" (NPR)
Craig Seligman reviews Colson Whitehead's "Zone One" (Bloomberg News)
Laura Sydell on Google's music store vs. iTunes and Amazon (NPR)
Linda Winer on Hugh Jackman bringing Vegas style to Broadway (Newsday)
Linda Winer reviews Theresa Rebeck's "Seminar" (Newsday)




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