Новости за 22.04.2016

Late-night hosts each took a moment out of their shows for Prince as the world mourned the iconic artist on Thursday.

Sure, there are plenty of reasons to be terrified about the future of the planet: melting ice sheets, intensifying heat waves, vanishing rainforests, falling temperature records, dying elephants, bleached out coral and kids in China don’t know the sky is blue. This stuff is serious. It’s real. It’s bad. But — know what? — it’s […]

Getting yourself to the gym can be a drag—so you might as well make the most of your time there and get the best results possible.

Dianne Wiest, the exceptional sixty-eight-year-old actress with the distinctive voice, who is set to star as Winnie in a revival of Samuel Beckett’s 1961 piece “Happy Days” at the Yale Repertory Theatre (April 29-May 21), worries for the late Nobel Prize-winning writer. While rereading, for instance, James Knowlson’s “Damned to Fame,” his lively 1996 biography of Beckett, Wiest still wished for Beckett’s success earlier than he achieved it—that was in 1953, when he was forty-six and “Waiting for... Читать дальше...

During the Second World War, when Surrealism and its progenitor, psychoanalysis, were in full, disquieting bloom, the choreographer Léonide Massine collaborated with Salvador Dali on several ballets, including one, “Mad Tristan” (1944), set to excerpts from Wagner’s great opera. At the beginning of the piece, according to Edwin Denby’s review, there was “a horribly confused acrobatic pas de deux with Spirits of the Dead like shivering maniacs and Spirits of Love like enormous dandelions in seed... Читать дальше...

A single night at Sycamore, a sprawling bar in Ditmas Park, is a self-contained pub crawl, offering the restless patron four sections to chose from. One damp Thursday, two adventurers started their evening in the large back yard, where rough benches threaten soft places with cruel splinters. A young woman flipped through old Trivial Pursuit cards while a man in a denim jacket with faux-shearling trim read “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” In an adjacent Bedouin-style tent, decorated in an improbable hunting-lodge theme (fake fireplace... Читать дальше...

The daughter of a ballet dancer and a champion soccer coach, Michelle Dorrance is a tap dancer of gawky grace with especially quick, smart feet. But she has won particular attention for her choreographic creativity in extending tap tradition in new directions. In “ETM: Double Down” (at the Joyce, April 26-May 1), the virtuosic footwork of Dorrance and her affable company, Dorrance Dance, triggers digitally produced sounds, bringing the rhythms of metal-tipped shoes into the age of electronic dance music. Читать дальше...

The word “mala” is an efficient coupling of the Chinese characters for “numbing” and “spicy,” traits synonymous with Sichuanese cooking. Capable of clearing the most insidious of blocked sinuses, food cooked with mala can also bring stoics to tears. Such is the enduring power of mala that it has, of late, been transubstantiated from its renowned liquid form—hot pot, a bubbly soup—to its newer, hipper cousin, the dry pot.

Quilted bombers, horizontal stripes, half-zip windbreakers, tucked T-shirts, long nails, white jeans—it’s a trip to see how many trends immortalized in old rap videos, like those of the group Naughty by Nature, are still outfitting city stompers twenty-five years later. Chalk it up to wistful nostalgia if you must, but don’t underestimate the enduring appeal of a denim bucket hat in any decade. The looks may still carry, but things surely sound different; pop’s tolerance for naughty has grown... Читать дальше...

After Ronald Reagan became America's most recognizable Alzheimer's patient, well-meaning friends, relatives and even strangers would routinely stop his daughter, Patti Davis, to ask: "How is he doing?"

Verse and the Vices, the Meza family band known as My Brother until a couple of years ago, has captured some of its multi-genre-influenced rock on its new self-titled CD.

The following is a rundown of area concerts.

An English visitor to Lincoln, when asked what he thought about Nebraska, said, “There’s a lot of it.”

The Cowlitz Indians say their $510 million casino resort will employ 1,000 people to start with.

Recipe for an instant classic: Square off the league’s top two teams, sprinkle in a scoring barrage and add a dash of extra time.

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A group of physicists recently built the smallest engine ever created from just a single atom. Like any other engine it converts heat energy into movement – but it does so on a smaller scale than seen before.

The atom is trapped in a cone of electromagnetic energy and lasers are used to heat it up and cool it down, which causes the atom to move back and forth in the cone like an engine piston.

The scientists from the University of Mainz in Germany who... Читать дальше...

The thread of Sing Street is the dream of leaving dreary Dublin for gold-lined London, where music videos are apparently true to life

There is an awful lot going on in this behind-the-scenes doc with its fabulous access, too much for director Rossi to do true justice to his themes

Sally Field plays her character with considerable wit and verve

Unlike the smarter Maleficent, a revisionist Sleeping Beauty created by the same producers, what The Huntsman series lacks is any intriguing psychology

Tom Tykwer somehow manages to turn Dave Eggers’s attempt at an era-defining story into a weird little cross-cultural comedy with romantic overtones while remaining largely faithful to the original plot and dialogue

As a hero unsure of his family and himself, Asa Butterfield is compelling, yet you can’t help but sense he would rather be someplace else

Patrick Gilmore excels as the youngest man on Earth, a 37-year-old nanny who begins a shocking affair with his female employer

Body is a shoestring house-of-horrors exercise that just sort of exists with no real purpose or artistic vision driving it forward

The end result is a work that is informative and mischievously entertaining