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The Year of Living Dangerously Cinema 2002 counterbalanced a treacherous world.
In order to distill the essence of a year in cinema, one must first appraise the year itself....
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In the aftermath of a national calamity, it probably shouldn't come as a surprise that 2002 was a weird year for music. The public wanted to disavow the trends of the past;...
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It's a few minutes past the noon hour, and my hot dog lies limp and ruined, a wizened gray tube of half-eaten meat on a soggy heap of celery-salt-dusted bun. Around it sprawls...
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It's easy to presume that About Schmidt isn't much of a movie, since its protagonist, Warren Schmidt, isn't much of anything. He's portrayed by Jack Nicholson, but the actor is...
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I deplore The Fantasticks. Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's hyper-popular, record-breaking chamber musical is on my short list of shows I wish had never been written -- just...
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You might be tempted to feel a touch of pity for World Wrestling Entertainment honcho Vince McMahon. About the same time his lame football league bit the dust, the wrestling...
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Ten. Now there's an arbitrary number for a best-of list. Kinda limiting. What about 11, 12 and 13? Didn't they matter? Completely in the interest of self-indulgently trumpeting...
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Let's make this clear: These aren't bad albums – bands you hate make bad albums. No, these five records do something much worse: They're disappointments, unworthy efforts fro...
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It might sound stereotypical, but Mexicans love their Chevys. Not Chevrolet. Just Chevy. Even the carmaker knows how much the shortened brand name is loved south of the border....
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There have been other films dealing with the Jewish ghettos during the Nazi occupation of Poland -- some very good -- but The Pianist, the latest feature from Roman Polanski,...
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If you read last month's Art in America, you know that Studio LoDo (along with a lot of other deserving art spaces in the Scottsdale/Phoenix/Tempe megalopolitan area) is now...
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As a teenager in Haiti, Edouard Duval-Carrié spent a lot of time hanging around artists. "I was fascinated by what they were doing," Duval says now. "Things have gone...
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In all, a far better year than any in recent memory, so much so that it feels impolite and irresponsible to choose a mere 10 best among the annum's offerings. This list...
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1. Oasis, Heathen Chemistry (Epic): This bloated corpse of a band, overhyped from its first note and compared to the Beatles during its brief peak, was never all that. It's...
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Call 2002 "The Year of the Resort." While national economists wrung their hands over a plunging stock market, and the number of Arizona residents with a net worth of one...
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People in show biz do very weird things to prove their credibility. Starlets pose for skin mags, actors start rock bands, rockers become sitcoms, rappers become tombstones and,...
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Rats! Barry Paceley's got them, but like the guy with the proverbial pile of lemons, Paceley has made lemonade -- which, as residents of the tony Arcadia neighborhood know, is...
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The 10 best pictures of 2002:
1. I'm Going Home: The most beautiful film ever made about aging by the world's oldest working filmmaker, the 94-year-old Manoel de Oliveira.
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Ryan Adams had the best quote of the year for elitist tastemakers. "I spent the '80s looking for alternatives to what was already happening," he said, atoning for his...
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Q. I enjoy trying really interesting wines with dinner, but am not confident of my knowledge. Where's a place with great food and staff with topnotch wine recommendations?
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