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Like most or all of Pina Bausch’s other work, “Bamboo Blues,” currently at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is an incoherent dreamscape.
I. M. Pei’s design for the Museum of Islamic Art looks at both the past and the present.
Hugh Jackman, the Australian actor known to film audiences for playing a furry hero in the X-Men movies, will be host of the 81st incarnation of the Oscars.
Majora Carter, a leading environmental crusader, has come a long way since getting her start in her native South Bronx. Now she’s moving to a national stage.
Strategies to avoid being an investor caught with one’s life savings in the mess surrounding Bernard L. Madoff.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 10, 2008, covering December 13, 2008.
Kanye West
Taylor Swift
Guns N' Roses
Beyonce
Ludacris
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]