While Mr. Obama is spending several hours with President Dmitri A. Medvedev on Monday, he is scheduled to have breakfast with Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin the next day.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. suggested on Sunday that the U.S. would not stand in the way of Israeli military action aimed at Iran’s nuclear program.
Vice President Joe Biden says that he has assured Iraqi leaders that the country remains a priority for the United States.
An important group of religious leaders in Iran called for the results to be thrown out, the most public sign of a major split in the clerical establishment.
Roger Federer held off Andy Roddick and won the longest fifth set ever in a Grand Slam final, 16-14. With his 15th major singles title, Federer broke Pete Sampras’s record.
The ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, has boarded a jet to go back to his country, but the military there has issued orders to not let the flight land.
President Obama is pushing for new global rules, treaties and alliances to establish a nuclear-free world, a vision he developed as a college student.
Sarah Palin may be looking to the next few years to do what Nixon did to prepare for his successful run for the White House in 1968.
Gov. Sarah Palin’s rise to the national ticket was itself the result of tension in the Republican Party.
Organizers of Michael Jackson’s memorial in Los Angeles began informing registrants on Sunday if they had been awarded one of the 8,750 pairs of free tickets to the Tuesday memorial.
Many homeowners are challenging their property tax bills as the value of their homes drop, threatening local governments with another big drain on their budgets.
McNair and a woman were found dead with gunshot wounds in Nashville, the police said.
New long-term studies that followed children with parents in prison found they experienced social isolation and depression and had fewer prospects as adults.
NATO countries, however, rebuffed President Bush’s entreaties to extend membership to the former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Georgia.
Despite losing control of Parliament, President Robert G. Mugabe of Zimbabwe and his party were increasingly explicit about their willingness to continue fighting for the presidency.
Critics say the conviction is part of a government crackdown to silence dissidents ahead of the Olympics.
The former prime minister of Kosovo was acquitted of all charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The warnings followed a report on Thursday that North Korea’s totalitarian government has suspended distribution of food rations for six months in Pyongyang.
In the northwestern region of Xinjiang, Uighur Muslims protested Chinese rule last month even as Tibetans rioted in the southwest, Chinese officials said.
Denying that he received corrupt payments, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern announced that he would resign next month.
The president of the World Bank called for the major government-owned sovereign wealth funds of Asia and the Middle East to join with the bank in investing in Africa.
Abdul Qadeer Khan, who confessed four years ago to having run an illicit global nuclear proliferation network, expressed hope that the new government would end his house arrest.
The nationwide strike over a tax increase on exports has become President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s biggest test to date.
Interviews suggest that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki overestimated his military’s abilities and underestimated the scale of the resistance in Basra.
The royal past is being slowly rubbed away across the onetime Hindu kingdom of Nepal as the country prepares for a vote for a special assembly to rewrite the Constitution.
The Japanese police arrested a United States Navy seaman suspected of killing and robbing a taxi driver.
An air strike in southern Afghanistan killed three armed militants, while a raid by U.S.-led coalition troops in the same region left several insurgents dead, officials said.
Greek and Turkish Cypriots pulled down barricades on Thursday that have separated them for half a century.
To toughen up its military for missions abroad, the Netherlands has been sending troops to its former colony of Suriname for training, arousing suspicions.
President Robert G. Mugabe’s ruling party lost control of the nation’s Parliament. Will the presidency be next?
President Bush’s position on NATO’s ties with Georgia and Ukraine contradicts German and French views.
A new report says that 32 Palestinians from Gaza have died in recent months largely because of Israeli restrictions that delayed their access to urgent medical treatment in Israel.
Witnesses said that Iraqi forces now controlled central Basra and its northern border, and that they had begun moving into militia strongholds north of the city.
Reports speculating that Osama bin Laden is ill are false, a voice described as that of his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, said in a recording.
An independent environmental expert told a court in Ecuador that the oil company should pay $7 billion to $16 billion in compensation for environmental damage.
The European Commission opened a formal investigation into the bailout of Northern Rock, a process expected to set a precedent on government aid in the European Union.
A man accused of killing four French tourists escaped from a courthouse after an interrogation session.
Details of the effort to treat and possibly free the 46-year-old woman, Ingrid Betancourt, who holds dual French and Colombian citizenship, were vague.
One writer’s peaceful experience in Western Sichuan during the riots left him yearning to return.
A 22-year-old United States Navy seaman was questioned by the Japanese police in connection with the killing of a taxi driver last month in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo.
Amnesty International criticized the Jamaican government for what it called its failure to protect inner-city residents trapped by violence.
A Swedish television report said that French soldiers who were participating in a European Union peacekeeping operation in Congo in 2003 tortured a civilian who was being held prisoner.
Pope Benedict XVI celebrated a Mass marking the third anniversary of the death of John Paul II, evoking the possibility of his predecessor’s sainthood by praising his “many human and supernatural qualities.”
Thailand renewed a war on drugs, reviving a controversial project of the ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
A reputed Colombian drug lord whose cartel was accused of shipping hundreds of tons of cocaine was sentenced to more than 30 years in prison in Brazil.
President Rafael Correa has said that he will not renew the United States’ lease for the Pacific port of Manta when it expires in late 2009.
Lenders have become even less willing to part with their money, further crimping budgets and family spending.
The presidential race has turned into an audition for who could best handle a national economic emergency.
At issue is whether plaintiffs have the right to sue when the products that hurt them had met federal standards.
California legislative leaders and the governor have come to an agreement on the state budget, which is now roughly three months late.
After investigators said an engineer in last week’s collision had been texting on the job, regulators temporarily banned the use of all cellular devices by anyone at the controls of a moving train.
Democrats believe that a long list of Republican lawmakers with legal troubles makes it impossible for Republicans to gain much ground on the issues of ethics and good government.
The recommendations included a simpler application, Pell grant maximums linked to the consumer price index and federally financed college savings accounts for children in low-income families.
The blueprint would change the city’s building codes to promote energy efficiency, and it calls for installing huge solar panels at municipal properties and building alternative fueling stations.
Treasury and Fed officials were discussing with leaders in Congress a plan for the government to buy up distressed mortgages.
A backlash against short sellers has begun, with regulators in the U.S. and Britain tightening rules and authorities in New York intensifying investigations.
The president spoke briefly on Thursday after remaining largely out of sight as Wall Street has become engulfed by a financial crisis.
Senator John McCain’s once easygoing if irreverent campaign presence — endearing to crowds, though often resulting in gaffes — has been put out to pasture.
As Gov. Sarah Palin has moved to the national stage, Senator Ted Stevens, who goes on trial next week, has risen in some opinion polls in Alaska.
Todd Palin was one of 13 people subpoenaed in the inquiry into whether Gov. Sarah Palin or members of her administration abused their power in the dismissal of a top state administrator.
A Spanish-language Obama ad misrepresents John McCain’s record on the immigration issue and his relationship with Rush Limbaugh.
A privacy group filed a class-action lawsuit on Thursday seeking to halt what it describes as illegal surveillance of Americans’ telephone and Internet traffic.
Remnants of Hurricane Ike swept through the region on Sunday, bringing torrential downpours and strong winds.
As the veterans’ health system strains to handle a growing caseload, a move is under way in Congress to avoid yearly delays in financing that can hamper the medical care of the nation’s veterans.
O. J. Simpson’s legal team began Thursday to mount a defense that will sound familiar to anyone who followed his 1995 murder trial.
Flashing headlights and honking horns penetrated the early-morning sky as police officers and first responders led drivers in a slow procession across the new Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis.
Gov. Haley Barbour agreed to move a special election for Trent Lott’s former Senate seat to near the top of the November ballot, ending a dispute that had threatened to delay the start of absentee voting.
Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell of Alaska conceded to Representative Don Young in the Republican primary for Alaska’s only House seat.
Agriprocessors Inc., an embattled kosher meatpacker with a plant in Postville, Iowa, named a corporate lawyer from New York to be its chief executive, responding to an ultimatum from the leading kosher certifying organization.
An Episcopal bishop, whose diocese is moving toward splitting from the national church, was ousted from ministry.
A man charged in the killings of four people who died during a June killing spree in Illinois and Missouri has been charged with murder in four more bludgeoning deaths.
Every year, an estimated 500,000 people trek to a lake to see a veritable carpet of carp, and the state has temporarily called off a plan to force people to stop feeding bread to the fish.
Four years after it was founded, GreenPrint Technologies has struggled to sell corporations on its software that saves on printing expenses.
Many churches are trying to embrace social media networks, but it has been an uneasy alliance thus far.
From bad airplane seats to poor room service, customers are getting surprisingly fast responses to their tweets.
Public relations gurus are courting influential voices on services like Twitter to endorse new companies, Web sites or gadgets, perhaps forever altering their roles.
Chegg.com, which rents textbooks to college students, says it had 2008 revenue of more than $10 million.
Michael Arrington, the founder of the TechCrunch blog, says he will begin selling the CrunchPad, a touch-screen tablet for Web surfing, later this summer.
Compete, an analytics firm, crunched some numbers to quantify the demand for Michael Jackson information after his death.
Google has eliminated an experimental feature that allowed people quoted in articles in Google News to post comments on those articles.
Bing is adding recent "tweets" from celebrities and other popular Twitter users to its search results. It is the first major search engine to do so.
The slowing growth in online advertising is pushing traditional ad agencies and Internet companies to work together.
With more athletes using Twitter, Facebook and personal blogs, one Web site is trying to provide a centralized place for fans to keep up with the increasing amount of content.
The Justice Department confirmed it was conducting an antitrust investigation into a settlement of a class action between Google and groups representing authors and publishers.
The company is testing new controls that will allow members to specify which groups or individuals are able to see each text update, photo or video they post on the site.
Before the government steps in, a group of advertisers is announcing a set of stricter rules for the data collected on consumers when they surf the Web or shop online.
The creator of two successful Web sites that catered to fans of electronic equipment like cameras and cellphones is helping to start a third, featuring reviews written by consumers.
From D-Link comes a device that offers virtually every home router feature you can think of, and then some. Too bad it’s so user-unfriendly.
Users who are always on the Internet share advice for streamlining your Web habits.
Facing real world debts, a trusted figure in a popular online game stole money from the virtual bank he ran and exchanged it for cash through the black market.
The unruly, unlexicographical but surprisingly useful offerings of Urban Dictionary.
A teacher discovers bad behavior on Facebook; debating whether to give up a seat on the train.
Decades before iPod, there was Walkman. And before that, car horns and bird song.
If you're in the market for a custom-built home theater, what can you get for $1 million?
A common tuberculosis vaccine is too risky to give to those born infected with the AIDS virus, says a new study published by the World Health Organization.
The discovery that a periodic warming pattern in the central Pacific Ocean is linked to more frequent hurricanes in the Atlantic may help improve forecasts.
In the General Grant Houses in Manhattan, two women are spreading the word about recycling, door by door.
Researchers have found seduction and deceit in the coded flashing of fireflies.
Could it be that humans are not quite as gullible as advertised? Researchers can’t always sway diners with the lure of a bargain.
Environmental groups lost all five of their cases before the Supreme Court last term, a trend scholars see continuing as the court moves to the right.
Beijing is steering a push toward wind and solar power, while the U.S. is just starting.
The energy bill that passed in the House was loaded with hundreds of special-interest favors, as environmentalists lamented that its aims had been diminished.
There is now somewhere to take some of the 99.1 million television sets that sit unused in closets and basements.
Steve Lekson’s new book offers a kind of unified theory of the Native American population movements that have puzzled Southwest archaeologists for many years.
Seventy paleontologists visited the Creation Museum in northern Kentucky for a jarring alternate view of geological history.
At the Dalai Lama’s urging, exiled monastics seek more physical knowledge.
A vaccine has been approved for a new form of the flu virus which has affected horses first, then dogs, but no humans so far.
How Walt Disney cheered the brain, and Lourdes enraptured it.
Argentina’s president said she would not rule out closing major public venues where swine flu could spread more quickly.
The facilities will be required to disclose more information online about their experiments under a court settlement signed by the Humane Society and the Agriculture Department.
The first patient with a case of swine flu resistant to the antiviral drug Tamiflu has been found in Denmark, according to Danish health officials.
As part of an effort to close a $24.3 billion budget deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed eliminating the state’s $6 million contribution to its four poison control centers.
The new rules will cut the amount of electricity used by affected lamps by 15 to 25 percent and save up to $4 billion a year for consumers, the White House said.
A new study finds that as the drinking age has gone up, binge drinking has gone down — except among college students.
Older adults who remain socially engaged are less likely to experience declines in motor skills like strength, speed and dexterity, a new study finds
“Musical Minds,” the season premiere of “Nova” on PBS, is based on the neurologist Oliver Sacks’s most recent book, “Musicophilia.”
The diuretic is banned in most countries because its race-day use improves performance, but it is almost universally used on racehorses in the United States.
More than 4,000 gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region are going back on the federal endangered species list, at least temporarily.
On a remote Scottish island, the sheep are shrinking, and the cause appears to be the warming of winter.
How do ants communicate, and can it involve telephones?
Research involving invasive and native salamanders in the Salinas Valley of California shows the devastating effects of hybridization.
The earth bulges at the Equator. Does this include the oceans?
The symptoms are similar to heartburn, but failure to properly diagnose bile reflux can result in serious, sometimes life-threatening problems
Can compounds in tea affect iron levels in your body?
The radiation clinic, where everybody knows your name.
Eight cyclists show what vigilance about health can accomplish.
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Many homeowners are challenging their property tax bills as the value of their homes drop, threatening local governments with another big drain on their budgets.
Public relations gurus are courting influential voices on services like Twitter to endorse new companies, Web sites or gadgets, perhaps forever altering their roles.
Students took out loans to attend a flight school that later collapsed. Then they pooled resources and hired a lawyer.
A yearning for independence simmers in the heart of many a 9-to-5er, but being your own boss comes with a major amount of risk.
Chegg.com, which rents textbooks to college students, says it had 2008 revenue of more than $10 million.
Four years after it was founded, GreenPrint Technologies has struggled to sell corporations on its software that saves on printing expenses.
Obama administration proposals would require financial institutions to offer “plain vanilla” mortgages that even the most unsophisticated borrowers can understand.
After spending most of 2008 and the first quarter of this year fleeing from volatile areas of the market, investors are now racing toward them.
A grim report on unemployment on Thursday let the air out of the stock market, which ended a shortened trading week on Wall Street with sizable losses.
“Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture” argues that an obsession with bargains has lowered our standard of living and hurt the environment.
The American cable broadcaster ESPN is poised to broadcast English Premier League matches in Britain after taking over the game rights from Setanta of Ireland.
The recession has caused many baby boomers to rethink retirement, leading them to accept that they will probably work longer and retire later than planned.
Angela Braly, C.E.O. of WellPoint, a health benefits company based in Indianapolis, found that a legal background allowed her to identify the important issues.
From bad airplane seats to poor room service, customers are getting surprisingly fast responses to their tweets.
The nonconforming “jumbo” mortgage, which exceeds the conventional “conforming” loan limit of $729,750 set by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is becoming more difficult to obtain.
A generation used to summer internships and trips to Italy faces long, hot days learning to kick back.
The Terranea Resort, a $480 million hotel, opened last month in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., after the city agreed to a tax rebate plan.
Bulk deposits from brokers fueled growth at smaller banks, but also led some to the brink, and beyond.
Katharine Weymouth decided to sell legitimacy, with her paper’s editorial integrity thrown in as a parting gift.
Slovakia still exudes uncertainty 16 years after its “velvet divorce” from the Czech Republic.
What happens when an artifact of persuasion encounters the modern marketplace.
Decades before iPod, there was Walkman. And before that, car horns and bird song.
Lenders lose much more money on foreclosures than on loan modifications. So why are they so hesitant to modify mortgages?
Royal Dutch Shell has long been accused of human rights and environmental abuse in Nigeria.
Wendy Kopp, who started Teach for America, believes that teachers must have perseverance as well as the ability to influence and motivate others in a sophisticated way.
C.I.A. interrogators used the near-drowning technique, which Obama administration officials have described as torture, 266 times on two key prisoners from Al Qaeda.
Obama administration officials say the approach will allow them to shore up the nation’s banking system without seeking more money from Congress.
Leaders from the Western Hemisphere closed a summit meeting proclaiming a new dawn for relations in the region.
Resistance to President Obama’s tax and revenue proposals could threaten a major health care overhaul and other policy initiatives.
With terms like “socialism” losing their punch, some Republicans are weighing the word “fascism” to describe President Obama’s agenda.
An official assembles a briefing book of the letters, which offer the president a way to keep in touch with the public.
Advocates of legalizing marijuana are sensing increasing acceptance of the drug, as medicine or entertainment.
Tracking food scares in the U.S. is left to more than 3,000 departments, and in several cases Minnesota officials have safeguarded the rest of the country.
Gen. Michael V. Hayden said the Obama administration’s release of memos detailing harsh interrogation techniques would limit the agency’s ability to pursue terrorists.
Congress was preparing to return from a two-week recess and take up a charged agenda centered on core Obama objectives.
As Alaskans settled in to enjoy holiday salmon bakes and the post-solstice thaw, their governor had a solipsistic meltdown so strange it made Sparky Sanford look like a model of stability.
In the context of our own Great Recession, Bernie Madoff’s old-fashioned Ponzi scheme was merely a one-off next to the esoteric (and often legal) heists by banks and bankers.
If the United States doesn’t want to lose the green technology race, President Obama can’t put the energy/climate bill on the back burner to focus solely on health care. They go together.
Pry your kids away from the keyboard and the television, and give them a book. For ideas, here’s a summer reading list.
Why the State of Rhode Island should keep its longer, more offensive full name.
While bike enthusiasts in most urban areas continue to have to fight for their place on the streets, Detroit has the potential to become a new bicycle utopia.
The loss of jobs on Wall Street immediately set off a cascade of financial reckonings and tradeoffs of the sort that were taking place across New York City.
In Atlanta foreclosures are high and 14 community banks have closed since the economic crisis began. So where to put one’s money?
An Iowa shop was virtually washed away by last year’s floods, but through acts of kindness was rebuilt.
The Obama antiforeclosure plan should reduce principal rather than reduce monthly payments because it restores equity to borrowers.
Overturning the longstanding ban on corporate spending in elections for president and Congress would be a disaster for democracy.
California’s landmark rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles should be extended nationwide.
A pardon is overdue for Jack Johnson, a boxer who was an amazing form of resistance when Jim Crow lynchings and pro-white sports reporting were common.
With one of its own held hostage, The Times had a painful decision.
One family's true tales from a house on Webster Avenue bring pride, pleasure and a visit from Legs Diamond.
What is adultery? Who are the hypocrites? And is this a partisan issue?
A childhood passion for fireworks that hasn't really faded.
American flags are popping up around the country.
How do ants communicate, and can it involve telephones?
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President Obama must find a balance that allows him to enlist Russia’s support on international issues without endorsing its anti-democratic behavior.
The challenge now for the West is to engage Iran in a way that will give hope to the opposition and reinforce the doubts of Iran’s political elites — without provoking a backlash.
To clean up the State Senate, New Yorkers need to demand an honest mapmaking commission and reform on campaign finance, ballot access, ethics and house rules.
In ruling against New Haven, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to diversity in the American workplace.
Before its troops leave for good in 2011, the U.S. has a responsibility and a strong strategic interest to help Iraq emerge as a functioning, sovereign and reasonably democratic state.
During the revolution, our unmarried founders fought for independence and for their equality.
Democracy in the United States has been a great success, but during the revolution in 1776 its supremacy in promoting human rights was far from inevitable.
The government must be given wider latitude than in the past to monitor private networks and respond to computer threats.
Today, on Canada Day, 11 Canadians living in the United States share what they miss most about home.
In its ruling on employment discrimination law, the Supreme Court upended the rules that Sonia Sotomayor and her colleagues previously played by.
Chegg.com, which rents textbooks to college students, says it had 2008 revenue of more than $10 million.
“NYC Prep,” the new Bravo reality show chronicling the lives of a half-dozen New York prep school teenagers, puts grown-ups on edge.
A generation used to summer internships and trips to Italy faces long, hot days learning to kick back.
Thousands of school districts across the country have trimmed or eliminated summer classes, ignoring pleas from the Education Department to use stimulus money to retain them.
The law establishing mayoral control was not renewed, so the old New York City Board of Education was reconstituted, with mayoral supporters.
Robert Bowman, an aspiring lawyer, was refused entry to the New York bar because of $400,000 in student debt.
The vote put the City Council in conflict with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has the power to designate the days off yet said he was resolutely opposed to the idea.
Starting Wednesday, the federal Education Department will begin offering a repayment plan that lets college graduates reduce their loan payments, based on their income.
The Department of Education is taking a closer look to see if athletic departments are applying a federal privacy law too broadly.
Seventy paleontologists visited the Creation Museum in northern Kentucky for a jarring alternate view of geological history.
Administrators lifted the ban on Friday, citing an increasing amount of educational material on the popular video-sharing site, a university spokeswoman said.
The result will probably be a greater role for federal aid programs in supporting students, instead of private scholarship providers and state governments, said one expert.
The principal, admired by many at P.S. 120, was accused of punching and kicking a teacher’s union representative at a meeting.
A group of the city’s top high school seniors, from a variety of economic and cultural backgrounds, met as they prepared for their next chapter.
The Supreme Court said the federal government should not be supervising the state’s spending for teaching non-English-speaking students.
The justices ruled, 8 to 1, that Arizona school officials had insufficient reason to search for prescription drugs in the 13-year-old girl’s undergarments.
Teenagers in suburban Dayton, Ohio, are heading to community colleges after manufacturing plants closed.
The Glory for Christ Football League, which emphasizes faith and fellowship, came into being because school teams were not an option in Georgia.
Antioch University agreed to transfer the campus of the financially struggling Antioch College to an alumni group that plans to turn it into an independent school.
The Obama administration is working to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, a detailed form that scares off many students.
Their union said the proposal would lead to disruptions during the first days of school, and it has created a rift between principals and teachers.
The Supreme Court ruled that parents of special-education students may seek government reimbursement for private school tuition.
Karen L. Gould, a provost and senior vice president at California State University, Long Beach, will be the first woman to head Brooklyn.
City Room is asking parents how the recession is affecting their decisions.
A writer with an aversion to the water takes a ferry tour of his home city, and finds a reservoir of memories.
What does a man who holds 101 records in the Guinness World Records book do on his day off? Practice.
Throughout the New York region, free meals have spread from poor urban areas to suburban communities once believed to be immune.
The vivid images found in one area of Brooklyn — knife-grinders on the street, bearded men in 19th-century frock coats — offer an anachronistic pleasure.
For more than a decade, a self-described “bunch of Dominican kids” have gathered on steamy summer nights to drum and dance.
Unique Boutique opens an Upper West Side store, while Payard Patissere and Bistro, known as the bakery in "Sex and the City," is closing shop.
Many churches are trying to embrace Facebook and other social media networks, but it has been an uneasy alliance thus far.
Albert Kaufman was a sports talk show fixture, until his calls stopped.
The crown of the Statue of Liberty opened for the first time since the 9/11 attacks.
Jesus Roldan was hospitalized in critical condition after an encounter with plainclothes officers, and a .380-caliber pistol was recovered, the authorities said.
Known for his comforting voice, Mr. Roberts was welcomed in millions of American homes over the airwaves.
At a bakery in Hoboken, having feuding family members fill hundreds of orders a week could be a recipe for disaster — or a juicy reality show.
Wall assemblages by Antoni Tàpies combine paints, sand, string and other materials, in a show at Dia:Beacon.
Grace Hartigan, after an early triumph with Abstract Expressionism, continued to experiment, but with less successful results.
Employing social networking as the theme for an art show, a curator found that some artists actually used the new medium, while others were just commenting on it.
Ms. Warfield was an American mezzo-soprano who performed frequently with the Metropolitan Opera in the 1950s, ’60s and early ’70s.
The heavens above the open-air amphitheater where this abridged production is being performed produced their own special effects.
The Northport, N.Y., revival of the musical “Crazy for You” showcases the music and lyrics of George and Ira Gershwin.
Lesser-known and less established art fairs have not been well patronized of late, given the state of the economy. The organizers of ArtHamptons hope to defy the odds.
A scholar known for his work in the visual display of data has created dozens of monumental sculptures and placed them on his properties in Cheshire and Woodbury.
This may be a year of retrenchment in the arts world, but the Long Island International Film Expo, which starts on Thursday at the Bellmore Movies, has expanded since last year.
For Matt Angus, 40, the founder of the annual Black Potatoe Music Festiva, this year’s event, the 13th, is not just a source of pride.
July 4, 2009.
The menu at Infinity Music Hall and Bistro shows imagination, led by a strong seafood lineup.
La Cipollina, an Italian hideaway in downtown Freehold, offers well-conceived combinations with a touch of playfulness.
Looking for fresh clams and oysters, patrons pack into a number of crab shacks along the waterfront on Long Island.
Milonga Wine and Tapas is not really a tapas bar, but a full-scale restaurant that recalls Buenos Aires rather than Barcelona.
Herbert Weitz, 75, and Erica Conyers, 32, lived together for five years as lovers. Then a ferocious quarrel over milk mushroomed into a courtroom drama.
Vincent J. Cannato's account of the federal inspection station in New York Harbor, and two tales of a Jazz Age courtship that titillated the American public.
A concerned citizen seeks to protect the flora of a public park from the unwitting ravages of a child.
City Room is asking parents how the recession is affecting their decisions.
Lynn Shelton, director of the bromance “Humpday,” takes a victory lap of the festival circuit.
“Soul Power” rediscovers Zaire ’74, when American soul music met Afrobeat.
The Chilean film “Tony Manero” uses “Saturday Night Fever” as a device to dissect the abusive dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
A look at the upgraded, 50th anniversary edition of “The Diary of Anne Frank.”
Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies” is a grave and beautiful work of art.
“Tony Manero” tells the story of a thug who dreams about a fictional fleeting success.
What? Dawn of the dinosaurs? In the Ice Age? You’ve got to be kidding.
“The Beaches of Agnès” is at once an illustration of the fine art of foraging and an autobiographical portrait.
The conflicted lovebirds in “I Hate Valentine’s Day” may be in their 30s, but they play the game of romance with the finesse of sixth graders.
“Lion’s Den” is the Argentine director Pablo Trapero’s sprawling, unpredictable drama about a woman who gives birth in prison while awaiting trial for murder.
If in the end “The Girl From Monaco” is neither a cogent psychological thriller nor an effervescent sex comedy, it does at least have an interesting sense of place.
“Nollywood Babylon” profiles the explosive success of this truly populist cinema.
Bollywood casts a proprietary eye on Hollywood in “Kambakkht Ishq.”
In his best movie roles, Karl Malden is specifically the other man, the guy defined partly by his lack of certain attributes abundantly present in the protagonist.
From film to fashion, vampire mania seems to stem from the ethereal cool and youthful sexiness with which the demons are portrayed.
Mr. Presnell’s operatic baritone thrilled audiences in the stage and film versions of “The Unsinkable Molly Brown.”
In a sign of growing caution in the industry, production was halted on a high-profile film starring Brad Pitt just days before shooting was to begin.
Some home video duties could be handed off to other studios, saving Paramount millions.
Seth Rogen (among others) is elected to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
Smokehouse Pictures, Mr. Clooney's three-year-old production company, has not renewed its deal with Warner and plans to decamp to the Sony lot.
The Kicking and Screening International Film Festival from July 14-18 will include movies about the 1998 French World Cup team and the New York Cosmos.
And they say the Oscars are never much of a surprise.
Horrid reviews couldn’t dent “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” which sold an estimated $201.2 million in tickets at North American theaters over its first five days.
Agnès Varda, the only female filmmaker associated with the New Wave, is still making movies at 81.
Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies” owes its very existence to a roster of films that never happened.
“Conquest of the Useless” is a journal about the shooting of Werner Herzog’s Amazonian epic “Fitzcarraldo.”
The actor Bill Pullman keeps things strange in his latest film, “Surveillance.”
Ben Gazzara plays a cadet with an affinity for silk dressing gowns in “The Strange One” and Jon Voight plays a happy-go-lucky gambler in “Lookin’ to Get Out.”
Digital techniques to compile, exchange and assess lists of actors have simplified casting, and could be used in other industries.
“The Stoning of Soraya M.” thoroughly blurs the line between high-minded outrage and lurid torture-porn.
“Local Color” is so well acted that you almost forgive its formulaic structure, treacly score and earnest voice-over narration.
“Quiet Chaos” demonstrates that the sad-dad melodrama is a global (or at least a midlevel European art film) phenomenon.
Riding a wave of successful films as the president of Fox Searchlight Pictures, Peter Rice will become the top entertainment executive.
New films from Steven Soderbergh, Eric Bana and Cheryl Hines join the lineup at the coming TriBeCa Film Festival.
The merger of the two talent agencies would challenge the leadership position of Creative Artists Agency.
Mr. Pinelli’s prolific screenwriting career included a long partnership with the director Federico Fellini, with whom he wrote “I Vitelloni,” “La Strada,” “La Dolce Vita” and “8 ½.”
The Sundance Film Festival has found its new director.
A judge has ruled that the novelist Clive Cussler must pay $13.9 million in legal fees to the production company that made the film “Sahara.”
A large number of the Times’s critics’ picks release on DVD this week.
Mara Manus, the Public Theater’s top financial executive, is taking the helm as the Film Society undergoes a $38 million expansion.
Betsey Johnson and 20 other designers are recreating Dorothy’s glittering ruby slippers to commemorate the 70th anniversary of “The Wizard of Oz” next year to benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
The 46th New York Film Festival will open with the North American premiere of “The Class” (“Entre les Murs”).
Mr. Joffe was a co-producer of Woody Allen’s movies and the business expert in the talent agency that managed the careers of a host of high-profile comedians.
Paramount Pictures said it had pulled out of a planned film finance deal that was meant to raise as much as $450 million.
An oral biography of the comedian Chris Farley.
The film has earned an estimated $55.7 million since Thursday, making it an unconventional summer hit.
A fire at NBC Universal’s studio lot in Universal City, Calif., destroyed a vault full of movie and television images and parts of the popular studio tour. At least six firefighters were injured.
In the gender wars, men generally win the race to the bottom. This past week though, women were the ones who seemed completely preoccupied by the reproductive act.
Ryan Kavanaugh pleaded no contest to, and was convicted of, one count of driving under the influence of alcohol, while more serious charges were dropped.
Ian Fleming, had he lived, would have celebrated his 100th birthday on Wednesday. James Bond, his greatest invention, is ageless and immortal.
Dario Argento’s latest danse macabre, “Mother of Tears,” starring his daughter Asia, is now on DVD.
Fashion has been a regular character defining trait throughout the “Sex and the City” series, and in the film version, the fashion is jaw-droppingly fantastic.
Two years in, the merger of Disney and Pixar is notable for how well the two companies have made it work.
“Speed Racer” sets out to honor and refresh a youthful enthusiasm from the past and winds up smothering the fun in self-conscious grandiosity.
“Surfwise” has a bohemian vibe and a cool sheen, but it’s an eager-to-please, pleasing commercial enterprise with a reassuring narrative arc.
“Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead” is just about as perfect as a film predicated on the joys of projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea can be.
While many actresses fantasize about wearing Valentino or Zac Posen on the red carpet, Ellen Page has a completely different idea.
The British actor Ian McShane opens next week as the patriarch Max in Harold Pinter’s “Homecoming,” a man-monster of diminishing powers and, of course, many vulgarities.
The “Black List” has become the kind of underground document that writers with projects in development pray will mention their script.
Miramax may be a smaller and calmer organization under Daniel Battsek, but the studio has nonetheless remained in the thick of the awards race.
Wiley College is suddenly feeling the glow of celebrity with the release of a film about the school’s debating team.
“Ford at Fox” is a gargantuan boxed set that assembles 24 of the 50-some films John Ford made for the studio that was his most consistent home.
After months of worrying and diplomatic wrangling, the movie studio that is releasing “The Kite Runner” has whisked to safety four young actors.
She no longer dances naked, but the first-time screenwriter Diablo Cody is still exposing herself.
Twenty-seven years and 16 features after they began their mutual career, John Sayles and Maggie Renzi are still making movies.
A documentary about last year’s disputed presidential election has drawn big crowds and generated controversy in Mexico.
The screenwriters called the proposals from producers a “a massive rollback,” and called on their members to continue their walkout.
Roger Federer held off Andy Roddick and won the longest fifth set ever in a Grand Slam final, 16-14. With his 15th major singles title, Federer broke Pete Sampras’s record.
The 24-year-old Team Columbia rider cemented his spot as a top sprinter, taking the 116-mile stage in 4 hours, 30.02 minutes.
McNair and a woman were found dead with gunshot wounds in Nashville, the police said.
A baseball historian offered evidence indicating that at least one item in next week’s All-Star Game auction was taken from the New York Public Library.
In what is becoming a trend, the Mets bungled two pop-ups in the sixth inning of a loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday.
Jorge Posada hit a game-winning single in the 12th inning, but the victory was tempered by Chien-Ming Wang’s departure from the game with shoulder discomfort.
With slugger after slugger being linked to steroid use, a historic season has been losing its innocence.
The White Sox’ Disco Demolition Night seemed like a simple, fun way to drive up attendance, but things quickly went awry 30 years ago at Comiskey Park.
Two adventurers with different backgrounds and different goals meet below the windswept summit of the world’s tallest peak.
Andy Roddick, with a new coach and a rejuvenated game, advanced to the men’s final to face a familiar adversary, Roger Federer.
Serena Williams steamrolled her sister, 7-6 (3), 6-2, to earn her third Wimbledon championship and 11th singles title.
Tony Stewart won at Daytona International Speedway after contact with Kyle Busch sent Busch hard into a wall right before the finish line.
In its first game since the Confederations Cup final, the United States national team began its defense of the Concacaf Gold Cup title with an easy victory.
Despite refusing to answer any questions about steroids, Manny Ramirez enjoyed the support of thousands of Dodgers fans, who made the trip to San Diego to watch Saturday’s game.
The leaders after the first and second rounds at the AT&T National, Anthony Kim and Tiger Woods, were tied after three rounds.
The enigmatic owner of Real Madrid has spent millions in a bold effort to lure soccer’s elite stars, and promises to keep spending.
Albert Kaufman was a sports talk show fixture, until his calls stopped.
The economic downturn has dried up corporate sponsorships and forced car manufacturers to reconsider how much they spend on racing.
After a long career doing the unsung work of an assistant coach in college basketball, Sean Kearney is taking over the Holy Cross program.
At 27, Serena Williams has four more grand slam singles titles than her 29-year-old sister, Venus, something their father long ago predicted.
Major League Baseball is working to raise awareness of A.L.S., or Lou Gehrig’s disease, by telling Gehrig’s story.
Readers sound off on U.S. soccer’s achievements.
Alberto Contador and other riders will be competing in what officials say will be the most tested event in cycling history.
New York City’s dirt level — a mix of soot and everything from ground-up car tires to sea salt — is high, and so homeowners who love white rugs and sofas pay a higher price. Call it the dirt tax.
For custom stationery fiends, “social papers” are thriving, in spite of, or perhaps because of, the prevailing digital culture.
A Brooklyn couple made their first home purchase a weekend house in the Catskills, decorating it with pieces acquired through Craigslist, thrift shops and yard sales — even items found on the street.
When my wife and I bought land in Montana, the stands of timber were so dense you couldn’t walk through parts of the property. Then the beetles came, killing the stately old trees.
When I started planting seeds in March, I promised to “unleash my inner bean counter” and keep track of what I invest in home food production. So is gardening worth the cost?
Ben Granger, an owner of a Brooklyn shop that specializes in beers, planted hop vines so he could make his own home brew. But you don’t have to make beer to enjoy the beauty of those dramatic leaves.
Finding interesting French tableware for a Bastille Day party doesn’t require leaving the country, as Thomas Schlesser, an architect, proved during a recent shopping trip in Manhattan.
A new branch of the Venice, Calif., antiques shop Obsolete shares space with the Blackman Cruz Workshop in a San Francisco Victorian.
“Modern Homes Survey: New Canaan Connecticut,” one of the most definitive local studies of Modernist houses in the United States, goes online this week.
Avenue Road, a Toronto furniture company, is reissuing a classic piece of Canadian midcentury modern design, the Cord chair.
Ecoware — disposable cutlery made of birchwood — is compostable and economical.
Sales on Adams Unlimited’s vintage furniture and Lauren Stanley’s vintage silver.
When Linda and Lee Bigelow decided they wanted to be part of the village life in Southern France.
Iceland’s real estate market boomed for much of the last decade, but now many people are being forced to sell.
A bungalow in Spokane, Wash., a four-bedroom Georgian in Lexington, Ky., and a house in a St. Louis suburb.
The Brown family is the fifth set of owners in a grand 24-room Victorian mansion steeped in history in Staten Island.
Just as Brooklyn has become a center for locally produced, handcrafted food, it has also developed a broad population of independent, often artisanal designers.
A list of house tours, garden tours and show houses across the United States.
Jeff Tweedy has led Wilco to new success and has found himself a piece of normality too.
A violinist’s visit and contribution to classical music in China honored, 30 years later.
Organizers of Michael Jackson’s memorial in Los Angeles were to begin informing registrants on Sunday if they had been awarded one of the 8,750 pairs of free tickets to the Tuesday memorial.
“The Wendy Williams Show,” set to begin July 13, is a chance for the host to expand her reach and her brand — without, she hopes, sacrificing her persona.
Lynn Shelton, director of the bromance “Humpday,” takes a victory lap of the festival circuit.
“Soul Power” rediscovers Zaire ’74, when American soul music met Afrobeat.
A new sculpture park in St. Louis, filled with works by Fernand Léger, Tony Smith, Jim Dine and Bernar Venet, has been created to draw tourists and art fans to the city.
Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Laura Dean and Mark Morris share their thoughts on the relationship between modern dance and ballet.
“The Tin Pan Alley Rag” is a show about the lives, work and aesthetics of two influential songwriters: Irving Berlin and Scott Joplin.
Mr. Klein managed the business affairs of Sam Cooke, the Rolling Stones and, for a short time, the Beatles.
Known for his comforting voice, Mr. Roberts was welcomed in millions of American homes over the airwaves.
Ms. Warfield was an American mezzo-soprano who performed frequently with the Metropolitan Opera in the 1950s, ’60s and early ’70s.
The Chilean film “Tony Manero” uses “Saturday Night Fever” as a device to dissect the abusive dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
A look at the upgraded, 50th anniversary edition of “The Diary of Anne Frank.”
Reviews of releases by Céu, the Dead Weather, Pisces, Busdriver, Deerhunter and Bachelorette.
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At Sotheby's and Christie's recent contemporary art sales, buyers eager to catch a prize paid handsomely for celebrity artists.
Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Sale, seen by market pundits as the most risk-fraught of all fields, brought $31.77 million.
Local photographers, long unsung or sidelined by foreign journalists, are honing their skills and mounting shows.
Gerard Alessandrini’s “Forbidden Broadway,” which spoofs shows playing on both sides of the pond, opens for the third time in London.
The new Hermitage museum in Amsterdam celebrates Russia's ties with the Netherlands, which were first forged long ago by Peter the Great.
Offering reliable and affordable food, the bistro choices are better than they have been in years.
Attending a baseball game provides an illuminating peek into Japanese culture and an opportunity to taste some culinary curiosities.
The Karst, in the country’s southwest region, is known for its gastronomic heritage and family farms that welcome travelers.
The dishes at this entirely organic restaurant are vegetable-loaded, simple and tasty.
If you substitute “thick purée” for “dip,” the options are limitless — like this one, made from peas, mint and Parmesan.
A new kind of preservation society attends a D.I.Y. dinner party in Oakland, Calif.
Can Will Allen make the inner city the next front in the good-food movement?
Interviews with 30 chefs provided dozens of burger-making lessons for the home cook that aren’t terribly difficult and don’t cost much money. And it all yielded the ideal burger.
Ben Granger, an owner of a Brooklyn shop that specializes in beers, planted hop vines so he could make his own home brew. But you don’t have to make beer to enjoy the beauty of those dramatic leaves.
A new wave of upscale food trucks, offering everything from artisanal ice cream to vegan tacos, has sparked a street vendors’ food fight.
Cheese animates and dominates Bar Artisanal, Terrance Brennan’s TriBeCa spinoff of Artisanal in Midtown — and helps give it what modest appeal it has.
Restaurants in Canada that serve seal have been thrust into the spotlight now that the European Union has banned imports of Canadian seal products.
Bartenders are experimenting with crossover drinks that marry beers with spirits, mixers and even wines.
When you’ve waited six hours to snag tickets, Public Fare, Danny Meyer’s new concession at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, can seem pretty great.
Diner is shaggy, improvisatory and cheeky, much like Williamsburg — or at least, like Williamsburg when Diner opened there a decade ago.
Artisanal products were the talk of the annual Fancy Food Show, a trade show that ended June 30 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
The UnFancy Food Show, Brooklyn’s answer to the Fancy Food Show, offers delicacies from local food producers.
Usually, deviled foods are highly spiced, but my go-to recipe for deviled eggs was neither spicy nor red. I liked the idea of tweaking it to be both.
The thriving black market in illegal New York City food vending permits took a blow on Tuesday when six people were arrested as a result of multiple sting operations.
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My family’s worship of garlic inspired a celebration — a vampire-repelling repast showcasing garlic in its many incarnations.