Brody, Wright join musical Chess club
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Adrien Brody will play  Chess Records founder Leonard Chess in "Cadillac Records," a  musical biopic that follows the turbulent lives of such  bluesmen as Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and Howlin' Wolf.
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Take a peek at some of the moves the pros are making.
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Eldar Djangirov's fingers flew across the ivories of the Steinway grand piano at Carnegie Hall as he romped through Oscar Peterson's "Place St. Henri," one of the tunes that first kindled his interest in jazz as a child prodigy in distant Kyrgyzstan.
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The historic chess match between American Bobby Fischer and Soviet champion Boris Spassky was the Cold War played out with pawns instead of missiles, a combat of mind games between two masters at the height of their powers.
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Andrew Rosenthal is the new president of the Greater New York Bridge Association, but he showed that he can also play well by winning the first two open pair events at the Edgar Kaplan Winter Regional.
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Hereâs a measure of how healthy new music is in New York these days: In a city with roughly a gazillion new-music groups, a new one made its debut on Monday evening at Mannes College the New School for Music, and the schoolâs auditorium was packed.
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By Jake Gibbs  I WAS one of the winners of the Birmingham Mail's Harlem Globetrotters competition. I came second and received two tickets to go to see them at the NIA. I would like to thank you for these tickets as we had a brilliant time. Thanks.
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Going with experience, Hal Sutton named Jay Haas and Stewart Cink as captain's selections for this year's United States Ryder Cup team.
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Tycho:  Having played collectible card games since the original printing of Magic - taking my dishwasher's tips across the street to Dragon Tails to secure boosters for the coveted Arabian Nights - seeing Gabriel take up the pastime has warmed (but not thawed) my black heart.  It's always a portion of myself I've bridled in his presence, kept hidden, suppressed may be the word.  To have him take it up so freely makes me wonder which perversion of mine he'll take up next.    When he started talking about his "Firestarter" deck, whose dancing fires were stoked by a mysterious device known as "The Holon Engine," I began to worry.  The dangers of Netdecking are fairly substantial when it comes to friendly play, a corrosive force that turns friendly pick-up games into ostentatious displays of wealth on par with rap videos.  If you're playing in a competitive venue, building on prior art and making loads of precision purchases is probably your only recourse.  But if you're just playing at lunch, let me be clear:  you are consorting with devils.    I took time over the weekend to hit the level cap in Call of Duty 4, and then just to be sure that I understood what was going on I played for several more hours.  I'm not the most skilled player you will encounter, with a roughly equal number of kills and deaths, but I prefer to think of my work in an assassinative context - the removal of key players at key moments.  Please let me have this.  In the absence of the game's deeply integrated progression scheme, Infinity Ward would merely have created one of the best shooters available today.  It would have staunch proponents, and they would be right to praise it.  Is there a substance within cream that can rise to the top of itself?  This substance has been discovered.  As a distillation of the Infantry FPS, this is right down to it.  This is brutal, unrepentant, bathtub fucking hooch.  It is tight and smooth, it is lethal.  Unrelenting in its intensity, your first rounds - indeed, your first few levels - will be spent without the succor of CoD4's rich rewards for continued play.  But you'll see them on the killcam, every time you go down:  this one has increased health, of course that would help.  This one does more damage.  This one, after he's killed, pulls his sidearm and takes a few final shots.  This one's shots retain more of their damage after they pass through a wall.        You earn these for leveling up, with the experience you gain for every kill, for every round.  You also earn experience for Challenges, which are (collectively) "awesome things that you did."  I completed X-Ray challenges last night for killing people behind walls, which dished up bonus XP - this is displayed with exultant audio and video cues at the very moment of success.  Killing while crouched, killing while prone, taking down an enemy helicopter, this is all gravy.  There are challenges specific to your weapon, as well:  for kills and headshots with that firearm, you travel down an upgrade path unique to that weapon that reveals sights, camouflage patterns, and other tools to customize your equipment.    Watching videos of multiplayer play online, you'll get the impression that it looks better than it does.  It looks fantastic, don't get me wrong, but it's not completely photorealistic.  What it does have is an extremely reliable framerate and excellent level design, so that during the experience of play these fantastic visuals are transmuted into something sublime.  Here's what I mean:  if a friend is over, and they are watching you play, they'll be able to detect flaws here and there.  Level geometry isn't especially fanciful, and blown paper or leaves look a little strange.  But for the player, movement is just right, player models are just right, and the environments are right so that moment to moment everything gels.      As I said on Friday, to bring this thing into the house of Halo is pretty ballsy - but it'll carve out its proper due.  On the Playstation 3, what force could stand against it?  I have a high opinion of Haze, but I've never played it - that's based mostly on my gut.  Call of Duty 4 will fall hard on that system, like shrieking artillery.
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Playbill - Manhattan Theatre Club has named two more of its Top Girls for its new production of the Caryl Churchill play.
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By Donna Harris, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 5--PASCAGOULA -- Thirty years ago, Lewis Hawkins attended his first meeting of the Pascagoula Kiwanis Club to help children in the community.   More than 1,500 meetings later, that is still his goal.
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Slide Show: A selection of photographs that tell the story of the past week in New York City and the region. Subjects include SantaCon, the Metropolitan Opera's production of "War and Peace" and the Frank Viola Homing Pigeon Club on Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island.
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From across the room, you could spot a ( Guy ) Whimper and a ( Mike ) Waufle . There was a ( Kevin ) Boss , a ( Sinorice ) Moss , and a ( Aaron ) Ross . There were a pair of Popes ( Michael and Geoffrey ), a pair of Wrights ( Anthony ...
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Past stars of stage musical Chicago are uniting to mark its 10th anniversary in the West End.
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The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players are hoping to lure a new generation of Gilbert and Sullivan fans.
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Evgeni Malkin skated again with several NHL players Monday at the Los Angeles Kings' practice rink, and his agent said he was optimistic the 20-year-old hockey star will soon become a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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The Europeans went on a charm offensive on the first session of practice yesterday for the 35th Ryder Cup. With the blessing of captain Bernhard Langer, they took time out to sign autographs and pose for pictures