Arts, Briefly Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder: Arts, Briefly
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Doris Lessing said that 9/11 âwasnât so bad,â J. K. Rowling revealed that Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay.
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roundup Plus: HP partners with 3G gear maker...AMD starts shipping 90-nanometer chips...ABC.com to air on Real's SuperPass.
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Brief items about notable developments in the IT industry, both present and past.
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roundup Plus: Business Objects to bundle IBM tools...Linux clusters gear up for simulated combat...Sprint to bake in BlackBerry for businesses.
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If you are new to contemporary art, you might find âArt:21 â Art in the Twenty-First Centuryâ a useful, mildly engaging introduction. Informed viewers will find it annoyingly superficial.
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There is art, and there is money. The twain seldom meet. Or, to steal a line from David Thomson, author of the eminently useful reference work "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film" (Knopf, 1,008 pages, &#36;22.95), just out in paperback, there is "Chinatown," and then there are "umpteen possible future 'Mission: Impossibles."'
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This week: New photos may show liquid water on Mars, NASA plans moon base, city birds sing faster, ancient "curse tablet" found, and more.
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Arts & entertainment: In pictures: From operatic vampires to demented Flemish cabaret, 10 highlights of this year's festivals.
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TIME.comix on a pair of outstanding showcases
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In this week's entry we'll look at two more "live" CDs of Linux systems optimized for multimedia creation and performance. I've been having a great time with these systems, and I hope that my mini-profiles inspire you to try them all. They're a great way to introduce someone to Linux, they show off the system optimized for multimedia performance and they provide a wealth of high-quality sound and music software to exploit that system. They all include the standard cornucopia of applications for the mundane tasks, word processing, text editing, graphics, networking, and so on. All that, for the cost of a download and a disc.
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Take a look at the top stories this week.
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Plus: Golden nano-artwork unveiled. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art offers works by three visual artists from the Netherlands, the least predictable (and most provocative) being video artist Erik van Lieshout.
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Actor James Van Der Beek wins his legal action against a real estate agent. Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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roundup Plus: Music promoter offers concert downloads...WS-I tackles Web services attachments...Newspaper sites take up paid search ads.
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The week in review from our media and entertainment editor.
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roundup Plus: SanDisk ups capacity on flash memory cards...Google tests Froogle in U.K....Senate postpones vote on file-swapping bill...HP may expand Puerto Rican research.