Lite As Air

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Lite As Air Few spectacles are closer to the American heart than that of the professional famous person. Celebrity-worship is our culture’s vernacular faith, and (as the sociologist C. Wright Mills once said) our star system is the inevitable result of making a fetish out of competition. We venerate people who have done remarkable things,
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Exhibitions AMERICAN CRAFT MUSEUM 40 W. 53rd St. (betw. 5th & 6th …

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40 W. 53rd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 956-3535. "The Beaded Universe: Strands of Culture" focuses on "the world’s most ancient & portable art form–beads" [through 1/30].   AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Central Park W. (79th St.), 769-5200. Annual showing of more than 300 tropical butterflies, "The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in
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THEATER In Previews ICE ISLAND: THE WAIT FOR SHACKLETON Like the book Alive, …

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ICE ISLAND: THE WAIT FOR SHACKLETON Like the book Alive, but on a remote island in Antartica, directed by Marjorie Duffield; The Melting Pot, 311 W. 43rd St. (betw. 8th & 9th Aves.), 279-4200; Weds.-Sat. & Tues. at 8, mats. Sat. at 2 & Sun. at 3, $35 [opens 11/14].   LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC
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FAMILY BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN Brooklyn’s lovely Botanic Garden offers free admission to …

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Brooklyn’s lovely Botanic Garden offers free admission to visitors entering before noon on Saturdays, free for under age 16 at all times & Tuesdays are free all day; Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1000 Washington Ave. (Eastern Pkwy.), 718-622-4433, ext. 216; Weds.-Fri. & Tues. 8 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat. & Sun. 10-6.   CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF ART Museum
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FILM & VIDEO Wednesday 11/10 BAMCINÉMATEK Bo Widerberg retrospective. Today, 1976s The Man …

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BAMCINÉMATEK Bo Widerberg retrospective. Today, 1976s The Man on the Roof is screened at BAM Rose Cinema, 30 Lafayette Ave. (Ashland Pl.), Brooklyn, 718-636-4157; 5:30 & 8:30, $8.50, $5 st./s.c. [through 11/12].   MIX FILM FESTIVAL Gay & lesbian film festival screens more than 150 works. Opening night feat. Super 8 mm "Gang Girls 2000"
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LECTURES/WORKSHOPS Wednesday 11/10 HEALTH ISSUES ANONYMOUS Twelve-step group for those living with a …

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HEALTH ISSUES ANONYMOUS Twelve-step group for those living with a health concern; St Luke’s Roosevelt Center, 324 W. 108th St. (betw. B’way & Riverside Dr.), rm. 205, 874-7372; 5:30-7.   NUTRITION FOR CANCER PREVENTION Workshop offers diet advice for breast cancer prevention; Sol Goldman YM-YWHA, 344 E. 14th St. (betw. 1st & 2nd Aves.), 780-0800;
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Rosetta, The Silence, Dogma & Iranian Film

Written by Armond White on . Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Symphonies For the Bedeviled Rosetta ends with a pulsating life signal, just like Majid Majidi’s recent New York Film Festival offering Color of Heaven. But unlike that Iranian film, the effect is not treacly. Everything the directing-writing team Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne do in this, their second dramatic feature, is brusque, clean, invigorating. Their rigorous
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Rock ACME UNDERGROUND 9 Great Jones St. (Lafayette St.), 420-1934. WEDS: Squint, …

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9 Great Jones St. (Lafayette St.), 420-1934. WEDS: Squint, Congregation, Dulce, Mother Bacchus. THURS: Comacho, Cecil, John Strahm, Pony Express. FRI: Yahooteee Mormons, Arc, Satanicide, The Equation, Thomas Till 4. SAT: Teresa Dinan, Morealle, The Weekend Bowlers, Ressurection, Monkey Love, Foujin.   ARLENE GROCERY 95 Stanton St. (betw. Ludlow & Orchard Sts.), 358-1633. Free. WEDS:
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ANYWHERE BUT HERE Anywhere But Here directed by …

Written by Matt Zoller Seitz on . Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Earth and Heaven Not many Hollywood movies listen to their characters as closely as Anywhere But Here, a moving story of the prickly relationship between an eccentric, deluded mother and her withdrawn, brooding teenage daughter making a new life for themselves in Los Angeles. The film gives its characters room to breathe and live. The
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