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Magician Criss Angel inside his suite at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas.

Presto Strange-o

The greatest magician since Houdini has a hit TV show, a $100-million gig with Cirque du Soleil and a fleet of 15 luxury cars


Untested Neef rides opera's fast track to the top of the COC

Seven years ago, Alexander Neef was preparing himself for a career as a school teacher.Today, he is the incoming general director of the Canadian Opera Company


Fire up your remotes – and chill

The small screen hits it big this week – lazy summer viewing doesn't get any better


Aznavour named to Order of Canada

Legendary singer, described as the Frank Sinatra of France, gets special designation reserved for non-Canadians


Exhibits in doubt as National Gallery curator takes leave

David Franklin organizing a 2009 exhibition of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, and a similarly large Caravaggio exhibition slated for 2011 or 2012


Spitzer call girl drops Girls Gone Wild lawsuit

Ashley Dupre voluntarily dismissed the $10-million federal lawsuit, according to court documents

Globe essay

Museums should not be held to ransom

Stop the appeasement of art and antiquities thieves


Nestruck on Theatre

Nestruck

Toronto Fringe diary

The Globe's critic looks at the state of Canadian stage


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Savage

Savage Grace threestar

Incest and tragedy, with a light touch


Brick Lane

Brick Lane 2.5stars

A fool saves a too-familiar formula


Kit

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 2.5stars

Dirt-poor seen through a gauzy lens


Hancock fourstar

A superhero on the skids … but now what?

 

Film & Theatre 

All's not well in Stratford production

Autumn has come early to Stratford with Marti Maraden's pretty and plaintive All's Well That Ends Well

Kent files second suit against War

Veteran war correspondent, nicknamed the Scud Stud, says footage he shot appeared in Charlie Wilson's War without his permission

Digital access a priority for NFB

Film board remains on a hot streak despite cutting 30 jobs

Hollywood producers make final offer to actors

Screen Actors Guild says offer falls short in some key areas


Books & Magazines 

Book Reviews: Sex and the male novelist

Two words that don't always go together well.

Book Review: Sins of the flesh? Bring 'em on!

Sarah Katherine Lewis is a size 10 former porn actress/model/dancer bisexual 35-year-old who loves meat, cooking and eating all kinds of meat.

Former Toronto Life editor to take Walrus reins

John Macfarlane, who recently completed a 15-year tenure as editor of Toronto Life, will be editing The Walrus temporarily

Taking a shot at a new canon

Five well-versed experts pick their Top 10 Canadian novels - a concept that caused a literary storm when it was first tried 30 years ago


Visual Arts 

One banana: $2,500

Michael Fernandes's installation piece in Halifax is one expensive piece of fruit. As the artist explains, it's the process, not the banana, that is important

The new face of Chinese art

Zhang Huan has hung himself from the ceiling and turned his face into a canvas. 'This is art — something ordinary people can't imagine,' he says

High art prices may disguise malaise

Masters may fetch huge prices, but lower end of auction market starting to suffer

Back in Berlin: Even in wax, Hitler causes a stir

A public art show even a mayor can love

Waterfalls, dreamed up by the Danish-Icelandic conceptualist Olafur Eliasson, aims to change the way New Yorkers look at their water


Television & Radio 

BBC airs long-lost Beatles interview

In early stages of Beatlemania, John Lennon and Paul McCartney discuss how they met and came to write their hit songs

Meet Mother Corp.'s daddy dearest

Richard Stursberg says he just wants to bring popular programming to the CBC. His critics say he's intent on axing Cancon. Over a number of interviews, Jennifer Wells finds one thing is certain: he's a man determined to radically change the CBC, perhaps forever


Music & Art 

Hundreds converge for Jonas Brothers-mania

After waiting in line for days, excitement builds for the Jonas Brothers' live MuchMusic appearance this afternoon

A young musician, a brand of old soul

The music bibles are raving about Eli (Paperboy) Reed's old-school-Mississippi-marinated sound

Montreal jazz fest not the second coming, but still thrilling

It's not often that a concert can be both thrilling and disappointing at the same time

Springsteen pays homage to boardwalk fortune teller

Madam Marie Castello, who Springsteen made famous in a song, recently died at age 93

Kylie honoured for musical career

Australian singer Kylie Minogue lauded at Buckingham Palace for her lengthy career

Sound wood yields sweet sounds

Remarkably consistent density of grain in ancient instruments holds key to the magical tones of a Stradivarius

Calgary's jazzy, star-studded comeback

Ticket receipts for this year's Jazz Festival – whose lineup includes Wynton Marsalis, Dave Brubeck and Maceo Parker – are four times those of 2007, and 16 times those of 2006


Celebrities 

National Arts Centre 'Legend' dies

Hamilton Southam, diplomat, founding visionary of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and many other cultural and historical institutions, died quietly Tuesday in Ottawa

Christie Brinkley testifies about husband's affair

At her ongoing divorce trial, former model describes the day she discovered her husband's affair with a teenager

Jolie goes into French hospital for birth of twins

Hospital in Nice says actress checks in to be kept under doctors' surveillance and get some rest before she gives birth

Obituary: Clay Felker, 82

Magazine mogul revolutionized city magazine by establishing New York in 1968


50 Greatest Books 

They're the greatest

Each week in 2008, Globe Books presents the latest instalment in the series, the 50 Greatest Books.

Submit your thoughts on the 50 greatest books

Unsweet and Lo

Art as great as Lolita transcends palliation and melancholy

T. S. Eliot's Collected Poems, 1909-1962

For T.S. Eliot, there were no things but in ideas.

The Brothers Karamazov

One of the supreme examples of the novel.

50 Greatest Books: The Iliad and The Odyssey

They can seem scary. But they are the origins of the whole of Western literature.

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