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  • September 2008

    • New Yorker Pop Critic Admits 'Indie' Gaffes

      Gelf Magazine  |  Sep 1, 08 10:51 AM CDT

      New Yorker Pop Critic Admits 'Indie' Gaffes

      (Newser) - You may have missed it, but the New Yorker pays attention to pop music. Flip past articles on dead American poets and you might find insightful, sometimes scathing, music critiques by Sasha Frere-Jones. The musician and critic sat down with Gelf Magazine to discuss the problems with defining indie rock—and owning up to mistakes he’s made in missing the mark. More »

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      music  • interview  • pop culture  • New Yorker magazine  • indie rock  • critic  • Sasha Frere-Jones

  • August 2008

    • Greek Whites 'Smack of Sunshine'

      New York Times  |  Aug 6, 08 1:29 PM CDT

      Greek Whites 'Smack of Sunshine'

      (Newser) - In honor of the Olympics, Eric Asimov set out to rediscover Greece's white wines for the New York Times . He found whites just subtly different from the made-to-be-drunk young bottles of Italy and Spain, fermented from "unfamiliar, indigenous grapes grown nowhere else." The moschofilero varietal dominated the tasting, including the panel's No.1 pick: a 2007 Tselepos that "smelled like roses and tasted like grapefruit." More »

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      New York Times  • wine  • Greece  • reviews  • dining  • critic

    • Economist Rates Art by Numbers

      New York Times  |  Aug 4, 08 8:52 AM CDT

      Economist Rates Art by Numbers

      (Newser) - Most art historians would agree that Pablo Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon is a great painting. But one economist says it's the best work of art of the 20th century, and he can prove it. The New York Times reports on the work of David Galenson, who analyzed the frequency of reproductions in textbooks to determine the greatest art of the past century. More »

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      art  • economics  • critic  • Pablo Picasso

  • April 2008

    • Ebert Ready to Review Again

      Editor & Publisher  |  Apr 1, 08 9:07 PM CDT

      Ebert Ready to Review Again

      (Newser) - Roger Ebert—beset by a series of serious health ailments in recent years—will soon resume reviewing films, he wrote in a letter to Chicago Sun-Times readers. The critic was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002; since then he’s undergone several surgeries, including a tracheotomy that cost him his voice, Editor and Publisher reports. But he’ll put pen to paper once again, perhaps as early as this month. More »

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      film  • movie review  • Roger Ebert  • critic

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