Also reviewed: 'Looking for Palladin'; 'The Wedding Song'; 'Victory Day'; 'Yes Men Save the World.' Although "Died Young, Stayed Pretty," a documentary about the underground rock poster movement, begins with a freewheeling array of diverting poster graphics and provocative artist interviews, it soon becomes apparent that there's no real structure or point of view to it all. In fact, by the movie ... [read more]

The late Tony Wilson once told me, "I'm not the one who will have his life turned into legend, in the way that happened to Baudelaire, Verlaine and Rimbaud. It won't be me. It will be John Cooper Clarke." "Bloody hell," says the poet. That conversation took place 20 years ago, I tell him – when Wilson was still running the Haçienda; years before the release of Control and 24 Hour Party People ... [read more]

This band don't do small, and they don't do subtle. As the gig begins I am staring up at three giant illuminated tenement towers when they suddenly rip down the middle to reveal the three members of Muse – the bird-like Matt Bellamy, the elf-like Dom Howard and the dad-like Chris Wolstenholme – perched on podiums 20ft above our heads like the goodies inside the world's biggest Christmas cracker. [read more]

A funny thing happened to retired track and field athlete Véronique Fortin on her way to a wedding in Mexico in December 2007. [read more]

Also reviewed: 'Looking for Palladin'; 'The Wedding Song'; 'Victory Day'; 'Yes Men Save the World.' [read more]

NICOSIA, Cyprus—The two couples had never met each other, and probably never would. They had come from opposite sides of a border between longtime enemies. But Elie Wakim and Nada Ghamloush from Lebanon, and Dimitri Stafeev and Olga Zaytseva from Israel, had a problem in common: Belonging to different religions, neither couple could get married in their home countries and had to fly to the ... [read more]

ABSTRACT PAINTINGS BY CHOICHUN LEUNG … Nov. 17 through Dec. 19 at Simon Gallery, 48 Bank St., Morristown. Opening reception is Nov. 20 from 6 to 8 p.m. Gallery hours are: Tuesday to Friday, noon to 6 p.m., and Saturday, noon to 5 p.m., or by appointment. [read more]

LEIPZIG, Germany (JTA) -- At age 12, Pasha Segal arrived in Braunschweig, Germany from Ukraine knowing he was Jewish but lacking any further understanding of what that meant. [read more]

In one of his less felicitously phrased essays, the youthful Clive James once described the poet WH Auden, who had succumbed to premature old age in his ill-judged Oxford retirement, as a "fag at bay". Alan Bennett's eagerly anticipated new play, The Habit of Art (which opens on November 17 at the National Theatre), confronts Auden and the audience with a second "fag at bay", the composer ... [read more]

Chef Diego, having grown up in a Sicilian region where the sun and salt air produce flavors more intense than anywhere, dishes out food infused with time and serves large portions that have you eating the leftovers for days. [read more]