The Yes List – Wes Anderson's Fantastic Fox
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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, Wes Anderson's magical Fantastic Mr. Fox, a provocative Man Ray retrospective, and the Newport Jazz Festival goes digital.
On the Trail With Ken Burns
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The documentarian's new series, The National Parks, debuts tonight on PBS. He tells Rachel Syme about the virtues of big government, and how he feels about being called a socialist.
The Original Guitar Hero
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Les Paul, who died Thursday at 94, invented the electric guitar-and changed popular music forever. WATCH VIDEO of Paul jamming, as well as immortal riffs from rockers Jimmy Page and Slash on Les Paul guitars.
Can Michelle Save Jazz?
Judith H. Dobrzynski, formerly a reporter and a senior editor at The New York Times and at BusinessWeek, as well as a senior executive at CNBC, is a writer based in New York. She blogs about the arts at www.artsjournal.com/realcleararts.
On the same day the first lady hosted jazz greats at the White House last week, a new study found the art form is dying. Judith H. Dobrzynski asks: Can Michelle make jazz cool again?
The Week in Culture
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Michelle Obama made jazz cooler, Taylor Swift rapped, Lauren Conrad wrote a book...and Woody's back. VIEW OUR GALLERY for the best of the week in TV, film, music, and art.
VIDEO BUZZ BOARD Author and critic Stanley Crouch raves about his latest obsession, Living With Jazz by Dan Morgenstern. Click here to watch.
Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, The New Yorker, and more. He has served as artistic consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center since 1987, and is a founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center. In June 2006 his first major collection of jazz criticism, Considering Genius: Jazz Writings, was published. He is presently completing a book about the Barack Obama presidential campaign.
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Carl Bernstein uncovers his latest scoop: Anthony Bordain is the man, Cheryl Casone has become addicted to a book about caffeine, and Stanley Crouch discusses what it takes to be a great jazz writer.
The music that seemed out of step with the Bush years seems right on key for the Age of Obama. Down at Jazz Fest in New Orleans last year I saw Terence Blanchard and The Bad Plus play and was blown away, rediscovering a music I'd first l...
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