Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason
by Anne Roiphe
(Nan A. Talese, $24.95), March 15
The first-wave feminist Anne Roiphe takes her reader back to New York at the turn of the 1960s, the era of Mad Men and Joan Didion’s “Goodbye to All That.” Ms. Roiphe, a former writer for The Read More
The Strokes
Angles
March 22, RCA
And we thought a career based upon ripping off Television couldn’t last. The saviors of New York rock–or of New York trust-fund-kid hauteur–faded away after their little-loved First Impressions of Earth in 2006. In the interim, Julian Casablancas made a solo record; Albert Hammond Jr. made two; Fabrizio Read More
Desert Flower
National Geographic
March 18
Aside from George Michael’s “Freedom ’90″ video and its vamping supermodels, the model-turned-actress concept does not have an illustrious history. Naomi Campbell played a phone-sex operator in Girl 6, Tyra Banks a bartender in Coyote Ugly, Cindy Crawford–of all things!–a lawyer in the thriller Fair Game. It looked as Read More
With warmer weather comes the heat. Here are some of the fresher faces in theater, opera, dance, the visual arts, film and television–the ones people will be talking about this spring.
David Lomeli, singer
Nemorino, The Elixir of Love
New York City Opera
March 22 to April 9
In this production of Donizetti’s Elixir of Read More
