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Jhumpa Lahiri is well known as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her debut short-story collection Interpreter of Maladies and her recent bestseller The Namesake. She sets her stories mainly in the Cambridge area and is one of literature’s most promising young talents. Her only competition might come from her co-reader Lan Samantha Chang, who has received lavish praise for her own debut work Hunger. 7 p.m. MIT, Rm. 10-250, 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...
Park also continued his strong play in his debut season. The lone freshman member of Harvard’s top five shot a 77-82—159 to finish in a tie for 31st...
...story is told in Eastwood's straight-shootin' fashion, while 21 Grams, written by Guillermo Arriaga, jumps like an antsy first-grader from one plot strand to the next. Neither film, despite what you might have heard, is within shouting distance of a masterpiece. Gonzalez Inarritu's English-language debut lacks the zigzagging drive of his Mexican hit Amores Perros and taxes credulity with its pileup of fatal coincidences. Mystic River has a case of wandering accents (sometimes South Boston, sometimes West Hollywood) and plods toward its conclusion more like a tired cop than a cunning detective. Its sharpest characters...
...legal pay-per-download and subscription music service for Windows PCs. The official relaunch is Oct. 29, but a TIME test run shows that Napster 2.0 has got the rock to draw a crowd. The service will launch into stiff competition; this week Apple is expected to debut a Windows version of its highly successful (and until now Mac-only) iTunes Music Store...
...APPROVED. THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, for viewing, nearly 30 years after its U.S. debut; in Singapore. Censors had banned the camp 1975 cult film, a musical spoof with Tim Curry starring as a transvestite space alien, but cleared it for screening at an outdoor Halloween event, the Straits Times reported. An organizer of the showing told the newspaper that censors had objected to the movie's depiction of "kinky sexual practices...