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John is the latest from David Milch (Deadwood, NYPD Blue), working with "surf noir" novelist Kem Nunn. It follows the troubled Yost surfing dynasty: Grandpa Mitch (Bruce Greenwood) is a retired ascetic; son Butchie (Brian Van Holt) is a champ turned junkie; grandson Sean (Greyson Fletcher) wants to surf competitively, over Mitch's objections. They meet John (Austin Nichols), a pompadoured stranger who may be an alien or God (his last name is Monad, a Gnostic reference). Actual, literal miracles begin happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downtime | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...study of this art form. In addition to more than 550 photographs (nearly half in color), essays by art historians chart the changes in sculpture from traditional men on horseback to imposing abstractions that are set against desolate landscapes or take up acres and even miles. Examples include Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels and Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in Utah and Christo's 24½-mile-long nylon Running Fence in California. These and more familiar pieces by Auguste Rodin, Alberto Giacometti and Alexander Calder are investigated with intellectual rigor and inviting illustrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pleasures for the Holidays | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...imaginative, ingenious and inventive. All are adjectives that apply to the 26 paintings Mike Wilks has devised in celebration of the alphabet. Each picture in The Ultimate Alphabet (Holt; $19.95) contains a multitude of objects illustrating a single letter. Among the 259 items in G, the reader is invited to identify a Gypsy guitarist garbed in gaudy garments in a graveyard full of graven images. The T painting teems with 427 items, including Tweedledum and Tweedledee and enough trees to traumatize a topiarist. For the reader who spots the most words, the publishers offer a $15,000 prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pleasures for the Holidays | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...restaurant. Fields and woods make the perfect backdrop for a picnic - eat in the big tent or a private Indian pavilion (but make note: if you bring more than one servant, you must book a separate pavilion for them). At season's end, some productions move briefly to Nevill Holt in Leicestershire, a medieval house with a theater in the old stables. Rare treats this season are Michel Legrand's 1964 marriage-of-convenience saga Les Parapluies de Cherbourg and Sergei Prokofiev's compulsive case history The Gambler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Country Aria | 1/23/2007 | See Source »

...SEASON DATES May 31-July 4; Nevill Holt July 6-15 Public booking opens March 15 TICKETS from $88 (restricted view) to $2,050 10-person box tel: (44-1962) 868888; grangeparkopera.co.uk

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Country Aria | 1/23/2007 | See Source »

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