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...developed into all those subgenres. They're all related." As a rule, an artist's career must have started at least 25 years ago for Hall nomination. This avoids one-hit wonders and bands that drop off the music map after one or two albums. (Remember Bush?) But no matter who is picked, every year there's at least one inductee who inspires complaints. "Very few people consider themselves art experts," says Henke. "But rock 'n' roll is a populist art form, and everyone has an opinion. One year we had a U2 exhibit, and people even complained about that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Abba Really Rock 'n' Roll? | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...terms of F1 economics, however - and this is especially true for the newest hosts - it doesn't matter if none of F1's race promoters comes close to covering costs. The shortfall is increasingly paid for by governments who view television coverage as a giant TV commercial for their city or country. Singapore hosts a spectacular nighttime race on city streets beneath twinkling lights. In 2008, its first year, the race took in $51 million, but cost $100 million, according to Formula Money. That's O.K. with Singapore. The government kicked in $60 million, leaving the local promoter with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Turbulent Times of Formula One | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...movie Alice is also stricken by her beloved father's death - as Dodgson said he had been. So the movie is in a way an autobiography of each man-child responsible for it: Carroll and Burton. That may not matter to the kids who find this film much livelier than earlier versions and easier to warm to than the original. And is Burton's vision trippy enough to serve as a hallucinogenic blast? Go ask Alice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tim Burton's Frabjous Alice | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...monologue he said, "We were off for the last couple of weeks--kind of like the Russians at the Olympics!" And then it was back to what could have been a Leno monologue from before The Jay Leno Show--and before the Obama Administration, for that matter. Leno and NBC have a delicate task with the Tonight Show relaunch: making an event of something that viewers were watching less than a year ago without too many awkward reminders of what came between. But no one can say Leno isn't comfortable in his new-old job. As opposed to Conan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Returned | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

Into this breach has stepped the children's film festival. Like Sundance for squirts, they exist to promote and cultivate the entertainment version of beets: vitamin-rich sustenance kids are not quite sure they want to consume, no matter how delicious their parents say it is. Hipster-parent haven New York City supports a children's film festival (Brooklyn has its own), and they're popping up in other places as well. You'll mostly find them in big cities, but Asheville, N.C., had its first kids' film festival last year, as did Nantucket, Mass., and San Joaquin, Calif. Providence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sundance for Squirts | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

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