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TimelineMovie Review | 'The Hangover Part II'
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By MANOHLA DARGIS
Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms return as buds in trouble before a marriage in sequel to Todd Phillips’s hit.
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"The Oprah Winfrey Show," a daytime television fixture for 25 years, ended on Wednesday.
In a valedictory monologue that was something between a graduation address and a Sunday homily, Oprah Winfrey signed off from her 25-year show.
Gathering for Thanks and Farewell
By BRIAN STELTER
Fans from around the world flew to Chicago to say thank you as the “Oprah Winfrey Show” ends its 25-year run.
Trailer & Clips: 'The Hangover Part II'Movie Review | 'Kung Fu Panda 2'
A Noble Panda Takes On a Nightmare Enemy
By A. O. SCOTT
Po, the hero of “Kung Fu Panda 2,” works out his identity crisis and faces Shen, the villainous peacock who has conducted a campaign of genocide against pandas.
Slide Show: Production DesignsE-Business Is the Buzz at Book Fair
By JULIE BOSMAN
This year’s BookExpo America, an annual publishing business trade show, is full of talk of e-reading and other shifts in the industry.
Books of The Times
‘Alfred Kazin’s Journals’
By RICHARD M. COOK
Reviewed by DWIGHT GARNER
One of the many revelations in Alfred Kazin’s journals, published now for the first time, is the sense they impart of how ill at ease, how easily wounded, he was behind his bluff cosmopolitan mien.
Laurents Left Book, Play and Plan for ‘Gypsy’ Film
By PATRICK HEALY
Before his death this month, Arthur Laurents gave his blessing to a new film version of “Gypsy,” possibly starring Barbra Streisand, and finished a full-length play and his third memoir.
A Return to Acting That’s From the Heart
By PATRICK HEALY
Joe Mantello, a two-time Tony winner for directing, returned to acting for the role that resonates the most with him, Ned Weeks in “The Normal Heart.”
Interactive Tonys Ballot 
A Hard-Hitting Role That’s Close to Home
By DAVID ROONEY
Bobby Cannavale, who is nominated for a Tony for playing a recovering addict in “The ___________ in the Hat,” brings an unstinting physical, intellectual and emotional commitment to his roles.
Cannavale and Other Tony Nominees 
Dance Review
A Big House, Big Names, New Twists
By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
American Ballet Theater switches gears and brings new works by three top choreographers to the big stage at the Met.
Inside Arts
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Theater Review | 'Cradle and All': A Clock Ticking to Incessant Wailing
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Awards: Honoring a Designer Who Gave Computers Their Fonts
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Television Review | '4th and Forever': Hard Times at a Factory of Legends
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Music Review: Rock Songs Turned Testaments of Triumphant Soul
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Music Review: Pianists Embracing the New
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Performance Review: In Brooklyn, a Boschscape of Vows, Song and Flesh
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Music Review: Melodramatic Sounds of Young Love
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Podcast: Music
Ben Sisario and Bruce Headlam on the sale of Warner Music Group; Jon Pareles on the muchness of Lady Gaga; new CD releases by Raphael Saadiq, Colin Vallon, and Telebossa. Ben Ratliff is the host.
New York Today
The Scoop
New York City iPhone App
Get a selection of the listings on your iPhone with The Scoop, The Times’s guide to what to eat, see and do in New York.
The Week in Arts
The Listings
Longer versions of selected event listings in the New York area this week are now available online.
Art | Classical & Opera | Dance | Jazz | Movies | Rock & Pop | Theater | Children’s Events | Spare Times
Summer Movies
The critics' take on girls in action movies, Maria Bello's tough dramas, Michael Fassbender on his rise from bit player to leading man and more.
Special Section
Special Gallery Section
What’s Blooming Indoors
Critics for The New York Times report on their art-world spring awakenings in four Manhattan neighborhoods.
Hong Kong Art Fair Reaches Out Into the World
By JOYCE HOR-CHUNG LAU
With 260 participating gallereis, the annual fair is larger than ever, and it's now owned by the group that runs Art Basel.
Echoes of Political Unrest at Venice Biennale
By NAZANIN LANKARANI
In the year of the Arab Spring, high-profile Middle Eastern entries to the Venice Biennale are expected to give the exhibition a political flavor.
Turkey Presses Harder for Return of Antiquities
By SUSANNE GÜSTEN
This month, Germany reluctantly agreed to return a Hittite statue taken to Berlin by German archaeologists a century ago.
On Opposite Shores: ‘Meistersinger’ and ‘Rosenkavalier’
By GEORGE LOOMIS
Wagner has returned to Glyndebourne, and “Der Rosenkavalier,” another outsize German comedy, is playing in Amsterdam.
Creations of Poetry and Chaos
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
The stunning, ingenious lights that Ron Gilad designed for Flos were among the most talked-about products at the Milan Furniture Fair this year and last.
Takashi Miike's Heartrending Samurai Tale, Told in 3-D
By JOAN DUPONT
Blood and beauty abound in "Hara-Kiri," the newest from the prolific Japanese director and the first 3-D film to compete for the top prize at Cannes.
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