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- If you spend it all on art, you can't afford the island
Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol works fetched more than $70 million apiece last week as bidders competed for trophy pictures. A similar sum would buy a Caribbean island or develop a ski resort in Bulgaria.
- WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
'Shrek the Third' shatters 'toon record
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through yesterday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released today.
- THEATER REVIEW
Subfictional 'Bunbury' a very real adventure on the literary fringe
Matching wits with Oscar Wilde takes chutzpah. Yet in “Bunbury,” playwright Tom Jacobson has done just that. His stylish if dizzying romp, now at Diversionary Theatre, will amuse and provoke theater lovers who may also be left pondering that always-fraught relationship between art and life.
- DANCE REVIEW
Eclectic talent mix is in sync at Groove on Tap!
There were about a dozen children at Groove on Tap! on Friday, but you didn't have to be a kid for the show at Hot Monkey Love to feel like the most fun day you ever had in kindergarten. From the moment Todd Davidson entered like the Pied Piper wailing on a red didgeridoo, Groove on Tap! made exuberant NOISE.
- SHOW & TELL
Anthology will mix meal and live music
JAZZ: Chick Corea and Eddie Palmieri head the list of jazz artists set to appear at Anthology, the upscale restaurant and live-music venue set to open June 6 near Little Italy.
- CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEW
Hall resonates with Requiem
A 19th-century version of “surround sound” came to downtown's Copley Symphony Hall over the weekend. And the result was nothing short of a sonic extravaganza.
- Opera simulcasts, in San Diego and elsewhere, succeed
He is no Spider-Man, but Papageno held his own at the movies this season. The Metropolitan Opera says its simulcasting of operas into theaters nationwide, which has sent ripples through the opera world, was so successful over the last five months that it will expand the program next season.
- Time to buck up, face the music and go 'Dancing With the Stars'
You want to dance. You know you do. Lodged in your La-Z-Boy, you take flight with your fantasies as you watch “Dancing With the Stars.” Unbound, you claim the ballroom floor and get yourself into the act.
- TV Tracker: “Dancing With the Stars”
- DEAR ABBY
For this invitation, just say 'no, no, no, no, no, no, no...'
How do you say, “No, thank you” to a pest without hurting her feelings? A woman I'll call “Ethel” constantly invites me to have lunch with her.
- TELL ME ABOUT IT CAROLYN HAX
Proceed with caution, but proceed
Thirty-year-old male. I'm scared of a lifelong commitment to someone. I guess I'm scared of falling short of the amazing job my parents did of raising me and my siblings and that I'll never be able to meet my own internal standards.
- HINTS FROM HELOISE
Some thanks all grandmother asks
I am an 84-year-old grandmother and great-grandmother. I love my little people, but fear they are growing up with no social graces.
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