entertainment - "book"

Music News: Donny and Marie to headline Vegas show -- Donny and Marie Osmond have inked a deal with the Flamingo Las Vegas making them Sin City's newest headliners. Their performance schedule calls for a 26-week, eight-month gig at the center Strip resort starting Sept. 9.

Ethnomusicologist and dancer Tomie Hahn delves into the process of immersing oneself and incorporating the cultural knowledge of the nihon buyo, the traditional Japanese dance form in her book Sensational Knowledge Embodying Culture Through Japanese Dance (Wesleyan University Press). A student of Japanese dance since the age of four and a performer, as well as an associate professor in the arts department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, Ms. Hahn explores the identity of the dance through culture, a teacher's wisdom and the body and how that experience transformed her own identity. More than just another how-to book, Ms. Ha...

Keith Gessen's book, 'All the Sad Young Literary Men,' is the latest articulation of his belief, much expressed, that legitimacy and fame need not go hand in hand.