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Months ahead of time Wayne Shorter’s 75th birthday concert at Carnegie Hall was being described as a kind of collaboration with Imani Winds, a classical wind quintet.

The ascension of Philip J. Smith and Robert E. Wankel to the top of the Shubert Organization ended a 20-plus-year guessing game about the future of the largest theater-owning enterprise in the nation.

If things turn out as expected, festivalgoers will have more to cry about than the room prices at Sundance next year.

The singer, whose voice wove together American folk music and the civil rights movement, died Tuesday.

This anthology of Alison Bechdel’s weekly comic strip follows an articulate group of lesbians through more than 20 years of daily life, with plenty of sex and politics along the way.

Philip J. Smith was named chairman of the organization while Robert E. Wankel was named co-chief executive officer.

California’s economy has taken a toll on a marionette show that is a staple of a Los Angeleno childhood.

Over a decade of whirlwind development, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has repeatedly played dance partner to a potent mix of preservationists, developers and city politicians.

Niall Ferguson’s latest book, “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World,” went to press in May 2008, but it shrewdly anticipates many aspects of the current financial crisis.

Many argue that the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has not done enough to protect churches from the overheated real estate market.