So it would appear that by independent paths, both the professional and the amateur analyst reached conclusions not dissimilar. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry twisted the dial and went through a quiz show, an amateur hour, and a play about the Deep South before he got what he wanted. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then as a one-man band he competed with others at a movie house on amateur night. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She noticed an amateur jazz trio laboring through standards on a park corner. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

These might be words—and they were a sign that she was dealing with amateurs. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The belemnite, it turned out, had been discovered four years earlier by an amateur naturalist named Chaning Pearce, and the discovery had been fully reported at a meeting of the Geological Society. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She crossed them—artlessly, she felt, like some arm amateur taking the easy way out. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There are portraits of a woman and a little girl, small amateur photographs taken against an ivy-clad wall. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bob, the people are waiting for you. They are going to kill you because you have deceived them. You are just an amateur, Bob. You are not a real politician.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Nägeli—who considered Mendel an amateur crank—had neglected to tell Correns about the voluminous correspondence on pea hybrids that he had once received from “a certain Mendel.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Whether she was really an agent of the Thought Police, or simply an amateur spy actuated by officiousness, hardly mattered. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

During the annual amateur Memorial Day tournament that May, he placed twenty-first. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our amateur drama society made its yearly offering at Christmas. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were a long way from Dr. Phil’s office with its amateur oils and Medicaid cases. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In addition to the daily multitude, those amateur cooks were faced with allergy cases, diabetics, nursing mothers, infants who required special feedings. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1890 amateur scientists claimed to have found traces of Pleistocene Americans in New Jersey, Indiana, Ohio, and the suburbs of Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then he spun again, looking like an amateur dancer, but like a proper discus thrower, and said, Whoosh. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

This mission was too important to trust to an amateur. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever the reason, Ren is no amateur at dealing with his security, and he knows how to protect himself in ways far beyond the average player. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

While some great naturalists still praised her books, she fell into disfavor with a scientific establishment that increasingly rejected the work of self-taught amateurs. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Those plates, with their amateur finishing, the slight lumpiness of the edges, would never be shown in the presence of guests in Nigeria. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

By the rules of the U. S. Chess Federation he could no longer play in amateur tournaments, which was fine by him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even the most amateur propagandist could conjure sinister implications. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

While I was a fair amateur boxer, I had very little knowledge of even the rudiments of combat. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A misshapen armadillo caught my eye, warped and buckled and lumpy, obviously stuffed by the most inept amateur. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Charles Darwin, too, of course, was an amateur not a professional scientist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The professionals made no secret of their disdain for the amateurs, whom they regarded as annoyances, cranks, or frauds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Like many other amateur code breakers, he challenged her to break some messages in a new system that he himself had devised. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was the second half of summer, and the amateur falconers in Camelot were bringing their peregrines to the last stages of their training. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, with him holed up in my craft room, I had no choice but to craft at the kitchen table like an amateur again. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Dr. Sussman was also an amateur photographer, and he captured some portraits of Bobby that worked their way into the Fischer oeuvre years later. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But there are always a handful of wild cards thrown into the draft, amateur players nominated because they are so good at the game. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Those fool demons are using too much dynamite. They must have some amateurs on. Why, on the railroads we’d only have used half that charge to blast our way into a mountain.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor did he supply the darkroom facilities that hotels closest to Jackson Park had begun installing to serve the growing number of amateur photographers, so-called “Kodak fiends,” who carried the newest portable cameras. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Because when I'm done with Fred and these other amateurs, I’m going to be this show’s newest and biggest star! Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The eastern woods teemed with flora unknown to the Old World, and there was a huge eagerness, from scientists and amateur enthusiasts alike, to get a piece of it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The other contestant is good, but his celebrity speaks too slowly and says the word bat while giving clues for the word batter, an amateur’s mistake. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“They’re amateurs compared to us. We can teach you to use your gifts with the precision of a scalpel.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Heavy mortality has occurred among about 90 species of birds, including those most familiar to suburbanites and amateur naturalists. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, going pro would bring me the kind of financial security that amateur gymnastics could never give me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Only an amateur. How did you find a teacher like Dr. Relf?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Like Holmes, Geological Survey geologist W J. McGee believed it was his duty to protect the temple of Science from profanation by incompetent and overimaginative amateurs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And he pointed at his lordship and called him an amateur. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a hot blaze in the iron stove, a festive tree smelling of pine needles, professional entertainers from Moscow, and an amateur talent show. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand amateur demons, with license to make whatever mischief they had minds to. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m sort of an amateur falconer,” I replied. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where are any such things in America^” he taunted the amateurs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Although the majority of professional musicians were men, contemporary paintings show that a huge number of amateur musicians were women. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As is often the way in science, the principle had actually been anticipated three years previously by an amateur chemist in England named John Newlands. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The mom was an executive assistant in Long Beach and the dad was an amateur boxer. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There were amateur sailing prints on the walls and on the shelves Petoskey stones, pinecones, musty paperbacks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When these amateurs heard that the ancestors of Indians must have come to the Americas thousands of years ago, a surprising number of them decided to hunt for the evidence that would prove it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Sure, I meant it. Amateurs. Girl amateurs, to boot.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The amateurs never practiced more than about three hours a week over the course of their childhood, and by the age of twenty they had totaled two thousand hours of practice. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Every year, fifty amateur players, or wild cards, are nominated by secret committee to be placed into the team selection process. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In his systematic fashion he continued to refine the company’s infrastructure and services—and continued to be extraordinarily successful at escorting amateur climbers to the summits of big, remote mountains. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They con-demned the sabotage as heinous crimes while at the same time deriding it as the work of foolish amateurs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I challenge them: It won’t be so funny when we shut you amateurs down, will it? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

While he had fewer tattoos than his companion, they were more elaborate—not the self-inflicted work of an amateur but epics of the art contrived by Honolulu and Yokohama masters. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even at seven he didn’t consider himself an amateur. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mantell was a lanky assemblage of shortcomings–he was vain, self-absorbed, priggish, neglectful of his family–but never was there a more devoted amateur paleontologist. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps Mai's family had an apartment with a roof- deck that housed an amateur self-constructed observatory with a shockingly powerful reflecting telescope. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He introduced him to the cream of goblin society, and to dancers, singers, painters, schoolteachers, and merchants with an amateur love of history, the kindest and most curious people he knew in Tenebrion. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

They were huge eaters, but mere amateurs compared with Basil Stag Hare. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The post was untitled, but the poster was cryforhelp669, an amateur’s attempt at anonymity: 669 spelled out NOW on a phone keypad. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He had pulled off the headset and was mouthing some words that even an amateur lipreader could have figured out. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fan through pages of kids holding up hammers and amateur birdhouses, or shovels and dirty carrots they just dug up. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Then, near the bottom of the first sack, William saw a strange book—it looked beat-up and flimsy, as if made not in a monastery but by some amateur hand. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You’ll never be trapped like that poor amateur. You can see behind you like a bat. Hold the peasants back with one hand and kill the warrior with the other.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As with the search for extraterrestrial life today, the unbridled speculation of amateurs had frightened many professionals out of the field. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cain just had to jump and swing—amateur scaling. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In fact, in the fifteenth century, artists were amateur mathematicians. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

To find out what was in the letter, Washington called in James Lovell and two other amateur codebreakers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the men and women at Langley joined softball or basketball teams and played in local amateur leagues. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

"No. In these one-night amateur shows, the club in charge matches up the fighters at the last minute." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Hair like a black tornado wheeling across an amateur newsreel. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Just the shaky letters of an amateur scribe. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Appealing though this laissez-faire undoubtedly was, especially for amateur musicians, it resulted in instrumental music that did not make great demands on players, their instruments, or indeed composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When the detectives again pleaded ignorance, he explained that it was a stretch of park where one encountered “hustlers mostly,” adding, “but plenty of amateurs, too. Nurses. Secretaries. I’ve had a lot of luck there.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nineteenth century was the heyday of amateur science. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When our turn in the next amateur bouts came up, all of my brothers and sisters were 24 there watching, along with just about everyone else I knew in town. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was especially riveted by an amateur photograph in Herrero’s book, taken late at night by a camper with a flash at a campground out West. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Called him a bungling amateur and said he was out of his depth. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

These amateur repair jobs were an almost daily irritation. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

An amateur photographer bringing a conventional large camera and the necessary tripod had to pay ten dollars, about what many out-of-town visitors paid for a full day at the fair, including lodging, meals, and admission. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It is a field in which the irresponsible amateur can have a continually mystifying sort of fun. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m only an amateur. It’s not my subject. I have never had anything to do with the actual construction of the language.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Philbert was getting a reputation as one of the better amateur fighters in this part of the state; everyone really expected that he was going to become a professional. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, it would be quite wrong to think of the new science as primarily an amateur—that is, unpaid—activity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His gentle demeanor aside, he thrived on combat, and improbably, given his academic and chess prowess, he’d once been the European heavyweight amateur boxing champion. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Countless amateur thinkers took a crack at the problem, as did anthropologists and archaeologists when those disciplines were invented. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They’d mastered the techniques of cell culture and simplified them to such a degree that, as one researcher put it, they’d “made it possible for even the rank amateur to grow a few cultures.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Keeper had found me an obliging old colonel of the Buffs, something of an amateur historian himself, who had read the relevant pages of my typescript and faxed through his suggestions. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the next quarter century amateur bone hunters discovered dozens of what they believed to be ancient skeletons in what they believed to be ancient sediments. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Alvarez was using the word amateur in its traditional sense: someone who engaged in a pursuit not for money or fame but purely for the love of knowledge and the abstract quest for truth. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Ericsson and his colleagues then compared amateur pianists with professional pianists. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Alfred opened his wallet and pulled out the amateur card with a postage- stamp photograph. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I'm a complete amateur compared to him. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The amateur tattoo artist who gave her the first star in her galaxy. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Hands pushed him into the center of the ring and the referee was saying, ". . . three rounds of two minutes each . . . you know the amateur rules . . . break clean . . . shake, boys, and come out fighting." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about asking Ariana to take my picture, but I didn’t want to seem like an amateur. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Of course, I imagine real scholars will take an interest in Weep now, and amateur records won’t be needed. Still, it’s not bad work. You should be proud.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Even an amateur lawbreaker like me knows not to return to the scene of the crime. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But he was an expert horseman, a self- taught violinist, and an amateur geologist, astronomer, and natural historian. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I guess Cap’s mop was an irresistible target for amateur spitballers, not just the professionals. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The children had erected an amateur tent over their heads, out of the plaids, and under this they were lying close together, telling a story. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

His earlier thought returned to him; probably she was not actually a member of the Thought Police, but then it was precisely the amateur spy who was the greatest danger of all. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There was a discarded recorder on the floor that she had once planned to master and a chapter book on Abraham Lincoln from the time she decided to become an amateur historian. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When the Yankees won the first two games easily, Tommy made the mistake of saying, “De Bums played like amateurs.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was an amateur naturalist, fond of birds and animals but not of humanity in general. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their beneficence they allowed a certain amount of amateur smuggling to go on—the day trips to Canada, the fishing boats out for a midnight cruise. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

No. Like many amateurs, Dr. Phil assumed that the only proper subject for art was a picturesque landscape that had nothing to do with his experience. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The father-daughter conflict arises from their differing passions — music and sports — and Ives was a gifted amateur athlete and a composer of genius. Theater Review: Rattlestick Stages New ‘Charles Ives Take Me Home’ 2013-06-14T02:00:02Z

Large amateur groups are the perfect place for an inexperienced singer to start building confidence. How to have fun for free 2010-10-21T07:00:00Z

There are low points here, of course, and given this group’s approach, nowhere to hide during them — those songs are amateur, failed replicas. Review: On ‘Communion,’ Years & Years Turns the Familiar Into Something of Its Own 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

His father was a coal miner and amateur trumpeter, and at 14 Maurice entered the mines, where he worked for the next four years. Maurice Andr?, Star of Classical Trumpet, Dies at 78 2012-03-03T05:12:16Z

Work shops allow amateur craftsmen to try screen-printing and leather crafts. In a Singapore Neighborhood, Gritty Mixes With Trendy 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

Yet while the struggles of the amateurs are inevitably comic, Guerin is far from staging a joke at Mike and Jake's expense. Untrained – review 2013-06-07T18:17:03Z

Six years ago, the Mischief Theater Company arrived on Broadway from Britain with “The Play That Goes Wrong,” a madcap comedy about a hapless amateur theater company attempting to stage a whodunit. British Comedy ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ Plans Spring Broadway Bow 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

The musical stays close to the film, which charted the rise and romance of amateur boxer and debt collector Rocky Balboa, played in Germany by Drew Sarich. Musical of 'Rocky' heading to Broadway 2013-04-28T23:33:08Z

Following the Olympics, Owens was barred from competing in amateur events, forced to race horses for a living, a model of stoical grace in the face of fickle adulation and racism. TV highlights 06/06/2012 2012-06-05T19:00:01Z

The film’s genesis, we’re told, included an open invitation to professional and amateur tap dancers to submit clips of themselves in action. Review: ‘Tap World’ Documentary Features a Variety of Quick-Stepping Dancers 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Francis Scott Key, an attorney and amateur poet, joined the troops that massed in Bladensburg, Md., to stop the British advance. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z

Based on the two episodes made available for review, neither filmmaker appears to be a strict amateur, like Mark Borchardt of the documentary "American Movie," but neither seems to be a visionary. 'The Chair' review: A crash course in indie filmmaking 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

This droll, C-list trouper, who joins the strip act, recalls brushes with Sinatra and Dino, and doesn't mince words when assessing her very amateur colleagues. Review: 'The Full Monty' at Village Theatre turns hard times into fun 2010-09-23T20:35:00Z

"But I didn't 30 minutes ago and I'm really embarrassed about it, and I very much apologize to Samuel L. Jackson and anyone else who was offended for what was a very amateur mistake." L.A. newscaster apologizes for black actor mix-up 2014-02-11T15:12:29Z

If that smacks of amateur hour, Conn is very much a pro. At Village Theatre's new musicals fest, hope springs for Broadway 2010-08-14T05:00:00Z

For many young amateur dancers, it's a rite of passage, a testing ground for their nascent career dreams. 'Getting to the Nutcracker' is a corps story without a dramatic core 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Since she always played from memory and didn’t write her songs down, she’s been relying on fans who have uploaded amateur recordings online. Regina Spektor Tunes Up for Broadway 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Glad to know I'm not the only amateur doing this. Sourdough Starter, America’s Rising Pet 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

The book is thought to have served as a reference guide for amateur midwives and young married couples. Formerly banned sex manual to go under the hammer in Edinburgh 2013-01-03T18:02:57Z

But for amateurs, acting can be tougher than sports. N.B.A. Pros on the Big Screen: Can These Stars Act? 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z

In a 1987 letter, Lee said Sergel’s adaptation “admirably fulfills the purpose for which it was written, for amateur, high school and little theater groups, and stock productions.” Harper Lee Estate Told to Pay $2.5 Million in Dispute Over ‘Mockingbird’ Plays 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Munn, an affable man of 57, has long been a stalwart of Sudbury amateur dramatics; he still harbours ambitions of moving to Colchester, "just for the buzz". Michael Munn: the celebrity biographer reveals all 2010-07-24T23:05:00Z

But this vengeance business is not for amateurs. ‘Blue Ruin’: Revenge through the eyes of a fearful amateur 2014-05-08T22:02:03Z

The amateur actors from "Up in the Air," said the movie allowed them to retain some self-respect after suffering one of life's most humiliating experiences. 2010-02-08T18:40:00Z

His mother, the former Florence Decker, was an amateur painter. Sam Glanzman, Comic-Book Artist Inspired by His War Service, Dies at 92 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

She was something of an ambassador for the assembled fans of League of Legends, a multiplayer online game that draws amateur and professional players, as well as sponsors and fantasy leagues. Closing the Gender Gap, One E-Battle at a Time 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Between setting an amateur record in the Vienna Marathon, he's back to pulling solo heists, obsessively tracking his physical performance and hoarding his irrelevant booty. 'The Robber': Crime flick captures a runner's ? and robber's ? high 2011-05-05T23:56:14Z

It will be interesting to see whether the rules are changed in the future to discourage or obscure individual and amateur efforts that might draw attention from partners like Disney and CBS. Critic?s Notebook: YouTube Redesign Herds Those Funny Cats 2011-12-14T04:26:09Z

It’s very professional/amateur; she’s sometimes posing and sometimes not, but always herself, with amazing energy. The Year in Music Videos 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

More surprising than an amateur being asked to perform on stage with professionals is an amateur accepting the offer. Ira Glass: 'I feel like I’m actually sort of scared all the time' 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

After all, this was not some amateur’s blog — the venerable editor Tina Brown founded the site. Why media coverage of LGBT Olympic athletes is ‘simply unacceptable’ 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

“I am an amateur and I love to show things. I don’t care about the market. ” | Screen Siren 2014-02-12T22:37:30Z

Such an approach, of course, runs contrary to the headwind of much academic art writing in the 20th century, which would regard "personalities and stories" as the province of chatty amateurs. The Books that Shaped Art History – review 2013-04-20T10:00:01Z

You may remember the Great Yeast Shortage of 2020 which began as hordes of amateur bakers stocked up for their new at-home activity. Egg price-gouging accusations, a pandemic cheese "roller coaster": Why food costs are still in flux 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

We were putting ourselves in Liv's shoes, which was from the position of an amateur, of: you don't go in knowing how to make drinking water out of condensation. "Keep Breathing" creators talk survival, not Googling solutions and that controversial ending 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

Drew, who has a blog over at FearNet called "School of Fear," is no amateur to the genre. Interview with Drew Daywalt: Horror's great Internet age begins 2011-04-14T14:14:00Z

The performance was about what you would expect from a band consisting mostly of amateurs after a single rehearsal in the morning and an earlier performance in the afternoon. On the Hoof in the City for a Day of Music 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

Twelve amateur bakers vie for the only title that really matters, with judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood scrutinizing 30 new dessert challenges. Perspective | 20 new and returning TV shows that you should check out this summer 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Up-and-coming artists will also take to the stage in the show’s popular “amateur night” competition. TV highlights: ‘The Great Christmas Light Fight’ returns to ABC 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

England Boxing, the national governing body for Olympic-style amateur boxing, took a dim view of the match, too. KSI v Logan Paul: was the YouTubers' fight more than just hype? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

If there are two things the Internet doesn’t lack for, they’d be amateur critics and people who don’t like being told what to do. How not to avoid a bad online review 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

It was in Connecticut that he began acting, joining an amateur troupe called the Mark Twain Maskers in Hartford and taking classes from Eva Le Gallienne at the White Barn Theater in Westport. Peter Falk, Rumpled and Crafty Actor on ?Columbo,? Dies at 83 2011-06-24T18:55:12Z

On his one morning off, Mr. Wuest, an amateur photographer, was looking for something slightly grittier than riding cable cars and shooting Victorian painted ladies. Practical Traveler: Click Here for an Offbeat Experience 2012-07-04T14:07:40Z

After South jumped to three no-trump, the amateur sitting North decided to let the stronger player be the declarer. Bridge: A Case of Mistaken Identity For the King of Spades 2010-05-22T00:05:00Z

A native of Manchester, he took his first lessons from his father, a headteacher and amateur violinist. Raymond Cohen obituary 2011-03-22T18:23:06Z

Yes, more articles abut opera, so misunderstood and so profoundly beautiful in the hands of masters and even nice in the hands of amateurs. ‘I Could Barely Sing a High C’: Pretty Yende Finally Conquers Lucia 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

The Great British Bake Off, which pits amateur cooks against each other, won the best feature category. Fred West drama wins at Baftas 2012-05-28T11:55:18Z

Ansari had built a reputation as an ardent feminist and amateur dating guru, teaming up with a sociologist in 2015 to publish “Modern Romance,” a contemporary treatise on the trials of love. Aziz Ansari’s New Standup Tour Is a Cry Against Extreme Wokeness 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

"These girls start from the amateur level with few singing and dancing skills," he told Reuters. Japan gripped by TV 'election' of pop group AKB48 2012-06-08T09:49:40Z

Easier access to weed is no doubt inspiring amateur chefs to whip up their own psychoactive specialties. More than munchies: how eating pot went from crude to 'elevated' dining 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

Inspired by New York's Highline, a garden built on an elevated railroad, and Berlin's Prinzessinnengarten, a reclaimed wasteland, a Stockholm neighborhood has turned a disused railway into a communal space for hundreds of amateur gardeners. Digging in the city - urban Swedes get back to their roots 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

He is a veteran bartender and an amateur cocktail historian. Finding the Perfect Cocktail in Buenos Aires 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

The very existence of amateur phone sex intrigued me. My lonely phone-sex years: I learned to ask for what I wanted, 35 cents a minute 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

Her family planned for her to have a career in law, and she began studying pre-law at San Francisco State College, but she became involved in amateur theatre and was bitten by the acting bug. Vonetta McGee obituary 2010-07-20T17:08:00Z

SAT National event to showcase capabilities and technological developments by the amateur robotics community, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Bryan Fogel, the director and an amateur bike racer, planned to investigate the use of performance-enhancing drugs by taking them himself and then trying to evade detection. Review: Unexpectedly Exploring the Russian Doping Scandal 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Scottish film compiled from hundreds of amateur submissions. This week's new films 2013-02-23T06:00:14Z

Yet these are clearly more than an amateur scientist’s recordings. She Needed No Camera to Make the First Book of Photographs 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

But he was at his most affecting in a group of undated songs by Ilse Weber, an author of children’s books and an amateur composer who wrote with disarming directness. Music Review: ?The Music of Terezin? at 92nd Street Y 2012-01-20T23:54:05Z

The resulting book is a sensible, middle-of-the-road guide for amateurs and movie buffs alike. New in Paperback: ‘Dead on Arrival,’ ‘Easternization’ 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

We had a picture librarian at Magnum who happened to be an amateur trapeze artist. “I’m an Outsider on the Inside”: An Interview with Bruce Davidson 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

Mary, who is deaf, enjoys amateur spy expeditions with her best friend, Nancy Skiffe — who was born hearing to deaf parents — and exchanges stories with the grizzled hermit Ezra Brewer. A Deaf Girl Finds Her Voice on Martha’s Vineyard in the 19th Century 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cano managed a progression of skill from amateur to amazing. Dance Review: Crazy Legs and His Rock Steady Crew Teach Hip-Hop 2013-08-01T20:53:21Z

Over the years, 60 amateur bakers have exposed themselves to the show’s trademark whirlwind of challenges and bunting and smut, but which of them have stood the test of time? Every Great British Bake Off contestant ranked in order of greatness 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Now, they will be amateurs and eligible to be drafted by any of the 30 MLB teams. The Frederick Keys were evicted from the minor leagues. They’re still playing. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

He’s an amateur among professional actors of the sacred. Review: Art for the Soul in ‘Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth’ 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

In the world of fanfiction, where amateur writers spin new tales involving famous characters and other pop culture icons, anything can happen. You won’t believe what kids are writing about celebs, book characters and other pop culture stars 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

This aquarium mania was largely the result of the work of amateur naturalist Philip Henry Gosse and in particular his 1854 book, The Aquarium. The Ocean at Home by Bernd Brunner - review 2011-08-26T21:55:04Z

Moreover, who knows whether pros and amateurs would converge in evaluations of fiction, which are notoriously subjective, and more my bailiwick. The battle of the book reviews 2012-05-18T20:59:01Z

Now I think a lot of us, and I include myself, think of ourselves as amateur crime aficionados. There are some mysteries Patricia Cornwell, crime novelist and creator of Kay Scarpetta, can't crack 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

"Seventeen-thousand euros and amateur actors are enough to beat the arthouse productions with budgets in the millions at a major film festival when a moving story is told well and beautifully," its critic said. Berlin film festival honours eastern European movie-makers 2013-02-17T17:03:58Z

It is in this state of abject need that Shadow the amateur magician meets Wednesday, a charismatic con man — could it be? “American Gods” are the ones we deserve: Neil Gaiman and the Starz show cast on the “long con” of religion and the struggle for lost soul of America 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

After working briefly as a cook and acting with an amateur group, Mr. Joseph received a grant to study drama, eventually attending the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Paterson Joseph Brings Charles Ignatius Sancho to Life at BAM Fisher 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

But Fox says there are dozens of amateur theatre societies and groups with members eager to show what they can do. Take your seats for Swindon: the Opera 2012-07-06T18:17:28Z

What amateurs we are by comparison, stockpiling toilet paper and bleating about our sourdough starters. The Wildly Funny Samantha Irby Is Back, Not a Moment Too Soon 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

And my amateur wrestling coach knew the trouble I was in --  and he said, "I'll give you 25 bucks to fight this guy." Secrets of the professional wrestling world 2011-04-26T18:16:00Z

When we returned to our car up on the bluff it was smeared with eggs and someone had used surf wax to scratch “kooks”, slang for amateurs, on the windows. California's surf wars: wave 'warlords' go to extreme lengths to defend their turf 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

The woman’s remark is affectionate and just a bit scandalized about this long-dead papa, whose amateur films reveal as much about him as about his subjects. Movie Review: ‘Israel: A Home Movie’ Is a Revealing Collage 2013-07-09T20:14:42Z

Mr. Wegman’s ineluctable lack of pretense is perhaps most complex and intriguing in the show’s paintings, where he deftly combines the roles of professional, amateur and illustrator. Art Review: ‘William Wegman: Hello Nature’ at Bowdoin College Museum 2012-08-16T17:46:55Z

For a while, there seemed to be hope for reining in the nation’s amateur arsenal. My lesson in gun control 2012-12-18T01:00:00Z

Most amateur sleuths hold down professional jobs to support their unofficial detective work. Murderous Trips Into the Past, Then a Return to a Dangerous Present 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

She was a pioneer of this approach to teaching and encouraging amateur choirs, which she called "singing for those who can't". Anne Gee obituary 2011-01-24T18:40:14Z

FRI Festival of short amateur films, beer garden, bring blankets or low chairs, 8 p.m. Community calendar 2012-07-25T17:48:06Z

The Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York, an amateur ensemble that specializes in secular and sacred music from Ukraine, will also perform. Carnegie Hall Will Host Concert in Support of Ukraine 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

Getting started “My mum sent me to an amateur drama school because I was extremely shy.” Meet the Kids Who’ll Make ‘Sing Street’ Rock 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

Apparently, many historians look down on the amateur penchant for tracing family trees; it is not research but “mesearch,” too small-picture, too personal to constitute true scholarship. Is race genetic? 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

She added, “My supreme reward was to realize that my work as an amateur archaeologist of my century made famous names that I once had to spell, with rage, even to art historians.” Andrée Putman, Global Interior Designer, Dies at 87 2013-01-21T03:48:51Z

Ryz also encourages constructive criticism from its community, which now numbers more than 10,000 and includes both professional artists and amateurs. Special Report: The YouDesign Movement 2010-02-26T19:20:00Z

He was selected 13th overall by the Cleveland Indians in the 1991 amateur draft and rose quickly through the minor leagues with a youthful exuberance and natural charisma. Ex-Sox Manny Ramirez arrested in Florida 2011-09-13T02:39:00Z

He added, “Yes, I’d had some amateur productions, but we’d never had anything in the professional theater — and I don’t know whether that would have influenced us for good or bad.” ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ at 50: What Was the Buzz? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

"The Gatekeepers" features candid interviews with retired Israeli spymasters, while "5 Broken Cameras" tells the personal story of an amateur Palestinian cameraman who documents clashes between his fellow villagers and Israeli soldiers and settlers. 2 Israeli documentaries shortlisted for Oscar 2013-01-03T17:07:08Z

The database will be available to anyone who is interested in tango, experts and amateurs, in a form that facilitates consultation and listening. Tango: Argentina's gift to the world 2010-10-05T12:59:00Z

It's one of TV's most popular current examples of a hybrid format, part documentary, part amateur acting display, part sociological experiment. In defense of film and TV "hoaxes" 2010-10-22T14:31:00Z

But in 1940 Mr. Seeger was still an amateur banjo player who had just returned to New York after a stint cataloging and transcribing folk music at the Library of Congress. Pete Seeger’s New York Roots 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

If Walter Murch is an amateur astrophysicist, the rest of us are amateur amateurs. Swimming against the tide: Lawrence Weschler on 'Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of Astrophysicists' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

In The Force Awakens all this amateur psychology led us up to the point where he murdered his dear old dad, Han Solo. Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer – five things we learned, from Rey's dark side to annoying Porgs 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Most amateur entertainers on the Web, even very successful ones, are one-trick ponies: here I am showing how to apply eye shadow; here is my impersonation of Grandpa without his dentures. 2009-12-08T06:15:00Z

“You’re always trying to somehow surprise the connoisseurs, but also the more amateur public, with things they might not necessarily expect to be a public sculpture,” Mr. Leuenberger said. From Bronze in Motion to Fake Iron Trees: Public Art at Art Basel 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

Many fans from such groups, such as, Isaac Asimov, went on to become published authors, blurring the distinction between amateur fan and professional writer. In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades 2012-08-13T16:34:00Z

Word of mouth sent a steady flow of clients, amateur and professional, hoping to break into the unglamorous but financially rewarding arenas of television advertising, soap operas and voice-over work. Joan See, Who Acted in TV Ads and Helped Others Do That, Dies at 83 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

When Hirst recently decided to stop commissioning other people to do his paintings, and instead to become the world's richest amateur painter in a shed in his garden, Spoon found himself without work. Get with the art crowd | Jonathan Jones 2010-04-01T12:13:00Z

The group consists of amateurs, 19 of them on this occasion, exceptionally well trained by Mr. Barrett. ArtsBeat: Some Misses and Hits at Boston Early Music Festival 2013-06-16T19:31:07Z

But even these peaks of achievement did not impress the Royal Academy, which, since its early days in the 1770s, had insisted on disparaging watercolour as the preserve of drawing masters, illustrators and amateurs. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z

Watching the play-within-a-play’s troupe of amateur actors trying to perform a murder mystery is like watching a roomful of hapless carpenters hammering their own thumbs, then watching the cabinets crash on their heads. Review | ‘Play That Goes Wrong’ breaks a leg (plus a few noses, noggins and funny bones) 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

More amateur storytellers might use this angle to provoke suspicion; Garbus wisely lets it rest there for the viewer to mull. Review | ‘Who Killed Garrett Phillips?’ is a masterful study in the evils of assumptions 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z

Wise, a journalist and amateur pilot, wrote about Flight 370 shortly after it disappeared, and was soon receiving frequent invitations to appear on TV to talk about it. Weekend Reading: Serendipity Wars, A Flight 370 Theory, and More 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

The C.I.A.’s “daring amateurs” were often diverted into futile paramilitary adventures. How the United States Achieved World Leadership 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

The most memorable, endearing passages of The Round House connect only tangentially to the boys' efforts at amateur detection. The Round House by Louise Erdrich – review 2013-05-18T06:59:01Z

About 6,000 photos were submitted from around the world by professional photographers and amateur drone enthusiasts for the contest organized by Dronestagram, a social network dedicated to aerial photography, in partnership with National Geographic. Drone photography contest winners capture nature's beauty from new heights 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

"After having to block yet another insult on my Twitter account, I am now totally done," he tweeted, proposing that the inauguration committee use the Je bent een Koning, recorded by amateurs in Utrecht. Dutch music lovers lead revolt against song to serenade new king 2013-04-22T11:40:15Z

Henson is an amateur writer, but her frankness in relaying the events of her life is staggering, and she has a knack for including specific details that stick with you. A guide to the literature of Japan’s “comfort women”: Comfort station survivors tell their stories 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

The cookware from the California company Hestan is made in Italy and designed for the professional and the amateur. A New Line of Cookware Designed With Thomas Keller 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

She has a bizarre broad-comedy scene in which she falls over while doing some amateur fashion modelling in a hotel dining room, causing mayhem. Jane Fonda's 10 best films – ranked! 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

In the post-“Annie Hall” era, amateur cooks became downright squeamish about how to dispatch you properly. Lobster’s cheap. Lobster’s luxurious. Discuss.

Williams' amateur astronomy hero Phil Shepherdson, and his telescope made out of baked-bean cans It's an artist's studio and, like Montaigne's tower room or George Bernard Shaw's rotating shed, a refuge from the quotidian world. Bedwyr Williams: why I'm taking a space observatory to Venice 2013-04-14T17:00:01Z

Before long he was appearing at amateur contests and fiddlers’ conventions. Doc Watson, Folk Musician, Dies at 89 2012-05-30T00:33:31Z

Haber thought that the comic Falstaff from “The Merry Wives of Windsor” was better suited for the company’s mostly amateur cast. A Not-So-Merry Mix: Shakespeare, Bluegrass and Randy Quaid 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

It’s surprising that millions of people are downloading Voice songs, and not just because it means they’re paying amateur singers to cover existing songs that have already been recorded much more deftly by other artists. How NBC's The Voice Sold 20 Million Songs Without a Single Star 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

It was Ge, the amateur, who staged Finland’s first ballet in 1922, a “Swan Lake,” and danced the role of the prince himself. The Finnish National Ballet at 100 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Part of the frustration some critics feel is because restrictions on their opinions aren't shared by amateurs, who freely offer their thoughts on Twitter and online message boards. Reviews of 'Spider-Man' musical draw backers' ire 2011-02-08T07:02:08Z

He graduated from what is now the Cate School, near Santa Barbara, where he made his first amateur movies, and spent a year at the University of Virginia. Andrew McLaglen, Director of Westerns, Dies at 94 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Along with being an ardent amateur archivist, Augusta was a longtime member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a fierce advocate of education. America’s Great Divide — About How to Archive Its Fashion 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

On the tour, Tester, the amateur, and his seasoned colleagues run up on stage and take selfies with the fans, who claw at their frosted hair. “Jawline,” Reviewed: A Chilling Look at the Making of a Teen Influencer 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

The episode - which also saw the amateur bakers making pretzels and picnic pie - secured double the audience tuning into the Uefa Champions League football match which was broadcast on ITV at the same time. Bake Off final gets BBC Two record 2013-10-23T15:30:32Z

But now the opposite feels true: Lip-syncing has been refashioned as a tool of the appealingly scrappy amateur. How Lip-Syncing Got Real 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

So amateurs like me grew up trying to be as good as the professionals. Play it again: conquering Chopin's Ballade No 1 2013-01-12T06:30:01Z

Elsewhere, they are awestruck amateurs, gazing in wonder at the beauty and power of a Velázquez, a Hokusai, a sepia-toned photo by Eugène Atget. ‘A History of Pictures’ — from the cave to the iPhone 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Typically, no matter how good or bad a “So Gone” challenge attempt is, most of the reactions to the amateur verse are encouraging—an anomalous positivity for any product of the social Web. The Beats Fuelling the Viral Dance Challenges 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

And amateur performers are more than capable of these things. So, what's it like directing an opera at Glyndebourne – with 75 amateurs? 2013-03-07T11:03:08Z

While jockeys — all unpaid amateurs — often come from overseas these days, most owners and trainers are still from Maryland and nearby. Maryland’s Hunt Cup, the country’s most challenging horse race, bets on its future 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Augusta National was the vision of Bobby Jones, the co-founder and the most prominent amateur in the history of golf. Tirico to do play-by-play from Augusta Women’s Amateur 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

The dapper aristocrat and amateur sleuth fell, and fell hard. Taproot woos fans of Dorothy L. Sayers in upcoming 'Gaudy Night' 2012-09-12T23:05:04Z

"But more than half the theatre that goes on in this country is at amateur level, and some of it can be pretty phenomenal." Shakespeare's am-dram champions: the amateurs joining forces with the RSC 2012-07-17T18:31:01Z

It is for people fed up of NME-style music reviews, concentrating on their new favourites – the reviews are written by an amateur, but written from the heart. Blog jam: Rose Coloured 2013-02-27T15:50:11Z

As their skills developed, they moved from amateur shows to vaudeville and singing with bands. Patty Andrews of Andrews sisters dead at 94 2013-01-30T22:50:10Z

The fitness center offers amateur workshops in circus disciplines. How circus-loving Montreal has persisted as the big top of the world 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

His friend, an amateur psychic named Kaori Tanaka, is sure something has happened to Virgil and sets out to find him. The perfect children’s book for kids who won’t be quiet 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

But there are also stewardesses, a donut-shop clerk, a massage therapist and an amateur tennis player. At 78, Bill Cosby’s life is a blur of legal minutiae, lawyers and judges 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Your film joins "Only Murders in the Building" and the recent film "Vengeance" in that it features amateur sleuths who host true-crime podcasts. "Susie Searches": A cautionary tale of a podcaster who finds a missing student & "insta-celebrity" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

I had never heard of the translator, D. E. Brooke, but felt certain that this must not be the work of an amateur. Translating a Novel of Sadism 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

“His brother always says, he’s ‘not too bad but still an amateur.’ Henschel Quartet Offers Solace for Pope Benedict 2010-03-26T16:30:00Z

The generous dance sequences mix professional troupes alongside amateurs, with results that are exuberant and entertaining, even if occasionally messy. A Musical ‘Winter’s Tale’ Breezes Through Central Park 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

Its premise – two tone-deaf amateur designers wreck a stranger’s house in the name of artistry – is a weird throwback to the bad old days of Changing Rooms. Your Home in their Hands is one of the cruellest shows on TV 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

When the amateur treasure hunter decided on that spring day to call in the professionals, he knew exactly what to do. Why Frome is still cashing in on the Romans 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

“It’s important that women perceive us as lifting each other up,” Valsdottir said, and to see that amateurs just having a go can find success. Feminist Rap Group in Iceland Looks Abroad After Making a Stir at Home 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

Her creative and entrepreneurial spirit has been roused in this dingy little space, and there’s something magical about these amateurs putting on a show — even if that show is sleazy in the extreme. ‘The Deuce’ Season 1, Episode 2: Rinse and Repeat 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

Bankhead becomes an amateur therapist, urging the younger man to live his life to the fullest - and hang the consequences. It's Tallulah, Dahling, through Harper on Broadway 2010-03-15T02:16:00Z

Eager to prevent Haystack from becoming a summer school for vacationing amateurs, the Sewells and their local Maine comrades promoted rigorous standards, with a strong emphasis on technique. Perspective | What makes a great art school? Haystack has the elusive answer. 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

Though it’s a syllabus staple in American high schools, a Pulitzer Prize winner regularly staged by amateur drama clubs, “Our Town” isn’t particularly well-known in Britain. A Terrorized British City Turns to an All-American Play for Healing 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

Re: Friends: Join an amateur performing arts group. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How does a 50-something go about making friends? 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

But if you take the best amateur tennis player in the country on his best day, there is no way he can play with Roger Federer.” 2010-02-05T06:22:00Z

It turned out that the dealer had been an amateur actor in the museum’s annual Three Kings pageant. Art Museums in Puerto Rico Face Long and Expensive Recovery 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

But it is the mix of professionals and amateurs that sets Dartington apart. A Summer Music School for Stars, Amateurs and Students 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Whether victims, villains and/or amateur detectives, these “girls” are explicitly identified as suffering from anxiety disorders or displaying OCD behavior; they are struggling with alcoholism or dependent on mood-regulating prescription drugs. What ‘Gone Girl’ and ‘The Girl on the Train’ have wrought 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

His father, a furniture executive, was also an amateur bookbinder and nourished in his son a love of books. Sterling Lord, Premier Literary Agent, Is Dead at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z

But the reporters exposed enough shortcomings in the investigation and trial process that the podcast held millions rapt as amateur sleuths. Serial fans' eyes on Baltimore as new ruling approaches for Adnan Syed 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z

But she is also a celebrated amateur pianist, who once considered becoming a professional musician. Aretha Franklin to perform with Condoleezza Rice 2010-07-01T09:14:00Z

Maharbiz was an expert at making small electronic devices but an amateur when it came to entomology. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z

His wife and young son eventually joined him, plunging into a whirl of concerts, teas and amateur theater at the Spa, the seaside pavilion at the town’s social center. Where Dracula Was Born, and It’s Not Transylvania 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

Caught up in this amateur sleuthing, he doesn’t notice that his younger son is slipping into a raging heroin addiction, which, you may be surprised to learn, causes some perception problems of its own. Dan Chaon’s ‘Ill Will’ is the scariest novel of the year 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

He said he holds the amateur record on his own golf course in West Palm Beach, Fla., a 66. Does Donald Trump cheat at golf? A Washington Post investigation. 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

Proving to be an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family. The Carpetbagger: New Zealand Vampires and Nazi Zombies at Sundance 2013-12-05T21:03:46Z

Poor women were often the victims of amateur abortions, which produced a death rate 15 percent higher than the maternal death rate. Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z

Yes, there are a LOT of amateur fireworks this year. Who will solve the great fireworks mystery, and will we ever sleep again? 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

They are a group of amateurs centered around a guy named Brian Turner, a computer consultant who spends his weekends fiddling with power beaming. ArtsBeat: Amateur Hour: Jack Hitt Talks About an American Tradition 2012-05-16T19:53:00Z

On a recent Monday night, the groans of finance bros, creative professionals and other amateur fighters competed with the sound of leather smacking leather. What 9 Fighters Wore to a Boxing Gym in TriBeCa 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

That kind of minutiae, perhaps essential for an aficionado, can be a bit eye-glazing for an amateur. Sea of Love: A Father, His Daughter and the Boat He Made for Her 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

For the past two weeks, my heart had been performing sporadic somersaults in my chest, keeping me up at night with its amateur acrobatics. Perspective | My doctor told me to get a dog, but I couldn’t. Meet my emotional support fish. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Falkenstein turned to the Arizona Rare Fruit Growers, a group of amateur pomologists that his father helped found in 1995. Out of the Desert, a Rare Fruit Garden and a Lasting Legacy 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

“Jesus was peaceful and loving. He went from house to house and was always accepted,” an amateur bible scholar told the Los Angeles Times in 2016. ‘Tis the season to get baked’: a stoner’s guide to Christmas 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Now 50, the Essex-born comedian, actor and writer is best known for his role as BBC1’s amateur sleuth Jonathan Creek and as a panellist on the quiz show QI. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

And, because of Owens’s fallout with the athletic union, he was stripped of his amateur status. Jesse Owens, a Film Hero Once Again 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

Though they’d never actually sung together before, the duo recorded their beautiful rendition in an amateur video that quickly went viral. Charlie Puth Has The Number One Song In The Country... So Who Is He? 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Having been an actor for three decades, my only experience of working with amateurs was in 1985 when I appeared in Noël Coward's jingoistic musical epic, Cavalcade, at Chichester Festival Theatre. Hurrah for am-dram – why it's time to applaud amateur actors 2012-07-18T12:26:33Z

Jordan Roth of Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns 5 of the 40 Broadway theaters, said he was more interested in the extent to which amateur critics were changing the editors’ and professional critics’ decisions. ?Spider-Man? Early Reviews Set Off a Storm 2011-02-08T22:55:24Z

“I went in an amateur saxophone player,” he said on the podcast. Seymour Press, a Behind-the-Scenes Fixture on Broadway, Dies at 98 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

His anarchic “Macle” uses a graphic score, making it interpretable by amateurs and expert singers alike. Review: Revisiting a Luxuriously Gonzo Side of John Cage 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

After only a few appearances in amateur productions of musicals, she was spotted by a Hollywood talent scout and given the lead in The Bonnie Parker Story. Dorothy Provine obituary 2010-05-06T17:52:00Z

"There is something of the Henry Higgins in him, the man who considers himself at the top of his field and is dismissive of amateurs. And he is a rampant snob." Woody Allen conjures up illusion for 'Magic in the Moonlight' 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

And that slate just got even stronger with the Sundance premiere of “Magazine Dreams,” a troubled-loner drama in which Majors plays an amateur bodybuilder on the brink of snapping. Which Sundance Movies Could Follow ‘CODA’ to the Oscars? 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

We learn that Milton is more than just a nervous amateur scientist; he’s a true renaissance man. The Walking Dead Watch: The Arrow in the Door 2013-03-11T15:18:46Z

How did you get into collecting home movies and other amateur types of filmmaking? 'Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles': Rick Prelinger's new film of old home movies and studio outtakes 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

Point 7 calls for two amateurs in every performance. Is Milo Rau Really the Most Controversial Director in Theater? 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Fazioli needs to sell to famous pianists, not just wealthy amateurs. Piano nobile 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

As a teenager, he attended nautical school, where he claimed to have won over the bullies by putting on amateur productions of Dorothy Lamour musicals. Ken Russell, Controversial Director, Dies at 84 2011-11-28T11:22:23Z

There’s also no formula for authenticity; it can be achieved in the studios as well as on location, with declamatory actors on sets as well as with amateurs in the street or at home. “The Jinx” and the Blight of Documentary Reënactments 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

“It’s a really fun way to expose myself to music, to learn about the history, to play amateur historian,” he said. Vinyl records surge during pandemic, keeping sales spinning 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

He persuaded the 13-year-old Mingus to switch from cello to bass, telling him that he needed a bassist for his own amateur combo. Buddy Collette obituary 2010-10-06T17:06:00Z

The former is a televised singing contest for young amateurs with big lungs and big dreams. ‘American Idol’ ruined how we listen to singers. Did Auto-Tune fix it? 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

I'm also puzzled by McKellen's claim that amateur theatre no longer offers young people the outlets it once did. Dear Ian McKellen, I beg to differ ... 2010-09-27T21:01:00Z

Vigilante fans filled the void, taking it into their own hands to tweet amateur videos of the sketch taken from their television sets. “S.N.L.” Both Mocks and Exploits the Streaming-Media Landscape 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

But a huge gulf looms between the sophistication of this background information and the rudimentary, amateur quality of the performance itself. Review: The Sea Is Rising, but the Dance Goes On 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

Since then, he has made it his mission to promote the industry, writing books about his exploits and even composing a song called “Craving for Travel,” which he commissioned an amateur rock band to record. Profile: The Overlooked Travel Agent, Now Starring Off Broadway 2014-01-17T21:44:47Z

Some of those cameras were instruments of propaganda; others were wielded by amateurs. ‘Babi Yar: Context’ Review: Unearthing Footage of a Nazi Massacre 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

Many of the 40 or so participants in the makeshift chorus indicated that they were members of amateur singing groups, and there was clearly a modicum of musical know-how scattered among them. Sprawling Across New York, a Solstice Music Marathon 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

The production, a monologue with occasional interruptions, stars Hoffman as Ariana, an Italian American real estate agent and amateur drama enthusiast in Roselle Park, N.J. Review: ‘Fruma-Sarah (Waiting in the Wings)’ Is a Mangled Love Letter 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

The folk revival prized authenticity — the work song recorded in prison, the fiddle tune recorded on a back porch — and then diluted it as the making of amateur collegiate strum-alongs. Pete Seeger, 1919-2014: A Folk Revivalist Who Used His Voice to Bring Out a Nation’s 2014-01-29T02:31:11Z

The script for such a key lobbying platform would never be left in the hands of an amateur. How Brad Pitt's zen reinvention has paved the way for Oscar glory 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Most of the men and women Comas interviewed showed a zest for life and an interest in pastimes from amateur dramatics to playing the piano. Tips from Spain’s centenarians on how to live to 100 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

May 17 saw amateur cooks auctioning sushi from their homes, biology students serving recipes featuring insects, and still other participants serving dishes based on wartime cookbooks. Helsinki’s food scene, coming on strong

Joey began playing piano at 6, picking out a Thelonious Monk tune by ear, which led Mr. Sila, an amateur pianist, to teach him some fundamentals. Joey Alexander, an 11-Year-Old Jazz Sensation Who Hardly Clears the Piano’s Sightlines 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

She quit college after two years to perform in amateur nights at Greenwich Village folk clubs. Singer Phoebe Snow dies at 60 2011-04-27T00:52:04Z

You start as a toddler Tiger on national television, progress through his meteoric junior and amateur careers and press on to his spectacular professional success. Video Game Review: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, From Electronic Arts 2012-04-04T18:20:50Z

For it turns out that Gowery has deeply offended some of the locals, whose amateur production of “Internal Structure of Stars” he rudely refused to attend the previous winter. Review: A ‘Nantucket Sleigh Ride’ with Frozen Disney and Hot Lobster 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

Because before that I was an amateur professional. Jacqueline de Jong Paints It All 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

Footage from celebrity showbiz website TMZ.com showed the rapper being jovial while sitting in the back of a police car, while amateur audience video showed the rapper kicking items around stage before leaving the venue. Tyler, The Creator arrested for vandalism 2011-12-23T18:58:07Z

He is a high school English teacher from Fairfax, Vt., and a founder of the New England Nordic Ski Association, a nonprofit that oversees the region’s amateur racing circuit. Pursuits: Creating Winter for Cross-Country Skiers 2012-12-06T18:45:56Z

And she was even rigorous about the nature sound effects, given her extensive experience as an amateur naturalist. Don’t Tell, but Jane Alexander Is Also a Comedian 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

I laughed, and told her the same thing I’m telling you: We’re all amateurs here. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

It reprises the impromptu exhibition of images of the attack and its aftermath taken by both professional and amateur photographers that sprang up in two small storefronts in SoHo in the days after Sept. Critic?s Notebook: 9/11 Exhibitions Rekindle Grief in 3 Ways 2011-09-10T00:00:13Z

Any "curer", amateur or professional worth their salt should measure by weight in grams and use percentages to understand the value and necessity of proportions for consistency and accuracy. Just Add Salt: How to Make Bacon and Pancetta at Home 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Still, J & M Special Effects, a leading supplier of theatrical weapons to Broadway and amateur productions, said schools seem to be moving away from using prop guns that closely resemble real ones. When the Actors Are Students, and They’re Armed 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

But she herself has long promoted writing as an amateur enterprise. Edith Pearlman’s New Book Is ‘Honeydew’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

As the theatrical expression evolves a lot of it is going to be on a secondary-school amateur dramatics level. David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters – a classic interview 2012-06-12T15:57:34Z

Unlike amateur outfits that feel the need to overplay, the best groups can swing without playing many notes. Steps to heaven 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

His parents were amateur pilots, and the family moved around the Midwest as his father worked variously as a mechanic, gas station owner and luncheonette operator. James Rosenquist, painter of unnerving large-scale masterworks, dies at 83 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

My concept was strictly amateur at the time, but it was a good idea. Birth Of A Wildcatter - How Harold Hamm Got His Start 2012-12-06T15:00:00Z

A lot of casual gambling money is bet by amateurs at races such as the Preakness, and the top favorite is often over-hyped. How to Turn a Profit on Preakness Bets 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

At heart, they are superpowered versions of 1930s fanzines, those mimeographed, self-published journals in which amateurs wrote stories and criticism, often with the hope of becoming, in an affectionate phrase, “a dirty pro.” Review | ‘The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom’ beautifully demonstrates the evolution of a genre 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

A decidedly amateur piece of adult cinema, the video shows a married couple exuberantly enjoying each other’s company. ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ Review: No Sex, Please, We’re Romanian 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Antique shops I consider myself an amateur antiquarian book collector. Jenna Ortega Gets Her Thrills From Radiohead and ‘Paris, Texas’ 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

This festival is proof that amateur choral singing continues to thrive, as eager singers arrive from around the country for an intense period of study and performance. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z

Lowry, the sensible night-school-trained amateur artist in search of a subject, was overtaken – possessed would be a better word – by an unconscious force far bigger than either the man or his mission-statement. LS Lowry's rage against the machine 2013-06-13T06:00:04Z

Serial host Sarah Koenig may have uncovered some leads that they can pursue in court, she says — while amateur sleuths on Reddit have helped them identify another suspect who was not on their radar. The Innocence Project's Deirdre Enright Tells Serial Fans What's Next for Adnan's Case 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

The gold was found by Terry Herbert, a passionate amateur metal detector whose best previous find was a broken piece of medieval horse harness, on farmer Fred Johnson's land near Lichfield in July. Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire hoard saved by ?1.3m Heritage grant 2010-03-23T15:45:00Z

But instead you get all the bonehead mistakes of the amateur. Film Hitches a Weird Ride on Kesey?s Bus 2011-07-31T22:21:24Z

Its author, the science-fiction writer Norman Spinrad, announced it would become an episode of a popular Web series, “Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II,” which features amateur actors in the classic roles of Capt. CBS Blocks Use of Unused ?Star Trek? Script by Spinrad 2012-03-28T22:25:24Z

An amateur radio operator, he created a Morse code instruction album that could be played at 33, 45 or 78 r.p.m. Indie-Label Folkie to Rock Patriarch 2011-03-06T01:45:27Z

The newest, Tasman’s Great Taste Trail, last month opened the final section of its coastal route, a mostly flat and off-road stretch easy enough for families and amateur cyclists. Biking New Zealand's Wine Country 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

She started appearing in amateur theater productions in the area when she was working behind the counter in a Boots pharmacy. Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Basinski, a shortstop, said he studied violin for 16 years, practicing three or four hours a day before making it to the Dodgers in 1944 out of the amateur circuit. Music: Ballplayers Who Hit the Right Note 2011-06-24T19:50:28Z

I selected walking and drinking, and among the half-dozen choices was a three-and-a-half hour tour of Brooklyn breweries for $55 led by an amateur guide. In Transit: Two New Web Sites Aim to Connect Travelers 2011-06-11T17:00:09Z

The grey, clunky tablet looked like something you might find suspended over an amateur basement mushroom laboratory, or perhaps an unconvincing medical prop on a TV show. Therapy lamps tested: ‘The optical equivalent of freezing cold shower' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Howard, the son of a Quaker businessman, earned his pennies as a pharmacist, but his passion was the skies — and he soon became an accomplished amateur meteorologist. In London, Blue Plaques Mark the Noted and Notorious 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

And while the Apollo is known for its “Sandman” character who boots weak contestants during its famous amateur show, “Enter Sandman” is one of Metallica’s famous songs. Metallica to Headline at the Apollo 2013-08-22T13:45:44Z

He serves as a tour guide, a ceremonial guard and an amateur historian, bridging the distance between Britain’s past and present. 3 Books That Take Us Inside the Lives of Britain’s Royals 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Now that everyone seems to be an amateur photographer, posting unretouched photos to social media willy-nilly, some women are taking pre-emptive measures to ensure their complexions look smooth on the Internet. Skin Deep: Foundation Makeup Made for the High Definition Era 2012-04-03T11:30:05Z

While his Uncle Beppe is being treated for what at first seems a beatable lymphoma, Enia invites his recently retired father — a doctor, now an amateur photographer — to accompany him to Lampedusa. The Life-or-Death Struggle of Refugees Braving the Mediterranean Crossing 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

Consider this subreddit an antidote: It features amateur women posing and performing for other women — not men. The best of Reddit porn 2013-09-14T23:34:00Z

With “Tosh.0,” Comedy Central has found a way to bring the spectacle of amateur Internet videos to television successfully. Television: Daniel Tosh Is a Hit on ?Tosh.0? 2010-08-20T17:25:00Z

Mr. O’Neill, of Adams Media, said the demographic for these books tends to be amateur cooks in their 20s to 40s. What Do Marvel Characters Eat? Pop-Culture Cookbooks Have Answers, and Rapt Audiences. 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

To be clear, we’re still talking about the works of a capable amateur, of note — and of occasionally startling financial value — chiefly because they were made by the wartime prime minister of Britain. Churchill’s Aura, and Bright Colors, Draw New Fans to His Art 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

Here, he offers tips for amateurs, and a glimpse of his own regimen. 2010-01-28T06:21:00Z

To an amateur observer, the quality of their performances looked higher than usual for a film drama, while the pieces they had to dance looked mostly vapid, garish or both. | 'Mao?s Last Dancer': Bruce Beresford on Li Cunxin?s Immersion in America 2010-08-19T23:20:00Z

Here's a quick rundown of what happened: Walter Elliott, a retired Scottish woodcutter and amateur historian, said he discovered a crumbling pamphlet in his attic. 'Lost' Sherlock Holmes tale probably isn't Arthur Conan Doyle's, expert says 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

The amateur video was one of several instances when Karl Jordan Jr. proved himself a danger to the community by openly bragging about dealing drugs and possessing guns following Jay’s 2002 death, the documents say. Prosecutors: Jam Master Jay killer rapped in front of mural 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

Some of those rappers started their careers in the suburbs by making amateur videos known as “freeslaktish” that require little more than a camera phone and a car, or a courtyard crowded with friends. After a Star’s Killing, Sweden Struggles With ‘Gangster Rap’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Today, 16 millimeter is no longer optimal for the amateur filmmaker. Happy 100th Birthday, 16-Millimeter Film 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

Unlike Khosrova, the amateur unused to eating so much butter at once finds herself slightly queasy four butters in, and a little punchy. Our messed-up relationship with food has a long history. It started with butter. 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

If the work these theaters produce is often more ambitious, the quality is still erratic, from strictly amateur to Broadway-ready. In the Berkshires, Musicals With Ambitions Not Always Realized 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

A reward offered for the shark evokes a comical flotilla of amateurs. L.A. Times' original 1975 review of 'Jaws' unearthed: We hated it 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

Like Charles, an amateur watercolorist, O’Connor moonlights as a visual artist, drawing with a ballpoint pen during downtime on set. Can “The Crown” Make Us Crush on Prince Charles? 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

His career began, in the early two-thousands, on amateur circuits, where he served as a battery-packed opener to bigger, and more constitutionally relaxed, comedians. “Irresponsible,” Reviewed: Kevin Hart’s Family Values 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Instead, they go to what he calls good students — “people going away to conservatory, music schools, or amateurs who are serious players who want a good instrument.” Stringing together a passion and a livelihood 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

While female wrestlers have long featured on the professional circuit in the U.S., their amateur British counterparts have faced challenges before climbing into the ring. Britain's female wrestlers grapple with acceptance 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

The unpredictability provides great exercise for the eye, whether amateur or expert — though in some cases not much exertion is required. 2010-01-29T06:18:00Z

It also unveils an amateur recording of an anarchic 1968 Hollywood Bowl concert. The Year in Yesteryear: Standout Music Books and Boxed Sets 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Three are by contemporaries working in color, and one by a gifted amateur recording America’s diversity in the early 20th century. Four Not-to-Miss Photography Shows 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

In Season 2, the amateur detectives will investigate the murder of the disagreeable board president of their Upper West Side co-op. Summer TV 2022: 27 Shows to Watch 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Well, at least from the perspective of an amateur chef. Alfredo: Forever and always the hood's favorite 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z

He learned how to play keyboard and use the recording software Logic Pro X at a young age, and uploaded his first amateur beat to YouTube when he was 7. Kid Krono Wrote Music for Kanye West Between Classes 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

The unfortunate low point is Loudon Wainwright III’s dull rendition of “Do We? We Do,” which doesn’t even sound half as inspired as the amateur covers on YouTube. REVIEW: Beck Makes a Bold Move on 'Song Reader' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

It’s an old saying in the military that “amateurs talk about strategy, professionals talk about logistics.” Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z

But 10 series in, the amateur baking contest is still an autumn staple. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

But, by now, I actually believe these amateur cooks have come to love Julia — if they didn't already. Omelets are hard to master and more lessons learned from "The Julia Child Challenge" 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

Here legends like Earl Scruggs appeared onstage and stayed in the same campgrounds where festivalgoers roughed it and jammed in amateur bands through the night. A filmmaker reissues what some consider the definitive bluegrass documentary, featuring the Osborne Brothers 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

Now this may be me and my amateur survival skills, but isn’t it entirely stupid to put all your best people into a van and drive off into the wilderness? The Walking Dead: season six, episode 11 – Knots Untie 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

Though the mood was relaxed — toppled beer bottles clanged and a DJ played during intermissions — the actors were no amateurs. In unusual New York City venues — such as restaurants — the taste for classical music expands 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Underground restaurants in the United States usually involve amateurs trying to cook like professionals. London?s Pop-Up Restaurants Let Rising Chefs Shine 2010-10-05T23:47:00Z

Even at their most puritanical, though, American colonists were amateurs compared with witch hunters in Europe. Review | The story of Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z

The queen's "Bond-girl" acting role, for example, can be traced to Elizabeth's little-known teenage penchant for amateur theatricals at Windsor Castle, when she apparently used to play the principal boy. Queen's "Bond girl" stunt crowns majestic rebrand 2012-07-29T15:17:31Z

For amateur travel videographers, though, the process can be much simpler. 2010-01-20T20:13:00Z

In the 80s, he was a player on the "Saturday Night Live" band and at "Apollo," he was witness to early performances by the likes of Lauryn Hill and Ne-Yo on the show's amateur night. "American Idol" hires Ray Chew as music director 2010-12-30T20:54:54Z

For one, the amateurs make the pros look affected, and their dancier bits look superfluous. Review: Lift Me Up (but Where?). A Dance of Escape and Connection. 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

I'm not sure what I was looking for — after a suicide everyone turns into an amateur detective — but I opened the cover and noticed something I hadn't before. The androgyny of being Ernest: A gender-fluid reading of Hemingway that upends his macho image 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

In a recent interview via e-mail, Mr. Hitt discussed the reputation of the Tyrannosaurus rex, Benjamin Franklin’s role in the mythology of amateurism, the relationship between pros and amateurs, and more. ArtsBeat: Amateur Hour: Jack Hitt Talks About an American Tradition 2012-05-16T19:53:00Z

This film explores the physical and psychological effects of some of the most popular procedures, including Botox, hair transplant and breast enlargement, any combination of which makes the victim resemble an amateur waxwork. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 26-30 November 2012-11-26T07:00:00Z

It wasn't just amateurs, it wasn't just the family making music. Play it again: conquering Chopin's Ballade No 1 2013-01-12T06:30:01Z

Many of the so-called amateurs that helped build YouTube have gone pro. Bieber, `Bed Intruder Song' top YouTube in 2010 2010-12-13T15:13:00Z

The third movement, “Chaconne: Giulio’s Song,” written for an amateur cellist friend of the composer, pits searching cello lines against a backdrop of aching, pungent harmonies. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z

The Fantasy Sports Trade Association, in any case, demands that its members “ensure that current professional and amateur athletes will be restricted to not play paid entry games in the league they are a player.” Daily Fantasy Sports Join Hands With the NFL 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

At age 9, he debuted on an amateur television show and became its regular drummer for three years. Bobby Rydell, 60s teen idol and ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ star, dies 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

Where Holmes is dashing, hawk-like, and a boxer and swordsman as much as an amateur chemist and logician, Brown is dowdy, baby-faced, plump, a parish priest and an "Essex turnip". Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z

Tomblin said the hundreds of amateur golfers taking part went ahead with the event Saturday. Radio, TV personality David 'Kidd' Kraddick dies 2013-07-28T18:09:10Z

The son of an amateur photographer, Mr. Frank may still be best known for “The Americans,” his collection of black-and-white images harvested during his travels across the United States in the mid-50s. Review: ‘Don’t Blink — Robert Frank,’ a Portrait of a Quintessential New York Artist 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Nearly 22,000 photos, shot in national parks and on other public lands, were submitted for the Share the Experience contest for amateur photographers. Polar bear photo wins grand prize for Seattle man 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Fuse Medway Festival With many towns now putting on summer arts festivals, there are a lot of thin programmes that don't include much beyond local amateur groups. This week's new events 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

In contrast to the smooth-faced beauty of youth, these mature men and women – all amateurs, all living locally to the Bausch company in Wuppertal – look extravagantly diverse. Kontakthof | Dance review 2010-04-02T20:30:00Z

Her own first taste came in an amateur Hamlet in the Essex seaside town of Southend-on-Sea, not far from Westcliff-on-Sea where she grew up with her Russian father and English mother. Helen Mirren: 'I want to play Hamlet!' 2011-03-03T21:31:00Z

Comments on the more critical blogs ranged from “amateur” to “all surface and no emotion.” At Mugler, Genius and Its Limits 2011-03-23T22:23:43Z

Unlike YouTube videos, “You Me Bum Bum Train” has the advantage of leaving no documentary evidence of its amateur performances. London Theater Journal: Feeling The Pain 2010-07-19T16:58:00Z

Given the proliferation of amateur voice-over artists using easy online self-promotion to get in on the voice game, Biggs only hopes those new people realize it’s a real career that takes professional training. Vocal Opposition: Women Want Work Doing Movie-Trailer Voiceovers 2013-08-12T18:40:35Z

Buckland’s father was not only canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford but also the university’s first professor of geology and a passionate amateur biologist. Frank Buckland, both intellectually and literally omnivorous 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

More than 600 companies, amateur and professional, have put it on in the United States and Canada. New York Flop Becomes a Hit Everywhere Else 2010-12-18T03:00:31Z

A United Nations of amateur comedians took the stage to varying degrees of success in sets touching on the scatological to the societal. In Dubai, Filipina pulls no punches in jokes on Mideast life 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

Online shows these days are running longer than the short amateur clips the Web is famous for, she said, and feature more extensive character development and better production quality. Eager to build buzz, online sites hope to impress TV critics 2013-01-09T12:14:13Z

The hunt for Finn was no longer merely an amateur affair: The doggy day-care managers set her up with a search-and-rescue dog, who went on the hunt for Finn. Her dog went missing in the middle of the pandemic — and a neighborhood of strangers found a mission 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

The amateur, on the other hand, might only do a certain thing at weekends or in the evenings, often for free and out of enthusiasm. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

"We started with a small festival for amateurs. We weren’t expecting people to respond so well," said Alice Mogabgab, one of the founders. Film festival brings Chinese contemporary art to Beirut screens 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Professional organizations like the Partnership for a Drug-Free America and D.A.R.E. siphoned funds away from the amateurs. The lonely lot of the anti-pot crusader

His precise and richly colored illustrations made it easy for amateurs to identify individual birds by emphasizing the shapes of beaks, wings and feathers. ArtsBeat: Auction to Offer Works by Roger Tory Peterson 2012-08-03T18:14:04Z

For him, an outsider artist is not an amateur, just someone working outside the regular art world structures. Art Review: Opening the Folkways of Perception: Outsider Art?s Wide World of Inclusion 2011-02-11T23:25:30Z

"There was a tendency to stick with those things that people assume that amateur theatre does: whodunnits, Agatha Christie, old Whitehall farces and things that bring punters in," he says. Raising the curtain on the new am-dram 2012-12-15T21:00:00Z

“I refuse to be an amateur psychoanalyst, or novelist. I would prefer to be thought of as a sort of stilled-action choreographer.” Philip Pearlstein, Whose Realist Nudes Revived Portraiture, Dies at 98 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

What happens when an amateur takes on a murder? “Dead Air” and the true crime boom: What happens when amateurs investigate murder? 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

“So why are amateurs paying such incredibly high prices for them?” he continued. Special Report: A Cut Above: Watches: The Triumph of Unnecessary Beauty 2011-03-23T15:28:24Z

These ominous, if nonsensical, communications are set to YouTube clips, news, and amateur footage, where everything from shots of birdhouses to people strolling by a lake seem part of a sinister masterplan. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

But if there's any discernible thread, it might be the unexpected influence of Belgian amateur dramatics. Art Sheffield 10 2010-04-12T21:00:00Z

I thought of myself as an amateur anthropologist. Ricki Lake 2.0: The Talk Show Star Discusses Wig-Snatching, Paternity Tests and a New Show That’s ‘Evolved’ Beyond Both 2012-08-27T12:00:59Z

Making fun of wine tasters should be an official amateur sport. What does a fat gamay look like? 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

Jena Clough, 32, a studio owner and mother of two from Cape Cod, was among the seven amateurs anointed pro this year, placing third. Pole Dancing Without Nudity or G-Strings. Just Express Yourself. 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

Most amateur grillers look for visual doneness, have a set amount of time they trust, go with "better safe than sorry" or just wing it when deciding when to pull the meat. The very best leave-in smart meat thermometer 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z

That episode, incidentally, included the creepy scene in which Raef and fellow contestant Michael began listing to each other their achievements in amateur dramatics, eventually singing showtunes to each other. The 10 best Apprentice contestants 2010-10-02T23:04:00Z

“We really were a bunch of amateurs flying by the seat of our pants,” he says. This Week?s DVD?s: A Wonka Box Set and a New York Times Documentary 2011-10-18T20:57:20Z

Today, it is used at the top level in many sports and is increasingly being marketed to keen amateurs seeking an edge. Whole-body cryotherapy: what are the cold hard facts? 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

He blends her a cappella singing with sophisticated mixes of instrumental fragments and beats gleaned, without permission, from the YouTube videos of other amateur musicians. Review: ‘Presenting Princess Shaw,’ a YouTube Star in-the-Making 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Audience members receive headphones that supply them with a soundtrack of one-hit wonders as they observe an eclectic group of dancers, actors, musicians and amateur performers who are interspersed among regular shoppers. 11 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Proms director Roger Wright had originally wanted to use amateur musicians – three of the previous five complete performances have been amateur – but Brabbins quickly dissuaded him. The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z

The Tony Award-winning actor Jefferson Mays will tackle 50 different roles in a $3.7 million one-man video version, filmed by a Broadway producer to benefit 71 amateur, community and regional theaters and arts organizations. Bah, Pandemic! How Theaters Are Saving ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z

Though they probably enjoy one another’s company, they seem like amateur actors pretending to do so.  Review: ‘Thelonious’ is a Tap Tribute to a Musician 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

He took violin lessons as a child, attended music school as a teenager and earned money playing in amateur theatricals. Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Dies at 99 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

What with the amateurs, the pros, the celebrities, and soon the juniors, it practically needs its own channel. Poor taste 2010-03-23T15:00:00Z

Now a grandmother and amateur local historian, Corless has spent years painstakingly researching records to discover what happened behind those high walls, where unmarried pregnant women were sent to have their babies in secret. Amateur historian 'blew open locked doors' by exposing Irish babies' mass grave 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

In spite of the animator's youth and amateur status, it seems perfectly reasonable to me to take him seriously. Cartoons on YouTube: 'Bee and PuppyCat,' 'Dead End,' 'King Douglas' 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

She made a widely posted amateur music video in 2007 satirizing Silicon Valley’s start-up culture and began performing at company parties. Randi Zuckerberg, on Her Own Now 2011-10-19T22:07:09Z

Over the next few decades, amateur and professional baseball leagues popped up around Eastern Canada. The secret history of black baseball players in Canada’s great white north 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

Edge came to the cause in middle age, an affluent and well-connected amateur bird-watcher who had developed political skills fighting for woman’s suffrage. The Long History of Those Who Fought to Save the Animals 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Ten amateur cooks from different regions of the UK compete each week to pull off the finest flour-sugar-egg combos. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-08-17T06:59:00Z

The show, which will be up through May 13, includes photographs of amateur and professional players over the years as well as memorabilia of former players and others. Spare Times for April 13-19 2012-04-12T20:38:23Z

Ever since, scholars and amateurs alike have puzzled over Mudd’s role in events surrounding the assassination. The last trail of a Lincoln conspirator 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Her father, an amateur photographer, often used his children as subjects, and his hobby became a source of admiration for Iturbide. Graciela Iturbide’s Art of Seeing Mexico 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Moviemaking is painstaking, even at the amateur level. 3-Minute Masterpiece 2014: Tips for digital filmmakers 2014-03-19T21:36:26Z

I Got Out the Vote My brother, an accomplished amateur photographer, asked me to round up votes for him in an online photo contest. Social Q?s: How to Handle a Friend Who Steals Your Look 2010-03-12T17:19:00Z

In addition to being a mechanic, Manbo was also a dedicated amateur photographer, shooting color at a time when the form was still nascent. Object Lesson: Hollywood mechanic's rare Japanese internment photos 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Most rappers charged in recent cases have been amateur performers who aspire to fame, even though gangsta rap is no longer as popular as it was, having been supplanted by more mainstream party music. Using Rap Lyrics as Damning Evidence Stirs Legal Debate 2014-03-26T23:01:35Z

From there, Martial, an enthusiastic amateur photographer, and his brother, a dilettante painter of exceptional talent, observed and chronicled the daily life of the belle époque. In Transit: Paris Show Spotlights Caillebotte Brothers 2011-06-17T10:00:44Z

For an amateur, Nels is awfully good at killing, and he takes to it with a grim determination that could easily be mistaken for enthusiasm. ‘Cold Pursuit’ Review: Liam Neeson Is a Killer Snowplow Driver 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

In other words, the photo of Mr. Rout’s son had become an Internet meme: an idea, image, catchphrase or video that goes viral, mutating via amateur remixes into unexpected forms. A Baby Photo Becomes an Internet Meme 2010-09-16T12:56:00Z

But Oleksii Potiomkin, 33, a principal at the National Opera and Ballet Theater who spent time in Ukraine’s amateur defense forces, said from Lviv that it was good dancers had left to train. These Dancers Escaped the War. Their Journeys Are Just Beginning. 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Food Fighters Adam Richman is the host of this new competition that pits amateur cooks against professional chefs. Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'Face Off' on Syfy 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

The film, which features blind amateur actors as massage therapists, won best feature film, best cinematography and best sound effects. Blind Massage in Golden Horse sweep 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

The movie aligns viewers with a handful of Quadriga users who team up as amateur detectives on the case. ‘Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King’ Review: Coins and Misdemeanors 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

He takes lodgings at The Top, an area of town where the better-off members of society live, and joins the local amateur dramatic society. Peake drama finally gets go-ahead 2012-05-28T17:31:05Z

Rappers who failed to meet crowd expectations, in scenes akin to an amateur night at the Apollo, were booed off the stage. ‘This Is the Life’ Review: A Valuable Part of Hip-Hop History 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

The show consisted of a group of amateur athletes, who competed against each other and against the show's own Gladiators in a series of strength-based contests. The 6 most shocking “American Gladiators” revelations from Netflix’s “Muscles & Mayhem” doc 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

But this is oral history in which amateur pathology runs as freely as insight, tale-telling and gossip. In a Bowie Oral History, a Glimpse of How Others Saw the Faker 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

There has certainly been a boom recently in amateur comedians, including many who – like Peppiatt and Grist – have parlayed real-world profile into a fledgling comedy career. Edinburgh fringe's amateur comedians turn headlines into punchlines 2012-07-23T14:26:47Z

On his watch the organisation morphed from a body of enthusiastic amateurs into a professional conservation machine. Birds in a Cage: Warburg, Germany, 1941 by Derek Niemann - review 2012-12-20T08:00:01Z

After each amateur puts up the rock or pivots toward the hoop, the spot cuts to a mirror image of an NBA player making the same move. TNT taps Justin Timberlake, Jamie Foxx to hype NBA 2010-03-31T20:20:00Z

The son of an amateur watercolorist, Derek was aware of the look of things and how to describe what things looked like, including memory. Derek Walcott, a Mighty Poet, Has Died 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

They were arranged in five groups with section leaders who cued the players — professional musicians, amateurs and a few first-timers. Make Music New York in Review: One Day, a Thousand Concerts, to Celebrate Summer 2013-06-23T21:40:13Z

The Forest Service office in Baker City is a good place to ask about amateur mining or other recreation. Try panning for gold in Oregon’s gold-rush country 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Your book reminded me of that, and of the pleasures, and on occasion, the benefits of being a passionate amateur. Swimming against the tide: Lawrence Weschler on 'Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of Astrophysicists' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Precocious and multitalented as a youth, the boyishly handsome Mr. Jones began his career as a teenage radio host and performer in amateur musical revues. Dean Jones, Star of Disney’s ‘The Love Bug,’ Dies at 84 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

The musical stays close to the film, which charted the rise and romance of amateur boxer and debt collector Rocky Balboa, played in Germany by Drew Sarich. Musical of Rocky Heading to Broadway 2013-04-29T15:11:08Z

From then on, until I left my hometown for college, I was always in a play, usually with a whole cast of older, amateur actors. "Only Murders in the Building" makes me long to reconnect with our elders 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z

We didn’t have the $250 it would cost to pay a bona fide illegal abortionist so the only option was amateur hour. My illegal abortion 2012-08-27T00:00:00Z

“He wrote his music to be performed by amateurs in the living room, and I loved the more handmade approach to theater making that these guys displayed.” Taking Schubert for a Wild Joy Ride 2010-12-03T22:00:00Z

The daughter of amateur ballroom dancers, she began studying dance at an early age and was signed to an MGM contract shortly after graduating from high school. Sally Forrest, Actress in 1940s and ’50s Film Musicals and Dramas, Dies at 86 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

But there’s one Coens-specific idea that brings tonight’s thrilling hour all the way back to their debut feature, “Blood Simple”: Crime isn’t for amateurs. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 2: Crime Isn’t for Amateurs 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

Punk was driven by crude but inspired amateurs. A Memoir by Viv Albertine, Punk Rocker 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Wendell Morris Logan was born on Nov. 24, 1940, in Thomson, Ga. His first musical studies were with his father, an amateur alto saxophonist. Wendell Logan, Composer of Jazz and Concert Music, Dies at 69 2010-06-22T23:32:00Z

Joining a tour of Passau, we drew a law student for a guide, an amateur historian as entertaining as he was knowledgeable. Danube River cruise offers choices and chances 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Professor Lieberman said he hoped a dedicated printer or hand-press amateur would buy the Albion and wrestle it back into productivity. Kelmscott Press, a Thing of Iron Musculature, Is to Be Sold 2013-12-05T15:00:01Z

At age 31, as the 1980s wound down, Pelecanos quit his job and got to work on his first novel, “A Firing Offense,” which introduced his amateur detective character Nick Stefanos. ‘We Own This City’ Brings George Pelecanos Back to Baltimore 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

In recent years social media has helped Muslim fashion designers, photographers and amateur tastemakers definitively prove to the rest of the world that religious modesty and creative personal style can coexist. 21 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

On June 22, Ford’s Theatre will honor Congress’s longest-serving member with performances by genuine stars rather than amateur attempts at political theater. Recent theater grad orchestrates new musical, ‘Cloak and Dagger,’ at Signature Theatre

So Henry and his wife Sarah moved back to Canada where they had a baby and Henry passed the time with amateur dramatics. Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel 2010-06-07T20:59:00Z

She says the challenges are tested, both by the setters and amateur bakers, to ensure they are not impossible. Soggy soufflés: have Bake Off’s impossible technicals soured the whole show? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

As an amateur chef, you want an instrument that is not only appropriate to your current skill level and budget, but also one that won’t hold you back as your skills improve with practice. A great chef’s knife 2012-07-22T17:00:00Z

Mr. Ellis is already a star, but he still fantasizes about appearing in one of its amateur nights. Jay Ellis Comes Home to Harlem 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

In his growing repertoire of works, often performed by groups of amateurs, dancers and children, Sehgal manages to talk about politics, economics, communication and art itself, in ways that are often both uplifting and disturbing. Turner prize 2013 shortlist: Tino Sehgal dances to the fore 2013-04-25T12:52:06Z

"Write what you know" is the exhausted adage passed from lecturer to amateur scribbler down the ages. Let's start a comedy crime wave 2010-08-03T10:36:00Z

But unlike Tommy Caldwell, or even experienced amateur climbers, I did not need to have precise technique nor exceptional strength nor a rack full of climbing gear to reach my elevated perch. Coming Soon to an American Cliff Near You: ‘Via Ferrata’ Routes 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

And with a huge, diverse amateur chorus onstage, the room tingles with exhilaration. A Critic Gives Prizes for 5 ‘Messiah’ Concerts in New York 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

More insidious and pervasive are the inadequately disguised assumptions that a female pinball player must be an amateur or some male player’s supportive girlfriend. Women find sexism in male-dominated pinball — so they’ve started leagues of their own 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

It was a unique bonding experience for the community that it served and a perfect example of how vital the theatre – whether professional or amateur – is for our society. In praise of the people behind youth theatre 2011-01-17T15:16:12Z

As he gleefully constructs a Bollywood musical number around the Muslim prayer ritual and choreographs a chorus line of burqa-clad kidnappers, his amateur actors constantly remind us that free speech is not an abstraction. | 'the Sheik and I': ‘The Sheik and I,’ Directed by Caveh Zahedi 2012-12-07T02:52:56Z

In the drama “A Face in the Crowd,” he starred as Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes, a local jailbird and amateur singer who becomes a homespun philosopher on national television. Beloved actor Andy Griffith dies at 86 2012-07-03T16:45:00Z

So I wanted to look chaotic and beautiful and polished and amateur and ugly and masculine and feminine and crazy and insane and totally calm and peaceful at the same time. For Taylor Mac, the stage show is just part of the fight for the LGBT community 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

Ten amateur bakers compete for a cash prize in this new reality series. A&E highlights: Chesney at CenturyLink, Ballard bike riders and all that jazz in Bellevue 2013-05-22T23:21:08Z

We looked at still photos of bands shot in Laurel Canyon and the Sunset Strip area, and amateur photos shot on color slide film that we found in picture books that chronicled the beach towns. Robert Elswit's two sides of L.A. in 'Inherent Vice,' 'Nightcrawler' 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

Bianca Stigter’s “Three Minutes: A Lengthening” examines a scrap of amateur film taken in a Polish town in 1938 — a tourist’s moving snapshot of Jewish citizens waving, mugging and going about their daily lives. Worried About the Health of Cinema? Sundance Has Good News for You. 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

As a young man, he made amateur films with friends and worked in the art department for “B’’ movie king Roger Corman. Bill Paxton, amiable actor of film and TV, dies at 61 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

Getting ready for the Golden Gloves, an annual nationwide amateur boxing competition in March, Ms. Harris sparred with partners of various sizes, both men and women. ‘I Love to Fight. I Live to Fight.’ 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

That commitment to realism was demanding on the cast, which mixes veteran actors with amateurs from a basketball background. How ‘Swagger’ Raised Its Game 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

Badly recorded, based on simple riffs and scream-like singing, the feminist singers were dismissed by many critics and listeners as amateur, provocative and obscene. A guide to Pussy Riot's oeuvre 2012-08-18T15:19:07Z

Few writers in the cozy format — a genre now dominated by cartoon-style covers and amateur sleuths running folksy crafts businesses or working in libraries — escape the tracks laid down by "Murder, She Wrote." The cozy "Maltese Falcon": How "Murder, She Wrote" reinvented mysteries forever 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z

Most of the photos are amateur snapshots that portray, in the soft haze of old film, quotidian activities whose locations are quickly determined in discussion. Our old-timey addiction: Why we can’t get enough of century-old images 2013-12-14T23:00:00Z

And not content to play alone, he joined a New York City orchestra of fellow late-starting amateurs. ‘The Late Starters Orchestra,’ by Ari L. Goldman

When I first heard that David Lang was composing a piece for a thousand voices, professional and amateur, to be performed outdoors around the fountain in Lincoln Center Plaza, the idea seemed a little gimmicky. ‘The Public Domain’: Cherished Harmony in a Splintered Nation 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

An amateur movie set looks sort of the same as a professional one. Why I'm looking forward to Birdemic: Shock and Terror 2010-05-26T14:19:00Z

Here is a 2,000-year-old text showing us we are but amateurs. The Kama Sutra's lessons for modern lovers 2011-02-14T11:31:31Z

Excuse my amateur physiology, but I'm pretty sure our body clocks start to sense, intuitively, when we're nearing the end of an hour and, therefore, the end of a show. There's more to the Edinburgh festival than one-hour wonders 2011-08-15T15:32:13Z

One consequence of true-crime dramas such as Serial and Making a Murderer is that they tend to turn their army of viewers and listeners into amateur sleuths. The Keepers: 'I've dealt with survivors and they're sickened by the church's response' 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

Although rare, female sumo wrestling does occur all over Japan at an amateur level. Festival brings sunshine to scandal-hit sumo wrestling 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

He acted in several amateur productions as a child and then began his movie and TV acting career in 1951. Actor Leonard Nimoy Passes Away At Age 83 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

But there were also amateur historians, like Barbara Calderbank, a former manager for the Royal Post Office who once presented a paper to her local group about the significance of the mail in Austen novels. Where Jane Austen Danced, Dined or Dallied 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Any keen cook – professional or amateur – knows that playing around with leftovers is often more fun than making the main dish in the first place, and Christmas is a bumper time for experimentation. Turkey fajitas and cheeseboard fondue: comfort food for Boxing Day 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Tryouts in a handful of cities earned more than 100 amateur chefs a chance to advance to the next round in Los Angeles. "MasterChef" off to a tasty start 2010-07-27T01:31:00Z

The screens show algorithmically generated snippets of cable news and amateur footage relating to police violence against African Americans. Review | Picking apart the Internet: An exhibition that addresses the elephant in the room 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

But not everyone wants other people’s makeup, or amateur advice in a world that also offers tweets from makeup artists like Pat McGrath, the creative adviser for Dolce & Gabbana the Makeup. Skin Deep: Someone Just Like Me Said, ?Buy It? 2011-07-27T16:38:24Z

Hers was a musical family: Her father, a dockworker, played the harmonica; her mother was a devoted amateur singer. Cilla Black, Who Turned a Coat-Checking Job Into a Singing Career, Dies at 72 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Developed in partnership with Amaury Sport Organisation, organizers of the Tour de France, the event also includes a 34-mile challenge for amateur cyclists on Aug. 10, for 400 Norwegian krone, about $64. In Transit Blog: Calendar: Coming Events in Germany and Norway 2013-07-12T17:00:59Z

The extra-large chorus, which, as in the Seattle Opera production, often includes high-caliber amateur singers from the local African-American community, adds another dimension. Beloved yet problematic: Seattle Opera tackles the cultural controversies behind ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Bekhmetev is also an amateur artist, and he praises and respects Anna’s work. Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

There was a time when I could recite the top 100 highest grossing films without missing a beat, as well as offer amateur theories as to why certain movies succeeded or failed. Bullied, autistic and obsessed with presidents: How the 2000 presidential election changed my life 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z

The amateurs view it as detrimental, while the professionals tend to view stress as energizing. Motherlode Blog: Was Your Child Born to Take Tests, or Born to Panic? 2013-02-06T18:21:36Z

A series of illuminating essays also traces the trajectory of rock photography from its glossy showbiz roots to the rise of lo-fi digital photographs taken by amateurs and posted on the internet. Photography books of the year 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

Since the nightstand’s debut there last month, amateur poets have filled it with more than 100 handwritten poems. A park ranger set a nightstand in a park. People filled it with poetry. 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

Sometimes it's hard being a theatre blogger ... online amateur critics don't get paid for their efforts, drivel or not. Noises off: Netizens of the world unite 2010-09-17T15:29:00Z

Do say: As streams to amateur gold prospectors are we to th'critics / They pan us for their sport. What to say about ... The Gods Weep | Leo Benedictus 2010-03-22T12:09:00Z

"The Phantom of the Open" shows just how difficult it is for a self-taught amateur golfer who has no club or sponsor supporting him. "Phantom of the Open" is Mark Rylance's winning film about the worst British Open golfer ever 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

I learned that smiling was the mark of the amateur. Model for a Day: A Writer Struts His Stuff on the Catwalk During New York Fashion Week 2012-09-14T20:07:40Z

Back in the United States, he befriended Mr. Condo, an amateur lute player who bonded with Mr. Costanzo over readings of Dowland. Handel and Philip Glass, but Make It Fashion 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

What classical music he knew was from his mother, a talented amateur pianist. The ‘Philosopher King’ of Percussion Starts His Next Chapter 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

When she started tattooing as an amateur, making designs for herself and her friends using handmade gear, she was the kind of wild child you would expect to be drawn to that kind of activity. First, you cry ... when mastectomy scars are transformed by tattoos 2011-08-03T19:35:05Z

The dreary amateur lyricism clarified nothing but the extent of his aloneness. Hotel Room Theater: Richard Maxwell's 'Showcase' at the Millennium Biltmore 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

Ms. Toth discussed the differences in touch and sound production on the harpsichord and clavichord from those of the piano, and amateur performers who attended were able to play a bit themselves. Artek Celebrates the German Harpsichord 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

There are memorable “eww” scenes, too, including a brutal sequence of amateur dentistry and another in which a corpse was folded, with alarming realism, into a suitcase. “The Americans” Is Too Bleak, and That’s Why It’s Great 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

The Church of Grover’s Corners, as we call it, is open to amateurs, enthusiasts and professionals alike, even actual ministers who work in real churches. Heather Havrilesky asks a radical, essential question: “What If This Were Enough?” 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

In the series' final scene, she's outside with Russia's amateur street chess players who crowd her when they recognize the celebrity in their midst. The fluidity of "The Queen's Gambit" is its secret weapon 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

Apparently, his first amateur fight was at the Golden Gloves competition at Lowell Memorial Auditorium in January 2004. Boxer who fought Tsarnaev: “Wish I’d known he was evil” 2013-04-23T23:41:00Z

For struggling amateurs, he was the end product they were training for, smooth, professional and unchallenged, a perfect pop product encased in a suit. American Idol: Riveting despite itself 2012-05-24T11:51:00Z

Forgoing Manhattan, Mr. Young, an amateur historian and Missouri native, sends them to the outer boroughs, to sites that are “offbeat but still truly unique to New York City and not overrun with crowds.” Q&A: Discovering New York, Beyond Manhattan 2013-05-29T16:37:19Z

Sorry, amateur celebrity sleuths — the actor Paul Rudd was not involved in the tackling of a man shouting homophobic slurs in a Dallas airport last week. No, That Wasn't Paul Rudd Tackling an Airport Homophobe 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Outside, abandoned scenery from an amateur dramatic production was stacked and stored in a rarely visited outbuilding. Steven Appleby: A life in pictures 2012-10-05T23:04:02Z

In the program book Ms. Fliter said that some of her earliest childhood memories were of hearing her father, an amateur pianist, play Chopin waltzes. Music Review: Finding the Subtle Humor and Whimsy in Haydn 2011-02-28T23:16:09Z

For many amateur detectives, the answer was apparently yes. Perspective | Sexism is a serious issue, not a cheap shot 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

The chaos was manufactured for the shooting of “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” which opens June 27, with much of the amateur filming of the shoots posted online. Transforming Phone Video Into Publicity and a Film 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

He also produced several well-received compilations of song-poems, the strange vanity records on which amateur lyricists, for a fee, have their words set to music and recorded by professionals. Tom Ardolino, 56, Longtime Drummer for NRBQ, Dies 2012-01-15T06:43:10Z

We don't find ourselves deeply in their heads, which somewhat slights the role the amateur Kenyan actors played in creating their parts, and how directly they based them on their own lives. Paradise: Love - Ulrich Seidl's new film has precious little of either 2013-06-10T05:00:00Z

And then it hit me: Death pacts are for amateurs. He liked to mow his own lawn. Until the ‘helpful’ neighbor came along

He’s been playing for about a year and says it’s like the days when online poker was legal and full of amateurs. How Fake Sports Are Turning Man Cave Dwellers Into Millionaires 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

His father's promotion in 1953 saw the family move to Dublin where he attended another Jesuit school and developed a love of amateur dramatics and rock'n'roll. Obituary: Sir Terry Wogan 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

He name-checked the Ridiculous Theatrical Company and the old days of Wigstock, both of which featured amateur performers among the professionals. Review: In ‘Fairycakes,’ the Woods Are Campy, Dark and Daft 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

He wrestled with an amateur club in Minnesota, winning an Amateur Athletic Union Greco-Roman wrestling tournament in 1971, and served as an assistant coach for the U.S. The Iron Sheik, Villainous Hall of Fame Wrestler, Is Dead 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

It was the first of 12 pieces the journal commissioned from Tchaikovsky, one for each month of the year, works aimed at the insatiable amateur piano market. Classical Playlist: Herbert von Karajan, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and More 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

But many of the other baked goods were too complicated for this amateur. Hygge Is Where the Heart Is 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Almost immediately after her set amateur video clips were on YouTube. Pop: Fiona Apple’s New Album, ‘The Idler Wheel’ 2012-05-30T12:00:00Z

Wastage like that leaves a bitter taste, but there's no such wastage in amateur films, generally because they have nothing to waste. Why I'm looking forward to Birdemic: Shock and Terror 2010-05-26T14:19:00Z

Most of the smaller presses are amateur, in the strict sense of the word. Poetry is not drowning, but swimming into new territory 2013-05-30T12:16:35Z

Instead, he drifted around rural France, producing intricate engravings of old churches and villages, and, in the Alps, practicing amateur geology and mineralogy. Notre-Dame and the Paradoxes of Historical Preservation 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z

According to a Neret-Minet catalogue, the collection was assembled by "an amateur with assured taste" who lived in the United States for three decades. French court rules Hopi mask sale to go ahead 2013-04-12T11:25:40Z

By coincidence, I had just inherited a collection of scores which included six volumes of music that C.P.E. published very late in life, in the 1780s, for “connoisseurs and amateurs.” Listen to Keyboard Music by Bach (No, Not That One) 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

The point-and-shoot ease of the Instamatic camera only made matters worse: any amateur at a picnic could call himself a photographer. When Color Was Vulgar: Paul Outerbridge’s Avant-Gardist’s Eye 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

“Make Ryan a Dancer,” as Mr. McNamara’s sweetly courageous work is titled, is one of several here that examine the distinction between amateur and professional. Art Review: Emerging Artists at ?Greater New York? at MoMA P.S. 1 2010-05-27T21:27:00Z

The program, a partnership of the ecologist Maura Olivos and a local nonprofit called the Tracy Aviary, is aimed at amateur birders. Pack Those Binoculars. It’s Peak Bird-Watching Season. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

He became an actor serendipitously when a cousin, appearing in an amateur play, was called to active military duty and asked Mr. Sinden, whose asthma kept him from national service, to take over the role. Donald Sinden dies; multifaceted British actor of movies, TV and stage

Marlen says she is retiring from boxing; I hope she means just from amateur boxing. Olympics hoops: The world catches up to the U.S. 2012-08-13T12:15:00Z

But that is the beauty of television crime-solving – it's a broad church, with room for amateur sleuths, moody inspectors, razor-sharp detectives and everything in between. TV detectives 2010-05-04T14:58:00Z

It then moves to a playtesting phase, where amateurs who match the game’s targeted demographic take a turn. Trial and error: Seattle’s board game designers and players work out bugs together with playtests 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

He was, he said, an amateur “in the best sense of the word.” Gilbert Kaplan, millionaire businessman and self-taught maestro of Mahler, dies at 74 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

But the wholesome White’s polished, emotional performance of Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying," a song he’d chosen because his grandfather was having some health issues, made Wickline look like an amateur. 'The Voice' recap: Tough calls as knockouts roll on 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

In my own case, reading Hoskins stimulated an amateur interest in landscape history that persists to this day. William Boyd: rereading The Making of the English Landscape by WG Hoskins 2013-05-11T07:31:01Z

The young biologist – and amateur painter – took him home. Malangatana Ngwenya obituary 2011-01-17T18:54:55Z

It is a compilation of 15 musical works mentioned in the kinky, neo-Gothic trilogy of "Fifty Shades" novels, whose protagonist, Christian Grey, is an amateur pianist and Thomas Tallis aficionado with distinctive sexual tastes. ArtsBeat: Now 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Has Musical Accompaniment 2012-09-18T16:29:58Z

But there was something about the Three Investigators that lifted them far above their fellow amateur sleuths. On the trail of the Three Investigators 2010-09-23T11:00:00Z

At one point, Mr. Terry and Mr. Kauflin muse on what separates the amateurs, of whom there is never a shortage, from the masters, a vastly smaller company. ‘Keep On Keepin’ On,’ a Film on the Jazz Great Clark Terry 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

The museum's first director, Frank Daggett, was a businessman and an amateur ornithologist, not an arts professional. Behind the greatness of LACMA stand many great women 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Mark Jones A Culture Show profile of the world's largest open art exhibition, which draws entrants from across the spectrum: rank amateurs alongside art world superstars, with work ranging from landscapes to quirky sculptures. TV highlights 11/06/2013 2013-06-11T06:00:03Z

“It doesn’t discriminate in any way between good or bad, experienced or inexperienced, amateur or professional,” Mr. Burrows said. A Pledge to Help Artists Becomes a Lucrative Lifeline 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

It is an amateur theatre with a small professional staff, which presents 12 plays each year. Letters: Women's struggle for equality on stage, screen – and kids' TV 2012-12-14T21:00:03Z

All this is true to the SW1 I knew, where the gentleman amateurs had to toughen up to compete with the Alastair Campbells. Former special adviser Tom Clark on Yes, Prime Minister 2010-06-06T21:31:00Z

Funding from the Arts Council was diverted to the creation of regional theatres, and amateur theatre was left to fend for itself. Raising the curtain on the new am-dram 2012-12-15T21:00:00Z

Of course , with its cosy WI characters, does play to the demographic you might expect within amateur theatre. Raising the curtain on the new am-dram 2012-12-15T21:00:00Z

Iran initially submitted family drama A Cube of Sugar in September, only to withdraw it one day later in protest over the amateur video The Innocence of Muslims. Oscars: Foreign hopefuls unveiled 2012-10-09T10:16:14Z

Gottsagen has been acting in amateur plays since he was a child, inspired by Grease and Hairspray, with a striking gift as a performer. 'It was like lighting yourself on fire': how Shia LaBeouf's co-star changed his life 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

Of course, even amateurs with a trampoline rarely have a foam pit to fall into. Faster, Higher, Stronger: Never Too Cool for a Hard Workout 2010-02-18T03:36:00Z

But for the moment, we sang our own hearts out, a bunch of amateurs, taking it all in, old enough to know we sounded good enough. Singing Together Again at a Broadway Reunion 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

The compositions left languishing in Beregovsky’s archive were “sometimes written by children, often written by women, always created by amateur authors,” Shternshis told me. The Devastating Resonances of Yiddish Songs Recovered from the Second World War 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

History men – top finds by amateurs ■ The Crosby Garrett helmet: a Roman cavalry helmet found May 2010 in Cumbria, by an unemployed Yorkshire graduate. Why Frome is still cashing in on the Romans 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

A later change of clothes seems as arbitrary as the deliberately meandering movement, a sort of amateur veneer laid over clearly trained bodies. Dance Review: Watch It Tonight, Consider It Tomorrow 2011-04-21T21:45:17Z

But he was also an unpublished dabbler in fiction, an amateur naturalist and a father who made up rabbit stories to entertain his two young daughters on long drives in the country. Richard Adams, Author of ‘Watership Down,’ Dies at 96 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Huang Weikai’s 2009 documentary “Disorder” is a lurid compilation of amateur video recordings of traffic accidents and other instances of urban chaos shot in Guangzhou, a focal point of the Chinese economic miracle. ‘The Uprising,’ a Masterpiece of iPhone Cinema 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

Feffer’s unmannered acting style — that of a gifted amateur, not a professional who disappears into a role — works well for him. ‘Interrogation’ at Capital Fringe festival: A new meaning for captive audience

Most of it was unremarkable; Janet was a draughtswoman for the Continental Canning Company who liked amateur aviation and Ginger Rogers. ‘People just want a bully’ - director Mike Mills on how the US picks its president 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

This sort of audience-led, artistless existence was almost a throwback to the sheet music days, groups of amateurs sharing music as aficionados or fans rather than equating live music with professional artists. Belle and Sebastian's first fans connected online before the trolls arrived 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

He’s proud of his gonzo amateur status, so much so that you half suspect he has a scarlet “A” tattooed across his chest, where Superman wore his “S.” Books of The Times: Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a New Nuclear Age 2011-03-01T16:45:09Z

While some haunted houses use trained actors, most fill their ranks with enthusiastic amateurs. When ‘Boo!’ Is Only the Beginning 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

In this 13th Charles Lenox mystery, the dapper, inquisitive young amateur investigator assists Scotland Yard in its inquiries into an unidentified man who turns up dead on a train in Paddington Station. Review | Five new thrillers and mysteries to help escape reality — or see it in another light 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

It seems likely that covers artists will be accepted, given that re-creations of already famous songs account for the vast majority of amateur musicians' view counts. Click to download: YouTube's hidden stadium-fillers 2010-03-25T23:00:00Z

The piece is led by Mantra Percussion and brings together dozens of amateur and professional instrumentalists, singers, members of the Shakedown Dance Collective, and — where possible — audience members willing to take part. Make Music New York’s Main Act Is Cardew’s ‘Great Learning’ 2013-06-20T22:28:32Z

And its spontaneous, dashed-off quality all but forces the amateur to return to his or her own neglected sketchbook. | Revisiting William Steig 2011-09-20T21:00:21Z

Here's an observation, made after sifting through last week's RR in the manner of an amateur psephologist: if the election campaign was dominated by men, so are songs about elections. Readers recommend: Songs with indecipherable lyrics 2010-05-06T23:01:00Z

Both signing on with the military and joining an amateur chorus in a professional production are leaps of faith, though on different ends of the difficulty spectrum. Seattle Opera’s new production tells the stories of soldiers — and features a chorus of local veterans 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

There’s a sense of the amateur at the center of them: “Start Somewhere” rests on two chords, and garage-pop reverb; “Snake Shake” rests on two notes. Reviews of Purity Ring, Sarah Bethe Nelson and Jacky Terrasson 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

Along with self-publishing many books and pamphlets, the group also created a series of public access television programs to spread its beliefs and made home-brewed movies that featured remarkable amateur special effects work. In session with the Unarius Academy of Science at Cinefamily 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

And in a stunning feat of prestidigitation, in the final act the cast switches seamlessly between the roles of the amateur actors and the mocking royal audience for which they are performing. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Tailored for Multitaskers 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Both operate not just as investigator-hosts but also as amateur sociologists and therapists. Television: ?Runaway Squad? and ?The Locator? Make Hiding Hard 2010-04-02T22:40:00Z

In the TV series Hart to Hart, Robert Wagner played an amateur sleuth who with his wife, played by Stefanie Powers, investigated murder and intrigue among Los Angeles jet-setters. Natalie Wood: reinvestigating the mysterious death of a movie star 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

She saw her first opera at 10 years old, when her father performed in an amateur production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” in a church hall. For This Opera Director, a Lot Is Riding on a ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

This idea is articulated as early as the pilot, where Columbo wears down a callous killer surgeon by explaining that even the smartest murderers are generally amateurs. A reboot of Columbo is a fantastic idea – apart from one enormous flaw 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

It lowers the barrier to entry for amateur artists who might not ever show their work in a formal space and reaches people who might not encounter the local art scene. Free Little Art Galleries are popping up everywhere, spreading their bite-size charm nationwide 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

When Russian president Vladimir Putin isn’t too busy running his country, he keeps himself busy as the founder of a select society of amateur sleuths who challenge themselves to reunite lost umbrellas with their owners. Secret societies and public figures who belong to them – the full, incredible list 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

The amateurs then received feedback from the other “superstars” on their performances. “Duets”: TV’s cheesiest “American Idol” ripoff 2012-05-31T14:58:00Z

Semifinals to pick four amateurs in London will be held in June. London Calling: NYC exports Apollo Amateur Night 2012-03-13T20:46:03Z

Bottom the Weaver, you may recall, is the overeager amateur actor in this Shakespeare comedy of crazy mixed-up love — the one who wants to play all the parts, be they heroes, lions or ladies. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Tailored for Multitaskers 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Paul, who ought to know better than to hold a rank amateur to his own exacting standards, goes ballistic, causing a family rift. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: The Smoking Gun 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

But mixing seasoned pros with teenage amateurs goes beyond merely tilting the playing field in Rio. Column: Pros fighting in Rio a lousy idea on many levels 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Any "curer", amateur or professional worth their salt should measure by weight in grams and use percentages to understand the value and... Just Add Salt: How to Make Bacon and Pancetta at Home 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

But the amateur video Luke shows to Claire, like the investigative pseudo-documentary he might make himself if his camera were working, is not Mr. West’s kind of thing. Movie Review: ?The Innkeepers,? a Paranormal Film Directed by Ti West 2012-02-02T22:50:06Z

The original hoard was bought by Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent museums for £3.3m, which was divided between the amateur metal detector who found the pieces and the farmer who owned the land. Staffordshire hoard of treasures to be displayed in Birmingham gallery 2013-03-13T15:20:28Z

It is a brilliantly edited sequence of footage — mostly screen shots from feature or amateur films or television news, both recent and decades old. What to See in New York City Galleries This Week 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

His father, Len, an amateur guitarist, introduced him to the blues early on. The guitar nerd from Utica who has come to save the blues 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Held annually at the Royal Academy in London, the exhibition gives amateurs a chance to see their efforts displayed alongside paintings and sculpture by world famous artists. A King Who Actually Likes the Arts 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

An amateur agent protests, “There’s always a way out,” but it’s clear that Clouzot knows better. Henri-Georges Clouzot Retrospective at MoMA 2011-12-04T04:03:02Z

She was the amateur fisherman who caught the red snapper; he was the host who left his matches at home and resorted to lighting their camp stove with the boat’s engine battery. On Love: Bridget Nugent & Dean Reineking 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Overanxious amateur sleuths have even drilled holes in important monuments on the hunch the panel might be there. Art's perfect theft: the `Ghent Altarpiece' 2012-11-19T10:46:03Z

According to Sherman, the majority of those who have tried their hand at the manuscript’s code “have been amateurs, and many have more interest in conspiracy theories than cryptographic systems.” The Unsolvable Mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Set in 1975 Philadelphia, it follows an amateur boxer who gets a surprise shot at the heavyweight championship. Rocky makes strong debut on Broadway 2014-03-14T10:12:48Z

Now Cage’s real life has collided with a different segment of the same weird world of passionate amateurs, where love and greed drive people to unusual lengths to achieve their dreams. Nic Cage’s dino bones blues: The scientific ethics and international crimes behind the eccentric actor’s latest Hollywood-scale drama 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

There was an odd absence of the amateur buskers — jugglers, mimes, musicians — who usually line the pathways of Seattle Center. Day 2 of Bumbershoot sees more sunshine and ‘fun.’ 2013-09-02T02:18:27Z

In the aftermath of these revelations, a common refrain heard was that something needed to be done about the power of these shoe companies over supposedly amateur athletes. ‘Kicks’ Review: It’s Gotta Be the Shoes 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Renzi is a knowledgeable and opinionated fan — as a teenager, he was a referee for an amateur soccer league. Meet Matteo Renzi — the Justin Trudeau of Italy and the Obamas’ final state dinner honoree 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

As the field is flooded with amateur videos or bootlegs available at the click of a button, the workers find themselves in an unforeseen bind. ‘Pretty Filthy,’ a Behind-the-Scenes Musical about Pornography Stars 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Sobol's series featured amateur sleuth Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, who would unravel local mysteries with the help of his encyclopedic knowledge of facts great and small. 'Encyclopedia Brown' author Sobol dies at 87 2012-07-16T18:36:08Z

But while their ideas don’t feel amateur, the results come across as self-conscious. Fashion Review: Jason Wu, Peter Som, Richard Chai, Kimberly Ovitz - Review 2012-02-11T00:19:47Z

She’s willing to be an amateur with each album and try to do something new. A Gay Man Remembers His Awakening, as AIDS Shook His World 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z

The anchor was found six years ago by sea-cucumber diver Doug Monk, who formed Anchor Ventures with amateur historian Scott Grimm to bring it to the surface. Puget Sound anchor might be from 1792 expedition 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Besides opinion and speculation, the Internet would be home to more reporters, amateur or otherwise. Three men guided millions through horror of Sept. 11, 2001 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

Ball let him go four rounds with an amateur super heavyweight, who dropped him with a left hook to the ribs. Boxer who fought Tsarnaev: “Wish I’d known he was evil” 2013-04-23T23:41:00Z

Every spring, serious scholars and amateur historians flock from all over the country to attend the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, the largest event of its kind, held at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. You’re going where? Kalamazoo is tired of your Creedence Clearwater jokes 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

When a wealthy weekend host asked him to critique his amateur painting, Turner obliged but later sent the man a bill. Review: ‘Turner,’ a Portrait of a Most Dazzling and Disagreeable Artist 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

An amateur keyboardist, he recognized his daughter’s talent early. Music: Nikki Janofsky Wants to Act Her Age 2010-05-07T15:58:00Z

So what do amateurs really offer in an established, well-financed field like that one? ArtsBeat: Amateur Hour: Jack Hitt Talks About an American Tradition 2012-05-16T19:53:00Z

Mr. Biden, though not trained as a painter, has been making art since childhood, and I can say that the show is more substantial than an amateur’s dabbling. Hunter Biden: Emotionally Honest, Generically Smooth 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

Bhabha, 57, grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, where her mother, an amateur painter, encouraged her to see artistic potential in unlikely places. An Artist Who Works Alongside Giants 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

The fossil is named after the amateur paleontologist Stan Sacrison, who first discovered the skeleton in 1987 on privately owned land in the Hell Creek Formation in the northwestern United States. A T. Rex Skeleton Arrives in Rockefeller Center Ahead of Auction 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Thousands of professional and amateur dancers will join the parade from 21st Street to Tompkins Square Park, where a dance fest will follow. Spare Times Listings for May 16-22 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

And how does the amateur viewer weigh in? Critic?s Notebook: Crossing the Line Festival 2011-09-20T21:15:12Z

Line readings are usually amateur, and even the most artful illusions here call attention to their homemade manufacture. Theater Review: Radiohole’s ‘Inflatable Frankenstein’ at the Kitchen 2013-01-06T22:46:36Z

She – like Thomas, who works for a healthcare company in Colorado – is an amateur, with a full-time job. Faster, higher, longer: how female ultra-athletes started to beat men 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Louis Wain, cat painter, illustrator, amateur inventor, hobbyist, and would-be musician, was an unusual man. Benedict Cumberbatch charms as a cat-loving genius in Amazon's showy "Electrical Life of Louis Wain" 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

“The emotion and energy that comes from amateurs is just sensational.” A Calmly Daring Operatic Leader Says Au Revoir 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Gibb, an amateur runner who clocked 40 miles in a day, hid in the bushes at the start line and then jumped out at the gun to join the men-only race. Let's get physical: how women's sport can conquer body image 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

And, in something of a musical gift, it will also include the premieres of 11 piano pieces written by Nonesuch composers for Mr. Hurwitz, himself a skilled amateur pianist. At Nonesuch Records, Star Treatment for a Boss Who Plays 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

If you’re aware of the composer Irving Fine, chances are it’s because of his three songs from “Alice in Wonderland,” frequently sung by amateur choruses and among his best-known works. More than just Fine: Clare College choir offers packed program to end LoC festival

I take a certain amount of pride in not being a professional novelist, in apparently being a lifelong amateur. Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career ? people are starting to approve' 2010-09-24T23:03:00Z

Kirn never stops examining how he, a professional writer, could be snookered by an amateur. Walter Kirn’s ‘Blood Will Out’: a true tale of glitter and gullibility 2014-04-03T20:44:52Z

Now he lords it over an amateur theater group in Duluth, Minn., six of whose members sit down to dinner at his “killer party,” each bearing a ridiculous name and a motive to kill him. ‘A Killer Party’ Review: The Case of the Online Musical 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

“They do tend to smell bad, frankly, but not as bad as sea lions,” said Gingrich, who fancies himself something of an amateur zoologist. How Newt Gingrich became the go-to interview for every story about the Trump White House 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Every amateur could now rework a digital image, while professionals could endlessly "improve" celebrity portraits. The fake photographs that predate Photoshop 2012-08-29T08:44:53Z

Football safety is the subject of unresolved nationwide arguments, for amateur and professional players of all ages. Keeping the Cowboys Cool, as N.F.L. Takes the Heat 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

But just as important, the visiting artists were there not just to do their own thing but to engage with amateur performers from the Cumnock area: the “gathering” of the title. Scottish Composer James MacMillan Opens Cumnock Tryst 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Each of the two people strays to fulfill a need they don't share and the story resolves in a conversation after an amateur musical performance, in an homage to Joyce's "The Dead." In 'The Children Act,' Ian McEwan chronicles a marriage in crisis 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

With so many amateurs flooding the field, Finke says, “There’s a dichotomy between racing and running.” Cancer survivor swims topless 2012-06-22T14:46:00Z

The tactics and spirit of the Voice might live on in the amateur photographers covering modern social movements like Black Lives Matter and the Keystone XL Pipeline. The Village Voice’s photographers captured change, turmoil unfolding on New York City’s streets 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

The company not only publishes plays and musicals, but also licenses them, which means it grants permission for amateur and professional performances in exchange for a fee. Concord Music Acquires Samuel French in Big Push Into Theater Business 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Pete’s attempts at amateur plumbing fail spectacularly during a dinner party held to impress Don; in a quieter moment at the dinner table, he manages to insult Don’s wife. ArtsBeat: 'Mad Men' Watch: Despair and Fisticuffs 2012-04-16T12:01:51Z

Dozens of organized trips sponsored by universities, museums and private groups put amateurs in the field to prepare fossils for study. Finding fossils, on your own dig (or in a monument or museum) 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

That was when we hit upon what might be considered the first rule for the amateur bog hiker: bring extra socks. Explorer: In Estonia, Jiggling and Bog-Trekking 2010-08-20T17:51:00Z

It doesn’t get much more grim than taking on du Pont, a dilettante with a wrestling obsession who created a facility at his Foxcatcher farm for amateur wrestlers to practice for the Olympics. 3 hours of makeup later, Steve Carell becomes John du Pont for ‘Foxcatcher’ 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

If it is not staged in New York, it will not be published or awaken the interest of the stock and amateur theatres from which a playwright might derive continued income. David Mamet and the battle for Broadway 2010-04-11T20:30:00Z

The part-crime, part character-driven U.S. show follows hundreds of movies, TV series and books about, or inspired by, the eccentric amateur London detective with superb logical skills and his long-suffering friend. Why more Sherlocks? That's elementary, my dear Watson 2012-09-27T10:04:38Z

The amateur dancers have got more than enough to worry about just getting the choreography down before Friday. Michael Clark steps it up at Tate Modern 2010-08-24T20:29:00Z

They made the extras charged by the rest of the travel industry look like the work of amateurs. Perspective | Is this the end of unexpected car rental surcharges? 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

But if Supreme Copies is a Genius page for the company’s designs, there exists a cadre of day-one fans who scoff at its amateur interpretations of the Supreme mystique. Supreme Copies: The Instagram That Attempts to Decode Supreme Clothing 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

But this is home to the oldest amateur male-voice choir in Wales, which I'm watching rehearse on a quiet Monday evening in the village of Dunvant, near Swansea. Welsh male voice choris: a vocal minority 2011-02-01T21:30:01Z

That would be as impolitic as serious artists laying exclusive claim to the word “art” against the efforts of amateurs or outsiders or wannabes. Perspective | Is it a museum or not? The question is worth asking. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

The accent drifts between BBC and amateur dramatic society Guys and Dolls and, frankly, it's a bit embarrassing. TV review: Any Human Heart, American Dream and JFK: The Making of Modern Politics 2010-11-22T07:59:00Z

Martin was born in Geneva in 1890, the 10th child of a Calvinist minister and his wife, both avid amateur music makers. Interest Grows in a Master of Choral Mystery and Power 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

The six winning amateur artworks from each episode will be displayed at the Museum Prinsenhof, which is housed in a former church in Delft, Vermeer’s hometown. How Hard Is It to Paint Like Vermeer? TV Contestants Find Out. 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

In this comedy about old vaudeville acts, the Dying Swan expires three times in quick succession, and the loveliest dancing comes from the character who is only an amateur performer: the stagehand. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z

As new musicals try to fully exploit their commercial potential on Broadway, rights to professional and amateur productions around the country are typically closely guarded. Perspective | ‘Be More Chill’: The rare new musical you can see now on Broadway or on a small stage 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

Two are copies of paintings Mr. Shadwick found reproduced in a magazine for amateur artists published in the years before Hopper’s paintings. Early Works by Edward Hopper Found to be Copies of Other Artists 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

He remembers his parents playing Haydn with their amateur string quartet, and being taken to see “Der Freischütz” at the opera, which stoked a lifelong admiration for Carl Maria von Weber. A Composer Finds the Old in the New 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

The space, with individual ovens and workstations, will allow the Caporuscios to run a pizza school for amateurs, children and professionals. Yellow Magnolia Café Opens at Brooklyn Botanic Garden 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

The bazaar is admirable in size, with clothing, jewelry, art and more from a range of Tictail users, typically those who are closer to professional than amateur. Tictail Makes an Argument for the World’s Small Creators 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Like the rest of the members, Mr. Cabrera, who runs a software company by day, is an amateur enthusiast. No Red Carpet, but the Stars Are Out 2013-05-09T21:20:33Z

But the more meltdowns become public–not just celebrity ones, but increasing cable-TV fodder of amateur bad behavior–the more I wonder if they’ll become cautionary tales or just entertainment. "I'm On Television": Britt McHenry's Classist, Classless Mistake 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Goyet, who normally works as a real estate manager, is among many amateur artists finding new forms of expression as governments order confinements to contain the outbreak. Beauty in radishes: Parisian tells lockdown story in watercolor 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z

It has built a loyal viewership that tunes in week after week to watch amateur potters transform lumps of clay into tea sets, chimneys, clocks and toilets. For This Tearful TV Potter, It’s All About the Clay 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Milder but more endearing are the jokes that depend on miscues, amateur acting and erratic stagecraft. Review: Flying High and Falling Hard in ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

The scientists were part of a commission charged with communicating a realistic assessment of the area’s earthquake risk after an amateur seismologist caused panic by making predictions using a device of his own invention. Weekend Reading: Observing Executions, Italian Earthquakes, Nico Muhly on Beyoncé 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

“La La Land” celebrates the amateur: What happens when an ordinary person enters a fantastical world? Shall They Dance? Making ‘La La Land’ Move 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Back in the ’90s, he was known on the amateur circuit for striking yoga poses during changeovers — fitness hygiene with a dash of gamesmanship. Be like Serena and Roger: Older amateurs offer tips for maintaining your athletic edge. 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

His love of magic tricks led him to write “What the Dickens!,” a television drama about Charles Dickens’s fondness for staging amateur magic shows for friends, broadcast on the BBC in 1983. Heathcote Williams, Radical British Poet Who Helped Form Anarchist Nation, Dies at 75 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

"And our director, Michael Boyd, began his theatrical career at an amateur theatre in London," he says. Raising the curtain on the new am-dram 2012-12-15T21:00:00Z

Nix-Gomez, 41, is not a historian by trade but a software engineer, a profession he credits for giving him “an attention to detail” that aids his amateur research. What did the founding fathers drink? And other pressing wine questions. 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

In fact, from next Wednesday, former JMK-winner Jamie Harper directs Molnár's The Wolf in the Network theatre – a wonderfully quaint little space normally used for amateur performances by railway workers – in the tunnels of Waterloo. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-08-05T12:45:07Z

Asked what he would think of today's celebrity culture, Priscilla said he would love "American Idol," Fox Television's top-rated amateur singing competition. 2010-01-08T22:44:00Z

While some talent agencies provide models for the shows, many of the models will be amateurs who answered an open casting call. Seattle Fashion Week has an international flavor in 2010 2010-05-11T20:48:00Z

I started identifying as a writer and began my journey into being an amateur snob, saying things like, "I don't eat McDonald's — I guffaw at the idea of a person indulging in McDonald's!" The evolution of my Thanksgiving plate 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

Community now might mean compromise, not when it comes to virus protection but when it comes to hearing amateur music. For 2023, I'm giving up loneliness 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

Curiosity is the only credential that’s required to become an amateur geologist. Four destinations that feel like geologic theme parks 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Like the headliners, though, these guys weren’t amateurs. Bleached stays on the beat at DC9 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

This being the Hamptons, the amateurs were mostly successful young strivers from the worlds of finance, business and technology. 50 Cent Hosts a Rap Concert for ‘Power’ 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

In the drama "A Face in the Crowd," he starred as Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, a local jailbird and amateur singer who becomes a homespun philosopher on national television. Beloved actor Andy Griffith dies at 86 2012-07-03T16:37:09Z

Everyone knows new year’s eve is amateur night. New Year's Party 2010-12-29T22:50:02.467Z

On the one hand, it's lovely — and for me nostalgic — to watch these amateur cooks tackle Julia's oeuvre. It's nostalgic to watch amateur cooks tackle Julia Child's oeuvre—but this "challenge" also irks me 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

An accomplished amateur artist, she often made paintings of the roses and delphiniums, phlox and snakeroot she so lovingly nurtured. Landscape Architect Ronald van der Hilst Reimagines a Garden in the Netherlands 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

But where are the more amateur photographers and their works? A Small Brazilian Photo Club That Reached for the Skyline 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Few writers in the cozy format — a genre now dominated by cartoon-style covers and amateur sleuths running folksy crafts businesses or working in libraries — escape the tracks laid down by "Murder, She Wrote." The cozy "Maltese Falcon": How "Murder, She Wrote" reinvented mysteries forever 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z

Like Exit 82, Monumental secured the amateur rights and announced plans to stage it. Perspective | ‘Be More Chill’: The rare new musical you can see now on Broadway or on a small stage 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

Like the Great Horned Owl — the well-known species an owl amateur might confuse with the one in the video — the owl in question is large, with ear-tufts. Katy Perry’s “Unconditionally” Video: That Owl! 2013-11-15T19:48:52Z

Days later, British tabloid The Sun posted an amateur video showing a visibly drunk Galliano insulting a fellow cafe client, slurring: "I love Hitler." Paris court to rule in Galliano anti-Semitism case 2011-09-08T10:01:11Z

Gyllenhaal's turn as the unhinged amateur cameraman is creepy, chilling and absolutely unsettling, the best performance in what's turning out to be a pretty remarkable career. SAG Awards 2015: Breaking down the nomination winners and losers 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

As every amateur shutterbug has learned the hard way, it's nigh on impossible to capture the beauty of the setting sun. The World's Most Beautiful Sunsets 2010-06-18T19:00:00Z

Mr. Scott recalls R. P. Blackmur’s definition of criticism as “the formal discourse of an amateur.” Review: In ‘Better Living Through Criticism,’ A. O. Scott Offers Insight 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

Though written for the expert, it is equally accessible to the amateur alto. Voice-overs 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

"It's a huge opportunity and I think it will raise the profile, hopefully, of amateur theatre and lose the "am dram" tag that tends to accompany amateur theatre." Theatre group to perform with RSC 2012-07-05T00:10:22Z

And then in the early '80s, being a lifelong tinkerer and amateur inventor, he eased into special effects, creating his first effects at a groundbreaking ceremony for a supermarket in his hometown, Milwaukee. Hollywood's winter weather man 2010-12-30T06:00:00Z

A craftsman, musician, actor, author and amateur naturalist, Offerman has recently added advice columnist to his repertoire. Nick Offerman Endorses Lumberjack Boots and ’80s Funk 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Another thing that was different about those early Wimbledon championships: All the players were amateurs. Tradition reigns at Wimbledon 140 years after the tennis tournament began 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

As I arrived, another student, an obvious amateur, was breezing through her final flight — swinging out, her knees draped over the bar, ejecting into the arms of a stocky catcher in leopard-print leggings. My trapeze-flying adventure: Better than an orgasm 2013-03-16T20:00:00Z

My experience with genealogy is that of an amateur, one who traced my own family to 15th-century Spain. A Reporter in France Helps to Return Art Taken by the Nazis 2014-01-30T13:00:01Z

Both her mother and sister were passionate amateur pianists. Shigeko Kubota, a Creator of Video Sculptures, Dies at 77 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

I joined an amateur dramatics society and did a bit of standup; all invaluable experience for what I really wanted to do. Nicholas Parsons: My family values 2013-01-05T00:05:26Z

But as the shot pans out, the American amateur bakers do something their British counterparts would never do: they cheer. The Great Holiday Baking Show: US tries and fails to copy UK super smash 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

O’Dowd arrived drenched with rain and 20 minutes late, frantic that he had messed up his first attempt at amateur spy craft, he recalled to us. How an undocumented Irish immigrant became an unofficial U.S. diplomat 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Not bad for a bunch of brash amateurs. ‘Becoming Big League’: a history of Seattle baseball’s ins and outs 2013-04-26T20:22:13Z

Robinson is clearly an amateur actor but is believable even in fictionalized romantic scenes involving his co-star, a very young Ruby Dee. When Athletes Go Hollywood 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

Then a quartet, the group won amateur talent shows, and performed nights and weekends up and down the California coast while the members worked days at a car wash and at other odd jobs. Platters founder Herb Reed dies at 83 2012-06-05T17:46:04Z

At their very best these paintings lack the skill of thousands of amateur artists who paint at weekends all over Britain – and yet he can hire fools to compare him with Caravaggio. Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer – review 2012-05-22T15:13:15Z

I joined the minor leagues, as a first-round draft pick for the Chicago Cubs, in 1991, I was aware of these slim chances, but I was also naïve about life beyond my amateur status. The Dream Chasers of Pro Baseball 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

At the moment, Analytical Flavor Systems does not rely on hapless amateurs like me to populate its database. Food for thought: will an era of hyper-personalized meals leave a sour taste? 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

The second ever German winner, Lena Mayer-Landrut, 19, was an unknown amateur when she won Germany's qualifiers for Eurovision -- one of Europe's most watched television programs. Germany's Lena wins 55th Eurovision song contest 2010-05-29T22:17:00Z

Ben Stiller and other amateurs fight off an alien invasion – badly. This week's new films 2012-08-17T23:05:18Z

Compared to the intentional, crude, and pervasive altering of the Soviet record, the lying currently prevalent in American politics is amateur hour, if not exactly child’s play. The Photo Book That Captured How the Soviet Regime Made the Truth Disappear 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

Dozens of amateurs made those calls; thousands of virtual editors spread their reportage. After the Boston Attack, the Media Shows Power to Shock and Comfort 2013-04-16T12:00:35Z

But I think he’s part of a very important group of historians — amateurs in a way — that also includes Edmund Morris and Daniel Boorstin. Robert K. Massie?s Latest Subject Is Catherine the Great 2011-11-09T22:40:21Z

It illustrated its message again when Elektra, faced with a client who's overdosed, quickly realizes this is not a problem for the authorities but local connections and amateur embalming. The boldest "Pose" episode yet: This shocking turn affirms the show's genius 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

The 2011 orchestra brings together 101 players from 30 countries, ages 14 to 49, including amateurs, professionals, students and teachers, chosen by video audition. Harris Theater throws visionary namesake a gala birthday bash 2011-03-08T15:37:00Z

Today they live in Maryland, where they are amateur mycologists, keeping their daughter supplied with morels and chanterelles they collect in the Appalachians. The Changing Face of J. Mae Barizo’s Kitchen 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Baryshnikov regards both professional and amateur dancers with the same eye. Baryshnikov shows his dance photography in Miami 2012-02-23T17:42:09Z

“Where I see the Dark Sky Reserve providing some added benefit to researchers is in the amateur astronomy field,” he says. At the Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve, socially distanced stargazing 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Both are devoted amateur cooks known to throw paella dinners for 50, and they stage pop-up dinners in Chicago when visiting their daughter. Eat, sleep and live like a local on a vacation to Mexico City 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Performed by the company's mix of professional and homeless amateur singers, the show is, perhaps uniquely, part opera, part film and part sales-conference. Streetwise Opera: The Answer to Everything – review 2013-04-24T17:01:12Z

A fan of Punchdrunk's performance installation The Masque of the Red Death, he has set out to create immersive theatrical environments with loose narratives that will stimulate amateur and experienced artists alike. Drawing conclusions: the fine line between theatre and art 2011-02-16T17:28:53Z

Those who can’t find what they are specifically looking for, or perhaps are on a tight budget, are taking the scissors, fabrics and sewing machines into their amateur hands. Feeling Crafty? Make Your Own Wedding Day Look. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Britain's Got Talent is open to everyone from any age and any background, be they professional or amateur. Susan Boyle: What happened to the dream? 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

Elsewhere there lurk the Hollywood studios, Paramount to Universal and so on – and BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster that every amateur stock picker knows is 39.1% owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Amazon's Lovefilm deal could turn every home into a multiplex 2011-01-24T07:00:08Z

In the eyes of amateurs like Ng, those reinforcements are not too far away. China goes long 2012-08-31T17:31:00Z

Its format is based on a popular show in Holland where celebrities are paired with amateur singers in competition. NBC introducing new singing competition format 2010-12-14T01:16:04Z

According to him, he believes the images were painted by an amateur. Homeowner finds strange paintings hiding behind her wallpaper 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Between phone calls home to wife Mary and manager Ken, who're struggling with the lid on a jar of olives, Shuttleworth proffers a plucky amateur's musical elegies to these disappearing cornerstones of provincial English life. John Shuttleworth ? review 2010-12-03T23:00:00Z

Or take the Waltz in A Minor from Opus 34, a favorite of Vladimir Horowitz and generations of amateur pianists. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

At least that’s what the amateur sleuth in David Wong’s new novel believes, and he wants to set the record straight. Everything you think you know about ghosts is wrong 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

He acted enthusiastically with his fellow amateurs in the group known as the Alexeyev Circle, which he had founded when he was 14; he directed the plays and invariably took the leading role. Simon Callow: Stanislavski was racked by self-doubt 2013-03-16T08:00:09Z

But it does reflect, almost blindingly, the central Ludlam tenet of creative line blurring — between classical and pop, beautiful and ugly, sacred and profane, male and female, professional and amateur. Review: Charles Ludlam in the Cosmos Where ‘Queens Collide’ 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

The poem continues: “nature is hot/young amateur redheads, the foxes are all in their holes/for the night, nature is hot old used-up cougars.” Patricia Lockwood’s ‘Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals’ 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Of particular note is an eight-hour performance of Satie’s “Vexations,” a one-page work played 840 times in succession, by amateur and professional pianists under the Oculus at World Trade Center, from 10 a.m. onward. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Even Hitch agreed, in conversation with the great Francois Truffaut, that “the first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional”. Second time lucky: when directors remake their own movies 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Even as he became an immensely successful novelist, he delighted in putting on amateur theatricals, usually starring himself, from his own scripts. ‘Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ Dickens’s Unfinished Novel 2012-11-25T00:40:06Z

Audiences are used to the “American Idol” format, in which celebrity judges critique and sometimes berate shaky amateurs who have just given it their all. The Week Ahead: April 24 ? 30 2011-04-22T14:36:40Z

"He was a bad amateur player himself," Thompson recalls, "with three chords, though, unfortunately, not C, F and G", but his record collection, particularly Django's crackling genius, entranced Thompson. Keeping the faith 2010-04-10T23:05:00Z

One of Shaw's masterstrokes is his large collection of bizarre paintings by amateur hobbyists, which he bought for petty cash in his thrift store outings over decades. 'Jim Shaw: The End Is Here' taps public's id in a weird, humorous way 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Yale’s new facsimile is somewhat larger, as it includes wide white margins for the amateur cryptographer’s own marginalia. The Unsolvable Mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

There’s more to stand-up in Harlem than the long-running amateur night at the Apollo Theater, as this celebration aims to demonstrate in the coming week at places such as Under Bar and the Chipped Cup. 6 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Throughout his military service and his years as a salesman, Mr. Hull honed his skills as an actor, taking parts in amateur and community theater. Charles Hull, Who Brought Theater to Young Audiences, Dies at 92 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

Hindemith found a musically astute collaborator in Wilder, who was an accomplished amateur musician. Two-Course Feast of Stage and Song 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

For “Gala,” the French choreographer showcases 20 New Yorkers, some professional dancers and others amateurs, ranging in age from 8 to 80. 7 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

“Once a commons that fostered the amateur eccentric in every area of interest, the web, by 2015, was thoroughly overrun by commercial junk,” he writes. Review: ‘The Attention Merchants’ Dissects the Battle for Clicks and Eyeballs 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

This is usually the privilege of highly trained professionals rather than self-taught amateurs, who tend to stick to accepted styles. Art Review: John Martin's Greatness and High Kitsch 2011-09-30T11:30:09Z

His mother, the former Ivy Evans, was a homemaker and accomplished amateur pianist. Jeffrey Tate, Conductor Whose Life Was a Worldwide Whirlwind, Dies at 74 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

"In my excitement and naivete as an amateur filmmaker, I got lost in the creative process and neglected to follow proper accreditation," LaBeouf added on Twitter. LaBeouf could face legal action for lifting idea 2013-12-19T14:18:20Z

Nike just does two-minute profiles of amateur athletes, crisply cinematic and generically inspirational. How Snap Originals Beat Facebook and Instagram in Adapting TV to Social Media 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

The petition to save the show was started by a group of amateur astronomers on , after it was reported in September that the future of the series was in doubt. The Sky at Night gets new slot 2013-10-30T12:49:16Z

It quickly became a cult den for Scandinavian roast fans, cocktail mavens and amateur aficionados of Norwegian midcentury furnishings and crafts. | Culture Klatch 2014-03-05T23:13:43Z

It was a place certain to be filled with cameras held by professionals and amateurs alike. On screens, familiar images of terror flash 2013-04-16T03:30:11Z

The 71-year-old actor, who was hailed last week as a candidate for the title of greatest stage performer of all time, believes the decline is due to the dwindling tradition of amateur dramatics. Ian McKellen warns theatre is at risk from fall in acting standards 2010-09-25T23:07:00Z

They were compelling on both occasions, but it’s more pleasant to watch them amid an unpretentious milonga evening of amateurs dancing tango than as part of an intensely choreographed and largely pretentious tango exhibition. Dance Review: Gabriel Missé and Analía Centurión Dance Tango 2013-08-12T21:40:10Z

This time around, "Rock Band" will emphasize player creativity, even allowing amateur rock stars to more or less rewrite guitar solos. Ready to play 'Guitar Hero' and 'Rock Band' again? Game makers hope so 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Still searching for the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker, and following leads from an amateur birder online, Mandrick travels to Eglin Air Force Base on Florida’s swampy panhandle. Jungle Mold, Ornithology and Lawn Care: 3 New Novels Find Hilarity in Unexpected Places 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

I could brag about the time Carl, a gifted amateur magician, cut me in two at a “Car Talk” fundraiser, but that would be half-hearted. Carl Kasell’s retirement will wait wait no longer

“Antigone” features experienced artists — like François Clavier, who makes a toweringly self-satisfied Creon — as well as a chorus of four amateur women who have experienced exile. In Paris, Young Theater Makers Swing Big 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

As the crowd in front of the hotel began to swell with a mixture of professional and amateur photographers and star spotters, it appeared the blazing sunshine was not soothing tempers. Cannes 2012: Reporter's Diary 2012-05-16T16:40:05Z

“I realized this was the work of an amateur,” he said. Vistabule is new take on vintage camper trailer 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

Large amateur choirs form the backbone of so many but rarely get top billing, so it was good to find the BBC Symphony Chorus thrust firmly into the spotlight on Sunday afternoon. Proms 30 & 31: BBC Symphony Chorus; BBCSO/Davies 2010-08-09T11:32:00Z

But the complaints are not amateur film criticism – and they didn’t do this when J.J, Abrams rebooted “Star Trek.” Back off, men—they’re scientists: New “Ghostbusters” trailer gets slimed by sexist trolls 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

The beautiful game was afoot for Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle, who also served his time between the sticks in the late 1880s when he played for the amateur Portsmouth Association Football Club. Footballing authors: who will defend Frank Lampard? 2013-02-15T15:27:16Z

The case went cold for two decades – until an unlikely pair of amateur sleuths revived it. Who murdered Sister Cathy? Netflix takes true crime to the next level 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

In the film, Nyman is an amateur sociologist conducting interviews with workers, women and young people, mainly about Swedish class structure. Lena Nyman obituary 2011-02-07T18:32:00Z

Jackson was in his late 20s when he shot Western Approaches with the outstanding cameraman Jack Cardiff and a cast of amateur actors. Pat Jackson obituary 2011-07-12T18:12:54Z

"There's a certain fashion of histrionics of the keyboard which is completely foreign to what I do," the 52-year-old Montreal native, whose father was a pharmacist and amateur pianist, told Reuters over lunch in London. Pianist Hamelin breathes new life into "dead" composers 2013-11-14T08:05:00Z

Several enthusiastic amateur writers made contact, and our total number of stories went from eight to 20 within a year. Writers dump Lake District's bunnies and daffodils for monsters in the mist 2013-01-02T12:00:00Z

They were also amateur musicians, and George performed with them in music halls. George Cole, Who Famously Played a Young Scrooge, Dies at 90 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Justices of the US supreme court have offered verdicts on the legal conundrum, and amateurs like Malcolm X feel entitled to weigh in with ill-informed opinions. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z

The field was filled with amateur actors, some playing military personnel and others what they called the infected. My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead 2010-12-03T15:18:00Z

In spite of his own long-term experiments and experience, the photographer applauds the fact that at an amateur level, mobile phone apps are opening up new opportunities. In a Click, a Vivid Fashion Garden 2012-11-26T13:33:30Z

But some professional linguists are watching with unease as artists, journalists and other amateur researchers enter their field. Vanishing Languages, Reincarnated as Music 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

I began to study those pages with what I thought of as a detached and almost scholarly amusement, but one ad in particular kept calling to me with the promise of amateur phone sex. My lonely phone-sex years: I learned to ask for what I wanted, 35 cents a minute 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

“We try to keep one foot in the professional bucket and one foot in the amateur bucket,” Mr. Evans says. Celebs Will Say Anything if You Blast Them With Hot Sauce 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

An amateur boxer who had more than 150 fights in his teens, Mr. Jones went into the ring at Camp Pendleton, Calif., to face a more experienced Marine champion. Thom Jones, onetime janitor who shone as a literary star in the 1990s, dies at 71 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

With a noted Off Broadway director in Ken Rus Schmoll and a nine-performance run, “Pins & Needles” strives for professionalism even with an amateur cast in which all hopefuls who auditioned landed a part. Cut, Baste, Stitch, Sing! 2011-06-21T21:44:31Z

An argument over style and substance erupts at a climactic point in “Beautiful Burnout,” a new play from Scotland about amateur boxers aiming for glory that opened on Tuesday night at St. Ann’s Warehouse. | 'Beautiful Burnout': Hoping to Punch a Path to Glory 2011-03-02T03:01:01Z

Today, I’m just an amateur violinist with a regular day job. How a violin helped me find my voice 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

Online videos feel particularly intimate because they largely feature amateurs, are unscripted and are filmed up close and by hand. Break Out the Chewbacca Mask and You Won’t Laugh Alone 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

But where Ms. Ono could turn a scream into a coloratura aria, the average amateur participant just gave an explosive shriek and scampered away. Art Review: ‘Soundings’ Features Art With Audio Elements 2013-08-08T20:41:20Z

His father was a lawyer and amateur musician. John W. Mazzola, Former President of Lincoln Center, Dies at 86 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

So either Trump was an amateur magician, or he wasn’t strong enough to flip a table, so he just did the tablecloth.” Late Night Reacts to Cassidy Hutchinson’s Damning Trump Testimony 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

“In the course of the contest, more encores are being written, whether by students, or by amateurs or instrumentalists who are trying writing, or by composers,” she added. Music: Orpheus, Hilary Hahn and David Lang Start Competitions 2012-02-12T15:24:35Z

All Flair had when she started wrestling was “a pair of amateur wrestling boots and a last name.” The women wrestlers of WWE have created a movement. Is it built to last? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

So is this the year that amateur theatre will finally get its due? Shakespeare's am-dram champions: the amateurs joining forces with the RSC 2012-07-17T18:31:01Z

The amateur sleuth was brave, clever and beautiful. Young Sleuths Hot on the Trail of Their Own Identities 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

Yet we get the sense that these amateur raids are conducted as much to alleviate boredom as provide pocket money. ‘Low Tide’ Review: Jersey Boys to Jersey Men 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

There was a wide gap between pro and amateur during Mr. Konders’s set: The dancers who were flexing were pulling off maneuvers impossible for the uninitiated. Music Review: Moving to Varied Beats at Bounce Ballroom 2014-05-02T22:29:31Z

On a recent afternoon, the curious include Rob Pester, an amateur Star Wars collector from Texas who brought along his wife, Margaret, and two daughters. In a warehouse far, far away, the galaxy's top Star Wars collector holds court 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

This amateur criminal investigation becomes so absurd it verges on comedy. Ottessa Moshfegh Is Only Human 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

It was found by a mudlark – one of the small army of amateur archaeologists who scour the beaches and mudflats of the river at low tide. Medieval roof finial found beside Thames 2010-08-03T11:30:00Z

Then, she and her team rolled out Elf.tech, easy-to-use software that aids producers and songwriters — amateur and professional alike — in making it sound like Grimes is singing their song. Grimes Invited Anyone to Make A.I. Grimes Songs. Here Are Her Reviews. 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

“Paris Photo appeals to a wide public — professional and amateur photographers, lovers of photography, collectors, art critics, thinkers and people from the world of art.” In Transit Blog: Paris Photo Fair Takes African Focus 2011-11-07T10:00:16Z

Affecting a very respectable Jonathan Freeman impersonation, Yang said that DeSantis was “an amateur” when it came to villainy: “He has no rizz, no spark, no drip.” ‘S.N.L.’ Brings Donald Trump to the Last Supper for Easter Weekend 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

Which books by contemporary historians — both academic and amateur — do you most admire? John Lewis Gaddis: By the Book 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

This week, the two attempt to use Dodd as a bargaining chip to get the Gerhardts off their backs, which again returns the series to the theme of amateur criminality, to particularly uproarious effect. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 8: A Man Without a Country 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

He created in his photographs, his cartoons and his paintings another life professionally executed, and far beyond any amateur dabblings that a musician might deliver as an adjunct to his day job. Herbert Whone obituary 2011-08-03T18:33:10Z

It was better to come off as an amateur than a good salesman. Learning How to Sell From ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ 2012-11-11T04:40:29Z

The fashionable Jafar isn't terribly impressed with DeSantis' attire, noting, "As villains go, the boy's an amateur. He has no riz, no spark . . . no drip. The look is giving Baby Mayor." "The gay shall stay": "SNL" mocks Ron DeSantis' failed attempt to take Disney's Florida kingdom 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

A group of Taiwanese researchers found that a four-week mindfulness workshop helped a team of amateur baseball players there get into the zone. It’s great to be ‘in the zone’ — while working, exercising and creating art. Here’s how to get there. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

Ms. Ade began making amateur movies with a camcorder when she was a teenager and attended the University of Television and Film Munich. The Director of ‘Toni Erdmann’ Savors Her Moment at Cannes 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

Bhattacharya recorded professionals and amateurs performing classical and folk, secular and religious music, as well as Bedouin workers rhythmically grinding coffee and a ninth-century Persian epic poem intoned, with drumming, to pace an exercise routine. The Year in Yesteryear: Standout Music Books and Boxed Sets 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

That amateur venture, titled “Madeline and Cooper,” with him and his girlfriend as the leads and shot with equipment borrowed from the university, followed the quotidian mishaps of a college freshman. Cooper Raiff, Arriving Early to the Party 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Like its US counterpart Last Comic Standing, it's a face-off between pros, not amateurs. Show Me the Funny ? and the unfunny 2011-07-18T13:38:39Z

It was Macbeth at the local amateur Little Theatre. Shakespeare and me: Sir Ian McKellen 2012-06-30T23:07:03Z

After an extended bout of childhood rheumatic fever, he was sent to Abingdon school as a boarder, and it was there that he made his first amateur films. Michael Grigsby obituary 2013-03-21T18:30:54Z

But with the streets jammed with tipplers, and not a free taxi in sight, it felt more like amateur night. | Scene City: New York Fashion Week -Barely Time for the Shows ? Scene City 2011-09-15T00:28:41Z

But on days of drizzle and drifting cloud the keep diminishes, like an amateur drawing half erased. Book Excerpt: ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Now, as an adult, I have this interesting ability – because of just being broadly documentarian, actress, sometimes writer, amateur reporter – to continue telling stories. "Oh, Britta's in this?": Gillian Jacobs on playing a WWII hero and never leaving "Community" behind 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

A bit sad she left the amateur dramatics at home tonight. Eurovision 2014: Reporter's diary 2014-05-11T11:21:17Z

I went along to a rehearsal and discovered this charming group of amateur actors — and some jolly attractive girls — talking a new language: upstage, downstage, stand center.” Donald Sinden dies; multifaceted British actor of movies, TV and stage

Vogel was an amateur musician, perhaps more of an aficionado than a savant. The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

George Washington hosted an amateur production in Philadelphia during the first full year of his presidency. Of Caesar, guns and trolls: The evil that men do 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

Seventy-five amateur/semi-professional actors from the local community – all touched by the case in some way – made audition tapes for a supposed docudrama, some scenes of which were shot and interwoven into the final film. Casting JonBenét director on our obsession with the murder of a child pageant queen 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Jefferson famously edited the miracles out of the Gospels, and Dickens —who Carter notes was also an amateur illusionist — reveled in them. Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy walk into a church basement . . . 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

But a book by Miguel Covarrubias, a Mexican artist and amateur archaeologist sympathetic to tribal art, was a catalyst for Coe to turn his attention to the art of Native Americans. Met Museum spotlights American Indian art 2012-01-17T16:44:17Z

While this isn’t always a problem when certified mental health professionals provide general life skill tips, it becomes a potential danger when untrained people deliver amateur armchair diagnoses. Psychologists warn against believing TikTok videos on how to self-diagnose mental disorders 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

The first 15 people to sign up at 11:45 a.m. compete in the amateur contest; the winner moves on to the professional. How many Peeps can you eat in 2 minutes? Find out on Saturday. 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

National Storytelling Week, Nationwide, Sat to 5 Feb Tales tall and short, as experienced and amateur storytellers swap stories, plus workshops, courses and competitions. This week's new events 2011-01-29T00:06:33Z

Embedded in the floor are 12 circular displays showing artifacts found by amateur archaeologists in New York, ranging from arrowheads to a drowned child’s shoes. Museum Review: ?Revolution!? at the New-York Historical Society 2011-11-10T23:07:33Z

That January, amateur traders, encouraged by online posts and videos, wildly drove up the stock price of the video game retailer GameStop, a company that seasoned investors had written off. ‘Dumb Money’ Review: Revenge of the Amateur Stock Traders 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z

The actor took to his Twitter feed to apologize to Clowes, saying, "In my excitement and naiveté as an amateur filmmaker, I got lost in the creative process and neglected to follow proper accreditation." Actor Shia LaBeouf's foray into 'art' has some scratching heads 2014-02-12T04:50:49Z

They turned up in droves for an amateur production of “Be More Chill” in November at New Jersey’s Exit 82 Theater. How an Anxious-Adolescent Musical (No, Not That One) Found Its Fans 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

He studied music at college in San Diego, but got sidetracked into comedy when he took the stage at a stand-up club’s amateur night. Jamie Foxx joins ‘Spider-Man’ family as good guy gone bad 2014-04-29T21:53:22Z

The director’s new film hasn’t arrived unnoticed, so we may already know that Ms. McKenzie is not an amateur from Oregon, where most of the action takes place, but an exceptional young professional. ‘Leave No Trace’ Review: Love Under Siege 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

On the agenda is a year-round program of anniversary concerts, services and an invitation to organists — amateur, professional, celebrated or unknown — to take part in 150 recitals around the nation. Once Top Musicians, Organists See Loss of Relevance 2014-04-25T19:57:41Z

Plus, the waves are calm through January, making conditions ideal for amateur surfers. These Are the Best Places to Travel in January 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

He’s about as far from Miss Marple as amateur detectives come, and yet he stumbles to some semblance of a solution, just the same. Stephen King Reviews Tana French’s ‘Extraordinary’ New Novel 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

While she tends to her aging father, ill and frail, she accompanies an amateur bird-watcher for a year, simply for the pleasure of parsing out his love for the “imperfect and struggling.” Photos, Gardens, Birds, Trees: What’s Happening in the Great Outdoors 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

"It was mistaken for a missile base by Turkish intelligence and the Pentagon," says Chaubin, who is the first to admit that his book is the work of a keen-eyed amateur, not an architecture expert. Swansongs of a superpower: Russia's secret architecture 2011-02-07T21:31:01Z

Within every amateur activity there are hierarchies of skill, talent, and effort. Can Ultimate Frisbee go mainstream? 2013-06-12T12:57:00Z

“There’s been a massive turn toward amateur activity, amateur creativity,” she said. Put Down Your Book. It’s Time to Act Out. 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

When things are downright poisonous, you can’t help but seek some kind of humanity, the ordinary charm of a group of voters—amateurs unprepared for their TV cameos—trying to get through their rituals. The R.N.C. on TV: Another Unbelievable Evening 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

The professional critic's role here can be redundant, or at least very difficult, when so many online amateurs get directly to the heart of Lloyd Webber's appeal. Why are we snooty about musicals? 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

Shi’ite Muslim Sayed Hussein al-Husseini, 38, a keen pianist and amateur poet, posted the footage to challenge the traditional image of a cleric. Lebanese cleric's piano playing strikes wrong note for some 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

It was during a medical leave that he began composing scenarios and acting in amateur theatrical productions. New on DVD, ‘Fritz Lang: The Early Works’ 2012-11-09T23:32:07Z

The amateur investors who made the first GameStop recommendations are an eclectic and irreverent bunch, from a grocery store worker to a day trader who wears a metal helmet to protect his identity. ‘Diamond Hands: The Legend of WallStreetBets’ Review: Is This Loss? 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

Many of the concerns were voiced by tour director Kenny Ortega, who Phillips at one point told not to attempt to serve as an amateur doctor or psychiatrist. CEO describes Jackson as forceful businessman 2013-06-12T18:25:09Z

I wouldn't quite call it amateur hour, but it wasn't smooth, either. Welcome back, Keith Olbermann 2011-06-21T12:22:00Z

The amateur recordings are not principally finished propaganda; they’re more like outtakes, replete with directions from off camera and flubbed dialogue. Review: ‘Path of Blood’ Presents Terrorists’ Videos 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Madden, “a writer, photographer, and amateur magician,” pulls a rabbit out of her hat and turns her life into art in this gorgeous reckoning. The 10 books to read in March 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

The friends had arranged to begin the evening with an amateur burlesque show. Sex in Silicon Valley: are millennials better at free love? 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

Most of his paintings are acquired by museums, “and the rest are the treasured possessions of wealthy amateurs.” Photos, Perhaps, Show a Rare Glimpse of Gauguin in Tahiti 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Its recipes prioritize practicality, and are mostly created by amateur home cooks. With No Frills or Celebrities, Cookpad Is a Global Go-To for Recipes 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

Random House Project to Rewrite Shakespeare There is still a rogue faction of literary scholars and obsessive amateurs who claim that Shakespeare’s plays were actually written by Edward de Vere, the 17th earl of Oxford. ArtsBeat: Random House Project to Rewrite Shakespeare 2013-06-27T17:24:05Z

The other major legal question in the EMI suit is whether lip dubs and similar mash-ups of amateur and professional content are infringing. 2010-01-16T03:10:00Z

She won her first amateur fight at Gleason’s Gym in 2002, where she now trains other women who are looking to use boxing to get into better shape. ‘I Love to Fight. I Live to Fight.’ 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

This is another hidden truth of amateur theatre: it is often extremely well resourced. Raising the curtain on the new am-dram 2012-12-15T21:00:00Z

Enthusiastic listeners urged him to put together a more formal concert, so in late 1982, he put on a show with local amateur musicians — and got more of a crowd than he ever expected. Seattle Chinese Orchestra helps East meet West in April 20 concert 2012-04-11T22:31:05Z

A keen gardener, amateur photographer, ice-skater and botanic drawing student, with a lifelong love of theatre, Carola was witty and irreverent, wrote wickedly funny articles for the Literary Review, and especially enjoyed Biographers' Club events. Carola Hicks obituary 2010-07-27T17:33:00Z

Tavener gave the amateur voices little quarter, yet the fragility of the ensemble seemed to support the composer's belief that all major religions have become equally senile. John Tavener – review 2013-07-08T17:14:59Z

After decades as an amateur player eager for a big break, the veggie burger has made its ascent, becoming a destination dish and hashtag darling as never before. The Veggie Burger’s Ascent 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

His grandfather was an amateur bullfighter, and the local toreadors used to come by the house to get ready for corridas. Joaquin De Luz, City Ballet’s Bravura Sparkler, Says Goodbye 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

People often ask me what the essential difference is between professional actors and amateurs. Paul Bhattacharjee and Cory Monteith deaths: is acting today just too tough? 2013-07-23T17:45:00Z

Many amateur publishing shills offered entries along the lines of “Tits and Boobies: Field Guide to Birds”; “Succulent Breasts: 101 Chicken Recipes”; and “Secrets of a Stripper: Tips for Wallpaper Removal.” Style Invitational: Mess With Our Heads 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

“I made myself go to the Lido Gym, which was full of professionals and amateurs,” Mr. Gardner says. In California, Finding ‘Fat City’ With the Man Who Wrote It 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

“It has a vaguely amateur feeling, which I like,” he said. ?60s Sondheim TV Show Is Now on (Legal) DVD 2010-10-24T21:42:00Z

His name was Claude, and he was actually an amateur himself. My trapeze-flying adventure: Better than an orgasm 2013-03-16T20:00:00Z

But only Mr. Lovano is recognizably skilled as a saxophonist; the others were adding amateur energy, which this band knows how to use. Music Review: Jack DeJohnette’s Spring Quartet at Jazz at Lincoln Center 2014-03-02T21:26:07Z

The 62-year-old gave up a career as an amateur boxer after finding fame in Hollywood movies such as 9 1/2 Weeks. Mickey Rourke set for boxing match 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

Murder has become a sport which every amateur is prepared to practise in his or her head. Psycho: Anatomy of a scene 2010-10-22T10:54:00Z

Set in 1975 Philadelphia, Rocky follows an amateur boxer who gets a surprise shot at the heavyweight championship. Rocky musical to close on Broadway 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

But by and large, the entourage and the amateurs play subordinate roles. The Future of Cheesecake Will Not Be Televised: Paula Deen Moves Online 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

The amateurs who turn into semi-professional actors on “The Bachelorette” keep finding an audience. The TV Watch: Reality TV Is an Old Entertainment Form 2010-08-19T21:25:00Z

In time, the novel’s Roxane discovers that one of the guests, another Japanese executive, is a good amateur pianist. Review: ‘Bel Canto’ Opera Arrives at an Unsettling Time 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

The win by the amateur singer against a field of European professional acts was all the more surprising for many Germans. Germany finally feels loved with Eurovision win 2010-05-30T08:30:00Z

Such antic eruptions of id became more prominent in Season 3, replacing the signature bits from previous seasons in which Issa, an amateur rapper, rhymes at herself in the mirror. Issa Rae’s Breakthrough in “Insecure” Season 3, Episode 4 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

An amateur hacker and FBI agent team up to discover who is leaking FBI secrets. Washington Post bestsellers: July 16, 2017 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

In Jay’s telling, about the only redeeming aspect of his childhood was having an amateur magician for a grandfather, who taught him the fundamentals and personally introduced him to assorted masters of conjuring. The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Along with the historical tours and the tours led by former prison guards, the museum staff is considering tours for amateur photographers and private groups, and even ghost tours, Moore said. Outside Chicago, historic Old Joliet Prison is open for tours — at least for now 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

As with many of the great explorers of the past, Morde was more of a seasoned amateur, guided not by classroom study but by guile, boldness, and a tremendous self-confidence. Goodbye, iPhone. Farewell, Brooklyn. Let’s move to Honduras and camp with jaguars 2013-01-05T20:00:00Z

Both of these films, and numerous others like them, are part of the private home-movie collection of Harold O’Neal, an amateur filmmaker who spent much of his adult life in San Francisco. The Moving Revelations of Gay Home Movies 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

The backup flatters Ms. Elson’s voice, which shows the wavering concentration of a promising amateur. Critics? Choice: CDs by Karen Elson, Crystal Castles, Keith Jarrett 2010-05-23T22:36:00Z

After moving to California for music school three years ago, she revels at the opportunity to show her hometown how she’s matured from amateur DJ to full-blown professional producer. Seattle DJ Kendoll returns for homecoming concert as a fully formed professional producer 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

“I don’t remember what we sang. The CBS radio and TV show, ‘Songs for Sale,’ only gave us songs by amateur songwriters. Tony Bennett and Diana Krall Croon and Contrast on New Duet Album 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Now he’s an amateur boot historian, able to slip easily into a disquisition on what a 19th-century Cornish miner might wear. T Magazine: Sole Mate 2011-03-08T15:50:15Z

Indeed, looking at Variations for Judith as a whole, one could say that the unifying feature is that all the pieces are written for amateur pianists. Finding the sweet spot: writing for amateur pianists 2012-06-08T14:29:09Z

When Ms. Harding got out there with her first jump, the girls who had been practicing all morning now looked like total amateurs by comparison. Tonya Harding Would Like Her Apology Now 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Also screened as part of the series was Kamran Heidar’s debut documentary, a charming look at an amateur filmmaker who makes films driven by pure passion. UCLA's annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema underway 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

A Gallic version of the successful BBC2 television series will be broadcast across the Channel, with French versions of star judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry presiding over the eager amateur bakers. The Great British Bake Off crosses the Channel 2012-10-06T23:06:57Z

It’s not particularly embarrassing to admit that you’re an amateur gardener or an amateur baker; outing yourself as an amateur actor invites mild ridicule. Put Down Your Book. It’s Time to Act Out. 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Henry Ristuccia, a retired partner at Deloitte, an international accounting firm, and an amateur street photographer, talked about the attitude of the exhibition. An Exhibition That Blends the Runway and the Street 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Foundation, a charitable organization that helps support football at high school and amateur levels. Keeping the Cowboys Cool, as N.F.L. Takes the Heat 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

At night he performed at amateur shows and worked as a singing waiter. Tony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

An amateur, science-fiction comedy with a miniscule budget — and in Finnish, to boot — would hardly be attractive to mainstream studios. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z

I shot amateur violinists and pianists playing for neighbors from their yards. VIRUS DIARY: From red carpets to empty streets, and back 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

A gifted amateur race-car driver, he aims to go pro and leave the family farm in his rearview mirror. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Ramin Bahrani Goes Big 2013-04-22T17:01:09Z

My home-loving mother pursed her lips at the bright blond hair and confident up-slick of black eyeliner sported by a friend's mum who was into amateur theatricals. Glamour versus feminism? Just look at the images in the media we all adore 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

From November to New Year’s Eve every year, dozens of ballet companies across the nation — from amateur productions in gymnasiums to the country’s finest dancers on professional stages — present the classic story. 8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker 2011-12-21T19:26:35Z

But it illustrates the ways that advancing technology - like micro-manufacturing tools, Kickstarter-like platforms or hacker culture - is shifting design away from corporate, factory production to grass-roots projects by artisans, activists and amateurs. | Istanbul Design Biennial 2012-10-16T17:30:40Z

The Syrian women they recruited, living in exile in Jordan, are all amateur actors from varying strata of Syrian society and of diverse backgrounds. Visa denials scuttle play with Syrian actresses at Georgetown

On opening night, the volunteer, Steve, revealed himself to be a nuclear engineer and amateur ukulele player with a sideline as a biohacker. Shared camaraderie in ‘We Know How You Die!’ 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The singer credits her upbringing growing up in San Pedro in the Philippines and singing in amateur singing contests as the daughter of a struggling single mother for her drive and ambition. Filipina singer Charice sees courtroom as next stage 2010-07-13T20:50:00Z

The only scenes filmed inside the camp consist of amateur footage taken by a former guard who robotically recalls atrocities he committed. Critic’s Notebook: The Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2013-06-12T22:54:26Z

“Now I subscribe to all the photography magazines and I’m pretty much a full-fledged amateur wildlife photographer,” says Nicol, who’s thinking about getting some filters and memory cards with his prize money. Meet the winner of The Seattle Times Reader Photo of the Year contest, 2016 edition 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

In September, the magazine attracted rare criticism from French government ministers when it published cartoons of a naked Muhammad amid violent global protests over an amateur anti-Islam film. Muhammad cartoons: magazine to publish illustrated biography of prophet 2012-12-30T15:54:02Z

Across the city, amateur and professional dancers are donning sneakers, masks and lots of layers to carry on with a familiar ritual that, for many, is essential to maintaining physical and mental health. Wool, Sneakers and Community: Ballet Class Persists Outdoors 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

Like an amateur sleuth arguing that a guilty man was framed, this series believes that two seemingly opposed ideas can be true: a charge of police racism, say, can be both legitimate and cynically deployed. Review: ‘The People v. O.J. Simpson,’ Seen This Time in Double Vision 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Which means, as every amateur student of politics knows, “These. Allegations. Are. Absolutely. True.” 'Veep' Recap: This Mouse Will Roar 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

Twitter and the connected audience felt like a relief last night, if only because it made watching the Cleveland spectacle so much more endurable, to crack jokes with another community of amateurs. The R.N.C. on TV: Another Unbelievable Evening 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

The sciences became specialized, and his particular power of synthesis began to look a little old-fashioned or even amateur, more a writerly and romantic endeavor than hardcore science. Perspective | What do Thomas Jefferson, a mastodon skeleton and Alexander von Humboldt have in common? The answer is locked inside the Smithsonian. 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

Is it exhilarating to read 50 pages of Barnes impersonating an amateur scholar poking clumsily through Roman history? In Julian Barnes’s New Novel, a Teacher’s Pet Becomes Obsessed 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

She did all that as an amateur, the "Yorkshire housewife", as she was described in the press, whose fitness regime consisted of picking rhubarb for a living. Maxine Peake hails her sporting hero 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Colour amateur materials are the highest priority of this project. Beatles fans asked to contribute footage for new film 2012-11-16T10:52:00Z

He elegantly edited all my amateur pitches and pieces, introducing me to the famous film critic Pauline Kael, whose office he inherited, and other staffers I admired. Remembering New Yorker magazine alum Stanley Mieses, a Talk of the Town character in his own right 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

These people are engaged, passionate and vocal, an online jumble of professional critics and opinionated amateurs who gather together to watch and discuss and dissect their favorite shows. Can ?The Killing? Make a Comeback? 2012-03-18T03:49:06Z

Located in Burgundy, the volunteer project is open approximately from mid-March to early November, and welcomes carpenters of any level, from amateur to professional. 5 Volunteer Travel Options in Europe 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the defining difference between pros and amateurs is not one of ability, but one of commitment. Hurrah for am-dram – why it's time to applaud amateur actors 2012-07-18T12:26:33Z

The author and amateur historian Bernadette Murphy, while researching the last period of that Dutch Post Impressionist’s life for a new book, discovered a document in an American archive that may help resolve the issue. New Evidence on van Gogh’s Ear Continues Debate on Painter’s Mental State 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Scarlet's audition was shown on ITV 2, in a companion episode to Britain's Got Talent, in which amateur performers compete for a place in the Royal Variety Performance. Britain's Got Talent nudity censured 2013-09-09T12:46:36Z

"Edinburgh is like the Olympics," she said, "a lot of unfinished buildings, and a bunch of amateurs trying to outperform each other." Simon Hoggart's week: festival folks flip between jokes and soaks 2011-08-19T20:00:00Z

Academicians and amateur enthusiasts have cranked out scores of books on Kerouac and the other Beats, parsing and parrying over every detail of their work and their lives. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

This retrospective, the artist's first in Britain, goes a long way too, though Shaw's best-known project – his amateur art collection accrued over decades in junk shops – is not included. Artist Jim Shaw stuffs American pop culture through the Rinse Cycle 2012-11-08T17:21:36Z

Can a divisive public conservative amateur musician conduct an orchestra? When Dennis Prager conducts Santa Monica Symphony, there's no avoiding politics 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

At least, that’s been the received wisdom since the medium began its current boom six or seven years ago: it’s an inherently amateur, democratised means of communication, with the vast majority available for free. Have podcasts sold out? 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Only an inspired, noble amateur could achieve such greatness. Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z

The Chinese interludes, along with amateur film from Czechoslovakia, punctuate a main narrative devoted to the “events of May” in France. Review: ‘In the Intense Now’ Revisits the Drama of 1968 in France and Beyond 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

He delivered his first illustrated lecture in 1888, taking two hours to narrate 100 slides to an audience of amateur photographers in Manhattan and, of course, invited journalists. Jacob Riis Photographs Still Revealing New York’s Other Half 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ricci grew up in San Francisco, the son of an Italian immigrant and amateur trombonist who insisted that all seven of his children learn to play instruments. Ruggiero Ricci, Virtuoso Violinist, Dies at 94 2012-08-10T02:50:07Z

The familiar genres of domestic photography — graduation pictures, family reunion group shots, professional and amateur portraits of newlyweds and newborns — are juxtaposed with images that are horrific, demeaning and, sadly, just as familiar. ‘Through a Lens Darkly,’ on African-American Photography 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Actually, the idea that everybody is somebody’s fool is globalized — most hilariously when Madam Legrand’s revered long-missing husband reappears, but more profoundly in the movie’s appreciation of Legrand as a passionate amateur painter. ‘La Chienne’ and ‘A Married Woman’: The Better Half, in Dark Strokes 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

“This is one of the great failings of college football: it is losing the sparkle that comes with amateur sports,” Ganis says. Hail! To the Marketers Valiant: The Trouble With Michigan Football 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Some amateur Northwest fossil hounds are even uncovering exciting new species of dinosaurs that the world has never seen before. Finding fossils, on your own dig (or in a monument or museum) 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Some studies were based on sightings by amateur entomologists, while others involved scientists counting the number of bugs splattered on car windshields. Insects are vanishing worldwide – making it harder to grow food 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

Baby is an amateur DJ, and he spends his non-driving hours playing back tapes he secretly records of conversations with Doc, among others, and setting the words to music. How Edgar Wright used music to transform the heist movie with ‘Baby Driver’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Although mostly amateurs, the musicians who played on the album took the job seriously. Refugees in Calais ‘Jungle’ Record an Album 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

Each new play is putatively the work of the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, a troupe of overambitious amateur thespians. In This ‘Peter Pan,’ Something Always Goes Awry. That’s the Plan. 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

Most directors would probably draw the line at asking amateur teenage actors to simulate their own suicide, but Rau loves an ethical minefield. Trigger Warnings as a Provocateur Puts Suicide Onstage 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Of the 22 amateur reviewers on Amazon.com, the vast majority agreed with the pros, with 18 giving it a highest-possible five stars, while only three tarred the book with a lowly one-star rating. Reviewers praise new Steve Jobs biography 2011-10-24T19:46:23Z

His father, a judge and amateur pianist, introduced his son to music. Jiri Belohlavek, Czech Conductor, Dies at 71 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

When Buck Ferris, amateur local archaeologist, discovers what may be ancient ruins on the proposed building site, he is murdered before his discovery can affect negotiations for the mill. Review | Greg Iles bounced back from a catastrophic car crash with a monumental trilogy. He’s not done. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

On websites like fanfiction.net and Wattpad, amateur writers have posted tens of thousands of stories based on “Fifty Shades.” The Evolution of E L James 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Altarejos based his film on the 2011 shootings in a Filipino shopping mall of two young male lovers, amateur footage of which later surfaced online and went viral. Filipino film highlights dangerous power of social media 2014-02-09T17:12:41Z

The results, involving inadvisable sneezing and subsequent amateur conservation attempts, are funny, but the movie is biting and right on the money — smarter than it looks. What Mr. Bean teaches us about the American museum patron 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

A Russian YouTuber and amateur scientist who goes by “Crazy Russian Hacker” wanted to show what goes into your body when you drink a sugary soda. Watch what happens when you boil coke down to just its sugar 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

So leave the late-night backyard high jinks to the amateurs, because if you’re caught breaking the law — so much for your endless summer. The Getaway: Dreaming About a Summer Rental? Act Soon 2014-01-28T20:55:43Z

His parents were teachers and members of a celebrated amateur drama company. | Jude Law 2012-11-29T14:00:21Z

“You span the spectrum, from talent-laden amateurs to young professionals to some of the greatest performers in modern American music,” he said. O Say, Can You Sing at the Ballpark? It’s a Tough Song 2013-07-04T00:02:52Z

Starring an amateur actor, it was part of the 2018 Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. A Show Reminds Young Audiences: We All Got Here From Somewhere 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Each morning, the pianos are available to any amateur pianist eager to sit down and play Chopin for the public. Wall Street is alive with the sound of ... Chopin? 2010-03-01T23:29:00Z

The show featured a series of performers, most of them amateurs, and a panel of three celebrity judges. Chuck Barris, Eclectic Entertainer of ‘Gong Show’ Fame, Dies at 87 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Shouldn't that organization be trying to fix the root of the problem about so-called corruption, and admit that the young athletes bringing in millions to these universities aren't "amateurs?" Fixing the Leadership Crisis In Sports 2011-06-03T10:00:00Z

Pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini and food writer Mary Berry, who also appears as a judge on the U.K. original, will decide which amateur baker deserves the coveted title of “America’s Best Holiday Baker.” TV listings for Monday, Nov. 30 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

Waiting for a friend in the bar of an amateur theatre in north London in 1966, he was handed a script and asked to read for a part. Obituary: Bob Hoskins 2014-04-30T13:56:01Z

It was amateur hour all the time, but the product somehow remained professional. Those Guys Have All the Fun: An Unauthorized, Uninhibited History of ESPN 2011-05-25T15:20:00Z

Francis, an amateur naturalist, spent a dozen years in prison for participating in an Irish Republican Army attack that killed 18 British soldiers. Review: In ‘The Naturalists,’ a Farm and a Family Evolve 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Other amateur attempts he recorded included stints at the trapeze, stand-up comedy and playing for the New York Philharmonic. Movie Review: ‘Plimpton!’ Directed by Tom Bean and Luke Poling 2013-05-21T22:48:07Z

Away from the cameras, older amateurs are giving their younger counterparts unexpected competition. Be like Serena and Roger: Older amateurs offer tips for maintaining your athletic edge. 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Since then I haven’t heard any live music except for my own amateur playing, which even my dog doesn’t want to be in the audience for. We Heard Our First Live Music in Months. Nothing Beats It. 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

There, she worked as a window dresser and participated in amateur theatre. Sybil Christopher obituary 2013-03-11T17:56:09Z

The regime's lies about the progress of the conflict, and the rebels' brutality towards civilians, were regularly dispelled by amateur footage posted on blogs, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Lights, camera, revolution: the birth of Libyan cinema after Gaddafi's fall 2012-10-01T18:01:01Z

Each year, the Northwest Mahler Festival brings together professional, amateur and student musicians to perform one of nine finished symphonies by the late-Romantic-era composer. Young conductor returns to Seattle for Mahler fest 2011-07-15T15:35:06Z

The company looked amateur in the best sense, dancing neighbors giving their irresistible all. Dance Review: DanceAfrica at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-05-27T22:51:46Z

Friday brings the premiere of “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off,” an anime series based on the comic book about a young, lollygagging amateur bass player battling seven of his new love’s exes. ‘Scott Pilgrim’ Is Back, Now in Anime Form 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z

No cast members from “Bookworms” flowed in that night, but there were some amateur actors in the post-performance crowd. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z

The Guild of Literature and Art, on behalf of which Mr. Charles Dickens and his brother amateurs have just charmed the town, is, in our opinion, an excellent institution. Authors and life of poverty: From the archive, 18 Feb 1852 2013-02-18T07:00:00Z

She’s too serious a playwright to be trying to game the market — though “Grand Horizons,” with its pace, pedigree and cast of six, is likely to be performed in regional and amateur theaters for years. Review: In ‘Grand Horizons,’ Marriage Is a Long-Running Farce 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

So there's always a second career in science… His PhD was actually in film studies, although he does admit to being an "amateur astronomer". Rising star: Gavin Extence 2013-01-06T00:07:20Z

The amateur creations delighted artists, but also left many feeling sheepish about having abandoned political themes. Russia's artists enter political fray in elections 2012-03-01T11:36:13Z

They're such amateurs, Murad and his boys, that it's like watching Mills shoot puppies in a pet store window as he takes them out individually and in bunches. Review: Neeson's 'Taken 2' is mistaken sequel 2012-10-03T19:59:12Z

Painting was encouraged not as a serious endeavor, but as an amateur hobby, with small, toothless pictures in pencil and watercolor the expected results. You know Monet and Manet. This female Impressionist deserves your attention, too. 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

There’s “standard playing,” which any amateur might aspire to. This String Quartet Has a Line of Craft Beer 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

A recent search on the site turned up loads of enthusiastic amateurs and a few professional chefs who were veterans of Michelin-starred restaurants. How to Feel at Home on the Road 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

On a tour with some amateur treasure hunters, Kaiser is stunned by the scale. A Quest to Reclaim a Family Home Unearths a Past Buried by the Holocaust 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

In the best sense, everything here was amateur; affection, good manners and objectivity shone in equal measure. Dance Review: Downtown Dance Festival at Battery Park 2012-08-17T23:55:17Z

He went to St Albans grammar school for boys, and then to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in the mid-1960s, where he read modern languages, directed plays and became president of the amateur dramatic club. Malcolm Griffiths obituary 2010-12-02T18:18:00Z

Cantor’s cave sometimes floods, and is often visited by insects, spiders and snails, but the amateur builder doesn’t mind the company. Teen digs homey backyard cave after fight with parents 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

The artist and educator Bob Ross, whose chipper television performances encouraged countless amateurs to try landscape painting, built his art empire in unprepossessing surroundings. A Panorama of Design 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Picture desks now use amateur online photo archives instead of commissioning new images and get pictures for a fraction of previous costs or entirely for free. Are books dead, and can authors survive? 2011-08-22T16:21:14Z

"I started out thinking of Instagram food culture as being something created by amateurs, by just people as obsessed with food as I might be," says Feldman. How fine dining came to exclude immigrant cuisine — and how social media is pushing back 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

Well-known national acts and local amateurs alike take the comedy stage this fall. Here’s where to find laughs in Seattle this season 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Burckhardt tended to speak of himself as a committed amateur in the sense of being someone who does what he does for love, not glory or pay. Rudy Burckhardt: ‘Subterranean Monuments: A Centenary Celebration’ 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

“But there’s one thing brings me back year after year and that’s white people dancing. The RNC is the world’s premier caucasian amateur dance festival.” Jimmy Kimmel Can't Get Enough of White People Dancing at the RNC 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

An amateur photographer, he offered his fellow shutterbug the use of his darkroom, and then, when rehearsals began, he invited her to bring her camera. Martha Swope, 88, Who Etched Dance and Theater History in Photographs, Dies 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

I do know that it will get attention because of who I am, but on the other hand I am a sort of earnest amateur. James Franco on Daddy: ‘Our end goal doesn't depend on me being Beyoncé’ 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

And he came away convinced that a primary impulse behind the current vogue for films that appear to be shot by amateurs has little to do with cinematic point of view. They Shoot Movies, Don?t They? The Camera as Star 2011-02-19T00:02:14Z

Her father, a furniture salesman who also managed a community theater, presented her at an amateur hour show when she was about 6. Jackie Cain, sparkling jazz singer in duo with husband for decades, dies at 86

He was also an excellent amateur photographer, as this extraordinary book of intimate monochrome reportage shows. The best photography books of 2012: an alternative selection 2012-12-21T16:01:33Z

“As You Like It” certainly qualifies, with its urban-sylvan frolics and, in this case, amateur participants including members of the Bronx Wrestling Federation. 5 Shows to See if You’re in New York in September 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Few students of popular culture, amateur or professional, consider the 1960s a period when creativity flourished on American television. Critic?s Notebook: How We Picked Our Presidents, 1960s Style 2011-07-05T00:23:31Z

The televised series will begin airing in June and will be open to professionals and amateurs. 'Transformers' plans casting call on Chinese TV 2013-04-18T15:53:12Z

Nosy neighbors who spread hateful rumors in one moment and turn into amateur true crime detectives when their target turns up dead? The latest "You" makes a killing in the 'burbs, fulfilling the dark fantasies we'd rather ignore 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

There will be amateur performances, a chance for people around the world to discuss online what Shakespeare means to them, and an educational conference on how Shakespeare is taught in schools. London 2012 Festival and Cultural Olympiad in Britain 2012-04-08T21:46:42Z

The company doesn’t appear to discriminate between fan films made by professionals and those made by amateurs, provided they follow its rules. The Force (and a Lenient Disney) Is With ‘Star Wars’ Fan Filmmakers 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

McKellen, who is a vice-president of the National Youth Theatre and a patron of the Guild of Little Theatres, believes the NYT and other surviving amateur groups provide an invaluable opportunity for young people. Ian McKellen warns theatre is at risk from fall in acting standards 2010-09-25T23:07:00Z

Not likely given that amateur hour never ends for the Repubs. Zero Dark Thirty Filmmakers Defend Their Story of Osama at the D.C. Premiere 2013-01-10T16:13:13Z

The event was one of many to observe the 310th anniversary of St. Petersburg and included singers of all ages, including professional and amateur choirs from the area. Arts, Briefly: 4,300 Singers Gather in Russia 2013-05-26T22:21:55Z

The blurry lines between professional and amateur was the recurring theme throughout this nourishing dance party, the opening event of the monthlong Red Bull Music Academy. Music Review: Moving to Varied Beats at Bounce Ballroom 2014-05-02T22:29:31Z

The ExtractMoJo is serious gear for the professional — or obsessed amateur. | Coffee With Tim Wendelboe 2010-10-14T20:00:00Z

Opie’s work has often explored genre — from street photography to formal portraiture — and these new photographs of the Okefenokee swamps, which straddle the Georgia-Florida state line, are what she jokingly calls “amateur National Geographic pictures.” From Catherine Opie, a Visual Diary of the Recent Past 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

The exhibition at Form/Space Atelier comprises thousands of sketchbooks filled with amateur artwork, from simple doodles to mini-masterpieces. Fun between the covers: Sketchbook Project in Seattle 2011-06-09T20:45:17Z

Many of the actors in "Under the Skin" were unwitting amateurs initially filmed on hidden cameras with spontaneous dialogue. Mica Levi strips back emotional layers in 'Under the Skin' score 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

This “gospel” was worldwide news — before skeptical papyrologists and grammarians, in one case drawing on the research of an amateur Coptic obsessive working in his Macomb, Mich., basement, showed it to be a complete fake. The Harvard Professor Who Told the World That Jesus Had a Wife 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z

One theory of amateur success says that outsiders are not burdened with the “curse of knowledge.” ArtsBeat: Amateur Hour: Jack Hitt Talks About an American Tradition 2012-05-16T19:53:00Z

It’s part of why they used amateur actors, many of whom have become improbable cult stars. Tim and Eric Figure Out How to Do the Wrong Thing, Perfectly 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

In addition to doing costume and stage design, he was an amateur photographer and drew numerous lighthearted cartoons and caricatures in pen and ink and also worked in watercolor. Famous writers’ art and design 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z

May 17 saw amateur cooks auctioning sushi from their homes, biology students serving recipes featuring insects, and still other participants serving dishes based on wartime cookbooks. Helsinki’s food scene, coming on strong

I married a brawny Canadian, an amateur naturalist with an adventurous spirit disguised by a law degree and a 9-to-9 job in Times Square. A Crash Course in Honeymoon Survival 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

An amateur dancer, he was invited, in the late 1970s, to appear on a TV talent contest called Soul Train. Mahershala Ali: ‘I had to protect myself from people’s fear of me’ 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

Perhaps there's a sense that describing them is spoiling a mystery – or that these highlights are ruined when translated by us enthusiastic amateurs. Tom Ewing 2010-12-09T22:30:00Z

“It was the first time a project with professionals and amateurs was part of the festival,” Mr. Foccroulle said. A Calmly Daring Operatic Leader Says Au Revoir 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Fragile Yet Hard-Fought Hopes of Better Lives There are no heavyweights in “China Heavyweight,” Yung Chang’s dispassionate look at the aspirational lure of Chinese amateur boxing programs. Movie Review: ‘China Heavyweight,’ a Documentary by Yung Chang 2012-07-05T22:55:22Z

The film is filled with television and amateur footage of people at the Bartman game, juxtaposed with your interviews of them. ArtsBeat: Alex Gibney on ?Catching Hell? 2011-04-27T18:21:21Z

Kolkowski sees a future for his project in school workshops, a vision that returns us to Xenakis's desire to open up the possibilities of the electronic studio to amateurs and children. Xenakis: So what does a wiggly line sound like? 2010-06-03T22:00:00Z

Entries range from amateur to highly accomplished, said Seattle filmmaker Braden, who hosted the show and selected the five finalists. Where cat videos, already dominant on the Internet, also take over real life 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

An army of amateur internet sleuths pore over every tiny new detail, and hound Mina — their prime suspect — from afar. Murder in the Brain-Broiling Heat and Red Dust of the Outback 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Anna is once again involved in a mystery, which gets Mary Ann and the others out of the house for some amateur sleuthing and even a comic ride-sharing car chase. Review: The More, Further (Final?) ‘Tales of the City’ 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

In a rare act of magnanimity, after Nina's insult, she hears the amateur sleuths celebrating and brings over a bottle of good champagne. In defense of The Arconia's grand dame on "Only Murders in the Building" 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

The modern discipline started with amateur and professional musicians playing to patients suffering from physical and emotional trauma in veterans' hospitals after the two World Wars. Medical: Music gets tuned to our moods 2010-10-13T17:39:00Z

Edwards had gone out to Calgary as the amateur’s amateur and returned home a star. Eddie the Eagle: ‘I was probably closer to the ostrich’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

Partner events include the Robothon showcase and competitions with amateur robotic enthusiasts from around the world; iFest festival for independent game developers; Seattle Mini Maker Faire for tech enthusiasts; and the Emerald City Reptile Expo. Tickle your brain at Seattle Science Festival 2012-05-30T20:57:10Z

That’s good news for anyone, professional or amateur, who has grown weary of dancing at home, alone, in front of a screen. Together and in Person: Everybody Dance Now 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

They are plentiful, inexpensive and easy for amateurs to catch in quantity. A Dwindling Catch Has Alaskans Uneasy 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

Frank Cauldhame lives with his eccentric amateur scientist father in a big, isolated house on the Scottish coast. Ten of the best 2011-03-26T00:05:30Z

“It’s not just individuals or amateurs who are getting in trouble and making mistakes,” she said. Museum of the Bible Returns Ancient Gospel Looted From Greek Monastery 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

The daring British spy with "a licence to kill" is now as much a historical figure as the gentleman's gentleman or the amateur detective. The mystery of James Bond's enduring appeal 2010-05-31T16:52:00Z

But it is being an amateur pianist that is perhaps the central obsession of his long life. Play it again: conquering Chopin's Ballade No 1 2013-01-12T06:30:01Z

She founded the Collaborative Community Orchestra, which matches amateur musicians with professionals, partly with the aim of mentoring less experienced musicians. Why are there so few women at the top in classical music? What’s being done about it in Seattle and elsewhere? 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

And as she disappeared from the spotlight, spending more of her time in the small neighborhood gym in Orlando training young amateur boxers, Jim Martin’s health was deteriorating. Boxer Christy Martin Takes Another Shot 2011-01-21T23:28:23Z

Gamse was with Ruiz in New York while he was watching “Shark Tank,” a reality show in which investors bet on or belittle a series of amateurs proposing mostly white-bread inventions. Keeping it real 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

You envy the "emotion" of amateurs, and are obliged periodically to go for a walk to "air" your nose, which is after all just a "testing tool". Non-fiction roundup – reviews 2012-08-24T07:00:04Z

It was a major departure from Clerks, with its grimy settings and amateur actors. Kevin Smith and the triumph of commerce over art 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

At the highest levels, amateur and pro, dancers must integrate several compulsory moves into their routines, making use of two poles, one static and one spinning. Pole Dancing Without Nudity or G-Strings. Just Express Yourself. 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

“Underground dance music — in the nicest way possible — it’s amateur,” he said. The D.J. Maestros Axwell and Ingrosso Aim to Shake the Rafters 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

But when he was conceiving his second book, he did not plan to take the same approach and become an amateur M.M.A. contender. Mixed Martial Arts Books by Matthew Polly and Jim Genia 2011-11-17T00:02:56Z

And the main characters are adolescents who are consumed, as he was then, with shooting amateur 8-millimeter, or Super 8, films. Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser 2011-05-29T01:23:02Z

But sexting and Tinder – and happn, which I learned about for the first time recently – have rendered middle-aged novices such as myself mere amateurs in the business of finding the right partner. Back in the game: dating in your 50s 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

Or maybe you're confusing it with the BBC2 food show The Great British Bake Off, where members of the public compete to become the country's best amateur baker. The Great British cliche 2011-03-09T12:02:45Z

The background: There's a great amateur debate on YouTube under the title "Which UK female MC is next to blow commercially?" New band of the day: Phreeda Sharp (No 1,514) 2013-05-16T15:31:43Z

Ludicrously, the IOC maintained the “hypocritical and ultimately forlorn” pretence of amateurism until 1988—even as Soviet athletes were amateurs in name only. Fanfare 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

But on this Friday, they would become amateur cartographers, mapping their local food landscape. Urban-Farming Camps Have Kids Asking, Where’s the Healthy Food? 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

Al Pacino is both searing and goofy as the would-be criminal, a clumsy amateur whose ineptitude turns what should be a quick job into public sensation over the course of one long, hot summer day. The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

After serving in the Royal Air Force and the Merchant Navy, he became a photographer and amateur filmmaker. The Master of Cinematic Vulgarity: Ken Russell (1927-2011) 2011-11-28T20:17:50Z

The cutting of the lino shows no flourish of finesse: these are blunt, almost amateur, pictures, carried off with some kids’ Christmas craft kit, of subjects with no apparent aesthetic value. Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures 2012-11-08T12:00:00Z

Among the other organisations that are involved are cultural movement What Next? and a wide range of national and local arts and cultural organisations, both professional and amateur. BBC campaign urges UK to get creative 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

“We’re in an awkward phase between being an amateur and professional sport,” she said. The best kind of growing pains for Rat City Rollergirls 2013-01-17T21:37:32Z

Much of it is a monotonous look at the bustle of urban life — with too many moments of amateur improvisation — and, like “Pursuit,” it’s better suited to the men. Dance Review: Juilliard Dance at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-12-14T23:58:27Z

The festival, which ran from July 30 to Aug. 27 this year, blurs the usual divide between professional and amateur. A Summer Music School for Stars, Amateurs and Students 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Kasper, who like many musicians did not want his last name used, was a jewelry maker in Baghdad and an amateur rapper before he embarked on the grueling route to Europe last year. Refugees in Calais ‘Jungle’ Record an Album 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

In recent years photographers, both amateur and professional, have taken to chronicling the vestiges of manufacturing in the Rust Belt. Braddock's LaToya Ruby Frazier takes on Levi's and 'ruin porn' chic 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

He may describe himself as "an enthusiastic amateur" when it comes to house and techno, but he also knows how to bend dancefloors across the globe to his will. Clubs picks of the week 2012-05-25T23:05:21Z

Indeed, he got it after calling America a “laughingstock” that is being “led by amateurs, and it’s a very sad thing.” Meet the 19th most likely guy to win the GOP presidential nomination 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Regardless of how their time and money is being handled, the amateur child models of Instagram are already more famous on the Internet than most of your co-workers. Meet the Instamom, a Stage Mother for Social Media 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

Not only does this prove fiddly for an amateur like me, but risks dangerous cross-contamination with similarly happy memories of jam roly-poly. How to cook the perfect spotted dick 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

The performances were recorded and released by Deutsche Grammophon but led to little new interest, and the work was most recently performed in an amateur production at the University of Cambridge in 1988. ?A Quiet Place? Of Dysfunction And Dystopia 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z

That show ostensibly rewards talented amateur dancers, but it is fashioned to feed the vanity of Ms. Abdul. ArtsBeat: The TV Watch: Life After Simon for 'Idol' 2011-01-20T12:26:17Z

“I was never a fashionisto, I indulged in the show as an amateur,” he said. | YSL in the U.S.A. 2012-03-22T22:00:05Z

A strictly amateur investigator of independent means, he is nonetheless a good friend of Chief Inspector Stephen Castle, who recognizes the sleepy brilliance of this Jimmy Stewart look-alike. ‘The Derek Smith Omnibus,’ by Derek Howe Smith

Ballet and jazz are marginal, too, Mr. Seibert writes, but at least they have “well-funded institutions” and “a thick body of professional and amateur scholarship bestowing cultural respect.” Review: A Rigorous Tap Dancing Lesson in ‘What the Eye Hears’ 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Or the stack of letters and artifacts that an amateur detective collected? The making of the White City Devil: How H.H. Holmes became a serial killer legend 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

This modesty is a signal that the Maryland Grand National is a social event for daring amateurs. My Horse Country 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Here in the bar, Robinson sings a couple of verses of Blue Murder, his song about the death in police custody of the amateur boxer Liddle Towers, in 1976. Martin Carthy and Tom Robinson's notes on a revolution 2010-06-13T20:29:00Z

As an academic researcher, developer of artistic technology and amateur artist, I was quite skeptical about crypto art when I first read about it several years ago. Why would anyone buy crypto art – let alone spend millions on what’s essentially a link to a JPEG? 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

He left school at 15 and joined an amateur theater group in Bradford. The Importance of Being Astonished 2011-01-09T02:00:58Z

In reality, I considered myself an amateur anthropologist. I was a rock ‘n’ roll groupie: My lifelong obsession with Dimebag Darrell 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

The ensemble, affectionately named the Be Phil, was an amateur orchestra of 101 musicians, ages 10 to 75, who had come from all over to play with one of the world’s greatest conductors. Over 16 Years, Simon Rattle Transformed the Berlin Philharmonic. Here’s How. 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

And, to judge from the photographs here, it turned skilled painters into bumbling amateurs. Art Review: ?Snapshot: Painters and Photography,? at Phillips Collection 2012-04-06T00:25:38Z

Back in the 19th century and forever before that, there were no professionals — Darwin was not a professional, he was an amateur. Swimming against the tide: Lawrence Weschler on 'Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of Astrophysicists' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

In an unusual confluence, Paramount’s schedule has been crisscrossed lately with films that share a conceit: an amateur’s camera capturing what it is not supposed to see. They Shoot Movies, Don?t They? The Camera as Star 2011-02-19T00:02:14Z

Doñana’s wetlands flood for six months annually, which is great for birds migrating to and from Africa and not so great for amateur Atlantis seekers. My Quest for Atlantis 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Because he had taken the money from the agent, Cooke had lost his amateur status and could not play college ball. 'Lenny Cooke' film is cautionary tale of squandered sports talent 2013-12-20T17:09:35Z

Until the 1950s and 60s," he says, "almost every town had a rep theatre, and amateur productions alternated with professional shows. Shakespeare's am-dram champions: the amateurs joining forces with the RSC 2012-07-17T18:31:01Z

Expect a mix of Olympic medalists and amateurs, live music and a casual, festival atmosphere. A Season of Ski Happenings: Polo, Competitions, Carnivals 2010-12-10T21:49:00Z

Verily, there is nothing more unintentionally funny than amateur dramatics, where vaulting egos rub up against dubious acting abilities. Catch-up TV guide: from Sons Of Anarchy to Simon Amstell 2013-01-05T00:06:15Z

At 18, he won a Golden Gloves amateur featherweight boxing title. Terry Robinson, Chiropractor and Fitness Trainer to the Stars, Dies at 98 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

His parents were teachers and amateur musicians who ran a summer camp in upstate New York. Jerry Herman, Composer of ‘Hello, Dolly!’ and Other Broadway Hits, Dies at 88 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

The composer was presumably writing for an amateur royal. Pianist Andras Schiff mesmerizes with last sonatas of 4 composers 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Some of the biggest laughs come from the familiar pitfalls of the amateur marathoner – blisters and hitting the wall. Ten of the best running movies 2013-02-18T13:18:00Z

The amateur athletes he brought to his estate under the banner of Team Foxcatcher were of course glad to have a patron. Review: ‘Team Foxcatcher’ Looks at a Millionaire’s Descent Into Murder 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

The dancer Norma Miller, who died last year, recalls seeing Fitzgerald’s star-making debut at amateur night at the Apollo Theater: Her introduction drew boos, but she silenced the audience quickly. ‘Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things’ Review: Words Without Much Music 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

A few are professional dancers; most are devoted amateurs. Dance Place’s Deborah Riley, moving on: ‘It’s been my family’ 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Pearce, who has been in love with Shakespeare’s words ever since as a kid he helped his mother, an amateur actress, learn her “Romeo and Juliet” lines, thinks so. ‘Will’ on TNT: A Punk-Rock Shakespeare, Striving and Stage-Diving in the Big City 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

Championing the cause of the aspiring amateur, his book Digital Filmmaking delivers a sensible tutorial on the disciplines required to produce a film – whatever the size of budget, crew or camera. In praise of ? Mike Figgis 2011-02-07T00:05:08Z

At the time, except for the choruses founded in the 1940s by Robert Shaw in New York and Roger Wagner in Los Angeles, choral groups relied on amateur enthusiasts. Gregg Smith, Choral Leader Who Elevated Standards, Dies at 84 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Hendrix played four shows in Seattle, and there are amateur bootlegs, but nothing has ever been officially released. An introduction to Jimi Hendrix, Seattle’s own international music icon, through books, movies and music 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

Britain in a Day is the successor to the acclaimed Life in a Day, which consisted solely of fragments of footage filmed by amateurs over a single 24-hour period, then stitched together by professionals. What's typically British now? Tears, tents and no spiders 2012-06-01T19:30:01Z

Woods isn't the only person to turn to amateur astronomy and stargazing amid the pandemic. How quarantine has inspired new amateur astronomers (some who wouldn't mind an alien abduction) 2020-08-16T04:00:00Z

Bradford took part in amateur theatrics at school and studied English literature at Yale University. Bradford Dillman obituary 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

As a Sunday afternoon amateur this can be alarming: I have sat between fire-breathing sisters and married couples rehearsing old saws which have nothing to do with bowing technique. Tosca; La fille du r?giment; Takacs Quartet 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

In one of the most ludicrously harrowing and repellently exuberant scenes ever filmed, the protagonist—an amateur ceramist—finds the killer app for his kiln. Movies 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

And many of the amateurs don’t want them. Hail the Amateur, Loved by the Crowd 2011-06-10T14:21:36Z

Her goal was simple and complex: to figure out how a modern Filipino eatery could be competitive in the U.S. hospitality industry, which chews up and spits out amateurs. At long last, Filipino food arrives. What took it so long? 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

In this new summertime reality series, 10 amateur bakers, who were chosen from a nationwide search, compete for the title of “best amateur baker in America” and a cash prize. Wednesday TV Picks: ‘The American Baking Competition’ 2013-05-28T20:17:24Z

“Stay the Same” — made on a shoestring with an amateur cast around Kansas City, Mo. — is essentially a series of beautifully shot video-length vignettes sutured into a full-length film. A Provocateur Who Talks to Strangers 2011-01-23T02:08:19Z

The main attraction was the dancing by Ms. Asherie and especially by Mr. Colter, a veteran who also goes by Cricket and whose electric and elastic moves made everyone else look a bit amateur. ‘Unreal Hip-Hop,’ at Jacob’s Pillow, With Decadancetheatre 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Palmer wounded the animal but left him alive, the kind of amateur mistake for which African professional hunters despise their Western clients. What We Mourned When We Mourned Cecil 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

Hamilton-Emery's background at CUP meant he wasn't just a passionate amateur who learned his lessons the hard way, as many others in the small press scene were back then. Ten years of publishing worth its Salt 2010-07-30T13:45:00Z

The art lies in detecting the richest slices of popular media — film, TV or amateur video — and punctuating their greatness by setting them on infinite repeat. Hands Off My Smiley Face: Emoji Become Corporate Tools 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

In the early 1970s, new tessellations and how to represent them were developed by Marjorie Rice, an amateur mathematician who became interested in the subject after reading an article about it. Spare Times for Feb. 1-7 2013-01-31T23:16:48Z

The show also includes some frankly terrible work, notably her portrait of George Bernard Shaw from 1933, a peculiarly amateur picture that is not a likeness, and captures the playwright's essence not at all. Laura Knight: Portraits – review 2013-07-13T23:05:27Z

Of those, one was a professional revival, 144 were by amateur companies and a whopping 652 were done on school and college campuses. Queer Kids, Nerds and Sword Fights: It’s the Hot School Play 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Thomas pulls back a metamorphic curtain on the Wednesday amateur nights, which began in the 1930s and continue today. Apollo Theater Is Celebrated in a New Graphic Novel 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

High-level amateurs from diverse musical and professional backgrounds are catered to at this festival, which offers instrumentalists opportunities for performing and coaching. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z

I loved "Heat;" it was an enthusiastic amateur's front line report of the world of professional cooking. Comfort me with food memoirs, the only books I want to read right now 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

At the gala, the mood was buoyant, seemingly unaffected by the crypto crash, which has led ordinary and amateur investors to lose large amounts of money and crypto companies to lay off employees. A Party Crawl With Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Sometimes Ms. Poli and her fellow amateur watchdogs will report these suspected pickpockets to the police. ‘Attenzione, Pickpocket!’ A TikTok Star Watches Out for Tourists in Italy 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z

But it is essential, I think, to see the mastersingers as people with everyday jobs who are devoted musical amateurs. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

These are not the best circumstances for actors, or for directing action, and much of the time the show has the feeling of an amateur theatrical. Television Review: ?Neverland,? a Mini-series on Syfy - Review 2011-12-03T00:22:08Z

A longtime Beijing resident, he is also a keen amateur explorer and is writing a field guide about hiking on the wild, unrestored sections of the wall — his particular area of interest. Hiking the authentic Great Wall of China, without the crush 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Koenig’s shifting judgment, from episode to episode, in favor of Syed’s innocence and then guilt and back again, inspired many amateur sleuths to begin digging into the details themselves. 15 of the Most Fascinating True Crime Stories Ever Told 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

Judging from the many blogs and websites by "amateur" film reviewers, the latter are as good or as bad as most professionals. The film critic is dead. Long live the film critic 2010-04-07T14:52:00Z

But instead of disillusioned teenagers, the performers are playing Scottish amateur boxers hoping to turn professional. How to Throw Punches Without Getting Hurt 2011-02-25T14:52:59Z

In a third incident, the court was shown an amateur video of Galliano, while drunk, declaring a love for Hitler. Galliano 'didn't mean' racist words 2013-06-05T12:57:55Z

There’s maybe never been as much innovation and platforms available for seasoned journalists and amateurs alike, and a sense of possibility and excitement is floating in the air. A guide to a hopeful 2016: a Guardian list of things to look forward to 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Any tips for amateur bakers as they're getting ready to have family and friends over for the holidays? From cheesy brie bites to gooey jalapeño poppers, "Savory Baking" has a place at your holiday table 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

All I became was a bad, amateur harp player. Montreux festival boss promises strong line up 2010-04-26T12:26:00Z

That same year saw his first musical treatment of the text when he composed incidental music for a local amateur stage presentation of selected scenes. The Pilgrim's Progress: Vaughan Williams's masterpiece returns at ENO 2012-11-05T17:39:26Z

In the early 1960s, after turning his amateur enthusiasm for painting into a vocation, he began producing the small-scale works he called “Whipple’s Wimples.” Frank Whipple, Whose Nun Paintings Drew Hollywood Fans, Dies at 93 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

To call this approach amateurish would libel amateurs. Time to declare war on the shaky camera 2011-03-15T20:16:00Z

His mother, an amateur actress, was “an avid monarchist,” he said, and he recalled going with her to see newsreels about the death of King George VI in 1952. Tim Pigott-Smith Plays the Man Who Would be a Monarch 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

A novelist, naval officer, scuba diver, world traveler, journal writer, art collector, amateur bodybuilder and acrobat, Loti created an international following in the early part of the 20th century. | The Curious Case of Pierre Loti 2011-07-12T18:32:08Z

The first time it dawned on me that cake batter could even be overmixed was when I was attempting to make a very amateur version of Chrstina Tosi's Milk Bar birthday cake. Why an expert baker says the “toothpick trick” is actually ruining your cakes 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

That plan involved using psychologists, advertising experts, amateur astronomers and even Disney cartoons to create propaganda to reduce public interest. ‘Project Blue Book’ Is Based on a True U.F.O. Story. Here It Is. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

The 1967 film, given a slightly overexposed black-and-white palette and cheerfully amateur main performance, is a gentle sendup of classic Italian Neorealist films of the prior generation. Marisa Merz retrospective at the Hammer gives an overlooked female artist her due 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

He learned everything from acrobatics to concertina-playing and joined an amateur theater troupe. Pierre Étaix Is Honored at Film Forum 2012-10-14T02:03:03Z

You never want to lose the enthusiasm and the attitude of the amateur. Steven Soderbergh talks "Contagion" and retirement 2011-09-05T17:23:03Z

"Today is a black day for all amateur poker players in Switzerland." Swiss crack down on Texas hold 'em matches 2010-06-02T11:47:00Z

What kind of amateur is he dismissed as? Books of The Times: Doctor?s Doings in Christopher Reich?s ?Rules of Betrayal? 2010-08-01T21:45:00Z

"I suddenly found myself feeling extremely nervous, as if I was some amateur academic giving a thesis on Loki," he told The Verge in 2021. 8 surprising facts about Tom Hiddleston 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

As a renaissance man and amateur enlightenment philosopher, Laszlo champions reason over violence, and loyalty to his heart over any law that would compel him to do otherwise. It's a scientific fact: "What We Do in the Shadows" Laszlo is a friend we need, in deed 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z

The estate’s lawyer initially replied that Dramatic held “everything but first-class production rights,” meaning that they could stage their version in regional, noncommercial theaters as well as in schools and amateur theaters. Harper Lee Estate Told to Pay $2.5 Million in Dispute Over ‘Mockingbird’ Plays 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

When I realized I wasn't going to grow up and become the world's greatest amateur detective like Frank or Joe, I decided to become the next-best thing: Someone who'd write about their adventures. Comics: Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys graphic novels are delights 2011-01-11T17:57:04Z

The world is full of amateur players, but ones we will pay to see are those for whom the play is work. Film: Midwinter Ritual: When Good Actor Meets Bad Movie 2011-02-19T03:43:01Z

Martin Skegg Five amateur cooks approach the bald one and his louche familiar, whisks in quivering hands, hoping to win this year's title in the first of 10 hot, hot heats. TV highlights 12/03/2013 2013-03-12T07:00:16Z

Nike officials told investigators Avenatti claimed to know of rules violations by an amateur basketball team sponsored by Nike. Avenatti tripped up by Nike extortion claims, other charges 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

To this end, a team of volunteer interviewers, s ome trained in sociology, some simply enthusiastic amateurs, went out among the people to record and analyse their everyday lives and opinions. The way we were: Mass Observation at the Photographers' Gallery 2013-07-20T23:05:48Z

How significant is the idea of being an amateur to the story? Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Acting and Amateurism 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

The characters themselves are amateur actors rehearsing scenes, presenting the viewer with a play within a play. Alain Resnais fuses art forms in new comedy at Berlin festival 2014-02-10T21:25:50Z

These girls start from the amateur level and are unskilled in singing and dancing. Screams, tears as Japan fans choose pop group leader 2012-06-08T01:38:24Z

But neither are they amateurs at dramatic sincerity or complex emotion. 'NightLights' shines as an honest look at caretaking 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

Especially if your sport doesn’t earn prime-time real estate and remains amateur in status? So you just won a gold medal? Welcome to the rest of your life. 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

While at the museum, stop by “Private Lives Public Spaces,” an exhibition of amateur films and home movies. Things to Do in N.Y.C. This January 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Either it's self-indulgent amateur dramatics or worthy projects that tick the right social-issues boxes. Community theatre: how Oberammergau got it right 2010-06-21T10:53:00Z

A funny danger for any scholar of vernacular music—amateur or otherwise—is letting the listening process become too cerebral, a distancing puzzle of influence and origin. The Heavy, Meditative, and Tender Music of Les Filles de Illighadad 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

In the early 1970s, Mr. Williams and the director Woodie King Jr. were co-founders of the New Federal Theater, an actors’ workshop open to professionals and amateurs, at minimal cost, at the Henry Street Settlement. Dick Anthony Williams, Actor and Producer, Dies at 77 2012-02-22T07:07:20Z

Telfer has been asked to play at the anniversary match in the Cotswolds in June in a re-enactment of the test matches between JM Barrie's amateur team and a Broadway XI. Howzat? 2010-05-07T07:12:00Z

The online dictionary's Time Traveler feature allows curious amateur linguists and cultural historians to enter a year and see all the words that were initially recorded — in other words, published — in that period. Did you know 'apology' and 'civil war' were coined the same year? Thank Merriam-Webster's new Time Traveler feature 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

A Russian team who were amateurs in name only upset a team of American college boys. Olympics hoops: The world catches up to the U.S. 2012-08-13T12:15:00Z

“It’s super-complicated,” said Dr. Spivak, who noted that, paradoxically, as colonies are becoming harder to keep alive through regular management techniques, more amateurs are becoming backyard beekeepers. With a Sniff and a Signal, These Dogs Hunt Down Threats to Bees 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

The season pivots around the acquisition and transfer of a cache of CIA documents that were acquired accidentally by amateur hackers. The “Homeland” is Israel now: How Showtime’s uneven spy drama found itself again 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Also there's the clear fact that if you only write when you want to, or when you feel like it, or when it's easy, you'll always be an amateur. Philip Pullman: a life in writing 2011-03-03T12:00:00Z

It’s the story of mental chaos and haphazard, amateur ways you find to quiet it down. Sounding it out: ‘Listening to white noise put my life back on track’ 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z

"The Essex Serpent" stars Claire Danes as Cora Seaborne, a wealthy widow, mother and amateur naturalist in 19th century England who journeys to the small, damp county of Essex, following rumors of a serpent sighting. "The Essex Serpent" review: Apple TV+ series needs more bite 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z

If the family was well off enough then amateurs would be joined by professionals. Play it again: conquering Chopin's Ballade No 1 2013-01-12T06:30:01Z

The Public previously announced that its Shakespeare in the Park programming would, for the fourth year, be followed by a Public Works production, featuring amateur performers from all five boroughs working with professional actors. Shakespeare in the Park to Offer 'Taming of the Shrew' and 'Troilus and Cressida' 1454-07-29T05:00:00Z

Critics jeered, he recalled, likening its participatory features — including a planetarium and an amateur radio station — to a carnival and judging them unsuitable for a museum. Raymond Moriyama, Designer of Humane Public Spaces, Dies at 93 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z

Dickens was an amateur mesmerist—another hobby—and he exercised his powers on the wife of a friend, a Mrs. De La Rue, in an attempt to treat her psychiatric problems. Charles Dickens: An Author of Demonic Energy 2011-10-19T10:00:49Z

His mother, an amateur pianist, used to play Chopin late at night. Percussionist Steven Schick plans a big bang for Ojai Music Festival 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Darrel Ellis grew up in the Bronx without his father, an amateur photographer who was killed by the police not long before Darrel was born. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Still, for those who don’t need an excuse to dress up, men’s style at Coachella is for amateurs. At Coachella, It’s a Guy Thing 2014-04-18T17:36:34Z

Diorama groupings, a mismatch between mythic subject matter and amateur performances, even a skittish narrator giving a halting reading of stilted text — it was all there. Dance Review: Hula by Na Kinimakalehua at Montclair State - Review 2011-10-25T22:02:14Z

I think I needed to remember that this was a talent competition, not an "amateur" talent competition. 2010-02-17T16:01:00Z

If the spectacle is the point, then here are a few bits of amateur advice for the spectacle-designers. A few fixes for the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Strangely enough, Mr. Fogel’s doping doesn’t help him in the next amateur event he competes in. ‘Icarus’ Puts Russia, Cycling and Doping Into One Cocktail 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Stronge Smith began performing years ago in her local amateur troupe, which are staples of Irish cities and villages. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z

It also aims to draw on the voices of the millions of people who enjoy British artistic life as audiences, amateur participants, volunteers or visitors. Arts chiefs tap nation's enthusiasm to champion Britain's cultural life 2013-04-28T16:00:00Z

As a teenager, she spent spare time at the Playgoers’ Club, an amateur theatre troupe where she became adept at stage management, set building and prompting. Jean Alexander obituary 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Horibuchi’s virtuoso paintings examine the amateur and monumentalize the ephemeral and the tender without any sentimentality. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

The big question is whether being able to memorize dialogue as an actor — professional or amateur — will help someone remember things better in day-to-day life. Elderly Acting Just Might Improve ... Line, Please! 2013-09-09T22:24:53Z

One of many artistic casualties of the McCarthy-era blacklists was the Photo League, a New York school and salon for amateur and professional photographers. Art Review: ?The Radical Camera? at the Jewish Museum - Review 2011-12-22T23:21:54Z

Mr Gaul is dumbfounded by the giant sums of money coursing through these nominally amateur contests, and diligently walks the reader through their jaw-dropping growth over just the past few years. Punishingly profitable 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

An amateur photographer for most of his adult life, Rogers began taking portfolio shots of his wife and set up a small darkroom at home in which to develop the photos. Kenny Rogers, country music's "The Gambler," dead at 81 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

This kind of mash-up — a professional paired with an amateur, à la “Dancing With the Stars” — runs in the Clinton family. Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny Deliver a Page-Turner Part Sly, Part Sweet 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Speech therapist Claire Goodwin became the first amateur baker to be eliminated after shedding tears when her Swiss roll failed to impress. Bake Off return attracts 7.2 million 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

But whereas Mr. Shaw looks to amateur paintings and kitschy religious artifacts with the eye of a connoisseur, Mr. Oursler is less discriminating about visual or poetic qualities. Review: Tony Oursler’s Grand Illusions, Science Left at the Door 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

A loving big brother, a dogged amateur boxer and an exuberant, impetuous teenager, he’ll be killed — thoughtlessly, almost casually — soon after he finishes that essay. ‘brownsville song (b-side for tray),’ at Lincoln Center 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

On this side of the pond, “The Mousetrap” is a mainstay of amateur community theaters, but professional stagings are less frequent. The Village’s ‘Mousetrap’ isn’t so snappy | Theater review 2013-01-24T23:05:16Z

There are entire communities of amateur reviewers trying to unravel chasmic plot holes and sidesteps of logic. What films have left you confused? 2012-08-20T10:22:30Z

The flower patches were so overrun with butterflies that any photographer, however amateur, could capture one; the rooms were perfectly comfy-looking. Frugal Summer: Highs and Lows 2010-09-16T02:13:00Z

It's Mary Day: very bad driver, enthusiastic amateur onomast and somebody with almost zero understanding of the concept of personal boundaries. Luther recap: series three, episode one 2013-07-02T21:00:03Z

Empson’s recently rediscovered essay about sculptural depictions of the Buddha is the work of a passionate amateur who just happens to be the most dazzling literary critic of the 20th century. Michael Dirda’s holiday book picks 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

He is a serious amateur tennis player and said he has kept his client list trim by design. Michael Sanchez is in the middle of the salacious National Enquirer story about Jeff Bezos’s affair 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

It was here a century ago that the Provincetown Players, a small amateur group, presented O’Neill’s first produced play, “Bound East for Cardiff,” in a makeshift theater on a wharf. Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill Side by Side, Under the Sun 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

But "Waterfall" is to Broadway-quality musical theater what an amateur watercolor is to a landscape painting hanging in the Norton Simon Museum. 'Waterfall' plunges over the edge of banality 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

A group of talented amateur chefs compete to recreate Julia Child dishes — and to cook up their own Child-inspired recipes — in this new reality competition series. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Phoenix Rising’ and ‘Welcome to Flatch’ 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

And the moment they find one, they launch into a performance of such deranged, self-assured haughtiness, the Daily Mail seems hopelessly amateur by comparison. Django Unchained, Djack Whitehall and Djames Delingpole 2013-01-13T20:00:00Z

Some amateur groups like the drinking, they like the chatting. Raising the curtain on the new am-dram 2012-12-15T21:00:00Z

But the intensity of this year’s amateur fireworks, in the context of recent clashes between police and racial justice demonstrators, have made some people suspicious. Fireworks proliferate across U.S., but why is unclear 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

So it is a gift to the amateur. Lorrie Moore has some instructions on how to read her new book 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

The amateurs then received feedback from the other superstars on their performances. “Mad Men” recap: Don Draper won’t take no for an answer 2012-06-04T12:50:00Z

Many musicians, like Schumann, created duo works and arrangements for the amateur market. Review: Emanuel Ax, at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Gives a 19th-Century Lesson 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

While female wrestlers have long featured on the professional circuit in the U.S., their amateur British counterparts have faced challenges before climbing into the ring. Britain's female wrestlers grapple with acceptance 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

Many professional dancers were initially reluctant to join the amateurs. TikTok Is Dead (Maybe). Long Live TikTok Dance. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

The show features elements of the Apollo’s signature amateur night, now in its 82nd year. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show’ and ‘Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night’ 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

The challenge now is how to plausibly keep its amateurs’ misadventures going. Returning to the Scene 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

I search through the zone of accident, and how many of those too were available to the amateur: mistakes of framing, exposure, fixative, cropping. Why do we love to look at strangers’ family photographs? 2013-04-11T16:58:00Z

“There’s also a trend for groups to apply for both live performance and streaming rights. Many amateur theaters are producing single virtual performances to keep revenue flowing.” Theater uses its creativity to defy pandemic and stage shows 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

Her father was an amateur pianist who would accompany his daughter in songs when she was young but opposed the idea of a singing career, and she initially planned on becoming a biology teacher. Margaret Price Dies at 69, Soprano With Rich Voice 2011-02-01T06:51:50Z

What did interest me, though, was the vast amount of amateur photography that emerged from Gaddafi’s death. Dead Tree Alert: Shooting to Kill 2011-10-28T19:13:17Z

Published in two versions, the work is both a set of virtuosic études and a series of wayward variations on a mediocre theme, written by an amateur who was, for a moment, Schumann’s prospective father-in-law. Review | With fleet fingers, pianist Dénes Várjon brings German classics to life 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

Wozniak is something of an amateur magician and he and Rogen spent a lot of time bonding at the Magic Castle, a magicians’ club in LA. Steve Jobs: the afterlife 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

Bad boys may have their appeal, but this one lacks the animal magnetism of even an amateur Lothario. Movie Review: ‘Bel Ami,’ From Maupassant Novel, With Robert Pattinson 2012-06-07T21:45:16Z

"Cartoon Network's Hall of Game," honoring professional and amateur athletes, is set to debut early next year. Cartoon Network reviving "Looney Tunes" 2010-04-22T11:45:00Z

An often bored student at Union Avenue School in Irvington, N.J., he began organizing amateur shows with and for his classmates, while yearning to join his parents on tour. Jerry Lewis, Mercurial Comedian and Filmmaker, Dies at 91 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

He also acted in amateur theater and was encouraged to become a professional by actress-teacher Eva Le Gallienne. Peter Falk, TV's rumpled Columbo, has died 2011-06-25T11:45:14Z

Whether code breaker or spiritualist or amateur historian, the Voynich speculators are linked by their common interest in the past, quasi-occult mystery, and insoluble problems of authenticity. The Unsolvable Mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

In less than a year, she won her first amateur title, she said. Up Close: Smile When You Call Her a Diva 2011-03-23T18:51:38Z

Even Nancy’s amateur sleuthing skills are demeaned here and made difficult rather than delightful. Review | After their CW treatments, Batwoman and Nancy Drew have a hard time being themselves 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

It’s a pity, then, that Ohayon’s choppy structure rotates through her subjects like amateur night. ‘Strip Down, Rise Up’ Review: An Emotional Spin 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

Told from the perspective of a fictional amateur historian, "The Accursed" focuses on the aristocratic Slade family. Joyce Carol Oates takes on Ivy League society in new novel 2013-03-08T23:42:08Z

He stumbled upon The Steel Guitar Forum, where amateurs building instruments in garages argued with the likes of Buddy Emmons, who had revolutionized the instrument’s design, tuning and sound. The Pedal Steel Gets Its Resurrection 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

With access to 5 million Legos, budding amateur architects put skills and creativity to the test, building motorized mini parade floats, an earthquake tower and demolition derby, while vying for a $100,000 prize. Will Arnett dusts off his dad jokes for ‘Lego Masters’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

He was an amateur boxer in his youth, held jobs where he wore shirts embroidered with the name “Phil” and knew how to rebuild the universal joint of a car’s powertrain. Philip Levine, U.S. poet laureate who wrote of working life, dies at 87 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

In the world of amateur dance, the pandemic was just as earth shattering. ‘Just Let Those Kids Dance’: Finding a Way for the Show to Go On 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

They began playing live two years ago at the Apollo Theater’s amateur night, and soon started busking around New York City. Unlocking the Truth Is a Band That Rocks Beyond Its Years 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

Sheer Garments Make a Tasteful Return Despite the sheer number of sheer garments in recent runway collections, a public display of underwear still seems vaguely … well, amateur. On the Runway Blog: Sheer Garments Make a Tasteful Return 2013-06-05T23:17:38Z

James, the amateur detective of the two, starts what he calls Operation Perfect as a means both of protecting Diana and finding out what happened. Books of The Times: ‘Perfect: A Novel,’ an Eerie Look at Life Via a Child’s Eyes 2014-01-22T21:56:35Z

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it’s really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work. T Magazine: Patti Smith, Requiem Lass 2011-10-14T15:15:24Z

IN 2010 an amateur Icelandic historian gatecrashed an international symposium on the Lewis chessmen, the greatest cache of medieval game pieces ever found. Bones of contention 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

In mountaineering terms, it would be akin to a middle-aged man deciding to climb the Matterhorn – something a few obsessive and foolhardy amateurs do, indeed, attempt, but fraught with peril. Play it again: conquering Chopin's Ballade No 1 2013-01-12T06:30:01Z

He displayed an aptitude for scriptwriting and acting on the radio, and also helped form an amateur theater group in New Delhi that presented works by playwrights as varied as William Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams. Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-born actor in British and Bollywood fare, dies at 86 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Competitive endurance tickling sounds like a quirky amateur sport dreamed up by either a six-year-old or some college kids with temporarily impaired judgment. Go Inside the World of Competitive Tickling in an Exclusive Clip From 'Tickled' 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

A record number of eight Koreans teed it up in this year's championship, with Jin Jeong winning the Silver Medal as the leading amateur at the British Open. Asia's Top Golfers 2010-07-23T22:00:00Z

Most of them are amateur dancers, and they are delightful to watch. Dance Review: ‘Le Grand Continental’ at South Street Seaport 2012-06-24T21:47:27Z

When they’re starting out, most collectors focus on used and vintage books that matter for personal reasons, sourced from thrift stores, used bookstores and other amateur enthusiasts. Meet the New Old Book Collectors 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Husky served in the Merchant Marine in World War II and did some amateur boxing during that time. Velvet-Voiced Ferlin Husky Dies at 85 2011-03-18T04:35:42Z

Luckily for the amateur survivalist, “The Walking Dead: The Official Cookbook and Survival Guide” answers that age-old conundrum: What to cook … when zombies are on the loose? Sick of Thanksgiving recipes? Try this zombie apocalypse alternative dinner 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z

I’m sorry, an amateur stays on his mark and then falls over during the run-through.” Charlie Sheen 'supremely grateful' someone intervened this time 2011-02-16T18:00:29Z

Her father was a businessman, and her mother was an amateur painter. Natalie Babbitt, author of young-adult classic ‘Tuck Everlasting,’ dies at 84 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Traditional comedies are struggling for oxygen at the box office, caught between superheroes and a vast buffet of stand-up specials, sitcoms and amateur pranks on digital services like Netflix and YouTube. The Man Behind Winnie the Pooh Speaks Up, Gently 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

Within a year of Louis Daguerre’s announcement of his namesake photographic process in 1839, scientists, tinkerers and adventurous amateurs were reproducing the technique in the United States. Review | Before the West, there was the East, and it was wild 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

It also dramatizes another, less obvious sort of diversity: the bracing impact of newcomers, the breaking of barriers between professionals and amateurs, insiders and outsiders. “Late Night,” Reviewed: Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling’s Incisive Comedy about the Gender Politics of TV 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Benson won an amateur contest as a dancer in the 1920s and, by the mid-1930s, he was touring the country telling jokes. Irving Benson, comedy veteran of burlesque, dies at 102 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

But these are also home bakers, amateurs whose practice can yield perfection or something near it. A delicious end to an uneven season of "GBBO" 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

The Shockers, New Market’s home team of amateurs, tackle the likes of the Shenandoah Indians and the Clover Hill Bucks at Rebel Field every summer. Almost heaven, West Virginia: Driving country roads in search of America today 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

De Sica enthusiastically carried his actor’s talent into his directing style, instructing his amateur performers on the way to perform, enacting the parts to show them how things should be done. Why Vittorio de Sica is one of Europe’s greatest tragic film-makers 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z

Backyard Brains is tapping into this movement, giving amateurs access to some of science's most sophisticated tools and techniques. The race to create 'insect cyborgs' 2013-02-17T00:05:32Z

“If the cops said the robbery looked like the work of amateurs, we’d go into a funk for a week.” Books of The Times: ‘Sutton,’ by J. R. Moehringer, a Fictional Biography 2012-10-09T12:00:00Z

What follows is an abbreviated account pieced together by an amateur genealogist. For a while she was a name and a status — enslaved. Now we know more 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

He had only conducted Haydn’s “Creation” two decades ago with amateur ensembles. Music Review: Haydn’s ‘The Creation,’ at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-24T22:38:21Z

For Mal, thrashing about and playing in the shallows was for amateurs. The role Beatles roadie Mal Evans was born to play 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z

The Attys, launched by social reading site Wattpad, are specifically for digital poetry, and are taking entries from both amateurs and the more experienced. The Attys: new digital poetry prize to be judged by Margaret Atwood 2012-08-02T11:57:58Z

They preserved her completed chapters, which recount the killer’s attacks in unsparing detail and examine his methodology, and explore her own fascination with unsolved crimes and her evolution as an amateur detective. Hunting — and Haunted by — a Serial Killer 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

However, the abiding memory is of a man who played soccer in a way that many of us – both amateurs and professionals – have all aspired to. Pelé: A global superstar and cultural icon who put passion at the heart of soccer 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

But I've avoided using the word "amateur" until now for the simple reason that I don't have a firm idea of what it means in this context. Finding the sweet spot: writing for amateur pianists 2012-06-08T14:29:09Z

Picking up steam as he described each instrument, Mr. Catalano proved himself an astute historian as well as an amateur metallurgist. Chicago News Cooperative: A Home Where ?Strike Up the Band? Is No Idle Order 2011-08-07T06:45:06Z

The high-tech production sticks closely to the original story charting the rise and romance of amateur boxer Rocky Balboa, played by Drew Sarich. Rocky musical knocks out critics in Hamburg 2012-11-20T12:59:03Z

As a father of a 9-year-old daughter, I particularly cherish the Family Dance Class series, which breaks down actual Mark Morris repertory so that amateurs of all ages can try it together. Lincoln Center Opens Its Vaults for Dance Week 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

At a museum I saw a poster for a local amateur Shakespeare performance of “As You Like It,” outdoors that evening on the museum grounds. Your Outdoor Theater Memories, Starring Hanks, Streep and Rain 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

In another, he shows how the various actors in the amateur theater troupe he joined take their bows. ‘Walking With Ghosts’ Review: Gabriel Byrne Roams His Past 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

He started Op 31 No 1 gracefully, before getting nicely stuck in to Beethoven's hiccupping parody of a certain kind of amateur pianist. Andras Schiff – review 2013-03-05T18:18:27Z

In 2013, college student Elisa Lam vanished from the hotel, which ignited a media frenzy and mobilized a global community of amateur web sleuths who were eager to solve the case from behind their laptops. From badass Peter Dinklage to the thriller "Behind Her Eyes," here's what new on Netflix in February 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z

For decades the answer to that question has been the Bigfoot of word origins, chased around wild speculative corners by amateur word freaks, with exasperated lexicographers and debunkers of folk etymologies in hot pursuit. ‘The Whole Nine Yards’: Seeking a Phrase’s Origin 2012-12-26T22:43:52Z

Some celebrants of today’s volunteer Army think that the last centuries’ conscripts were comparatively inept, but Mr. Beevor, himself a former professional soldier, shows that many of these amateurs became pretty good at their trade. Review: In ‘Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge,’ Antony Beevor Is on Familiar Ground 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

Punk was never shy about being amateur; DIY spread wide is its hallmark. Pussy Riot Was Carefully Calibrated for Protest 2012-08-22T12:00:25Z

In two years of training Mr. Polly shed 65 pounds and went on to win an amateur fight in Las Vegas by technical knockout, a scene recounted with hypnotic clarity in the book. Mixed Martial Arts Books by Matthew Polly and Jim Genia 2011-11-17T00:02:56Z

Born in Detroit, raised in Columbus, Ohio, Smith started taking pictures when she was young — her pharmacist father was an amateur photographer — and learned the formal ropes as she went. Ming Smith’s Poetic Blur 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

It's literally high and dry, so lacking in humidity that its crystal-clear skies are a magnet for amateur and professional astronomers. 'Nostalgia for the Light': Looking at the cosmos ? and Chile's haunted past 2011-03-31T20:36:09Z

He was an amateur woodworker who was building himself a guitar and wanted to trade wine for woodworking tips. The Art of Winemaking on the Cheap 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

On the big day, expect lots of amateur astronomers wielding telescopes with solar filters. 10 of the best views, festivals and events for the US total solar eclipse 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

The household of his youth was liberal, Jewish, feistily intellectual and musical: His father was a lawyer and amateur violinist, and his mother was a former piano teacher. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Perhaps that growth has now begun to drain some joy from the franchise, which is built not just on endangering amateurs but on loving them and even to some extent being them. Review: Flying High and Falling Hard in ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

We ate at enough fancy establishments in the past that we both fully understood the importance of plating food and could actually be considered as amateur plating experts ourselves . How learning to plate food changed how I felt about cooking at home 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Early in the series, as the “internet nerds” first begin searching their amateur internet investigation, they create a Facebook group dedicated to hunting him down. In Netflix’s compelling ”Don't F**k with Cats,” cat lovers unite to capture an online murderer 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

At the centennial of America’s entry into World War I, the National Air and Space Museum is offering a rare view of the conflict by artists who became soldiers and soldiers who were amateur artists. Art made on the front lines of the First World War 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

King, an amateur historian, has an appreciation for the startling detail and the circuitous connection. A True-Crime Mystery From the 1950s, Fueled by Racism and Corruption 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

Abrams' amateur filmmakers are a band of young adventurers on a risky secret mission. A guide to Spielberg shout-outs in "Super 8" 2011-06-11T18:01:00Z

It’s also too bad that McNamara’s fellow “citizen detectives,” the bloggers and amateur investigators who share her obsession with unsolved crimes, don’t get more sustained attention. Review: A Killer, a Writer, and the Questions Both Left Behind 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Jean and her sisters Lou and Ginger won several amateur contests when Jean was 10. Jean Dinning, Songwriter of Pop Tragedy ?Teen Angel,? Dies at 86 2011-03-12T05:30:07Z

It’s a concluding touch with all the naïveté of a high-school skit, and it bursts through the programmatic gloss of the story to restore its whimsical amateur inspiration. Review: “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” Saves the Best for Last 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

For “The Rescue,” National Geographic, which financed the film, had the rights to the British divers, a ragtag group of mostly middle-aged men who happen to be the best amateur cave divers in the world. Their Thai Cave Rescue Film Was Done. Then 87 Hours of Footage Arrived. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

In 127 Hours, Franco gets his arm lodged between a rock and a hard place, and must decide whether to perform impromptu amateur surgery on himself, or die of starvation. 127 Hours and the one-armed box-office bandits 2011-02-24T22:15:01Z

It was a cool idea, one that merged antiquated technology with a modern twist: Other than a few Beck-sanctioned concerts, most of the "Song Reader" interpretations live on YouTube, brought to life by eager amateurs. Beck's latest 'Song Reader' reels in professionals 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

Chi Chi Valenti used to call Halloween amateur night, but this is pro night. Rob Roth Previews the Black Party, a ‘Night to Let Go of Your Inhibitions’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

When coming on to bowl his setting his field was like an amateur production of a play. Tributes paid to actor Peter O'Toole 2013-12-16T17:25:16Z

In early April, 640 amateur athletes of all ages met in Palm Desert, Calif., to resume what is, for many, a central purpose in life: competitive tennis. Staging a post-pandemic athletic comeback? Take tips from these successful senior competitors. 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z

Somebody asked me: "Why do we need to play it – can't we give it to amateurs or students?" John Cage: musicians and artists on a legend 2012-08-15T17:51:03Z

We see her at her laptop clicking through amateur videos. Has the Girls revolution come to an end? 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

Galileo presented his first telescope in Venice; Williams will now present his own homage to the amateur astronomer, a temple to a nocturnal sub-species. Bedwyr Williams: why I'm taking a space observatory to Venice 2013-04-14T17:00:01Z

Writing novels didn’t seem to burn off enough energy, so Dickens wrote essays on the side, and put on amateur theatricals of high enough caliber that they were performed for the Queen. Charles Dickens: An Author of Demonic Energy 2011-10-19T10:00:49Z

Ms. Pilbeam acted in amateur shows at age 5 and turned professional at age 12. Nova Pilbeam, British teen star of 1930s Hitchcock films, dies at 95 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

“No matter how cool the place, some people feel Friday and Saturday nights are for amateurs,” said Matt Strauss, a manager of PH-D. The Brunch Party Takes Over Clubs ? Partying Like It?s 3 A.M. 2011-11-16T22:29:28Z

A brand new opening scene shows a group of veteran amateur actors, the Bunbury Company of Players, rehearsing Wilde's classic comedy in a country house. Nigel Havers recaptures his youth 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

Keeping aggressive amateurs on track is one of the well-practiced gambits in a show like “America; It’s Complicated!,” the latest summer residency for the Chicago-based improv troupe at the Kennedy Center. Review | The Second City’s latest sketch comedy show takes on Trump, tourists and trolls 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

It’s best appreciated in the context of a milonga, a casual gathering for amateur tango practitioners to come together and dance, and an event where a nondancing observer like myself is the exception. Dance Review: Gabriel Miss? and Analia Centuri?n at Dardo Galletto Studios 2012-03-08T00:28:13Z

The phenomenon of DIY amateur sex – part-timers uploading their videos on sites such as clips4sale – also put a dent in the professionals' pay cheques. How the internet killed porn 2012-06-05T19:00:01Z

Bring snacks, because the last half of “Black Magic Woman” is not for amateurs. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Aug. 15-21 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

With the absorption into the project of 200 amateur actors from around New York in the theater’s Public Works initiative, it set in motion yet another model by which Disney could develop material. Perspective | Read all about it: Why Disney owns the live stage, too 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

When she was 3, her mother entered her in an amateur talent contest in Atlantic City as Baby Rose Marie. Actress Rose Marie of ‘Dick Van Dyke Show’ fame dies at 94 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

But there’s no equivalent for playwrights; 10-minute play festivals are largely the stuff of amateur scribes and college drama departments. Enda Walsh steps outside the Irish playwriting box 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Yet this slim hope was all I had, so I begged Ruth to scan the thousands of our father’s negatives she had from his years as an amateur photographer. Hearing His Voice Changed Everything 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

They told me that they live about forty miles south, in Boothbay Harbor; she runs a school-lunch program, and he is a retired teacher turned amateur photographer. The Pilgrims Who Visit the House in Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

In 1974, a group of amateur treasure divers from nearby Brittany, acting on local lore, found the wreck in roughly 30 feet of ocean. Gold Ingots From 18th-Century Shipwreck Returned to France 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Many critics said that the theater’s opening show, “Parade,” a reworking of a famous ballet that premiered at the Châtelet in 1917, was shallow; others complained that it used amateur performers who weren’t paid. Director of a Storied Paris Theater Is Fired 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

"Well," Saul replies, "you see an amateur. I see . . .170 pounds of clay ready to be molded." "Better Call Saul" connects with the inevitability of Gene breaking bad 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

Pearce seriously bulked up to play the role, an accomplishment that shouldn't have been too challenging for the former amateur bodybuilder. Guy Pearce: five best moments 2013-07-05T09:00:00Z

Even an amateur like me could tell that all was not well below the waves. A Cuban Island That Has Played Both Paradise and Prison 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Bargatze said the majority of his group’s members are amateurs or are fortunate enough to have other sources of income besides magic, like a pension or day job. What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

Some of the objects in the show were devised by amateur inventors like the hapless Mr. Henshall. A Compendium of Everyday Genius 2010-08-15T16:53:00Z

Ultimate is many things to many of us, and will remain so in its amateur and professional incarnations. Can Ultimate Frisbee go mainstream? 2013-06-12T12:57:00Z

He began studying the violin at 5 with his father, Sigismund, an agriculturist and amateur cellist. The Violinist Augustin Hadelich Flourishes in New York 2010-04-15T22:18:00Z

It was chosen through an open selection process which saw hundreds of entries from both professional and amateur songwriters. Eurovision: UK duo defend their song 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

Prague’s a picturesque place, with amateur shooters frequently snapping its cobblestoned streets and historic skyline. In Transit: In Prague, Three Photo-Driven Shows 2011-03-09T11:00:34Z

While she awaits co-stars, Helderman said, Erica continues to run lines with amateur local actors. The Star of This $70 Million Sci-Fi Film Is a Robot 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

She has written a self-deprecating essay about how she kept her plastic pony collection well into adulthood, and another about the time she went drinking with amateur clowns in Portugal. Sloane Crosley Unclasps Cloak of Secrecy About Authorship 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Immediately the differences between the pros and the amateurs became clear. Music: Playing With the Orchestra in Baltimore 2012-07-13T16:19:48Z

Not 600 Highwaymen, a Brooklyn theatrical troupe that often recruits amateurs for its performances. Theater Listings for Oct. 10-16 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

To emerge from these nightly skirmishes entirely unscathed would be the mark of an amateur. She and Her New City: Kim Cattrall Does London 2010-04-02T15:08:00Z

More disappointingly, the outdoor sculptures presented by the group Figment are much bedraggled at this point, and they look more like the works of enthusiastic students and amateurs than of fully fledged pros. Times Critics Discuss Direction of Arts at Governors Island 2010-08-16T22:43:00Z

Katherine Hall Page, who has written almost two dozen culinary mysteries, has come up with another smart twist on her cozy formula featuring Faith Fairchild, a minister’s wife and keen-eyed amateur detective from suburban Massachusetts. A Gumbo of Crime: From the Bayou to Britain 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

To the amateur eye, the webs of the different species here generally divide into grids, often in fan-like expanses, pillowy canopies and crazed masses of strands that can resemble tossed pickup sticks suspended in air. Tomás Saraceno: Following the Airborne Lives of Spiders 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

He was also an amateur guitarist who played with a band called the Jovial Night Owls, whose members were all blind. Buddy DeFranco, 91, Versatile Jazz Clarinetist, Dies 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Danchev vividly describes it but eschews the role of amateur Freudian. Review | René Magritte was an enigma. A new biography tries to make sense of the genius. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

“When art supports a more engaged message it reaches all kinds of people, not only the amateurs and specialists: the museum then talks a universal language.” Special Report: Fashion: Gone Global: Fashion as Art? 2011-07-04T18:13:03Z

This is the kind of thinking that guides Vesta, the 72-year-old amateur sleuth who has dedicated herself to solving the mystery behind the death of a woman named Magda. Brit Bennett's "The Vanishing Half" and 4 more must-read novels out in June 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

That fighter, a cruiserweight with twelve professional fights, was expected to handle the amateur. Boxer who fought Tsarnaev: “Wish I’d known he was evil” 2013-04-23T23:41:00Z

Perhaps most significantly, amateur companies are increasingly bold in their choice of material. Raising the curtain on the new am-dram 2012-12-15T21:00:00Z

At least that was my initial reaction — as an amateur naturalist, I’ve been on more than my share of nature tours. In this Alaskan village, get nose-to-nose with polar bears 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Some amateurs assume they can get the best price by pointing out an item’s flaws — chipped paint, an unsightly stain — but Mr. Richter said dissing rarely brings a discount. Bob Richter and John Bruno of ‘Market Warriors’ on PBS 2012-07-15T21:48:10Z

I’ve rarely looked at the crimson binder of amateur snapshots — my wedding album — lovingly compiled for the perusing eyes of a federal agent. True love, according to the feds 2013-02-14T16:51:00Z

But now serious British literary talent is aiming to colonise territory occupied until now by fantasy authors and amateur fan-fiction writers. Top novelists look to ebooks to challenge the rules of fiction 2013-03-10T00:06:11Z

Natural science is the lodestar of Dam’s fantastical creations: As a child he immersed himself in zoology and botanical books owned by his grandfather, an engineer and keen amateur naturalist. The Danish Glassblower Making Modern Curiosities 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

It's called The Professionals and it highlights the ambiguity of the term "amateur" when applied to creativity. Finding the sweet spot: writing for amateur pianists 2012-06-08T14:29:09Z

The 9/11 attacks were still raw, and after visiting Ground Zero he’d popped into a small gallery selling amateur photographs taken during the attacks. Anonymous strikes back 2012-06-03T13:00:00Z

Performed originally by familial troupes and today by amateurs and professionals who train for entire lives, it has been remarkably resistant to change during its 600-year existence. Haunting Unpredictability 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z

In 1970 he founded the orchestra’s chorus, which is still directed by Norman Mackenzie, his onetime assistant, and remains perhaps the finest large amateur chorus in the country. Saluting Robert Shaw, a Conductor of Humanist Spirituality 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

In my house, my father, who was an amateur musician, a choral director, he always got recordings of symphonies for me. ‘A very not normal life’: Gianandrea Noseda, the NSO’s next music director 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

It's no exaggeration to say that Patrick, in his tireless and ebullient communication of the magic of astronomy, inspired every British astronomer, amateur and professional, for half a century. Patrick Moore tributes pour in after astronomer dies aged 89 2012-12-09T14:03:07Z

Of course, it makes you a sort of amateur. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z

As dessert was served, lively music filled the tent, played on guitar, traditional horn and tambourine by three amateur musicians who’d be making the trip. ‘Oh-Oh, Ay-Ay!’ Riding to an Italian Rhythm on the Transumanza 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Every few minutes people fly out of it on zip lines, amateur angels screaming fear and delight as they soar over Mostly Naked Dude and the rest of the impromptu crowd. Go for the weird: 4 oddball attractions in Las Vegas 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Meet some of the amateurs and professionals who are bringing the sport to mainstream America. Pole dancing has come out of the strip clubs ... and become an event for the whole family. Is this progress?

His company of performers, a mix of professionals and amateurs, speak Shakespearean verse with conversational ease, and we can always understand what they’re saying and what they mean. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z

At first, the winner of the cup usually was decided by a series of challenge games played among amateur hockey teams from Canada. Perspective | As sports trophies go, nothing’s as cool as the Stanley Cup 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

These amateur writers seem to be eager to create the kinds of characters they aren’t regularly seeing in the media. With a limited on-screen presence, autistic characters have emerged in another medium: fan fiction 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z

The idea of the fan film – an amateur, not-for-profit work inspired by a commercial movie, TV show or comic book – isn't new. The new wave of fan films 2010-05-13T15:10:00Z

Following some of the world’s most influential chefs and shamed, perhaps, by the unflattering lenses of a million amateur photographers, restaurants have shifted away from plain and plain-looking cooking. Elk? Hare? Camel? All That and More in Sandwiches, at Foxface 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Now, she is an amateur book dealer on the platform and curates vintage books for clothing boutiques, sourcing most of her materials from library and estate sales. Meet the New Old Book Collectors 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z

I say "arguably", because we do not live in a static or self-contained society, and it's almost impossible to view local and amateur sport as an analogue of the social process. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

An amateur ornithologist, he used a natural process developed in the 1950s by the Austrian ethologist Konrad Lorenz called imprinting to establish a relationship between humans and the birds. DANCE: Choreography With Real Swans 2012-06-03T04:30:53Z

The song Electro Velvet will be performing was written by David Mindel and Adrian Bax White and chosen through an open selection process which saw hundreds of entries from both professional and amateur songwriters. Mixed reviews for UK Eurovision song 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z

Most of the music-making on “Love & Hip Hop” is by amateurs. Omarion and K. Michelle, on Parallel Tracks, Release Albums 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Then again, many of the greatest artists are total amateurs as human beings. ‘Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre’ review: The rise and fall of the Doors 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

La Traviata holds special significance in Israel's music history as it was the first opera to be staged in British-mandated Palestine, when an amateur group performed it in Tel Aviv in 1923. Israel Opera Festival's La Traviata rocks at Masada 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

A total amateur with a decent bird guide and a pair of binoculars can easily observe 30 or 40 species on a spring or fall ramble. Birding: The latest angsty Manhattan craze! 2013-01-15T22:48:00Z

It then occurred to me that other amateur writers might wish to contribute stories in a similar theme and it may be possible to gather together a small collection of new Cumbrian Lovecraft fiction. Writers dump Lake District's bunnies and daffodils for monsters in the mist 2013-01-02T12:00:00Z

Hotchner presents no prizes or filmmaker panels, and often helps amateur filmmakers edit their submissions. 3 Film Festivals Brimming With Animal Magnetism 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

So a call to the keyboard has gone out to all amateur copy editors with access to a computer. Charles Dickens bicentenary: Call for online editors to save forgotten journal 2011-08-06T21:28:35Z

His father, Samuel, an amateur photographer, was a craftsman who helped install the floors when President Harry S. Truman renovated the White House. Bob Adelman, Photographer Who Captured the Emotion of the Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 85 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

Especially important was Laura M. Bragg, who became the director of the Charleston Museum in 1920, and conducted the first amateur archaeological surveys of the Edgefield area and the first interviews with surviving potters. The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

I wanted to be a professional singer, but no one was doing that then – music was a way of life, but they were all amateur singers. Tom Jones: 'Spiritual songs are natural to me' 2010-07-01T20:30:00Z

Mr. Zander, also an admired pedagogue and motivational speaker, is renowned for coaxing professional-quality work from amateurs and for wringing fresh insights from even the most familiar works. Music Review: Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-10T22:14:02Z

Other than a lapping rhythmic figure in the left-hand part, this music is reminiscent of the wistful songs that were popular with amateur choral groups in Vienna at the time. Anthony Tommasini’s Interactive Quest for Surprises 2014-02-28T15:50:53Z

His father was a railroad stationmaster and amateur actor. Dario Fo, Italian playwright and ‘jester’ who won Nobel Prize, dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

These words are especially germane to “Endgame,” a play whose title evokes a chess match, one involving two amateur players who are playing not to win but merely to postpone inevitable defeat. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Apparently, it’s new media, which covered the police hunt for the brothers as a “Choose Your Own Adventure” novel scripted by amateur Hardy Boys and “CSI” aficionados. I am not the Tsarnaevs 2013-04-22T15:19:00Z

The book’s 16 essays follow Mr. Harris from his days as a stage-struck kid in Sand Springs, Okla., who longed to play Helen Keller in an amateur production of “The Miracle Worker.” Music Review: Sam Harris Presents a Cabaret Act Based on His Book 2014-01-16T23:02:00Z

He's an endearing gent, but that's perhaps not enough to prevent this jaunt feeling a bit – well, a lot – like amateur hour. TV highlights 27/02/2013 2013-02-27T07:00:10Z

What this show needed was someone like Jeremy Deller to investigate and compile a folk archive of the amateur watercolour, and how it relates to so-called serious art. Tate Britain's Watercolour: Awash with inspiration 2011-02-14T21:31:01Z

But what if he were neither amateur nor any more outsider than Beethoven, who railed against the establishment with every new symphony, sonata or string quartet? The 24-hour Joshua Tree party to celebrate Lou Harrison's 100th birthday 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Cooking satisfies millions of professional chefs and amateurs like me because it blends art and science. Perspective | Cooking through tears helped me feed my dying father. It sustained me, too. 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

The book reads like a Nancy Drew mystery where everyone’s favorite amateur sleuth has done intense personal work and now possesses the courage and the self-awareness to turn her magnifying glass inward. What Is Your Obligation to a Difficult, Deceptive Parent? 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

Did any particular experience with amateurs lead you to write an entire book about them? ArtsBeat: Amateur Hour: Jack Hitt Talks About an American Tradition 2012-05-16T19:53:00Z

The Great British Bake Off, where amateur bakers are put to the test, was seventh, followed by Downton Abbey on ITV1. BBC's Sherlock voted top TV show of 2012 2012-12-28T00:01:09Z

Not everyone was enchanted: the Times labelled it “the amateur maniac’s own journal.” How to Pitch a Magazine (in 1888) 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

A great deal of astronomy is time-consuming scut work — almost impossible to do on the much sought-after massive telescopes on Chilean mountaintops; so armies of amateurs get to it. ArtsBeat: Amateur Hour: Jack Hitt Talks About an American Tradition 2012-05-16T19:53:00Z

By some accounts the enraged father, an amateur boxer who used to spar with Bernard Shaw, thumped Wells before dragging his errant daughter home. David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z

His contributions to the field now known as sabermetrics were transformative: before Mr. James, most baseball “professionals” — managers, commentators, sports journalists — were amateurs when it came to statistical theory. Books of The Times: Crunch the Numbers; Solve a Famous Murder 2011-06-02T21:24:11Z

The movie and stage actor, portraying a former amateur fighter, shadow boxes while letting a phone ring unanswered. In 'Yohen,' Danny Glover is like a bull in a pottery studio 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

If the pros work hard to keep this focus, how likely is the amateur to pull it off? Why we need horticulturists 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Mostly, though, the authors are amateurs with an overwhelming affection for the characters and a yearning to feel a stronger connection to them. ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ Reimagined by Its Fans 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

It explains why Gilbert and Sullivan works better these days as an amateur participation sport — the stuff of singalongs in church halls — rather than a serious undertaking. ‘Pirates of Penzance’ Gives Lift to English National Opera 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

He first started acting at school, later gaining experience in amateur theatre groups. Jon Finch 2013-01-13T11:27:40Z

Back on shore, a motley crew of girlfriends, hangers-on and amateur surf photographers, leaning on their tripods, drink beer and wait for the perfect shot. | The Crowds Swell on Mexico’s Pacific Coast 2013-12-04T16:08:38Z

Take the sequence in which the Jackson 5 makes a smash appearance singing “ABC” at an Apollo Theater amateur night in 1969. Review: In ‘MJ,’ No One’s Looking at the Man in the Mirror 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

The pitch: a team of amateur crooks concoct a bogus movie to squeeze millions in relief from the government. A Landscape of Lies: the gangster film that taxed the taxman 2013-03-13T19:03:53Z

Yet in a world in which anyone with a phone – which is pretty much everyone – can be an amateur lensman, the opportunity to go too far is always present, if fuzzily defined. Photographed secretly at home: Is it art? 2013-05-17T14:41:00Z

As the lore goes, she was an alto in the Oratorio Society of New York, a choir of amateurs who loved to sing. Once Around the Park, Then Farewell 2010-09-02T21:08:00Z

Saturday, Seattle Center, free; • Robothon competition with amateur robotic enthusiasts from around the world, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Community calendar 2012-05-30T20:57:04Z

Mr. Bourjaily was an avid outdoorsman, a jazz aficionado and an amateur cornet player. Vance Bourjaily, Novelist Exploring Postwar America, Dies at 87 2010-09-03T05:00:00Z

During an Air Force stint in Wichita Falls, Texas — “Larry McMurtry territory,” he calls it — he fell in with the Backdoor Theater, a local amateur troupe, for lack of other things to do. A 1978 Play Plucked From the Slush Pile Gets a Timely New Reading 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

A plane crash is rarely caught on camera, and when it is it's usually all juddery, hand-held and amateur. TV review: The Plane Crash 2012-10-11T21:35:01Z

For centuries, ancient Egypt seemed a marvel of unchanging continuity to professional and amateur scholars alike, a society defined by tradition and cultural stasis. Met exhibit shatters 19th-century myths about ancient Egypt 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Before she became a registered nurse, a wife and a mother of four, Fitzpatrick was an amateur photographer possessed with passion and guided by instinct. The artifacts and stories that brought the African American museum to life 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Also crowding the same ground as the Penske sites are a large number of new outlets, professional and amateur. Variety and Deadline Hollywood make interesting co-stars 2012-10-14T18:30:01Z

It was commissioned in 1778 by a wealthy doctor and amateur flutist who asked for something short and simple. Symphony flutist in spotlight at Benaroya, on NBC 2013-02-21T23:21:17Z

Like all amateur sides they suspect that the opposition's best player is a ringer. Radio previews: The Newsagent's Window and more 2013-02-02T06:00:20Z

The Châtelet then reopened last September with “Parade,” a production consistent with Mackenzie’s outlook that featured mainly international companies alongside local amateurs. In Europe’s Theaters, Outsiders Tread a Tricky Path 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

It makes peppermint and marshmallows look like amateur hour with a rich finishing note that will have you tempted to make cup after cup. 15 best Trader Joe’s fall snacks to stuff in your basket ASAP 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

Sherlock’s gun is a prop that amateurs can’t help recognizing as fake, for the same reason that fake fur and fake crab is obvious to most people who wear clothes and eat. What TV gets wrong about guns 2014-02-14T23:30:00Z

I began with the violin, but the sound of the amateur piano player won over the amateur string player's sound. After deaths of his daughters, ages 1 and 5, pianist Vadym Kholodenko returns to the stage 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

In part, it’s simply that his crew of artless amateurs, relatives and B-list pols make for better TV. Review: ‘The Comey Rule’ and What a Fool Believes 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

“I try to be a little bit of an amateur to keep my life exciting,” the veteran artist added. Porcelain Finds Its Outside Voice 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

But this says less about the genius of the common people than it does about photography — it is easy for an amateur to snap a striking picture accidentally. Art Review: Everyone?s 15 Minutes In a Culture of Celebrity 2011-01-13T22:44:50Z

He grew up in Gloucester as Simon Beckingham, dad a key- board player in a local band and mum a member of an amateur dramatics troupe. Simon Pegg: 'I measure life by my feelings for Star Wars' 2010-10-16T23:05:00Z

The elation she felt after winning a local amateur tournament soon turned to something more like obsession, and she began to worry about the game’s impact on her mental health. How Rekindling a Love for Tennis Turned Into a Raging Fire 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Residents patrolling the streets for crime; worshippers bowing in church; amateurs wailing Chinese opera. '16 Blocks' documents life in the Chinatown International District 2010-06-10T20:37:00Z

The number one mistake the magazine cites are logos “designed by an amateur.” Can Ultimate Frisbee go mainstream? 2013-06-12T12:57:00Z

In New York City's Harlem, pictures of Jackson hung outside the fabled Apollo Theater, where the entertainer and his brothers rocketed to fame as The Jackson 5, winning amateur night in the late 1960s. Fans remember Michael Jackson a year after his death 2010-06-26T01:39:00Z

He enjoyed acting with a local amateur dramatics group, and trained at Central School of Speech and Drama, in London, winning its gold medal, before performing with repertory companies in Worthing, Shanklin and Bournemouth. Anthony Bate 2012-06-24T11:32:44Z

While she has discussed it in her sets as an amateur stand-up comic, participating in Date Lab is, she says, the “most out thing” she’s done yet. Date Lab: They talked about cats, Gettysburg and Pussy Riot 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

And as the photographic profession expanded and diversified to keep pace with the growing perception of the medium’s utility, so, too, did the range of pleasures available to the amateur. Riff: On (Digital) Photography: Sontag, 34 Years Later 2011-05-08T05:30:17Z

The revival of traditional in the 1950s prompted any number of amateur musicians to play for fun, the purists among them inspired by deep commitment to the New Orleans cause. Diz Disley obituary 2010-04-15T17:43:00Z

“The Late Starters Orchestra” is an anthem for the amateur, and if more people to took up an instrument with Goldman’s level of commitment, our classical music culture would surely improve. ‘The Late Starters Orchestra,’ by Ari L. Goldman

It helps that, for amateurs, bowls are a naturally photogenic medium. From the royal wedding menu to Nigella – why bowl food is so wildly popular 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

He grew a beard for the part of Dafydd, the director of an amateur operatic society production. VIDEO: Brydon on West End stage debut 2012-09-28T15:32:24Z

Here is where the professional and the amateur meet. Review: In ‘Better Living Through Criticism,’ A. O. Scott Offers Insight 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

You're hard-pressed to believe that many of the outstanding raw talents featured here are indeed amateurs. 'Know How' a powerful take on real-life teens in foster care 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Yet children all around me seemed amused by the scenes of the quarreling lovers and laughed outright during the charming episodes when amateur players rehearse and perform their hapless version of “Pyramus and Thisbe.” Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in Isango Ensemble’s South African Setting 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Although the author of "On Photography" claimed to be "hopelessly amateur" in front of a camera, the camera says otherwise. 'Regarding Susan Sontag' looks at a rock star of intellectuals 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Until digital video arrived in the late 1990s, 16-millimeter film was the mainstay of the amateur or independent filmmaker, requiring neither the investment nor the know-how of commercial cinema. Happy 100th Birthday, 16-Millimeter Film 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

While Hamilton and his family comprise the core of the group, it was his friend Kevin Sheath, a keen amateur triathlete and wild swimmer, who initiated the tradition. ‘It's part of the fun to suffer’: hitting the great outdoors this Christmas 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z

As one of the few women to hold this position of power – the magician is considered an authority figure, according to Solomon and various writing – Solomon has endured sexist and ageist remarks, particularly from amateurs. Conjuring up a career with one of NYC’s only female magicians 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Her 1997 book “Kill the Body, the Head Will Fall” drew on her experience as an amateur boxer who became the first woman to win the Tacoma Golden Gloves title. Review | In her new novel, Rene Denfeld draws on her experience as a homeless teen 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

And though there are several amateur dance groups around the world who do, it is hard to find any that are live right now. Going out by staying in: where to watch the arts online 2010-07-25T20:31:00Z

Henriques recalls the words of fraud analyst Pat Huddleston, who “responded in one of his talks by saying, ‘If it sounds too good to be true, you’re dealing with an amateur.’ ” How do you humanize Bernie Madoff for an HBO movie? Simple: You don’t. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

That corollary is the power of great directors to turn mediocre, stiff, and charisma-deprived actors—or even utter amateurs—into great actors for the duration of a single movie. Last Film, Best Film? 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

For an amateur musician this is the equivalent of a pub football team playing at Wembley, twice in one week. What’s new in New Orleans? The city’s post-Katrina highlights 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Another inconvenient truth is that he was actually a brilliant downhill speed skier, becoming the ninth-fastest amateur in the world, so the movie omitted that. Eddie the Eagle: ‘I was probably closer to the ostrich’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

The owners of a garage in small town outside Lyon, the Gauthiers have come under the spell of amateur flying. DVD: New on DVD: ‘Jean Grémillon During the Occupation’ 2012-07-29T03:13:01Z

“The chaos was manufactured for the shooting of “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” which opens June 27, with much of the amateur filming of the shoots posted online. Transformative Movie Marketing 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

In a recent Harvard Business School study of nonfiction reviews, assessments in mainstream media outlets like this one and amateur ratings on Amazon largely converged. The battle of the book reviews 2012-05-18T20:59:01Z

During the second Gulf war, the New York Times ran a poetry competition, leaving a huge and touching archive of mostly amateur entrants online. Songs for squaddies: the war musical Lads in Their Hundreds 2010-05-19T21:30:00Z

He becomes an amateur detective and forensic archaeologist, and also, without quite realizing it, a man digging himself ever deeper into an existential hole. Review: ‘Digging for Fire,’ a Comedy by Joe Swanberg 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

It will be the first competition for women at the home of the Masters, and Tirico says being an amateur event speaks even deeper to the heritage. Tirico to do play-by-play from Augusta Women’s Amateur 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Many of its performances, staged around the town outside Paris where Molière presented a number of his plays to Louis XIV, are free, and feature a mix of professional actors and amateurs. Molière, Turning 400, Can Still Surprise 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

I would love to have more time to still be going to those more amateur comedy nights. Rachel Brosnahan thought she was bad at comedy until "Maisel" came along 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

There’s way too much indifferent, amateur- and student-level work, as well as semiprofessional kitsch. Governors Island Art Fair Fills Colonels’ Row 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

At first he was only an amateur artist, holding onto a day job as a stockbroker’s assistant. Gauguin: It’s Not Just Genius vs. Monster 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

Wright came from a family of both amateur and professional geographers, and over the years he occasionally referred to a country that he had invented as a child, Islandia. The Forgotten Novel That Inspired Homesickness for an Imaginary Land 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

He is one of about 50 amateur singers from across the globe who have mustered the nerve to take part in this afternoon's instalment of a Berlin phenomenon: bearpit karaoke. Berlin's 'bearpit karaoke' under threat 2012-05-28T12:48:14Z

The documentary aspect is in the capturing of Native American drum circles and dancers, elements inspired by the amateur archaeologist Ishmael Bermudez, who says he found Native American ruins on his property in Miami. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

In that moment you either stay an amateur, a genial, sometimes inspired one, but fundamentally someone who does not understand the dynamics and processes of getting a film made. Television: HBO?s ?Luck,? Starring Dustin Hoffman 2012-01-25T15:29:12Z

Directed by Laura Terruso, “Work It” trades in this allure; by featuring a clumsy amateur who learns to let loose, it invites us to flounder alongside. ‘Work It’ Review: Freestyling Through Senior Year 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

With the help of an amateur photographer friend, Millais kept his own personal archive of the models he had used while at the school. How Photography Cast New Light on Art 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

And while the Apollo is known for its "Sandman" character who boots weak contestants during its famous amateur show, "Enter Sandman" is one of Metallica's famous songs. Metallica to headline at the Apollo 2013-08-22T13:26:25Z

Ms. Starr, as she soon became known, won a string of amateur talent contests and sang with a western swing band on the radio in Tennessee. Kay Starr, ferociously expressive singer who had pop hit with ‘Wheel of Fortune,’ dies at 94 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

A scene from the Web series “Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II,” which uses amateur actors. CBS Blocks Use of Unused ?Star Trek? Script by Spinrad 2012-03-28T22:25:24Z

This is a new age of the amateur, and these amateurs are challenging our notions of quality, established practice and process. Hail the Amateur, Loved by the Crowd 2011-06-10T14:21:36Z

It’s now a delightful place for a refreshing stroll or run, and amateur botanists appreciate its varying vegetation. Finding urban getaways in Europe’s top cities 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

He also used a pseudonym — David Winter — to enter a competition for amateur painters in London in 1926. Churchill’s Aura, and Bright Colors, Draw New Fans to His Art 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

Enter Bobby White, a swing dance champion, teacher and amateur historian. From the Lindy Hop to Hip-Hop in One Improvising Body 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

In 1970, I directed The Crucible by Arthur Miller for an amateur dramatic group, Nucleus. My father’s claim on my heart put an end to my young love affair 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

He was also an amateur music historian and a first-rate dramaturg, and his death created a theatrical void that was both personal — for his friends and collaborators — and professional. Michael Friedman Left Behind a Musical. They’re Finishing It. 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

It offered a rare chance to see top-flight professionals display their talents on a field that usually belongs to amateurs. An Opera Star Walks Into a Karaoke Bar … 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

The cheerful, uncouth, chaotic Healey was a fellow agitator with a compelling taste for amateur dentistry. David McKie's top 10 eccentrics in literature 2011-03-02T11:31:07Z

And pathologizing your sister based on an amateur understanding of autism not only hurts her, but also people who live with the disorder. I’m No Doctor, but My Sister Definitely Has Autism 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Among the 11 finalists vying for Seattle's three slots in New York is Dylan Zucati, 15, of Auburn, a Tacoma School of the Arts sophomore who's been acting in amateur shows since age 8. Teen actors in spotlight in August Wilson Monologue Competition 2011-03-04T21:23:15Z

What initially drew amateurs to watercolour, though, was not Turner's virtuoso example so much as the fact that it was convenient and cheap. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z

Everyone is an amateur TV writer at home, I think. Insiders’ TV: writers and producers share their tips 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

Both the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud galaxies glowed like stickers on a child’s bedroom ceiling, and Jupiter’s bands were easily visible with an amateur telescope, as were four of its moons. Where Will Science Take Us? To the Stars 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Blackburn Rovers had just turned professional; the victorious Old Etonians were all amateurs and, as the later lives of the players revealed, mainly destined for lucrative careers in politics or law. Oldest-known FA Cup final programme expected to fetch £25,000 at auction 2013-05-05T14:41:20Z

From 1972 to 1992, he relied almost exclusively on prepared canvas board that measured 16 by 20 inches, a material typically used by amateurs. Thomas Nozkowski’s Final Statement 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

She believes that the Spanish title of “eL/Aficionado,” which translates to “amateur” or “hobbyist,” is a nod to those events. A Spy Opera (or Is It?) Returns to the Stage 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

But then again, after a month of amateur haircuts, canceled gym memberships and questionable personal hygiene, who wants to look in a mirror right now? This is Joe Biden’s biggest moment. Why does he feel so small? 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

At regional and amateur theaters, however, things work differently: the only runs are short ones, so word-of-mouth builds more quickly. New York Flop Becomes a Hit Everywhere Else 2010-12-18T03:00:31Z

Ms. Begum kept her word even after her marriage, at 15, to Ganpatlal Batto, a lawyer who was also an amateur photographer. Shamshad Begum Indian Film Singer Dies at 94 2013-04-28T02:28:14Z

There have also been attempts, both legal and amateur, to reveal the pair’s new identities. Why Britain Is Outraged About an Oscar-Nominated Short Film 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

The actor sings and dances in the vortex of a massive undertaking in Central Park by the Public Theater and its highly regarded Public Works initiative, a seven-year-old program uniting amateur and professional actors. Review | ‘Hercules’ proves strong enough to lift all of Central Park, but only for a few days 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

The photographs were created by professionals, amateurs and youth. Smithsonian to display award-winning nature photos 2012-03-07T12:01:05Z

Well, apparently they went to see an amateur production in a village hall and were reminded how much fun it was. Acting married: thespian relationships in the spotlight | Alfred Hickling 2010-03-23T14:04:00Z

Ms. Evans said that the three largest subcultures of amateur naturalists you can find at the cemetery are bird people, fungi people and bug people. A Cemetery’s Big Secret: Lots of Weird Mushrooms 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

The show is nothing more than a collection of amateur videos of turkeys getting riled. Television’s Hissing, Yowling Animal Parade 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

No amateur performer, however plucky, could expect to just parachute into the professional arena. Brian Logan on novelty standups 2011-01-19T22:15:01Z

On myRedBook, the self-proclaimed “Premiere Adult Entertainment Community,” a user by the name “carpediem” takes delight in mocking the amateur mistakes of these alleged johns — or “square horndogs,” as he calls them. Johns on Zumba prostitution ring 2012-10-17T00:00:00Z

The couple were sought-after in London society, where Templetown was renowned for her flair as an amateur artist. Design: A Niche of Stylish Power 2011-07-03T13:02:00Z

A photography exhibition featuring images by amateur and professional photographers. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction

There is a built-in tension and excitement in watching one superb amateur athlete after another tackle the monumental “Sasuke” course. Critic?s Notebook: A ?Ninja Warrior? Upgrade Into Network Prime Time 2011-08-21T22:05:35Z

The series, made over the course of a decade, has become an instant hit since coming out in mid-December, forging amateur detectives out of binge-watchers. Making a Murderer: directors say juror told them Steven Avery was framed 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

And since the lockdown, he’s helped run a weekly photography competition open to amateurs and professionals alike; you’ll find the winning entries and artists, along with his own work, on his Instagram feed. Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

Murphy was bored and in the second year of a law degree; over the years, he had performed with amateur bands, singing and playing guitar, but had not tried acting before. Cillian Murphy: ‘Is this it, for the rest of my days?’ 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

That wariness of specialists was convenient, since most of the leading composers in this loose group were army men, landowners or, in the case of Alexander Borodin, scientists: in another word, amateurs. The Story of ‘the Most Underrated Composer in History’ 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

Laing, a gifted amateur photographer and artist, photographed her daughters many times in and around their home. Iris and Janet, 1914 - picture of the day 2013-05-07T13:31:55Z

Overthrow New York’s lead trainer is Alicia Napoleon, a pro fighter known as “the Empress,” who has 11 amateur titles. The New Workout: Boxing Without the Bruises 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

But for the most part, the medical system’s struggle with coronavirus is a story told with secondhand observations and amateur cellphone footage. Americans want to see what’s happening in hospitals now. But it’s hard for journalists to get inside. 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

“Whose Fault?” is the work of a thoughtful amateur. Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Plus, says Bill Miller, co-founder of Miller Walker Retail Real Estate, those sprawling spaces are no place for amateurs. If D.C.’s steakhouse days are over, why do so many new ones keep opening? 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

The great accomplishment of the production is its seamless integration of amateur and professional dancers. Lord of the Flies - review 2011-03-06T17:04:52Z

American sports went professional early, and without any of the splits between professionals and amateurs that cricket and rugby suffered from. Literary giants at play 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

Not only are they natural community centers, but they also function as sanctuaries from law-enforcement scrutiny — an important protection for amateur cooks of varying immigration statuses and English-language abilities. In Queens, a Food Bazaar With the Vastness and Variety of Indonesia 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

I'm a big fan of Groskop's journalism and the premise of this memoir – an amateur does 100 standup gigs in 100 days – is too intriguing to resist. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z

But I have thought I might really enjoy the painting if I could make some amateur, lighthearted changes to it. My Brother-in-Law Vilified Us Online. Should We Still Have Him Over? 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Snow quit college after two years to perform in amateur nights at Greenwich Village folk clubs. Phoebe Snow, Who Sang 1975 Hit 'Poetry Man,' Dies 2011-04-26T14:51:32Z

Her amateur sleuthing resulted in a trail of dead bodies. 'Beware' enters modern-day Hollywood noir shining darkly 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

The little show moved uptown the next year, to big bad Broadway, where it ran for more than a year and subsequently spawned countless regional and amateur theater stagings. ‘Pump Boys and Dinettes’ at Encores! Off-Center 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Like her performance and video work, Davis’s sculptures do not ascribe to distinctions between artist and hobbyist, sacred and amateur. The “Terrorist Drag” of Vaginal Davis 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

And other pictures from amateur photojournalists may, if we’re lucky enough, bring someone to justice. Bloody Visions: What Would the Boston Bombing Look Like in the Google Glass Era? 2013-04-17T17:27:55Z

But many of the aspirants in his movie were not actors; they were amateur singers who believed this was their one chance at stardom. Compliance: Sundance Torture Porn 2012-08-17T12:30:26Z

But it is Mr. Brett who has made this strangely compelling amateur art into a genre, that will even be shown this year as an exhibition at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow. Style: Outsider Art Finds Its Place in Fashion 2011-01-10T13:50:04Z

Mr. Clotworthy retired in 1990, after which he became an amateur historian and wrote several books, including one in which he recounted visiting every site that claimed “George Washington slept here.” William G. Clotworthy, ‘Saturday Night Live’ Censor, Dies at 95 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

This was a crowd that made not just my efforts to teach Rory to “appreciate her heritage” but my efforts at parenting in general look like amateur night at the Abilene Moose lodge. Motherlode Blog: Can an Italian dumpling-maker respect her daughter's Chinese heritage? 2012-01-23T20:36:55Z

The club was a mix of professional and amateur camera enthusiasts intent on exploring photography's fine-art possibilities. 'Shadows of a Fleeting World' reveals a hidden chapter in Seattle's cultural history 2011-03-12T02:27:00Z

But clarifying this kind of text-heavy composition is no easy assignment for a massed chorus of amateurs, and words and textures were largely subsumed in a mushy overall sonority. Mozart, Made New: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

“As long as we have individual, independent, amateur citizens making our content, we’re going to be weird,” he added warmly. Community Radio Fights to Stay Live (and Weird) Despite Coronavirus 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

His father, who owned a newsstand, was an amateur photographer and encouraged his son’s early interest in movies. Oswald Morris, Artful Cinematographer, Is Dead at 98 2014-03-27T07:11:58Z

Berkeley, the director of the Juilliard School’s undergraduate opera program, has often cast animals in his productions, and they’ve always been amateurs. Dogs get a sniff of the stage life with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s casting call

Because paying for actors and crew makes up the bulk of a production's costs, amateur theatre is able to spend its budgets more freely. Raising the curtain on the new am-dram 2012-12-15T21:00:00Z

Ulua fishing is a working-class sport, and competitors are serious amateurs. Casting for a Big Fish on the Big Island of Hawaii 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

Yet the most ambitious role he plays is not as a comedy mentor or amateur historian, but as a performer. On Keegan-Michael Key’s Podcast, a Provocative Case for Sketch Comedy 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

The internet is full of amateur photos, clips and Vines from the event, and Fader obtained a copy of the official invitation. Jay-Z performs Picasso Baby for six hours in New York gallery 2013-07-11T11:00:56Z

Looking at this book, I was wondering, what do you think a person who is an amateur, like myself, should try first? Chef Marcus Samuelsson: "Look out for the Black-owned restaurants … because we need you right now" 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

It includes former professionals as well as enthusiastic amateurs now. Skating is a frosty love affair for elderly Hungarians 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Before the rise of the urban bourgeoisie and then recordings, and the concomitant decline of amateur performance, this was how music lived: in homes, in front of small groups. When a Critic Hosts the Premiere 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Tom, an amateur filmmaker, decides to bring his handheld camera along. ‘Mistaken for Strangers’: Rock doc moves to a different beat 2014-04-10T20:58:58Z

Craig, best known as the most recent incarnation of James Bond, will play journalist and amateur sleuth Mikael Blomkvist in the movie, which starts shooting in Sweden next month, Columbia said. Fresh face Rooney Mara lands lead in "Dragon Tattoo" 2010-08-16T18:44:00Z

And then there was the Oratorio Society, an amateur chorus but one trained by Kent Tritle, among the best choral directors in the business. Music Review: Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall 2014-03-11T21:07:14Z

While her vocal performance was praised almost universally, country star and American Idol alumnus Carrie Underwood’s acting was deemed “amateur” Christopher Walken To Star in NBC's Live Rendition of Peter Pan 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

To ears recently attuned to New York’s finest professional choirs, the sound of this amateur group was not terribly impressive, especially in the Chamber Choir’s performance of Schumann’s “Talismane,” where individual voices were mercilessly exposed. Music Review: Dessoff Choirs at Church of St. Paul the Apostle 2012-02-07T23:41:03Z

The programme is one of the most varied offered by amateur companies in Birmingham. Unrestricted views: The Crescent theatre, Birmingham 2012-07-09T16:40:04Z

Mr. Fogel does not intend to go back and make his own “Super Size Me,” despite some of the questions about doping in both amateur and professional sports that the movie leaves open. ‘Icarus’ Puts Russia, Cycling and Doping Into One Cocktail 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

She was happy to write in a range of styles — pop songs, television work, music for amateur choirs. Perspective | A forgotten voice for civil rights rises in song at Georgetown 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

For Mr. Joseph, who has been a devoted fan and amateur player since his early childhood in Queens, life is soccer and soccer is life. Review: Life is Soccer, and Soccer is Life, in ‘/peh-LO-tah/’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

A photography exhibition in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act features large-format images by professional, amateur and student photographers. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction

After all, there’s nothing like a little amateur dramatics to put some pep in your step. In ‘Assisted Living,’ the Golden Girls (and guys) meet Orwell 2013-04-29T19:14:35Z

His father was an amateur accordion player, but Dural preferred playing the organ as a child, according to a biography on his website. U.S. zydeco music star Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural dies at 68 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

The sale is also a godsend for amateur theater groups. Ball Gowns, Lace Ruffs and Fairy Wings: Theater History for Sale 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

If these unprompted experiments are any indication, there are plenty of amateurs with an appetite for independent investigation and their own ideas for reengineering animals. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z

The difference is that the DIYer seeks to emulate the professional, whereas these objects all share the nonchalance of the amateur. Home-Made Europe: the DIY geniuses shaking up design 2012-05-30T16:14:18Z

French believes that alongside the growing ranks of online amateur film writers, there should still be a role for an experienced critic. That's a wrap: Philip French, Observer film critic, steps down after 50 years 2013-05-04T19:52:19Z

His eldest daughter, an artist, offered to teach him the rudiments of perspective, but he declined, claiming that he had always been an amateur. Art in Review 2010-02-25T20:58:00Z

Some of this stuff is purely amateur -- crude but endearing work that's personal, private and not intended to impress, much less sell, but merely to amuse. The most extraordinary movie fan art 2010-08-21T00:20:00Z

He played in an amateur men’s soccer league; I preferred basketball, so MJ got the edge. ‘Space Jam,’ My Dad and Me 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

The mark of a professional is reliability; the talented amateur delivers wonders as happy accidents but lacks the technique to be malleable or, for that matter, predictable. Movie of the Week: “People on Sunday” 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Sinister uncle Andrew, another mad amateur scientist, is up to something behind the locked door of his study. Ten of the best 2011-03-26T00:05:30Z

No, Mirza, who studied painting at Winchester school of art and design at Goldsmiths in London, is something of an amateur scientist. Haroon Mirza: Play that funky cardboard 2011-03-08T22:00:00Z

His father, Edward Floyd Rogers, was a carpenter and amateur musician who struggled with alcohol. Kenny Rogers, Who Brought Country Music to a Pop Audience, Dies at 81 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

Make no mistake, The Evil Within is very clearly the handiwork of a rank amateur under the influence of powerful narcotics. A millionaire, his meth addiction and the horror movie 15 years in the making 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Blanchard’s father, an amateur opera singer, was an inheritor of that tradition; this, in turn, became part of his son’s musical DNA. Jazz and Opera Come Together in ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

M-G-M wound up hiring amateurs and shunting them to the rear of the soundstage, where nobody could see them bungling the choreography. “The Wizard of Oz,” the Last Munchkin, and the Little People Left Behind 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

The book invokes bitcoins as currency, the mysteries of the deep reaches of the Internet and amateur anarchists with an Occupy attitude that’s big on style but short on backbone. Books of The Times: Charlie Huston’s ‘Skinner,’ a Thriller With a Troubled Hero 2013-07-14T21:41:57Z

As a culture, we are easily drawn to the lure of self-defense and amateur weaponry. My lesson in gun control 2012-12-18T01:00:00Z

The Royal Shakespeare Company has been celebrating amateur theatre with its year-long "Open Stages" programme, inviting more than 7,000 non-professionals around the country to learn from their expertise in "skills exchange workshops". Raising the curtain on the new am-dram 2012-12-15T21:00:00Z

Disney's modest ambition for the show was to create a stock and amateur version, the rights for which would be released after a world premiere at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse in 2011. Composer Alan Menken explains how 'Newsies' became a stage dynamo 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

It is there, at a concert of amateur musicians who are Vietnam War veterans, that this aimless Canadian hears the janitor’s unfinished concerto, named for a fellow soldier. ‘One Discordant Violin’ Review: In Search of Soul-Stirring Art 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

For the Birmingham premiere, the 1,000 performers included nurses, teachers, manual labourers, lawyers, school children and a smattering of music students, plus many members of amateur choirs. Shouting, whispering, clapping - Lang's 'Crowd Out' has it all 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

The amateur competition on the other hand offers a different motivation to practice and perform, and a discipline that takes music to a new, authentic level. Hail the Amateur, Loved by the Crowd 2011-06-10T14:21:36Z

His mobile phone number and personal email addresses were soon unearthed and passed on by amateur sleuths. Whatever happened to 3:AM magazine? 2012-07-10T08:52:53Z

Among members of the Professional Disc Golf Association, which includes both amateurs and professionals, 47 percent were 20 to 34. The future of “golf” may not be on the links 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

I got my start as an amateur matchmaker while in college. She was kind of yawning at the end of the blind date 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

And while the solving of the mystery is fairly conventional, these amateur detectives aren’t. Television Review: ‘The Bletchley Circle’ on PBS 2013-04-19T22:48:51Z

Ms Longstreth, who founded this amateur choir in 1968 and remains its music director, led a chamber ensemble in a handsome performance. Music Review: New Amsterdam Singers at Church of the Holy Trinity 2010-06-06T22:16:00Z

To Davies, players like Schneider and Amodio are like professional athletes playing among amateurs, and so it makes sense to him to feature their talents in a separate tournament or league. Celebrities Are Just the Start of the Expanding ‘Jeopardy!’-verse 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

And amateur magicians try to fool Penn & Teller. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ and ‘Penn & Teller’ 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

His involvement is personal and protective, and his emotional commitment will allow the amateur to triumph where professionals have failed. DVD: ‘Jaws,’ Seminal Blockbuster, Now on Blu-ray 2012-08-12T02:53:01Z

But much as Chicago’s landmark “Cloud Gate” sculpture quickly became known as “The Bean” for looking like, well, a giant bean, legions of amateur art critics aren’t seeing what Thomas intended. Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Boston draws online mockery, disdain 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

It’s a popular spot for lounging, people-watching and amateur photo shoots. Miami Beach with a toddler? Believe it or not, it can be fun. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

His father, Gilles Hamelin, a pharmacist and an accomplished amateur pianist who died in 1995, was an avid collector of scores and recordings. King of Virtuosos Is Weary Of His Crown 2011-07-22T15:32:31Z

Their need to pull together eye-catching displays is greater than the amateur gardener’s, but the principles of evaluation and planning still apply. Perspective | The winter garden is full of promise and productivity. Don’t let it go to waste. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

The boom in drone footage is not just driven by the professionals: millions of drones are sold to amateur photographers, hobbyists and gadget fans, stocked everywhere from Argos to Amazon. High times: why drone photography offers a different view of travel 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

The theatre profession compounds the problem by often casually implying that work outside West End and mainstream regional theatres is somehow a bit "amateur" and not a place to maintain a career. Response: Fringe theatre provides young actors with an excellent career path 2010-10-07T23:04:00Z

I've seen amateur directors pander to the ego of the cast member with the strongest personality. How to act: stage stars share their acting tips 2012-11-28T19:30:02Z

Each episode also features four amateur artists who create modern interpretations of the missing work, competing in what they call the “free category.” How Hard Is It to Paint Like Vermeer? TV Contestants Find Out. 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

This is dialogue on a level with amateur pantomime, yet Blanchett delivers it like Lady Macbeth on steroids. Will 'Goddess of Death' Cate Blanchett solve Marvel's female supervillain problem? 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

Now in its 26th season, the series attracts dancers of all stripes: young, old, amateur, professional. At Midsummer Night Swing, Shoes Speak Volumes 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

As he freely admits, Mr. Alford is a part-time manners maven driven by the zeal of the obsessed amateur. Books of The Times: ?Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?? ? By Henry Alford ? Review 2012-01-03T22:29:05Z

Originally produced by Princeton’s McCarter Theatre Center in 2013, this adventurous take on a popular if problematic show combines the fluid precision of a professional troupe with the gleeful insouciance of an amateur theatrical company. Stripped-down staging brings clever moments in this long, long journey 'Into the Woods' 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Arguing about rules, regulations and right or wrong ways of doing things is one way of talking about the amateur and the professional; social categories that make pretentiousness an even knottier issue. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

“Incredibly, in our desire to find a more humane method, we’ve ended up letting amateurs both invent and administer a form of unpredictable torture.” John Oliver on lethal injections: 'horrifying' and 'unpredictable' 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

Judging by the sharp increase in complaints about illegal amateur firework displays this year, many New Yorkers might have already had their fill. 8 Things to Do This Fourth of July Weekend 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Even as a group of amateur dancers, the student dance group brought as much force and precision as a professional group. ‘Like a dream come true’: A UW dance crew invited a K-Pop group to dance with them in Seattle. A.C.E agreed. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Often written by amateur historians, the books tend to emphasize photos over text. Three idiosyncratic little books about the L.A. area 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

In the third and strongest vignette, Edie Falco, who starred in “Judy Berlin,” plays Peggy, a garrulous amateur painter, married with two children, who is constantly yammering on the phone with a neighbor. | '3 Backyards': What?s Really Beneath Those Manicured Lawns (and Suburban Smiles) 2011-03-11T02:00:47Z

I wouldn't even call myself an amateur comedian. Edinburgh fringe's amateur comedians turn headlines into punchlines 2012-07-23T14:26:47Z

As reimagined by Ms. Baumann, this story of exiles in love and in conflict becomes a meditation on immigrants and refugees today, with a multilingual cast that mixes amateurs with professionals. Reinventing Shakespeare, According to the Gospel of Joseph Papp 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

They are dressed, by Miranda Hoffman, in whimsically ill-assorted attire that suggests dutiful foraging in amateur theatricals costume trunks as well as the sales racks at Urban Outfitters. | 'Godspell' : ?Godspell? at the Circle in the Square - Review 2011-11-08T03:00:04Z

It caters to straight and gay adult entertainment enthusiasts, to fans of group scenes, amateur action, animation, female-friendly stories, you name it. A “G-rated” porn campaign: PornHub’s strangely SFW idea 2014-03-05T20:27:00Z

He’s far more expansive on the topic of his maternal grandfather, Max Katz, an accountant and amateur magician who introduced his grandson to a dazzling group of entertainers and future mentors. Movie Review: ‘Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay’ 2013-04-17T20:40:36Z

Mr. West, the sixth of seventh children, was introduced to acting by his mother, who performed in amateur productions at home in Sheffield. Dominic West in ?Appropriate Adult? on Sundance Channel 2011-12-04T03:49:03Z

Fortunately, this young genius is played by a gifted amateur, and “Jeopardy”-certified real genius, Thomas Horn. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z

The three-week long event, which will involve amateur sports and arts enthusiasts, is described as "using light sources powered by physical and kinetic movements to promote the latest energy conservation technologies". Edinburgh festival director Jonathan Mills extends his contract until 2014 2011-02-03T13:58:56Z

Access to conversations among amateurs is more politically inspiring than access to information. SXSW 2011: Clay Shirky on social media and revolution 2011-03-12T12:58:53Z

They can barely go anywhere these days without getting mobbed by amateur bakers asking for advice on the moistness of their lemon drizzle cake. Bake Off's Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry: 'We argue over every cake' 2012-11-18T00:08:03Z

Some of the amateur, er, vocalization can jar the ears of a critical listener who is not taking part himself, but that is utterly beside the point. 500 Years Later, the Reformation Is Still Creating Music 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

“My grandfather was a very skillful amateur magician,” he said. Paul Auster’s Latest Trick? Celebrating 70 With David Blaine 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

His compositions for amateur and youth ensembles appear with deserved regularity. The Hilarious, Heartbreaking Life and Music of Malcolm Arnold 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

With the breakout success of shows like "Serial" and the explosion in amateur podcasting, radio is undergoing the sort of DIY revolution that journalism faced with the advent of blogs. Jessica Abel's Graphic novel 'Out on the Wire' draws out the secrets of radio storytelling 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

It's like the barriers between what you would think of as a professional and amateur are completely broken down now, right? Why "Abby's"? Because we still need a place to go where everybody knows our name 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

His energetic mother got him involved in amateur dramatics. Peter Cheeseman obituary 2010-04-29T17:57:00Z

The original was a series of simple, closely choreographed actions executed by amateur performers, and Kaprow wasn’t among them. Art Review | 'Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present': At MoMA, a Performance Artist Endures 2010-03-11T22:56:00Z

Jonathan Swift, no amateur, wrote in his preface to “The Battle of the Books” that “satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.” Is Satire Possible in the Age of Trump? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

He was a tube driver and an amateur player. Q&A: Paul Merton 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

In this case, the guiding spirit is the amateur troupe called the Bunbury Company of Players, which has apparently done “Earnest” many times over many years. London Theater Journal: On Artifice and Oxygen, Earnest and Jeeves 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

But on “The Voice,” there are moments when the amateurs are the ones grilling the celebrities. The Week Ahead: April 24 ? 30 2011-04-22T14:36:40Z

Albert Einstein and Sherlock Holmes gained prominence in their own fields; should we list them as “prominent amateur fiddlers”? Review: ‘Bolshoi Confidential’ Peers Down the Centuries and Past the Pirouettes 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

Team USA — a group of young amateurs — went up against the U.S.S.R. team, with its professional players and repeated gold medalists. When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

As an amateur cookie decorator, I’ve followed Paige’s work for the past 20 years. Patti Paige and her cookie cutters transform treats into whimsy

There’s no cult of the amateur in “Results.” How Mumblecore Brings Out the Best in Actors 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z