| 单词 | gritty |
| 例句 | “Now my mouth wall feel gritty all night.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I remove my hat and wipe a gritty arm across my forehead. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Rock dust, gritty and irritating, swirled around him, got in his eyes, his mouth, and his nose. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I nod and swirl my feet through the rough grains, enjoying the gritty tickling at the bottom of my feet. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Amaka blinked rapidly as she said good-bye, and I was not sure if it was from the gritty wind or to keep more tears back. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z As for me, I sit in the sand, enjoying the gritty feeling as it sifts through my wriggling toes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He bent over and kissed him on his gritty brow. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Barnacles, cowries, thirteen lumps of quartz gritty with sand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Instead of an answer he got a blow on the head that sent him sprawling on the gritty floor. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z His mouth suddenly felt dry and gritty and his tongue thick. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z When he tried to move, the inside of his head pounded; so he lay flat and spat out the gritty mountain clay. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Before the gritty sand, the hot sun, and my itching skin demand a return to reality. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z My eyes are gritty and sore, as though full of sand. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z You’re hunched over with your butt sticking up, your feet pressed hard against the pedals, your itchy palms raised, with just the tips of your fingers on the gritty track, waiting. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “You’re supposed to churn it. Otherwise it gets gritty and crunchy.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He went to the bathroom and carefully scrubbed the ink away with the gritty dark-brown soap which rasped your skin like sandpaper and was therefore well adapted for this purpose. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The stuff was everywhere, We piled in gritty drifts by the side doors of houses, wafting up from the chimneys as oily smoke, smeared on the overalls of men walking to work. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She mixed salt with cold water and gently plastered the gritty mixture onto my feet. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I sucked my tongue to unfreeze it, tasting the gritty dust. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Outside I hear someone selling an evening newspaper, and the gritty, swishing sound of a broom over cobblestones. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It was rusted through to the center, crumbling away in gritty sheets of red rust. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And their voices were unnaturally gruff and gritty. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z That nightmare drags me in its gritty wake and leaves me broken and thrown, pieces missing. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Water Claire had come in clothing, though it had been shredded by the gritty winter sea. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The makeshift hospital at Erudite headquarters smells like chemicals, almost gritty in my nose. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Dad's gritty stubble and my almost invisible fur snowed together onto the white porcelain sink. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The river clenched me in its fist, gritty and brown, much colder than I thought it would be. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Perry noticed them first — hitchhikers, a boy and an old man, both carrying homemade knapsacks, and despite the blowy weather, a gritty and bitter Texas wind, wearing only overalls and a thin denim shirt. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “But Hoth. There’s a reason people always call the best, grittiest installment of a trilogy the Empire of the series.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z At first, all that came out was a hoarse croak, and then he was choking, coughing, hacking the gritty gray dust out of his throat and lungs. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The cornmeal had a gritty crunch; the ham was smooth and salty against the sweet syrup. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Although I had been to the Hob on several occasions with my father, I was too frightened to venture into that rough, gritty place alone. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Where the chrome plate had chipped away from the wrench the iron was gritty. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Other parts were gritty with sand, or were tangled in seaweed, or were inhabited by small, scuttling creatures. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z There was a strong, gritty breeze blowing, and the street was in harsh relief, with even more sunlight, fewer shadows than before. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I shrugged, trying not to notice the gritty dust all over my trousers and my hands. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It’s a real noise, a gritty noise, not the squeak or patter of rubber. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He proceeded on foot, the ground gritty and slippery to his steps, the low gravity causing him difficulty. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The floor is gritty and wet under my hands. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I expected something gritty and grimy, but this place looked more sterile than a doctor’s office. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z When he got to the pines he knelt and laid him in the gritty duff and covered him with the blankets and sat watching him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The instant he bellowed the familiar order, Ranofer was flying across the gritty floor as fast as his feet would move. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z At about four o’clock, tired and overheated and streaked about the face with rivulets of gritty sweat, I stepped from the woods onto the broad shoulder of U.S. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In daylight, the Levee was just as gritty as it had been at dusk. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Bod’s view of things was upside down at this point, bouncing up and down on the back of the 33rd President of the United States, gritty sand from the path blown up into his face. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The vuvv speak by grinding a sort of gritty fin against their body, so most of what we said, translated, sounded like sandpaper or, when we were shouting, Velcro. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Crumbling brick warehouses, oil storage tanks, rusting cranes, and gritty factories lined both sides of the waterway. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When the spring moisture had dried, the path became gritty and treacherous in a different way. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Whether it was true or not, most people said they had first come out here during a sandstorm, meaning their first taste of Odessa had literally been a mouthful of gritty sand. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They were nearing the edge of Lkossa, a grittier part of the city littered with old crates, debris, and other filth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Soweto was seen as the snobbish township and Alexandra was seen as the gritty and dirty township. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He had not, after all, grown up above his father’s Rex Café in gritty South Philly, nor would he have wanted to. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I step over a puddle, the soles of my shoes gripping the gritty tunnel floor. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Newark was gritty, with a lot of pavement and dilapidated buildings. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The bus exhaust freezes, trapping all the noise in a gritty cloud. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “There’s no call to be rude, and the bath water is still warm, if you don’t mind it gritty.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His lip quivers and his voice gets gritty. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It had a noisy, gritty immediacy that I never felt at Sidley. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When I gripped it, the iron bands that reinforced the wheel crumbled in my hand, flaking away in gritty sheets of brown rust. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She washed down their chalky, gritty taste with a glass of water, and returned to her room. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They walked out and sat on a bench and looked out over the valley where the land rolled away into the gritty fog. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I listened to our gritty footfalls as we climbed. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There was dust in her mouth, the taste of ashes, gritty and dry. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I’d rather be soaking wet and covered in gritty wet sand and seaweed than living in a land of black robes and pearl buttons and sadness. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Calvin grinds his gritty knuckles in his ear. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Now he must hide from the state police, who guard the depot at Lecheria, a gritty industrial neighborhood on the northwestern outskirts of Mexico City. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “If there are any peels left,” she said, “the balls come out gritty and the customers complain.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z But the gritty shipyards and boat works clustered around the locks were largely quiet, nearly abandoned in fact. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He let the gritty goo slip between the tines of the fork and plop back down onto his plate. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Someday I will,” Ranofer said, but he looked at his gritty hands, rough from a day’s sandstoning, adorned with one of the ever-present bandages, and wondered dismally if the day would ever come. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I lean away from the breeze, its saltiness gritty on my skin, clumping my hair. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The wind shifted, and the alley filled with clouds of gritty steam from the doused fires. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I go downstairs early, and it's only me and the dirt, which I now realize has a gritty top, like someone sprinkled coarse sea salt on a gray cracker. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Harsh and metallic, gritty with dirt or rust. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He’s warm and gritty from the floor of the cellar. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The floor was a gritty cement and gravel mix, sticky in places, spotted with what looked like oil slicks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z A consoling warmth compensated for the milky smell, and the gritty, salty-sweet taste. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z As he did so his bare feet grated on some gritty substance in the doorway. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Emma pulled her clothes over her swimsuit and I tripped into my pants, all gritty with sand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The gritty, bacony, syrupy scent drifts into my room, and I soon forget about the drunken cloud that surrounds Pop Pop. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The cart’s wheels crunched along the gritty path, and sand hissed across the ground in an early-morning breeze. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The black smoke hadn't found its way down to the lower floors yet, but the air tasted gritty and poisonous. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He let the flap fall back down, and the hatch disappeared into the rest of the dusty, gritty floor. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She came out of Berwind, which was one of the grittiest and roughest towns in the county. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There he stood in the darkness, clinging to the gritty edge of a shelf and breathing fast with joy. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Out in the city, Nok wound her way from the quiet neighborhood of the gym into the gritty heart of downtown. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Nana is gritty and hard; she wears her wrinkles and liver spots like battle scars from a war she’ll never stop fighting. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The sound of gritty footfalls came, and I turned to see Declaration making the last climbing steps up Listening Rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Just strolling through, Ralph found his eyelashes coated, his teeth gritty. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground was covered in a gritty black dust, like iron filings. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I could feel the cold comfort of my sheets in my own bed, and the gritty shingle in the cove. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Zahotep turned back to his drill and Ranofer started down the length of the shop, his bare feet cringing away from the gritty carpet of stone chips that covered the dirt floor. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I let her lead me to the table, where the hot broth and gritty cornmeal soothed the ache. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Some pies were still too sour, other; gritty with too much sugar. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The well-to-do grassy environs of Kasselton were only seven miles from the gritty streets of Newark, but the two cities seemed to he from different planets. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He stood leaning on the gritty concrete rail. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z We walked out on the gritty surface of the dump. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z That gritty, realistic snapshot of urban crime was a showcase for this Queens duo’s masterful, unrelenting rhymes. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Nov. 14-20 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Rowling, who has been criticised by some for the novel's gritty language and themes, will read from the book at a public event at London's Southbank Centre on Thursday. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z A reporter at The Wall Street Journal, Chen excels at gritty realism, vividly portraying the widening gap between China’s haves and have-nots. Short Story Collections for an Ever-Changing World 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Country music's most famous alley - a gritty monument to the earthy sounds all around it - is getting a facelift. Famous Nashville country music alley gets facelift 2011-09-18T17:45:08Z Hamilton sings gospel-tinged songs about heartache and the joys of life, and is known for his soulfully gritty music. Grammy nods show Anthony Hamilton still relevant 2013-01-15T17:18:12Z "It was less coolly majestic, at once more ordinary and more immeasurable in its gritty authority." 'Wild': blisters and redemption on the Pacific Crest Trail 2012-03-14T19:57:04Z Vallejo, known in Colombia for both his polemic rants and gritty literature, is no stranger to controversy. How novelist Fernando Vallejo's work reveals Colombia's deep divisions 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The file accumulated intelligence for the next 24 years, even as García Márquez became an intimate of world leaders and was awarded the Nobel Prize for his gritty and magical novels about Latin America. Love in the time of surveillance: FBI agents tracked Gabriel García Márquez 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z It’s a holy courtroom drama and a brazenly irreverent farce, set in Purgatory and animated by slangy, gritty, foul-mouthed characters who somehow insist on keeping the stakes very real. Forum Theatre’s ‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot’ Israeli military dramas are typically constrained by shoestring budgets compared with those of American productions and defined by a gritty realism. ‘Tehran’ Is the Latest Israeli Thriller, Emphasis on Thrills 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The sonata begins with a brutal, gritty Allegro that sounds like Prokofiev on a 12-tone binge. Music Review: A Cozy Chamber Concert Buoyed by Lapping Water 2011-04-18T21:55:54Z He won the prize for “Shuggie Bain,” a gritty and lyrical novel about a boy coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow. S Africa’s Galgut, US author Powers lead Booker Prize race 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z It was really provocative and quite gritty for its time. Jo Hartley's favourite TV 2013-03-11T12:00:00Z That gritty, realistic snapshot of urban crime was uplifted by the duo’s masterful, unrelenting rhymes. Pop & Rock Listings for May 23-29 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Horgan said she wanted “Bad Sisters” to also nod to the gritty crime dramas countries like Denmark and Sweden are known for producing. How Sharon Horgan Shaped a Monstrous Brother-in-Law 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Washington’s performance, a virtuoso turn as gritty as it is flamboyant, raises the level of the entire ensemble. Casey versus Denzel: Oscar's lead actor race is a dramatic study in contrasts 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Scranton, a city of neighborhoods marked by churches and hoagie shops, became political shorthand for industrial and gritty. Scranton became shorthand for the past. Its reality is far more complicated. 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z This was not the case in the long lived mediaeval world which was nothing if not a genuinely gritty reality - "nasty, brutish and short". Gatsby and the way we live now 2013-05-31T16:27:58Z Like a raft trip down the Yukon, "Gold Diggers" carries readers into the perilous, gritty and desperate heart of the last great gold rush in North America. 'Gold Diggers': Six lives drawn to glitter of Klondike gold rush 2010-10-14T20:46:00Z “Listen to Cotton’s harmonica playing,” Chicago Tribune critic Howard Reich wrote in 2013, “gritty, gutsy, ferociously uninhibited — and you’re hearing what great blues harp work is all about. No wonder they call him ‘Superharp.’ James Cotton, hard-blowing harmonica master of the blues, dies at 81 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z The cocktail of his voice and the simple but gritty beats screamed at me. I always loved hip-hop, but Nas transformed me into a fan, which ultimately changed my life 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z That Moore and his writing team managed to turn a cheesy 70s Star Wars homage into something gritty, thrilling and politically resonant became part of an irresistible underdog story. Battlestar Galactica: all hail a cult classic of 21st-century TV 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z He won the Golden Lion award at the Venice film festival for Cyclo, his gritty 1995 film about a young rickshaw driver. Norwegian Wood comes to the big screen 2010-12-10T13:09:00Z A leading role in a gruff, gritty mob drama set in his native Boston would do nicely: has Amazon cast that small-screen spin-off of The Departed yet? Which big-screen actors deserve a small-screen reinvention? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z About two miles west of downtown Cleveland, the gritty Detroit-Shoreway was once a vibrant neighborhood before it was hit hard by the exodus of big manufacturing companies in the early decades of the 20th century. In Cleveland, Adding Life Where Grit Once Prevailed 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z His interpretations of Lagos are gritty and fast paced, matching the environment in which he works, yet he manages to elucidate things that can only be apparent to someone looking closely. A Landscape of Organized Chaos: Nigerian Photographers at MoMA 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z It is gritty and strong, and the nuances are hard to detect. You can spend a lot on ‘true’ cinnamon, but does it taste better than the rest? 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z The job of journalists is to expose hard truths and gritty realities. Nikki Finke is launching Hollywood fiction website 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z In a movie that is as grimy visually as it is gritty in its narrative, the camera spends lots of time studying the star’s craggy profile while Dave prowl-cars through the L.A. night. Rampart: Woody Harrelson Shines as L.A.'s Dirtiest Cop 2011-11-26T14:00:46Z Mungiu insists that "Beyond the Hills" is a departure from the gritty "4 Months," but the new film retains a focus on the relationship between two women in conflict with more powerful men. Faith vs love in Cannes entry 'Beyond the Hills' 2012-05-19T14:45:10Z Rope in the original cast alongside new leads, avoid the hammy nostalgia, and keep it unforgiving and gritty like Michael Mann’s 2006 film adaptation. 10 Great TV Shows Just Waiting to Be Made 2013-10-03T09:45:34Z But she came back in a turnaround that speaks as much to Washington’s short memory as to Ms. Cutter’s gritty perseverance. Stephanie Cutter Is a Messenger Who Does the Shooting for Obama 2012-10-13T00:12:59Z It’s a gritty, confident portrait of a man whose life may have been somewhat messier than this Hollywood version. Review: In American Sniper, Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper Are Right on Target 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Rather we needed some high drama to finally rid Carrie of her motherly duties so that this season could finally get down to the nitty gritty. ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 5: Quinn Is Not Your Ideal Babysitter 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z They mistake world-weariness for outright pessimism, and aspire to nothing more profound than that most overused of registers: “gritty”. The Dark Knight at 10: how Christopher Nolan reshaped superhero cinema 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z A disappointment at the box office, the film nevertheless won praise from fans of the 2000AD comic strip, who admired its gritty edge and fittingly nihilistic tone. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-01-13T00:05:29Z His characters live in gritty urban landscapes, but because of the vibrant color and the hope in the story, they pull through.” ?The Snowy Day,? Art of Ezra Jack Keats at Jewish Museum 2011-12-08T23:38:16Z Specifically, in a former textile mill in Philadelphia’s Kensington area, a gritty neighborhood quickly gentrifying with condos, cafes and hipsters. Competitive axe-throwing is an actual thing, and apparently it’s best done with beer 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The recent past is littered with failed attempts at transforming rock fantasy into a glamorized yet gritty televised reality. Rock'n'roll suicide: is TV's bromance with rock nostalgia finally over? 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The grime artists do tackle drugs, money, respect, turf wars and other gritty topics, all set over a tempo of 140 beats per minute. Grime spreads beyond London's underground 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z In today’s commercial cinema, it is really only used as a retro special effect, for a flashback or a gritty reportage scene, say. The return of Super 8: why Kodak’s rebooted old-school camera could be a hit 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z With hubby Derek Trucks' alternately muscular and twinkling blues guitar bridging the gap between greasy Delta slide and sitar slink plus a gritty horn section and backup singers, this band raises one helluva ruckus. Tedeschi Trucks Band sure to raise ruckus at Paramount 2012-06-14T20:49:05Z Nguyen, whose parents ran a little grocery, uses “The War Years” to meditate on honor, debt, memory and the gritty currency of survival. In Viet Thanh Nguyen's 'The Refugees,' wistfulness is an anthem of displacement 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “It’s a kind of gritty, greasy version of bolero,” he said, and it seems more emotional, sadder, like the blues. The Bolero Is Timeless. Miguel Zenón Is Giving It a Jazzy Tinge. 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Also, I never bought that the kid could put all these traps together to foil the burglars but couldn’t get his hand on a gun, and grim and gritty is big right now. Remaking Memento, the Mummy and more: a Hollywood insider reveals all 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z “Last Call” is Green’s first book, and it admirably demonstrates his commitment to sidestepping easy sensationalism for the far grittier work of checking sources, poring over police reports and reinterviewing witnesses. These Gay Men Frequented Manhattan Piano Bars. So Did Their Killer. 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z The tough, gritty, gutsy ballplayer defended himself this week thusly: I’ve never taken a penny and I’ve done nothing but create jobs and create economy. Skin-heads eye Euro 2012 2012-06-08T16:15:00Z And here she brings a marvelously gritty, ambivalent majesty to the broken witch, who is tried and sentenced to a life chained to a corpse. Theater Review: ‘The Castle,’ by Howard Barker, at Atlantic Stage 2 2013-07-17T21:11:30Z It was a gritty drama set in South Yorkshire, around a women's football team, but you didn't see much football. Jacqui Oatley's favourite TV: Match Of The Day, The Wire, Playing The Field 2013-07-15T11:00:00Z Even though “Harrow” is about gruesome crimes and the fundamental rot within the human spirit, it isn’t dark and gritty. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Ms. Monks — indebted to Kim Deal but also any number of throaty metal singers — is a swaggering, jubilantly gritty vocalist, forever seeming as if she might slip off the rails. Review: Dilly Dally Rocks Out at the CMJ Music Marathon Without Keeling Over 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z To prepare for 2012's cop drama "End of Watch," he went for ride-alongs with police officers that often ended up at gritty crime scenes. Jake Gyllenhaal digs deep for gritty 'Nightcrawler' role 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Its interior was constructed out of old plane parts while smoke was blown through the whole set to give the film a gritty appearance. Dr Alien, PhD: the horror classic that academia loves 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z The Australian native's first feature, 1974's "The Cars That Ate Paris," was a gritty black comedy about residents of a small town who deliberately cause car crashes. Director Peter Weir finds "Way Back" to big screen 2011-02-01T01:34:40Z The MCU falls in the bland space in between, with fight scenes that are neither transcendent nor gritty. Why is the Marvel Cinema Universe so drab? 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z It’s a gritty, dark side of America, these families warped by ignorance and poverty in their overlooked coves and swamps. Book review: ‘Dry Bones in the Valley,’ exciting debut thriller by Tom Bouman Directors, meanwhile, have justified the mistreatment or plain resentment of women as a gritty artistic choice. How the Myth of the Artistic Genius Excuses the Abuse of Women 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Though Mr. Morgan’s grittier side is outlined, it’s not deeply investigated. Review: ‘Sound of Redemption’ Traces Frank Morgan’s Route From Jazz Musician to Prisoner and Back 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z And when Morris sang the powerhouse hook on Zedd’s “The Middle” last year, her gritty vocals became widely recognized outside the country community. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Having moved from Christian pop and soft R&B through soul revival and slightly grittier R&B to EDM-pop, he could be called versatile or opportunistic. Australia announces Eurovision singer 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Many of today’s designers embrace the grittier elements of the city. Architecture Review | Brooklyn Bridge Park: Brooklyn Bridge Park Opens First Phase of Large Project 2010-04-01T22:47:00Z Based on a gritty black-and-white indie comic by artist James O'Barr, the film revolves around a rock musician who is murdered while trying to save his fiancée from thugs. Bradley Cooper in talks to star in "Crow" remake 2011-04-13T00:48:47Z “But what was left out of the novel because of the editing in 1950 and 1951 left out many of the gritty details.” Author?s Heirs Uncensor a Classic War Novel 2011-04-04T22:30:26Z The image is colourful and shows a messy, gritty reality. Utilities photography competition winner 2011-03-01T08:48:21Z Izzy and her fellow guide, Mar, were leading our international group of 23 through the gritty yet vibrant streets of Brooklyn’s Bushwick section, the choicest canvas for graffiti and street art in New York. In Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, street art is helping the community revive The images have a gritty, stubborn beauty thanks to the Super 16 millimeter film, but the agitations of the cinematography, which suggests instability, can get under your skin almost as thoroughly as Philip does. ‘Listen Up Philip,’ With Jason Schwartzman 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z I call it grit-lit because it's gritty realism through the eyes of some really strong female characters. Mel Sherratt on self-publishing: 'I just never gave up' 2013-07-16T13:20:35Z Since some of the characters are nuns, we understand how that informs their characters and the reactions those characters have to some very grim, gritty situations. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The substitution made a difference: Mr. Waits, by temperament the grittier drummer, was properly acquainted with the tunes, and less reluctant to knock them around. Music Review: Mining His Vault: Kurt Rosenwinkel at Village Vanguard 2010-06-24T21:21:00Z From the gritty four-track recordings of the band’s first tape, Going to Alaska, the group has slowly evolved over the course of 13 full-length albums and a revolving door of collaborators. Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle on Songwriting for Tormented Souls 2012-09-25T15:00:13Z But the complex is in Paris’s somewhat gritty 19th Arrondissement, at the northeastern edge of the city just inside the Boulevard Périphérique, or ring road. Philharmonie de Paris Prepares to Open Amid Controversy 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z “We pick up right where we left off and get into the nitty gritty very quickly. There is no time wasted this season.” 'Game of Thrones' Nearly Lost Jessica Henwick's Sandsnake 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z The lyrics aren’t fancy, just brilliant simple, slicing right down to the truth; the guitar is gritty, deep and driving. Merle Haggard Captured America's Spirit with Grit and Integrity 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z On the surface, "Black Sea" is a gritty thriller about a submarine crew on a dangerous mission to retrieve a German U-boat supposedly filled with gold bars that sank in the Black Sea. Sub thriller 'Black Sea' plumbs depths of identity in hunt for gold 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z It’s grippy, almost gritty in texture, grabbing your palate with dense flavors of blackberry, sage, game, earth and pepper. Perspective | Three Aussies and two natural French wines to try 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z In “Fauda,” that work is shown as gritty, messy and morally complicated. ‘Fauda,’ an Israeli TV Hit, Lets Viewers Escape — Into the Conflict 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Ripper Street The gritty period police drama returns with a new episode set four years after the end of the second season. Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Criminal Minds' on CBS 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Harry Crews, an author best known for his gritty tales of the rural South, died Wednesday in Gainesville, Fla. He was 76. Author Harry Crews dies in Florida at 76 2012-03-29T20:01:09Z A different kind of director might have made “Pain & Gain” into a gamy, gritty sunshine noir, or else a knowing satire of idiot America. Movie Review: Michael Bay’s ‘Pain & Gain,’ With Mark Wahlberg 2013-04-25T14:00:02Z But his gritty rather than lovely tenor rose to the demands of the Flower Song, and he was at his best when it counts most in the final act. Carmen 2010-06-09T20:45:00Z As Lomis indicated, the original "Sin City" was a uniquely striking film with its high-contrast black-and-white imagery and gritty action, both ripped from the pages of Miller's comics. 'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For' bombs: 5 things that went wrong 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z A voice-over sporadically chimes in with verse during “Tired Moonlight” — the words, by the poet Paul Dickinson, are gritty, stark, aching. Review: ‘Tired Moonlight’ Quietly Paints a Picture of Small-Town Life 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z We walked by a fan the size of a jet engine, covered in bright graffiti, and continued about 150 feet into the gritty plenum, or attic, of the tunnel. I vacationed at the East Coast’s quintessential rest stop. It’s more inviting than it looks. 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z We were on our way to our own RSC play, a gritty modern take on immigration and culture clash called “Fall of the Kingdom, Rise of the Foot Soldier.” Exploring post-Brexit Britain while the pound is at an all-time low 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Take note, makers of gritty US crime drama. Tonight's TV highlights: Michel Roux's Service 2011-01-12T00:05:01Z It's gritty and grim, but "Animals" is also a gripping portrait of young junkies in love. Gripping 'Animals' shows harrowing lives of drug-addicted pair 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The latest from the French cops, lawyers and judges in this excellent and gritty crime show. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-03-16T06:00:07Z Justice is hard to come by on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, so Virgil Wounded Horse — the hero of this gritty, gripping thriller — dispenses it on a freelance basis. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Photographs documenting the gritty beginnings of U2 in the smoky pubs and clubs of 1970s Dublin are being unveiled Thursday at an exhibition in the band's home city. Dublin showcases earliest photos of baby-faced U2 2012-05-10T12:08:10Z Stewart made a name for himself decades ago with gritty interpretations of folk and blues. With a wink and a smile, Rod Stewart delivers polished soul at United Center 2011-04-10T14:49:00Z In this age of gritty, anti-hero drama, audiences have become conditioned to expect death. Krusty the Clown: the greatest Simpsons character ever? 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z In her telling, the music subculture of the Pacific Northwest in the ’90s was at once gritty and friendly, edgy and earnest. Carrie Brownstein’s ‘Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl’: Yes, she’s that cool 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z When they arrived in South Africa, where Mr. Munro is a resident, in 2006, they were immediately drawn to Woodstock’s gritty charm. Scene/ Seen: Art and Artisans Flourish After Apartheid 2011-02-04T12:00:05Z “Grittier spellers practiced more than less gritty spellers,” Duckworth assures us. The Limits of “Grit” 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z This episode, ferociously written by Semi Chellas and thankfully low on Stanley Kubrick references, is less tidily parallel and more gritty, from blond Bonnie’s filthy New York City toes to Bob’s bloody-nosed friend. 'Mad Men' Watch: Welcome Back; We Missed You 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The lyrical subject matter is not so light in the case of the Vital, also of Long Beach but from the gritty north side. The New Punks of Los Angeles 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z More recently, the acclaimed series Top Boy to Netflix has returned, but does also paint a gloomy, gritty picture of east London, focusing on rival drug gangs. Rocks stars: meet the teenage cast of the hot new British film 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Loving Animals is all the more blissful for that precision, its gritty verses and swooning chorus underscored with the yowl of donkeys and flap of wings. British Sea Power: Machineries of Joy – review 2013-03-28T22:30:01Z The Artist Man and the Mother Woman continues at the Traverse in Edinburgh, where you can also see Blythe Duff in Rona Munro's gritty Iron, about a woman in prison for killing her partner. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-11-09T16:10:44Z It is a grittier, modern-day makeover of the series, which had long ago begun to invite ridicule. Rise of the reboots gives new life to Rocky and Ghostbusters 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Despite a few gritty touches, there's never any danger she's going to get into real trouble after running away from an abusive father in her early life. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer 2010-06-05T13:05:00Z He spent several nights visiting gritty underground clubs in Koreatown with friends to find the right locations for key gambling scenes. For 'The Gambler,' filmmaker sought a less familiar side of L.A. 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Pigalle, once a gritty red-light district, has in recent years begun to smooth its rougher edges, becoming — slowly, as is the Paris way, but decisively — a hip enclave of boutique hotels and brunch spots. Life and Design, Grounded in Pigalle 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z It's not grey and gritty as you'd expect; most scenes are washed in watery sunlight. TV review: Room at the Top; Doomsday Preppers 2012-09-26T21:00:02Z Word quickly spread among collectors of privately pressed albums about a gritty homemade recording made far outside the experimental and New Age circles. The Case for New Age Music as American Folk Art 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Conducted by David Bloom, the quartet nimbly negotiated the score’s fluid transitions from gritty waltzes to punk-rock explosions, from rococo ornaments to dissonant chords. Review: ‘Mata Hari,’ a Different Kind of Queen of the Night 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z But, in the course of eight episodes, it proved to be a darker, grittier show than I’d expected, and one that resonates in uncomfortable ways with our dystopian American present. A Brazilian Thriller That Exposes the Sinister Side of Meritocracy 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Ondar’s gregarious renown — he was also a former member of the Tuvan parliament — was all the more noteworthy in light of his gritty past. Kongar-ol Ondar, a Master of a Vocal Art, Dies at 51 2013-08-03T23:34:57Z Beautifully written, a generous, loving tribute to a plucky father and the gritty world that shaped him, My Father's Fortune begins and ends with the father's smile. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z But I certainly knew the Sidney Lumet movies, or “The French Connection,” or the grittier police dramas. Steven Bochco and Others on Creating ‘Hill Street Blues’ 2014-05-01T17:39:39Z A severed tongue, accompanied by a warning to “Speak no evil”? Well, yes, because that’s the kind of humor that gets grim laughs in this gritty series, a real find, if you ask me. Pop-Up Brothels, Severed Tongues and Creepy Nursery Rhymes 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z That question—is this grittily real or flat-out mean?—haunts the series. Review: Zach Galifianakis's 'Baskets' Wrings Painful Laughs 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z It feels like a gritty film from the 1970s. Hoping for a breakout hit with 'Better Call Saul' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Martin on which the series is based, and the show have often been praised for their “gritty” and “realistic” approach to fantasy, in contrast to, say, J.R.R. Don't Root for the Game of Thrones White Walkers Just Yet 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z The depression of the 1930s gave us gritty, campaigning dramas such as Love On the Dole, but it also offered the escapist pleasures of the musical. Me and My Girl ? review 2010-12-21T21:29:00Z When “Angel” debuted on October 5, 1999, it was a calculated extension of “Buffy’s” success — grittier, more grownup, and an almost certain ratings draw. 20 years on, "Angel" has aged better than "Buffy" 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Indeed, the story of how soccer escaped its gritty, clannish, working-class roots and became an enormous global industry is a central cultural and economic parable of our time. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Like that great storyteller, Mr. Lecesne evokes a grittily specific world, but one in which good and evil are real presences. Review: ‘The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey,’ James Lecesne’s One-Man Play 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Those numbers were written for “Bombshell” and its Season 2 rival, the supposedly grittier “Hit List.” Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Features gritty social realism and occasional high jinks. Open thread: After the Spice Girls, which other groups should have musicals based on their songs? 2012-06-27T16:34:44Z Soon after it closed, he founded his own company at the gritty base of the elevated 7 train in Long Island City. Antiques: New Auctioneers Take Over for Tepper; Long-Ago Spokesmodels 2012-01-19T22:49:43Z We touched on this earlier, but let's get into the nitty gritty. How to store potatoes so they last for months (yes, months!) 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Eugene Lee’s multi-door set brings to mind a hipper, grittier Sesame Street. ‘Fortress of Solitude,’ Now With Musical Numbers, at the Public Theater 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z In part, of course, as the exhibition notes, the style invokes an invented past in which history’s grittier aspects are stripped away. Exhibition Review: National Design That?s Hidden in Plain Sight 2011-06-13T22:41:43Z The designer has an insouciant way of switching between a luxurious and a gritty aesthetic. 2010-02-14T13:00:00Z Ms. Tempest is the youngest of five children, and although much has been made of her rebellious teenage years and gritty southeast London roots, she grew up, she said, in “comfortable” circumstances. January Stages: In Your Seat but on Your Toes 2014-01-02T23:10:17Z Mr. Maxwell’s 2014 runaway hit single “Trap Queen” references trap music, known for its synthesized, complicated beats and gritty lyrics that both celebrate and lament inner-city life. In Undiscovered Paterson, Falls, Food and Fetty Wap 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z But at 77 he still writes bracingly gritty and complex music. Music Review: ?Kommilitonen!,? a Juilliard Opera Premiere - Review 2011-11-17T23:15:52Z When he was younger, Mr. Bethel looked to “the gritty players,” he said. They Can Act. But Can They Serve? 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z “Many liken them to guavas or quince, but their complex flavour also brings to mind strawberries and pineapple, with a pear-like gritty texture, and a hint of mint.” Falling for feijoas: the fruit New Zealand wants the world to love 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z More recently she also won critical plaudits in an episode of director and writer Dominic Savage's improvised, gritty romantic television dramas, True Love. Billie Piper: how to conquer the world before you're 30 2012-11-10T15:55:00Z Then I did “Belle,” and they were like: “It’s so polished. Can she do anything gritty?” Director-writer Amma Asante finds her groove in the political love story. 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z When he began using it, he was working on Shostakovich’s Concerto No. 1, which sounded “too pretty” on this instrument, so he experimented with ways to coax a grittier sound from it. The Violinist Augustin Hadelich Flourishes in New York 2010-04-15T22:18:00Z The company moved to Baltimore, a gritty city with a chip on its shoulder that Plank seemed to relate to. Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank And His Underdog Horse Farm 2012-09-07T13:00:00Z Home to several Boeing operations and a slew of fabricators and machine shops, the heavily industrial neighborhood was considered one of Seattle’s grittier areas for decades — when it was even considered at all. For a Seattle Enclave, Isolation May Be Its Salvation 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Thanks to the LP’s reissue, fans can now experience the album’s original, harder-rocking sound in such songs as “Best Friend” and “The Mess”—a pair of live cuts from the group’s gritty 1972 early tours. Wings was a better band than Paul McCartney or his critics think 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Another surprise hit, Warner Bros. male stripper film "Magic Mike," edged out Oliver Stone's gritty drug drama, "Savages," to claim the No. 5 spot. "Ice Age" puts chill on "Spider-Man" at box offices 2012-07-15T22:24:56Z Obaseki, the Edo governor, said its effects would ideally resemble those of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, which is credited with transforming the fortunes of that formerly gritty port city. How Germany Changed Its Mind, and Gave the Benin Bronzes Back 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Bonham Carter, 47, began her acting career in British period dramas, such as 1992's "Howard's End," before progressing to grittier roles. Helena Bonham Carter goes glam to play Elizabeth Taylor 2013-06-05T23:24:12Z This cinematic short about the football team at a high school for the deaf is a grittier “CODA” but every bit as emotional. Oscars 2022 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress? 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The breading on these thick fillets of wild Alaskan cod has a gritty crunch, subtle spice and plenty of salt. In Ballard, burgers meet fish and chips for a happy 'fast-food' meal 2012-07-27T16:22:03Z As with so many Hollywood movies, you have to decide to enjoy it in advance, and then push grittily onward with your enjoyment, ignoring the evidence. "Cowboys & Aliens": Daniel Craig does Eastwood in a steampunk mashup 2011-07-28T00:30:00Z The nitty gritty of it would be freedom from sweat, friction and breathlessness. The gift of a lifetime: how trans 'top surgery' changed my life 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z The show promises a “foul-mouthed, rougher-than-life” take on the gritty origins of our city, where “criminals and drunkards schemed, connived, fought and yet still somehow managed to create a city.” Good bets for summer theater in Seattle 2013-08-01T21:37:37Z Buried deep inside a labyrinthine Mumbai slum, a tiny lane has become the unlikely flag-bearer of gritty urban art. In Transit: Mumbai Slum Home to Artistic 'Beehive' 2011-05-16T10:00:42Z After World War II, the city was hit with tough times, giving it a gritty image. Glasgow surprises with art, design and culture 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Drunk — as she sang in 2013 of a gritty tryst with her husband — in love. Beyoncé Unearths Pain and Lets It Flow in ‘Lemonade’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z With Cee Lo singing chorus, each of the rappers talks about how they were able to survive their own gritty streets. Review: DJ Drama gathers rap's best on new album 2012-10-01T15:00:15Z Its history has mirrored the last century of the entertainment industry, from Hollywood film colony to gritty rock ’n’ roll dive to pricey fashion hangout. The Chateau Marmont Is Ready for Its Close-Up 2010-12-03T23:28:00Z Mars and Paak take turns delivering gritty, acrobatic lead vocals and layering on elaborate backups: creamy supportive harmonies, eager call-and-response, perky falsetto oohs. Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak Revisit Vintage Luxury as Silk Sonic 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z What Letterman provided was that great optimism and sense of looking at the world, no matter how gritty, and being able to laugh at it. Video: Your Favorite David Letterman Memories 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z And it delivers all the spectacle of a sports feature with the intimacy and social realism of nonfiction — an even truer, grittier “Blind Side.” The Carpetbagger?s 2012 Oscar Predictions 2012-02-24T00:38:40Z Working with Ms. Rame, he wrote sketches that introduced a note of gritty realism and biting social commentary to a show previously considered light entertainment. Dario Fo, Nobel-Winning Italian Playwright, Dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z One film trucks in gritty realism, the other in soaring fantasy. 2010-02-12T05:15:00Z “Roll Columbia” finds Northwest musicians performing rootsy, sometimes gritty covers of Guthrie’s astonishingly prolific output from his days here, including many songs he never recorded. ‘Lost’ songs from Woody Guthrie’s time in the PNW found, rolled into double album 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z “I think a lot of times right now, you see this trend toward movies about growing up being gritty,” she said. Why Boston’s college students are still obsessed with ‘Good Will Hunting,’ 20 years later 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z The sauce did eventually become mostly cohesive, but instead of becoming smooth and creamy, it remained a little gritty. I tried to make cacio e pepe for dinner and it was a disaster — here's how to avoid the same mistake 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z So to go out there in front of this Levi's pop-up shop with pictures of my hometown and they're talking about how cool and gritty and slick it is... Braddock's LaToya Ruby Frazier takes on Levi's and 'ruin porn' chic 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z A compelling mixture of the gritty and surreal, Kicks tells the story of Brandon, an undersized Bay Area teen caught between the dreams of childhood and the harsh actuality of adolescence. Kicks: sneaker violence gets its own movie 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Though this was a grittier branch of the operation than the slick, glossy world of music videos, Diaz still felt like the artists she interviewed were stifled by the traditional sit-down, Q&A format. Analysis | In 2000, ‘Cribs’ became a phenomenon. 20 years later, we’re all living in an accidental reboot. 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z John Munch in the gritty cop series "Homicide: Life on the Street," a show with nonfiction roots that tried to expose the ugly reality of Baltimore police work. "He did not suffer fools": Honoring Richard Belzer, the stand-up conspiracy theorist 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z She said their swampy, gritty sound remains unique after half a century. Rolling Stones storm London; New York next 2012-11-26T17:16:06Z While I enjoy a lot of science fiction, when it gets into the nitty gritty of the tensile strength of the titanium cables threaded into the wings of the automatovelociraptor, you’ve lost me. Karin Slaughter: By the Book 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The show is going to have to find that vein that makes the city of Angels seem new and gritty again in an original way that hasn’t been done before. Forget Colin Farrell – here's how True Detective can stay great 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Madonna isn’t too excited about a planned feature movie that will follow her early years as an aspiring material girl in gritty 1980s New York. Madonna Criticizes Planned Film About Her Early Years 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Then the district’s cheap rents and gritty vibe were discovered by the international creatives and students, who moved in among the Turks, Kurds and Arabs to create today’s multikulti ambiance. 10 of the coolest neighbourhoods in Europe 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Funny and feisty, gritty and sometimes grim, this first feature from the photographer Elaine Constantine delivers a sweaty snapshot of a very specific time and place. Review: ‘Northern Soul’ Shows ’70s England Through a Music Lens 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z But I knew it had to be gritty, street smart. A Hit in Germany, a ‘Rocky’ Musical Aims at Broadway 2012-12-05T17:01:32Z So while she set about filming an often gritty neo-realistic portrait of late-capitalist America, she campaigned to make an intergalactic fantasy about immortal beings endowed with cosmic superpowers. Chloé Zhao explains how ‘Nomadland’ and ‘Eternals’ are cinematic twins 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z McDowall's latest play Brilliant Adventures, a bold drama fusing gritty realism with time travel fantasy, earned glowing reviews at the Royal Exchange in Manchester and has now moved to Newcastle's Live Theatre. Playwright Alistair McDowall: Anything can happen 2013-06-05T07:53:11Z D.J.s spun a steady stream of club classics, the sort heard not at Studio 54 but the grittier, more knowing Paradise Garage. Hollywood Celebrities Choose Sides in Presidential Race 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z A year after sitting through the gritty nihilism of one of last year’s blockbusters, “Joker,” I found rewatching “The Mask” to be refreshing. My Favorite Summer Blockbuster 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z In a film which already upsets viewers who like their westerns gritty and serious, this sounds flagrantly cartoonish – but Charles Woodcock was a real person, and the scene is basically accurate. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: surprise – it's not total horse pucky 2013-07-11T11:36:34Z Springsteen, 67, who rose from playing in the gritty clubs of the Jersey Shore to international superstardom, has long maintained a home in, and close ties to, the Garden State roots. New Jersey's Monmouth University to host Bruce Springsteen archive 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Funny and gritty, and bursting with life and humour. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z Does a film have to be depressing, gritty or harrowing in order for people to take it seriously? Witty or gritty? What ingredients make the best short films? 2011-01-14T16:29:46Z But a once-great city’s headline status facing bankruptcy serves as poignant timing for the debut of “Low Winter Sun,” a gritty cop show whose Motor City setting gives this unforgiving saga even greater urgency. AMC’s ‘Low Winter Sun’ is a dark portrait in a dark city 2013-08-07T21:59:48Z Here, she picks up a grittier subplot involving a young cadet who’s on the verge of being expelled from the Sûreté Academy. Buried by Snow or Stuffed in a Suitcase: The Bodies Add Up in Marilyn Stasio’s Latest Crime Column 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z For the mostly female staff, learning gritty trades was a form of self-empowerment. Antiques: A Collector of Railroad Photos Uses Them to Track the Past 2013-06-27T22:02:44Z Lloyd begins our journey in the heart of gritty, industrial Mott Haven, the place where the Bronx began. In the Bronx, finding hidden ties to Washington 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The artist’s milieu — the bohemian fringe-dwellers, drag queens, musicians, writers and filmmakers whom she’s been portraying since leaving home at the age of 14 — is depicted in her Berlin work through affectionate yet gritty snapshots. In Transit: Goldin Pays Tribute to Berlin's Creative Underground 2011-01-23T11:00:02Z Gordon-Levitt, a wonderful young actor, carries the film easily and does well to capture the gritty underdog mentality of the bike messenger. Review: Shannon rides away with 'Premium Rush' 2012-08-23T14:09:08Z When I moved to the area nearly 30 years ago, Kittery Foreside was a gritty neighborhood that catered to shipyard workers and commercial fishermen. Kittery, Maine, is no longer gritty, but a happening place these days “I used to think the Saturday Evening Post stories were rather fluffy, but with the restorations they seem a little grittier,” Mr. West said. ArtsBeat: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Uncut, in a New Edition of Short Stories 2014-05-01T20:28:34Z A gritty warren of dive bars and chop shops bumps up against experimental galleries and health-conscious dining spots. Heads Up: An Olympic Village in Vancouver Is Reborn 2011-02-18T19:55:00Z That said, his gritty comics — including the "The Dark Knight Returns" and "300" — have directly and indirectly influenced countless Hollywood movies. Five things to know about 'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For' 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z These now offer unique glimpses of the past, since most of that gritty, heartfelt music has been civilised out of existence. Humanity’s heartbeat 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The depth she describes is palpable on tracks like “Mirror,” which is grittier than anything off the previous album, and “Klapp Klapp,” the video for which appears here. | Nearly Two Decades In, Little Dragon Breaks Out 2014-05-13T13:00:29Z The towns along the road were gritty — a mixture of old wooden houses and Soviet-style apartment blocks. The Rockies, the Alps, the Caucasus? Georgia Plans for the Future 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z The scenes are closely based on photographs taken by Paul Fusco, a photojournalist who was aboard the train and show Americans of different ages, races and demographics in settings variously pastoral, banal and gritty. Art Review: ?Philippe Parreno? and ?At Home/Not at Home,? at Bard 2010-07-01T22:39:00Z On the island’s southwest tip, Sandy Ground earned its name from its gritty, infertile soil. Offbeat History, Off the Beaten Path 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z On to the nitty gritty of “Paradise Lost,” which introduces the heroes to an evangelistic angel named Orion and Crane to the farm-to-table movement. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: Angels and demons 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Easy Rider, directed by and co-starring the late Dennis Hopper, ushered in a new era of gritty American cinema when it was released at the tail end of the 1960s. Easy Rider star Fonda sues designers 2013-07-24T10:28:09Z “Kimmy” similarly plays with that tension, contrasting Kimmy’s gritty living situation in Brooklyn with that of her well-heeled boss, and deriving much of its comedy from lampooning the ridiculous quirks of upper-class Manhattanites. 7 Reasons why “30 Rock” fans will love “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The loyal audiences that value such institutions seem to innately understand Stephens' gritty, truthful work. No escaping Simon Stephens' intimate, moving 'Port' 2011-01-18T16:05:40Z It's clear that the makers of gritty British cops'n'robbers shows choose their series' titles by putting the same three words in a Boggle tin and shaking it once. TV OD with Rhik Samadder: Line Of Duty 2012-07-13T23:05:00Z Born in 1934 to an affluent Jewish family, Cohen descended from the hills of his rarefied Westmount neighborhood to play country music in Montreal’s gritty downtown cafes when he was only a teenager. Is Leonard Cohen the New Secular Saint of Montreal? 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Happy days – not beautiful, perhaps, but innocent, affordable and grittily, sweatily genuine. The big picture: the England squad relax at their hotel in Leon, Mexico, on 14 June 1970 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z In the 1950s, The Chicago Defender, a Black newspaper, covered “female impersonators” empathetically, either with glamorous photo spreads or gritty reporting on abuse by police. In the face of hostility at Chicago gay bars, two Black lesbians create their own 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Will he be able to draw Angelenos off the freeways and the often gritty streets with even grittier and dystopic-Disney versions of American lives as conjured in a raunchy, immersive installation titled “Street”? A Risk-Taker?s Debut 2011-04-22T22:34:11Z To this day, it’s a gritty and colorful district of immigrants — but don’t delay — it’s starting to gentrify just like the Alfama. What’s new in Spain and Portugal for 2019 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z On my long walks traversing the streets and alleys of Melbourne, it felt as if I was perusing gritty, informal art galleries. In Melbourne, a Thriving (and Mostly Free) Art Scene 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z This gritty, intense crime drama took home four Academy Awards. What You Should Watch: Emmy-Nominated Shows and ‘Weiner’ 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Forget Florida or Southern California or New Orleans or the big gritty city. Steve Hamilton's 'Misery Bay:' mysterious deaths on Michigan's Upper Peninsula 2011-06-29T23:02:11Z Such was Mr. Hutton’s eye that the often gritty urban landscapes of his city films can seem as natural as a peat bog or a rain forest. Peter Hutton, Filmmaker With Austerely Romantic Worldview, Dies at 71 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z But New York in all its gritty chaos and bustling cultural diversity is the real star. Philharmonic Shines in Live Unison With Films as It Kicks Off 175th Season 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z That’s a lofty but misguided goal, because the Seoul in which this novel’s action takes place is more dreamscape than gritty reality. Review | ‘The Plotters’ is a chilling portrait of a killer for hire 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z The soup, opaque and mud-colored was heavy, viscous and gritty, with small bits of fish settling on the bottom of the bowl. In Search of the Real Bouillabaisse, Marseille’s Gift to the Fish Lover 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Director of photography Michael McConough, so at ease shooting "Winter's Bone," the gritty Appalachian drama that launched Jennifer Lawrence, keeps it real here in different ways as he frames all of the incredible faces. Romance proves ageless in 'Elsa & Fred' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z For all the gritty reality of its subject’s work, the show is a rather delicately orchestrated series of framing, echoing, mutually elaborating contexts. Art Review: ?Weegee? at International Center of Photography - Review 2012-01-19T23:35:18Z Beethoven was persuaded by his publisher to replace the gritty, dissonant fugue, which understandably baffled listeners, with a more digestible finale. 2010-02-15T22:28:00Z His stage musical “Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death,” also from 1971, brought unsparingly gritty portraits of black urban life to Broadway. 2010-01-22T22:43:00Z Whereas disco is this thing that was in New York and very glamorous, funk was perceived to be sort of a gritty, kind of dark, black thing. Funk was the black answer to “Star Wars”: Take the trip with “Tales From the Tour Bus” 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The best part may be the pleasingly gritty texture, a result of the coarse, or stone-ground, cornmeal. A Muffin to Top Them All 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z But this month, a gritty movie about police corruption in Rio de Janeiro's shanty towns overtook Dona Flor's total and seems set to soon pass the 11 million mark. Gritty police film a hit in Brazil 2010-12-14T09:19:34Z The movie’s industrial realism and sexual candor made it somewhat ahead of its time, and its gritty story was deepened by the authenticity of the performances. ‘A Kind of Loving,’ at Film Forum, Shows a Fumbling Romance 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z A gritty, fact-based fairy tale set in working-class Lowell, Mass., "The Fighter" is quite effective as drama — that is, until it abruptly becomes an underdog sports movie in the final act. The Week Ahead: Christmas TV and stage shows are Seattle-area highlights 2010-12-15T23:52:13Z “Chain reaction, maybe?” muses Nasir Mazhar, whose often otherworldly and sometimes downright gritty designs have made him London’s latest golden boy of millinery. Hat Makers With Attitude 2011-10-03T18:23:15Z Formerly a 15-acre swath known for gritty streets, parking lots, vacant buildings and chain-link fences, it’s the latest residential, retail and creative hub in the nation’s capital. Five Places to Go in D.C.’s North Shaw Neighborhood 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z But Capitol Hill has moved from a place that was a little gritty, a little divey and very queer to a party zone for straight people. Amazon ruined our “gayborhood”: Tech-bros are swallowing up Seattle’s Capitol Hill — are LGBT districts across the country endangered? 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z The Mistake Room is the newest art space in a burgeoning but still gritty art enclave downtown. The Mistake Room brings global view to gritty downtown L.A. art scene 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Floating sideways, these gritty and magical beacons come into focus as you approach. Ready When You Are, Terminal C Is Now an Art Destination 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Between movie scenes and street scenes, she was taking in both the posh fantasies of 1920s Hollywood and the gritty reality of Philadelphia’s working poor. Who was Eve Arnold? The woman behind some iconic photographs 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z A terrace off the third-floor lobby offers striking views of grand steel bridges and towering cranes that reflect the neighborhood’s gritty manufacturing past. Check In: Hotel Review: Aloft Cleveland Downtown 2013-12-10T19:37:25Z "The Corpse Exhibition" masterfully demonstrates that gritty realism is not the only response to war's unreal reality, and war is just as real for those who don't sign up to fight. Veterans' new fiction adds needed perspective on war zones 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Watching these scenes — at once gritty and balletic, ferocious and majestic — years later is to witness a bold cinematic discovery anew. ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Still Flies High 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z In the “Rocky” franchise, Mr. Burton portrayed Duke, the gritty, hard-as-nails trainer of the boxer Apollo Creed, Rocky’s initial nemesis and eventual best friend. Tony Burton, Trainer in ‘Rocky’ Movies, Dies at 78 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z His home town is Portsmouth, England, which plays a starring role in his 1999 memoir “A Cure for Gravity,” a musical coming-of-age story, full of smart insights, gritty pub-musician tales, and odd, vivid characters. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Appearances both deceive and delight in this tough yet tender, gritty yet gorgeous movie, which was made with ingenious skill and what would count as chump change at the big studios. Review: ‘Tangerine,’ a Madcap Buddy Picture About Transgender Prostitutes 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Deep Breath was a gothic period drama, true to promises of a show with a grittier tone and longer, more grounded scenes. Doctor Who recap: series 34, episode one – Deep Breath 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z "You need fat to coat the gritty texture." Hojicha powder adds nutty, roasty flavor to desserts and drinks 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z So much recent action cinema feels the need to be gritty, realistic and dark. John Wick review – a thrill ride driven by a relentless vengeance machine 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Nightly, she performs in the cabaret at Mawby's, a gritty neighborhood bar and grill that also stages burlesque performances. "Flashdance" turns 40, but our attitudes about working-class artists still need to grow 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z But rather than enlisting the help of their hip hop predecessors, producer Kanye West turned to a gritty 1968 Doors tune, adding a little rock-and-roll edge to the aggressive track. Jay-Z Channels Nirvana: A Look Back at His 7 Most Unexpected Samples 2013-07-09T19:42:02Z It’s worth remembering that Metcalf began her professional life in the trenches of gritty ensemble theater. How Laurie Metcalf Became the Sarah Bernhardt of Broadway 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Rome’s fast-growing Islamic community, many of them immigrants from Morocco, Bangladesh, Albania or Senegal, resides on the other side of town in gritty, bustling piazzas near the Termini rail station. Rome, Sacred Ground for Nearly 3,000 Years, and Counting 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Ariel weaves gritty hazelnut butter, micro greens and Valencia orange segments into a beet salad, playing sweet against sour, and pulling it together with vivid beet vinaigrette. Trace: Sleek setting and memorable dishes, but slack service 2012-05-24T22:36:24Z He was 25 when “American Moon” was first performed, in a gritty downtown neighborhood that was still decades away from its first glass towers. Party Like It’s 1959 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z One of the edgiest is a former tobacco factory in the gritty Athens neighborhood of Kolonos whose pink and yellow facade has drawn comparisons to a giant Battenberg cake. In Athens Creativity in Art, Food and More Rises 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z The first season of this gritty Israeli drama series follows a group of agents as they go undercover to combat a Palestinian terrorist group. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Eric Idle’s the Entire Universe’ and Dolly Parton 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Here and there, passages of gritty harmonic intensity, brief eruptions of skittish instrumental lines, and other restless touches remind you that he earned a doctorate at Princeton under the serialist Milton Babbitt. Review: A Maudlin Trip Down the Amazon, With a Star in Disguise 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z In contrast to the sprawling, sometimes gritty mainland city, Miami Beach is fairly clean and compact, especially around South Beach’s art deco district. Miami Beach with a toddler? Believe it or not, it can be fun. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z In 2013 the bar moved into the heavily touristed Fisherman's Wharf area, where its gritty dive-bar ambience makes it a welcome morsel of authenticity. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z “I want to hear the bragging in the context of real, gritty, poopy life,” he said. This Life: Time for a Truce in the Bragging Wars 2013-02-01T22:06:28Z No one was injured and — also miraculously — the first act at the Mural, a gritty blues band from Texas led by Ty Curtis, took the stage on time. Bumbershoot Day Two topped by Tony Bennett 2012-09-03T02:04:03Z Writer-director Barnaby weaves a surprising amount of tenderness into the fabric of violence, as well as a good measure of magic realism, to keep the gritty story engaging. 'Rhymes for Young Ghouls' shows the bleak can get bleaker 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Twyla Tharp's new dance musical "Come Fly With Me" dips into the dark and gritty also, but disappointingly so. A Broadway update, on the eve of the Tonys 2010-06-13T13:39:00Z “One Foot Out” is redolent of the gritty New York rap of the mid 1990s — the production is full of hard-snapping drums cutting through moody arrangements. Grime Sets Today’s Music Agenda in Britain, and Tomorrow’s 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Sleek, suspenseful and thoroughly surprising, “Workforce” unfolds in its first half as a gritty Kafkaesque drama about exploited workers. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Tracks like “Hive Mind” and “Tectonic” rely on thumping kicks and rolling synths that build into a brooding, gritty trance. Tirzah’s Genre-Less Pop Embraces the Beauty of Uncertainty 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The new game, which is due for release in March 2013, is a good deal grittier and darker in tone than previous entries in the Tomb Raider franchise. Camilla Luddington is new Lara Croft 2012-06-26T08:07:00Z A leafy example of regeneration, Bilbao is both grittily urban and surprisingly bucolic, with plenty of choice spots. Bilbao baggings: the ultimate picnic road trip 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z When dramatists go for gritty and bleak, they've got to make us believe it. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z If that were still a really strong issue, I don't think I could have gone into nittier, grittier aspects of anything underneath it. "She taught me an eating disorder": Jennette McCurdy on why some moms "don't deserve" to be revered 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z The third season of “American Crime,” the gritty ABC drama with an investigative heart, will unspool just as President Trump’s proposed border wall will be generating a lot of discussion. Review: ‘American Crime’ Fixes on Migrant Dreamers in the Fields 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Nothing was more wonderful to me than Coney Island with its gritty innocence. Coney Island: The Cyclone! The Hot Dogs! The Art! 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Storing potatoes in the fridge turns their starch into sugar, giving the spuds a sweet but gritty taste. These Are the Foods That You Should Refrigerate 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Some shows are gritty; “Rectify” is the opposite of that—silky, perhaps. Poetic crime drama “Rectify” courts “Serial” fans with hard-nosed companion podcast 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z While known for gritty lyrics and rapid, aggressive rhyme delivery, Meek Mill expands his repertoire this time around. Meek Mill’s ‘Expensive Pain’ comes with a heavy cost 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z I'm unsure, too, about the use of surveillance video and phone camera footage, which seems an unnecessary aid to a gritty authenticity that is already well earned by other means. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-03-17T00:05:25Z “Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey” does not pack the same punch as “Hello, Universe” or her most recent novel, “We Dream of Space” — both so gritty and so brave. Erin Entrada Kelly Draws (Literally) From Her Life in a New Illustrated Middle Grade Series 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z She might be forgiven for not spending several weeks immersing herself in a gritty true-crime podcast. Kim Kardashian, Serial and the unbridled joy of coming to things late 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z A lot of what we get in movie theaters and even on TV to a certain degree is cynical and dark and gritty, but “Bros” is about the good things in life. Billy Eichner Wrote Himself Into the Romance He Wanted With ‘Bros’ 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The film’s bleak tone and artsy look are pointedly atypical for a comic-book movie; its director, Todd Phillips, envisioned it as a gritty character study in the mold of “Taxi Driver.” ‘Joker’ Opens Strong at Box Office, Despite Controversy 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z As the writer James Surowiecki put it, NFL Films “tried to simultaneously convey the gritty reality of the game and mythicize it in a Homeric fashion.” How Damar Hamlin’s Recovery Allowed Us to Breathe 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z There were a handful of playbook top-ten hits, too: a generically gritty anthem from Pink, a ballad from Kelly Clarkson, a goofy Maroon 5 song, quite a bit of Drake. The Weird Little Earworms of 2016 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z The master plan is to convert a six-mile stretch of this gritty waterfront into an extension of the bustling city, with parks every half-mile, a bike trail and a $250 million redevelopment of Penn’s Landing. Biking across Philly: Independence from the trodden path 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z A Single Shot Sam Rockwell stars as a poacher who finds a stash of cash in the woods in this gritty 2013 thriller. Friday's TV Highlights: 'Genesis: Sum of the Parts' 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Though she's known for her gritty dramatic work in "8 Mile", "Hustle & Flow," "Sons of Anarchy" and, most famously, as Pennsatucky on "Orange is the New Black." Taryn Manning: "I don't want to keep playing characters that pass away" 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z In the “Mack the Knife” captured on “Darin At the Copa,” his voice sounds grittier than on the hit single, and his syncopation is more playful. Bobby Darin Who? Jonathan Groff Gets It Now 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Most of the films we’ve seen about the migrant and refugee situation in Europe in recent years are gritty, often heartbreaking dramas and documentaries. ‘Limbo’ Review: A Musician in Exile Tunes Out 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Alfaro's handling offers rewards of another sort: This richly detailed story lures in a new audience with its gritty urban setting and modern Angeleno accents. 'Mojada' at the Getty Villa convincingly updates Greek tragedy to modern-day L.A. 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z As long ago as 1993, he and Mr. Sellars oversaw a production at the Dutch National Opera that turned its wispy symbolism into gritty realism. Review: Berlin Philharmonic’s ‘Pelléas et Mélisande’ Boldly Stretches Boundaries 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Take a gritty picture of crisply marching soldiers in Zimbabwe, one of many countries where Weil traveled. Brian Weil's work focuses on a 'World' few ever see 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z "We wanted it to be gritty and authentic," she said. Husband and wife behind 'The Bible' miniseries 2013-03-01T16:17:08Z The sugar is gritty and breaks down the clumps and everything mixes better. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: What makes that potato salad so tasty? 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z It is the magical ingredient that makes his characters gritty but also larger than life. Review | John Steinbeck and biographer William Souder make a perfect pair 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z It's a bittersweet symphony of synths and strings over which he offers a cinematic – sometimes panoramic, other times close-up and gritty – view of life in the capital and its dead-end satellite suburbs. New band of the day ? No 841: Devlin 2010-08-05T14:29:00Z He also skims over the influence of the gritty prison drama “Oz” and bypasses powerful network series like “Friday Night Lights.” Books of The Times: Brett Martin’s ‘Difficult Men’ Sees a New Golden Age for TV 2013-06-24T21:26:42Z Few phrases in the English language conjure dread quite like "low-budget gritty social realism", it being almost invariably shorthand for cartoonish rubbish that will make you eat your own fists in embarrassment. Plan B: 'I love directing. But does my art change lives? I don't think it does' 2012-06-07T19:00:08Z And slowly adding caster sugar while beating egg whites in Our Best Lemon Meringue helps keep the glorious layered treat from being gritty or grainy. 7 British pantry staples to stock up on for your next bake 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z Chapman says he takes guests to “an interesting, slightly grittier side of Tokyo that you never see in the media or guidebooks.” Niche tours of hidden Tokyo reveal grit and history 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z When we started doing Smog, it was same kind of aggressive crowd, so we avoided fancy nights with a dress code and bottle service and went for dark, gritty basement bars. How rave music conquered America 2012-08-02T19:00:00Z His style is a mixture of sleek and gritty; Morgenthau often uses warm or dark colors to create a mood, but they can also turn harsh. "Like photographing sculpture": Cinematographer reveals what makes "Creed III" look so good 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z He is the embodiment of the gritty Vice ethos, Mr. Jonze said. Up Close: A Founder of Vice Magazine Branches Out 2010-08-16T21:02:00Z Known for their gritty brand of rock, The Kills meshed their signature alternative sounds with the lyrical stylings of Rihanna when they released a cover of the Barbadian pop star’s “Desperado” Wednesday. The Kills Give Rihanna's 'Desperado' a Mellow Makeover 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z “Outlander’s” first season, in the highlands of Scotland, was rather gritty; in France, any pretense of being more than luxurious wish-fulfillment has been abandoned. Erotic and empowered: “Outlander” and “The Girlfriend Experience” are turning women on with their “prestige porn” 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z It was served New Wave Mexican style: raw, gritty, and force fed by bandits who snap puppies' necks with one hand while recruiting underage sex slaves with the other. Cannes 2013: Heli – review 2013-05-16T13:24:08Z Tonally, everything has shifted around this cast: they have made everything so unaffectedly true, but there is something grittier than before – something that captures a mood right now, maybe. Once the Musical: how I fell for its honesty 2013-03-17T17:00:01Z A production of Mazzoli’s gritty, fraught chamber opera “Proving Up,” at Miller Theatre, last week, confirmed that she is a major new dramatic talent. A Hell-Raising Mezzo-Soprano Cuts Through a Dreary First Week at the Metropolitan Opera 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z And the films are solidly constructed — nothing too surprising or exceptional happens, but the mysteries are logical, the texture is gritty, and the performances are more than capable. Watch List: Hero on the Page Moves Doggedly to the Screen 2013-07-21T22:08:20Z “He has a strong connection to a working waterfront that’s authentic and active, that has that gritty, industrial feel,” Miller says. The push to see Seattle waterfront transformed 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Superman really was born under a hazy yellow sun in a gritty Jewish precinct of Cleveland, two blocks from the Hebrew Orthodox Old Age Home and down the street from Glenville High. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z But the Stones trusted Marshall to capture them in their gritty glory, enough so that Richards wrote the forward to this book. 'The Rolling Stones 1972': a year in rock icons' lives in photos 2012-07-23T19:28:03Z Tom Courtenay gives a great performance in this gritty Tony Richardson film which has one of the most uncompromising climaxes to any sports film ever. Steve James picks his 5 favorite sports films 2012-09-20T21:52:08Z Season 2 also took us to a gritty new city and for a spin at the Snow Ball. Our Biggest Questions After the 'Stranger Things' Season 2 Finale 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z The grandstand has the feel of a high school football stadium, with up to 2,000 flag-waving children, parents and grandparents stacked on gritty bleachers. Dirt-Track Racing at New Egypt Speedway in New Jersey 2011-09-01T23:09:31Z Ms. Delevingne was so thrilled to record an audition for a gritty role in an adaptation of Martin Amis’s novel “London Fields” that she cried when she got the call. Cara Delevingne, Ready to Conquer Hollywood, Immerses Herself in ‘Paper Towns’ 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z One piece started up quietly and drumless, with Ms. Laubrock playing gritty, smoky phrases in the tenor saxophone’s low register, bossy and playful. 2010-01-15T04:14:00Z Like the Mission in San Francisco or the Lower East Side in Manhattan, Canal St.-Martin is gritty with dirt and makeshift tarp shelters. A Paris Farewell 2011-03-25T18:55:10Z The second half of the documentary turns gritty “Law and Order,” outlining the 1996 federal investigation that tried, unsuccessfully, to link Mr. Gatien to the party drugs sold in his clubs. Peter Gatien, the Fallen King of Night Life 2011-09-21T21:47:19Z Childress was awarded the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction for this gritty debut novel that examines drone warfare. ‘And West Is West’ review: An Air Force drone pilot hesitates to fire 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z There's space adventures, gritty urban dramas, respectful biopics and plenty of those what?! moments that 2012 seemed to get just right. Close up: New year, new films 2013-01-03T17:12:20Z Its rise also reflects an Internet hive mind that has increasingly focused attention on the grittiest corners, the modern version of Alan Lomax’s field recordings. Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change 2012-10-07T04:49:05Z Ken Loach, whose gritty, angry I, Daniel Blake won the outstanding British film award, was most passionate. La La Land fails to win Baftas landslide on night of diversity 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z But infusing the whole is a gritty, articulate compassion for the soldier in the field. The Week Ahead 2012-02-24T20:02:05Z Recording in New York, Los Angeles and Martha's Vineyard, the result is "darker and grittier" than their previous album, Batmanglij told Uncut. Vampire Weekend to release third album in May 2013-01-23T11:01:46Z But they wash out the gritty details, and their broad, universal images resonate only as fist-pumping bumper-stickers rather than as messy, human vulnerability. Album review: Mumford & Sons, 'Babel' 2012-09-28T00:26:00Z And tenderness is imperative for this kind of recipe, so they break down completely in the blender without leaving any gritty bits to annoy your tongue. This Garlicky, Spicy Chickpea Stew Is Exactly What You Need 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The city is still gritty and colorful, yet its bustling center feels safe and trendy. Celebrating Sicily: Italy at its most extreme 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Branagh's film is closer to the gritty Shakespearean version than Olivier's, though, and does include some of the nasty bits that Olivier cut. Kenneth Branagh's Henry V: right royal entertainment 2011-07-28T08:00:00Z The Rockstar hallmark — gritty, believable, wry dialogue — is on full display. Video Game Review: A 1947 Mystery That Matters Now 2011-05-16T20:25:34Z According to Some Kind of Hero’s authors, Brosnan wanted too much money to shoot a fifth Bond movie, and producers had already decided to reboot the long-running spy saga with a grittier approach. Pierce Brosnan: I was 'kicked to the kerb' as James Bond after Die Another Day 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z His collaborations with the Coen brothers have included the snowy, expansive visuals for “Fargo,” the bleak, modern western feel of “No Country for Old Men” and the period gritty western feel of “True Grit.” The Bright (and Dark) Side of Roger Deakins 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Set 20 years after a horrific fungal contagion causes the downfall of society, The Last of Us is a gritty survival drama filled with desperate, flawed and – above all – human characters. The Last of Us – review 2013-06-08T23:05:07Z A gritty portrait of the harsh realities modern life can throw up. This week's new theatre 2013-01-12T06:00:19Z Miele’s sketches of the views from the trains that hurtle from D.C. to New York are impressionistic yet gritty. Review | In the galleries: Images in ‘Weather the Storm’ are both reassuring and ominous 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z A. The “Bourne” movies are known as a more urban and gritty kind of product, and that was certainly true of Manila. Q&A: Dow Griffith, Location Manager, Scouts the World for the Film Industry 2012-03-23T18:57:13Z But its latest original drama, "Power," is set in the gritty here and now. 'Power' explores the dark corners of clubs and drugs 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z But perhaps it was more that Gandolfini brought a naturally cinematic presence to the small screen and a gritty, meaty, non-pretty-boy authenticity. James Gandolfini's film career: much more than just another wiseguy 2013-06-20T17:00:00Z In the Long Run is no gritty slice of drama, though. 'I’ve seen how uprisings have come from pain': Idris Elba on Black Lives Matter 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z When Movies told gritty stories about gritty people, and dealt with the complex psychology found in the human mind and human heart. Dear Movie Industry, We Have Thoughts 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The school then bought a former radiology office in a different neighborhood, beside a gritty roadway leading to the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. After 94 Years, the Song Ends for the Turtle Bay Music School 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z We jumped from the gritty tejo courts to hip record bars, via an urban beer garden, basement drinking dens and a wild drag club. Bogotá, Colombia’s banging capital 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Why did you set a gritty thriller to such lush music? How Steven Soderbergh and Ed Solomon Straightened Out ‘Full Circle’ 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z The song’s initial mainstream popularity took some adjustment for Camp, but he grew to love the song once the band took the song on the road, and incorporated a grittier, faster version into their set. Remixing Smash Mouth’s “All Star” has become an art form, and its writer is loving it 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Shawn, who produced or co-produced every song on the album, added, “Is he a country singer? Or a rock singer? Or a folk/Americana singer with a little bit of a gritty edge?” How Bailey Zimmerman Charmed Nashville 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Even as overblown Bollywood extravaganzas are being reworked to suit more minimalist Western palates, smaller, grittier Hindi films are making inroads via the festival route. Film: Bollywood Soars Toward Hollywood 2010-03-06T00:51:00Z In recent years, Griselda has amassed a cult following in underground rap circles, with older heads and younger listeners who prefer a grittier strain of revivalist hip-hop. Conway the Machine’s new album caps Griselda’s rise to prominence as one of rap’s essential crews 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Among them are Frank’s ex-wife, Olivia, who comes from a less gritty background. Books Of the Times: Tana French?s Thriller ?Faithful Place? 2010-07-11T21:25:00Z All four musicians dug in energetically, rendering the interpretation notable for both its gritty verve and lyrical finesse. Music in Review 2011-04-06T23:27:11Z The air piece, again a curiosity, is obsessed with cyclic riffs and bursts of skittish, gritty runs. | Martina Filjak: Birthday Gift: New York Debut 2009-12-17T05:42:00Z But nowadays the truly farouche is but a curl of wood smoke in a hacked about forest clearing: soon it will be dispersed forever by the gritty wind of civilisation. Will Self: the joy of armchair anthropology 2013-01-31T14:01:01Z She thinks of San Francisco, her San Francisco—not the hilly city beloved to techies and tourists, but a gritty underworld of fuck-ups, addicts, and hustlers. What We’re Reading This Summer 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Pattinson is finally gaining traction with a string of demanding roles in the offing and an impressive turn in the just-released "The Rover," a case of a gritty turn rising above the project. 30 actors under 30 who matter 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z In her first starring role, in Carine Adler's gritty 1997 indie film, Under the Skin, she played Iris, a grieving woman trying to find herself again though relentless casual sex with strangers. A powerful faith 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z But there aren’t a lot of gritty roles out there for women, and they are so fun to play everyone wants them. Rachel McAdams Has Always Wanted to Play Unlikable Women 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Hanson explored a different sort of darkness in “8 Mile,” the film starring Eminem that explored the gritty streets and trailer parks of Detroit and closely mirrored the rapper’s own younger life. Oscar-winning Filmmaker Curtis Hanson Dies Aged 71 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The band’s fifth album, “Blur,” released in 1997, reflected a harder, grittier sound, and its single, “Song 2,” went to No. 2 in Britain and to 55 in the United States. Music: Damon Albarn's Operatic Career 2011-07-25T11:30:06Z “Hoops” and “Game,” and Matt de la Peña’s gritty debut novel, “Ball Don’t Lie.” Got a Reluctant Reader at Home? 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z With a respectable sampling in its debut, the true test will come in the coming weeks as "American Crime's" gritty, politically provocative narrative builds a following. ABC's 'American Crime' debuts to solid ratings 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The video goes for a "This Is England vibe" while one magazine praised the "gritty down-to-earth songwriting". New band of the day (LAC No 1,529) 2013-06-10T17:08:21Z Maybe it’s time for Americans to send the U.K. some TV that merges literary class and gritty fun with such ease. Review: 'War and Peace' is Tolstoy, Plus 21st Century Flair 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z It’s very gritty and it’s my best book since Girl, in fact a lot of people say it’s better than Girl. Author Blake Nelson: Why YA Novels Make Reading Fun Again 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Football fans would have done better to spend their time on a gritty Netflix interloper, “Last Chance U.” Football Intrigue? Don’t Look at the N.F.L. 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z She's the most honest version of herself in the gritty drama side of the show, but the sitcom – Kevin's world – is more colorful and fun. On "Kevin Can F**k Himself," a horrible man has eclipsed the show's true hidden potential 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z And everything should be as believable in its own terms as the grittiest realism. Urgle by Meaghan McIsaac – review 2013-06-01T09:31:01Z Her panels are rendered in pleasing cotton-candy shades of pink and blue — soft colors that give the gritty content an ironically feminine edge. Without spandex or cleavage, artist Gina Wynbrandt creates a hapless, funny, very real comics heroine 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z USA shows, such as “White Collar,” generally shy away from gritty subject matter, but “Graceland” features brutal slayings, fatal overdoses and protagonists committing legally and morally questionable acts. ‘Graceland’ brings Southern California to Florida 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Or take Phil Earle: his novels Being Billy and Saving Daisy are gritty and realistic, unflinchingly offering young adult readers the chance to think about subjects like self-harm, loss and grief. If you like books like these: dark teen reads 2012-05-31T10:17:09Z On misty, muddy days their cleats left gritty polka-dots on the back of my seats. Motherlode: A Mother's Right to Drive 2011-06-21T16:41:43Z Both theater buffs, the two girls were captivated by the 30-minute tour with its gritty details about inaccessible bathrooms, thatched roofs and rudimentary special effects. A Mother-Daughter Test: London, Together 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Despite her passion for the arts, Clara is not oblivious to the grittier details of life in her hometown. 'Clara and Merritt:' love and labor unrest in a long-ago Seattle 2010-07-15T20:52:00Z Heinicke has shown he’s a gritty leader, and after all the things that have happened this season, the team will not give up. Perspective | Washington Football Team’s winning streak makes the playoffs look possible 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z I also wanted to give a sense of the work involved in becoming an astronaut, which movies tend to obscure – the sweaty hands, the vomit on the shirt, the dirty, gritty, cobbled-together aspect of it. Damien Chazelle: ‘I liked doing something that was the polar opposite of La La Land’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z It is by far his grittiest performance and arguably his straightest. Missing Bob Hoskins’ mischief-making smile 2014-05-01T18:01:47Z Mr. Considine, who has a first-class honors degree in photography from Brighton University, made a point of avoiding the visual codes of a gritty proletarian drama. Paddy Considine Directs ?Tyrannosaur,? Starring Peter Mullan 2011-11-12T22:00:05Z The snapshots are like the musicians themselves: gritty, raw and uncensored. Fan snapshots make 'Smithsonian Rock and Roll' a candid compendium of musical history 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The soiled air would seep into houses through doors and windows, coating furniture and clothes with an oily, slightly gritty smut. “London Fog,” a study of the great city’s legendary atmosphere 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Like a lot of gritty heroines, she is far from perfect. Mother superior: it’s been a great year for on-screen mums 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z In the density of its gritty atmosphere and its tricky narrative convolutions it suggests “The Departed” run wild on its own conceptual excesses. | 'London Boulevard': ?London Boulevard,? With Colin Farrell - Review 2011-11-11T00:07:02Z Ms. Sutter played the gritty passages with fierce determination and the mysterious ones with quiet intensity. Music Review: Wendy Sutter and Olga Vinokur Perform at Bargemusic 2013-07-15T21:40:35Z The moral arc of the plot may be familiar, even predictable, but it’s in the gritty details, often drawn with humor, that “A Bronx Tale” wins you over. Review: ‘A Bronx Tale: The Musical’ Doo-Wops Down Mean Streets 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Realism put an end to such dreamy idealism, leaving art in the 20th century focused on life’s gritty details. Deep sense of mystery pervades Peter Zokosky's paintings 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z My wife is better at talking and getting down to the nitty gritty and talking about how you are feeling emotionally. Cynthia Nixon turns villain in Follett's "World Without End" 2012-10-16T18:22:57Z Its genial tone contrasts with the grittier air of Pattison’s book, but the two complement each other beautifully — the way a tall glass of water refreshes after a double shot of whiskey. Welcome to the Ruthless, Cutthroat World of Paleoanthropology 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z It will be produced by Martin Scorsese and the tone has been likened more to a gritty crime drama than one of DC’s recent entries. Joaquin Phoenix in talks to play the Joker in 80s-set Scorsese-produced tale 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z On Sunday, they paid a brief visit to Skid Row, downtown's gritty homeless core. Kate, William depart US after charming Hollywood 2011-07-10T23:52:08Z This one is darker and grittier -- "more a musical play--a gothic musical play," said producer Cameron Mackintosh. A darker, grittier 'Phantom of the Opera' haunting Pantages 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z And yet, if you listen to Romans — in the wealthy center or the gritty periphery — you hear a disgust that binds. Rome in Ruins 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Born David Osei in Croydon, south London, the MC calls himself "a child of grime" who rejected slick US hip-hop for Britain's harder, grittier scene. BBC Sound Of 2015: Stormzy 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z “I think I envisioned originally a more intimate film that was a little more gritty and independent-looking,” Ashe added. With ‘Sylvie’s Love,’ Eugene Ashe Returns With a Big Hollywood Romance 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Though chaotic, "Bourne's" cinematography is a visual statement that the world is a grittier and more complicated place than "Rambo" and its like ever acknowledged. "The Expendables": Death of the old-school action hero 2010-08-13T11:01:00Z The words she kept repeating on the set were “raw” and “gritty.” Film: ?The Runaways?: The Girls Who Kicked In Rock?s Door 2010-03-12T04:40:00Z This is gritty reporting that matches the police work behind it. 'Ghettoside' focuses on one L.A. murder to make case for more policing 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z That gritty, realistic snapshot of urban crime was lifted by the duo’s masterful rhymes. Pop & Rock Listings for July 11-17 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z “It feels much more like a gritty documentary than the original, which looked like ‘Turnadot,’ ” he says. Not your granny’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ at the Kennedy Center 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z During the last half dozen years it has materialized almost like a mirage, levitating above more than a dozen gritty acres of working rail tracks on the Far West Side. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Ebert, who quit drinking in the late 1970s, arrived in Chicago when gritty steel mills and stockyards dominated an industrial city. Ebert showed willingness to adapt to new media 2013-04-05T20:15:05Z Inspired by those films’ populist appeal, and by the gritty, less-is-more Dogme 95 approach, she shot “Monsoon Wedding” in 30 days for about $1 million, mostly at a friend’s home in Delhi. ‘Monsoon Wedding’ Lifted Moods Onscreen. How About Onstage? 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z By the time they returned, he added, “everything had become sort of gritty and aged, which was sort of perfect.” See the Real Live Man Who Grew Up in a Carnival 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z This is the nitty gritty, the warts and all version of it. Nat Faxon on 'Married,' for better or worse 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z The new book is a lot grittier than other historical novels interested in similar territory. Why Colson Whitehead made the Underground Railroad real: “It’s fanciful and childish, but it also had many possibilities” 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z Their voices are different: Hudson’s is higher and clearer, Franklin’s bluesier and grittier, and Hudson wanted to emulate Franklin without copying her. Jennifer Hudson Knew Aretha Franklin. To Play Her, She Had to Learn More. 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Young and old present themselves with unsettling candor in gritty outdoor settings, often exposing bodies that bear alarming signs of disease, malnutrition and assault. The Week Ahead: May 22 ? 28 2011-05-20T20:21:34Z So the gritty and tense tone of "Broken Horses" marks a startling departure for the filmmaker. Vidhu Vinod Chopra's 'Broken Horses' treks from Bollywood to Hollywood 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z Kutzke is bringing yodelling down from the heights of the snow-capped Alps and into the gritty urban setting of Berlin and beyond. Berlin is alive with the sound of urban yodelling 2013-02-08T11:38:13Z The Los Angeles setting also permitted “Fear the Walking Dead” to show a grittier side to the city than typically seen on screen. To Live and Not Die in L.A.: ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ on AMC 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z There is inattention to detail, like the crunchy, gritty morels in a thin, salty asparagus soup, or the branzino left to bake inside its salt crust until it was slightly dry and tough. Restaurant Review: A Voce Madison and BLT Fish 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z In this case, he marked the grand reopening of a refurbished theater in a gritty village 35 miles northeast of New York City. Road warrior Dylan reopens theater in NY 2012-09-05T03:09:08Z Some are gritty and dark, others bright and wry. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Soon, the jauntiness gives way to gritty reality, and the mood shifts. Assessing the Apple TV+ new series, from "The Morning Show" to "For All Mankind" 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Everything was in bloom, including the ubiquitous lavender whose fragrance reminds visitors how far they are from gritty Tokyo. Pursuits: In Japan, Searching for Prized Sea Urchins 2013-07-16T21:19:48Z Top talent rolls through though, and it has a rich – if not sometimes grossly weird – gritty history. Top 10 live music venues in Portland, Oregon 2013-05-24T23:10:00Z And the work of a Japanese artist known for his gritty street photography in Boyle Heights. Datebook: Youth culture in L.A., Picasso's prints and Isa Genzken's tribute to Michael Asher 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z A totally original, action-packed, magical, gritty book that left me breathless and desperate for more, more, more! Burn Mark by Laura Powell - review 2012-07-13T08:00:00Z It's made for a grittier, more grounded game. The Great War? 'Battlefield' plots to make WWI entertaining 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Falling somewhere between gritty hardcore and distorted jungle, Rico Nasty’s “Intrusive” scrapes like metal through a meat grinder. Sky Ferreira’s Dazzling, Defiant Return, and 11 More New Songs 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z In addition to writing nine novels, Boston-based Lehane was a scriptwriter for the gritty television series "The Wire," set in Baltimore. "Mystic River" author says his characters lure actors 2011-07-28T13:37:26Z Nowadays, the city is awash in contradictions and culture: gritty, gray and raw in most parts, but serene, cobblestoned and quiet in others. Next Stop: Belgrade Music Scene: Pop, Folk, Electronica and Politics 2010-06-10T18:37:00Z Mr. Goldman’s slightly offbeat underworld is not very convincing, and Mr. Statham’s thick voice and inexpressive acting suggest brain fog rather than gritty blues. ‘Wild Card,’ Starring Jason Stratham 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z This approach added gritty realism to the Death Wish films, the first of which appeared in 1974. Obituary: Michael Winner 2013-01-21T15:27:33Z But for anyone willing to submit themselves to Hill’s literary ministrations — sometimes gentle, sometimes gritty and abrasive — this novel will prove utterly absorbing. ‘NOS4A2’: draining the potential from his young victims 2013-05-16T19:36:25Z In the mid-'90s, especially given the success of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles novels and Neil Jordan's film of "Interview with the Vampire", you found a lot of gritty indie vampire movies. Scarecrow Video recommendations for 'Breaking Dawn' 2011-11-17T13:54:18Z Photograph: Fox Both shows are rather enjoyable though Strong is slick where American Grit is, well, gritty. Strong is the new skinny: fitness wave flexes its muscles on reality TV 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The answer seems to be gritty, soul-stirring music that’s hard to resist. Turn up ‘Shiver + Shake' by My Goodness, and let it howl | New recordings 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z “Funny Pages” was shot in super 16 millimeter film, which gives the movie a gritty texture that fits the material and, at times, evokes some classics of 1970s cinema. ‘Funny Pages’ Review: Ordinary Life, Complex Stuff 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z It’s only three eggs and not worth the gritty candy that results. The perfect holiday gift: delicious, pantry-friendly nougat 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Seven Fifty gets into the nitty gritty of the production, acknowledging that "alongside a growing range of proprietary technologies, beverage manufacturers employ two primary methods for alcohol removal: reverse osmosis and vacuum distillation." The diverse world of non-alcoholic beer 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z An always-entertaining mix of art and commerce in one of Seattle's grittiest, grooviest neighborhoods. The Week Ahead: Lang Lang, Pearl Django, Art Attack are highlights 2010-12-29T22:49:10Z I can think of harmonically gritty and aggressive episodes in “Wicked” that are more daring musically than anything in “Séance.” Opera Review: An Opera Strays Into a Clairvoyant Realm 2011-04-20T15:57:07Z So, once again, it’s time to recommend a few out-of-the-box selections from your subscription streaming services — the offbeat biopics, quirky comedies, gritty dramas and cuckoo documentaries worth digging around for. 10 Streaming Movies to Keep Your Summer Interesting 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z He also dives deep into the area’s gritty musical background and traces the racial disharmony that eventually led to the creation of the Caribbean street party known as the Notting Hill Carnival. Books: Portraits on the Page of Paris, London and Venice 2014-04-17T17:20:24Z It’s a particular kind of condescension that recalls the director James Cameron’s recent remarks that the portrayal of Wonder Woman in this year’s blockbuster wasn’t gritty or tough enough, that it was insulting to women. A Heroine in the Mold of Huck and Scout 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Despite the plot’s careful, sometimes affecting attention to disease and desperation, the series is, visually, no grittier than “Felicity.” “Pose,” Reviewed: In Ryan Murphy’s Latest Musical Melodrama, Elektra Abundance Steals the Show 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z The tram skirted the hoary arches of the Porta Maggiore and rumbled through the ugly, gritty but supposedly gentrifying blocks near the vast University of Rome complex. Echoes From the Roman Ghetto 2013-07-12T17:36:12Z At its exhilarating best, it's a gritty and lyrical portrait of lives that are too messy and tender to be summed up in consumer-centric notions of the Millennial generation. 'Below Dreams' a lyrical look at Millennial generation trio 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s earned accolades for its gritty representation of teen life without cliches or the sort of amped up controversy than came with shows such as Skins. Small screen queens: how teen angst took over the TV scene 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z So far, so Larry David, if a little more filthy and gritty. Louie: a comic look at the messy life of a divorced dad – box set review 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z “I want to show my fans the difference between ‘Mike’ and ‘Myke,’” he said, explaining his efforts to blend his grittier rap roots with his mainstream ambitions. Myke Towers Is Seizing His Moment 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Interpreted as an ironic comment on Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations - 60 years on the British throne - and it drew art-lovers to the gritty Turnpike Lane area. British neighborhood wants its Banksy back 2013-02-20T14:05:09Z Throughout his film and TV career, Sheridan has bounced between grittily real stories and ones that offer more pulpy kicks. ‘Yellowstone’ Gets a Prequel in ‘1883,’ but It Wasn’t Easy 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Despite similarities in plot, however, there is nothing transcendent about Becker’s gritty film. ‘Le Trou,’ a Very French Prison Drama, Steals From Its Maker’s Life 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Once a gritty center of herring fishing, now it’s the site of sleek new hotels and Malmo Live, an event center that opened in 2015 and serves as home to Malmo Symphony Orchestra. Fresh, local and unpretentious: A Swedish city with a stirring culinary scene 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z It's a gritty yet optimistic stance that says wherever you are in your arc with grace — it's OK. Concert preview: Adele at the Paramount Theatre 6/01 2011-05-26T16:17:05Z Arnold famously plucked Katie Jarvis, the star of her gritty 2009 film Fish Tank, off a railroad platform, but you couldn’t tell from watching her that she was a complete novice. The Bold, the Beautiful and Yes, Occasionally Boring New Wuthering Heights 2012-10-05T14:30:23Z Ackermann transformed the gritty images into striking and multidimensional collages of explosive colors and skewed perspectives. | Harmony Korine and Rita Ackermann at the Swiss Institute 2010-12-02T15:06:00Z Hinton was a teenager herself when she wrote this timeless, gritty tale of class conflict and parental abandonment. Review | How ‘The Outsiders,’ ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘The Hunger Games’ transformed YA fiction 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z This show also includes half a dozen portrait drawings, all in gritty black and white. The Gloopy Glory of Frank Auerbach’s Portraits 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z This gritty police drama began its fourth season last week with a great opener. Tuesday TV Picks: 'Southland' 2012-01-24T00:06:09Z This is a gritty port city, where locals devour a historical mishmash of ingredients while walking the cobbled streets – and in the culinary footsteps of the island’s conquerors, which include Arabs, Spaniards and Normans. Frittola – a gutsy breakfast on the streets of Palermo 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Don't persist with your off pint or your gritty mussels until you are halfway through, then complain. Restaurants: how to complain... without losing your cool 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z I prefer the gritty portrayals of L.A. to anything else, so crime writers like James Ellroy, Edward Bunker and Raymond Chandler really appeal to me. ArtsBeat: L.A. Story: Karolina Waclawiak Talks About Her First Novel 2012-07-25T19:39:15Z The musical language, while often gritty and thick-textured, abounds in energy, atmosphere, alluring sounds and visceral drama. Music Review: Grab Your Wolf Suits and Open Your Ears 2011-04-10T21:21:47Z Simply, there’s no other songwriter like him — gritty and surreal, literary and bluesy. Does a musician have any right to win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z If you want to see the Nolan effect in action, look at the gritty, and, yes, rebooted Planet of the Apes series, which might easily have been retitled Bonobo Begins. Christopher Nolan: from superheroes to Dunkirk’s small tales of heroism | the Observer profile 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z The series, which will not star Batman, centers around Commissioner Gordon as a young detective in Gotham City, the gritty, crime-infested metropolis he left some unspecified amount of time in the past. New Gotham Trailer Shows Catwoman and the Riddler 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z He also is experienced in developing projects, having been an executive producer on a number of shows, including the gritty HBO cable television drama "Boardwalk Empire" about Atlantic City crime and politics. Wahlberg eyes potential Bulger meeting, project 2012-01-14T23:16:41Z And teenagers might recall her gritty performance at Underage festival. New band of the day ? No 963: RoxXxan 2011-02-08T17:00:15Z “Every membranous violet smear on the gritty toilet paper was proof to me that I existed. … All day I flitted from bodily need to bodily need.” He Wrote a Novel From Jail. She Wrote One About a Different Kind of Imprisonment. 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Her favorite pop star is Lorde, the music world’s torchbearer for gritty girl power. Last Night, Calvin Klein — This Morning, Algebra 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z This constantly mutating show dips into magical realism, marital drama and gritty power struggles. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘American Crime Story’ and ‘Riverdale’ 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z "Skins" producers have boasted of its gritty realism. That uproar over 'Skins': A blessing for the show 2011-01-22T01:01:09Z Among the book’s skeptics was David Simon, the former Baltimore Sun crime reporter who created “The Wire” and other gritty TV series. A journalist on the crime beat becomes the subject of some skeptical journalism 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z “The President’s Daughter” is all testosterone and swagger, full of gritty operatives eager to rush into impossible situations using only their wits and their massive weapons. Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny Deliver a Page-Turner Part Sly, Part Sweet 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z She shaded her voice with myriad hues: lovely and clear in “The Good March in Step” and grittier in the zigzag vocal line of “Hiding Places.” Review: A Dark, Haunting Work by Michael Hersch Gets a Premiere 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Yet McDormand has the emotional weight to be faithful to Olive while lending the character her own gritty wisdom. Olive Kitteridge at Venice: An Our Town for Our Time 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z First to a shelter and then to a gritty patch of a nothing neighborhood east of downtown Los Angeles. Motherlode Blog: The Birth Parents Move In 2013-12-26T15:55:31Z “The Last Ship” has a cast not of pretty dancers but of honest and gritty actors. Sting's former self is at the center of 'Last Ship' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z There’s humor here, too, the interactions goofier than they are gritty. Review: A Choreographer in Conversation With James Joyce 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The films were gritty, down to earth, with a very distinctive style. Joseph Sarno, Director of Sexploitation Films, Dies 2010-05-03T02:14:00Z Sarah Penner went with a grittier approach in her debut novel, “The Lost Apothecary,” which is No. 11 on the hardcover fiction list. Writing a Novel? Don’t Be Afraid to Get Muddy 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z The principal towns of the Gascon heartland are for the most part unprepossessing: gritty market hubs that, on the face of it, hold little appeal for the tourist. Is Gascony the Most Delicious Corner of France? 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Her indulgent sense of herself as grittily real can’t allow her to acknowledge the sea of privilege in which she swims. Review: "Odd Mom Out" is a Tough, Refreshing Summer Satire 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Gail says Samuel and Tom's salmon dish has a gritty element in the emulsion and the aforementioned risotto is indeed "too al dente." "Top Chef: World All Stars": We see London, we see France, we see cheftestants cooking up plants 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z I knew this gritty reputation to be unfair. Choice Tables: Flemish Comfort Food in French Flanders 2011-02-18T19:55:00Z Lets get down to the nitty gritty,the honours system is farce and laughing stock of the country. Too many celebrity honours - MPs 2012-08-29T11:52:20Z The two etchings by James Abbott McNeill Whistler that start the exhibition focus with gritty realism on dockworkers on the River Thames in London. | Long Island: ‘Rabble-Rousers: Art, Dissent, and Social Commentary,’ at the Heckscher Museum of Art 2013-12-27T21:15:33Z A taut, gritty thriller, the film, which also stars Tyrese Gibson, puts a spotlight on the deep distrust between many African-Americans and the police. ‘Moonlight’ Unlocked the Door. Naomie Harris Charged Through It. 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z More gritty, glamorous and full-throated is the gallery designed like a dance party at the heart of the show. Review | From Basquiat to ‘Black Panther’: How graffiti went mainstream 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z His gritty and raw art installations often included everyday items, such as his 1971 sculpture Mattress. Spanish artist Antoni Tapies dies 2012-02-07T12:54:17Z The lead in the new X-Men movie cut his teeth in that gritty TV series Shameless and his career took off like a rocket after star turns in Atonement and The Last King of Scotland. Superheroes all share 'human crisis' 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z It was more ambitious than his previous two books, although still grisly, gritty and funny, and he thought he’d found a balance between the genre fiction of his first two books and his earlier aspirations. For Crime Novelist Lou Berney, a Winding Path Led to ‘November Road’ 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z I wanted the gritty realism of films like “The French Connection.” John Hillcoat Narrates a Scene From ‘Triple 9’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Besides those gangster pix, the studio specialized in backstage musicals and gritty melodramas, recurring to a homegrown theme that transcended genres: an “obsession with sibling rivalry and pals who become enemies.” How the four Warner brothers built a movie empire that conquered the world 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z And there was this sensibility that the danger was gritty and authentic, yet there was also a place for jokes. Keegan-Michael Key Reaches into the Past With ‘Midnight Run’ and ‘Electric Ladyland’ 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z This adventure into a gritty urban underworld demonstrates how wide the borders of Erdrich’s narrative territory are. Review | With ‘The Night Watchman,’ Louise Erdrich rediscovers her genius 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z The process has been happening over generations, linguists say, adding an untold number of contributions to the language, including hip, nitty gritty, cool and woke. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z In his debut collection, Kunz charts the gritty, physical terrain of blue-collar masculinity: a workbench made from scrap wood, a night job in an engine shop, a father’s hands with “knuckles more scar / than skin.” New & Noteworthy 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Do you worry about alienating the fantasy-ambivalent people who watched “Thrones” for its grittier aspects? ‘House of the Dragon’ Will Revisit Westeros, Not Reinvent It 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z He previously pitched a gritty update of James Bond, specifically an adaptation of Ian Fleming’s introductory novel, Casino Royale, which would have seen Pierce Brosnan retaining the role of James Bond. Quentin unchained: what will Tarantino's 10th and final film be? 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Q: Will your CBS pilot be as gritty as your novels? Book Talk: Patricia Cornwell on writing about darkness, loss 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Westerns were out, now replaced by harder, grittier real crime stories. Obituary: Elmore Leonard 2013-08-20T16:58:10Z The photos were enlarged for this show and hung close to the ground, inviting you to enter the scenes that contain a gritty reality and very little glamour. Review: SAM shows about Cobain and Warhol are daring ? and they really work 2010-05-20T23:08:00Z But it's also beautifully crafted, eschewing the gritty handheld style that has come to dominate British cinema for something more stately and formal. Paddy Considine: 'I'm trying to make sense of a lot of things' 2011-02-03T23:00:01Z The decision to make "The Gambler," Wahlberg said, came about because it seemed the right moment, four years after "Fighter," to get into something grittier. Mark Wahlberg is a chance-taker; one of his biggest is 'The Gambler' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z As for the gritty authenticity of the culinary world — the bad-boy chefs, spartan living accommodations and stoner roommates that Janette deals with — “he nailed it,” Mr. Chang said of Mr. Bourdain. ?Treme? Sharpens Its Focus on Food 2011-06-04T23:30:15Z Maybe visiting a gritty 1980s East Village bar recreated in a shiny new museum. Dance This Week: ‘The Blues Project,’ Lil Buck and Dancenoise 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Last November, in a gritty northeast corner of town, Union Market opened, a gleaming food hall featuring local farmers, artisanal vendors and stalls like Rappahannock Oyster Co., which offers quick, luxurious bites of Chesapeake shellfish. The 46 Places to Go in 2013 2013-01-11T16:15:59Z Courthouse, returning it to its nineties state as a gritty mecca. Jonah Hill Faithfully Re-creates the Raw, Fleeting Years of Skate Culture, in “Mid90s” 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Loud spent much of his debut album, “Nap Town,” trying on different sonic hats, proving himself a dual threat rapper and singer capable of gritty street anthems, after-dark R&B cuts and everything in between. Seattle rapper Jay Loud lands major-label deal, two years after stint in Tacoma shelter 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z He didn’t deliver the gritty details of his writing life. ‘Selected Letters of Langston Hughes’ 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z It wasn’t until the late 70s that films started to get grittier and they were looking for a different kind of actor. Sally Field: 'I never felt that I had very many choices. Ever' 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Is there a reason that you wanted to do these two grittier projects—True Detective and Southpaw—now? Rachel McAdams Has Always Wanted to Play Unlikable Women 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Eventually, in a gritty place called Winona, we found a cheap motel room. Mississippi yearning 2010-12-04T00:05:15Z The tag-team rappers known as Run the Jewels opened their gritty, adrenaline-pumping set at the Regent Theater in downtown Los Angeles as any self-respecting conquerors would: to the sound of Queen's "We Are the Champions." Run the Jewels pose tough questions in sold-out Regent set 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z So, when the poet had the idea for a collaboration between the two, she and a team of writers and musicians brainstormed themes that were contemporary and gritty enough to spark interest. Seattle artists imagine the apocalypse, set to music and poetry 2012-03-28T19:56:08Z "The Dark Knight Rises" feels weighty and substantive - and, thankfully, isn't in 3-D - but it takes on an even grittier look than its predecessors as Gotham City devolves into desperation and ruin. Review: Batman series ends as epic letdown 2012-07-16T18:40:09Z Locations are diverse: downtown, the waterfront, the Painted Ladies Victorian homes, Chinatown, the gritty Tenderloin. Rock, bridge, bay: San Francisco's movie landmarks 2012-10-01T20:08:16Z The show is always gritty, but this episode seems particularly so. The Week Ahead 2012-03-03T22:06:02Z Ryan took the technique in a different direction by substituting black paper, with grittier, often mordant results. Art in Review: ANNE RYAN: ?The Black-Line Woodcut, 1945-48? 2011-11-03T21:39:00Z Perhaps the most compelling is a watercolor with collage on the gritty sandpaper used on a metal shop's grinding tools. 'Paintings of Moholy-Nagy' gives only a taste of the artist's eclectic body of work 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z But thanks to the abundance of affordable real estate and gritty charms, in recent years it began attracting exhibition spaces, music halls and design studios. Heads Up: Santurce Section of San Juan Aspires to Be an Arts Mecca 2011-03-04T19:55:00Z A student of movie traditions high and low, he draws his inspiration here less from the gritty, downbeat realism of ’70s New Hollywood than from that decade’s good-time populist genre hybrids. Review: ‘Logan Lucky’: Steven Soderbergh and His Motley Band of Thieves 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z At a Q&A, an international film critic drew parallels with Present Tense, and Argentina's new-wave cinema, characterized by gritty portrayals of the country through ordinary lives. Turkey's art house film-makers hope for further success 2012-11-02T13:23:50Z The leading nominee was the gritty, unsparing World War II drama, "The Pacific," with 24 nominations. `The Pacific,' `Glee,' top Emmy Awards nominees 2010-07-08T13:11:00Z But she’s less compelling in her naive state than at the end, when years later Nina returns as a scarred veteran of love and art, persevering through sheer, gritty resolve. Clarity, humor make this ‘Seagull’ fly 2013-01-31T17:44:16Z It was a short walk from here to a slightly grittier part of town known as the "long streets" or Langgatan. Coffee and calories in chilly Gothenburg 2010-12-18T00:06:48Z If you have to choose between Saga's gritty, insane view of the future and Apple's sterile, mindless version – and Apple is making you choose – pick Saga's, every time. Apple bans gay sex images in adult comic 2013-04-10T13:00:55Z Born in 1945, Marley came of age in the gritty Trench Town community of Kingston and later shot to global stardom with hits including "Get Up, Stand Up" and "No Woman, No Cry." Reggae fans in Jamaica mark Bob Marley's death 2011-05-11T21:47:09Z The 1980s look brooding and gritty here, moody as a western noir. “Under the Banner of Heaven” sags with the heavy weight of history 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Brown fully and generously inhabited the world of his gritty characters and their obvious flaws. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z "I'm telling a story about a different character; it's a much grittier and deeper and more complex character than that depicted in the film," she said. Why Bway's 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' has no tiaras 2013-03-19T16:16:05Z The Valdespino was also more textured, offering a grittier feeling than the gliding Gitana. Manzanilla Sherry: Singular, Saline and So Polarizing 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z I climbed boulders and hiked under the hot desert sun with gritty sand crunching under my feet. Beyond the green in Palm Springs: The desert is Coachella Valley’s true oasis 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z The story is both grittily realistic in its details about family resentments and somehow stylized. David Rabe on the Netherworld of Fiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z I thought her gritty, emotional truth and the way that she spoke so openly about her past was such a healing thing. Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern find inspiration in filming 'Wild' 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z But she was remembered fondly by her neighbors in Camden, the creative but gritty neighborhood where she lived on and off for years. Winehouse autopsy inconclusive; parents thank fans 2011-07-25T18:59:00Z Perhaps more troubling would be if "Genisys" were to usher in a gooey father-daughter dynamic that feels out of place in a gritty genre tale. 'Terminator: Genisys' has prejudgment day 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z “Even as a little kid, I gravitated toward the darker things in life,” said Hale, 32, who stars in the gritty new British crime drama “Ragdoll,” which premieres on AMC+ on Nov. 11. Lucy Hale’s Happy Place Is Graceland 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z The gritty comic book adventure has approximately three months of material left to shoot and hopes to be done filming by the end of the year. Robert Pattinson tests positive for coronavirus, halting "The Batman" production 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z In recent years, Detroit's great, grey semi-vacuum has begun to suck in artists, activists, foodies, urban farmers, film-makers, even a few corporations, all of them attracted by its cheap space and gritty aura. The Last Days of Detroit by Mark Binelli – review 2013-01-04T22:55:16Z He recalls playing the Danish prince in "Hamlet" in the summer of 1975, an era in New York that was much grittier than today. Bugs, rain and magic _ Shakespeare in the Park 2012-06-15T16:28:08Z "The Boys" star Antony Starr headlines this gritty, pulpy crime series about an ex-con who impersonates the incoming new sheriff of Banshee, Pennsylvania, and promptly runs afoul of local criminals including an Amish psychopath. 10 TV shows with big dad energy 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Walking along the gritty, darkening streets of Havana, I felt a sense of foreboding wash over me. On the Cigar Trail in Cuba 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Not long ago even the gentrifying parts of Neukölln were too gritty for most tourists, but these days, even less adventuresome travelers will be charmed by the shops and cafes popping up along its streets. 36 Hours in Berlin 2013-09-05T22:08:04Z They also involve complex, lacy patterns and, after the weather has done its part, appear to have been embedded in a cityscape’s gritty fabric for years, like lingering memories in collective consciousness. The Week Ahead: Aug. 8 ? Sept. 3 2011-08-28T04:30:07Z Not just that it was a magical tale set in a land like Alaska, but that rub of two very different textures excited me as a writer - the ethereal next to the gritty. How to make a Snow Child 2012-02-20T09:08:14Z He devoured it but is quite gritty and perhaps not appropriate for his age. How do you pick the right books for a young but fluent reader? 2012-08-13T16:55:26Z But within its gritty setting, and forceful opposition to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's union-busting policies, is the sentimental archetype of a young boy's triumph against tough odds. 'Billy Elliot' author talks about blending politics and artistic aspiration as tour comes to Seattle 2011-03-17T01:40:20Z That said, they are grittier than one might expect. Farah Atassi paintings: Part Picasso and pure catnip for fans of midcentury design 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z With its political maneuvering and gritty feel, there's more influence of "Game of Thrones" than Cecil B. DeMille here. 'A.D. the Bible Continues' a Sunday school lesson in your den 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z Cannes welcomed back one of its favoured sons today, and it was as he is best known and loved: gritty, uncompromising and angry. Ken Loach returns with an angry look at Iraq 2010-05-19T21:25:00Z On a dreary afternoon in late November, inside a cavernous former shipworks at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Michael Zaragoza was busy dipping shredded burlap sacks into buckets of gritty plaster. Designing Luxury Condos, and Operas, Too 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The play — written by Ms. Bettis, a staff writer for the TV series “The Americans” — follows gritty twin orphans from the Florida Everglades. Sol Project Aims to ‘Create a New Canon’ of Latino Theater 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z The whole production, which takes place on a set by Michael Yeargan that blends gritty realism with the requisite poetry, frames one of the season’s great performances. Theater Review: Judith Ivey Brings Grit to a Tennessee Williams Jewel 2010-03-25T02:29:00Z He finds what he’s looking for with Mitko, a slender, gritty Bulgarian with “an air of criminality” about him. “Queer sexual bodies are despised”: Garth Greenwell on writing his debut novel and why everything comes back to Kentucky for him, “for better and for worse” 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z There are some superheroes who don't suit "gritty" and "real", who are way too fantastical to appear in contemporary live-action movies because they originate from a more innocent, wide-eyed period. Superman: Man of Steel ? is this the blue boy scout's big-screen comeback? 2011-08-18T15:59:52Z The sort of thing that usually gets described as "gritty". Run; My £9.50 Holiday; Broken by Battle – TV review 2013-07-15T22:15:00Z It never feels inspirational — it’s too gritty and dark — and there isn’t a single easy solution in sight for either Nick or Jonathan. Being Flynn: Robert De Niro Has Not Given Up After All 2012-03-01T17:31:17Z Everyone who stays with the book — which I recommend they do — will certainly regard it as a gritty tone-poem in prose on New York City life — and death. 'Tabloid City': Pete Hamill's novel of New York, newspapers and murder 2011-05-25T22:52:04Z Sharp and funny throughout, she offers an almost cinematic portrait of Los Angeles: gritty, glamorous, toxic and intoxicating. Review: New Novels by Paul Murray, César Aira and Others 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z “Chicago, where I grew up, had some of that look, but New York was, especially back then, just a gritty, gritty place, and I was interested visually in all of it,” he said. Christopher Wool on What Brought a ‘Sunday Painter’ Back to Life 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Ruby’s gritty pastiche of graffiti techniques and allusions to prison surveillance jump-started his metamorphosis into a mercurial art star of the highest order. This Artist Is Calvin Klein’s Latest Muse 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z A couple of scenes are shot on stage at Stratford, the rest is filmed on location – a gritty, grimy, urban location. TV review: Julius Caesar 2012-06-24T21:30:01Z I couldn’t help but think about that chimera as I watched this gritty time-travel thriller, directed with intense drive by Tony Dean Smith. Scary Movies for When the World Is a Fright 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z If the best drama nod vindicated the gritty power of basic cable, the best comedy series award honored the slick production values of the broadcast networks. 'Breaking Bad' finally makes good with best drama Emmy 2013-09-25T01:11:09Z The movie faithfully follows Ms. Mapes’s retelling, and glamorizes the often gritty act of her team’s reporting. In ‘Truth,’ a News Team Tells Its Side of a ‘60 Minutes II’ Scandal 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z It is gritty, but it's also really tender. Ayoade takes helm in Submarine 2011-03-15T08:38:48Z "I wanted to train in the gritty street-like way," she said. Thandie Newton takes lead acting role in 'Rogue' 2013-04-02T20:58:09Z Here, we see the clearest expression of Johnson’s double vision, his gritty mysticism. Denis Johnson had ruthless honesty and transcendent power 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z This is a gritty little indie film that, Erin, may not appeal to your fans from "The Boys." "Does trauma-bonding negate the love?": Stars Erin Moriarty and Jai Courtney talk "Catching Dust" 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z She started as a country singer, has found a handhold firmly in pop, but albums like "Reputation" have a more gritty and experimental feel. Why Taylor Swift could succeed as a director and what to expect from her first film 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Known for her poignant portraits of gritty New York City subcultures, Goldin chose a sweeter-than-usual subject for the collaboration: her image of a heart-shaped wreath of roses that dried in her Paris bedroom. A Nan Goldin Photograph Takes the Floor 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z As someone who reads crime fiction to relax, Tresnjak is looking forward to "Rear Window," which he says will be "more gritty and less glamorous" than the Hitchcock classic. Hartford Stage's Darko Tresnjak seals his passion for risk with 'Kiss Me, Kate' 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z But Saadiq also sought out the Queens rappers A Tribe Called Quest and quizzed them about their gritty drum sound. Raphael Saadiq Finally Put His Past on the Record 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Is it a reaction to the growth of drill music, the prevailing gritty hip-hop subculture? Drake Hits the Nightclub 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z The gloves come off in Suffragette, director Sarah Gavron’s gritty political drama, which has generated political drama of its own. Review: An Uneven Vote in Suffragette 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Interestingly enough, it’s the gruesome horror movie made by a man that portrays those subjects with the most ironic distance and the least desire to titillate, not the gritty urban drama made by a woman. Bad girls, big trouble: The self-destructive young woman as feminist archetype 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Its "tough and gritty portraits" of the lives of firefighters drew the museum's attention, said Dwight Blocker Bowers, curator of the entertainment collections. TV's 'Rescue Me' donates 9/11 items to Smithsonian 2011-07-15T10:40:09Z Thanks to the gritty aesthetic of the 1970s, would-be character actors such as Al Pacino and Gene Hackman became marquee names. Why did Brian Tarantina get so many shout-outs at the SAG Awards? He was a truly great character actor. 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Lamar didn’t show up to rap his verse on “Money Over Love,” a gritty funk sermon, but he wasn’t missed. Review: Bilal Brings Far-Out Viewpoint to This Life and His Show 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Morales is Spider-Man in the publisher's Ultimate universe - a grittier, more contemporary place where characters who are killed stay dead, just like Parker, whom Morales replaced. Spidey who? Peter Parker, Miles Morales cross over 2012-04-12T00:16:03Z They built the bar on that premise instead of the gritty Pioneer Square of 2014. Intermezzo Carmine: Pioneer Square’s new cocktail spot 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z But the genre has evolved with the medium, becoming grittier, more realistic and more sophisticated — up to a point. A Brief History of the Police Procedural in 6 Shows 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Its closest relative is probably Australian series Heartbreak High, which presented a gritty but humorous look at life in a Sydney high school in the mid-90s. Skam: the hit Norwegian teen show headed for a US remake 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z I was sort of a problem, because I was always trying to make it grittier. An oral history of Fame: 'We were dancing on cars in the epicentre of porn and filth!' 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Like the international hits The Full Monty and Calendar Girls, Made in Dagenham presents an appealingly gritty, yet plucky image of the British working class. Sally Hawkins heads for the Hollywood A-list ? thanks to a 1968 pay dispute 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z The actor said he wished he could remove some of the grittier, violent scenes from the film. Dark side of porn star's life revealed in indie film "Lovelace" 2013-01-25T12:26:11Z Despite the cachet of Drew's alter ego Plan B, Ill Manors may have suffered from a perception that the film is not only gritty, but in fact bleak, harrowing or – yikes – grim. Prometheus still breathing rarefied air at the UK box-office summit 2012-06-13T09:00:07Z We knew that even though the game was going to 2025, it still had to feel authentic and gritty. 'Call of Duty: Black Ops II' aims toward future 2012-11-09T14:52:09Z Buried in the gritty heart of Shoreditch is Moniker, a fair of street and contemporary art. Frieze fringe: the weekend's best free contemporary art 2010-10-15T14:28:00Z Set in 1950s east London, Call the Midwife has a distinctly different kind of British sensibility that is more loose and gritty than the escapist Downton. PBS seeks Downton-esque Brit hit with Call the Midwife and Mr Selfridge 2013-03-29T17:04:00Z Nonetheless, the gritty black-and-white illustrations, in a photo-realistic style, depict scenes from the studio in detail, and all four Ramones and Mr. Spector are quoted saying things they surely never did. Part Ramones Biography, Part Dreamscape 2013-08-08T12:00:13Z But Kentridge, 67, is also a collaborator, a believer in the communal power of art and art-making, and energetically engaged with his home city: Johannesburg, South Africa’s gritty and vibrant major metropolis. A Show About Colonial Power, Born From the Freedom to Make Mistakes 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z In other words, they talk about the hard stuff, the gritty stuff, the stuff you aren’t likely to find on their Facebook pages. ‘The Bitch in the House’ Has a Sequel: ‘The Bitch Is Back’ 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z In its scale, monotony of materials and color, preening formalism and disregard for the gritty urban fabric, the hub is the sort of object-building that might seem at home on the Washington Mall. Santiago Calatrava’s Transit Hub Is a Soaring Symbol of a Boondoggle 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z It's accessible, unpretentious and workmanlike in the sense of musicians toiling hard to achieve the effect they want, getting stuck in and going for it with gritty determination. New band of the day ? No 924: Giant Steps 2010-12-06T17:45:00Z The movie is a sparse, gritty drama about a young man's desperate bid to escape jail and protect his brother. Berlin critics back Russia, Romania, Polanski films 2010-02-19T09:27:00Z The dry air of Odessa, Tex., suddenly feels gritty with the spores of sexual violence. Review | Elizabeth Wetmore’s ‘Valentine’ is a thrilling debut that deserves your attention 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z So the actor looked to gritty New York movies from the period — specifically Al Pacino’s work in films like “Serpico” and “Dog Day Afternoon.” In ‘Hunters,’ Al Pacino Stalks Nazis Into New Territory 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z It’s a classic of New Journalism: gonzo, gritty and wickedly funny, seamlessly weaving reportage and memoir. Hear Them Roar 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The bill’s gritty foil to these three performers is the experimental banjo player Gouox. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Newcomer Hunter Hayes joins her on stage for this tour on Underwood's gritty, stomp-your-feet song, "Leave Love Alone." Carrie Underwood still America's idol 2012-10-05T00:52:04Z Growing up in the gritty Bronx, Goldstein identified with the lads from working-class Liverpool. Meet the critic who panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ then discovered his speaker was busted. He’s still not sorry. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Entertainment Weekly has called James Vanderbilt's screenplay "gritty" and "contemporary", suggesting that it may be in the same vein as Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan's successful 2005 reimagining of the Batman series. Rhys Ifans to play Spider-Man villain 2010-10-12T10:06:00Z The gritty script, Boston locations and authentic details made it a classic of the genre. Peter Yates obituary 2011-01-10T18:39:17Z He mentioned Atomic Liquors: “It’s grittier and feels like it’s always been here.” Zappos’s CEO is helping revitalize downtown Las Vegas. He took me on a whirlwind tour. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z This quartet, its textures shifting throughout, is permeated with the intense, driving regularity of classic Minimalism, but married to the kind of spiky, even gritty dissonance that didn’t really interest Reich and Glass. Eight Ways of Looking at a Singular Composer 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Throughout these well-crafted stories, Vestal’s prose captures the gritty poignancy of western life. Divining darkness at the western edge 2013-04-10T18:13:54Z In a statement the studios promised that the new film would "return the character to its epic roots with a gritty, realistic actioner." ArtsBeat: Date Set for Unleashing of 'Godzilla' 2012-09-14T15:43:24Z Yes, Iago — embodied with gritty brilliance by Mr. Craig — is still the smartest guy in the room. Review: Jealousy and Lies in a No-Exit Theater of War in ‘Othello’ 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z The manufacturers collaborated with design celebrities such as Charles and Ray Eames and also made money with sidelines as gritty as tank treads and cigarette pack wrappers. Hand-Me-Downs and Discards from Design History’s Treasure Chest 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z It's one of those musicians-walking-nonchalantly-towards-the-camera jobs like Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy or the Verve's Bittersweet Symphony, only it's not glamorously gritty or anything, it's just cheap. New band of the day ? No 871: Matt Henshaw 2010-09-20T16:44:00Z What's notable, watching 80s TV and movies now, is how much more gritty and soulful they seem than today's mainstream product. Acceptable in the 80s 2010-07-29T21:00:00Z He took a stab at Prima's gritty, high-pitched tone, but that started to grind his vocal cords. 'Louis & Keely 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z As the years passed, interest in “The Blank Generation” grew in tandem with nostalgia for New York’s grittier past. His Film Is a Punk Classic, but the Credits Now Roll Without Him 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z And the stories can vary so wildly in tone — from standard mystery-horror to light comedy to gritty action — that they can feel in conflict with each other. Why "Stranger Things" should have let Hopper stay dead 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z A visionary power of a gritty, urban sort permeates “Now Dig This: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980,” a beautiful show at the Hammer Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles. Arts & Leisure: ?Pacific Standard Time? Art Exhibitions in L.A. ? Review 2011-11-10T16:57:42Z With Mr. Tao on the piano, Mr. Teicher tap danced on a platform, sprinkled with sand that lent gritty sounds to his elegant gyrations. Review: After a Concert, a Nightcap to Demystify New Music 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Production designer Laurie Hicks wanted to go for a gritty look, but ironically found the local coffee joints too clean. Seattle provides a backdrop for new film about 2001 City Council race 2010-07-30T05:38:00Z He engages the country’s history — and his own personal one — in this set of works that unfurl with gritty magnificent broad strokes. Theaster Gates Turns the Stain of the Past Into Art 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z "Incident on 57th Street" is a gritty West Side Story-style tale that acted as a romantic precursor to "Born to Run." The inauspicious arrival of Bruce Springsteen 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z But those looking for a gritty documentary will be coming to the movie with the wrong expectations. Break down of ‘Chi-Raq’ trailer: locations, stars and plot 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The combination of gritty guitars and heavy drums works exceptionally well and produces a very full sound for a double act. New Band Up North 2012-11-05T16:55:00Z He likes to hear real, gritty stories, as ridiculous as that sounds. Diablo Cody’s Week: ‘I’m a Phone Addict’ 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Prague is a very safe city, and many of the grittiest areas — including Wenceslas — are finally getting cleaned up. My Hidden Prague 2012-11-16T15:37:22Z About 10 years ago, however, as the rest of the city rebuilt following the end of Communism, Praga’s low rents and gritty authenticity began to draw young bohemian types. A Gritty Warsaw Neighborhod Adds to Its Allure 2013-08-09T19:09:16Z While Beethoven straddles the classical and Romantic periods, the Barber is late Romanticism with gritty, 20th-century touches. Music Review: Philharmonic?s ?Modern Beethoven? at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-10T00:43:09Z Jay-Z is about imperious flow, bridging his gritty past life on the streets with his current status as a cultural tastemaker and business mogul. Album review: 'Watch the Throne' a royal waste 2011-08-08T21:59:00Z The show takes the form of "a multimedia-art installation that transports audience members into a world of reflection, ingenuity, and pronounced gritty expressionism." Around the world with 'DANCE This' 2012-07-03T21:06:10Z But Serious Eats called Trader Joe's frozen avocado halves a fail, citing a writer who deemed the guacamole he made with them "a pasty, gritty, flavorless, and textureless blob of shame." I learned the hard way that you can't actually freeze avocados 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z In his autobiography, Green remembers Mitchell coaching him: “Let them be gritty. You be smooth. Remember, Al. It’s silky on the top. Rough on the bottom.” Al Green, the soul legend and Kennedy Center honoree, is still tired of being alone The complex was a typical, segregated 1960s housing project, on contaminated land between an industrial belt and a gritty stretch of single-family houses, notoriously dangerous. Architecture Review: Tassafaronga Village and Richardson Apartments in Bay Area 2012-10-10T21:59:44Z “Stomp,” the long-running show that repurposed mundane items like brooms and metal garbage can lids to create a gritty percussive stage spectacle, will close in New York on Jan. 8, the show announced on Tuesday. ‘Stomp’ to Close in New York in January 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Cameron does dark and gritty very well, but his plays always have a big heart too, so this should be a very enjoyable evening of substance. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-07-20T23:05:00Z At its best, like on "Misfits and Lovers," the band delivers its signature Bruce Springsteen-inspired, gravelly voiced, gritty garage band rock sound, complete with catchy hooks and driving rhythm. Review: Wallflowers uneven on 'Glad All Over' 2012-10-08T16:17:10Z The television series uses the city's graffiti-covered buildings and hedonistic nightclubs to paint an aesthetic that is gritty and raw. New spy series 'Berlin Station' promises a wild ride 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z For all the operatic trappings of “Happy Fella,” the gritty first scene is right out of Broadway. Music Review: Frank Loesser?s ?Most Happy Fella,? at Dicapo Opera 2012-03-10T00:57:23Z What hoists the show several niches above the standard jukebox biography is Ms. Warren’s performance, which finds the gritty sand in Ms. Turner’s pearlescent presence. Women Set London’s Stages Ablaze 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z The East Village was “too gritty” for them, but a doorman building in Murray Hill didn’t have enough character. Refinery29, Kylie Jenner, and the Denial Underlying Millennial Financial Resentment 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z As Gittes’s various leads tighten to become a noose, it sets up the extraordinarily downbeat ending, one that still carries a nihilistic charge even as we drown in nominally gritty TV box sets. I’ve never seen … Chinatown 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The gritty role, and Miller's acuity and patience, helped her unlock her inner dark side. Audrey Tautou grown up at Cannes finale 2012-05-27T19:31:05Z Harwood said that it would deal with new, gritty territory, and dark themes, moving on from Waking the Dead. Waking the Dead spinoff to star Tara Fitzgerald 2011-01-06T18:11:19Z But an adventuresome theatergoer has a bounty of newer attractions to patronize, shows that get down and get gritty, that work your brain and your emotions, and are not for the timid. This season, Broadway flouts its grit (and some glitz) 2011-06-03T18:24:03Z Mr. Guirgis is known for vibrant, gritty dramas, including “Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train” and “Our Lady of 121st Street,” and he is an imaginative storyteller. The Week Ahead: April 10 ? 16 2011-04-08T13:57:40Z There’s also good reason to head to the gritty but gentrifying Tenderloin district. Making Waves 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Given the dark, gritty tone, the trailer also seems to be sending a message to fans: The concluding "Hunger Games" movies aren't playing around. 'Hunger Games: Mockingjay' final trailer: Katniss sends a message 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z And though you might think of this approach as being at odds with the grittier one Mr. Dutoit introduced, the contrast made sense, as a reconciliation of two warring impulses within Beethoven’s style. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-26T23:41:47Z My grandfather was an engineer in the Union Pacific Railroad, so we had this lava soap, which is this special gritty soap thing. Sad after losing your sense of smell to COVID? Turns out there's a link between sense and happiness 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z I could see him lying dead on the ground outside a 7-11 in the gritty heat of Los Angeles with a big, stupid, nasty grin on his face. Teaching ate me alive 2012-09-15T19:00:00Z She called her new, gritty version of the vocal art form Alpine Dub. Berlin is alive with the sound of urban yodelling 2013-02-08T11:38:13Z In this gritty, heartfelt novel, 11-year-old Viji and her sister flee their perilous home in India and learn to survive on their own, with the help of a friendly dog and two resourceful street boys. The best children’s books of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The gritty documentary film "One Mile Away", directed by Penny Woolcock and focused on the 2011 riots that swept parts of England, received the Michael Powell Award for the top British film at the weekend. Edinburgh film fest lauds riot doc & China's Mao Mao 2012-07-02T15:52:08Z "Sinister Kid" also benefited from the quartet configuration, with gritty R&B notes speaking with a Southern twang. Black Keys' sonic chess match 2010-12-31T13:48:00Z The years may have vanished, but Everett sifted them as they went, and was left with a mixture of diamond-sharp insight, gritty cynicism and mud – for the purposes of slinging. Vanished Years by Rupert Everett – review 2012-10-05T21:54:01Z In the late works it became hard to tell whether the magnificent brushmarks – increasingly gritty, nubbled and thick – were describing the sitter so much as Freud's ever-changing vision of what could be done with pigment. Life writ large 2011-07-22T17:34:00Z There’s a kind of fun, grittier localized energy in this show. Rosario Dawson on Being a Hero, Not a Love Interest, in Netflix's "Daredevil" 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Played by Benny himself, Nick both opens and closes the movie in scenes that bookend the film’s gritty tone with moments of tenderness. Good Time directors the Safdie brothers: ‘Robert Pattinson was just a guy chasing work’ 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Paulsen writes about these experiences in his gritty new memoir, “Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood.” Gary Paulsen tells his own survival story in ‘Gone to the Woods’ 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Seemingly out of nowhere, a taut, glossy eight-minute video had appeared on YouTube that reimagined the otherworldly characters from this premier American fighting game series as psychopathic killers in a gritty American city. Mortal Kombat Is Back In a Fight for the Future 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z It sometimes seems more glossy pageant than gritty production, and vocal standards are uneven. Les Troyens – review 2012-06-26T11:22:00Z “What Comes After” is a mystery — and a gritty meditation on loss and redemption, drenched in stillness and grief. What to read in 2021 based on what you loved in 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Writer-director David Ayer takes his gritty explorations of masculinity and violence to the battlefields of World War II in "Fury," starring Brad Pitt as the hardened leader of an American tank crew behind German lines. 'Fury': Brad Pitt tank drama carries out its mission, reviews say 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z With so many brand ambassadors at its disposal, Nasty Gal quickly became synonymous with affordable, chic, yet slightly gritty cool-girl style — similar to Ms. Amoruso’s own look. Nasty Gal’s Path to Bankruptcy 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z In his black rumpled suit and probing glances, Jim Garland might be mistaken for a priest from a gritty parish. ‘Elton John of the fountain world’ shows just how far water features have come 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z In September, they moved into an apartment in Denver’s gritty River North Art District, a.k.a. You Could Write a Country Song About Them. (He Probably Will.) 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “Fishnet” contains many more instances of gritty brilliance following its dramatic start. Cunning, Damaged and Deranged: The Latest Thrillers by Women 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Certainly Mo Yan does, as without them he would have a bigger challenge: to tackle the gritty realism of his fictional world. Pow! by Mo Yan – review 2013-01-18T21:00:03Z After midnight on a rainy night last week in Chapel Hill, N.C., a large group of sorority women at the University of North Carolina squeezed into the corner booth of a gritty basement bar. 2010-02-06T03:40:00Z No one will ever duplicate Staley's gritty/gorgeous howl and mesmerizing stage presence. Alice in Chains still reigns supreme in Seattle 2010-10-09T20:54:00Z The logical answer would be for Fox to take the gritty vibe of its R-rated movies and create a mini-cinematic universe set in the present day, with Deadpool and Wolverine at its centre. Why X-Men is right to ditch Magneto and Professor X's tired double act 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z "Whether you think that was a service or a disservice to society, it was an extraordinary achievement, especially for what was, at bottom and in the beginning, a pretty gritty rock and roll band." Book of rare Beatles photos offers inside peek at iconic band 2012-10-04T18:47:53Z When "The Toy Soldiers," a gritty coming-of-age drama set in the 1980s, screens in public next month, that bathroom may inspire some shocks of recognition in the audience. Huntington Beach gets its close-up in 3 films at SoCal festival 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Even so, as critics sought to grapple with the show’s fantastical tone, there was evidence of a perceived disconnect between the story’s grittier elements and the stylistic vibrancy. “We don’t do poverty porn”: “The Get Down” creators on recreating New York’s 1970s “party apex” 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z Deadline reported this year that Steven Spielberg is set to direct a biopic of the Israelite leader which will portray him in a gritty style described as a mix of Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan. Ridley Scott turns from Prometheus to Moses 2012-06-06T14:53:40Z I felt like a junkie in a gritty TV show about Times Square in the 1970s, nervous and sweaty and incoherent even as I was beset by an achy, leaden inertia. Would 19 Hours and 16 Minutes in the Air Make Me Crazy? 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Even Colombo, the gritty capital, is getting a makeover, with Bohemian cafes and flamboyant nightclubs now tucked within its high-rise hotels. Next Stop: In Postwar Sri Lanka, Beaches, Temples and Military Checkpoints 2010-03-12T02:50:00Z “Regions . . .” was as tender and elegiac as “Eternally Even” is gritty and aggressive. Gather ’round the Jim James campfire: “I have this weird apocalyptic vision of once the power goes out” 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Why drink a thin, watery, gritty, powder-flecked beverage when there are so many better options? A 3-ingredient hot chocolate with a buttery secret 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z Greenberg brushes over the gritty details of their cancer treatment and its effects - both mental and physical - and the plot is wrapped up in a pink bow at the end. Review: Sports guy shows sensitive side in novel 2013-04-03T19:28:11Z Their bodyguards' presence outside set the gritty, bustling neighborhood of Center Havana abuzz, and a crowd gathered downstairs shouting Beyonce's name until she went to a balcony and waved. Beyonce, Jay-Z turn heads in Havana 2013-04-04T19:39:13Z The Detroit News' Tom Long says the film is "both more taut and tough than you'd expect from a late August spy action flick," and "far grittier than a Bond escapade." Pierce Brosnan's spy skills can't save 'November Man,' reviews say 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z The dialogue is gritty but lyrical, sprinkled with Spanish and pocked with profanity. A Playwright Who Puts Her Demons, and Family, to Work 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Demanding the pictures be more gritty than they can possibly be? “My little war-porn addiction”: David Shields on how the New York Times made the Iraq and Afghanistan wars look “really cool, really glamorous, really bloodless” 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z The problem with South Pacific, often, is that it's too beautiful, musically, and the grittier elements to do with racial tension and foreign occupation get lost. Samantha Womack: 'The grittier elements in South Pacific often get lost' 2011-07-24T23:05:01Z Cherry Bar is an institution – unpretentious, gritty and dedicated to live music. 48 hours in Melbourne: what to do, where to go 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Baker’s Rome is vivid and gritty, and unrecognizable to the casual tourist. A Debut Novel About Two Couples, Divided by Countries and Creeds 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Garrone is best known for his last film, the gritty "Gomorrah" about a Naples crime syndicate. Reality TV, celebrity obsession hit Cannes screens 2012-05-18T11:27:19Z Thérèse Desqueyroux is a firm swerve away from sweetness: bitter and gritty, puckered and troubled, almost until the very final shot. Audrey Tatou: 'There is no room for poetry in Thérèrse's world' 2013-06-06T17:00:14Z "Prepare to travel back to gritty go-go in your face," Oliver shouts to the bemused party. "Only Murders in the Building": Inside Oliver's deadly game night 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Whether to cast a nontransgender or a transgender performer for a character undergoing a transition remained, she said, a “gritty question.” Transgender, and Embraced, on the Red Carpet 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z That show couldn’t help but draw out both the power and weakness of his work: his daring reimagination of old themes and provocative use of gritty realism, but also his sentimentality and bathos. ‘200 Years of African American Art’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z The city still has its gritty parts — generally in areas at least five blocks from the beach — where some homes are boarded up and where crime is still a problem. New Beach Destination on the Jersey Shore? Asbury Park 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z One gives a spiritual look into the life, grace and career of Pacquiao, and the other was a gritty, rough, “I’m from the back of the block where you gotta fight!” Boxing and the Age of Denial 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z Mad about the Boy is a lyrical yet gritty tale of a teenager going off the rails at Contact in Manchester from Tuesday. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-06-22T15:56:03Z “The Orville’s” antiseptic nostalgia trip only serves to make “Discovery’s” longer, grittier story arc look like a powerful step forward. Perspective | TV needs a really great space saga. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ comes close, but the longing remains. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z The defining shows of the 1970s — Norman Lear’s “All in the Family,” “Maude” and “The Jeffersons” — tackled grittier fare, from infidelity to racism. This Life: What ?Modern Family? Says About Modern Families 2011-01-21T21:20:03Z For me the story lessens in excitement the closer it gets to the present: the predictably gritty reboots of the comic book, the megabucks ’70s and ’80s movies. ‘Superman,’ by Larry Tye 2012-07-06T22:10:04Z He played the stoically fearsome villain in last year's gritty Tom Cruise action film "Jack Reacher," and has been a voice on the animated series "The Simpsons." Filmmaker Werner Herzog on his new box set and more 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z In the film Mr. Jarecki uses washed-out colors to convey the gritty, seamy feel of Times Square in the 1970s and 1980s. Film: That?s Me on Screen, but I Still Didn?t Do It 2010-11-24T19:49:00Z But death would have been a bit too gritty, and wrong, especially so soon before Christmas. TV review: The Nativity; Come Rain Come Shine 2010-12-21T08:00:01Z Yet the violence is extraordinarily graphic in a way you rarely see in something that is not a gritty foreign crime movie or a grindhouse film, or a horror movie. The "Drive" backlash: Too violent, too arty or both? 2011-09-23T14:01:00Z The show depicted a journey to the "Monster Ball," starting with a set patterned on the gritty streets of New York, complete with metal railings and neon signs. Review: Lady Gaga proved she's a spectacle with soul on her Tacoma stop 2010-08-22T18:28:00Z Other 1970s period dramas tackled gritty issues from more overtly leftish perspectives. The new Upstairs, Downstairs is more period than drama 2010-12-27T12:00:00Z The Wales-bred Marylander’s pictures are in black-and-white; the 3-D elements add just brown and rare touches of green to the gritty palette. Review | In the galleries: University of Maryland spotlights six former students 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z But it wasn’t until 2008, when he saw “Arias With a Twist” in its original quarters at Here, the gritty basement space in SoHo, that Mr. Shears’s mind was changed, if not completely blown. Up Close: Joey Arias of ?Arias With a Twist? 2011-10-05T21:27:42Z The result is a grittily buoyant homage to the city’s varied tapestry — the skate parks, the bodegas and food carts, the not-so-mean streets, even the New York Public Library — and its unifying thread, the subway. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Students Get a Starring Role in Times Square 2014-04-21T15:40:36Z This magnet for bargain food shoppers, situated since 1905 on Union Street in the gritty northeast section, has a ring of casual eateries. Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Rochester, New York 2013-03-15T09:12:50Z I’ve been a part of telling darker and grittier comic stories before with Sin City. Rosario Dawson on Being a Hero, Not a Love Interest, in Netflix's "Daredevil" 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z She grew up in grittier precincts within the Notting Hill neighborhood of London with her mother, who was a motivational speaker. Hayley Atwell, Swapping a Secret Agent for a Hot Mess 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z A clunky script without nuance bogs the #Venom down, preventing it from choosing between being gritty, funny, or something unique. “Venom” first reactions: Critics divided as Tom Hardy’s film called “ridiculous” and a... 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Giovanna’s quest to meet her aunt leads her through a grittier part of the city, revealing unsavory family truths along the way. Reading Elena Ferrante in English? You’re Also Reading Ann Goldstein 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Crossing the threshold between sun-drenched forecourt and interior — where light pours like diamond dust through the doorway, bouncing off the inlaid marble floor — a visitor is transported from the gritty streets to someplace otherworldly. Neapolitan Church Portraits Speak to the Earthly World 2013-01-15T16:43:33Z London’s fogs mostly resulted from the gritty smoke of domestic coal fires and “the noxious emissions of factory chimneys,” coupled with the right atmospheric wet and stillness. “London Fog,” a study of the great city’s legendary atmosphere 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Writers have long been drawn to live and work in the city, attracted by the proximity to publishing houses and fellow artists, and the combination of inspiring streetscapes and gritty humanity that defines it. Soaking up literary history: A book-lover’s barhopping guide 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The results — sophisticated jackets shaped like seashells and a double-layered tank top made of lace and neoprene, the scuba fabric that turned up last season on the Balenciaga runway — belie their gritty origins. 2010-02-13T02:22:00Z Which is a real shame, because Good Cop was great – an absorbing, gritty, intelligent, character-based police drama, about as near as we get in this country to what they do so well in Scandinavia. TV review: Merlin; Good Cop; The Thick Of It 2012-10-14T13:00:00Z You’ll probably know it when you see it because it’s been in almost every movie that needed a backdrop of old, gritty, dangerous New York. Finally, at Mena, Victoria Blamey Gets a Restaurant That Fits Her Talent 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Things started turning about a decade ago, and one of the first crews to plant their weekend flags on the grittier Rockaway Beach were hard-core surfers. Taking the a Train to Summer 2011-06-15T21:30:41Z In gritty detail, “To Leslie” traces the fall of a one-time lottery winner who, years later, has lost everything she holds dear. Review: In ‘To Leslie,’ an Unflinching Working-Class Elegy 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z They know the place mostly from gritty movies set there, like “Good Will Hunting” and “The Departed.” A Return to Southie, by Way of Broadway 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z Daniel Ulbricht, as the Jester, looked gritty and pushy in both his technique and his mugging for the audience. 2010-02-11T23:18:00Z Their films became a tad more gritty, a tad less linear. Why the Iranian film industry is like Hollywood before 1969 2013-02-08T15:16:10Z With the church’s choir and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, a period band, Mr. Wachner provides gritty, gutsy, edge-of-the-seat performances — though the vocal solos, featuring choir members rather than guest artists, can be wildly uneven. Finding ‘Hallelujah’: How to Navigate the ‘Messiah’ Landscape 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z She nonetheless ran a metalsmithing studio in New York from the 1910s to the late ’30s, partly to prove herself to the men who doubted women could succeed in that gritty profession. Antiques: New Study of Marie Zimmermann, Metalsmith 2011-11-17T22:32:18Z Francesco Rosi, an Italian director whose gritty films offered a socially charged look into the country's underworld of crime and corruption, died on Saturday at age 92, officials said. Film director Rosi, who explored Italy's dark side, dies at 92 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Theroux said Mr. Berg’s gritty shooting style helps take away preciousness that could creep in because of the more supernatural elements. ‘The Leftovers,’ About a Small Town’s Loss, Comes to HBO 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z A gritty, overly serious tone for “The Get Down” or “The People vs. O.J.” would not serve the material well, either. Bring back camp! Why “The People v. O.J.” and “The Get Down” point to its possible — and much-needed — rebirth 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z “The Force” is a stunner of a cop novel, with dialogue, gritty New York setting and moral pincers all in the service of a devastating plot. Books to Breeze Through This Summer 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z "But underneath it's a little grittier and darker." Best Coast reaches a higher state with 'California Nights' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Hunnam is best known for his role on the gritty biker series "Sons of Anarchy," which begins its seventh and final season in September. Charlie Hunnam crowned King Arthur for Guy Ritchie movie 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The Velvet Underground became, in effect, Andy Warhol’s house band and built a durable following with its drone experiments and strange tunings, along with Mr. Reed’s gritty lyrics. Q. and A.: With John Cale in Paris and Along the Borderline 2013-01-15T15:30:12Z Leone had asked the actors to do their own stunts, to create a sense of gritty realism. Eli Wallach dies: Character actor known for ‘The Magnificent Seven’ was 98 But the only moment the show gets faintly down and dirty is in the re-creation of grimy and gritty toilets of the 1970s East Village club CBGB. At the Met, Punk Without the Down and Dirty 2013-05-06T11:58:12Z Or the interest in seeing Billy Elliott's gritty northern mining town replicated in South Korea? Globalised theatre and the rise of the monster musicals 2010-09-08T14:08:00Z Hers is a gritty, companionable intimacy with the wild. Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ Sees Wonder — and Refuge — in the Natural World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z I think it's really gritty and really smart. Cookies can be chewy and crispy at the same time. James Beard winner Kelly Fields shares the secret 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z 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 Sam Glanzman, a comic-book artist and writer who for nearly 80 years brought a gritty, richly detailed style to illustrating war stories, including his own, died on July 12 in Maryland, N.Y. Sam Glanzman, Comic-Book Artist Inspired by His War Service, Dies at 92 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z The works often fall into the street-lit genre, stories that are set in a gritty landscape populated by thuggish men, devious women and dysfunctional families and are often drenched in violence. Prodigy’s ‘H.N.I.C.,’ Street Lit From Infamous Books 2013-05-31T21:16:57Z But since 2006's gritty adolescent story "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints," LaBeouf hasn't played a lead role in an independent movie. Shia LaBeouf: 'I have these yearnings to do different things' 2011-06-27T23:31:38Z Two new dramas debuting Thursday night fit much more in the industry-wide equation of "successful" with "gritty," focusing on the churning shadowy gap between appearance and reality. 'Satisfaction' and 'Rush' sound a bit familiar 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z “The Boxer, The Artist and The Musician” is a gritty series of portraits shot by Perry Ogden depicting British men preparing for those various activities. London Men’s Wear Shows Reflect on Race and Masculinity 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z But that gritty atmosphere was less influential for her than what was being built a block to the east, in Central Park. The Secret Art Language of New York Playgrounds 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z And he should add some grittier sounds to his palette, as well as a more biting spiccato. Teen violinist Stephen Waarts offers imaginative take on classics in local debut 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Perhaps the grittiest realisms could use a little light rebranding, granted – but even when money's tight, surely there should be a place for poetry ... The view: The arts funding cuts are no problem - British film is best when it keeps it real 2010-05-28T11:39:00Z There’s humor in the script, as well as gritty talk about bedbugs in shelters and other hard conditions, about the “scourge” of alcoholism, the search for work, the loss of dignity. Rose Cano: Uniting communities through theater 2013-09-08T14:01:08Z The result is a distinctive urban beauty that is sometimes gritty and often surprisingly lovely. Jorie Graham’s first book in five years and other best poetry of the month 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Eastwood’s longtime cinematographer, Tom Stern, shoots the mostly outdoor locations in a restrained, handsome palette, neither too gauzy nor too gritty. Movie Review: ‘Trouble With the Curve,’ With Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams 2012-09-20T21:56:24Z In the early-90s, the Staten Island crew patented a blend of raw minimalist beats and eastern fantasy that turned their gritty urban narratives into tales of great mystery and heroism. This week's new live music 2012-07-13T23:11:05Z The gravy starts with a roux in the same pan, and it was a pretty gritty pan by the time I finished. Bryan Voltaggio’s ‘Home,’ reviewed: Not as easy as it ought to be 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Instead, he takes the blue-collar aspects of American culture that have seeped into rock-and-roll — the gritty, the urban, the been-to-hell-and-back cool — and elevates it all. Can a high-end boutique prosper in Detroit? John Varvatos has a vision. 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Aside from the odd self-help book, the story of the codependent doesn’t share much shelf space with the muscular, gritty stories of addicts themselves. Review | For codependents — yes, many of us are women — a book that feels like a powerful strike back 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z This background may have contributed to many of his impassioned and gritty performances. Jack Klugman obituary 2012-12-25T12:14:42Z “It’s kind of gritty but melodic at the same time,” said Mr. Morales, who is quick to underline that almost all the recording was done in New York. Wiki, Formerly of the Hip-Hop Collective Ratking, Strikes Out on His Own 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z She’s taken a character from that play about a family of American radicals, the gritty grandmother Vera, and placed her in another story that takes place a decade later. The Week Ahead: June 19 ? 25 2011-06-17T18:54:18Z She was clad in a white fringed jacket that referenced her trademark fringed dresses of yore, back when she emerged as one of the grittiest rockabilly artists of the 1950s. Wanda Jackson growls through her rockabilly roots 2011-03-23T17:03:00Z “The city was real gritty and dirty back then, you couldn’t even walk in Central Park, you’d get mugged for sure,” Kelly says. Carmine Street Guitars: tuning up with New York's finest plank-spankers 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z And that’s really one of the first things that drew me to her: this gritty magnetism. Who Made Them Feel Mighty Real? 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z But even when Mr. Farr is vulnerable, his voice is determinedly gritty and strained; his warmth is never comforting, only unsettled. Review: Tyler Farr Flaunts Arena-Size Ambitions at Irving Plaza 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Influential 70s director Sidney Lumet, usually known more for his gritty realism than fantastical musical numbers, was responsible for the production. The Wiz Live! Everything you need to know to enjoy NBC's latest camp classic 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Some of Colossal’s earliest murals were for video games and alcoholic drinks — products that profit from a grittier aesthetic. Hipster Culture and Instagram Are Responsible for a Good Thing 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z “Gangster Squad” is inspired by a newspaper series in which Paul Lieberman, writing for The Los Angeles Times in 2008, uncovered the gritty history of a real Gangster Squad. Sean Penn in Ruben Fleischer’s ‘Gangster Squad’ 2013-01-04T14:56:24Z But despite the misfit nature of the characters and the stylishly gritty locales, the series was not made on the cheap; the budget is in the millions of dollars. ?Legion of Extraordinary Dancers,? Online Adventure 2010-06-25T04:17:00Z As I've made clear, "Attack the Block" hovers in that uneasy zone between eager-beaver likability and trying way too hard to be cool, but it captures its gritty setting with unusual affection. "Attack the Block": Aliens in the hood, London-style 2011-07-29T19:30:00Z But the kind of grittily captivating black humor that powers “The Front Page” is rarely apparent in the contemporary portraiture of American journalism. Why ‘The Front Page’ is the best newspaper comedy of all time 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The book’s action, however, is gritty, gruesome and imbued with all-too-convincing realism. A young Irishman falls into the horrors of the American Civil War 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z “Her prose manages to be at once lyrical and gritty, magical yet unsentimental, connecting a dreamworld of Ojibwe legend to stark realities of the modern-day.” Louise Erdrich Wins Library of Congress Award 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Richard Burton, a '60s heartthrob because of his affair with Elizabeth Taylor, showed his chops as an actor with his gritty, depressing and thoroughly realistic portrayal of the tormented Leamas. 5 best movies based on John le Carr? books 2011-12-15T20:59:21Z And though Mr. Brandon never gets treacly, there’s still something about the application of his gritty gifts to the sweet hereafter that feels strained — like Steve Buscemi playing a guardian angel. Books of The Times: ‘A Million Heavens’ by John Brandon, Set in New Mexico 2012-07-17T21:16:28Z If it’s anything like the other two series, look for unstoppable action, great action sequences, and a much grittier hero than the sunny ones we see on the big screen in Marvel’s Avengers. The week's best TV: Westworld, Luke Cage and Woody Allen 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Williams Niles describes it as "earthy, gritty, visceral and physical, with some improvised elements." Music Center's Moves After Dark about contemporary dance, architecture 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z With about 2 million people, it’s a muscular and gritty tangle of buildings. Bucharest, Romania: Little Paris of the East 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z He may not be shooting a film, but it’s telling how much his life seems like a melodrama or a comedy or even, as in a gritty scene with slashing knives and blood, a thriller. ‘Pain and Glory’ Review: Almodóvar’s Dazzling Art of Self-Creation 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Those grittier shows, he argues, “don’t necessarily make you feel something and feel good.” That Padres Pitcher in ‘Pitch,’ She’s Got a Mean Screwball 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The twists are violent and silly and have little relation to the gritty realities of Snider’s world. ‘Hard Luck Love Song’ Review: A Glossy Take on a Gritty Tune 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Guitars and vocals pop with new gritty textures. Seapony's new album 'Falling' builds on first success 2012-09-10T20:41:04Z If you look beyond the gritty details of foreign affairs, diplomacy is simply asking: “How do you bridge a gap between our way of thinking and someone else’s way of thinking?” Téa Leoni knows what you’re thinking when you see her on ‘Madam Secretary’ Coolio, the West Coast rapper whose gritty music and anthemic hits like “Gangsta’s Paradise” helped define hip-hop in the 1990s, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. Coolio, ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ Rapper, Dies at 59 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z It doesn’t have the big-city buzz of Stockholm, or even the gritty sprawl of Gothenburg, 160 miles to the north. Lund, Sweden: Viking roots, off the beaten track 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The biggest of his hits was also one of his best, a gritty song called "Across 110th St.," about the boundary between Harlem and Central Park. Appreciation: Bobby Womack, soul legend, guitarist, L.A. connector 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Concluding that he didn't really want a career as a gritty Northern Irish realist, Harvey decided to train as a teacher. Jonathan Harvey: 'I've given up seeking approval' 2010-04-27T21:00:00Z But also a lot of fun, especially as its pulp elements rub up against some gritty geopolitical and economic themes,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times in July. New on DVD, ‘Fritz Lang: The Early Works’ 2012-11-09T23:32:07Z When the topic turned to whiskey — and it did often — the intensity ramped up another notch and Stapleton’s guitar playing seemed to get a little grittier. A gritty Chris Stapleton delivers the whiskey-soaked goods 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z And even if it does, will it remotely resemble the raw, gritty sound of its origins? Can blues music survive the 21st Century? 2011-06-03T15:46:00Z As to why the film was shot in that country, he said that it was more difficult to get insurance in Lebanon — which, he added, is now too polished for the movie’s gritty aesthetics. ‘Beirut’ Trailer Was Supposed to Thrill. Instead It Offended. 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Modern and gritty are all very well, but comfort and class are irresistible. From The Returned to Broadchurch to Game of Thrones: the best TV of 2013 2013-07-28T18:00:01Z As a director, he has an old-fashioned belief in cinematic beauty, in the charm and necessity of the perfectly lighted and framed face, the hauntingly darkened room, the grittily coarsened street. Review: Hearts of Darkness and Light in ‘The Lost City of Z’ 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The director Robert Woodruff’s gritty staging opened on Saturday at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, presented by the center and Beth Morrison Productions as part of the Prototype Festival. Review: In ‘Dog Days,’ a Family Clawing for Survival 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z While some found it distracting, most taste testers were super into its "Crunch bar vibes" and "gritty," "grainy" consistency. We tried 17 dark chocolate brands to find our snack soulmate 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Her goal is to find more gritty roles. Carrie Coon, at the top of her game, returns to the stage where it all began 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Vincent Gardenia makes a credibly gruff manager, and while the fictional team is named the New York Mammoths, sharp-eyed viewers will recognize the locations as Shea Stadium and the old Yankee Stadium at their grittiest. With Baseball Benched, These Movies Make Good Relievers 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Hodges wanted to do something grittier than the kind of “well-made polished film” that was more traditional at the time. Wolfgang Suschitzky, Photographer and Cinematographer, Dies at 104 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z But we've seen low-rent drug addiction on screen before, depicted just as grittily; how often do we see a story like that of the man who might be Nicholas? 'The Chameleon' feels out of whack 2011-07-07T19:25:04Z This is a good neighborhood, but a gritty one. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: A neighbor asked for a tomato. This is where the story gets weird. 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z But also a lot of fun, especially as its pulp elements rub up against some gritty geopolitical and economic themes. | 'Savages': Review: ‘Savages,’ Oliver Stone’s Adaptation of Don Winslow’s Novel 2012-07-05T16:02:31Z It is refreshing, particularly for a foreign-financed production, to move away from the cobblestones and boulevards of Paris to the gritty contradictions of France’s neglected second city. Mishap on the Med 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z The market square of Kazimierz retains the gritty flavor of the town before tourism and gentrification. Krakow: The heart and soul of Poland 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Movie audiences moved on to grittier, more realistic or contemporary action fare, though Shaw movies still have a solid cult following globally. Hong Kong movie mogul Run Run Shaw dies 2014-01-07T14:02:11Z This results in the gritty, realistic terrorists looking like they raided an Ed Hardy laser tag arena for their weapons. Online gambling’s weird new frontier: The $2.3 billion business of garishly painted virtual assault rifles 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z ‘The Leavers’ is a gritty and painful story of immigration in which the American dream is constantly re-examined alongside the Chinese dream. Summer Reading Recommendations, From 6 Novelists Who Own Bookstores 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z It takes commendable chutzpah to use this event as a platform for a five-hour Wagner opera — particularly in a dark and gritty production. For its most glittering evening, the Met opts for a dark ‘Tristan.’ Good for them. 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Love for the gritty drama triggered a tourism surge in Albuquerque and has helped several niche businesses. 'Breaking Bad' may be over, but Albuquerque businesses hope their high lasts 2013-10-01T13:02:53Z I ask her if, after years of playing damaged characters and gritty survivors in other people's stories, the experience of telling her own story through writing and directing was somehow a more cathartic experience. A powerful faith 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z In other hands, these themes could have made for gritty social realism. Taika Waititi: 'You don't want to be directing kids with a swastika on your arm' 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z While Leigh employs a style of so-called kitchen-sink realism so gritty you're spitting gravel for a week however, Mills – while clearly paying homage – prefers a more effervescent approach. Absolute beginners 2011-07-15T23:03:00Z Subtitled “Tragic” by Mahler at his last performance of the symphony, it is prevailingly dark, and often gritty and abrasive. Review: In Mahler, Philadelphia Orchestra Finds Beauty Amid the Grit 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z They are elegant, gritty works, alive with spontaneous splashes, pours and rivulets of paint, and they effortlessly claim a place in the history of American postwar abstraction, stain painting division. Romare Bearden’s Rarely Seen Abstract Side 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z This gripping debut about a Mexican-American misfit is alive and crackling — a gritty tale wrapped in a page-turner. Love and Other Ties That Bind in This Fall’s Y.A. Novels 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Her novel is by turns gritty, unnerving, exhausting, ferocious and occasionally pretentious. Books Of the Times: ‘The Panopticon,’ a Debut Novel by Jenni Fagan 2013-07-15T21:25:07Z Much of it, however, was shot in a former Titan II missile silo, which lends the film a gritty veracity you don’t find in a green-screen digital setting. Review: In ‘Atomica,’ Hunting for Clues in a Nuclear Waste Zone 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z He continued to write and produce new shows, including a gritty musical, “Walk on the Wild Side,” based on a novel by Nelson Algren. Will Holt, folk singer who wrote ’60s hit ‘Lemon Tree,’ dies at 86 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Virgil Grant came up a grittier way in Los Angeles’ streets. Pot entrepreneur and ex-felon fights for black role in California's budding industry 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Each neighborhood has a flavor, and exploring the various pockets, gritty, glam and everything in between, is the main event. Rowdy and Bawdy, New Orleans is a Party for Families Too 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z But that’s not its ethos, and no place on the grounds embodies better the Open’s gritty nature than the Grandstand. Critic’s Notebook: The Grandstand Court at the U.S. Open Holds Intimate Memories 2013-09-01T21:53:43Z So you went out there to bring back the material to make these gritty, hysterical, humanist films. They don’t make them like Ralph Bakshi anymore: “Now, animators don’t have ideas. They just like to move things around” 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z It's scary, gritty, suspenseful, exciting, intriguing, amazing, thrilling, dark, emotional, stunning … and about a million more adjectives – and all very, very positive. Betrayal by Gregg Olsen – review 2013-03-31T11:00:00Z But if any place could symbolize Ms. Strayed’s path from dark past to gritty redemption, an approximately six-block stretch along Mississippi Avenue in north Portland could very well be it. On the ‘Wild’ Movie Trail in Oregon 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z It's a dark tale, typical of a new generation of filmmakers like this year's Oscar hopeful Steve McQueen, who are taking Britain's tradition of gritty "kitchen sink" cinema in a stark and sometimes strange direction. Britain's 'kitchen sink' cinema finds dark new twist 2013-10-07T13:34:55Z His rendition of Simply Red’s “Holding Back the Years” lacked urgency, passion and didn’t do much to showcase Wade’s wonderfully gritty tone. 'The Voice' recap: Top 8 ... or top great? 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z It's the most lighthearted work in years from the master of gritty social realism, and a change of gears from his last film, the bitter Iraq War drama "Route Irish." Loach in Cannes with spirited 'The Angels' Share' 2012-05-22T15:44:09Z She likes the dark, gritty, more intense stuff, where I was like, I like to laugh all day. How being funny became Krysten Ritter "eureka moment" that led to her acting career 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z The AAA’s artist in residence this year will also be a young woman, Doris Wong, who works in Fotan, a gritty industrial area on Hong Kong’s outskirts. Female Factor: Bringing a Woman's Touch to Chinese Art Scene 2011-01-20T12:30:05Z The shot sets the scene for Mahesh Narayanan’s dense, breathless thriller, which plunges us with little exposition into its gritty milieu. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Much of it is stereo typically underdeveloped and gritty with plenty of eye opening areas mostly right along the border and pockets through out Greater TJ. Through a Tijuana Turnstile and Into Tacos and Tortas 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z But Mr. Ferrara, known for gritty movies like “Bad Lieutenant” and “King of New York,” has a reputation for being passionately unyielding about creative control. Abel Ferrara Fights to Stop Re-Edited Strauss-Kahn Film 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z On the new season of “Euphoria,” too, makeup has taken a turn from glittery to gritty, with plenty of black eyeliner. Smudgy Eye Makeup Makes a Comeback 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z His second novel, Blood Whispers, a violent thriller, has been described as "brutal and gritty and fast-paced" by The Scotsman. Meet the author: John Gordon Sinclair 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The actor admits it was viewer power that secured a second series for the gritty Channel 4 drama about life on a drug ridden estate in east London. VIDEO: Walters: Top Boy shows UK 'reality' 2013-08-20T05:51:36Z The four became known for gritty but wacky sketches that included, always, a surprise. Pangea 3000, Sketch-Comedy Troupe, on Disbanding 2012-07-27T16:00:00Z Tucked amid New Haven’s gritty downtown not far from the well-groomed Yale campus lies the Ninth Square, a district of old red-brick buildings whose storefronts sat mostly vacant for decades. Near Yale, a District Blooms 2012-08-24T18:25:18Z Back then he was popular for his gritty shots of downtown life that became the basis for his movie “Kids.” When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z Interpreted as an ironic comment on Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, it drew art-lovers to the gritty Turnpike Lane area. British neighborhood wants its Banksy back 2013-02-20T13:16:04Z If “Become Ocean” tries to lull you into a reflective state, “Deserts” tries to rile you up with gritty blasts of dissonance, spare motifs and sputtering rhythmic figures. Music Review: Seattle Symphony Explores Nature at Spring for Music 2014-05-07T21:12:37Z Etta James sang professionally nearly her whole life, and could stock a long shelf full of memorable records: gritty blues songs in the 1950s, hits in a broad range of styles in the ’60s. A Voice of Gold, a Life of Pain: Etta James, 1938-2012 2012-01-20T22:06:06Z Make a film about gritty American life and, sooner or later, the dream will crawl in through the cracks. Roof down, music up: American Honey and the neverending search for the American dream 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z And it was so much more gritty and, for want of a better word, realistic than I was expecting. ‘House of the Dragon’: Steve Toussaint on Playing Lord Corlys, Boat Guy 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Despite its gritty physical detail and rough language, it’s impressionistic. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z And the play is infused with a gritty, tragic awareness of his own underprivileged background, and the plight of his peers who've been abandoned, imprisoned and unemployed in numbers far greater than their white counterparts. Review: 'The Brothers Size' at Seattle Rep, wrestles with the passions, the perils of brotherhood 2011-02-10T21:57:04Z It captures a hard-working, unsophisticated side of the country that grittier dramas overlook. Bus Stop 2010-07-26T21:31:00Z They wowed critics with their gritty portrayals of rural life in films like "Yellow Earth" and "Red Sorghum." 'Concubine' director defends choice of projects 2011-03-22T16:00:13Z HBO’s most-watched series, the medieval fantasy drama Game of Thrones, is likely to continue through three more seasons, a network executive said on Thursday, as he defended the show’s gritty violence. Game of Thrones likely to continue for three more seasons, HBO says 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Thomas, who wrote code for the app, finds himself fielding requests for bleaker, grittier messages. Outing Death 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Inside, a more rustic look sets it apart from its grittier neighbors. A Berlin Bar That Embraces Natural Wines 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The music sets a poem by Frank O’Hara that couches a plea for self-acceptance in the imagery of gritty urban life. Music Review: A Program of Personal Significance 2010-12-01T16:19:00Z Mr. Leguizamo, who has turned his gritty adolescence into a professional calling card, encountered plenty of loose cannons in the day. A Day Out in the Boxing Gym With John Leguizamo 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The very first day of production involved a gritty Andy v Nile fight scene. Gina Prince-Bythewood: 'Films about black women are the hardest to get made' 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Equally fun are bits about laying in sufficient provisions to satiate any hobbits who might stop by, as well as the gritty details of the palace’s sewage system. Gandalf’s room was a mess: “The Lord of the Rings” retold from the perspective of Rivendell’s housekeeper 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z But this pair, fashioned from the materials of commercial development, reflect the grimmer and grittier face of China today. Xu Bing Installs His Sculptures at St. John the Divine 2014-02-14T22:56:02Z Gonzalez’s kicky samba “Brazilian Girls” found Lawrence and Lewis hitting the rhythmic accents hard, the saxophonist making powerful use of his gritty underside and offsetting his emphatic rhythm with another organic solo. Review | Saxophonist Azar Lawrence’s Coltrane devotion takes center stage at Blues Alley 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z While the characters of this whodunit are predictably drawn, Maclean does a fine job of immersing the reader in cultural detail and gritty social context. Louisa May Alcott as protagonist: Three new novels feature the author of 'Little Women' 2011-06-15T19:36:04Z "Tangerine" takes its title from the movie's sunny, saturated cinematography, in which an orange candy glow coats the gritty streets. 'Tangerine' a joyful girlfriend movie for our modern age 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The musician and actor, formerly one-third of the Jonas Brothers, will unveil an R&B-inspired solo album this fall and stars on Kingdom, a gritty TV drama about martial arts fighting. Nick Jonas: I Want a Career Like Elvis Presley 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z A poignant and gritty book about the difference between friendship and tribalism. Nikesh Shukla's top 10 Anglo-Asian books 2010-12-22T11:17:38Z This was a gritty, engrossing performance of a nine-minute sextet that evolves in thick block chords. Music Review: JACK Quartet in Pop Up! Concert at Miller Theater 2012-02-08T22:51:09Z Club USA, whose décor played on the theme of a gritty, bygone Times Square, was filled on many nights with club kids and drag queens. ArtsBeat: Art Films Trace Gay History Around New York 2012-07-09T17:34:34Z Early reviews for the film have been strong, with critics calling "Wild" Witherspoon's best work since "Walk the Line" and crediting Vallée with eliciting and showcasing the gritty performance. Director Jean-Marc Vallee is on a 'Wild' ride in Hollywood 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Then there was a recent sex scene on his new DirecTV series "Kingdom," a gritty family drama set in the world of mixed martial arts fighting. Nick Jonas drops brother act for grown-up moves with album, TV show 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z He added a crisp melodic counterpoint to the group’s gritty, percussive sound, including the outlaw country anthem “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys.” Ralph Mooney, Master of the Steel Guitar, Dies at 82 2011-03-27T00:58:42Z “Empowerment” is a buzzword right now, but rarely do songs about empowerment feel as gritty and muscular as they do on your record—like “Weaker Girl,” which is a song I really love. How Banks Found Her Voice on Her New Album The Altar 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z There’s a gap, in other words, between the romantic image of America many of us learn about as children and its grittier realities. The Much-Vaunted American Melting Pot, Cracks and All 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z The director started out in smaller, grittier crime fare but his bleak period drama The Immigrant, also sorely underseen, kicked off a new, more ambitious phase in his career. The early favourites: who might be winning Oscars in 2020? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Shmurda, best known for "Hot Boy," a gritty hit song with rhymes about street violence, was sentenced to seven years in prison on charges he conspired with a drug gang in several shootings. 'Hot Boy' rapper Bobby Shmurda gets 7-year prison sentence 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z However, the younger age bracket does not preclude books that tackle gritty or difficult subjects. Children's shortlist 2010-09-17T12:33:00Z Journeys start in the gray gloom of morning in the sprawling Art Nouveau station of the Gare de Lyon with its clock tower looming over a gritty neighborhood in the southeast of Paris. A Writing Retreat by Rail, From Paris to the Côte d’Azur 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Since superheroes have taken a consistent gritty and realist turn in the past two decades, let's take that proposition to its logical conclusion and consider how "real" the depiction of labor is. The labor laws of the superhero universe amount to disturbing propaganda 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z At an age when other singers are losing their voices, Mr. Webb finds his mercurial, unguarded singing, which he used to consider a liability, attaining the gritty authority of a softhearted country outlaw’s. Music: Jimmy Webb Sings on ?Just Across the River? 2010-07-18T02:31:00Z AT the mouth of the Los Angeles River, shipping cranes flex across the skyline — an industrial panorama that suits Long Beach’s gritty reputation. 36 Hours: Long Beach, Calif. 2012-03-15T16:04:42Z At that time, New York rap was at its grittiest, in part a reaction to the smoothing-out that was already happening in West Coast rap. Sean Price, Rapper With Deep Brooklyn Roots, Dies at 43 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z And most recently there’s Tom Hardy’s hugely enjoyable Taboo, which – despite its gruff grunting to the contrary – is about as dark and gritty as a limerick about a man from Nantucket. Got Game of Thrones withdrawal syndrome? Try Vikings 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z When she finally adopted a grittier tone, however briefly, the contrast seemed strikingly purposeful. Music Review: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-02-27T23:13:45Z They introduced post-impressionism to Britain and painted in a way that had not been seen; they were gritty and unadorned – they painted real life. Camden Town Group of painters welcomes a woman ? a century later 2010-12-01T19:31:00Z So it's like a grittier, more realistic Sex and the City? Lena Dunham – pass notes No 3,262 2012-10-09T16:05:07Z He doesn’t stray from those qualities on “Sir Lucious Left Foot,” a strong album of bombastic, gritty country rap tunes. Music Review: An Outkast Out There by Himself 2010-09-07T21:50:00Z The characters all work for a television show that creates a syrupy narrative out of sordid and gritty real life, and they do that by consciously fudging the distinction between truth and fiction. From the Duggars to the Bachelorettes, we’ve made our cynical TV beds — and this damning critique of our “reality” obsession couldn’t come at a better time 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z In fact, it took a little nudging to get her to this gritty stretch of Santa Fe Avenue, south of the 10 Freeway. Why Rosamund Felsen left Santa Monica for downtown's industrial arts district 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Sometimes, in addition to the gritty oxidation, there is also a black slime, which is caused by bacteria that feed on oxidized iron and manganese. Black grit on the faucet is not necessarily a problem 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Cousins’s final game for the Spartans encapsulated his ethic: ugly in spots, with two interceptions, but gritty enough to lead a 33-30, triple-overtime upset of Georgia in the Outback Bowl. Is Kirk Cousins capable of greatness? 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Block for block, it may be even more full of gritty, Old World charm than Lisbon. Visit Porto, one of Europe’s most alluring ‘second cities’ 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Leonard, famous for his gritty cowboys, hardened crooks and laconic cops, won the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. U.S. novelist Elmore Leonard hospitalized following stroke 2013-08-06T19:44:23Z The midday sun on Saturday made for unsettling contrasts in Ms. Anspaugh’s gritty work, an extension of her recent “we were an island.” River to River Festival Embraces Ambiguity 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z A stunning, uncompromising look at the two countries whose dark, gritty narrative brings a new dimension to what you think about animation. The best animated films for grownups 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z In this gritty portrait of 70s Brooklyn, he plays the strobe-lit stallion of Odyssey nightclub and spends much of the movie strutting his stuff. From Travolta’s twist to strobe-lit raves: 10 of the best dancefloor scenes in cinema 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z If there was cause for complaint, it was that Lionheart’s polish and refinement, seductive as they were, seemed slightly at odds with the gritty, robust spirit of these amorous songs. Music Review: Preparing a Dainty Dish to Set Before a King 2010-09-27T23:42:00Z Ms. James’s work was grittier and more realistically prosaic at the same time. P.D. James, who brought a gritty realism to the British detective novel, dies at 94 In this gritty thriller, set in rural Virginia, Beauregard “Bug” Montage — the owner of a struggling auto shop — is drifting back into his old life of crime. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Featuring just a small amount of dialogue, the short film used McDowell and his mesmerizing slide guitar as a backdrop for the gritty existence of residents near Como, Mississippi. Christian Garrison, author, filmmaker, dies in NC at age 78 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Severin’s gutsy and gritty pencils – often inked by Will Elder, another early Mad stalwart – always depicted real soldiers who looked as if they were just one more explosion or gunshot away from permanent PTSD. The Dirty Details of War 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Slaughter, author of the Will Trent best-sellers, keeps her first stand-alone novel from becoming a history lesson by investing it with a gritty, action-packed plot and strong, believable characters. Review: Karin Slaughter’s ‘Cop Town’ is engrossing 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z In the marvelous Ramírez survey exhibition that inaugurates the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, on a gritty downtown street across from the Greyhound bus station, trains enter tunnels to nowhere, disappearing into black holes. The mystery of an artist only deepens: The remarkable drawings of Martín Ramírez at DTLA's new museum 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z So it’s encouraging to see her next film, The Kitchen, is shaping up to be a gritty crime thriller in a Widows vein. can Tiffany Haddish break out of Hollywood’s humdrum comedy cycle? 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Urban life means riding a pendulum between extremes: a city is always en route to being either a gritty nightmare or a bourgeois snooze. Welcome to the Future: Middle-Class Housing Projects 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z A gritty, fact-based fairy tale set in working-class Lowell, Mass., "The Fighter" is quite effective as drama — that is, until it abruptly changes genres in its final act. 'The Fighter': Two parts punchy drama, one part formulaic sports movie 2010-12-16T10:16:05Z Like Young Fathers' name, the TV on the harsh clatter of Deadline – "Don't you turn my home against me / Even if my house is empty" – elliptically evokes gritty notions of fractured families. Young Fathers – review 2013-01-22T13:38:07Z Honesty: Unless you’re asked for an honest appraisal by someone who wants to join your ex-employer or who is in a position to fix what’s wrong, keep the grittiest truths to yourself. Work Advice: Eager to quit? Tips on bowing out gracefully. 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Musically speaking, the record offers a gritty take on drone and minimalism. Robert Beatty has become a one-man industry of psychedelic album art 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z For a grittier watch, this Brazilian crime thriller delivers a blend of social commentary, family drama and heart-pumping action. 6 Shows to Stream From Latin America 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z "He was written so raw and gritty. Courtney didn't pull any punches." 'Power' explores the dark corners of clubs and drugs 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z This emotion-packed rendering of the grittily lyrical musical by Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents is not only one of the finest revivals Signature Theatre has ever mounted. Signature’s ‘West Side Story’: It’s not just any night 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Especially when I’m heckled, that’s a sticky situation, because I don’t defuse it… I really envy guys who have a grittier onstage presence and can really go after someone. “I think it’s terror”: Comedian Josh Gondelman on how Donald Trump’s rise sobered up this election year 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z “Passion” was conceived as a vehicle for the mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, who was glamorous, gritty and poignant in the title role. Glimmerglass Creates Magic in Its Own Backyard 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z It recently inspired a gritty MTV series by the same name. Rod Daniel, Whose Crowd-Pleasing Films Lined Pockets, Dies at 73 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z That’s echoed across London, as soaring rents and redevelopment put pressure on fringe theaters and grittier spaces. London International Mime Festival: Wordless Physicality That Smashes the Glass Box 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Not in a gritty, real sense, but in a passionate, romantic, ethereal way. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inducts Guns N? Roses, Beastie Boys and Red Hot Chili Peppers 2012-04-15T06:36:46Z “Yet she has collected enough feats worthy of record to fill at least one strong memoir, a book whose contents are far more gripping, gritty and original than its bromide of a title … might suggest.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z “Revenant” centers on one man’s gritty Darwinian struggle for survival and fortune. “The Revenant” is Trump, “Spotlight” is Bernie: What this best picture race tells us about our divided America 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z In Christopher Nolan’s movie trilogy, based on the comic book writer Frank Miller’s gritty Dark Knight reboot, Gotham gradually crumbles, the rubble and squalor are palpable, the impact of a crime-ridden city meaningful. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z But it's also not a "dark side of the City of Angels" gritty tale of how people come to California to chase their dreams and then they die. How to survive—and thrive—in "The Heartbreak Years" 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z The dialogue is mainly in a gritty urban Arabic, peppered with Hebrew. Israeli film "Ajami" gets real, aims for Oscar 2010-03-04T00:01:00Z When JCO writes that her memoir is "steeped in the grittiest of details as the bed linens of poor Emma Bovary were steeped in her physical agony", the aggrandisement is embarrassingly explicit. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z It plucks elements from sitcoms, gritty crime shows, supernatural television, and period pieces and knits them together into six fast-paced episodes. In Netflix's "Ghost Bride," a woman marries a dead man, and then things get wonderfully weird 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z We shot quickly and had a gritty aesthetic, so it was important to use lenses with imperfections, which allow for interesting flares and natural in-camera effects to be captured in every frame. "Destroyer" director Karyn Kusama: "I’m keeping a smile on my face and seething inside" 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Growing out of the housing projects and ghettos on the West Coast in the 1980s, gangsta rap made the gritty reality of gangs, violence and drugs central features. Using Rap Lyrics as Damning Evidence Stirs Legal Debate 2014-03-26T23:01:35Z The slow second movement, which introduces a grittier texture to the piece, uses electronic replay technology to record Ma’s sound and then “loop” it out to the audience in echoing layers. Waiting for a Masterpiece from Esa-Pekka Salonen 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z It's often sad but it's completely compelling and an example of how "gritty British film-making" can still encompass inventive and clever ideas. Clip joint: British shorts 2013-02-07T16:11:03Z Miele prefers places that are gritty, well used and open to artistic experiments. In the galleries: Tales from the dark side — of Canada 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Cuomo is also at work on the group’s next record, the Black Album — a tougher, grittier reaction to the White Album’s sonic buoyancy — and said, “It’s all I think about.” Rivers Cuomo of Weezer Taps His Inner Beach Boy 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Musically, the quintet's mix of nervy pop, gritty punk, rock, and girl-group harmonic gleam was a revelation. "Beauty and the Beat" at 40: The Go-Go's landmark debut ushered in a musical new wave 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Even with the kind of grittier crime stories that I think keep the show timely, the show feels real. "Virgin River" writer on small towns, twists and next season: "Cameron lives to fight another day" 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z “Inside every oyster there’s a single gritty grain of sand, that’s me,” he retorts. American Gods recap: season one, episode five – David Bowie rules the world 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Mitchell knew his guy could fly, so he began coaching a young Al Green onward and upward: “Let them be gritty. You be smooth. Remember, Al. It’s silky on the top. Rough on the bottom.” What does it mean when the Weeknd hits a high note? 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The film's director, Martin Campbell, who rebooted the James Bond franchise with the gritty "Casino Royale," acknowledges that the "Green Lantern" is a lesser-known member of the D.C. comics pantheon, but so what? "Green Lantern" emerges from obscurity; critics pounce 2011-06-17T05:24:12Z It was 2014, the night of a freshman play, “Road,” a gritty drama co-directed by Moss in one of her early, earnest efforts. The Making of ‘Six’: How Tudor Queens Turned Into Pop Stars 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z He was an in-demand session musician as a guitarist, a distinctively gritty vocalist and a renowned songwriter. Soul poet Bobby Womack dead at 70 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z She also confronts desire, shame and the painful choices immigrants must face, using language that varies from gritty to dreamlike. Why W.S. Merwin endures, and other best poetry to read this month 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Now in his late 60s, he makes no secret of his affection for the gritty theater district that catered mainly to native New Yorkers before Times Square became a Disneyfied tourist playground. ‘The Secret Life of the American Musical’ — from ‘Gypsy’ to ‘Hamilton’ 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z What do you enjoy about the grittier topics? Jennifer Aniston on being a 'badass' after 'Friends' 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z When paired with prosecco — as well as the gentle breeze and breathtaking views — the fruity, sharp and slightly gritty bite was perfect. From Iceland to Italy, a Wisconsinite cheesehead's guide to European cheese 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Leth knows how to evoke a gritty urban ambience, along with a vertiginous unease. Movie Review: ?Man on a Ledge,? With Ed Harris as an Evil Real Estate Tycoon 2012-01-26T23:44:01Z Billy Bang, a violinist whose gritty, expressive and spirited playing earned admiration in contemporary jazz circles, died on Monday at his home in Harlem. Billy Bang, Jazz Violinist Inspired by Vietnam Experience, Dies at 63 2011-04-14T02:43:25Z The background: We didn't really agree with the NME journalist who, following his encounter with new US rapper Drake, deemed him insufficiently gritty and working-class. New band of the day - No 840 J Cole 2010-08-04T16:17:00Z Grittier salespeople stay in their jobs, grittier swimmers win more medals and grittier pupils persevere with university. Character-driven 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z You step out of the train station at Peckham Rye, a gritty area of South London that’s the latest haunt of young people looking for low rent and cheap nights. Multi-Story Orchestra Turns a Parking Garage Into a Concert Hall 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Outdoor Dining Stuck in a sidewalk pen and eating gritty under a cloud of bus exhaust, it’s easy to loathe outdoor dining in New York. 10 Hot Spots of Summer 2010-07-01T00:36:00Z We went to a typical boxing gym — tough, hot, gritty, and full of sweaty dudes hitting the bags. In knockout thriller "Catch the Fair One," a boxer infiltrates a ring of human traffickers 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z The gritty crime drama "The Red Road" is back for a second season. TV This Week March 29-April 4: 'The Dovekeepers' on CBS 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The movie, shot in the Bahamas, where Mr. Sandler spent some of his teenage years, captures the grittier, lesser-seen corners of a tourist destination. Review: ‘Live Cargo,’ Human Trafficking, and Other Woes, in Paradise 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z It was intended to be a gritty crime drama and then became a rebel breakthrough and now isn't that anymore either. "Breathless": Rebel postcard from the past 2010-05-29T18:01:00Z LA Law always trod the line between gritty and supersoap with a delicacy that was its charm. How Rosalind’s fatal lift plummet marked the death of LA Law 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z But gritty business talk about a still-expanding industry was mostly saved for another time. ArtsBeat: Audie Awards Celebrate Great Voices, Not Famous Faces 2012-06-06T17:59:52Z Their strong performances aren’t matched by the script, which too often sounds like a collection of aphorisms rather than the gritty language that seems more likely for such fascinating figures. Review: ‘Bessie,’ on HBO, Stars Queen Latifah as Blues Singer 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Those images became a time capsule of a grittier city and established Ms. Goldin’s place as one of America’s most important photographers. Nan Goldin Is Ready for Oscar Night 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Their stage show pries out a gritty, filthy edge from any commonplace spectator that few bands can hope to capture. REVIEW: Die Antwoord's Donker Mag Fails to Maintain Momentum 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" is part of To's recent push into the mainland Chinese market with blander fare than his signature crime thrillers, which are often too violent or gritty to pass mainland censorship. HK film festival opens, mood hurt by Japan crisis 2011-03-20T16:16:03Z And though set in a radically different world, the motifs here are similar to “Lone Survivor,” Wahlberg’s working-class drama about gritty men fighting for their lives in dire conditions. The BP oil spill comes to movie theaters 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Set in gritty 1960s-era London, the crime thriller tracks the story of the Kray brothers, who were once feared as the most dangerous men in England. Watch Tom Hardy Throw a Good Punch in 'Legend' Trailer 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z “The feel and style we’re going for is a little grittier, a little edgier, a little hipper,” said Bruce Seidel, the senior vice president for programming and production for the Cooking Channel. The Food Network Expands With the Cooking Channel 2010-04-20T22:43:00Z Bramwell's no rocking vicar, though his songs are sermons of sorts: gritty but pretty symphonies about life on the slopes delivered with morality, humanity, drama and empathy. I Am Kloot – review 2012-11-11T16:21:50Z Galera is the author of several gritty novels set in contemporary Brazil and one of Granta’s Best Young Brazilian novelists; he writes with a heady, voracious energy captured in robust prose by Sanches. Novels From Around the World Examine Kinship and Conflict 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z The crew included cameraman Robert Kaylor, already an acclaimed director of independent cinema verite films including “Derby,” a 1971 documentary on the roller-derby scene, another gritty fringe subculture thriving far from polite society. A filmmaker reissues what some consider the definitive bluegrass documentary, featuring the Osborne Brothers 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z "Applause" may present as gritty European realism, but the struggle inside Thea is almost theological in scale, and worthy of Milton or Kierkegaard. Pick of the week: The amazing Paprika Steen in "Applause" 2011-01-20T23:50:00Z “West by West” is a reminder, I guess, of how a gritty West Virginia childhood can stick with some people. Books of The Times: ?West by West? by Jerry West and Jonathan Coleman ? Review 2011-11-01T22:56:20Z Although we wound up making up some characters and events, by Hollywood standards our screenplay was a triumph of gritty realism — essentially, a documentary. Gene Weingarten: the Opie-Changey thing 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Ms. Sharma counters with gritty reality: We see her in the delivery room, cradling her newborn, weeping. An Exhibition Worth Thousands of Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z "In terms of the creative process, it's much more visceral, more workmanlike, kind of gritty," he said. "Project Accessory" seeks fashion's next big name 2011-10-25T22:23:23Z It's a gritty drama but you can't help feeling that all concerned are checking their hair in their knife blades between skirmishes. TV highlights 24/07/2013 2013-07-24T06:00:04Z We drank beer and ate pork-fried dumplings, warming ourselves from the gritty freeze of the parking lot. Modern Love: A Once-Upon-a-Time Romance 2011-03-03T20:37:34Z She produced a colorful range of timbres, from richly penetrating in the aching melodies to gritty in the explosive finale. Music Review: Philharmonic?s ?Modern Beethoven? at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-10T00:43:09Z On Sunday, the duke and duchess will watch a dance at a nonprofit academy in the gritty Skid Row area downtown, then attend a job fair for U.S. servicemen and women transitioning to civilian life. Kate and William heading for Los Angeles 2011-07-08T21:44:09Z Mr. Ashley’s other well-known operas include “Atalanta,” loosely inspired by the Greek myth; “Now Eleanor’s Idea,” about varieties of religious experience; and “Dust,” about the denizens of a gritty New York park. Robert Ashley, Opera Composer Who Painted Outside the Lines, Dies at 83 2014-03-07T03:00:51Z “The end product wasn’t always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.” Frank Ocean Is Finally Free, Mystery Intact 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z On the vast spectrum of playmaking, the New York Musical Festival hews much closer to candy-colored convention than to gritty, gray outré. ‘Till’ Brings a Tragedy to Life 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z While many brilliant women have explored gritty, socially relevant terrain since, just about all have a serial character attached, because this is what publishers require. Cathi Unsworth: women and noir 2012-06-29T21:55:21Z Fans of “True Detective” and “House of Cards” would find hints of those series in this gritty German crime drama. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like’ and ‘Gad Elmaleh: American Dream’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z However many different faces the city might present to the camera — dressed up or roughed up, gritty or glamorous, tragic or madcap — it remains always and unmistakably itself. When Filming in New York, the City Is Always the Star 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z He achieved this without giving it a radical spin, without going dark and gritty, as is the way these days. Star Trek Into Darkness: how it was made, by the people who made it 2013-05-11T05:00:00Z It’s a gritty metaphor about the global flux of vulnerable populations by a Zimbabwean who lives in South Africa. What Not to Miss at the Armory Show at the Piers 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z That story was of a day in the life of a group of street kids living in a pre-Giuliani New York City that was gritty and raw. Harmony Korine on Kids: 'It would be impossible to make that film now' 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The same decade that spawned gritty, realist films like “The Godfather,” “Mean Streets” and “Taxi Driver” also ushered in the era of the blockbuster, thanks to “Jaws” and “Star Wars.” Review | You think ‘Star Wars’ is childish? You don’t know the power of the dark side! 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z We’d select works not only by Shakespeare, but also by Kaufman and Hart, Oscar Wilde, Noël Coward, Philip Barry and occasionally something grittier — Eugene O’Neill, say, or Clifford Odets. Turn the Living Room into a Stage: Read Plays Out Loud 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z The trauma of being a U.S. soldier in the Vietnam War reverberates through Kim Jones’s tough, gritty assemblage-sculptures, drawings and endurance performances. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z You’d get something gritty and coarse, like cornbread, but still supple enough to scoop, like pudding. Sweet, Tender and Studded With Strawberries 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z There was a push for a gritty realism in those days in filmmaking. Animal penises’ amazing evolution 2012-06-12T15:40:00Z Although he freely admitted to a lifelong love affair with the city, he often showed its grittier side. Sidney Lumet, director of classic films, has died 2011-04-09T16:26:00Z Stylistically, Kennedy seemed to prefer the company of grittier black leaders, like the ones who’d organized the rally for him in Indianapolis. Book excerpt: The untold story of MLK and RFK 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Another female writer whose work I admire is Le Minh Khue, whose short story collection “The Stars, The Earth, The River” is mainly set in Hanoi’s working-class neighborhoods and depicts a grittier city. Read Your Way Through Hanoi 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z And I did. But only a few other black kids from Trenton did, too. The rest got the real, gritty city experience, stereotypically synonymous with urban, black, ghetto, dropout, neglect and forgotten. I was the seventh black kid on the bus, or at least it felt that way 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z He quickly assumed the stage name of Tabboo! and also busied himself establishing the graphic style of the period with a multitude of grittily elegant posters, announcements and fliers for events at Pyramid and elsewhere. Tabboo! Paints a Valentine to New York City 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z "I really like 'The Notebook' because it's a little grittier, and this felt like that," the actor recalled. Scott Eastwood thinks 'The Longest Ride' bucks a Nicholas Sparks trend 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Both sides of my family are from Brooklyn by way of Russia - gritty blacksmiths, saloon keepers, garment workers and numbers runners. Motherlode Blog: The Bond of Blueberry Jam 2012-09-28T15:33:37Z Commitment is not always fun and rewarding; it is often gritty and challenging. 4 Ways to Help Your Kid Learn to Suck it Up 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z For such a gritty subject, the writing is unexpectedly lyrical, elevating the drama of one boy's life into the tragedy of the many whose potential is thrown away before they reach adulthood. Mad About the Boy – review 2012-06-07T17:00:02Z Or the motivation of whole character arcs—Paul’s story in this episode is almost comical in how overwhelmingly macho he’s attempting to be, but his spiral is played for the grittiest, most serious emotions possible. “True Detective” recap: Internal investigations and the shoot-out of the century 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Like sex, this suicide business seemed grittier in real life than on the silver screen. My Marriage: A Course in Desert Survival 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z He charges through the gritty garage punk of his new album A+E as if auditioning for At the Drive-In. Reading festival 2012 gets an A* in Having It 2012-08-26T14:48:03Z And the occasional deluxe series probably subsidizes many other smaller, grittier projects. Television Review: ?Frozen Planet? on the Discovery Channel 2012-03-17T00:13:08Z As to the a la carte sides, the collards, waffling between sweet and bitter, were gritty — more thorough rinsing, please! Where to eat at MGM National Harbor: We taste all the top restaurants 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Now, after developing a cult following, Ms. Okorafor’s gritty, unconventional fantasies are catching on with a much larger, mainstream audience. Nnedi Okorafor and the Fantasy Genre She Is Helping Redefine 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z I ended up with a by-no-means-comprehensive playlist of nearly a hundred songs, and also a survey of the gritty, often thrilling turns that hip-hop is taking around the globe. A YouTube Journey Through Rap Tributes to Soccer Stars 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z "It's grittier, more authentic, we're learning more about the author's state of mind," he said. Publisher dusts off missing chapter in Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-03-09T19:08:23Z "The girl in the black helmet", she was called, the gritty hue of her barnet more redolent of the dominatrix's leather boot than the flowing locks of the damsel in distress. Clip joint: the Louise Brooks bob 2010-09-22T16:21:00Z Other career highlights include “The Electric Company,” a children’s program in which she starred during the 1970s, and a supporting role on the gritty HBO prison drama “Oz.” Rita Moreno Mixes Up a Carnival in the Kitchen 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z But in New York, he was merely betting that a gritty neighborhood would eventually gentrify. Can a high-end boutique prosper in Detroit? John Varvatos has a vision. 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Ross Raisin would seem to fit the bill: his novel God's Own Country has the authentically gritty language and grim subject matter. On the trail of Alan Sillitoe's angry young man 2011-08-15T20:30:03Z “The Alienist” isn’t prettified — the first camera push-in on an empty eye socket makes that clear — but neither is it grittily realistic. Review: ‘The Alienist’ Is a Period Piece That Missed Its Moment 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z In sometimes gritty detail, Porizkova shares her early experiences as a displaced child of war from Czechoslovakia, which included being separated from her parents and growing up in a rather fast fashion. “What's wrong with being 57?”: Supermodel Paulina Porizkova questions the value of youth in beauty 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Other friends remember a gritty determination that pushed him to get a pilot’s license even though he was extremely fearful of flying. The Confidence, and the Art, Looked Real 2013-12-25T21:26:07Z You see some cable shows that are gritty and there’s kind of a pessimistic worldview, and we don’t have that. ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Plans ‘Our Version of a Happy Ending’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z I became too conscious of the writers putting things in for gritty dramatic effect, rather than how they might have happened in real life. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Huff's small but richly gritty two-hander about a pair of morally compromised cops was an instant sensation when it had its world premiere in Chicago. After 'A Steady Rain,' instant success for Keith Huff 2011-05-27T18:57:00Z The resulting show moves effortlessly between paintings in vibrant hues and sculptural works that recall gritty city streets. Dan Colen Brings A Downtown Aeshtetic To The Brant Foundation 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z The streets almost instantly took to Wu-Tang's unorthodox style of gritty street raps cut with clips of kung fu and karate flicks. Raekwon opens up about life before and with the Wu-Tang Clan 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z One morning last month, the R.V. was parked on a gritty street in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, near Mr. Sinclair’s office. Brooklyn’s Favorite Pot Dealer Returns 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z While its graffiti-covered exterior recalls the Bowery’s grittier days, the building’s interior is a grand example of Gilded Age architecture. Peek Inside One of New York’s Most Mysterious Buildings 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Mountain is Australian director Jennifer Peedom’s follow-up to the much grittier, Bafta-nominated Sherpa, which was all about disadvantaged mountain people taking excessive risks on Everest while working for wealthy foreign tourists. Mountain: a movie that reaches new peaks of cinematography 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Some will no doubt call this a whitewash, but Saving Mr. Banks presents a grittier version of Disney than one might have expected 10 or even five years ago... Saving Mr Banks: the critics' view 2013-10-21T10:26:27Z But the grittier, graffiti-and-bodega backdrop is not necessarily as winning as palm trees and swimming pools. 2010-02-11T22:45:00Z I highly recommend it for fans of gritty noir with an alternate history vibe. Review | African speculative fiction is finally getting its due. Let’s talk about books to seek out. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z The grainy, faux-home movie footage is about as close as we’ll get to truly feeling present in the gritty crime world that the film attempts to evoke. ‘Devil’s Peak’ Review: The Curse of a Family Name 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Mills contributed to "The Wire" from 2006 to 2008, a show created by former journalist David Simon that took a gritty look at Baltimore's drug trade, police force, newspaper business and bureaucracy. "The Wire" and "ER" writer David Mills dies 2010-03-31T19:45:00Z The loquacious raconteur is saving the gritty anecdotes for an autobiography that he will start writing in a month or two. Robbie Robertson's no-fuss career frustrates fans 2011-04-07T20:49:54Z After all, what most people like about the original films is how gritty and real their universe looks. Let's Talk About Grand Moff Tarkin in 'Rogue One' 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z There were rumors of hard partying by the dancer, who lived for a time above a tattoo parlor he co-owned on a gritty London street. Runaway dancer Sergei Polunin returning to London 2013-05-28T15:25:22Z McMahon writes gritty, ultra-realistic horror – a welcome antidote to the effete horror romance currently flooding the market – about the angst of urban existence in the 21st century. Science fiction roundup – reviews 2012-06-01T21:53:01Z But where its source material, Alice Walker’s epistolary novel about black women living in the South in the 1930s, is gritty and raw, Spielberg’s adaptation trends toward soft and pretty. Steven Spielberg’s 3 Biggest Failures, According to Steven Spielberg 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z I loved the spirit of it, the freedom and gritty flamboyance of the streets and clubs of New York, the sense of uniqueness. After Fashion, Hedi Slimane Turns to Photography Full Time 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z "It was taking the magic that we love from old Hollywood musicals but making it feel very gritty and real and contemporary," Chazelle said. Director Chazelle crafts modern millennial musical in 'La La Land' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Besides a fondness for gritty vocals, they both share blue-collar backgrounds. 'Idol' favorite would continue winner monotony 2012-05-15T22:11:11Z The assumption that dropping your aitches, asserting a love of cheap lager over a fine wine, or processed cheese over parmesan, will make you seem unspoiled or somehow more gritty, is classic downwardly mobile play-acting. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Franklin treated notes like putty, shortening and lengthening them at will, slipping in gritty moans before transitioning to climactic finishes. Aretha Franklin in glorious form at Chicago Theatre 2011-05-20T13:38:00Z Harmon sets his story “on the gritty streets” of his hometown, Spokane. NW Books: Tales from Seattle’s Burgermaster 2013-01-28T20:33:03Z It's a funny combination, this deeply gritty look at immigrant communities with the fanciful aspect of speaking to the dead. Biutiful Review: Overdosing on the Tragic Human Condition 2010-12-22T19:25:00Z Her technical skills are consummate, and carry her art far beyond gritty caricature, as practised by Gillray or Daumier, for example, whom she admires. Paula Rego: my hero 2012-08-24T21:45:09Z In Toronto, Cotillard’s effortless glamour seems worlds away from the gritty milieu of “Rust and Bone.” ‘Rust and Bone’ brings Marion Cotillard face to face with orcas 2013-01-02T21:46:23Z Even so, Colbert and the three actors took the time to imagine what a darker, grittier version of Full House might conceivably look like. Watch Stephen Colbert Turn 'Fuller House' Into a Crime Drama 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Its frank, gritty language brazenly violated the Production Code, rigid guidelines that had dictated the content of American movies since 1934. How Elizabeth Taylor silenced the censors 2011-03-30T23:53:15Z In 207 ink drawings on paper, Crumb takes you on a wild and gritty word-for-word tour of the first book of the Old Testament. Lines of distinction: Seattle Art Museum exhibit shows range, diversity of Graphic Masters 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z In a way, "The November Man" represents Brosnan's chance to make his own espionage film in the grittier, more grounded style that the Bond films adopted after he left the role. In 'November Man' Pierce Brosnan gets tougher with age 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z The gritty consonants of the verb and noun register the painful jolt, but then more anaesthetic is applied. Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z Their gritty blue-eyed indie-soul is attracting a lot of record company interest, but then they all say that. New band of the day ? No 924: Giant Steps 2010-12-06T17:45:00Z The book shows the dark and gritty reality of war, as well as the effect it has on Paul and his young friends’ psyches. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z There's a vintage piece of Alan Plater's gritty northern surrealism in the form of a dialogue between a jaded Bing Crosby impersonator and a young down-and-out. Tyne – review 2013-07-03T11:45:01Z Give her a great song, though, and she soars – she turns the 1967 civil rights anthem I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free into a gritty, uplifting showstopper. Emeli Sandé 2012-11-13T15:21:45Z After Nirvana broke out in the early ’90s, it was Gahan who showed up to record “Songs of Faith and Devotion” with hair down to his shoulders, advocating for a grittier sound. The Exquisite Darkness of Depeche Mode 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Before I Die is a raw, gritty portrayal of what it's really like to die. Before I Die by Jenny Downham - review 2012-07-24T14:00:00Z As we set out for the day, strolling down Warren Street as it sloped gently toward the river, Hudson felt like a chic little city, albeit gritty at the edges and hippie at its heart. Hudson, N.Y.: An Elegant Transformation 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Pulp-influenced, using melodrama as a device for social commentary, Fuller’s movies are gritty, naturalistic if not always realistic, relying on odd camera angles and cuts to reinforce the instability of the world. On his birthday: Samuel Fuller, novelist? 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Willis’s gritty cop gets repeatedly knocked down, but he gets up again, dispatches one bad guy after another, and wins back his estranged wife — how is that not Christmas spirit? Missing ‘The Nutcracker’? How to Get Your Holiday Fix at Home 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Existing somewhere between action hero revue and gritty first-person-shooter fantasy, Expendables 2 may strike a goofier tone than its predecessor but it still finds the most traction when conjuring its stars’ grittier sides. The Expendables 2: Locked and Overloaded 2012-08-16T12:00:05Z It's a grittier world view than Cuarón's "Gravity," but in its own way, as hopeful. Egyptian Theatre salutes Orwell with film series 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Spinach gnocchi with zucchini and "walnut crumb" was a bitter, gritty dish, flooded with oil. June in Madrona holds promise with its eclectic menu 2010-09-16T22:20:00Z It attracted criticism for its mainstream sound at a time when hip hop was emerging as the gritty dominant force in black music. Whitney Houston: squandered talent of a singer who had it all 2012-02-12T17:13:58Z There were a lot of obstacles to overcome, trying to make a transition to things that were grittier and had heavier subject matter. Nick Jonas: I Want a Career Like Elvis Presley 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z To commemorate the milestone, two independent filmmakers produced the documentary Nas: Time is Illmatic, a feature that highlights the gritty New York City environment within which the album was birthed. Nas: 'It's Not Cool For the U.S. to Look Like Apartheid South Africa' 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Today, in queer immigrant nightlife, the gritty textures of hardstyle, grime and techno often scrape against the architecture of reggaeton’s sound and feeling. Reggaeton and Electronic Music Have a Long History. 2021 Revived It. 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Some public schools are now altering their curricula to teach grit and other gritty character traits. The Limits of “Grit” 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z The Ramirezes, born into a family that lives in the gritty neighborhood of Center Havana, say they are extremely close. Boy triplets a sensation at top Cuba ballet school 2013-04-13T08:01:04Z Clearly it's resonating with Oscar voters, perhaps in the same way that "The Blind Side" did last year; though "The Fighter" is a far grittier film, it still ultimately celebrates family and athletic achievement. Oscar countdown: "The Fighter" 2011-02-16T18:20:03Z An arriviste who grew up in the gritty factory town of Paterson, New Jersey, Butler put on a phony posh British accent—and, occasionally, a toga—and exhausted audiences bloviating about whatever he pleased. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z A similar idea is echoed across town, where a former mortuary in the still gritty and rough-and-tumble 19th arrondissement has become the Centquatre, a fast-paced cultural center. Scene/Seen: Paris Regains Some of Its Lost Aura in Art World 2011-10-28T13:30:24Z I’m not even sure it has to be as gritty, restless and hungry a movie as American Honey. Roof down, music up: American Honey and the neverending search for the American dream 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z NBC viewers will check in on “The Brave,” maybe, to see how much its special ops missions channel the gritty action and dramatic subterfuge at play on “The Blacklist.” Fall TV: The military look is in this season 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Both records are precisely compiled with a peculiar mix of dark gritty bass, light-pitched folk riffs and Newman's warm crooning. Alt-J's future remains uncertain after bassist Gwil Sainsbury's exit 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z At once fantastical and gritty, this sort of uninflected street vignette sets the movie apart. ‘Love Hunter,’ About a Serbian Musician in New York 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The Best Virtual Worlds Have a Touch of Reality What do the American frontier in 1911, a distant sector of the galaxy in 2504 and the gritty, industrial outskirts of modern Philadelphia have in common? Rockstar, Blizzard and Quantic Dream Lead the Pack 2010-08-06T16:00:00Z A few decades before Hollywood started reaping every last bit of arable intellectual property, Martin Scorsese imagined a gritty reboot of Jesus Christ. The Last Temptation of Christ at 30: how Scorsese's drama still soars 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z “We might be a little grittier, a little edgier than the other shows, but they’re not really our competition.” Desus & Mero shake up the late night talk show universe 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Indians are more expressive and emotional in real life, and gritty realism should incorporate that. ‘Masaan’ and Other Indian Films Steer Away From Bollywood Escapism 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z "I have some girl friends that love the lumberjack-with-a-little-bit-of-a-belly type of gritty dude," Tatum said. Channing Tatum buffs his body of work in 'Magic Mike XXL' 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z There’s a version of “Fool” that could have been grim and gritty, but instead this is bright, endearing and funny, and Michael Imperioli is terrific as Julio’s boss. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z The resulting show moves between paintings in vibrant hues and sculptural works that recall gritty city streets. Dan Colen Brings A Downtown Aesthetic To The Brant Foundation 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Before I go any further, I’d like to give full disclosure: I did think R. Kelly's music — hip hop twirled with R&B in a gritty way — was cool when I was a juvenile. Don't just watch "Surviving R. Kelly": The Lifetime series alone won't be the end of the story 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Vanska led a remarkable, sharply defined rendition, the gritty dissonances and eccentricities of the original string quartet version magnified tenfold. Music Review | Minnesota Orchestra: Symphonic Drama: Rage-Filled Reunion for Slave and His Sister 2010-03-02T21:56:00Z “Saturday Night Live” managed to mock both “Sesame Street” and Hollywood’s love affair with gritty anti-heroes with its mock trailer in October for the dark movie “Grouch.” The Associated Press picks the top moments on TV from 2019 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z There is a word commonly used to describe books like this: gritty. A Heroine Who’s Paid to Impersonate the Dead? Hey, It’s a Living. 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z He became NBC’s top anchor without as much gritty field experience as many of his less polished, less chiseled colleagues; he partly got the job because he completely looked the part. George Stephanopoulos and the Line Between News and Entertainment 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z He was supposedly there to give Bond a hard and gritty new seriousness, but always just looked a bit humourless. James Bond on film – ranked! 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z I focused my energy on the Kowloon peninsula, which is a bit grittier and less touristy than Hong Kong Island, just a few thousand feet away across Victoria Harbor. In Hong Kong’s Kowloon, the Markets Rule 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z But this peek into unfiltered, gritty humanity in a scuzzy, dirty corner of America in some respects stands as a critique to the commodification of the female body and sexual exploitation. The dirt on "The Deuce," David Simon's next great HBO drama 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z But just as "period" reads "reverential", "modern" just as often translates to "gritty", and that's the biggest challenge facing the new iteration. Sherlock makes Sunday night TV sexy 2010-07-23T14:22:00Z And that voice of hers — gritty, lilting, with phrasing that suggests that efforts to reveal herself cause just as much of herself to hide — sounds not merely fearless but unafraid of fear itself. | More Fearless Storytelling from Sharon Van Etten 2014-04-29T18:00:41Z His pair of tunes stands out among the gritty, grotty punk anthems: “Crazy Like a Fox” is a folksy protest song about rejecting workaday conformity, more “Eve of Destruction” than “Blitzkrieg Bop.” Punk pioneer Lenny Kaye reflects back on “the original sin of rock ‘n’ roll” 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z As a young critic, he chronicled the rise of new wave, as well as no wave, its grittier arch rival. Yo La Tengo: Indie rock’s standard-bearer is still changing the formula, 30 years in 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z James says that Ebert was initially reluctant to share some of the grittier facts of his physical decline. What One Filmmaker Learned by Being with Roger Ebert at the End 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z In his quest for gritty authenticity, Waugh has fussed over the details but his version of the underbelly of drug dealing looks like a knock-off. Snitch: The Rock in a Hard Place 2013-02-22T13:00:10Z The second floor is a warren of small rooms with gritty couches. 2010-01-29T05:08:00Z But the primary reason is much more practical: Throughout history, and still in many countries throughout the world, the left hand is reserved for the nittiest and grittiest of bathroom duties. 20 common American behaviors that are considered rude elsewhere around the world 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z “There’s already an appetite for more gritty, realist film-making in India,” says director Zoya Akhtar, “but there’s never enough critique of Indian society happening here.” Indian audiences shun spectacle with Bollywood's first hip-hop film 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The picture’s moodiness is excessively manicured; this thing is gritty only in a premeditated way. Review: Blade Runner 2049 Is Visually Stunning and Excessively Faithful to the Original 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Even with its washed-out, gritty colour, everything and everyone looked exquisitely beautiful in Zen, a lavish new detective series based on Michael Dibdin's novels and set in Rome. Rewind TV: Zen; Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent; Silent Witness ? TV review 2011-01-09T00:05:37Z In the first, James Franco delivers a gritty performance as an outdoorsy loner who gets trapped in a deserted ravine and must rise to the occasion or die. 127 Hours and the one-armed box-office bandits 2011-02-24T22:15:01Z The unenviable task of rebooting the well-known and well-worn series seemed impossible, but with a gritty and focused approach, it's one developer Crystal Dynamics got almost completely right with Croft's latest adventure. Review: Lara Croft refreshed in new 'Tomb Raider' 2013-02-27T14:12:14Z His early poems, often written in narrow, seven-syllable lines, were gritty, hard-nosed evocations of the lives of working people and their neighborhoods. A Gritty Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate : Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate 2011-08-10T02:20:31Z But Michael Riedel’s new book, “Razzle Dazzle,” brings this gritty world back to life. ‘Razzle Dazzle’ review: Michael Riedel pulls back the curtain on for Broadway 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z “The voice is gritty. The eye turns. The heart is in it.” Diane di Prima, Poet of the Beat Era and Beyond, Dies at 86 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Wendig's books, which blend noir and urban fantasy tropes with the gritty reality of contemporary America in a unique trailer-trash gothic style, are proof positive that pulp need not lack depth, emotion or originality. New pulp fictioneers are ready to rock'n'roll 2012-05-29T13:14:20Z Yet the academy’s documentary branch voters largely opted for grittier fare. The Snubs and Surprises of the 2018 Oscar Nominations 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The gritty film is a passion project for the actor, who also produced and even composed the music and score. "Clean" star Adrien Brody talks "Succession" & daily injustice: "There is a lot to be angry about" 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z A fable about an 11-year old motherless boy in a rough, depressed mining town, and his burgeoning passion for ballet dancing, the indie film was gritty but also sentimental, bleak but hopeful, too. Review: 'Billy Elliot' is pro-union, and pro-razzle-dazzle, too 2011-03-25T00:20:39Z “I like the darker, grittier side to contemporary art,” Mr. Gouzer confessed. A Christie’s Contemporary Art Auction With an Edge 2014-03-26T15:00:13Z Fela also supplies some gritty details, in sardonic fashion, about the authorities’ constant but often inept hounding of him. ‘Fela!’ musical captures complicated character 2013-05-29T22:58:00Z Set in a gritty 1970s New York, “Fame” was notable for another reason, Mr. Schwartz said: “Most of the other great high school movies are suburban.” A ‘Fame’ Screening in Central Park Draws Alumni Extras 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Our movie switched genres, from a romance film to a gritty documentary. So many men are miserable jerks. I should know — I used to be one too 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z The reality is starker, grittier and a bit depressing. Is Sarah Lucas Right for the #MeToo Moment? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Films also were uplifting then, he said, even when the subject matter was gritty, citing "The Grapes of Wrath" and "High Sierra" as examples. Robert Osborne takes center stage in TCM special 2014-01-06T14:35:55Z It elucidated the role of Super PACs, shed light on the nitty gritty of congressional districts and provided the perfect counterpoint to the dead-serious bombast of cable news. Stephen Colbert’s most amazing lessons for America 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z An actor’s actor, a stage athlete, a gritty comic performer with an unimpeachable work ethic, Metcalf describes herself simply as “an interpreter.” The secret to Tony Awards nominee Laurie Metcalf's success? Brilliance and a whole lot of hard work 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Banks’s writing developed from a self-consciously experimental style in his early books to the gritty realism that brought him renown. Russell Banks, Novelist Steeped in the Working Class, Dies at 82 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z It’s a grittier version of New York City that we hadn’t seen before in the Marvel Unified Universe. Paramount and Marvel should let 'Daredevil' and 'TMNT' team up 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The gritty subway is to “In Transit” what the glamorous lobby was to the old movie “Grand Hotel,” a sort of holding pen for different, sometimes overlapping stories to be released into action. Review: ‘In Transit’ Goes on an a Cappella Ride 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z “Because when it gets down to the nitty gritty, he keeps losing.” “Incompetent” Donald Trump has only himself to blame: This is why he won’t be GOP nominee 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Testa’s performance, like so many of the others here, lets us look beyond the operetta poses of yore and see a real, gritty survivor — a status that turns out to involve moral compromise. Review: There’s a Dark, Golden Haze in This Reclaimed ‘Oklahoma!’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z With that in mind, here are six other LA cop shows, some less gritty and authentic than others. Six to watch: LA cop shows 2010-07-01T11:41:00Z Her prose skitters along with her own insecurities, becoming thin and abstract rather than rich with the details of her engagement in the gritty work she clearly loves. In France, an American Woman Learns the Butcher’s Trade 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z So what's a massive hit drama to do when the grimness of the outside world threatens to upstage its own gritty escapism? 'Walking Dead' premiere finds little sanctuary against despair 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Sam and Anna Vanneman were looking to open a vintage home-goods shop when they heard about a gritty garage for rent in a happening block of Church Hill. Rediscovering Richmond: Where to shop for modern design and vintage finds 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Then in 1994, days before my 14th birthday, the Nine Inch Nails video for “Closer” premiered on MTV: A macabre fever dream crawling with insects and gritty with cobwebs. I Was Bullied for Being Arab. Nine Inch Nails Threw Me a Lifeline. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The gritty footage featured the director's trademark violence fused with sharp humor and Western music. Tarantino unlocks "Django's" chains at Comic-Con 2012-07-14T22:06:11Z On Sundays, the gritty rock ’n’ roll club hosts a new party called DROPOUT, drawing a fresh crop of club kids who stay out on school nights. The Buzz 2011-01-13T00:58:26Z “I want to be someone who can look like a Greek warrior one minute, a gritty rocker the next,” Wright explains. Waif vs. Adonis: Fashion week sets up a great manliness debate As on “Fast Future,” released this spring, Mr. McCaslin led the way through a gritty fusion, hurtling and heavy, with agile funk and dub digressions. Greenleaf Music Label Turns 10 With a Show at SubCulture 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z If you visit this free sight in Naples’ gritty Sanit District, consider bringing flowers, too. Europe’s dead still speak to the living 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z These go-for-broke performances add a certain gritty authenticity to a play set in a desperate, destitute age in which people will do anything to put food on their tables. Theater Review: Sidney Goldfarb?s ?Hot Lunch Apostles? at La MaMa 2012-03-09T03:00:00Z Mr. Metzker captured scenes from gritty city streets, sunlit beaches, the Southwestern desert and idyllic rural landscapes in black and white. Ray K. Metzker, Art Photographer, Dies at 83 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Reviews have praised the bravery of the production in taking the group's gritty, 2004 concept album of the same name and turning it into a fully fledged theatrical show. Green Day spice up Broadway with sex, drugs and punk 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z Valentine’s dreamlike narrative brings the Brothers Grimm tale alive with intrigue and gritty descriptions of the Roaring Twenties. Best science fiction and fantasy in June After that, the dense, gritty crime procedural takes a turn into nightmarish mystery. "The Secret in Their Eyes": Argentina's Oscar-winning romantic thriller 2010-04-17T18:01:00Z A grittier strain of ’90s nostalgia reigns at Celebrate Brooklyn! on Saturday night, courtesy of the Lyricist Lounge, a New York hip-hop institution. The Week Ahead: July 3 ? 9 2011-07-01T18:34:09Z Was it possible that van Gogh had deliberately added handfuls of sand and pebbles to his paint to thicken his impasto and give it a grittier texture? Van Gogh and the Consolation of Trees 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z His son noted that he had to "fight tooth and nail" to star in the gritty 1947 film noir "Nightmare Alley." Tyrone Power had it all, but he wanted more 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z You should go not for resplendent glamour or kaleidoscopic details, but for taut, gritty drama. Review: The Philharmonic Makes Wagner’s Gods Chillingly Human 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z And for sheer physical terror, she swirls up apocalyptic dust storms, ordeals of gritty insistence that last for days, transforming the landscape, burying homes and filling lungs. Review | ‘The Four Winds’ is Kristin Hannah’s next inevitable bestseller. Don’t forget the tissues. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z This gritty debut novel pairs a nail-biter about a drone pilot involved in a major intelligence screw-up with a provocative story about currency traders who profit from the financial impact of global terrorism. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Just in the pilot, Star presents itself as a grittier program. Is Lee Daniels' rags-to-riches R&B drama Star better than Empire? 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Some people enjoy the way it feels to sit on warm sand, while others dislike how the gritty particles always seem to find a way inside a swimsuit. That sand between your toes may start as rock. But it may also be fish poop. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z In New York, it’s the studio apartment — and its grittier cousin, the tenement railroad flat — that has sheltered generations of strivers and makers. What It’s Like Self-Isolating in a Studio Apartment 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Zambello grapples somewhat tentatively with the musical’s gritty themes; for example, the ensemble chorus scenes are often aggressively upbeat. Music Review: Can?t Help Seeking That Middle Ground in ?Show Boat? 2012-02-29T23:43:57Z His gritty yet soaring dispatches about cops, immigrants and crooked City Hall cronies earned him a reputation as a tabloid poet, long before the word “tabloid” was synonymous with celebrity fluff. Pete Hamill ‘Ain’t Done Yet’ 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Happily, Chan proves grittier and far more soulful than in his last, silly American production, "The Spy Next Door." 'The Karate Kid': Chan-Smith version has kick 2010-06-10T17:12:00Z Drawing on West African griot style, she sings with gritty insistence, building up to a sandpapery rasp when her melodies hit their peaks. Rokia Koné, From Mali, Sings for the World. Especially Women. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z In a trench coat and a trilby, Mr. Bridgman pursues a glamorous real and filmed Ms. Packer across a video landscape of gritty urban sites. Dance Review: Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2010-03-29T21:23:00Z In an interview given before the uproar, Alexandra Munroe, said the show was intended to be difficult: “It’s gritty and tough and brutal because that is the world these artists have lived in.” Essential Arts & Culture: Rage and grief at the Taper, art of color and movement, Obama's library 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The two star in that gritty 1961 tale, which is about a priest who tries to rehabilitate former convicts, and Mr. Murray was also among its writers and producers. The Week Ahead: Nov. 18 — 24 2012-11-18T08:00:06Z That irrepressible iconoclast van Hove, it was said, would be taking a grittier, rawer approach to a show that rattled Broadway when it opened in 1957 but has since become a sentimental standard. ‘West Side Story’ Review: Sharks vs. Jets vs. Video 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z They just stop seeing pieces or do the nitty gritty details. How Can I Improve My Ability to Solve Hard Problems? 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z A gritty visual style and a wildly careering tone alien to prime time. Steven Bochco and Others on Creating ‘Hill Street Blues’ 2014-05-01T17:39:39Z Someone who shares the gritty details of their breakup on their finsta would have a difficult time reconciling that version of the narrative with the one they present on their more curated main profile. Social media always remembers — which makes moving on from a breakup that much harder 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z There’s a different allure at the other end of town, near the market: residential and grittier. The French Side of Basque Country 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z His images of New York dockworkers and later Maine shipbuilders start to be more ennobling and hollow than gritty. Art Review: ‘George Bellows,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-11-15T23:23:38Z In its third season, the show returns to explore aspects of Berlin’s gritty underworld and growing film industry as Rath and Ritter work to track down a cloaked killer who’s been terrorizing a movie shoot. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Babylon Berlin’ and ‘Women of Troy’ 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z While it’s technically nutmeg, it’s grainier, grittier, funkier and much less delicate than what you can produce with a seed and a Microplane grater. Spirits: Nutmeg, unlike ‘pumpkin spice,’ gives cocktails a subtle taste of fall Somewhere deep in the Mumbai smog, in the gritty centre of the city's underbelly, a chaiwallah is cursing his fate. That's globizness! An international celebrity scandal round-up 2013-04-26T12:00:00Z Today, he recalls telling Rolling Stone magazine that Swindon was "a little gritty industrial blob in the West Country" and being pilloried in the local paper. Sound of the suburbs 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z But “Perry Mason” does paint a pretty, gritty picture of a city where justice is one more Hollywood fantasy and of a protagonist whose guiding light is, “Everybody is guilty.” Review: ‘Perry Mason’ Returns, Hard-Boiled and Warmed Over 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Instead, between conversations, it floats some of his most ethereal, lustrous images, soft, layered scenes that glow with a watercolor’s warmth, sharp departures from the gritty cityscapes of his contemporaries. Movie Review: ‘In No Great Hurry,’ a Documentary About Saul Leiter 2014-01-02T22:50:41Z “The show does its job as gritty tourist-noir,” Mike Hale writes in his review for The Times. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Hale County This Morning, This Evening’ and ‘White Dragon’ 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z He is best known for "Hot Boy," a gritty hit song with rhymes about street violence. 'Hot Boy' rapper Bobby Shmurda gets 7-year prison sentence 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z But the plot is strictly formulaic stuff, and lovable though they may be, with their gritty argot and ripe accents, the characters have the broadly drawn outlines of cartoons. Theater Review: ‘The Jammer’ by Rolin Jones at Atlantic Theater Company 2013-01-23T23:19:07Z What is the source of the alternately gritty and gloppy texture? Review: In ‘The Seagull,’ a Great Play, a Great Cast and Yet ... 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z But while it's grittier and less grandiose, it's still an epic drama, and the journey is very rewarding. Review: 'Dragon Age II' creates a new urban legend 2011-03-09T11:35:10Z However, the film, based on a Nik Cohn magazine article, also touched on the grittier fare of everyday working-class Brooklyn life. Doctor Who 2010-06-19T05:45:00Z These are swift, gritty, bloody and sometimes inventive, adding weaponized acupuncture needles and household tools to the regular roster of blades, fists and feet. Movie Review: ‘Dragon (Wu Xia),’ Directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan 2012-11-29T23:01:20Z In a film-festival culture in which even the grittiest dramas prefer stylization and other distancing effects, the images are jolting. At Cannes, real-world events take stage 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Like the music, the photos are gritty — full of sweaty foreheads, drunken faces and hair all over the place. Fantagraphics exhibit celebrates Charles Peterson's photos 2011-05-12T19:29:06Z Meanwhile, sweet little Vanellope becomes enraptured by a gritty game called Slaughter Race, which takes place in a wasteland of garbage fires, dancing lowriders, pyromaniacs and sharks. ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ Review: Disney Gets Caught in the Web 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z It also made efforts to add — or restore, depending how you look at it — some gritty authenticity. ‘West Side Story’: How We Covered the Classic N.Y.C. Musical 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z The word “redoubt” denotes a defensive military fortification or a grittily defended political or social position. Review | Who wants to join the cult of video artist Matthew Barney? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Sometimes gritty, always hilly, Steel City’s charms are often hidden below the surface. 36 Hours in Pittsburgh 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z For instance, Showtime's gritty hourlong "Shameless," which centers on a brood of dysfunctional Chicago siblings and their alcoholic father, this year was submitted in the comedy category after years of entering as a drama. Emmy ad blitz escalates 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z The right staircase would be a little bit dramatic, but also unmistakably gritty, the kind that no one would confuse with a tourist destination. ‘Joker’ Stairs Become a Bronx Tourist Draw. Hope You’re in Shape. 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Just when you’re lulled, for a moment, by the hum, you’re jarred by the vicious reality of the act, as the sound abruptly turns “grittier, jerkier, coarser.” Review | In ‘Missionaries,’ Phil Klay paints a grim picture of Colombia’s drug war 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z I was not yet in Pittsburgh but in the town of North Braddock, a gritty suburb, seven miles from the Forks. On a General’s Trail, Summoning America’s History 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Like BioShock, its story is brought to life by recordings strewn around its shattered buildings, which look appropriately gritty in their decaying majesty. This week's new games reviews 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z But only seven people here watched the first two – it was before gritty dark subtitled police drama took over the world. The weekend's TV: Spiral 2011-04-04T07:00:05Z Before Drop It Like It's Hot, before his Rastafarian awakening, Snoop vividly sketched gritty, paranoid crime stories like this about, er, murdering undercover cops. Snoop Dogg: a beginner's guide 2012-08-07T14:19:00Z Country music star Billy Ray Cyrus soon jumped into the fray, lending his gritty sound to the tune that juxtaposes Western and cowboy-themed imagery to a trap-style beat. Wrangler fans slammed for brand boycott over Lil Nas X collaboration 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Like you said, I wasn't part of the gritty dark scene of the city. How to survive—and thrive—in "The Heartbreak Years" 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z Second favorite and the only painter on the shortlist, George Shaw, depicts the melancholic and gritty urban wasteland of Coventry -- his childhood home. Favorite Martin Boyce scoops UK's Turner Prize 2011-12-05T21:09:26Z To borrow from a term for the gritty, working-class British dramas that this film also nods to, it’s a kitchen-sink caper. Movie Review: ‘Wasteland,’ an English Heist Movie With Gritty Realism 2013-07-26T00:38:40Z Show Me a Hero” extends its fascination for flawed humanity to the gritty projects, where characters are not merely anecdotes. ‘Show Me a Hero’: How one mayor won (and lost) the ugliest fight in Yonkers 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z But Mr. Greig, whose other work includes acclaimed adaptations of Camus’s “Caligula” and Strindberg’s “Creditors” for the Donmar Warehouse in London, spins a nice line in both nostalgic lyricism and gritty humor. Theater Review: ‘Midsummer,’ by David Greig at the Clurman Theater 2013-01-16T20:40:19Z Wednesday: This closing-night film is a gritty portrait of Seattle's "guru of grunge." Local films feature poets, politics and pain 2010-09-30T21:05:00Z Ms. Love had transcended her gritty rock ’n’ roll past and become a cultured, free-spirited bohemian in the eyes of the mainstream. Music: Courtney Love?s Improbable Second Act 2010-04-15T18:37:00Z The feel-good moment isn't the only highlight of a gritty set during which the South Carolina couple plays as if it's got nothing to lose and everything to prove. Lollapalooza ends on a high note on day two 2013-08-04T11:59:00Z The roof-top world is grittily real, the stuff of broken toes and roasted rat and howling gales. Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell – review 2013-05-18T09:31:01Z Then the city moved on, and one of the last gritty accents of St. Marks was sanded away without a trace. What Happened to Gem Spa’s Zoltar Fortunetelling Machine? 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z She can be brassy, tearful, sultry, gritty, breathy, sweet or furious. Christina Aguilera Exults in Her Voice on ‘Liberation’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z They began to crawl along the gritty, unsavory New York City sidewalk, led by a marshal perfuming the air and sweeping the ground before them — and serenaded by a trumpeter playing melancholic riffs. Pope.L’s Group Crawl: Protest, Pathos, Provocation 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z At times, the sweetness overwhelms the book’s grittier, more compelling story lines. Review | In ‘The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls,’ a tidal wave strikes, and a small town must pick up the pieces 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z Amongst the darkness, the unpretentious existentialist angst and the gritty urban detail, there is humour and pathos. Not the Booker prize 2011: the shortlist 2011-08-18T09:45:51Z And because this character was played mostly by Chicago, some now picture our city — whose gritty streets and unmistakable skyline were on full display in the films — when imagining Gotham. Batman's Chicago connection 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z She not only stayed but found her way to the heart of this gritty city. Utility Worker No. 6691 on Life Inside a Steel Mill 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z It was a gritty industrial city, and it became a super green city. | Q&A: Jeanne Gang, the Chicago Architect ? Q&A 2011-09-29T00:04:54Z As sharp and gritty as the authentic Galway sand covering the floor: a greyish, granite composite... you'll be shaking out of your shoes for weeks. Bridget O'Connor obituary 2010-10-18T17:36:00Z Parisian TV crime thrillers don't come much grittier than this. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-07-29T23:09:46Z Rather than losing faith in the traditional Bond by jolting 007 into gritty modernism, the Broccoli team is simply showing the adaptability that has sustained the series for a half-century. The James Bond Films at 50: A Golden Franchise for the Ages 2012-10-05T12:00:58Z But sellers are also optimistic about some of this year’s grittier selections because they are so topical. With Technology, Sundance Films Make It to Screen Faster 2012-01-17T23:09:59Z Scene by scene, with understated realism and lightly gritty visuals, Hittman has been bringing you close to Autumn, whose face rarely betrays her. ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ Review: A Woman’s Heroic Journey 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Tennison's challenging work in a male-dominated field, and complicated personal life, are chronicled over seven seasons in the engrossing, gritty series "Prime Suspect." What our writers love this week 2010-09-01T22:26:00Z Through the gun smoke, visceral relationships emerge that imbue this gritty neo-noir with real heart. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z A Texas country stalwart who’s been releasing albums for a decade, he’s a little beefier than his scene colleague Pat Green and less gritty than, say, the scene paterfamilias Robert Earl Keen. Playlist: New Releases From Friends, Wade Bowen and Joey Badass 2012-07-27T16:00:00Z Their first movie was 1960's "The Angry Silence," a gritty British New Wave drama starring Attenborough as a hard-working machine operator who gets caught up in a power struggle between factory management and union agitators. Richard Attenborough dies: 6 of the actor-director's memorable movies 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z “We knew it was all going to go to hell, and we just stood by and watched it happen anyway,” says one of the novel’s many gritty survivors, referring to global warming. Imagining a thirsty future in Paolo Bacigalupi’s ‘The Water Knife’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z While BAM helped pave the way for pioneering theater, music and dance, it initially struggled to attract theatergoers to what was once a gritty area. Brooklyn Academy of Music Announces $25 Million Project to Link 3 Spaces 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Yes, most TV shows that take place in the past, even when they're "gritty," soften characters so that they often seem oh, so progressive, in the name of making them likable. Clive Owen on 'The Knick,' complicated roles and that mustache 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The characters are gritty but reflective; when Jude and Susie analyze their fears and isolation, their points of view ring true. Review | Motherhood isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in ‘Pramkicker’ 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Still, Mr. Tsui directed and co-wrote an iconic work of the New Wave, which was defined by vernacular Hong Kong Cantonese slang, gritty urban backdrops and an unblinking look at modern society. Movies: Bringing a Wealth of Cinematic Knowledge to the Screen in 3-D 2011-07-11T13:00:05Z Helman spent more than two years working on the film to find the right balance of gritty realism and family-friendly action comedy. How the New Ninja Turtles Got Their 'Realistic' Look 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z She is surely right, although it’s pointless to pretend that “Olympia” is a work of gritty urban realism. Review | Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Over the past 30 years, I’ve made my living going on gritty adventures. In their last days together, a mother and son clung to what bonded them together 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Jennifer Hudson's emotional testimony offered little insight into the slayings but gave prosecutors a chance to put a heartbroken — and familiar — face on a gritty South Side crime. Tears, drama at Hudson murder trial 2012-04-24T03:15:00Z The white of these pieces is raw and gritty, an accidental result of Smith’s inspired choice to leave his material as found. For David Smith, Sculptor and Painter, a Happy Equilibrium in White 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z None felt sadder than “Autumn Leaves,” a standard popularized by Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole that Dylan made his own with a version as gritty as it was haunting. Review | A Bob Dylan concert is still as challenging as ever. But why try to change him now? 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z It’s not a glorified portrait of motherhood but a gritty and sobering one. Forget the Boy: Watching Patricia Arquette Age in Boyhood Is Astounding 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z In creating this installation, however, Mr. Salzmann addresses one of contemporary art’s greatest conundrums: Can art installed in an antiseptic, corporate space like this one tackle gritty and ambitious subjects? What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The Rover is really two movies: the gritty little revenge drama on the screen, and the grand geopolitical parable in its subtext, as explained by Michöd in the press notes. REVIEW: The Rover Goes Weirdly Western Down Under 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z The 65-year-old declared in a press release that the album will be “a celebratory record, powerful, gritty, African, Trance meets Zep.” Robert Plant, John Paul Jones set for separate upcoming L.A. shows 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z The new Tenderloin Museum in San Francisco, which opened late last week, aims to celebrate the still gritty neighborhood and its artists and activists with exhibitions, walking tours and evening events. Monday’s Travel News: American Merges Systems; Fare Deals to Europe. 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z They include a minerally French sauvignon blanc; a delightful curiosity of a red from Italy; a gritty, juicy Spanish red and two pink wines to get the meal started. 5 wines to match your grilled food, including two affordable rosés 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The film, by Mr. Nichols, the gritty director of “Take Shelter” and “Midnight Special,” does not focus on the courtroom drama. Four Actresses Everyone Will Be Talking About This Fall 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z At a time when designer collections were unveiled in elegant locations centered around the Louvre, Margiela was enamored with grittier destinations such as the Salvation Army. Perspective | Martin Margiela did himself a favor: He anticipated fashion’s future — and its failures 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z But the action will be gritty, as well, for the dancers will have an ever-shifting gravel surface beneath their feet. The Week Ahead: Jan. 2 ? 8 2010-12-31T15:49:43Z Rose’s tone is silky rather than gritty, yet with more than enough brawn for such angry songs as the show-closing “All Cats Are Beautiful,” a passionate response to police brutality against Black people. Review | At DC9 show, Lightmare’s mix of soul and punk sounds great at half speed and full tilt 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z But what journalist’s heart does not beat faster at the sound of Bogart’s corny declaration, and at the sight of thousands of newspapers with a gotcha headline rumbling off those gritty, beautiful presses. All the News That’s Fit to Screen: Movies About Journalism 2012-06-08T18:19:24Z So you might start with a gritty conversation like that. Tina Brown pulls no punches: "If you're a woman, you have to be gold in a silver job" 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z She won an Oscar in 2004 for her role in “Cold Mountain,” in which she played a gritty Southern woman working on a failing farm, unafraid to snap a chicken’s neck. Why the Strong Reaction to Renée Zellweger’s Face? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z When she moved to New York right in 2006, the same year as Tess — in those gritty, halcyon days just before smartphones — restaurants were a way to make money until she could sell a novel. ‘Sweetbitter’ Is a Coming-of-Age Story, With Wine Pairings 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z The gritty drama "The Red Road" ends its second season. TV This Week May 3 - 9: 'Penny Dreadful' on Showtime 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z I started my Cobain trip at the Marco Polo, a no-frills motel on the gritty periphery of Seattle that Cobain frequented in his final days, when his heroin addiction controlled his life. Footsteps : Chasing Kurt Cobain in Washington State 2014-03-25T21:43:53Z With the design duo’s cinematic eyes, the show was more the hand-woven fantasy of home on the prairie than the gritty reality. Special Report: Fashion: Color Returns to the City 2011-02-16T17:42:22Z And he is developing more of his own work, including a biopic set in 1920s France and a more gritty up-to-date urban English drama. US understands my creative ambition, says British star of Away 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z This French love story centers on two teenagers and unfolds in Marseille’s gritty underbelly. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Pose’ and ‘Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men’ 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z By discarding most of the theological debate, the movie is no longer a passion play but a gritty and despairing noir. | 'Brighton Rock': ?Brighton Rock,? Film of Graham Greene Novel - Review 2011-08-25T23:02:20Z On Friday, “Hunters” returns for a second and final season, set again in the gritty 1970s, where we see how Pacino’s character assembled his diverse band of superhero-like Nazi hunters. ‘Hunters’: David Weil on Hunting Nazis as Collective Catharsis 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Another gritty tale of outback survival – Australian apocalypse hit Mad Max: Fury Road – picked up 10 nominations to take it into second place. Oscar nominations 2016: The Revenant leads field, Mad Max in second place 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z "Ironclad" director Jonathan English set out to make "a gritty, pseudo-realistic, medieval action movie" and, for better or worse, that's exactly what he delivered. 'Ironclad': Paul Giamatti leads a fine cast into bloody battle 2011-07-07T19:25:07Z And the show's unique structure, partnering gritty police drama with high-stakes legal scheming, made room for the entire city in return - and employed a whole lot of its people. New York's faces: `Law & Order' showed 'em all 2010-05-15T21:01:00Z The dark and gritty series will unflinchingly explore the dysfunction and glamour of the ballet world. Starz’ New Ballet Drama Flesh and Bone Sounds Exactly Like Black Swan 2014-01-28T22:34:16Z The cold and gritty factory city that famously inspired the post-industrial anguish of bands like Joy Division and the Smiths has transformed into a thriving cultural hub. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z Occasional harsh, buzzing electronic tones, recalling the grim industrial production of West’s 2013 album “Yeezus,” offered glimpses of a grittier musical engagement with this subject matter. Kanye West Is Operatic. His Opera Isn’t. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The candy tastes the best if eaten within a day or two; pralines become sugary and gritty with age. Pecan Pralines 2012-11-05T19:50:35.567Z In this gritty Los Angeles film noir from the director Karyn Kusama, Kidman plays Erin Bell, a detective so worn down by a lifetime of tragedy that she seems barely alive. Nicole Kidman Still Can’t Believe What ‘Destroyer’ Did to Her 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Sharon Jones, a powerhouse soul singer with a gritty voice, fast feet and indomitable energy, died Friday of pancreatic cancer. Sharon Jones, Soul Singer With Dap-Kings, Dies at 60 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Sady Doyle noted that Alcott "hated" her most famous book, adding, "Personally, I think gritty 'Little Women' is a great idea. I always wanted Beth to die in a knife fight." Are you ready for a 'gritty,' dystopian TV version of Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women'? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z And talk about gritty: What could be more hard-core drama than a reptilian assassin who disables Bill but refuses to kill him because he wasn’t paid enough? ‘The History of Future Folk’: a goofy, charming space jam 2013-07-11T21:21:09Z Within a few years the stifling censorship of the theatre by the lord chamberlain had been abolished, and a gritty realism emerged in British cinema and drama. The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z Since this film has a number in the title, it could be a gritty wartime drama. What The Rock is cooking: Dwayne Johnson's next 26 films decoded 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The stories are as gritty as anything you would find in The Bill, and happy outcomes are rare. Your next box set: Dixon of Dock Green 2012-07-19T19:00:01Z The film is latest in a parade of gritty, true stories hitting cinemas as we stumble into the fall awards season. Stiff upper lip or man on the edge? How movies see real-life heroes 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z In fancy A-line skirts and crop tops; coats scrawled with poetry and aphorisms; bright, rugby striped knits; all of it a sort of explosion of gritty glamour. In Milan, Fashion Tries to Go Back to Normal. What Does That Even Mean? 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Hanson explored a different sort of darkness in "8 Mile," the film starring Eminem that explored the gritty streets and trailer parks of Detroit and closely mirrored the rapper's own younger life. '8 Mile' director, Oscar-winning writer Curtis Hanson dies 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Will audiences prefer the glamorous fantasy, or replace their visions of future space travel with the gritty reality of a working space station? Poo politics & more: 5 questions about the International Space Station becoming a movie set 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z “Narcos” is a crime drama about the gritty wars of the 1980s between drug kingpins and law enforcement agencies, set mostly in Colombia. ‘Narcos’ Location Scout Found Dead in Mexico 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z What unfolds is a gritty tale that ties Ramirez’s past to a present now filled with subtle confrontations among residents of an economically stressed town who have long memories and hold grudges. Review: ‘Mi America,’ on the Murder of Migrant Laborers in a Small Town 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Even though homelessness, drugs and garbage are still an issue in Tompkins Square Park, the neighborhood is a far cry from the gritty terrain that inspired the pulpy Hollywood crime thriller “Alphabet City” in 1984. The Interloper on Avenue B 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z An Oscar-winning Ray Milland, abetted by gritty Manhattan locations, portrays a failed writer in desperate pursuit of “one little jigger of dreams.” The Academy Highlights Movie Screenwriters 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Bondy’s “Tosca” was unsuccessful because it was messily conceptualized and gratuitously sordid, not because a gritty, dark take on this work is an impossibility. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Tosca’ Overcomes Months of Chaos 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z At the core, despite wizardly transformations, is a nugget of something tangible, something gritty. Critic’s Notebook: At the Electric Zoo and Rock the Bells Festivals 2012-09-03T22:49:01Z It walked the line between being grounded in a gritty reality and indulging in the supernatural that really set the show apart. Forget Colin Farrell – here's how True Detective can stay great 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Like "Fury," "Ryan" was a gritty, R-rated drama exploring the horrors of war and the bonds of brotherhood forged in the crucible of combat. 'Fury': How does its box office stack up against other WWII epics? 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z This singular museum stands not in New York or Paris or London, but right on gritty Mission Street in downtown San Francisco. For Paris Men’s Wear, the Next Stop Is California 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z They produced three albums together that defied expectations and lifted LaMontagne's gritty, soulful tenor above the crowd. LaMontagne stands his ground, earns Grammy nod 2011-02-11T11:43:08Z If you like the sound of two guys with great beards making shouty and gritty 'blues punk' then Wet Nuns are for you. New Band Up North 2012-11-05T16:55:00Z She favours gritty female protagonists, who are more than just a little scary or even unhinged. Gillian Flynn: chronicler of the midwest's dark side 2013-03-24T00:06:17Z "The Liberator" may be too romantic and sweeping for some, but right now, do we really need another gritty, dark film about the murky realities of war? 'The Liberator' is a compelling primer on Simón Bolivar 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z His musical scenes simply flow organically from the nonmusical ones: Madeline, in the park, begins singing, in a way that nobody does in the gritty, nonglamorous real life that this movie otherwise reflects. 'Guy and Madeline': A muted, musical experiment 2011-01-06T22:07:06Z A storm is brewing in Starz's gritty new series "American Gods," as deities old and new gear up for a battle that reverberates with topical issues in the real world. 'American Gods' reflects real world issues in modern mythology saga 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Appealing as that is, the contemporary sleekness of the campus sets it apart from the gritty, red brick surroundings. At Columbia’s $600 Million Business School, Time to Rethink Capitalism 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z This was the era of gritty movies about the counterculture and the lower depths, the era of Easy Rider and . Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79: Actress Defined Modern Fame 2011-04-14T08:35:00Z An initial misunderstanding leads to another, which leads to further violence, and before you know it, “The Chi” begins to look pretty much like a gritty Chicago-based premium-cable crime drama called “The Chi.” Review | ‘The Chi’ is best when it gives life to a community known mostly for its killings 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The least successful were the most conventional: Gulf grouper with beurre blanc felt flat; a side of carrots almandine was oddly gritty. A New Orleans Restaurant Where Creole Meets Caribbean 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z In this freewheeling exploration of the ancient story of Christ's betrayer, hot New York playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis sets up an imaginary court case in Hope, a gritty downtown section of Purgatory. Plays about the Beatles, religion and politics hit Seattle theaters 2012-04-05T19:30:09Z The Seattle Sound reflected the city’s gritty but wholesome, alienated yet oddly engaged, dynamic. Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z It’s also that this intense intermissionless piece, directed by Tom Story, unleashes a flood of gritty, poetic language quickened by a sneaky riptide of narrative. ‘Terminus’ barrels onto Studio’s 2ndStage 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Black Thought’s “Welcome to America,” with gritty vocal choruses from C.S. History Meets the Present on the ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Album 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z But the screenplay, co-written by the director with Walter Newman and Lesser Samuels, proved too gritty for general consumption, and the film failed on its first release during the height of McCarthyism in America. Kirk Douglas: why his finest role was as a cynical newspaper hack 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Seattle novelist Doig returns to his native Montana for this epic tale of loyalty, politics, love and newspapering set in the gritty labor wars of early 20th-centry Butte. 31 of the best titles of 2013 2013-12-04T22:03:53Z A gritty and powerful actor, Postlethwaite was nominated for an Oscar for his role in the 1993 film "In The Name Of The Father." Oscar-nominated star Pete Postlethwaite dies at 64 2011-01-03T12:47:08Z It was a night of gritty voices, twangy guitars and songs steeped in American traditions and tall tales: a kind of powwow for the rootsy, handmade styles now categorized together as Americana. Music Review: ‘Love for Levon,’ Tribute to Helm at Izod Center 2012-10-05T04:30:05Z Despite the violence and procedural detail, this is about as gritty as Dixon of Dock Green. End of Watch – review 2012-11-22T19:29:01Z And that happened over and over, from gritty Westerns including 1943's "The Oxbow Incident" and 1952's "High Noon" to fluffy TV series "December Bride" and "The Love Boat." Harry Morgan made small roles big in TV, movies 2011-12-08T11:01:06Z This gritty nine-episode BBC series, now available on Netflix, features British actor Martin Shaw as George Gently, a Scotland Yard detective who relocates to North England after his wife is murdered by a gangster. What our writers love this week 2011-06-29T23:23:05Z "It's black and white, really nitty gritty, the dirty part of the circus," she says. Andrea Martin is living in the moment these days 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z That brief, if lovable and tragically fated character aside, many of Pascal's roles have been gritty, mean and sexual. What our reverence for Pedro Pascal's daddy era says about us 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z And this gritty body politic was not America the Beautiful but America the Bully. This can’t become our new normal: Hate acts reported across the country in wake of Trump’s victory 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z I've always had a very gritty side to my journalistic menu, if you like. Tina Brown pulls no punches: "If you're a woman, you have to be gold in a silver job" 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Back then, Bicker was busy reinventing British fashion photography as a gritty, altogether less glamorous form. Corinne Day 2010-09-04T23:07:00Z The reality in it just might put you off those gritty, pretty fantasies. Critic’s Notebook: Real Murder in ‘The Killer Speaks’ and ‘Cell Block Psychic’ 2014-04-30T19:58:13Z Maybe this: That it was very gritty, very gay and very Caucasian. 2010-01-15T06:00:00Z He’d press the point of a bowie knife into the Colonel’s chin, and announce with a gritty drawl, “The gig is up, Gadaffi.” Inside the mind of one “American Shooter” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The honey winery opened in 2008 in a gritty warehouse on the edge of town and resembles a mad chemist’s garage with tanks and tubes everywhere. 36 Hours in Portland, Me. 2010-08-20T05:01:00Z It’s hard to shake the impression that these are gritty lives being made to fit tidy templates. Robert Boswell’s ‘Tumbledown,’ and More 2013-08-28T19:05:14Z “In the flashbacks to Samuel’s coming-of-age and then torturous captivity, Jennings renders a gritty and stripped-down portrait of the bleak family dynamics and social conditions that made him who he is.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z "Like a Woman" is gritty but tender: charming in its immodesty and sinewy as a junkyard dog. Novels focus on gritty realism, anger, loss, family dysfunction 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z If pressed in, say, a Court of Peanut Butter, one might admit that food processor peanut butter is a hair grittier than blender butter, but it's otherwise nearly identical. The absolute best way to make peanut butter 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Los Angeles and New York, the American movie capitals, supply inexhaustible and diverse locations, gritty cop pictures and glittering comedies gravitating toward the East Coast, moody films noirs and sun-bleached sexcapades belonging to California. Film: Movie Love for Paris, City of Klieg Lights 2010-08-14T14:22:00Z By the time a serial killer is on the loose, the novel has metamorphosed into a gritty, fast-paced thriller. Review | ‘The Hare’ is a richly told tale of female resilience 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Yet the production seems to be aiming for that cheesiest of words: gritty. Jerome Robbins: You’re Missed in This ‘West Side Story,’ Daddy-o 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The growing pains of the magazine eventually lead to a moment of crisis, when Davy has to decide whether to become a sellout or stick to his gritty roots. ‘Found,’ a Musical Based on Literary Detritus 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The guests were seated along the walls in the vast, gritty warehouse space. On the Runway Blog: Opening Ceremony, Zac Posen and Designing Statements 2013-09-09T11:49:12Z She set out to write about how real people lived and spoke, at least in her gritty hometown of Salford, part of Greater Manchester, England. L.A. revival of 'A Taste of Honey,' the 1958 play that dared to make a gay character its moral center 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z His gritty, haunting solos power such hits as "Born to Run," "Jungleland," "Prove It All Night," "Tenth Avenue Freeze Out" and "Badlands." Springsteen says Clemons' health signs are "encouraging" 2011-06-14T21:06:51Z "It was a particularly harsh time," Cummings said, "so we needed to be gritty, and we couldn't be precious, and that was very freeing." The production design is vintage, but not nostalgic 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z There’s neither glossy escapism nor gritty dystopian metaphor here. A tale of two literary Americas: What a book on inequality accidentally reveals about inequality 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z Even gritty BBC crime drama Happy Valley features a village detective tormented by gothic specters of her dead child. Do we need a Twin Peaks revival when TV is so much weirder now? 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Its salvaged barstools and countertops will harken back to the area's grittier past, as will the adjacent garage, which will double as al fresco seating at night. Seattle's Dave Meinart is a nightlife entrepreneur and a political player 2010-07-16T21:08:00Z Getting down into the nitty gritty of these unknown heroes’ interactions, and the reasons behind their removal from the history books, would be one fascinating avenue to take. 'Don’t let the tail wag the dragon': what we want from the Game of Thrones prequel 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z But even on those nights, the old club’s gritty aura will still be baked in, they hope. The New Club Kids 2010-11-19T23:56:00Z The attention was not entirely new; she attended the 2011 Academy Awards as a best actress nominee, for the gritty indie “Winter’s Bone.” Jennifer Lawrence Has No Appetite for Playing Fame Games 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z No one likes biting into a gritty berry, or a chocolate-covered soggy berry. How to make chocolate-covered strawberries 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z The movie gave Gable’s character Fleming’s own rough humor, brusque authority and gritty chivalry. Film: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Camera 2010-02-27T03:00:00Z The sonata is packed with memorable tunes, but it is also insistently gritty, a quality Ms. Vinokur stressed in the vigorous opening movement and the breakneck closing Fugue. Music Review: Musical Americana Afloat at Bargemusic 2011-07-08T22:19:10Z But now, Donohue is as amazed as anyone to see his story go from New York’s gritty bars and muddy tunnels to the big screen. For the Love of Beer and His Buddies 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z It felt as if by shining this honest light on women’s daily harassments and horrific assaults men would understand the gritty texture of our lives and never cross a boundary again. A year on from Trump’s pussy grab, nothing has changed says Eva Wiseman 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z This stuff's as grittily engrossing as an old Spike Lee film. New band of the day ? No 855: Freddie Gibbs 2010-08-26T16:12:00Z “I Don’t Believe a Word You Say” is a tempest of gritty blues artistry, with Harper wailing, “Don’t know what to do without you/ Don’t know what to do with you.” A gritty new blues collaboration 2013-01-28T20:35:08Z Her interest in geography, and the power that places exert on the people in them, is where Barker's gritty, wayward realism is tugged towards something otherworldly, supernatural. A life in writing: Nicola Barker 2010-04-30T23:13:00Z Since making a name for himself with those gritty crime capers, Ritchie has worked mostly in the blockbuster realm. Guy Ritchie set to direct live-action Aladdin 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z |
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