Culture 2009
Books
It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown and a Much Needed Margarita - Heather B. Armstrong
Nothing To Be Frightened Of - Julian Barnes
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You - Peter Cameron
Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born - Tina Cassidy
Rattled! - Christine Coppa
The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America’s Favorite Health Food - Kaayla T. Daniel
The Garden of Last Days - Andre Dubus III
The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb
The Razor’s Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
Teacher Man - Frank McCourt
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perrotta
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women - Jessica Valenti
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Movies
The Boys Are Back
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
The Fountain
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
The Girlfriend Experience
The Good Shepherd
Gran Torino
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Inglourios Basterds
Julie and Julia
New York, I Love You
Paranormal Activity
Precious based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
Pursuit of Happyness
The Reader
The Road
Sherlock Holmes
Sunshine Cleaning
Up
The Wrestler
Theater
Shrek the Musical - Broadway Theatre - NYC - January 2, 2009
Equus - Broadhurst Theatre - NYC - January 6, 2009
Becky Shaw - Second Stage - NYC - February 4, 2009
In The Heights - Richard Rodgers Theatre - NYC - February 10, 2009
Impressionism - Schoenfeld Theatre - NYC - March 12, 2009
God of Carnage - Jacobs Theatre - NYC - March 17, 2009
The Real Thing - T. Schreiber Studios - NYC - March 26, 2009
Waiting for Godot - Studio 54 - NYC - April 19, 2009
Offices - The Atlantic - NYC - April 23, 2009
Next to Normal - Booth Theatre- NYC - May 7, 2009
9-5 - Marquis Theatre - NYC - May 12, 2009
Reasons To Be Pretty - Lyceum Theatre - NYC - May 19, 2009
Billy Elliot - Imperial Theatre- NYC - May 21, 2009
Ivanov - Gene Frankel Theatre - NYC - June 23, 2009
Tin Pan Alley Rag - Laura Pels Theatre - NYC - July 8, 2009
Next to Normal - Booth Theatre - September 3, 2009
Superior Donuts - Music Box Theatre - September 30, 2009
The Brothers Size and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet - Public Theatre - November 13, 2009
3:56 AM - Gene Frankel Theatre - December 4, 2009
Let Me Down Easy - 2econd Stage Theatre - December 9, 2009
Ragtime - Neil Simon Theatre - December 15, 2009
Music
Sutton Foster - Lincoln Center - NYC - February 19, 2009
Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris and Shawn Colvin - Beacon Theatre - NYC - February 20, 2009
Indigo Girls - Highline Ballroom - NYC - April 15, 2009
Matt Nathanson & the Indigo Girls - Central Park - NYC - June 16, 2009
Jason Mraz - Jones Beach Theatre - Wantagh, NY - August 7, 2009


