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
