Local papers reviewed the first night of the Hammerstein Ballroom concert in New York City. I went the the third show, which was rescheduled due to the blackout. I'll post some remarks about that show very soon. Meanwhile, here are some scans and links:

The New York Post scan of the review: Dylan revisited is postively lively (August 12)
The New York Daily News: Dylan show takes Hwy. 61, revised (August 12)
Reuters: Concert Review: Bob Dylan (August 12)
Fan reviews from Boblinks (August 12)
Fan reviews from Boblinks (August 13)
Fan reviews from Boblinks (August 20, rescheduled from August 14)

Masked & Anonymous opened last week to mixed reviews. Here is the newspaper advertisement for the movie and some scans and reviews:

Scan of a Dylan and Penelope Cruz at a winter premier of Masked and Anonymous (Click anywhere on the image to enlarge it)
Large scan of the New York Times review. (Click anywhere on the image to enlarge it).
New York Times review (you will need to log in to read the article).
Scan of the Village Voice review (Click anywhere on the image to enlarge it).
Scan of The Onion AV Club review.
Rolling Stone's review
Salon.com review

Other links of interest:

Get your daily Dylan updates at Expecting Rain. Oft-cited as the best Dylan site on the web, the news items are a great way to start the day.

Two excellent photo archives of magazines with Dylan on the cover from the collections of Michel Pomarede and Jeani Hoftijzer.

Several vintage articles about Dylan (mostly from the 70s) can be found at Rock's Back Pages Library Page.

A fascinating Tour Diary written by a roadie for Asleep At The Wheel, who opened for Dylan, is on the sonicnet site.

Curious about the European tours? Follow it with Dylanbase on the Road, or check out the Dylan bootleg database at the same site.

Another road diary offered up by Guster.com: check the August 1st diary for a description of the band meeting Dylan and the delicious food served up by the Dylan tour chef.

For descriptions and links to the reviews in local newspapers, see rec.music.dylan. Use the "Edit: Search Messages" function to look for specific articles. You can search rec.music.dylan at deja.com by typing in "rec.music.dylan" as the search term, then doing a subsearch when rec.music.dylan has loaded.

National Public Radio has an archive of Dylan radio program segments. These RealAudio files are about Dylan, rather than interviews with him.

For Dylan media appearances prior to June 1999, see 20 Lbs. of Headlines, a massive list of articles about Dylan. Not all of them are linked to the actual article, but there is still hours of reading to be found here.

The best source for interviews is News and Interviews at Boblinks. Magazine and newspaper articles can also be found here.

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