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Film Review: 5 Women Filmmakers — A Sampling of the Superb

March 2, 2019
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This is a finely-selected sampling of what some accomplished women filmmakers offered in 2018.

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Book Reviews: A Provocative Trio of Volumes on Architecture and Landscape Architecture

March 2, 2019
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In very different ways and on very different topics, three recent books assuage notions that architecture/design books are formidable reads.

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Author Interview: Writer Clive James — Writing Against the Dying of the Light

March 1, 2019
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Imagine a combination of Stephen Colbert (the real one, that is) and John Updike.

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Arts Fuse Podcast #11: Talking With Lloyd Schwartz — And Skinny Jerry Garcia and Nixon Read Poetry

March 1, 2019
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We were overjoyed to spend this episode with Pulitzer prize winning critic, poet, and teacher Lloyd Schwartz. Stick around for the poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon, too

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Film Review: “Greta” — Psycho Thriller, Qui Est-Ce?

February 28, 2019
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A B-movie par excellence, Greta’s the kind of unhinged and yet fiendishly well-calibrated genre fare that rarely gets afforded the attentions of a director as accomplished as Neil Jordan.

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Book Review: “Making Music American — 1917 and the Transformation of Culture”

February 28, 2019
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1917 was an important year, but perhaps not important enough to justify the sweeping title of the book.

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TV Review: “The Umbrella Academy” — What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stranger

February 27, 2019
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What’s a band of re-orphaned misfits to do? Dance away the pain, obviously.

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Visual Arts Review: “Harry Dodge: Works of Love” — Meaning Comes Extra

February 27, 2019
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I fell for the Harry Dodge exhibition, but I confess to not entirely ‘getting the picture.’

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Film Homage: Stanley Donen is Why You Love the Movies

February 26, 2019
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On an elemental level, Stanley Donen’s films epitomize what we think of when we think of the best of Hollywood cinema.

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Theater Review: “Wrestling With Freedom” — Invaluable History

February 25, 2019
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The script offers an indispensable vision of American history from the point of view of African women.

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