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Television Review: BBC’s “The Repair Shop” — Fiercely Amiable

January 11, 2021
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BBC’s The Repair Shop is about hard work and mending battered psyches.

Opera Preview: Donizetti’s “The Pariah” — One of the Most Significant Opera Releases of the Past Few Years

January 10, 2021
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The long-forgotten Il paria (1829), a work that Donizetti himself prized more highly than many of his other works, has now been reconstructed by a scholarly team and given a splendid recording.

WATCH CLOSELY: “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” Ends on a Sentimental Note

January 9, 2021
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I will miss Chilling Adventures of Sabrina more than I may care to admit.

Album Review: “Man on the Moon III: The Chosen” — Kid Cudi Finds Himself, Again

January 9, 2021
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Occasional slip-ups shouldn’t obscure appreciation of Kid Cudi’s fantastic vocal performance.

Opera Album Review: Leonardo “no-dah” Vinci’s “Gismondo” — Quite Wonderful Stuff, Splendidly Performed.

January 8, 2021
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Lovers of Baroque opera will want to scoop this one up quickly. I certainly have more respect and affection for Leonardo Vinci, now that I’ve come to know several of his operas.

Book Review: “The Ocean House” — Infiltrating the Beachheads of Memory

January 7, 2021
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Mary-Beth Hughes’s penetrating glimpses into the depths of her characters’ lives make us more deeply aware of our own.

Music Remembrance: MF DOOM — The Artist as Supervillain

January 5, 2021
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The sonic thumbprint of MF DOOM will live eternally in the forensics of hip-hop DNA and underground culture as a whole.

Book Review: “How 1984 Became Pop’s Blockbuster Year”

January 5, 2021
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Music fans who miss, or missed, the long party that was mainstream music in the mid-’80s will be skillfully taken back to fast times in Can’t Slow Down.

Book Review: “Desert Oracle” — Dwelling on the Fringe

January 3, 2021
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Desert Oracle is an omnibus, a kind of hand drawn map, as well as a bit of a crackup — something you will peruse and possibly find the route leading to a deeper dive.

Book Review: “Savage Kiss” — Children’s Criminal Crusade

January 2, 2021
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Maybe the greatest value of Saviano’s narratives is that they rebuke the complicity of silence; they are acts of dissent that refuse to kowtow to the oppressive omertà.

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