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Children’s Book Review: Music All Around — Picture Books to Play

October 14, 2020
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Two fine books for children that draw on music to deliver inspiring messages.

Opera Album Review: A Baroque Opera — Ripped from 18th Century Headlines

October 13, 2020
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Telemann’s music here is a delight, often resembling, in style, appeal, and high craftmanship, what we find in Handel’s operas and oratorios.

Book Review: “Remain in Love” — The Story of the Talking Heads, Told with Charm

October 13, 2020
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With the beguiling Remain in Love, Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz puts a refreshing spin on a familiar genre.

Rock Album Review: Blue Öyster Cult — Still Defying Norms

October 12, 2020
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The record celebrates everything that has made Blue Öyster Cult such an enduring presence — yet it sounds totally in the moment.

WATCH CLOSELY: “Lovecraft Country” — Blackness, Blackness, All Is Blackness

October 12, 2020
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Lovecraft Country is quite a thrill ride at times, its heady balance of realism and fantasy spiced up with an intoxicating dose of science fiction and time travel.

Book Review: “Panthers and the Museum of Fire” — Creative Upheaval

October 12, 2020
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Brief and incessant, repetitive and spiraling, Panthers & the Museum of Fire offers a illuminating perspective on an internal drama: how trivial moments can become pivotal in the development of a writer.

Book Review: Kathy Valentine — Life Before and After the Go-Go’s

October 9, 2020
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In this satisfying memoir, Go-Go’s bassist and quintessential rock chick Kathy Valentine shares her experiences as a member of the most successful all-girl rock band of all time.

Book Review: “Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back” — “Jews, Write and Record.”

October 8, 2020
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An unabridged text of an incisive, harrowing, and absorbing eyewitness account of the Gulag has finally been published in English translation.

Rap Album Review: Action Bronson — The World’s Rapper?

October 8, 2020
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In Only For Dolphins, Bronson serves up his usual brand of excessive escapism, but it is offset by just enough emotional depth to suggest that he is maturing as a person and an artist.

Television Review: “Emily in Paris” — Sacré Bleu!

October 8, 2020
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This is clearly a version of Paris written by ignorant Americans for ignorant Americans.

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