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Television Review: “Class Action Park” — The Most Dangerous Place on Earth

September 1, 2020
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Visitors (of all ages?) were invited to drink copious amounts of liquor and possibly get laid. This was as close to Pinnochio‘s Pleasure Island as they were ever going to get.

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Book Review: “Time of the Magicians” — The Search for the Language of God

August 31, 2020
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In his book, Wolfram Eilenberger has provided an absorbing view of a period in Western intellectual history that was committed to the new.

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Book Review: “To Live and Defy in LA” — Gangsta Rap and the Creative Politics of Dissent

August 31, 2020
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To Live & Defy in LA sees Gangsta Rap as an important way to understand how systemic racism has worked (and works) in America today.

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Album Review: Molly Tuttle’s “…But I’d Rather Be With You” — Beyond Expectations

August 31, 2020
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This cover album is a pretty wild ride, yes, but Molly Tuttle navigates the course with supreme cool.

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Film Review: At the Fantasia International Film Festival, Part Two

August 30, 2020
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Movies, great or awful, are essential comforts in these nightmarish times. And in my second dispatch of the Fantasia fest, I bring better tidings.

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Arts Commentary: Family-Friendly Pandemic Entertainment?

August 29, 2020
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Will attendees of Jurassic Quest “have a dino-mite time!”? Who knows? But the event will look mighty attractive to parents who havee been stuck in the house with kids who are driving them to distraction.

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Jazz Appreciation: A Celebration of Charlie Parker on His 100th Birthday

August 29, 2020
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Arts Fuse jazz critics offer their favorite performances from the Bird.

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Film Review: “Unhinged” — Relentless Road Rage

August 29, 2020
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Unhinged is one of the most violent films I’ve seen in recent memory where there is no excessive gun play. But who needs bullets when you are driving a two ton projectile powered by an endless, roiling fount of rage?

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Book Review: “Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin” — Naked City

August 27, 2020
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Peter L’Official has written an important book that speaks with powerful relevance to the state of Black life in America today — and the demands of Black Lives Matter.

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Film Review: “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” — Charlie Kaufman’s Hall of Existential Mirrors Glimmers Darkly

August 27, 2020
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a bit of a wonder, a careful nightmare that demands rapt attention even if repeated viewings do little to assuage its eeriness.

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