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Opera Album Review: Ermonela Jaho, a Soprano We Need Today

September 19, 2020
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A world-star soprano, in her magnificent prime at age 36, offers her first recital CD, and you can participate in its online “launch.”

TV Review: “Ratched” — A Sensational Sartorial Folly

September 18, 2020
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Ratched is lurid, violent, sexually explicit, outrageous, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Ken Kesey’s novel or Milos Forman’s award-winning film adaptation.

Visual Arts Commentary: Digital Media — Public Art Is a Bridge to Our New Normal

September 17, 2020
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In a time when everyday seems like Wednesday, creative use of new media is a visual and experiential bridge to our new and hopefully innovative normal.

Music Album Review: Lomelda’s “Hannah” — A Wonderful Tenderness

September 16, 2020
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The intimate emotions captured by Hannah are enhanced by Lomelda’s ability to be both revelatory and inscrutable in the same breath.

Film Review and Interview: Bill Flanagan on Jimmy Carter — Rock & Roll President

September 15, 2020
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After the misery, cynicism, and division of the past four years, Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President is a breath of fresh air.

Book Review: “Murder and the Movies” — So Cinematic, the Spectacle of Death

September 14, 2020
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Our awareness of our delight in the homicidal temptations presented by film is itself a kind of twisted comedy that the critic is all too aware of.

Opera Album Review: A Leading Master of 17th-Century Venetian Opera Struts His Stuff

September 14, 2020
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Lovers of Baroque opera will welcome this release: the first recording — and a very accomplished and communicative one —of an important opera by a pioneer and master.

Arts Remembrance: Fred “Toots” Hibbert — Resiliency in the Face of Struggle

September 14, 2020
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As anyone who is familiar with “Toots” Hibbert’s near sixty-year career could testify, he was an artist who wrote songs that were guaranteed to transcend the contexts of their particular place and moment.

Film Review: “The Devil All the Time” — Bad Things Happen, Over and Over Again

September 13, 2020
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This may be the year’s best ensemble cast, and that goes a long way towards making this multi-layered melodrama accessible and compelling.

Music Interview: Talking with Cisco Swank about His New EP — and the Roots of Creativity

September 13, 2020
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“You’re always gonna be yourself, your unique self, so it’s important to incorporate the things that you really love.”

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