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Rock Album: 1970’s “Live at Goose Lake” — The Stooges Hitting Their Feral Stride

September 6, 2020
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If we factor in the triple-size oversell crowd, the bad drugs circulating, and the home field advantage, there was plenty there to inspire The Stooges to raise some merry hell.

Film Review: “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” — The Blues of Existence

September 5, 2020
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You may not know what you’re feeling or what to think about what you’ve seen afterward. This is a rare experience in cinema to be savored, or at the very least highly valued.

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

September 5, 2020
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In wrapping up Fantasia, I focused on The Five Rules of Success, Come True, and The Dark and the Wicked, three ambitious genre titles that have stuck with me long since their credits rolled.

Book Review: A Treasury of Tall Tales That Make Opera Fun

September 3, 2020
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Author Ethan Mordden serves up plenty of entertaining yarns, sometimes as exaggerated as the genre to which they pay homage.

Book Review: “Bukowski, A Life” — The Poet of Skid Row

September 2, 2020
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Some of the most insightful and moving parts of the biography are Neeli Cherkovski’s personal recounting of his on-again off again relationship with Charles Bukowski.

Dance Review: “And Still You Must Swing” — Tap Dance as Exhilaration and Inspiration

September 2, 2020
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This terrific performance was the grand finale from a beloved dance festival doing its best under enormous pressure.

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.

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.

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.

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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