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Pop Album Review: Oliver Tree’s “Ugly Is Beautiful” — Embracing Our Inner Kookiness

July 27, 2020
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Though it’s inconsistent, Oliver Tree ‘s debut album offers an ample display of songwriting acumen along with his determined eccentricities.

Book Review: “Lake of Urine: A Love Story” — Breaking Established Reality

July 27, 2020
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It’s hard to critique a novel that flies under such a resplendent banner, a wholesale rejection of the dead and decaying world of trends and war and meaninglessness.

Book Review: Ornette Coleman –The Life of a Jazz Visionary

July 27, 2020
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“Ornette was looking for those notes, the ones that feel no pain.”

Jazz Album Review: Following the Lessons of the Master, “Thumbscrew – The Anthony Braxton Project”

July 27, 2020
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The album’s set of pieces not only revels in the spirited formal experimentation of the great musician’s music, but its expressive urgency as well.

Theater Review: “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” – What Lurks in a Zoom-screen Void

July 26, 2020
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The play’s swift running give-and-take is chillingly beguiling, its myriad allusions arousing your curiosity as you consider the characters’ positions and conclusions yourself.

Film Review: “The Rental” — Low Rent B and B Horror

July 25, 2020
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The Rental chugs along predictable genre rails, its characters settling into the expected “types” as screws are gradually turned on them by whoever’s surveilling from a distance.

Rap Album Review: “Miles” — Blu & Exile’s World of Anguish and Beauty

July 24, 2020
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For an hour and a half, Blu examines himself on Miles, trying to understand who he is and where he comes from.

Film Feature: The Salem Film Festival — Virtual, and as Vital as Ever

July 24, 2020
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Filmgoers hankering for some excellent and exciting new documentary features and shorts should check out the Salem Film Festival, which has gone online.

Television Review: HBO’s “Perry Mason” — American Justice, with Loose Ends

July 24, 2020
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The parallel plot — maybe the real plot — percolates just below the surface: the meta-textual challenge of figuring out how the HBO Perry Mason will morph into something resembling its CBS progenitor.

Television Review: “Fisherman’s Friends” — Corny, but Cornwall Shines

July 23, 2020
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What makes this somewhat derivative movie soar is its music.

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