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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.

Book Review: “In the Land of Good Living” — Satisfying Your Gonzo Curiosity

July 22, 2020
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Ah, Florida, “the grease trap under America’s George Foreman Grill”: not just “weird America,” also “impending America.”

Rock Album Review: Cloud Nothings — Still Facing Down Existential Dread

July 21, 2020
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Cloud Nothings’ latest effort is less muscular than their previous work, but it still contains its fair share of hooky bliss.

Music Feature: Gimme Radio — Making Streaming Human

July 20, 2020
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Gimme Radio brings the human element to streaming by relying on DJs to curate playlists and provide context to what listeners are experiencing.

Jazz Album Review: Pablo Ablanedo’s “Chistreza” — Rhythmic Bounty

July 18, 2020
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Every piece here seems to play by its own rhythmic rules, and yet nowhere does the music sound academic or formal.

Album Review: “Is It Selfish If We Talk About Me Again” — Kacy Hill Goes Intimate

July 18, 2020
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Freed from the pressures of recording for a major label, Kacy Hill has created an album that feels surprisingly personal.

Concert Review: Billy Strings’s Streaming Strings Tour — Virtual but Unbridled

July 18, 2020
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If the first set was all about reminding us the breadth and depth of the talent in Billy Strings’ combo, the second set was all about dynamics and power.

Television Review: “Bully. Coward. Victim: The Story of Roy Cohn” — A Soulless Man

July 17, 2020
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Roy Cohn was much more pernicious than Joe McCarthy because he was far more adept at undercutting the relevance of so-called American values.

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