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Jazz CD Review: Cory Smythe’s “Accelerate Every Voice” — Densely Layered; Simultaneously Music and Cryptic Puzzle

June 9, 2020
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This is virtuosity-driven chamber music with fluctuating levels of oxygen, shadows, and light.

Book Review: “The Fallen” — Probing Cuban Paralysis

June 9, 2020
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The Fallen artfully diagnoses the spiritual and material maladies of contemporary Cuban life through the lens of a single family, a household threatened by decay, exterior and interior.

Television Review: Netflix’s “Space Force” — Sucked into a Black Hole

June 8, 2020
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Maybe Space Force will figure out what kind of comedy it is and launch into a rejuvenated second season turn. Though that assumes it will get a second season.

Opera CD Review: An Album of Beethoven Arias? Soprano Chen Reiss’s Imaginative New Solo Disc Pulls it Off

June 8, 2020
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Immortal Beloved is a CD that will appeal to lovers of fine singing and to people curious about some hidden corners of Beethoven’s output.

Arts Remembrance: Christo, Master of Ephemeral Public Art

June 7, 2020
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Christo’s Art — Conceptual, Temporary, Monumental, and Always Memorable

Book Review: “Hiding in Plain Sight” — Detailing the Malignancy of Donald Trump

June 6, 2020
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According to Sarah Kendzior, “we have a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government.”

Film Review: “Shirley” — Domestic Witchcraft

June 5, 2020
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Shirley is hard to watch, hard to resist, and deeply, deliciously haunting.

Jazz Album Review: Wolfgang Muthspiel’s Superb “Angular Blues”

June 4, 2020
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The precision and inventiveness of Angular Blues more than meets our high expectations for this terrific trio.

Arts Commentary: Consider the Self — I am George Floyd. I am Derek Chauvin.

June 3, 2020
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I am Derek Chauvin, and I am George Floyd. Who are you?

Television Review: “Ramy,” Season 2 — An Egyptian-American Muslim on a Hilarious Quest

June 2, 2020
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Much of the fun of Ramy comes from its deadpan embrace of heightened absurdity.

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