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Music Commentary: Ken Burns’ “Country Music” — Superb Cinematic Storytelling

September 22, 2019
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Country Music digs into the rich, deep dirt of a music with a complicated past, a hybrid genre soaked in soulful suffering, twangy glory, and times both high and tough.

Film Review: Rude, Crude, and Enchanting, This Year’s New York Film Festival is a Helluva Ride

September 22, 2019
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Three remarkable films that promise a bumper crop of world cinema yet to come at the NY Film Festival.

Music Preview: Guitarist Jimmy Herring — Seeking the Simple Root

September 20, 2019
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Veteran guitarist Jimmy Herring and the 5 of 7 play groove-heavy tunes that barrel into unexpected and interesting places.

Book Review: “The Sweetest Fruits” — Stories in Order to Live

September 18, 2019
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Reading The Sweetest Fruits is like looking at the back of an oriental rug in which the pattern is rather more indistinct than the front but the colors much richer and more vivid.

Arts Remembrance: Emily Remler — The Short Life and Sad Death of a Jazz Guitarist

September 18, 2019
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Emily Remler took a particularly clear-eyed view of her work. She didn’t want to be judged by a lesser standard because she was a woman in the overwhelmingly male world of jazz.

Film Review: “One Cut of the Dead” — Meta Gonzo Zombie Horror

September 17, 2019
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This clever Japanese zombie film is a spirited attempt to blow up and reinvigorate the genre.

Opera Album Review: A Renaissance-Toned Opera by Saint-Saëns, Finally (and Finely) Recorded

September 17, 2019
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One of Saint-Saëns’s most important operas, Proserpine, has recently been given its world-premiere recording, and the result is a revelation.

Visual Arts Commentary: Public Art — Much More than Murals

September 15, 2019
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Thankfully, public art has become much more than murals for blank wall spaces.

Book Review: “As a River” — How Secrets Divide

September 15, 2019
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As a River is a sensuously and smoothly written book, a heartfelt meditation on what divides us from each other and from love.

Theater Review: “The Purists” — Rapping Out the Blues

September 14, 2019
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With The Purists, Dan McCabe has written a comic drama that not only has a lot to say, but does it with an enormous amount of playful vim and vigor.

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