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WATCH CLOSELY: “Horror Noire” — A Canonical Documentary

February 20, 2019
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The film assembles an eclectic and impressive crew of actors, writers, directors and scholars to explore the representation of black characters and culture in (mostly) American horror cinema.

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Jazz CD Review: Vanessa Rubin Sings Tadd Dameron — Paying Expert Homage

February 20, 2019
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Smartly, Vanessa Ruben has gathered a strong group of collaborators, a number of whom knew Tadd Dameron personally and all of whom knew his music well.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “True Detective” — Mysteries of Mind and Soul

February 19, 2019
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This season of True Detective explores the figure of the cop as a permanently haunted man.

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Book Review: “Gatsby’s Child” — America’s Old Money, In Decay

February 18, 2019
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Everything about Schumacher’s story indicates that clichés about the ’50s are so powerful because things really were that way: repressive, poisonous, full of unspoken secrets and blustering ignorance.

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Film Review: 1932’s “Million Dollar Legs” — Iconoclastic Euphoria

February 17, 2019
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Does the movie have anything to say about our zeitgeist? Well, the very entertaining cabinet-meeting sequence shows that chamber to be a place of male posturing, humiliation, sado-masochism, duplicity, and, finally, abject sycophancy.

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Opera Review: Beyond the “Barber of Seville” — New Recordings of Two First-Rate Forgotten Operas by Rossini

February 17, 2019
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Beethoven reportedly told Rossini to stick to writing comic operas. But new recordings of two of Rossini’s major serious operas bring great pleasure to the listener—and let us hear some splendid young singers.

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Jazz Concert Review: Mnozil Brass — Music-as-Vaudeville

February 16, 2019
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The seven-man musical wrecking squad from Austria called Mnozil Brass has created a combination circus band, village band, marching band, and vaudeville orchestra.

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Arts Remembrance: Albert Finney, An Appreciation — Death and the Angry Young Man

February 15, 2019
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Albert Finney was the greatest interpreter of England’s gift to the world of contemporary theater, the Kitchen Sink Drama.

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Rock CD Review: Tedeschi Trucks Band Provides “Signs” of the Time

February 14, 2019
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This studio outing emphasizes superb ensemble playing; the result in a beguiling album in which just about every note shines.

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WATCH CLOSELY: The Dark Depths of “Russian Doll”

February 14, 2019
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Russian Doll is television made to be savored.

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