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Rock Album Review: The Pixies — Spiky Sonics, Smoothed Over

October 30, 2022
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The Pixies could be anthemic, snarky, jaunty, or forlorn as they chose, which meant they were never boring.

Jazz Album Review: Newvelle Records’ Renewal Collection — A Beautifully Compact Clarity

October 30, 2022
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This collection, Newvelle Records’ first series release in two years, features original compositions by Elan Mehler, Michael Blake, Dave Liebman, and Nadje Noordhuis.

Television Review: Guillermo del Toro’s “Cabinet of Curiosities” — Well Worth Opening

October 29, 2022
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This is a terrific start for a series that may live up to the promise of The Twilight Zone: it will take you “on a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.”

Film Review: Female Trouble and Male Troublemaking in “The Banshees of Inisherin” and “Aftersun”

October 27, 2022
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Both of these films explore the theme of difficult males and resilient, caregiving females.

Opera Album Review: Odyssey Opera’s Invaluable World-Premiere Recording of Saint-Saëns’s Complete “Henry VIII”

October 27, 2022
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Gil Rose’s team, headed by an incandescent Ellie Dehn as Catherine of Aragon, should help bring this major work back to the world’s opera-house stages.

Book Review: “Manifesting Justice” — Powerful Tools in the Struggle to Reform the American Justice System

October 27, 2022
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 “As the old saying goes,” writes author and former prosecutor Valena Beety, “when you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”

Visual Arts Review: A Mom’s Gaze — Anna Grevenitis and the Arnold Newman Prize at the Griffin Museum

October 27, 2022
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Each project in the exhibition presents unique perspectives on seeing and being seen, fitting for the Newman Prize’s goal of providing a platform for innovative photographic portraiture.

Film Review: “Anvil: The Story of Anvil” — Rerelease and Epilogue

October 26, 2022
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It is pretty clear that this Canadian band was not in the right place at the right time, despite the ferocious energy and speed of its music and sublime performances.

Film Review: “Frownland” — An Invisible Person Made Intimately Visible

October 26, 2022
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This little-seen film, disturbing, uncompromising, often darkly funny, should be recognized as one of the most original American independent films of this century.

Film Review: “Armageddon Time” — Falling Between Two Worlds

October 24, 2022
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In James Gray’s new film, the tragedy and pain behind Jewish assimilation lurks just out of frame.

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