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Electronic Art Pop Album Review: FKA twigs’ “Caprisongs” — Hypnotic Mixtape

January 31, 2022
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The format may be different, but FKA twigs remains as hypnotic as ever on her album Caprisongs.

Film Reviews: Sundance 2022, Dispatch #6 — Learning from the Past

January 30, 2022
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This dispatch reviews three documentaries that are very different from each other, but are all fascinating and engaging. This was an excellent year for documentaries at Sundance. I will review several more before this year’s dispatches are complete.

Visual Arts Review: “Ways to Baffle the Wind” — Exploring Humanity and Nature at Mass MoCA

January 29, 2022
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Yto Barrada’s intent in this show is not to warn about environmental catastrophe so much as to explore where culture and the natural world meet.

Film Reviews: Sundance 2022, Dispatch #5 — Nature, and Healing

January 29, 2022
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These three Sundance films supplied very intense viewing experiences.

Book Review: “Call Me Cassandra” — The Beauty of Fait Accompli

January 28, 2022
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You know how the story is going to end, but it can only unfold if you take Cassandra’s hand and follow where she knows to go. Believe that she knows the way.

Film Review: “Navalny” – Powerful Documentary About Putin’s “Extremist” Challenger Premieres at Sundance

January 28, 2022
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We learn that Navalny — if we didn’t know it already from reporters who cling to Putin’s charismatic nemesis — is a persuasive man who has gotten a long way on his wits and courage.

Book Review: “What Just Happened” — Memorable Thoughts on “A Long Year”

January 27, 2022
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From the pandemic’s beginning, Charles Finch uses the crisis as a nearly daily backdrop for musings on all sorts. The results are at once cathartic, frightening, exasperating, and often hilarious.

Film Review: “Jockey” – (A Battle to Get Back in the Saddle)

January 27, 2022
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An upstart young rider confronts an aging jockey. Yet there’s nary a cliché.

Film Reviews: Sundance 2022, Dispatch #4 — Trauma and Terror

January 27, 2022
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When given a choice, tend to choose films that are fairly harrowing to watch. The next three Sundance Fest films on my slate were often disturbing, but also powerful and inspiring on many levels.

Opera Review: Arabs on the Operatic Stage — Meyerbeer’s 1814 Comic Opera about the Mysterious ‘East’

January 26, 2022
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Long before the often-prejudicial portrayals of Middle Easterners in Hollywood films, opera composers crafted insightful works from 1001 Nights.

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