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Book Review: “At the Vanguard of Vinyl” — Illuminating and Frustrating

April 28, 2024
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Other readers may be more sympathetic to this informative book’s broader conclusions about the rise of LP’s and the “erasure of black bodies and black aesthetics.

Book Review: “Get Off My Neck” — How the Judicial System Works, From a Former Insider

April 27, 2024
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Many of the circumstances and particular cases Debbie Hines discusses in “Get Off My Neck” are grim, even sickening. But her experience in the American justice system has taught Hines to choose hope and struggle over despair. And that is encouraging.

Classical Album Review: “Compositrices — New Light on French Romantic Women Composers”

April 27, 2024
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By Ralph P. Locke An 8-CD set of diverse and enjoyable works, brought back from obscurity by Aude Extrémo, Roberto Prosseda, and other major performers. Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers Cyrille Dubois and Yann Beuron (t), Aude Extrémo (mz), Claire Le Boulanger (fl), Roberto Prosseda, Alessandra Ammara, and Nathalia Milstein (p), and…

Television Review: “The Grimm Variations” — Intriguing But Vague

April 26, 2024
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So another season would be in order for “The Grimm Variations” — if it would strive to be less chaotic.

Concert Review: The Flaming Lips — Still Keeping the Pink Robots at Bay

April 26, 2024
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“Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” was the only record of the Flaming Lips that I knew in any real depth; it turns out that the band’s live show was  heartwarming, a buoyant and visually exuberant experience.

Jazz Perspective: Zev Feldman – A Sherlock of a Producer with an Impressive Portfolio

April 26, 2024
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Zev Feldman is becoming one of the great sleuth-producers of our time, and his name is becoming a marker of quality.

Gospel Album Review: Sister Rosetta Tharpe — A “Solid Sender”

April 26, 2024
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I admire Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s wit and daring, her singularly effective guitar playing, and the subtlety of her singing.

Theater Review: “Springtime for Hades”

April 25, 2024
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It’s an old tale, we know how it’s going to end, but we tell it again all the same

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

April 25, 2024
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This week’s poem: Guillermo Parra’s “Alice Coltrane”

Music Commentary: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest versus French Quarter Fest

April 25, 2024
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Which is the best fest? It’s up for grabs.

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