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Film Review: “Pig” — The Trouble with Truffles

July 14, 2021
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Director Michael Sarnoski’s first feature stars Nicolas Cage, and works as a mystery, a story of personal loss, and a foodie movie.

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Book Review: “Mississippi Prison Writing” Offers an Unfiltered Look at Life Behind Bars

July 14, 2021
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Many of the pieces in the collection come in the form of a personal diary, and these give us a sense of the day-to-day inner lives of the prisoners.

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Jazz Album Review: Vince Mendoza’s “Freedom Over Everything”

July 14, 2021
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There’s a contrast here, an understandable impatience with current events placed alongside belief in MLK’s vision of the long arc of the moral universe. Neither cancels the other.

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Concert Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra Performs Carlos Simon, Sibelius, and Dvorak

July 13, 2021
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The orchestra’s summer home is operating at reduced capacity this season, but it’s wonderful to have the BSO and its public reunited.

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Book Review: “The Three Veils of Ibn Oraybi” — A Lovely Exotic Fantasy

July 13, 2021
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This is a lyrical work: gracefully exaggerating reality is a merit that good poetry and fantasy share.

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Short Fuse Podcast #42: PROMISE WITNESS REMEMBRANCE

July 13, 2021
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks with Stephen Reily, Director of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky about the exhibition, “Promise, Witness, Remembrance.”

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Jazz Album Review: Sarah Wilson’s “Kaleidoscope” — Unrelievedly Optimistic

July 12, 2021
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On this disc, trumpeter, singer, and composer Sarah Wilson serves up music that is warm, a little funny at times, and very well played in an unassuming manner.

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Film Review: “Zola” — Fear and Posting in Tampa, Florida

July 12, 2021
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Zola is an exhilaratingly salacious odyssey through the neon-lit strip clubs, dingy motels, and gaudy underbelly of America’s chaos state, like Showgirls as told by Zora Neale Hurston.

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Jazz Album Reviews: William Parker — Blowing Open the Doors of Perception

July 12, 2021
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William Parker, the 69-year-old composer, multi-instrumentalist, author, and all-around presence on the progressive jazz scene churns out challenging music with prolific abandon.

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Visual Arts Commentary: “The Scream,” “Sunflowers,” and the “Mona Lisa” — Gone Baby Gone

July 11, 2021
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Perhaps we need to call on Sherlock Holmes in order to resolve the 31-year old “no end in sight” Gardner heist?

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