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Three independent films got a bounce out of the New York Film Festival and could be coming to you soon.
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If ever there was a musical act and a venue perfectly suited to each other, it would have to be the Wailin’ Jennys, the harmony-laden Canadian folk trio, and the Groton Hill Music Center.
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“Baby Driver” is a book in the tradition of American road literature, but it moves at a distinctly different pace.
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Varone and dancers made skillful use of some of the most luxurious movement vocabulary available in contemporary dance
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The authors assembled in “Crimean Fig” demonstrate they are unafraid to speak up for Tatar language and culture, while simultaneously speaking out against Putin, unwilling to submit.
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Knowing that artist Peter Hujar died of AIDS in 1987—one of countless casualties of a devastating epidemic that cut short so many artists’ lives—gives the film a sad, mortal urgency.
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“The Seduction” is visually stunning but, even though it is the magnificently clothed French aristocracy, it all comes down to unremarkable people behaving badly.
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Reading “February 1933”, just ten months into Trump’s second mandate is nothing less than unnerving.
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This week’s poem: Sam Cha’s “Have you heard the one”
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Jazz Commentary: The Enduring Enigma of Chet Baker
I take a look back at the compelling documentary “Let’s Get Lost” because of the recently released “Chet Baker Performs and Sings: Swimming by Moonlight”, 15 unreleased studio recordings made by the trumpeter.
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