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Opera Album Review: Ermonela Jaho, a Soprano We Need Today

September 19, 2020
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A world-star soprano, in her magnificent prime at age 36, offers her first recital CD, and you can participate in its online “launch.”

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Book Interview: Talking to BrownMark about “Life in the Purple Kingdom”

September 19, 2020
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Front and center in this memoir are BrownMark’s efforts to reconcile his resentment and gratitude toward the man who both sold him short and afforded him the “opportunity of a lifetime.”

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TV Review: “Ratched” — A Sensational Sartorial Folly

September 18, 2020
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Ratched is lurid, violent, sexually explicit, outrageous, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Ken Kesey’s novel or Milos Forman’s award-winning film adaptation.

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Literary Appreciation: D. H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love” at 100

September 18, 2020
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I hope this centennial will inspire readers to immerse themselves in this enormously important, rich, and vibrant work.

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Arts Remembrance: Soul Iconoclast Roy C

September 17, 2020
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Roy C may not have lived to see the current regime toppled or his litigation over past royalties resolved to his satisfaction, but he died knowing that he was — without a doubt — a Black American original.

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Short Fuse Podcast #28 –The 2020 MTV Video Music Awards with Deanna & Hailee

September 17, 2020
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Be warned! This episode is no standard award show recap.

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Theater Review: “Seneca Falls” – A History of Women’s Suffrage, Tongue-in-Cheek

September 17, 2020
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The script is not a conventional history of women’s suffrage: dramatic Jean Ann Douglass mobilizes satire, sexuality, suffering, and sarcasm.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Digital Media — Public Art Is a Bridge to Our New Normal

September 17, 2020
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In a time when everyday seems like Wednesday, creative use of new media is a visual and experiential bridge to our new and hopefully innovative normal.

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Music Album Review: Lomelda’s “Hannah” — A Wonderful Tenderness

September 16, 2020
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The intimate emotions captured by Hannah are enhanced by Lomelda’s ability to be both revelatory and inscrutable in the same breath.

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Film Review: Yet More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — It’s Stir-Crazy 9

September 16, 2020
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Five more feature films of great interest and their links, lovingly chosen to get you through the continuing travails of the coronavirus.

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