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What comes through most resonantly in Apples is its envisioning of a society starting over, and its suggestion that a clean slate, accepted honestly, might not be the worst thing.
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Antônio Carlos Gomes’s Lo Schiavo (The Slave) receives its first major recording — and stakes its claim in the repertory.
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“We will step to the edge of our humanity, expressing the commonalities that we all share, the threads that bind and connect us all.”
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Feels Good Man is a provocative, entertaining, and moving documentary about an artist trying to retain his identity along with the innocence of the cartoon character he created.
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Long live Fluxus, with its questionable boxes of ephemera, its baggy bags of soil, and its mad prankster sensibility.
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Humankind, at the very least, compels us to rethink fashionably pessimistic assumptions about human nature.
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For some reason, Aggretsuko riffs on Japanese idols in its third season, and the shift makes the show less appealing.
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A Mother Cow of jazz iconoclasts takes on German lieder, because why not?
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I heartily recommend M.M. Blume’s excellent Fallout, which ably synthesizes large amounts of archival, historical, and biographical material from three continents.
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Police Violence Commentary: Another NYPD Murder — Two Decades Ago
To be killed — as in murdered — by police you don’t necessarily have to be a person of color.
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