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Not only is Fetch the Bolt Cutters the most stunning of Apple’s five albums, it’s the most impressive pop record of this young pandemic year, its bottled turmoil speaking to our own pent-up nerves.
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Rowan Ricardo Phillips attempts to combine a woke perspective with his vast knowledge of poetry from the past.
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Lee Konitz was, with Sonny Rollins, one of the last of his great generation of jazz men still swinging hard.
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What’s happening right now, this is a bloodbath. It is full on slaughter of small businesses. They lie in the streets gasping for breath.
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A fun and original slasher/romp that lovingly embraces a number of ’80s horror tropes.
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The Strokes are finally growing up — and their maturity is a sight to behold.
One of the masterpieces of Russian drama is done justice in a English version that successfully captures much of the wit and fluency of the original.
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In its 4th season, Insecure remains a hilarious look at the lives of black millennials growing up in Los Angeles.
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The two best things about Simon Rattle’s new recording of Die Walküre are, well, Rattle, himself, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; a strongly played and majestically sung performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s unfairly neglected Die erste Walpurgisnacht.
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Arts Commentary: Two “Killer” Worldviews
I’m suddenly startled by the almost simultaneous appearance of two killers, neither of them COVID-19, each seemingly unbeatable in its own way.
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