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Director/actress Paola Cortellesi’s “There’s Still Tomorrow” is yet another bold cinematic plea for women’s rights.
Jackson Lears’s collection of essays and book reviews gets a few things right in its description of various kooks, oddballs, and mavericks who sometimes succeeded in moving history in their direction. But it gets far more wrong.
Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17” is one of the most vicious, cruel, and savagely arch vivisections of our global economic and socio-political reality since… well… Bong’s 2013 movie “Snowpiercer”.
This week’s poem: Elizabeth T. Gray Jr’s From “After The Operation”
“A Man of No Importance” is a fitting finale for Paul Daigneault’s tenure as Artistic Director of SpeakEasy Stage Company because it is a paean to the power of theater as both an artistic expression and a place to discover community.
A review of two fine backstage (or offstage) comedies at the Berlinale — “Blue Moon” and “Koln 75”.
“Fable for the End of the World” reflects our own uncertain condition — there are possibilities unknown, alternatives that even would-be godlings like Elon Musk and his ilk have not accounted for.
In “Justice Abandoned”, Rachel Elise Barkow argues that much of the blame for the blight of American mass incarceration lies with the Supreme Court.
For poet Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., the neurological is also archeological.
Arts Remembrance: Tom Robbins’s “Joy in Spite of Everything”
In his writing, in his life, and in his fun, generous, and winsomely wise spirit, the late — but never late for a party — Tom Robbins chose to feel “ridiculously fine” and wanted us to feel the same way.
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