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Rock Album Review: On “Normal Isn’t,” Puscifer Dances Through the New Abnormal

February 11, 2026
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Puscifer is alarmed that so many values, including bedrock rights, are under attack, with real people getting hurt (in some cases killed) in the process.

Poetry Review: “A Violence” from Within — Paula Bohince’s Switchblade Lyricism

February 11, 2026
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You can almost hear the volume whispering in your ear, “Be like lichen.” Traumatic grief, political tyranny, and environmental catastrophe are not irreversible.

Film Review: “Honey Bunch” — A Hallucinatory Take on Married Love and Lost Memories

February 11, 2026
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Directors Sims-Fewer and Mancinelli indulge in a few too many changes of tone, but their film offers a pleasantly oddball romance.

Theater Review: “The Moderate’ — Ken Urban’s Dazzling, Disquieting Digital Drama

February 10, 2026
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A consistently engaging and engaged, insightful, humorous, scarily moving, polished contemporary drama with a premise to die for.

Sundance Fest’s Last Winter in Utah — Docs on a Small Town Newspaper, the Attack on Salman Rushdie, and Public Access TV 

February 10, 2026
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A trio of illuminating documentaries, their topics ranging from the struggles of a local newspaper to the days of public access cable television in New York City.

Book Review: “The Hadacol Boogie” –James Lee Burke’s Bayou Ballad of Blood and Redemption

February 10, 2026
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The point of a novel like this: Life is messy, but glorious. Kind of like “The Hadacol Boogie”.

Film Review: “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” — A Satire Too Stuck in the Now to Save the Future

February 9, 2026
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The film urges the audience to take action against AI, but it is too symptomatic of today’s paralysis to be of as much help as it would like to be.

Dance Review: “circlusion” Turns the Mattress into a Stage for Reimagined Femininity

February 8, 2026
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As this duet unfolds, it opens the way to musings about how a bed is a human-sized rectangle on which are projected dreams and nightmares, sexuality and erotic boundaries.

Visual Arts Show: Friendship and Inclusion — “To My Best Friend” at the ICA/Boston

February 8, 2026
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This exhibit is a fair reflection of the museum’s desire to spotlight work by artists who have traditionally been neglected by the museum world.

Film Review: Lav Diaz’s “Magellan” — Conquest as Apocalypse

February 7, 2026
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“Magellan” circles the world and the world circles the drain.

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