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Film Festival Reviews: TIFF 2023 — Corruption and Cops

September 14, 2023
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Reviews of three films at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival that draw connections between class, violence, and politics.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

September 14, 2023
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This week’s poem: Anselm Berrigan’s “Corner Eye.”

Jazz Album Review: Eddie Henderson’s “Witness to History” — Veteran Talents

September 14, 2023
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These witnesses to history are no longer playing with the fire of their youth, but they exude the confidence, warmth, and sure instincts of veterans.

Book Review: Annie Ernaux’s “The Young Man” — An Affair to Remember

September 13, 2023
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“I was in a dominant position, and I used the weapons of that dominance, whose fragility, in a romantic relationship, I nonetheless recognized.”

Concert Review: Godspeed You! Black Emperor — Sensory Assault as a Total Experience

September 13, 2023
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Godspeed’s left-wing view was most clearly reflected at a merch table dominated by books on working-class resistance and anarchism, while the group’s dissonant post-rock embodied tension.

Book Review: “Blood In The Tracks” — Bob Dylan’s Mystery Musicians

September 12, 2023
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“Blood In the Tracks” delivers a minor miracle: a host of fresh looks at the most (over)written about musician of our age.

Opera Review: Tod Machover’s VALIS — Futuristic Sturm und Drang

September 12, 2023
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Let’s hope composer Tod Machover, Opera of The Future, and the Media Lab have more up their space-age sleeves.

TV Review: “Wrestlers” – An intimate Look at Some Denizens of the Squared Circle

September 11, 2023
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Pro Wrestling Company Ohio Valley Wrestling is the little train that could and knows that it can.

Concert Preview: Tommy Emmanuel — A Guitar Player’s Guitar Player

September 11, 2023
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“I just want to fly my kite like everyone else. I’m not interested in being the greatest. That sounds like an awful ball and chain. I love the freedom that I have.”

Jazz Album Review: Terell Stafford’s “Between Two Worlds” — A Spirited Rejoinder

September 11, 2023
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Trumpeter Terell Stafford never seems to be straining; he can be exuberant without sounding brassy.

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