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Canada is far enough from New York and Broadway to ignore their siren drum beats.
Auber’s 1831 “Le Philtre” (“The Love Potion”) is an engaging romp that helped give birth to Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore.” Immensely popular in his own day, why isn’t it revived more often?
By Jeremy Ray Jewell Call it lofi or chillwave. Whatever it is, it’s worth it. Daisuke Endo, a.k.a. DE DE MOUSE, has released his new EP, Rainbowtime, in collaboration with fellow Japanese artist Shin-Ski. It is, as Endo describes it, based on “the theme of a world connected to fantasy during the magic time of…
In her debut feature, music video director Jacqueline Castel supplies a moody and explicitly queer spin on the metaphor of monster as a maligned queer subject.
Anti-LGBTQ legislation is pending in a number of states, designed to ban or censor drag performances. Elizabeth Howard talks with the iconic performer Jasmine Rice LeBeija about the challenges facing drag performers.
Four reviews of films about existence — past and present — for the marginalized in Scandinavia.
It’s good to hear the Basie band stretch. But it’s even better to hear them exult the blues with their own time-honored style leading the way.
This week’s poem: Jillian Boger’s “7 Ways of Making Love (after Bernadette Mayer’s Writing Experiments)”
I’m happy to add the brujas of “A Tall Dark Magic” to my own personal spell book featuring the names of the witches I love.
Author Interview: Heather Cox Richardson on “Democracy Awakening”
“The book in many ways is a defense of liberalism. It’s a defense of the idea that that’s really what the government should do in a democracy. The liberal consensus is what happens when you actually let people vote.”
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