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Jazz Concert Review: Vocalist Kurt Elling — Going Through the World with Curiosity

October 27, 2021
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The range of Kurt Elling’s repertoire is astonishing and his program at Jimmy’s was commensurately ambitious.

Book Review: Ohio Bound — “Far From Their Eyes”

October 27, 2021
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This anthology, for all its occasional sadness, is optimistic about the future of immigration to America.

Film Reviews: The English Dispatch, Part 2 — The London Film Festival

October 26, 2021
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The selection of foreign films on offer at the BFI London Film Festival was of a very high quality.

Jazz Review and Conversation: Jane Ira Bloom’s Pandemic Duets

October 26, 2021
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Jane Ira Bloom responded to her pandemic isolation with a CD of duets with bassist Mark Helias and a CD of duets with drummer Allison Miller. These two sessions are unique projects in her discography and beautiful testaments to her ingenuity.

Film Review: “Red Rocket” — A Dog’s Life

October 26, 2021
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No woman, I’m willing to bet, could have filmed the sex scenes in Red Rocket. She would have cracked up laughing or thrown up.

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Film (Part Four)

October 25, 2021
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More homages to 1971’s magnificent bursts of cinematic iconoclasm, from McCabe & Mrs. Miller to The Music Lovers and Walkabout.

Cultural Commentary: Goodbye Columbus — Mexico City’s “La Joven de Amajac” and “Tlalli” Sculptures

October 24, 2021
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Mexico City settles on Columbus’ replacement, but finds that removal and substitution is agonizing in society which hasn’t changed all that much.

Book Review: “What Strange Paradise” — Unforgettable

October 23, 2021
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Run, do not walk, to pick up your copy of this novel about little person caught up in a very big world.

Film Review: “The French Dispatch” — A Fantastical Magazine

October 23, 2021
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Fans will be pleased that time around director Wes Anderson has shot off everything in his stylistic quiver.

Theater Review: “The Chairs” — Not a Full House

October 22, 2021
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At the very least, Ionesco’s drama about the unreality of the world should produce shudders as well as chuckles.

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