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Arts Commentary: COVID-19 and the Desperation of Dumping Art

April 13, 2020
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There’s a story yet to be written about art dumping; theater and dance dumping; even film and TV dumping now that live performance and production of all kinds has shut down.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “Killing Eve” Season 3 — Still Suspenseful, But More Muddled

April 12, 2020
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Killing Eve is as exciting and compelling as ever. But its narrative structure is becoming somewhat fractured and increasingly odd.

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Theater Commentary: Peering into the Post-Covid Future for the New Play Sector

April 12, 2020
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I’m curious to see what happens next. I’ll keep writing plays, but I might need to hone my skills as a handyman just in case this whole theater thing doesn’t pan out.

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Music Album Review: “Ghosts” — The Cowboy Junkies Confront Heartbreak and Sorrow

April 9, 2020
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Darkness is pervasive in this Cowboy Junkies album, but it is not all-encompassing.

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Arts Commentary: Pestilence on Stage, Part Two — “When the Impossible Really Begins”

April 9, 2020
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Theater is seen as a cleansing illness that sets out to obliterate the illness we blithely accept as health.

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Book Review: “The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris” — The Mystery of Art and Love

April 8, 2020
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Marc Petitjean seamlessly moves from describing intimate scenes to discussing Frida Kahlo’s art and its significance.

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Television Review: Netflix’s “The English Game” — The Sport of Class Warfare

April 7, 2020
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For those averse to sports, The English Game is focused more on attitudes and mores of the time than on the game itself.

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Cultural Commentary: Songs of Forgetting – From the Cultural Quarantine of the 1918 Flu Pandemic

April 7, 2020
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At a time when fear of the influenza was in danger of being deemed unpatriotic, art retreated to nationalism or escapism.

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Book Review: “The Mountains Sing” — The Power of Witnessing

April 6, 2020
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This is a love letter, told honestly and poignantly, to the Vietnamese people, an homage to their dedication to remembrance, during and after a painful time.

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Rock Album Review: Phish — Comfortably Optimistic at Home

April 6, 2020
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Sigma Oasis is one of Phish’s better albums since the group reunited in 2009 after a five-year breakup.

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