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Jazz Album Review: Brian Landrus’s “For Now” — With Strings Attached

May 16, 2020
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Saxophonist Brian Landrus seems to know what he’s got in this magnificent trio: Fred Hersch on piano, Drew Gress on bass, and Billy Hart on drums.

Podcast Review: Ode to “36 From the Vault”: My COVID-19 Escape

May 15, 2020
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Who wants timely now? I sure as hell don’t. I want an escape and a podcast dedicated to the Grateful Dead’s live career is easy to get blissfully lost in.

Film Review: “Seberg” — Starlet, Surveilled

May 15, 2020
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The enigma of Seberg’s demise hangs over this biopic, which focuses on the civil rights activism that made the actress a target for the FBI’s covert surveillance.

Film Reviews: More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — Stir-Crazy 4

May 15, 2020
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Six more feature films of great interest and their links, carefully chosen to get you through the travails of the coronavirus.

Children’s Book Feature: Worried about Home Schooling? Relax — and Read

May 14, 2020
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Even though options for parents abound, the very best option remains the simplest — pick up a book, snuggle up, and read.

Performing Arts Series: Stories of Surviving COVID-19 — Handel & Haydn Society

May 14, 2020
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“We are in a time that challenges each of us running arts organizations to revisit and reaffirm our institution’s core existential purpose: why are we here? What do we do, and why does it matter?”

Visual Arts Commentary: Life After Lockdown — Designs for Future Living After COVID-19

May 13, 2020
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These products are imaginative clues to what our ‘new normal’ future will be like.

THE ARTS FUSE TURNS 13! — Our Spring Appeal

May 13, 2020
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During this crisis, please help sustain this independent magazine’s commitment to keeping our arts and culture vibrant and alive.

Book Review: “Telephone” — Sounding Alternatives

May 12, 2020
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The “choose your own adventure” turns out not to be a gimmick; setting up alternatives makes Telephone more affecting than Everett’s self-consciously directionless narrative may deserve.

Arts Remembrance: Darick Campbell — Quiet Giant of the Sacred Steel Guitar

May 12, 2020
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Darick Campbell was one of the Campbell Brothers, the Rochester-based group whose emergence on the roots music circuit in the late ’90s played a major role in the mainstream discovery of the sound known as “sacred steel.”

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