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Book Review: The Holocaust’s Jewish Calendars — Protecting the Sacred Value of Time

January 12, 2020
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Alan Rosen’s book thoughtfully illuminates the perilous calendrical devotion of Jews during the Holocaust, seeing it as a form of resistance.

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Coming Attractions: January 12 through 28 — What Will Light Your Fire

January 12, 2020
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Arts Remembrance: Neil Peart — An Appreciation

January 11, 2020
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Neil Peart was a thinking man’s octopus behind a massive drum and percussion kit that he played with blazing speed and peerless precision.

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Film Review: “Just Mercy” — The Tragedy of Justice Deferred

January 10, 2020
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Artful films like Just Mercy remain necessary — these are the kind of stories our troubled nation needs to hear if we are to move forward.

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Opera CD Review: Carl Maria von Weber’s Wildly Assorted Candy Box — A Spiffy New Recording

January 9, 2020
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The rarely staged Oberon is easy to love and will fascinate admirers of early nineteenth-century music.

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Opera CD Review: A Young, Immensely Assured Joan Sutherland in Weber’s “Euryanthe”

January 8, 2020
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The oft-neglected “other” great opera by Carl Maria von Weber, splendidly performed in 1955 and in remarkably clear and vivid sound. I hope this opera’s day will yet come.

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Film Review: “Invisible Life” — A Sisterhood of Heartbreak

January 7, 2020
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The film’s modulated softness, its moments of quiet heartfelt sorrow, are testaments to a feminism that rejects political anger in order to embrace sisterly compassion.

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Television Review: “The Report” — History Ignored

January 7, 2020
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The Report reminds us that elections can have consequences — after the Republicans take control of the Senate during the Obama era, the Senators who are asking the tough questions are either out of office or in the minority.

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Film Review: “1917” — War is Hell, Up-Close

January 6, 2020
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George MacKay’s astonishing turn lifts 1917 from pyrotechnical marvel to a shattering emotional experience.

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Book Review: “Rocking the Closet” — Queering the Mainstream

January 6, 2020
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Audiences knew (or at least thought they knew) something was up, and that something was what made these performers unique.

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