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Before Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, before Iggy Pop, before the New York Dolls, David Bowie was my personal post-’60s music inamorata.
Jay Atkinson does a great service to the complexities of history by portraying the bloody tragedy of each side’s mutually deadly incomprehension.
Via Dolorosa would have been more effective if it had taken the form of a travel essay rather than a performance piece.
The implausibility of The Revenant is jaw-dropping.
Despite being entrapped in a controlling social order, the sisters behave as most adolescents do: sometimes impulsively.
Here’s one more wrap-up of the year in film.
The magazine’s Roots and World Music critic looks back at a year of live performances: here are the winners and a few losers.

Classical Music Commentary: “Boulez est mort”
And yet, for all the violence of his youthful polemics and his unflinchingly-held beliefs, Pierre Boulez was neither demagogue nor ideologue.
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