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Singer/songwriter Paula Cole’s musical and personal journey has been a long, sometimes painful hejira.
The understated soundtrack by Texas musician Daniel Hart and the ominous cinematography of Bradford Young complement director David Lowrey’s keen sense of pacing.
Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular is a comedy of total narcissism — belly-laugh jokes accompanied by a cold cruelty.
The Attack is a movie that tries to get to the core of violence without dissolving into its depiction.
Weirdly paradoxical as the description may be, “bummer pop” is the best way to characterize the breezy half hour’s worth of music in Porches’ new album.
Yoko Ono has always been the kind of artist more interested in getting into your head than convincing you to occupy hers.
No one associates Winslow Homer with abstraction, but Sleigh Ride (1893) indicates that he at times ventured into the non-figurative borders of landscape painting Edgar Degas was exploring in France at the same time.
The last of the summer festivals are finalizing their lineups just as many of the fall indoor festivals have announced theirs.
There are plenty of intensely moving moments in this expansive biopic, based very loosely on a real White House butler named Eugene Allen, who was profiled by Wil Haygood in a 2008 Washington Post feature.
There was a great deal of obfuscatory hype about this LP, but the time to listen to the music has finally come. And Earl Sweatshirt has delivered what sounds like a hip hop classic.
Arts Commentary: The Orchestra Gap — Europe vs. the US