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Album Review/Commentary: John Scofield and Dave Holland — “Memories of Home,” and a Scofield Retrospective

October 26, 2025
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If it is possible for people to express a deep personal regard for one another through musical collaboration, that is what happens between John Scofield and Dave Holland in their upcoming release.

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Film Review: Del Toro’s “Frankenstein” — Creature Comfortless

October 26, 2025
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The monster almost comes alive. 

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Concert Review: Neko Case –Sending a Love Letter to Musicians

October 25, 2025
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There was little doubt that the singer owned every note with a pure sense of conviction — and community — that blew past rock-star trappings.

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Film Review: “Blue Moon” — Hart Broken

October 25, 2025
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Director Richard Linklater gets lyrical in “Blue Moon.”

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Opera Album Review: World-Premiere Recording of a 1760s Opera about . . . Norway

October 24, 2025
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First-rate performances, including by a Norwegian orchestra and conductor plus superb international singers, make this one a winner.

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Woodstock Film Festival, Dispatch #1: Troublesome Women

October 23, 2025
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A trio of superb films that feature fierce women.

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Book Review: A Life Condemned — and Reclaimed: Gary Tyler’s “Stitching Freedom”

October 23, 2025
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“Stitching Freedom” sheds necessary and welcome light on the sick and damaging history and current state of incarceration in this country.

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Film Review: “Bugonia” — A Delightfully Warped Night at the Movies

October 23, 2025
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There’s a profound catharsis in watching “Bugonia,” one that echoes the catharsis articulated by those who attended the ‘No Kings’ protests on the 18th.

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Album Review: Peggy Lee’s “Mirrors” — Fifty Years of Cabaret Noir

October 23, 2025
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The musicians assembled here for the updated recordings of tunes from fifty years ago are first-rate, and Peggy Lee still convincingly inhabits a wide range of material.

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Book Review: John Guare’s Funhouse Mirror: The Playwright Joins the Library of America

October 23, 2025
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A generous serving of what theater critic John Lahr calls playwright John Guare’s “funhouse-mirror reflection of American life’s caprice and chaos in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.”

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