Review
The Disco Biscuits are playing champion-level shows following a period of rebuilding and recalibrating that brought the band out of semi-retirement.
The notion that columnists like Breslin were “deadline artists” is apt. Their task was to come up with a story idea, track it down, then give it a narrative spark, all ahead of a ticking clock as the drop-deadline for the next edition loomed.
Guitarist Julian Lage wants his music to have a certain paradoxical lightness: to be “reckless and durable” at the same time.
Much-loved short works by Pergolesi and Mozart storm the stage, thanks to spiffy French dialogue between the musical numbers.
Professor Crowl’s attachments to both Shakespeare’s plays and the play of the Detroit Tigers are sincere and durable.
“Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.” is compelling, but its message feels hermetically sealed — the exhibit needs to draw crucial connections with what is going on now.
Wisely, Netflix has renewed “Girls5eva” for a third season. This series about a one-hit wonder ’90s girl group attempting to make a comeback remains as witty and satirical as ever
Debra Spark’s novel “Discipline” explores thorny questions about the role of art and the nature of truth.
“Big George” is polished, tonally elegant, and beautifully recorded
Margot Livesey has given us an exhilarating historical novel filled with fascinating details of a different time in an isolated part of the world, all rendered in gorgeous prose.
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