Review
Conveying the value of hope and resilience are undoubtedly important, but positing social and civic responsibility is also essential, and “Annie” clearly offers that opportunity.
The destruction and displacement of people today so recall the past that Thomas de Hartmann’s music resounds with fierce, resonant force.
This tragic, absorbing, and moving quasi-novel is best characterized as a “tour de force”.
If ever there was a musical act and a venue perfectly suited to each other, it would have to be the Wailin’ Jennys, the harmony-laden Canadian folk trio, and the Groton Hill Music Center.
“Baby Driver” is a book in the tradition of American road literature, but it moves at a distinctly different pace.
Varone and dancers made skillful use of some of the most luxurious movement vocabulary available in contemporary dance
The authors assembled in “Crimean Fig” demonstrate they are unafraid to speak up for Tatar language and culture, while simultaneously speaking out against Putin, unwilling to submit.
Knowing that artist Peter Hujar died of AIDS in 1987—one of countless casualties of a devastating epidemic that cut short so many artists’ lives—gives the film a sad, mortal urgency.

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