Review
We are understandably upset when market forces threaten the things we consider to be sacred.
It’s refreshing to watch a teen series where the characters are not trying to solve a murder, venture into a parallel universe, or become possessed by an evil force.
There could have been more serious attention to the music, more of his immortal rock songs played start to finish. Otherwise, Lisa Cortés’ Little Richard: I Am Everything is the documentary about the Black and Queer rock’n’roll icon we’ve been waiting for.
Local film festivals like BUFF are keeping what’s left of the American film industry from turning into a massive IP holder churning out algorithmically generated slop for the masses.
In honor of Big Ears’ tenth edition, here’s a look at ten of my favorite festival moments.
The Lost King contains perhaps too many calculated moments of sentimental synchronicity. Still, it manages to soar, thanks to the excellent performance of its lead, Sally Hawkins.
Earl Lee, the BSO’s assistant conductor, pulled off a memorable debut. Let’s have him back in the subscription series again, and soon.
While one is willing to grant a 27-year-old conductor some benefit of the doubt, there’s little here to suggest that the Great Nordic Hope of Classical Music isn’t simply out of his depth.
Over the years I have seen several productions of Coriolanus, and this one is by far the most perfunctory.
Book Review: Advertisements for Democracy — Norman Mailer’s Anti-Fascist Eloquence
Guns, anti-Semitism, paranoid conspiracy theories — it never gets old.
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