Review
It is refreshing to encounter a script that is so determined to keep audiences off-kilter as it goes about undercutting domestic business as usual.
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The banjo’s African relative makes its American debut via a new Smithsonian Folkways album.
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This week’s column is all about cozy comfort, decadent distractions, and heart-melting romance.
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Big Swiss is effervescent and funny, even if overcooked to some extent.
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A critical look at 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary showcase..
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The program was a delight, especially for those, like this reviewer, who, for years, have yearned to visit Paris again. Aurally, Skylark flew us there.
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Rossini’s one-act opera from 1812 rings fresh changes on a host of comic-opera clichés.
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This Craft reissue is welcome for the presence and distinctness of its sound, and for the state-of-the-art playing. Art Pepper will be going through my head for days.
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Jason Moran, as virtuoso pianist and bandleader, enacted all of jazz history at the keyboard, from ragtime to no time, as the saying goes.
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You don’t see this often on commercial TV: a nihilistic expose of consumerism.
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