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Book Review: “The Artist in the Counterculture” — California Dreamin’

February 17, 2023
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If historian Thomas Crow’s goal is to explain how these rebels of the counterculture reshaped American art, he is at least partly successful.

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Film Reviews: 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films — Animation and Live Action

February 16, 2023
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The shorts categories of the Academy Awards aren’t just filler for your scorecard anymore.

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Film Review: “Marlowe” — A Whydunnit

February 15, 2023
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This is a Marlowe movie trying too hard to be a Marlowe movie. But it doesn’t have the heart to succeed.

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Film Review: “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” — Marvel Rolls Out the Orwellian Doublespeak

February 15, 2023
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Ant-Man can no longer call out comic book movies for their bullshit because, as purveyor of prologue for the Marvel movies that will follow, the character is now too irredeemably full of bullshit himself.

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Book Review: Singing the Boomer Blues — Buddhist Version

February 14, 2023
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As cultural critique, Curtis White’s Transcendent comes across as a modest if chilly yip of Zen resignation.

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Film Review: “Infinity Pool” — Body Double

February 14, 2023
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There’s still room for Brandon Cronenberg to grow as a horror director, but Infinity Pool should make his father proud. It’s a sensory nightmare of bodily dissociation and high class decadence that signals a promising start to 2023.

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Dance Review: Circa’s “Sacre” — Breathtaking Acrobatics

February 13, 2023
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Circa has come up with a stunning way to combine the athleticism of circus training with the aesthetics of dance theater.

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Jazz Album Review: “The Birth of Bop” — Chronicling the Transition from Swing to Bop

February 13, 2023
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The Birth of Bop contains performances from some important participants in the bop revolution — Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Milt Jackson, Allen Eager, Fats Navarro, Max Roach, J.J. Johnson, and others.

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Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “The Persian Version” and “Eileen”

February 11, 2023
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The Persian Version and Eileen offer different takes on friction in the family.

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Book Review: Andrea Barrett’s Magical “Natural History”

February 11, 2023
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Although science is Andrea Barrett’s springboard, she is writing fiction about the people who do scientific research and teach it: memorable people who have hearts and secrets and feelings and hopes and dreams and goals.

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