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Rock Concert Review: Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe — The Rewards and Hazards of Reinterpretation

August 17, 2022
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Age certainly wasn’t an issue in terms of energy. Elvis Costello played for a solid two hours with barely a break, running through four decades of music with a heavy emphasis on the old favorites.

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Visual Arts Review: “The Ravages of the Ax” — Marc Swanson at MASS MoCA and the Thomas Cole National Historic Site

August 16, 2022
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A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco does not demand political action from its audience. Instead, it allows viewers to sit within the stark reality of the present, and perhaps find some community within the shared reality that the space creates.

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Television Review: “A League of Their Own” — A Welcome Reboot

August 16, 2022
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For the most part, co-creators Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson have easily justified the need for a reboot of the admired 1992 sports film.

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Book Review: “As It Turns Out” — Not Enough About Edie and Andy

August 16, 2022
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Alice Sedgwick Wohl has a disturbing tendency throughout the book to back away from her points even as she makes them, as if afraid she will find herself trapped in some politically incorrect cul de sac or just a bad neighborhood.

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Film Review: “Bodies Bodies Bodies” — Seven Little Influencers

August 15, 2022
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This horror comedy traps a cadre of privileged, narcissistic Zennials in a whodunit murder mystery and lets their internet-addled delusions of grandeur tear them apart in the paranoid fallout.

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Rock Album Review: Walter Crockett’s “Children So Long” — Back in a Big Way

August 15, 2022
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Walter Crockett’s beautiful album is as multifaceted as life itself.

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Classical Album Review: Nico Muhly’s “Stranger” — Searching for Commonalities

August 15, 2022
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Nico Muhly’s writing in Stranger is of a type of post-Minimalism: often pulsing (or undulating) and rhythmically driven, though anything but harmonically simplistic.

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Book Review: “We Carry Their Bones” — Life and Death at a Reform School During Jim Crow

August 15, 2022
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We Carry Their Bones arrives at a time of increased interest in the history of racism and reform schools, particularly in Florida.

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Classical Music Album Review: John Corigliano’s “To Music”

August 14, 2022
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A serving of the essence of the music of John Corigliano: a blend of old and new, radical and traditional that has made him such a singular force in American music over the last fifty-plus years.

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Classical Album Review: Florence Price’s “Scenes in Tin Can Alley”

August 13, 2022
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Symphonic music wasn’t composer Florence Price’s strong suit. Rather, she was much more at home working in smaller forms or for her own instrument.

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