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Opera Album Review: Carl Maria von Weber’s “Der Freischütz” Finally Makes Sense

November 25, 2022
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Conductor René Jacobs restores missing bits of this beloved opera’s story, and Ukrainian soprano Kateryna Kasper glows as Ännchen.

Film Review: “The People We Hate at the Wedding” — Middling Marital Mayhem

November 23, 2022
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The People We Hate at the Wedding is far from one of the best entries in the comic wedding canon.

Pop Music Review: Ginger Root’s “Nisemono” and the Virtues of Creative Recycling

November 23, 2022
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The music of Cameron Lew, in the persona of Ginger Root, makes us confront a fundamental truth: the familiar, after the passage of time, becomes the exotic

Rock Review: Julia Jacklin’s “Pre Pleasure” — Posing Questions

November 22, 2022
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Intimacy, whether physical or emotional, is continually challenged in Julia Jacklin’s Pre Pleasure.

WATCH CLOSELY: The Horror of Pork Chops — “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”

November 22, 2022
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The series is wise to center its attention on Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims as often as possible. This is a heartbreaking saga of lives lost to a homicidal maniac.

Film Review: “The Soccer Football Movie” — A Full-On Weirdo Camp Fest

November 21, 2022
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Sometimes, cartoons should just be aimed at kids. The Soccer Football Movie has no pretensions: this is a glorious goof fest that draws on the hallowed tradition of slapstick comedy.

Bluegrass Album Review: “Dad/And/Me” — Billy Strings Sings of Things Past

November 21, 2022
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Billy Strings injects some contemporary vibes into Me/And/Dad, but this is first and foremost a back-to-the-roots album.

Book Review: “Charlie’s Good Tonight” — A Rare Gift of Groove

November 20, 2022
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Charlie’s Good Tonight does a fine job of illuminating Charlie Watts’ personality and paying homage to the drummer’s admirable legacy.

Dance Review: “Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth” — Cycles of Death and Rebirth

November 20, 2022
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What Kyle Abraham has done is to conjure up a wonderfully confusing vision into the myriad possibilities raised by the cycle of death and life again.

Poetry Review: Iman Mersal’s “Threshold” — Exploring the Idea of Home

November 20, 2022
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Underlying all of these pieces is the sensibility of the émigrée, the person who has had to reinterpret everything in her life.

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