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Book Review: “Kick the Latch” — Off to the Races

November 1, 2022
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Kick the Latch (the title refers to what is done to open the starting gate in a horse race), through its plain and spare authenticity, is a powerful and impressive success.

Film Review: “Please Baby Please” — Gay Awakening

November 1, 2022
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Amanda Kramer’s created a thoroughly campy and celebratory ode to queerness that stands as both a timely political statement and a genuinely well-crafted piece of independent filmmaking.

Film Review: Final Dispatch from the London Film Festival

November 1, 2022
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A wrap-up of the London Film Festival that focuses on two favorites, Inland and The Store.

Classical Album Review: Pianist John Wilson’s “Upon Further Reflection”

November 1, 2022
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Pianist John Wilson, like his mentor Michael Tilson Thomas, is a servant of the music rather than its dictator and he knows both when and how to step back and let it speak.

Opera Album Review: A Powerful New Recording of an Opera from the Terezin Concentration Camp

November 1, 2022
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I know no more thoughtful disquisition, for the opera stage, on basic questions of life, death, war, love, power, and resistance.

Dance Review: KAIROS Dance Theatre’s “Husk/Vessel” — A Place where Embraces and Violence Meet

November 1, 2022
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Love, anger, frustration, hope, sadness, lullabies — they are all here through movement that is at turns elegant and awkward, nuanced and propulsive.

Theater Review: “English” — Language Lessons

October 31, 2022
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English makes us consider what it looks like from the other side of our native tongue; from the outside looking in.

Classical Album Review: Thomas Adès’s Tuneful “Märchentänze”

October 31, 2022
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As the composer moves from youth to middle age, Thomas Adès is unique among his contemporaries for his singular embrace of melody, harmony, and form.

Rock Album Review: The Pixies — Spiky Sonics, Smoothed Over

October 30, 2022
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The Pixies could be anthemic, snarky, jaunty, or forlorn as they chose, which meant they were never boring.

Jazz Album Review: Newvelle Records’ Renewal Collection — A Beautifully Compact Clarity

October 30, 2022
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This collection, Newvelle Records’ first series release in two years, features original compositions by Elan Mehler, Michael Blake, Dave Liebman, and Nadje Noordhuis.

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