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Jazz Album Review: Pianist Cecil Taylor — Lightning in a Piano

February 9, 2022
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“When you play with authority, then that’s what the music is about, like ooooh baby, and sing it.” — Cecil Taylor

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Film Reviews: Two Views from Ukraine at Sundance – Kids and Chaos

February 8, 2022
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With the eyes of the world on Ukraine right now, two films at Sundance came from that country, or what used to be that country.

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Opera Album Review: The Most Famous French Baroque Opera, Recorded at the Palace of Versailles

February 8, 2022
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Tenor Mathias Vidal shines, as does the period-instrument orchestra, in the rarely heard, trimmer version of 1761, on the Chateau’s own new award-winning label.

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Book Review: “Last Resort” — A Romp About Fiction, Riches, and Friendship

February 7, 2022
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Make what you will of this often page-turning confection, which if not particularly literary, may be a bunch of fun.

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Film Review: “The Pink Cloud” — Love During Lockdown

February 6, 2022
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The Pink Cloud is a fascinating watch by sheer virtue of its accidental prescience.

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Film Review: “Ronnie’s” — The Story of a World-Famous London Jazz Club

February 6, 2022
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Mel Brooks called Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club “a little nest of happiness. All our recent wounds are healed there.”

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Theater Review: “The Bluest Eye” — Pieces of a Classic

February 5, 2022
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Dramatist Lydia R. Diamond makes an honorable effort to adapt Toni Morrison’s novel to the stage, but with mixed results.

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Poetry Review: Carolynn Kingyens’s “Coupling” — Art as a Means of Survival

February 5, 2022
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In this collection, Carolynn Kingyens discloses what lies behind the veneer of our relationships.

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Television Review: “Pam & Tommy” — That Icky Feeling

February 4, 2022
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What is the most depressing thing about Pam & Tommy? The series provides the most sympathetic portrait of Pam Anderson that is out there.

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Film Review: “Music. Money. Madness. Jimi Hendrix Live in Maui” — Rubber-Room Wackos

February 4, 2022
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If this film accomplishes anything, it’s to remind us of how much we lost when Jimi Hendrix died.

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