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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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

Film Review: “Sundown” — Meltdown in Mexico

February 4, 2022
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A relaxing family vacation story morphs into a quietly riveting character study.

Music Review: “Someone​/​Anyone? A 50th Anniversary Tribute to Todd Rundgren’s Something/​Anything?”

February 3, 2022
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Someone/Anyone? is packed with lots of great music and makes a strong complement to the album it compliments, Something/Anything?

Film Review: “2nd Chance” – A Memorable American Con Artist

February 3, 2022
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With Richard Davis, director Ramin Bahrani found an old-fashioned fraud, a paunchy American grifter worthy of a story by Mark Twain.

Jazz Album Review: On Tristano

February 3, 2022
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Unlike musicians who operate on the surface and create a beautiful veneer, pianist Lennie Tristano’s music asks harder questions.

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