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Watch Closely: “Katla” — The Horror Beneath and Around Us

August 21, 2021
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A haunting vision of lost souls who emerge from the Icelandic ice, naked, hungry and seeking communion with those they left behind.

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Film Review: “Fire Music: A History of the Free Jazz Revolution” — Informative but Incomplete

August 19, 2021
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What’s on the screen rings true, but Fire Music falls short of being fair to history.

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Film Review: “Rebuild of Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time” — And Remember, Take Care of Yourself

August 19, 2021
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Evangelion is my personal Rosetta Stone, allowing me to decipher everything from psychoanalytic theory and gender relations to my very own understanding of trauma and the world in which I inhabit.

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Television Review: “The Chair” — Weeding the Groves of Academe

August 19, 2021
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The Chair asserts that professors have lives outside the university and they are demanding and draining.

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Jazz Album Review: “Relief: A Benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America’s Musicians’ Emergency Fund”

August 18, 2021
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There’s a pleasing variety in this collection, which serves up valuable music that might not have otherwise been heard.

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Theater Review: “Seared” — A Recipe for Comedy

August 16, 2021
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Theresa Rebeck’s foodie comedy Seared is more of an amiable appetizer than a substantial entree.

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Book Review: A Profound Meditation — “Mathematics for Human Flourishing”

August 16, 2021
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Put bluntly, Mathematics for Human Flourishing is quite possibly the most profound meditation on mathematics I have read.

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Poetry Review: “The Vertigo of All Your Dreams” — The Poetry of Maria Baranda

August 16, 2021
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In Maria Baranda’s poetry there is the constant oscillation between beauty and ugliness, elegance and terror, the empowering journey and the overwhelming nightmare.

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Opera Album Review: A First-Rate World-Premiere Recording of a Short Baroque Opera about the Young Aeneas

August 14, 2021
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I don’t recall encountering a recent Baroque recording that is sung with such a fine balance of smoothness and character.

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Film Review: “Under the Volcano” — Island Music

August 14, 2021
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Sir George Martin’s AIR Studios in Montserrat gave birth to some great ’80s music, then succumbed to the elements.

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