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Film Review: “Plan B” — A Walk on the Wild and Diverse Side

May 26, 2021
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Plan B, Hulu’s latest raunchy teen romp, proves why we need diverse voices in Hollywood.

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Opera CD Review: Congolese Tenor Patrick Cabongo Steps into Stardom in a World-Premiere Recording of Meyerbeer’s “Romilda e Costanza”

May 26, 2021
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The composer of Les huguenots and L’Africaine was already an accomplished master at age 26, as this first-rate recording reveals.

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Book Review: “A Place Like Mississippi” — The Home of a Sophisticated Multiracial Literary Culture

May 24, 2021
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Literate people in the state will be familiar with this story, but it may come as a revelation to those whose Mississippi is limited to a cultural Bermuda Triangle on whose sharp angles sit William Faulkner, John Grisham, and Oprah Winfrey.

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Classical Album Review: Quatour Modigliani plays Haydn, Bartók, and Mozart

May 24, 2021
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Any number of threads that tie these three pieces (and composers) together. But in this instance, such busywork is superfluous: the musical results – blazingly played and flawlessly recorded – speak for themselves.

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Book Review: “B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites” — Viva the Overlooked!

May 24, 2021
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This slim volume is the ideal antidote to something like Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon and the other beefy works that lay out The Official Reading List For All Educated Persons.

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Book Review: “The New Climate War” — Enough of the Doomsayers!

May 22, 2021
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This incisive volume will assist the creation of a much-needed collective effort, helping to frame a unified approach to waging combat on those who are destroying the environment for the sake of short term profit.

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Book Review: “The Anglo-Saxons” — An Era of Continual Turmoil and Buried Treasures

May 21, 2021
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Medievalist Marc Morris has written an engaging account of turbulent times in a suitable and interesting style.

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Concert Film: “P!nk: All I Know So Far” — A Female Performer of Uncommon Power

May 21, 2021
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For fans, this backstage concert documentary is obviously a gift. For others, it will serve as a testament to the power of a woman whose life’s work has made real world impact.

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Dance Review: Abilities Dance Boston’s “Firebird Ballet” — Taking Inspiring Flight

May 21, 2021
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Re-envisioning and performing this beloved classic ballet with dancers that identify as disabled seems to me to be the definition of courageous.

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Opera Album Review: An Extremely Effective Operatic “Pasticcio” Made by Vivaldi from His Own Arias and Those by Other Composers

May 21, 2021
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Vivaldi put this opera together using, in part, arias associated with two famous singers: the “Moorish” (i.e., half-African) Vittorio Tesi and the castrato Farinelli.

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