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Book Review: It’s a Cat’s Life — “Penny”

April 27, 2021
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Penny, whose many moods are sensitively drawn in this softly colored volume, is, perhaps like all cats, a philosopher.

Book Review: “Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South” — the Brilliance of OutKast

April 26, 2021
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Chronicling Stankonia is an engaging read, one that adroitly balances rigorous academic research with a deeply personal narrative about Black life and art in the post-Civil Rights Era in the South.

Film Review: “Shiva Baby” — Cringe at a Funeral

April 25, 2021
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Though it’s classified as a comedy, Shiva Baby utilizes many of the stylistic trademarks found throughout the horror genre to merge painfully humorous discomfort with suffocatingly atmospheric terror.

Book Review: A Valuable Reminder of Lorraine Hansberry’s “Radical Vision”

April 25, 2021
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In the process of exploring the ideas that shaped Lorraine Hansberry’s understanding of her art and the world, the volume confirms the writer’s relevance during these troubled but potentially transformative times.

Documentary Review: “This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist” — Real Crime as a Real Damn Shame

April 24, 2021
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This Is a Robbery is the most complete and compelling narrative yet about the looting of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Rock Album Review: Reclaimed from the Past — Mark Sandman’s Hypnosonics

April 24, 2021
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Free from the stress of leading a major-label band on the road, Mark Sandman could always return home to Hypnosonics, an alternate vehicle for his elastic vision.

Theater Review: “Play On! Othello” — A Painful and Invigorating Update

April 22, 2021
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You need to hear this play. Especially if you are white and already “know” Othello. Listen again (and again) and prepare to question old assumptions.

Book Review: “Cheese, Wine, and Bread” — On the Menu, Confession and Fermentation

April 21, 2021
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The current rage for inserting the personal/confessional in everything from cookbooks to literary criticism can go too far.

Dance Review: “Postcards from the Front” — A Pandemic Time Capsule

April 20, 2021
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The 51-minute piece represents a digital time capsule. It comprises 16 short episodes — reflections in movement of lives caught inside the pandemic — crafted by dance-maker collaborators.

Theater Review: “Mud Season Mystery: The Lodger” — The Game’s Afoot, On Zoom

April 19, 2021
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Director Jess Chayes has done all that is humanly possible to stage a lively live production under Zoom constraints.

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