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Film Review: Resistance Is Feudal in “Harvest”

August 7, 2025
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This alternately ecstatic and murky, pointed and obscure, allegory is a rare attempt to confront the pathological systems leading us to an uncertain fate.

Television Review: “Chief of War” — Remembrance of Hawaii’s Past

August 6, 2025
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Hopefully, Hollywood will take note of this impressive dramatic accomplishment, and more Indigenous stories will follow.

Book Review: “The Letters of Frank Loesser” — The Illuminating Correspondence of an American Musical Master

August 5, 2025
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The letters of this protean figure in American musical theater induced in this reader a pleasurable mixture of nostalgia, voyeurism, and insight.

Theater Review: “As You Like It” — The Comic Comforts of a Green World

August 3, 2025
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The high spirits and tolerance in this enjoyable production reinforce the director’s claim that this comedy is about expats striving for “a more balanced, egalitarian society.”

Book Review: “Owned” — How to Buy Left-Wing Journalists

August 2, 2025
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Eoin Higgins’s “Owned” is a provocative take on our shifting politics and the instrumental role the media plays in how the superrich maintain power.

Doc Talk: “Architecton” — Ozymandias Revisited

August 2, 2025
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Deconstructing construction in “Architecton.”

Concert Review: TV on the Radio — A Reassuring Return

August 1, 2025
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Despite the passing years, personal loss, and shifting musical roles, Wednesday’s 80-minute set proved that everything’s indeed ok with TV on the Radio.

Opera Album Review: A World-Premiere Recording of a Sprightly Three-Act Operatic Comedy from 1882

August 1, 2025
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By Ralph P. Locke Joachim Raff’s energetic and characterful Die Eifersüchtigen hits its mark, in its first production ever. Joachim Raff: Die Eifersüchtigen (The Jealous Ones) Serafina Giannoni (Donna Rosa), Raìsa Ierone (Donna Bianca), Mirjam Fässler (Ninetta), Benjamin Popson (Don Claudio), Batthias Bein (Beppino), Balduin Schneeberger (Don Giulio), Martin Roth (Don Geronimo). Orchestra of Europe,…

Television Review: “Happy Gilmore 2” — Par for the Course

July 31, 2025
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As a legacy sequels “Happy Gilmore 2” one isn’t a hole-in-one, but it doesn’t roll into a sand trap either.

Concert Review: John Williams’ Piano Concerto Pays Homage to Jazz Legends

July 30, 2025
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John Williams’s concert music may be intended to enrich and edify, but there’s always room for a little fandom, particularly on occasions like this. At 93, and after a lifetime of firsts, the composer deserves every accolade.

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