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Dance Review: José Limón Company at Jacob’s Pillow — Empowering and Necessary

July 14, 2020
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Kudos to Jacob’s Pillow for this stellar beginning to a digital season of dance.

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Book Review: “The Heart of a Woman” — The Life and Music of Florence B. Price, America’s First Important Black Woman Composer

July 13, 2020
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It wasn’t until 2009 that a trove of Florence B. Price scores was discovered in a dilapidated house in down-state Illinois and a revival of interest in this most remarkable of composers began in earnest.

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Film Review: “Relic” — The Future Is Female, and So Is the Past

July 11, 2020
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Relic draws on the debilitations of both time and space: the inevitable aging of the body and the places we call home, the inescapable repositories of memories, regrets, and the unknown.

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Film Review: “The Beach House” — Eco-Horrors on Cape Cod

July 10, 2020
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Sharp, simple, and well-attuned to the hopelessly grim tenor of these past few years, The Beach House knows how doomed we all are, says we deserve it, and prays that, after the tide comes in to wash us out, the rest will be left to flourish.

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Book Review: “Cool For America” — A World of Dazed Impermanence

July 10, 2020
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Hardly a portrait of glory from sea to shining sea, these tales drop in on estranged, lost, and overwhelmed people.

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Book Review: “Crooked Hallelujah” – On Mothers and Daughters

July 10, 2020
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Crooked Hallelujah is a splendid debut, its intricately structured narrative following four generations of a matriarchal family from the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

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Album Review: Khruangbin’s “Mordechai” — Mostly Musical Wallpaper

July 10, 2020
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Khruangbin’s principal strength lies in how well the musicians manage to fit together

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Book Review: “American Radicals” — Unrecognized Champions of 19th-Century Protest

July 9, 2020
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American Radicals is as revealing, riveting, and well-researched as any work of history that I have read in recent years.

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Television Review: Delightfully Revived “Baby-Sitters Club” — More Than ’90s Nostalgia 

July 8, 2020
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During a period when we are facing a ferocious pandemic, the biggest Civil Rights movement since the ’60s, and the possibility of flying snakes, it is the perfect time to remake the cheery The Baby-Sitters Club.

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