Review

WATCH CLOSELY: “Black Mirror” — Reflecting Our Dark Days

January 4, 2018
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What has Black Mirror been good for, beyond entertainment, if not drawing our attention to escalating social and technological perils?

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Jazz CD Reviews: “Body and Shadow” and “I Am A Man”

January 4, 2018
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Brian Blade is not only a skillfully discreet: he can be as powerful as any drummer since Elvin Jones.

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Theater Review: “The Wolves” — Theater of the Prosaic

January 3, 2018
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Perhaps the theatre of millennials will resemble Reality TV, resistant to suggestive metaphor and the rewards of complex narration.

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Film Commentary: Gary Oldman — The Spiritual Death of the Last “Angry Young Man”?

January 1, 2018
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I miss the precocious, mischievous, darkly cunning, and troubled characters Gary Oldman once portrayed so beautifully.

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Book Review: Nikki Giovanni — Still Feisty After All These Years

December 31, 2017
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Reading Nikki Giovanni, one is inspired to never cower, to never beg, to never surrender.

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Film Review: “Call Me By Your Name” — Desire Under the Apricot Trees

December 27, 2017
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I can unequivocally say this is the most masterful and beautiful film of the year.

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Book Review: “Manhattan Beach” — Taking a Deep Dive

December 26, 2017
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Manhattan Beach feels acutely relevant despite being set in the past.

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Book Review: “Best Food Writing 2017” — Sampling the Annual Epicurean Written Feast

December 26, 2017
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Best Food Writing 2017 presents, as the series always has, a veritable buffet of pleasurable reading for the foodie.

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Film Feature: Best and Most Overrated Movies of 2017

December 24, 2017
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Our demanding critics choose the best (most disappointing) films of the year.

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Visual Arts Review: A Study in Contrast — Two Museums in Lisbon

December 24, 2017
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These institutions visually and physically reflected Portuguese art and culture.

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