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Film Review: “The Nightingale” — The Horrors of Imperialism

August 16, 2019
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The Nightingale serves as both a powerful exploration of the past (from the perspective of the exploited) and a gripping vision of resilience in the face of unfathomable hate, greed, and cruelty.

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Music Review: Best New Album of July 2019

August 16, 2019
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Chance’s The Big Day beautifully blends authentic passion with superior talent and special guests with star power.

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Film Review: “The Nightingale” — Song of the Powerless

August 16, 2019
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The Nightingale delivers an indelible vision of inhumanity perpetuated by colonialism and white privilege.

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Country Music Review: Gabe Lee’s “farmland” — The Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot Blues

August 16, 2019
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This Nashvillian has a simple message for America: “You best pull yourself together, or you might never be the same.”

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Theater Review: “Ghosts” — Specters on the March

August 15, 2019
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In this always compelling production, director Carey Perloff decided to bring the uncanny on stage, almost as a sixth character, in the form of composer/musician David Coulter.

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Theater Review: “Dumas’ Camille ” — A Thickly Layered, But Intimate, Evening

August 15, 2019
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Dumas’ Camille is nothing if not ambitious. Such complexity is seldom found on a summer stage.

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Rock CD Review: Sleater-Kinney’s “The Center Won’t Hold” — Mom + Pop

August 15, 2019
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This album lacks the desperation, the immediacy, the sheer power that made Sleater-Kinney essential in its original decade.

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Classical Music CD Review: “Bach: Toccatas” — A Harpsichord of Feral Energy

August 14, 2019
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In this extraordinary recording, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani is given a chance to perfectly convey the power of his emotions.

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Music Review: The Gloucester Blues Festival — A Manageable Model

August 13, 2019
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I left thinking that holding a blues (or a jazz) festival in every city and town would not be a bad idea. It’s a better way for municipalities to spend their money — with a surer payoff — than tax abatements for Amazon.

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Film Review: “Them That Follow” — Of Serpents and Sects

August 13, 2019
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feels both cautionary and elegiac; it is obviously relevant in these times of extremism and the rise of small town tyrannies.

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