Review
The beauty of “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” at this political moment is that it provides a firsthand rebuttal to the current administration’s draconian policies — without ever directly acknowledging them.
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At the Global Cinema Film Festival, some look for love and life in all the wrong places.
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This wake-up call — what will artists be asked to do to please the powers-that-be? — is also a good read.
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A charming and deeply entertaining documentary about Marcella Hazan and her transformation into a world-famous cookbook author and influencer.
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Horace advocated that seizing the immediate with existential zest.
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Happily, the composers on this compelling BMOP program were not cowed by tradition.
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“Trial 4,” along with other currently streaming crime docuseries, examines the systemic biases, misuse of official force, and internal corruption that impede and subvert justice, undermine convictions, undercut integrity, and erode public trust.
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“A Precise Chaos” examines, with profundity, intricate human patterns of memory, history, and love, where the personal and the political intertwine and nothing ends cleanly because nothing is ever entirely lost.
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Pietro Auletta’s “L’Orazio” (1737), with substitute arias by other composers, gets a first-rate performance from the renowned Valle d’Itria Festival.
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Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich was both a rebel and a conformist, a fascinating hybrid of courage and cowardice.
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