Review

Theater Review: “17 Border Crossings” — Journeys to Nowhere

April 21, 2017
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Was this trip really necessary?

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Theater Review: “Paradise” — A Fascinating Culture Clash

April 19, 2017
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Paradise‘s central conflict and the performances in the Underground Railway Theater production are damn good.

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Book Review: “Stigmata of Bliss” — From the Master of the Tersely Disquieting

April 19, 2017
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Klaus Merz’s cunning, compressed prose invites us to listen for the sounds of the inexpressible, the other side of life.

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Film Review: A “Colossal” Mistake

April 18, 2017
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Writer-director Nacho Vigalando blows to bits his love story and morphs his movie into a totally bonkers horror flick.

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Concert Review: Andris Nelsons conducts Mozart and Bruckner

April 18, 2017
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Mitsuko Uchida is quite possibly the finest Mozart pianist around today, at least among non-period specialists.

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Theater Review: “Barbecue” — Not Enough Meat on These Bones

April 18, 2017
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Beneath Barbecue’s jokes there’s little but a chic cynicism.

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Theater Review: “Everyman” — Reinvented With Zest

April 18, 2017
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Apollinaire Theatre Company has done delightful justice to this zesty rejuvenation of a didactic dramatic chestnut.

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Film Review: “Tommy’s Honour” — A Golden Boy of Golf

April 17, 2017
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Seeing the rugged minimalism of golf in its infancy was very appealing.

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Book Review: “The Teeth of the Comb” — Brusque Tales of Rebellion

April 17, 2017
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These tales have an incendiary energy, but Osama Alomar handles his narrative explosives with restraint, wisdom, care, and precision.

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Concert Review: Roomful of Teeth and A Far Cry

April 16, 2017
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Sometimes new music isn’t really new and old music isn’t actually old; the best of it exists on some other plane entirely.

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