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Jazz CD Review: Jason Palmer’s “Rhyme and Reason” — Intricate Artistry

March 5, 2019
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Trumpeter Jason Palmer’s mastery is of the unimposing kind, which this piano-less quartet seamlessly reflects.

Theater Review: “Once” — Everything Goes Brilliantly Right

March 5, 2019
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Once is a wonderful musical and the Speakeasy Stage production does exquisitely right by its considerable merits.

Book Review: “Where the Crawdads Sing” — Are the Rural Poor Noble Savages?

March 5, 2019
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Delia Owens suggests that the only forward movement for her outsider-protagonist and “swamp trash” is to become curators of ecological/cultural museums in the very places where they once struggled for an independent life.

Theater Review: “The Half-Light” — A Powerful Excursion into the Spirit World

March 4, 2019
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The Half-Light is a play about ghosts that, while offering intimations of mortality, ends up exuding a charming and infectious romantic spirit.

Film Review: “Greta” — A Tedious, Ugly Stalker Film

March 3, 2019
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Greta is a slight, uninspired by-the-numbers genre film — we’ve seen this paranoia-inducing tale too often.

Film Review: 5 Women Filmmakers — A Sampling of the Superb

March 2, 2019
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This is a finely-selected sampling of what some accomplished women filmmakers offered in 2018.

Theater Review: “The Little Foxes” — American Greed Triumphant

March 2, 2019
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The Lyric Stage Company’s The Little Foxes is taut, tense, and eerily reflective of our own uneasy, pernicious times.

Book Reviews: A Provocative Trio of Volumes on Architecture and Landscape Architecture

March 2, 2019
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In very different ways and on very different topics, three recent books assuage notions that architecture/design books are formidable reads.

Classical CD Reviews: Colin Davis’s “Berlioz Odyssey,” “Bernard Haitink: Portrait,” and “The Age of Revolutions”

March 1, 2019
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Anniversaries are both the bane and the lifeblood of the classical music industry as, for better or worse, three new box sets remind.

Film Review: “Greta” — Psycho Thriller, Qui Est-Ce?

February 28, 2019
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A B-movie par excellence, Greta’s the kind of unhinged and yet fiendishly well-calibrated genre fare that rarely gets afforded the attentions of a director as accomplished as Neil Jordan.

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