Review
This special exhibition is arguably the most insightful and compelling organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum.
On these two discs you’ll find masterfully played, engaging excursions into the tonal beyond.
The Cake is a smart, stinging, and eerily timely comedy that feels timeless.
Some may think that the western-genre-turned-arthouse-gimmick has been played out, but Damsel‘s fresh energy and pioneering spirit offers redemption.
Ruby Rose Fox’s artistic/political mission with Salt is clear: the singer wants to look back at and revamp the radicalism of the ’60s.
It is heart-warming that, in these “worst of times,” playwrights like Carey Crim are working quietly to give us a look at new beginnings with humor and tenderness and hope.
There are no missteps on this disc. Buster Williams and company make all the complications swing, mightily.
Being able to comfortably shift gears between “high” and “low” culture is one of the easiest ways in which a contemporary critic can gain the reader’s trust.
So who knows where the time goes? Sadly, it only goes in one direction. But the past can be gracefully revived.
L. M. Brown has also written poetry, and she brings some of that lyrical know-how to her promising first novel.
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