Review

Theater Review: Israeli Stage’s “The Hearing” — Academic Freedom, Under Pressure

November 27, 2017
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Scripts like The Hearing also provide an optic through which to examine our own nation’s problems.

Visual Arts Review: “Soft Thresholds” — Room With a View, and an Elephant

November 24, 2017
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Soft Thresholds is about opening up physical boundaries: an elephant village is one of a number of the firm’s marvelous examples of this commitment.

Film Commentary: The Carthage Film Festival

November 21, 2017
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Like going to Mecca, shouldn’t every committed cinephile get to the Carthage Film Festival once in a lifetime?

Theater Review: “Incognito” — Mapping the Brain

November 19, 2017
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What we don’t know about the brain and the heart drives this at times unwieldy, yet ultimately satisfying, theatrical work.

Book Review: “Old Rendering Plant” — Existence on Trial

November 17, 2017
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Hilbig’s prose demands sentence-by sentence commitment. It gravitates to the dark and dense, and occasionally surreal.

Television Review: “Too Funny to Fail” — Timeless Comedy

November 17, 2017
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It always takes a while for the culture to catch up with the best and brightest; what’s on the cutting edge today becomes tomorrow’s gold standard.

Film Review: Remembrance of Things Zappa

November 17, 2017
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Filmmaker Salvo Cuccia packs a lot into this tightly framed 2014 documentary on Frank Zappa.

Theater Review: New York Round-Up — “Junk,” The Red Shoes,” “The Band’s Visit”

November 17, 2017
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The irony implied by Junk after the curtain goes down is the realization that white collar crime does pay.

Film Review: “Safe in Hell” — A Fallen Woman Picture and a Sleazy Buddy Movie

November 14, 2017
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Dorothy Mackaill is riveting as Gilda, a wronged working woman turned prostitute in the no-options depths of Depression-era New Orleans.

Music Feature: Guitarist and Composer Toninho Horta Meets Berklee

November 14, 2017
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Toninho Horta’s musical signature is distinctive: complex harmonies, subtle but masterful guitar work, and gentle, plaintive vocals.

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