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CD Review: “Down Home Blues: Detroit” — A Matter of Gratitude

November 23, 2016
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Collectors and serious blues fans will want to own this invaluable set.

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Visual Arts Review: “Doris Salcedo” — Memorializing the Innocent

November 23, 2016
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Doris Salcedo’s mourning for the dead takes material shapes, a menagerie of curious sculptures.

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Film Review: “The Love Witch” — Retro Horror in Delicious Color

November 22, 2016
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The Love Witch is sure to be one of the year’s most talked about achievements in cinematography.

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Book Review: “The Unknown Kerouac” — Unnecessary?

November 22, 2016
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The Unknown Kerouac is good for the advancement of Kerouac scholarship, but the book hardly justifies, for the average reader, its price and size.

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Theater Review: “Straight White Men” — No Surprises

November 21, 2016
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What the play lacks in surprise, the Wilbury treatment makes up for in excellent staging, acting, and a commitment to physical theater.

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Book Review: A Complicated Story — Noh Theater and Modernism

November 19, 2016
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Carrie J. Preston refuses to characterize these cultural exchanges in moralistic or narrowly political terms.

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Theater Review: Huntington Theatre Company’s “Bedroom Farce” — Sleepytime

November 19, 2016
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There’s nothing here to challenge the status quo, just an amiable ‘sex’ comedy about characters who aren’t getting any.

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Book Review: A Superb Biography of French Filmmaker Éric Rohmer

November 18, 2016
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The publication of de Baecque and Herpe’s wonderful biography needs to be followed in the USA by a complete Éric Rohmer retrospective.

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Film Commentary: Witches are the Rage

November 17, 2016
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Pop culture visions of witches and witchcraft are growing, signs that a looming age of superstition and scapegoating is on the way.

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Film Review: Down Mexico Way — Los Cabos International Film Festival

November 16, 2016
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If tourists come here for the fishing, the golf, the grand hotels, the real estate, why not also for an interesting lineup of movies?

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