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Theater Review: “Choice” — Call Ghostbusters

October 30, 2015
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It is hard to figure out just what playwright Winnie Holzman is up to in Choice: is this a supernatural sit-com?

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Film Review: “Jafar Panahi’s Taxi”—Iranian Trials and Tribulations on the Road

October 30, 2015
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Jafar Panahi’s Taxi is a winning, happy, unhappy, humane little road movie.

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Book Review: Victorian Fairy Tales—Sprites Against Realism

October 30, 2015
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What seems to animate many of the fairy tales is a heady freedom from the constraints of realism.

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Visual Arts Review: Neue Galerie’s “Berlin Metropolis”—Overwhelming But Outstanding

October 29, 2015
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This is a strong exhibit that succeeds in conveying a sense of what it was like to live during the 1920s in this exciting capital.

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Book Review: “Death by Water” — Imagination, Masterfully Redeemed

October 29, 2015
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Death By Water plumbs the depths of the human condition in an entirely original way.

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Jazz Review: The Bad Plus Joshua Redman—Making Beauty Easily

October 28, 2015
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With the galvanic addition of Joshua Redman, The Bad Plus is now made up of four intense virtuosos.

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Dance Review: Monkeyhouse and the Ties That Bind

October 27, 2015
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I missed the trademark orange Dynel wigs and the zany non sequiturs of the past, but Karen Krolak and the crew were still playing with fractured language.

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Film Review: “Steve Jobs”—Computer Crash

October 27, 2015
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Steve Jobs is a one-dimensional film about a terminally self-absorbed character.

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Book Review: “Neurotic Beauty”—Japanese Therapeutics

October 27, 2015
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Berman finds a submerged psychic and cultural stratum in Japanese culture that might supply possible antidotes to the US’s consumerist and individualist fevers.

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Book Review: The Battle of Agincourt Turns 600

October 27, 2015
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Anne Curry’s purpose is not merely to act as a military analyst, but to explore the long cultural history of the battle’s meanings in subsequent British history.

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