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Film Review: “Anita” — Anita Hill’s Story For A New Generation

April 5, 2014
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Anita Hill’s struggle is an essential piece of modern cultural and political history that remains painfully relevant.

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Concert Review: Dumpstaphunk — A Superb New Orleans Funk Band That Wants to Change the World

April 5, 2014
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A sensitive folkie may tell you to get beyond your negativity; these guys tell you to “take all that bullshit and put it in the dumpsta.”

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Theater Review: Plays New and Old Back to Back and Reel to Reel

April 4, 2014
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Fort Point Theatre Channel made a call for submissions for a new play to serve as a companion piece to “Krapp’s Last Tape.” The result: a performance of Samuel Beckett’s classic with the world premiere of “The Archives” by Skylar Fox.

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Music Review: The Proud Evolution of Liars — from “They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top” to “Mess”

April 3, 2014
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The dazzling LP “Mess” proves that the band Liars has not half-heartedly made the switch to electronic music.

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Book Review: Russia’s “Vodka Politics” — An Inseparable Duo

April 3, 2014
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What about today? Has Russia finally hit bottom and recovered? Is the political economy of vodka a thing of the past?

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Theater Review: “Brundibár” and “But The Giraffe!” Serious Theater for Young People

April 2, 2014
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The Underground Railway Theater production shows that sometimes children’s theater is capable of a moral depth (perhaps even a fearlessness) that adult theater often avoids.

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Book Review: Pierre Michon and his Many Artistic “Lives”

March 31, 2014
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The books are bleak in that Pierre Michon provides no reassuring, idealistic view of the creative urge. Art leads to no transcendence, no permanent uplifting sentiment. Making poems or making pictures is a rough daily business.

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Film Review: At the Turkish Film Festival — Magic Realism Conjured in Black and White

March 30, 2014
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Not many movies try to wring poignancy out of a distraught man standing in a field, shouting his anguish to the sky, while holding two severed limbs.

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Visual Arts Review: Cyberarts’s Art on the Marquee — Digital Game Shorts for Now People

March 30, 2014
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Whether art can comfortably exist in this thoroughly commercial frame is a question for the ages. Let’s say that whether this show succeeds is firmly in the eye of the beholder.

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TV Review: Simon Schama Tells His “Story of the Jews”

March 29, 2014
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Simon Schama just can’t stop going on about religion and the extra-special Jewish feel for beauty that has, to his mind, kept Judaism vibrant and intact through the ages.

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