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Visual Arts Review: “Lighting the Way — South Coast Women’s Lives, Labors, Love”

January 6, 2025
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This exhibition offers much to appreciate about South Coast women, whose lives and accomplishments have played a crucial role in shaping the region.

Opera Review: Conductor Frieder Bernius Continues to Strike Gold with “Der Taucher”

January 6, 2025
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Any opera lover will find much to admire and enjoy in this work, based on a famous 27-strophe poem by Friedrich Schiller that Schubert set in its entirety to music.

Film Review: “Nickel Boys” — A Fierce Tragic Power

January 4, 2025
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“Nickel Boys” is an unsettling, yet gorgeous, cinematic adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel.

Visual Arts Interview: Photographer Barry Schneier on his Exhibit “The Song Is Still Being Written: The Folk Music Portrait Project”

January 3, 2025
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When Barry Schneier felt it was time for his next photography project about musicians, he decided to get to know his subjects, not just shoot them.

Film Review: “All We Imagine As Light” — A Gritty and Graceful Look at Life in Mumbai

January 2, 2025
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“All We Imagine As Light” is an absorbing celebration of female friendship.

Film Review: “Babygirl” — What Do Women Want?

December 30, 2024
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“Babygirl” comes off as a rather lascivious take-down of yet another older woman who has everything she wants except … sexual excitement.

Dance Review: “Diary of a Tap Dancer” — Say Their Names

December 29, 2024
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Is it possible to reclaim a marginalized legacy? And how do you step up to take a seat at the table when your history has been neglected and forgotten?

Dance Review: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo at 50 — A Legacy of Dance, Humor, and Familiar Jokes

December 29, 2024
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After five decades of blending strong technique with playful satire, the Trocks continue to impress, but some of their once-fresh humor feels a bit played out.

Film Review: “Nightbitch”— Howling at the Patriarchy

December 28, 2024
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Perhaps director Marielle Heller decided that “Nightbitch”‘s unusual premise had to be balanced with a decorous storytelling trope.

DocTalk: 10 Best Documentaries of 2024

December 27, 2024
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It seems every year the quality of feature films, especially those from mainstream studios, is getting worse, while that of documentaries is getting better.

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