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Design Review: “Polinature” — A Plug-in Vertical Garden That Fights Climate Change

October 2, 2024
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Projects like “Polinature” overcome reams of bureaucracy, reinforced by government inertia, in order to improve our environment in admirably cost effective and efficient ways.

Concert Review: In Austin, Texas — Three Major Acts of State-of-the-Art Progressive Jazz

October 2, 2024
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It was all intense, bracing, and urgent jazz in Austin last week. I don’t know how all y’all spoiled New Yorkers keep your heads from exploding.

Film Review: “In The Summers” — Coming of Age Never Stops

October 1, 2024
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This nuanced study in domestic malfunction is as universal as it is heartbreaking.

Book Review: Paolo Giordano’s “Tasmania” — A Brilliant Novel about Being Blinded by Personal Catastrophes

October 1, 2024
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An absorbing novel that builds steadily, not to a shattering or violent conclusion (all the violence is in the past or offstage) but to a quiet release that is humane and persuasive.

Film Review: “A Different Man”– Odd Man Out

September 30, 2024
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It is on the universal theme of identity that “A Different Man” resonates most eloquently, demonstrating how who we are is not fixed but chosen, a mask we don whether it fits or not.

Film Reviews: At the Toronto International Film Festival — Nazi Puppet in Norway and Abortion Saga in Georgia

September 29, 2024
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Two closely watched films in Toronto were dark dramas that couldn’t have been more different.

Jazz Album Review: “The Best of Bird” — The Sheer Genius of Charlie Parker

September 29, 2024
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“Ornithology: The Best of Bird” might better be described as the best of Bird on Savoy.

Opera Review: White Snake Projects’s “Is This America?” — A Moral Parable for Our Times

September 29, 2024
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By Aaron Keebaugh The opera’s libretto moves back and forth fluently between Fannie Lou Hamer’s childhood years to her later struggles serving the cause of racial justice. On June 1, 1865, in front of a large crowd gathered at New York’s Cooper Union, Frederick Douglass gave a eulogy for Abraham Lincoln. The president had been…

Visual Arts Review: “Conjuring the Spirit World” — Can You Believe Your Eyes?

September 28, 2024
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This simultaneously entertaining and provocative show contests the premise that people today are invariably more sophisticated than those who lived in spiritualism’s heyday.

Book Review: “Fugitive: My Childhood on the Hollywood Blacklist” — A Still Relevant Warning

September 26, 2024
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Tony Kahn’s memory is extraordinary, and his talents as a writer, illustrator, and designer are prodigious.

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