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Theater Review: “Wish You Were Here” — Innocence Lost

August 15, 2024
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Through around 10 scenes, spanning over a decade, “Wish You Were Here” looks at political oppression through the domestic lens of lost love and friendships.

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Musician Interview: Alex Levine on The Gaslight Anthem’s Expanded “History Books”

August 15, 2024
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“Just like a rejuvenated marriage, we feel as if we can conquer anything. We’re excited, we’re excited to continue doing what we do, make music, tour, and see what comes of it.”

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Doc Talk: Advertisements for Himself — “How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer”

August 15, 2024
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A testament to the power of benignant narcissism.

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Opera Album Review: One of Saint-Saëns’s Best Operas — Finally on Disc!

August 15, 2024
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We have a recording of “Déjanire,” its first ever. And it’s splendid, with a superb cast, an insightful conductor, and the orchestra and chorus of the very city in which it was first performed a century earlier!

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

August 15, 2024
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This week’s poem: Donald Vincent’s “OFFICER WALKED INTO THE WRONG APARTMENT AGAIN”

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Film Review: Birds of Prey — Time of the “Cuckoo”

August 14, 2024
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“Cuckoo” bridges the experiences of cis and trans women together with overlapping concerns about how our bodily autonomy is increasingly controlled by patriarchal forces.

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Book Review: “Unterstadt” — A Nightmare Journey Into ‘The Lower City’

August 14, 2024
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“Unterstadt” is valuable, and not only because it memorably excavates a repressed episode in Croatian history. The novel also has considerable relevance, given the savagery besieging the innocent in today’s conflagrations.

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Author Interview: A Mindset at the Crossroads of the Teutonic and the Semitic — A Conversation with Writer-Translator Peter Wortsman

August 14, 2024
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A translator must meet a compelling need — to reinvent Franz Kafka’s voice in an English that resounds in the present moment.

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Rock Concert Review: Chameleons — Reviving Greatness

August 13, 2024
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The band’s performance at the Sinclair proved that the Chameleons are back in vintage form.

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Book Review: “Beneath the Mountain” — Revealing the Links Between Enslavement and Incarceration

August 12, 2024
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This collection of essays, excerpts, letters, and a few poems is a powerful and necessary tool for educating anyone willing to learn about — and confront — the injustice and hypocrisy of our country’s monstrous system of incarceration.

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