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Dance Review: Ashwini Ramaswamy’s “Let the Crows Come” — Beckoning the Birds

January 23, 2024
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The point was clear: we had been watching an elaborate invitation, a dance made to tempt the magical crows.

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Opera Album Review: From Denmark with Love, Passion, Irony, and Much More — Works by Carl Nielsen and Helge Bonnén

January 23, 2024
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Carl Nielsen’s vivid biblical opera “Saul & David,” here paired with Helge Bonnén’s remarkable concert adaptation of poems from “Spoon River Anthology.”

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Jazz Album Review: The Complete Massey Hall Recordings — The Legendary Concert Never Sounded So Good

January 22, 2024
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I heartily recommend this Craft Recording, even if (perhaps especially if) you have owned the LP version from (almost) a half century ago.

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Dance Review: Momix’s “Alice” — Curiouser and Curiouser

January 22, 2024
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Too, too soon, the images in MOMIX’s “Alice” alternate between unpleasant and stale.

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Theater Review: “Trouble in Mind” — Taking a Stand Backstage

January 21, 2024
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Set in New York in the mid-’50s, “Trouble in Mind” is a backstage dramedy that draws on the genre’s interest in the ambiguities of role-playing to condemn racial bias.

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Visual Arts Review: “Burning Down the House” — A Female Chorus of Concern

January 21, 2024
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These five artists do indeed make their voices heard. They shine as soloists, and their messages are only amplified when they join into a chorus of multi-part harmony. 

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Film Review: “Origin” — A Map of Human Suffering

January 20, 2024
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The breadth and intimacy of “Origin”‘s vision — the personal becomes the historical — is stunning, a searing portrait of collective trauma and the dark ideas that propel it.

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Visual Arts Review: “Deeply Rooted: Faith in Reproductive Justice” — Religion and Rights

January 20, 2024
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The overall impression of this valuable exhibit is to remind us that religious conviction is by no means synonymous with conservatism.

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Film Review: “Suitable Flesh” — Pretty on the Inside

January 19, 2024
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For all of “Suitable Flesh”’s indulgence in B-movie schlock and gross-out gore, the film’s pulsating sexuality becomes its strongest asset.

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Television Review: “Death and Other Details” — Adrift at Sea

January 18, 2024
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Mocking the wealthy with a homicidal intrigue tossed in doesn’t always make for a fun watch.

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