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Concert Review: Billy Strings and Band — Always Hitting the Musical Mark

July 27, 2023
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The guitarist led his razor-sharp band through two sets steeped in bluegrass that, at any given moment, could erupt into psychedelic jams, old-school country, metallic thrashing, or jazzy forays.

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Classical Music Album Review: Violinist Randall Goosby Plays Concertos by Max Bruch and Florence Price

July 27, 2023
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Randall Goosby’s sophomore album proves that the violinist is the real deal.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

July 27, 2023
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This week’s poem — Christina Davis’s “FRUITLANDS: or, to Mother a Truth”

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Classical Album Review: Kristin Ditlow’s Deeply Affectionate “Passages” — Making the Piano Sing

July 25, 2023
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In this splendid album, pianist Kristin Ditlow shares her love of the piano in melody-drenched works from many lands and peoples.

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Book Review: “Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting” — Demanding the Miraculous

July 25, 2023
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It is the volume’s autobiographical component, the accounts of Pasolini’s wide wanderings in art and aesthetic revelations, with their dramatic, cinematic flashbacks, that give this collection much of its literary value.

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Book Review: “Ode to Hip-Hop: 50 Albums that Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music” — Diversifying the Definition

July 25, 2023
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What makes “Ode to Hip-Hop” such a worthy addition to the Rap Book Library is that it makes room for the contributions and trailblazing importance of artists who have been overlooked. Specifically, artists who aren’t straight men.

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Film Review: “Barbie” — Existential Crisis in Pink

July 25, 2023
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Director Greta Gerwig’s hard-edged but affectionate paean to Barbie is sweeter than it is satirical, slightly more perky than political.

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Music Interview: Chatting with Liz Stokes of The Beths

July 24, 2023
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Lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist Liz Stokes talked about the making of The Beths’s most recent album, why the band isn’t called The Lizzes, and if fans can expect to ever hear her play trumpet.

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Film Review: “The Beanie Bubble” — Much Ado About a Sack of Beans

July 24, 2023
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>Like many fads from the ’90s and early aughts, beanie babies are now getting the Hollywood treatment.

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Jazz Album Review: “Old and New Dreams” — Reminder of Adventurous Sounds Past

July 23, 2023
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The music this band produced was famously challenging: it was also often surprisingly beautiful.

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