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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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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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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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>Like many fads from the ’90s and early aughts, beanie babies are now getting the Hollywood treatment.
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The music this band produced was famously challenging: it was also often surprisingly beautiful.
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The venue pulled the plug on Phil Lesh and his band after about 45 minutes into their second set, which was especially unfortunate considering the steady upward trajectory of the show to that point
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Tony Bennett was not only a singular artist. He was, by all accounts, a mensch: an early supporter of the civil rights struggle and participant in innumerable benefits, he was a generous mentor.
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A prize-winning revival of a politically rambunctious, often-entertaining opera from ’60s East Germany
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The greatest enigma “Oppenheimer” poses is recognizing the difference between good and evil and how to act accordingly.
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Arts Remembrance: Tony Bennett (1926-2023)
Tony Bennett’s enthusiasm for life and music was persuasive, even when it seems outsized.
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