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Jazz Album Review: “Multitudes” — A Plethora of Pleasant Acoustic and Electronic Sounds

June 26, 2023
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These pieces integrate the various, varied sounds James Shipp and Nadje Noordhuis produce into something rhythmically as well as melodically exciting and coherent.

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Film Review: “Shin Kamen Rider,” “Shin Ultraman,” and Hideaki Anno’s Philosophical Superheroes

June 26, 2023
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As The Flash crashes at the box office and audiences grow tired of multiverse sagas, creative mastermind Hideaki Anno has delivered two badly needed breaths of fresh air to a genre suffocating under the weight of its own cultural stagnancy.

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Film Festival Review: More Reviews from Provincetown 2023

June 25, 2023
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Five reviews of the kind of films that the Provincetown Film Festival celebrates. Their stories speak to our shared humanity.

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Music Preview: Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade — Turning the Prosaic into the Psychedelic

June 25, 2023
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Bass-wielding provocateur Les Claypool is an expert at warping the seemingly conventional into carnivalesque oddity.

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Classical Album Review: A Panorama of Piano Music from Berlioz’s World

June 25, 2023
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A fascinating CD packed full of little-known works by composers who knew Berlioz, including his onetime fiancée Camille Moke and a youngish Franz Liszt.

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Jazz Album Review: They Must Have Been “hEARoes”

June 23, 2023
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The trio on hEARoes is enthralling; it doesn’t sound like anything I have heard.

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Film Festival Review Round-Up: Provincetown 2023

June 22, 2023
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I could sense a bit of the downfall of indie narrative cinema at last week’s 25th Provincetown Film Festival, but luckily the spirited programmers dug deeper and worked harder to locate worthwhile cinema.

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Film Review: “The Stroll” — Illuminating the Lives of Trans Sex Workers in NYC

June 22, 2023
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In this superb documentary about the experience of trans women in Manhattan. It’s beautiful to see how a powerful sisterhood was created and sustained.

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Author Interview: Historian Ibram X. Kendi on Two New Versions of “Stamped From the Beginning”

June 22, 2023
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This month has seen the publication of two new versions of Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped From the Beginning: a revised edition, which is slated for adaptation by Netflix, and a graphic history, which was illustrated by Joel Christian Gill.

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Book Review: “Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer” — Sort of a Shaman

June 22, 2023
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Betye Saar’s assemblages and travel sketchbooks are rich in references and symbols; they are mysterious and introspective, more spiritual than political.

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