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The Gaaga’s humor is driven by rage, anger, and disgust, emotions that are not often found in our domesticated (for easy consumption) theater scene.
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Reasons to be outraged and hopeful at this year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
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This week’s poem: Joseph Torra’s “Sunrise Over Gerrit’s House”.
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In The Flounder, John Fulton is clearly at the top of his game. His prose has that rare thing — a sense of intimacy.
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The Museum of the Revolution resonates with other powerful documentaries that feel like fairy tales set in a dangerous world.
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Ah, the trees! They are the focal point, the organizing principle, of this tight exhibition, which in three parts tracks Van Gogh’s productive yet challenging sojourn in southern France, from Arles to Saint-Rémy.
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Fans of Postmodern Jukebox and the swing revival will enjoy this album, as will any jazz fan who appreciates taut small-group arrangements and terse, focused solos.
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The first American release of a 1961 Italian comic treasure that spoofs corruption in postwar Italy.
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Multiplication and division in two disparate films (and one short story)
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Johann Simon Mayr’s delicious L’Accademia di musica gets a spiffy performance from the “Rossini in Wildbad” Festival.
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Holiday Commentary: Making Room for the Stranger