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Rock Album Review: The Latin Dead’s “Eyes of the World” — Revolutionary Pop/Rock/Latin Fusion

May 28, 2023
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Until this album, I had no idea that the Grateful Dead and salsa could blend together with such force and fun.

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Film Review: “The Eight Mountains” — Four Decades of Male Bonding

May 28, 2023
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The Eight Mountains offers peak entertainment.

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Classical Album Review: Martin Fröst’s “Ecstasy and Abyss” — A Mixed Bag of Mozart

May 27, 2023
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The best items in this all-Mozart album are the concertos.

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Concert Review: The Duke Robillard Band Rocks Aplenty at Jimmy’s

May 27, 2023
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The music of the Duke Robillard Band may go back a long way, but there was nothing retro about the bittersweet, funky, lowdown sounds that rocked Jimmy’s.

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Design Commentary: Department of Play — Creating a New Urban Planning Paradigm

May 27, 2023
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Participatory, small-scale planning is a powerful step forward because it doesn’t pay lip service to cliches about “listening to the community.”

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Classical Album Review: Violinist Maria Ioudenitch’s “Songbird” Soars

May 26, 2023
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Violinist Maria Ioudenitch seems to know how to get directly at the expressive core of this fare without devolving into showboating or histrionics.

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Theater Interview: Set Designer Sara Brown — Alchemy is Afoot

May 26, 2023
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Set designer Sara Brown creates theater wizardry through the assistance of digital tools, not a magic wand.

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Opera Album Review: Zoroastre and His Sun Worshipers Vanquish Louts in a World-Premiere Recording of Rameau’s 1749 Opera

May 26, 2023
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Some of France’s best early-music singers and a splendid period-instrument band make this Zoroastre a perfect introduction to the pleasures of Baroque music.

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Book Review: Searching for “Truth and Repair” — Asking Rape Survivors For Their Vision of Justice

May 26, 2023
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For real change to happen, argues Judith Herman, “crimes of dominance and subordination would need to be approached as a matter of public health as well as public safety, with prevention as a primary goal.”

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Visual Arts Review: Robert Barry and Martin Puryear’s Fountain of Youth

May 25, 2023
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Despite their stylistic differences, Robert Barry and Martin Puryear share a similar goal: to include us in their respective inquiries into the nature of mind and liberty, but not do the work for us.

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