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Film Review: “Plainclothes” and the Surveillance of Desire

September 24, 2025
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Despite its abrasive style, “Plainclothes” leaves no doubt about what is going to happen or what is meant to be its takeaway message.

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Concert Review: Horizon Ensemble Polishes a Neglected Gem by French Composer Germaine Tailleferre

September 23, 2025
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Happily, the admirable Horizon Ensemble is championing Germaine Tailleferre’s mesmerizing piano concerto.

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Book Review: “How Progress Ends” — Revisiting Innovation, Institutions, and the Future of Change

September 23, 2025
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As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “The arc of the moral universe bends toward justice.” Rather than ask how progress ends, shouldn’t we be asking how progress bends?

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Film Review: “Tura!” – V is for Varla

September 23, 2025
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A new documentary bares (almost) all about stripper-actress Tura Satana.

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Jazz Concert Reviews: Mary Halvorson’s Amaryllis and the Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol Quintet at the Regattabar

September 23, 2025
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Gigs by superb bands led by Mary Halvorson and Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol at the Regattabar.

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Film Festival Reviews: The Toronto International Film Festival – Storks and Arctic Drama

September 22, 2025
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Two outstanding films from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival — “The Tale of Silyan” and “Wrong Husband”

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Theater Interview: Kai Maristed on “Paul and Émile” — The Vicissitudes of Friendship

September 22, 2025
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“If my work does have a recurrent theme, it is the pressure of the political/historical moment on individual choice.”

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Short Fuse Podcast #73: “Mother Africa” –Celebrating African Jazz at Lincoln Center

September 21, 2025
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In this conversation, host Elizabeth Howard talks with Seton Hawkins, the Director of Public Programs and Educational Resources at Jazz at Lincoln Center, about Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s “Mother Africa” season.

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Theater Review: “Primary Trust” — Dramatizing Acts of Random Kindness

September 20, 2025
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Playwright Eboni Booth won last year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this script, and it is a heartwarming, well-constructed, one-act.

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Concert Preview: Cowboy Junkies — On This Tour, Looking Back With Pleasure

September 20, 2025
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Cowboy Junkies has simply been too busy to wallow in the past, which has meant a lot of great songs have been untouched in concert.

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