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I’m going to try out a new format in 2023. Along with posting longer reviews of single series, I will also be experimenting with a new (weekly!) format where I include several features in one column.
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This trio of beautifully-illustrated children’s books offer journeys into science that rival science fiction.
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As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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M3GAN is a movie algorithmically generated to spawn as many memes about itself as possible before undiscerning viewers realize what they’re watching is a reworked Black Mirror draft.
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Ted Olson continues bringing important location recordings of early American music back to light.
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Many of the entries in Symbionts do not question scientific worldviews as much as attempt to validate art in a world ruled unquestionably by science.
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Justin Dello Joio’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, written especially for pianist Garrick Ohlsson, creates an emotionally satisfying canvas out of thorny harmonies and astringent lyricism.
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Jeff Beck didn’t play the fastest runs but wielded dynamic emotion in every deftly spaced note – and didn’t even use a pick.
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MJQ pianist John Lewis would have loved to have had an orchestra this well rehearsed and recorded so beautifully.
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Theater Commentary: George Takei’s “Allegiance” — Taking Yanks to Task
George Takei’s musical, Allegiance, projects American democracy as it might have become.
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