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Theater Review: “English” — Language Lessons

October 31, 2022
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English makes us consider what it looks like from the other side of our native tongue; from the outside looking in.

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Classical Album Review: Thomas Adès’s Tuneful “Märchentänze”

October 31, 2022
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As the composer moves from youth to middle age, Thomas Adès is unique among his contemporaries for his singular embrace of melody, harmony, and form.

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Rock Album Review: The Pixies — Spiky Sonics, Smoothed Over

October 30, 2022
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The Pixies could be anthemic, snarky, jaunty, or forlorn as they chose, which meant they were never boring.

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Jazz Album Review: Newvelle Records’ Renewal Collection — A Beautifully Compact Clarity

October 30, 2022
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This collection, Newvelle Records’ first series release in two years, features original compositions by Elan Mehler, Michael Blake, Dave Liebman, and Nadje Noordhuis.

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Television Review: Guillermo del Toro’s “Cabinet of Curiosities” — Well Worth Opening

October 29, 2022
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This is a terrific start for a series that may live up to the promise of The Twilight Zone: it will take you “on a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.”

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Theater Review: Bill Irwin’s “On Beckett” — A Splendidly Literate Treat

October 28, 2022
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In his virtuoso one-man show, Bill Irwin pays adroit homage to the language and vision of Samuel Beckett.

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Film Review: Female Trouble and Male Troublemaking in “The Banshees of Inisherin” and “Aftersun”

October 27, 2022
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Both of these films explore the theme of difficult males and resilient, caregiving females.

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Short Fuse Podcast #57: “Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights”

October 27, 2022
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks to Valena Beety, author of Manifesting Justice , and Tasha Mercedes Shelby, calling in on a telephone from the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility.

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Theater Review: “Let the Right One In” — Me and My Vampire

October 27, 2022
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The story has the earmarks of YA fiction: a community of dysfunctional adults contribute to the plight of alienated kids who, badgered by persecutors their own age, seek to escape their torment.

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Opera Album Review: Odyssey Opera’s Invaluable World-Premiere Recording of Saint-Saëns’s Complete “Henry VIII”

October 27, 2022
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Gil Rose’s team, headed by an incandescent Ellie Dehn as Catherine of Aragon, should help bring this major work back to the world’s opera-house stages.

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