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Listening During Covid, Part 12: Adventures in Ethnic and National Diversity

June 5, 2022
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I am honestly puzzled by the casualness or, at times, ferocity with which some people nowadays reject classical music as inherently narrow or elitist.

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Visual Arts Review: The Wright Stuff — A Pair of Usonian Houses in Manchester, New Hampshire

June 4, 2022
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The Currier Art Museum now owns and maintains two houses created by legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Book Review: Food for Thought, but Pie in the Sky: “Running with Robots — The American High School’s Third Century”

June 4, 2022
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Running with Robots not only makes reading about education reform fun, but also prods a broad readership to think critically about how learning should work in a future guided by artificial intelligence.

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Theater Review: “The Inheritance” — Confronting the Unthinkable

June 3, 2022
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As National Pride Month begins, The Inheritance is a powerful way to honor and remember the impossible journey so many have taken to win the right to simply be themselves in public.

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Film Review: “Neptune Frost” – Power to the People

June 3, 2022
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This Afrofuturist cyberpunk musical is a sprawling political manifesto poetically transcribed into a visual symphony of music and images.

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Film Review: “Eiffel” – A Towering Tale of Truth and Lies

June 2, 2022
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The script is credited to five writers and, well, too many cooks spoil the bouillon.

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Festival Review: Solid Sound 2022 — Fun For All

June 2, 2022
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Solid Sound is like a family picnic for stylistically open-minded musicians and fans alike within the brick-mill infrastructure of MASS MoCA.

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Film Review: “Top Gun: Maverick” — Assisting the Collapse of the American Empire?

June 2, 2022
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So what if the American empire is doing more and more poorly? All that matters is hopping in alongside Tom Cruise for a super-duper roller-coaster ride inside an F-18.

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June Short Fuses – Materia Critica

June 2, 2022
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Short Fuse Podcast #54: From Madison Avenue to Rikers Island

June 1, 2022
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks to Mark Goldsmith about his book Madison Avenue to Rikers Island. He is the founder and CEO emeritus of Getting Out and Staying Out, a nonprofit that provides educational, vocational, job readiness, counseling, and other services to young men who have been incarcerated.

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