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Television Review: “White Hot –The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch”

April 14, 2022
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White Hot is a compelling watch, and not only for those who shopped at Abercrombie & Fitch.

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Theater Commentary: A Wacky Vision of Violence — “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus”

April 12, 2022
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Finally, a sign that American theater might be facing the world of violence outside of its usual provincial purview.

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Music Commentary: The Streaming Cesspool

April 12, 2022
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When listeners outsource their listening to streaming organizations, as they commonly do, they are often directed to music that has been selected to fatten up someone’s bottom line, not to enrich and expand their musical lives.

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Short Fuse Podcast #52: On Pause — Three Months that Changed New York

April 12, 2022
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks to photographer Charlie Bennet and writer Helena Gustavsson about their book On Pause: Three Months That Changed New York.

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Film Review: “The Wake Up Call” — A New and Important Feature Documentary

April 12, 2022
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Eric Neudel and Alison Gilkey found a tremendous subject for a documentary, and have told his tale with urgency and compassion.

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Jazz Album Reviews: New Discs from Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double and Myra Melford’s Fire and Water Quintet

April 12, 2022
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These two superb new releases were both recorded at a former fire station in Connecticut.

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Book Review: “Work Pray Code” — Managing and Deploying Spirituality in Silicon Valley

April 11, 2022
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A thorough sociologist, Carolyn Chen shows, step-by-step, how companies self-consciously appropriate religious language and rituals, creating a ‘theology’ in which work and purpose are perfectly aligned in the lives of their highest-value employees.

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Jazz Album Review: Guitarist John McLaughlin — The Montreux Years

April 11, 2022
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The album features seven tracks played by five different groups fronted or co-led by guitarist John McLaughlin.

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Film Commentary: Three Movies from Bona Fide Innovators Turn 50

April 11, 2022
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Three singular voices – Ken Russell, Bob Rafelson, and Brian De Palma – all of whom had their careers in gear before the end of the previous decade, each of whom took interesting turns with the films they released in 1972.

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“Listening During Covid, Part 10”: So Much Amazing Music to Discover!

April 10, 2022
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The record companies are bringing us unsuspected marvels from past and present that we might otherwise never hear, from astonishing Handel-era works and brand-new American pieces to elegantly performed guitar sonatas from 19th Century Vienna.

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