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Television Review: “Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives” — Of Cons and Cults

March 18, 2022
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Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. falls short because it is designed to be entertaining rather than useful.

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Film Review: “The Spine of the Night” – The Rape of the Land

March 17, 2022
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Recommending The Spine of the Night depends on how much you’d like to see things like head decapitations, eye-gouging, and people being disemboweled in your high-fantasy animated features, in which case Spine is everything you could hope for and a whole lot more.

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Concert Review: Billy Strings Blesses Roadrunner, Memorably

March 17, 2022
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Where Roadrunner goes from here remains to be seen, but Billy Strings did his part to open the room with a bang of a blessing.

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Listening During Covid, Part 9: Intriguing New Works and New-Sounding C. P. E. Bach

March 17, 2022
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A varied buffet of fresh musical experiences from recent decades and from the mid-1700s.

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Theater Review: “Ocean Filibuster” at A.R.T. — Surfing the Waves of Immersive Science and Art

March 17, 2022
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Ocean Filibuster draws on a marvelous fusion of myth, song, free verse, and science to explore why we are standing at the frightening edge of the cliff of our planet’s survival.

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Arts Commentary: Containing Multitudes — Five Shows Explore the Intersections of Identity and Performance

March 16, 2022
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In dealing with the turmoil of ‘real’ life, the art of illusion found in cinemas, theaters, and museums will help us regain a sense of who we are as communal beings.

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Theater Review: “Once on This Island” — At the Whim of the Gods

March 16, 2022
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This staging is a reminder that theater magic is fickle and time-bound — it’s hard to dependably catch lightning in a bottle.

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Book Review: “In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss” — A Brave and Heartrending Story

March 15, 2022
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This is a profoundly disturbing memoir about a subject that hits close to home for many readers.

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Book Review: Through a Text, Too Darkly — The Life and Oration of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

March 15, 2022
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Overall, the ITRL is an improvement over earlier efforts, but it falls short of expectations, particularly when it comes to providing a way into the world of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola for those beginning the journey.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “Pieces of Her” — The Dangers of Privilege

March 13, 2022
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This Netflix thriller takes some interesting twists and turns as it moves along its absurd way.

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