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Book Review: “Jena 1800” — A Ferocious Hunger for Freedom

February 15, 2022
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Peter Neumann has written a compelling historical study that focuses on the tumultuous concatenation of a number of imaginative and dynamic thinkers.

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Rock Album Review: David Bowie’s “Toy” — Perusing His Back Pages

February 15, 2022
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David Bowie’s Toy is a solid, enjoyable, and buoyant effort from an artist who never failed to stay interesting and vital well into his later years.

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Classical Album Review: Igor Levit’s “On DSCH” — Exhausting But Astonishing

February 14, 2022
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A major release by a pianist who, just in his mid-thirties, is already one of the most intelligent and satisfying musicians on the circuit.

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Film Review: “Margrete, Queen of the North” — One Matriarch, One Scandinavia

February 14, 2022
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This is an opulent and ambitious historical drama, as attentive to small intimate scenes as it is to grandiose action sequences.

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Opera Review: “Iris,” A Powerful Vision of an Imaginary Japan — Six Years Before “Madama Butterfly”

February 14, 2022
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The composer of Cavalleria rusticana brought his sense for characterization and drama to the all-too-plausible tale of a woman victimized by a cad.

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Film Review: “Munich: The Edge of War” — The Necessity of Resistance

February 13, 2022
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A suspenseful, finely-crafted historical thriller that reminds us that the triumph of evil depends on good men doing nothing.

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Classical Album Review: Violinist Yevgeny Kutik — “The Death of Juliet and Other Tales”

February 13, 2022
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The program is compelling, but some of violinist Yevgeny Kutik’s interpretations could sing more freely and dance more nimbly.

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Book Review: “Small Things Like These” — Resisting Cruelty

February 13, 2022
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Claire Keegan’s novella expertly shows how the culture of idle talk in certain Irish communities is like a secret code — an intricate language that both obscures and reveals.

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CD Review: Dave Bainbridge’s “To The Far Away” — Prog Rock with Passion

February 12, 2022
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For prog fans who consider that the proof of the pudding is long, complex songs with virtuosic solos and exotic instrumentation, no fear: To The Far Away is multi-textured and musically exciting.

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Film Review: “Jackass Forever” – Bad Taste — Our Miracle Elixir

February 11, 2022
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Jackass Forever is incredibly stupid, totally irresponsible, completely juvenile, and it made me feel alive in my body for the first time in weeks.

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