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This alternately ecstatic and murky, pointed and obscure, allegory is a rare attempt to confront the pathological systems leading us to an uncertain fate.
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The week’s poem: Mark Scroggins’s “Zion Offramp 124”
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Newport Jazz sold out all three days in advance for the second year in a row, which made scheduling the primary acts across three stages prone to occasional mismatches between space and demand. But it’s still a golden ticket.
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Hopefully, Hollywood will take note of this impressive dramatic accomplishment, and more Indigenous stories will follow.
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The letters of this protean figure in American musical theater induced in this reader a pleasurable mixture of nostalgia, voyeurism, and insight.
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The high spirits and tolerance in this enjoyable production reinforce the director’s claim that this comedy is about expats striving for “a more balanced, egalitarian society.”
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Eoin Higgins’s “Owned” is a provocative take on our shifting politics and the instrumental role the media plays in how the superrich maintain power.
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Deconstructing construction in “Architecton.”
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Film Review: “Made in New Jersey” — A Fabulous Trip in the Cinematic Way-Back Machine
This journey in the way-back machine contains many delights, some staged and some as part of the photographic record of America from 100-plus years ago.
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