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In its celebration of current-day Black culture, and of the vitality of Black youth, The Inheritance is an optimistic work.
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Two big bands, two different sides of the tradition.
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The real culture war in 1980s America was waged by young people who were trying to create their own culture and jealously rejected corporate culture along the way.
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There’s no question in my mind that Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched will remain the definitive work on the history of folk horror for many years to come.
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Violinist Hilary Hahn’s blend of musical curiosity, expressive savvy, and technical excellence doesn’t often appear in one person.
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It isn’t always easy being beautiful, brainy, and talented.
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A couple of adventurous pianists decided, as their latest solo releases confirm, to use forced isolation as a spur to inspiration.
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Come True squanders all of its narrative potential in favor of an awkward and poorly developed romance and a “twist” ending even M. Night Shyamalan would scoff at.
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“‘Rightsism’ gives judges much more power than they deserve in a democracy,” Jamal Greene writes. “When U.S. judges face a conflict of rights, they cancel one right or the other.”
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Pop Culture Commentary: The Rise of the “Boomer Doomer”
Hippie Boomers have morphed from being figures we were horrified to see victimized (think “Easy Rider”) to the kind of people that audiences are positively happy to see get their comeuppances.
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