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Classical Album Review: Minnesota Orchestra plays Mahler 10

February 14, 2021
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There’s much to admire in the color, character, and urgency of the Minnesotans’ playing and the overall strong direction from conductor Osmo Vänskä.

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Music Feature: Two Musicians on Dealing with the Pandemic –Jennifer Slowik and Yahuba Torres

February 14, 2021
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“Individual stories are the single most important component of any collective, and your story matters more than you can know.”

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Film Review: “The Dig” — The Depths of Discovery

February 13, 2021
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The Dig is suffused with a very English (and problematic) sense of history: why it matters, how it can be taken for granted, and the odd way that certain elements of the past are valorized while others are kept buried.

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Film Review: “Malcolm & Marie” — Who’s Afraid of Sam Levinson?

February 12, 2021
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This film offers a much more nuanced and self-reflective conversation about authorship, authenticity, creative inspiration, and the role of film criticism than any of its detractors are willing to admit.

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Film Review: “French Exit’ — In This Absurdist Romp a Diva Makes a Grand Exit

February 12, 2021
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Defiant and tonally offbeat, French Exit mirrors, in a sense, its female protagonist, who doesn’t give a damn what the world thinks of her.

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Film Review: Virtual Sundance 2021 — Let Corporations Chase the Crowd Pleasers — Here’s the Real Stuff

February 11, 2021
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Sundance’s strengths for me this year (as in the past) were the festival’s documentaries.

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Theater Feature: Eggtooth Productions’ “Stagehand” — Game-Theater Takes CyberStage

February 11, 2021
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What will the response be to this innovative marriage of Zoom theater and video gaming? Some viewers will welcome the mash-up, others will not.

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Television Review: “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” — As Upsetting as it is Fascinating

February 10, 2021
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Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel makes for a gripping watch, one of Netflix’s finest true crime documentary series.

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Book Review: “Fabrications” — A Collection of the Lies We Tell

February 10, 2021
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Few writers can generate as much tension in so few pages as Pamela Painter.

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Film Interview: Gillian Wallace Horvat on “I Blame Society”

February 9, 2021
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“Everybody in this industry right now is looking for like, female beards to rescue them, but that’s not what we’re here for.”

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