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Pop Review: Gorillaz’s Exhilarating “Song Machine”

November 10, 2020
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Song Machine rejuvenates the band’s core identity; it is the best music Gorillaz has made in a decade.

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Rock Feature: Despite the Pandemic, Goose Is Flying High

November 10, 2020
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“It was a little frustrating at first, but we’re figuring out how to give music to the people that need it right now.”

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Television Review: “Paranormal” — Egyptian Ghost-busting

November 9, 2020
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The spooky adventures in this Netflix/Egyptian produced series are entertaining enough to deserve a second season.

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Film Review: Freud Never Asked What Men Want, “The Climb” Tells Us

November 8, 2020
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The terrific The Climb looks at bro-bonding in a way you’ve never quite seen.

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Book Review: “The Silence” — Brusque Prophecy

November 7, 2020
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Many Don DeLillo fans will overlook this novella’s somewhat stilted dialogue and perfunctory erotic scenes for the sake of another taste of his dark and knowing world.

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Poetry Review: “Any Song Will Do” — A Very Worthwhile Discovery

November 6, 2020
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Donald Levering’s poems exhort us to be less left-brained, to side more often with intuition, creativity, flights of fancy.

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Book Review: A Brilliant “Homeland Elegies” — Indispensable Witness

November 5, 2020
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What Ayad Akhtar reveals, with stunning detail and a passion and an urgency rarely seen in American fiction, is that his is a story marked by a loneliness similar to that found in Melville, Dreiser, and T.S. Eliot, among others, and that puts him squarely in their company.

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Opera Review: Paisiello’s “Le gare generose” — Italians, Quakers, and Slavery in 18th-century Boston

November 5, 2020
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The lively world-premiere recording of Giovanni Paisiello’s Le gare generose proves why the composer was in demand all across Europe.

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Book Review: Black Food Matters — “The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food”

November 4, 2020
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The Rise is the rare cookbook that does more than offer a culinary and educational journey. It inspires.

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Film Review: More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place? You Demanded Them — Stir-Crazy 11

November 4, 2020
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Covid-19 goes on and on. Hang tight at home, where you can relax and watch old movies. Here’s an 11th list of disparate favorites that can easily be viewed on your computer.

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