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Jazz Album Review: Keith Jarrett’s “Budapest Concert” — Crystalline Endgame

October 25, 2020
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My guess is that Keith Jarrett probably wasn’t satisfied with this performance. I wouldn’t change a note, a gesture, or a shading.

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Rap Album Review: Open Mike Eagle’s “Anime, Trauma, and Divorce” — Personal Matters

October 25, 2020
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Open Mike Eagle may have written this album for himself, but many others will recognize themselves somewhere in his words and in his pain.

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Music Commentary: Remembering the Resonant Indie Pop of Sawyer

October 25, 2020
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It should be no surprise that Sawyer seeks and finds new sounds on Less Than More Than. The EP is a deep dive into synth-driven pop that expands on the band’s philosophy.

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Visual Arts Commentary: America’s Historical Monuments — Under Reconsideration

October 24, 2020
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The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial is the latest product of our heated social/political/cultural debates about America’s memorials and their vision of the country’s past, present, and future.

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Book Review: “Cuyahoga” — An Old-Fashioned Medicine Show of a Read

October 24, 2020
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Filled with galoots of all kinds, the novel might not have any true reason for existing, nor may it have any reason to end. But heck, it’s a good, old-fashioned, medicine show of a read.

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Film Review: Toxicity Roulette — 1969, 2020, and “The Trial of the Chicago 7”

October 23, 2020
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In the end, The Trial of the Chicago 7 strikes a reasonable balance between historical document and cinematic art.

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Film Review: “White Noise: Inside the Racist Right” — Planting the Seeds

October 23, 2020
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White Noise is neither a polemic nor an exercise in agitprop: it is a journey into the dark center of a reprehensible movement that is growing more vocal every day.

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Classical CD Reviews: Beethoven Concerti – Mutter, Ma, and Barenboim play the Triple Concerto, Martha Argerich plays the Piano Concerto no. 2, and Krystian Bezuidenhout plays the Piano Concerto no. 4

October 22, 2020
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A round-up of fresh performances of Beethoven Concerti.

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Book Review: “Death in Her Hands” — There’s No Mystery to This Mystery

October 22, 2020
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It’s as if Moshfegh is testing the furthest limits of a “red herring”: what if everything is red and everything is herring?

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Television Review: “Swamp Thing” — I Think We Love You?

October 22, 2020
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Swamp Thing is downright ornery, at times questioning political and corporate power as well as environmental protections.

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