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Opera Album Review: Who Knew? Brazil’s Finest Opera is in Italian

September 10, 2020
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Antônio Carlos Gomes’s Lo Schiavo (The Slave) receives its first major recording — and stakes its claim in the repertory.

Dance Feature: The “Table of Silence Project 9/11” — Reimagined

September 9, 2020
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“We will step to the edge of our humanity, expressing the commonalities that we all share, the threads that bind and connect us all.”

Film Review: “Feels Good Man” — A Far Right Frog-napping

September 9, 2020
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Feels Good Man is a provocative, entertaining, and moving documentary about an artist trying to retain his identity along with the innocence of the cartoon character he created.

Visual Arts Book Review: Pasolini and Fluxus — For and Against the Avant-Garde

September 9, 2020
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 Long live Fluxus, with its questionable boxes of ephemera, its baggy bags of soil, and its mad prankster sensibility.

Book Review: “Humankind” — The Power of Positive Thinking

September 9, 2020
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Humankind, at the very least, compels us to rethink fashionably pessimistic assumptions about human nature.

Television Review: “Aggretsuko” — The Season Three Blues

September 8, 2020
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For some reason, Aggretsuko riffs on Japanese idols in its third season, and the shift makes the show less appealing.

Jazz Album Review: Madre Vaca’s “Winterreise”— Varied Jazz Arrangements Bring Schubert in from the Cold

September 8, 2020
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A Mother Cow of jazz iconoclasts takes on German lieder, because why not?

Book Review: “Fallout” — Memorably Detailing the Defeat of the Hiroshima Cover-Up

September 8, 2020
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I heartily recommend M.M. Blume’s excellent Fallout, which ably synthesizes large amounts of archival, historical, and biographical material from three continents.

Rock Album Review: Bright Eyes Return — and They Haven’t Missed a Beat

September 7, 2020
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Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was is a natural next step forward for Bright Eyes, evolving while remaining true to their core identity.

Rock Album: 1970’s “Live at Goose Lake” — The Stooges Hitting Their Feral Stride

September 6, 2020
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If we factor in the triple-size oversell crowd, the bad drugs circulating, and the home field advantage, there was plenty there to inspire The Stooges to raise some merry hell.

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