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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Music (September Entry)

September 9, 2021
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Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s list includes such big names as Bob Dylan, ZZ Top, The Who, The Beach Boys, and George Rochberg.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year In Music (February Entry)

February 20, 2021
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Here’s yet one more fantastic thing about it no longer being 2020: it’s now the 50th anniversary of the excellent music that premiered in 1971.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Music (July Entry)

July 16, 2021
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Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and this month’s list includes Little Feat, Jonathan Edwards, Hot Tuna, The Red Detachment of Women, and Jimmy Witherspoon & Eric Burdon.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Music (April Entry)

April 8, 2021
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Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and the list includes Marvin Gaye, Link Wray, David Bowie, Jean Knight, and The Rolling Stones.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Film (Part One)

March 26, 2021
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If you like your films “weird, sexually provocative, and intellectually stimulating” (add violence to the mix) then our critics will feed your appetite splendidly.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project – Celebrating a Great Year in Music (November Entry)

November 12, 2021
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Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s diverse list includes John Lee Hooker, Víctor Jara, The Grateful Dead, Grand Funk Railroad, and Yes.

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Book Review: “Breslin: Essential Writings” — Compulsive Reading

March 18, 2024
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The notion that columnists like Breslin were “deadline artists” is apt. Their task was to come up with a story idea, track it down, then give it a narrative spark, all ahead of a ticking clock as the drop-deadline for the next edition loomed.

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Book Review: More Hilarious Satiric Depravity From Vladimir Sorokin — The Tsars My Destination

March 9, 2024
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Russian satirist Vladimir Sorokin’s excremental vision triumphs in two new translations.

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March Short Fuses — Materia Critica

March 2, 2024
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Television Review: “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” — Episodes 1-4

November 30, 2021
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There are three key words in the title: “music,” “change,” and “everything.” At its best, the series convincingly shows how they are linked. Other times, it embraces too much of one at the expense of the other two.

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