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Music Commentary: Looking for the Real at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

May 15, 2014
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Mostly, I’m looking for that most elusive and hard-to-define quality — authenticity.

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Jazz Review: Vijay Iyer Sextet at Sanders Theater — Speak, Memory

March 13, 2017
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This is music that says things that cannot be said any other way, music that cannot wear its heart on its sleeve.

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Book Review: “Some Day” — A Memorable First Novel about Waiting for Love

November 16, 2013
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In “Some Day,” Shemi Zarhin has masterfully woven together a tangle of bittersweet tales and elusive dreams. it is a book that is a pleasure to read and reread.

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Film Commentary: Visions of “On the Road,” the Movie

December 21, 2012
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Jack Kerouac once said that “On the Road” “was really a story about 2 Catholic buddies roaming the country in search of God,” but the spiritual element of his journey is completely lacking in the film.

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Literary Remembrance: Lawrence Ferlinghetti — The Modest Beat

March 3, 2021
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Ferlinghetti was a truly Whitman-like figure who really had been through it all, traveled the world, and fought for what he believed in. I have yet to hear anyone say an unkind word said about him.

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Jazz CD Review: Vocalist Allegra Levy — Moonstruck

July 29, 2018
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Vocalist Allegra Levy is at her strongest when purveying certain specific moods — melancholy, playful, even lightly ironic.

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Fuse News: Arts and Culture Tips — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 27, 2013
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[Updated] Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that’s coming up this week. A new feature!

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Film Interview: Syrian Filmmaker Talal Derki on his Oscar-Nominated Documentary — Separating Delusions from Mythology

February 23, 2019
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Syrian-Kurdish filmmaker Talal Derki on love and hate in his homeland and the “schizophrenia” of being an Oscar nominee.

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Dance Interview: Rachel Linsky on Taking Holocaust Education Outside of the Jewish Community

January 23, 2023
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In choreographer Rachel Linsky’s hands — and the bodies of her articulate, reverberating dancers — you gain both kinesthetic and emotional access to the worlds of those who lived the Holocaust.

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Dance Review: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch at BAM

October 2, 2017
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I will continue to watch Wenders’s Pina, over and over—but nothing can replicate being in the room with the real deals.

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