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Children’s Book Reviews: Gardens Galore!

April 18, 2024
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Get ready for spring with these children’s picture books.

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Theater Interview/Preview: Dan O’Brien — The Playwright as Documentarian

April 14, 2024
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It’s not hyperbole to suggest that Dan O’Brien’s “True Story: A Trilogy” represents a distinctive achievement in theater history.

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Film Review: Getting “Dune” Right — Superheroes Critiqued

October 18, 2021
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One of the great strengths of this Dune is that it humanizes its protagonists. They are detailed human characters, which makes their assuming the mask of the White Savior all the more troubling.

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Book Review: Roving Free Agents of the Imagination

February 25, 2013
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Autobiography, personal essay, history, current affairs, or literary criticism, many are the guises under which travel writing has seduced readers of decidedly categorical bent.

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Film Review: “Amar Singh Chamkila” — A Spirited Showbiz Biography

April 14, 2024
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“Amar Singh Chamkila” doesn’t hit the compelling heights of “Highway” and “Tanasha,” but the director Imtiaz Ali successfully infuses — within the limits of the musical biopic — a buoyant, rebellious spirit.

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Book Review: “Pilobolus” — Movement, at Wild Play

April 1, 2024
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Drawing on wide-ranging research and personal anecdotes gathered during the time he spent with the company, Robert Pranzatelli navigates us through the insouciance and absurdity of Pilobolus’ past.

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Theater Review: “Citizens of the Empire” — A Copycat Cosmos

January 14, 2016
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It is strange that Citizens of the Empire is so weirdly underdeveloped, given that it has been in development for quite a while now.

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Book Review: “Hollywood’s Imperial Wars” — Darkness Visible

April 16, 2024
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“Hollywood’s Imperial Wars” is at its best as a bold and informative survey of the movies that the studios felt it was “credibly possible” for them to make after Vietnam.

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Book Review: “Limitarianism” — An Idea Whose Time Has Come

March 30, 2024
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In this pointed book about the harm done by the super-rich, Ingrid Robeyns is out to convince us that limiting wealth, and reallocating it, will result in a better life for all of us

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Concert Review: The Sessanta Tour — Three of Alt-Rock’s Top-Tier Bands Triumphant

April 4, 2024
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Sessanta succeeded in making “old” songs and “old” bands sound powerful, vital, and progressive.

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