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In their latest divinely idiosyncratic romp, Wallace & Gromit take on the threat of that most impersonal and worrisome technology: AI.
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For many years now, we’ve collected brief lists of important jazz figures who passed in the previous year.
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This is a chilling tale of the (last) Cold War, and footage of Teslas and iPhones serves as a potent reminder that the struggle for global natural resources, in the Third World and beyond, continues.
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The creative force behind jazz is so strong and so universal that the music will continue to sustain us through whatever perils and calamities the upper echelons of business and politics land us in.
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There is a lot of extraordinary jazz out there that few of us are noticing, myself included.
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Let’s hope that “The Last Showgirl” launches a new phase in Pam Anderson’s career.
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“Pepe” is an immense achievement: one of the most formally and politically radical narrative films to turn up on the international festival circuit in 2024.
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It is clear to Candy Darling’s biographer that the present moment contains alarming reminders of the political scapegoating generated by the culture wars of the ’90s. She leaves no doubt that her subject’s difficult, complicated life embodies a cautionary tale.
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The 19th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll: Now and Then and Then and Now — A Top Ten List From Its Namesake
Here’s my Top 10 presented with the understanding that I didn’t hear as many albums as in other years, or concentrate on those I did hear and enjoy as if I had nothing else on my mind.
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