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Obsession is the thing in us that makes us not everybody else. — Joss Whedon
Read MoreRUBBERBANDance shares some elements of the new-circus genre: a set of very specialized and spectacular physical skills, and the idea that although circusy movement can bombard the audience with thrills, it can also imply human relationships.
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By Matt Hanson There’s an enticingly primeval quality to the way bluesmen Ryan Lee Crosby and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes play off of one another. Willie Dixon once said that “the blues are the roots, the other musics are the fruits.” We all know by now how plenty of world-famous bands have harvested those influences. So…
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Logan Blackfeather is such a marvelous hero — and he is, in most senses of the word, heroic — that most readers will quickly connect with him and happily trail him through the significant stages of his education.
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There’s a great book to be written about how everyday users create the content that powers the web, while billionaires reap the profits. But this one isn’t it.
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Ultimately, all of the digressions, anecdotes, and mini-profiles in “We The People” seem like an avoidance mechanism whose purpose is to steer clear of a constitutional crisis that is too painful to face.
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One of the best things about the 40-minute selection from “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” that stood at the center of guitarist Steve Hackett’s near-three-hour show was its focus on the music without visual bolstering.
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The overlapping worlds of ancient Paris architecture, entrenched police corruption, and the criminality of underground internet culture generate some suspenseful plot twists and white-knuckle scenes of terror.
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If there ever was anyone to handle Hayim Nahman Bialik’s broad, impressive, and impressionistic craft with the acute passion, it is scholar and poet Peter Cole.
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This lively foray into popular history, and others, exemplifies the move to attract younger audiences with open and freewheeling interests in gender and sexual nonconformity.
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