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Jazz CD Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant’s “The Window” — A Very Beautiful View

September 21, 2018
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The Window contains an inspired pairing — between singer Cécile McLorin Salvant and pianist-organist Sullivan Fortner.

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Theater Review: “We The People,” “The Member of the Wedding,” and “Creditors”

August 16, 2018
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Three theaters in the Berkshires offer differing views of the past.

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Concert Review: The Borromeo String Quartet @ 25 — Sublime

August 6, 2015
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No other concerts I’ve heard this summer can come close to the thrill I experienced hearing the Borromeo Quartet.

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Theater Interview: “Mistero Buffo” — Seriously Funny

March 22, 2016
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Socialism is no longer a discredited word, and Fo brings an impish sense of divine comedy to the clash between the haves and the have nots.

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Book Review: “A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler” — A Hymn to Life

August 10, 2025
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As befits a prolific and distinguished poet, renowned for his visionary instincts and signature compositional technique, Nathan Kernan has produced an account of James Schuyler that is as morally serious as his subject.

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Film Reviews: At DOC NYC — Scenes of Crimes

December 26, 2024
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Interviews with a pillager – “Plunderer” examines Nazi art theft at DOC NYC; two other docs remember Artsakh, a country that is no more

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Book Review: “America and Other Myths” — Sucking “a Sad Poem Right out of America onto Film.”

August 28, 2024
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In her fine book, Lisa Volpe examines mid-’50s picture-making expeditions taken across the U.S. by photographers Robert Frank and Todd Webb.

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Album Review: Drummer Bill Bruford’s “Making a Song and Dance” — Adventures Galore

May 31, 2022
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Legendary percussionist Bill Bruford’s recorded output reveals him to be a restless innovator who went from one band to another so he could learn more about his instrument and about himself as a musician.

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Book Review: Writer Flannery O’Connor — The Most Un-Hip Woman Imaginable, and Proud of It.

January 5, 2020
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If this collection has one failing, it is its attempt to make Flannery O’Connor into something she was not: “woke.”

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Theater Review: “Everyman” — Reinvented With Zest

April 18, 2017
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Apollinaire Theatre Company has done delightful justice to this zesty rejuvenation of a didactic dramatic chestnut.

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