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Theater Review: “Kim’s Convenience” — Gentle Comedy, Missing Urgency

November 8, 2025
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“Kim’s Convenience” offers a genial comic glimpse of an immigrant family’s struggle for dignity and an economic foothold.

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Rock Album Feature: “Brian Wilson Live at the Roxy Theatre” — A Welcome Expanded Reissue

November 4, 2025
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While one hopes that never-before-released live shows are found and released, it is nice to revisit the start of Brian’s Wilson’s second-chance career.

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Arts Remembrance: Donna Jean Godchaux — She Brought Soul and Grace to the Grateful Dead

November 4, 2025
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Donna Jean Godchaux changed the Grateful Dead – adding a Southern accent and feminine energy to this rough-hewn psychedelic troupe – and the Grateful Dead changed Donna Jean Godchaux – elevating her from session singer footnote to jam-scene royalty.

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Film Series Review: Columbia 101 — The Rarities, A Tasty Cinematic Smorgasbord

November 4, 2025
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A preview of a few of the obscure gems and curios in this huzzah to Columbia Pictures.

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Theater Review: Manual Cinema’s “The 4th Witch” — A Hallucinatory Vision of War and Witchcraft

October 31, 2025
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Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” serves as a springboard for a memorable new vision by these inventive, multimedia theater artists.

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Coming Attractions: November 9 Through 24 — What Will Light Your Fire

November 9, 2025
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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November Short Fuses — Materia Critica

November 1, 2025
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Visual Arts Commentary: What Would It Be Like If Women Ruled Israel and Gaza?

October 27, 2025
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Perhaps asking that Judy Chicago’s exhibition not come was a necessary strategy in the short term, to help end Israeli brutality. But the lesson her show teaches us is necessary in the long term, so that Israelis will stop glorifying that very same brutality.

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Film Review: Is “A House of Dynamite” Escapist Entertainment?

October 14, 2025
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Maybe “A House of Dynamite” wants to tantalize us with a nightmare from which there is no escape in order to distract us, briefly, from the ongoing disasters that we are compelled to face and overcome.

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Film Review: Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind” Turns Art Theft into Existential Drift

October 22, 2025
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“The Mastermind” points to the impossibility of trying to live as though the outside world and its politics don’t exist.

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