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Music Review: Pokey LaFarge’s “Rock Bottom Rhapsody” — To Hell and Back with That Wholesome Midwestern Troubadour

April 22, 2020
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In Rock Bottom Rhapsody, Pokey LaFarge shows us where all America’s prophetic manias must lead: collapse.

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Book Review: “Capital’s Grave” — We Need a Different System

March 17, 2025
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Staffed with billionaires including Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, and Trump himself, a reputed billionaire, the present administration is made up of the country’s lords — and we are their serfs.

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Jazz Album Review: Pianist Billy Lester — One Very Hip Nerd

February 23, 2022
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Pianist Billy Lester is an amusingly dry fellow who is also a deeply serious, idiosyncratic musician.

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Visual Arts Review: Get to Know Pissarro’s People at The Clark

June 26, 2011
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Camille Pissarro lived to be 73. As he aged, he looked more and more like the prototype of a Sephardic Jew. Anti-Semitic rioting accompanied the Dreyfus Affair; the painter found it prudent to stay inside his hotel room in Paris.

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Dance Commentary: The Phoenix Rises — A Reimagined Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow

July 13, 2025
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Jacob’s Pillow’s new Doris Duke Theatre is a complete triumph. It is, in artistic director Pamela Tatge’s words, “nothing like we had in mind but exactly what we thought.”

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Fuse Film Review: The Clichés of “The Company You Keep”

April 11, 2013
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The serious intentions of “The Company You Keep” are ultimately undermined by the parade of stock cameos.

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Fuse Appreciation: Henry Threadgill — A Pulitzer Prize for “In For a Penny, In For a Pound”

April 22, 2016
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Over the decades, avant-garde jazz musical Henry Threadgill has not only enriched but remade the musical landscape.

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Recommended Online Platforms

July 12, 2020
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PREMIUM MOVIE CHANNELS MUBI For a monthly fee Mubi offers a new film every day — and it stays up for 30 days. So there are always 30 hand-picked films to watch or download. The wild and wonderful selection includes forgotten, cult, foreign, and experimental films as well as award-winning masterpieces. A highlight: curator Nicolas…

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Book Review: “Blue Swan Black Swan” — Madness Made Beautiful

September 16, 2021
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Whether we call this slim volume poetic prose or prose poetry, a novella or a collection of verse, seems beside the point. It is haunting, hypnotic, and moving.

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Visual Arts: Cleaning the Eighth Wonder of the World

May 10, 2011
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Before we hit the ground, I reversed my attitude and became a fan of the restoration of the Dutch royal palace on Dam Square, Amsterdam. I could not fault the decisions that had been taken.

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