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Doc Talk: Grievous Bodily Charms in “S/He Is Still Her/e: The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary”

November 19, 2024
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Director David Charles Rodrigues incorporates this wealth of material, a superflux of images generated by Genesis P-Orridge and the various artistic enterprises s/he founded, with concision and insight. The life and work of his subject is chronicled over the course of a lucid and kaleidoscopic 100 minutes.

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Concert Review: Santana — Wizardry on Display

August 6, 2023
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The 76-year-old Carlos Santana didn’t need to dominate with guitar showmanship to make his two-hour-plus concert fly without any lag in energy and spirit.

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Arts Remembrance: Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks — A Matter of the Heart

December 12, 2018
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Pete Shelley’s elegies for the wilted flowers of romance were shouted over songs that were alternately tuneful and fierce.

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Visual Arts Review: Canadian Painter Lawren Harris — Spirituality, Cold and Hard

March 15, 2016
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Lawren Harris is determined to present a static vision of the top of the continent, a version of nature that is stylized, austere, immobile, and eternal.

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Dance Review: Monkeyhouse and the Ties That Bind

October 27, 2015
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I missed the trademark orange Dynel wigs and the zany non sequiturs of the past, but Karen Krolak and the crew were still playing with fractured language.

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Theater Review: “Naked” and “Hir” — Identity Meltdown

October 12, 2018
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Taylor Mac and Pirandello share the same goal: reveal the deadening vacuity at the heart of bourgeois society and the male ego.

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Music Album Review: “Dawn FM” — Pop Programming for a Lonely, Postapocalyptic Afterlife

January 22, 2022
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This album is a remarkably mature effort. The Weeknd reflects on his long career while expanding on his earlier accomplishments.

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Poetry Review: The Unexpected Compassion of German Poet Gottfried Benn

November 25, 2013
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A collection of poems and essays by the admired German poet Gottfried Benn, who, because of his brief association with Nazism, has been absent from our mainstream, non-specialized, English-language view of modern German poetry.

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Theater Review: “Call Me Ish” – imaginary beasts’ [or, the whale]

October 31, 2017
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Matthew Woods and his actors do not draw on a faux-naturalist performance style, which is so (unfortunately) fashionable in mainstream theater.

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TV Column “Watch Closely” — Charlie Manson is My Boyfriend

June 17, 2016
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If you really want a full-on immersion into the halcyon decade that that gave us the Beatles and free love, you simply must watch Aquarius.

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