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Classical Album Reviews: Beethoven Symphonies, Part 2 – Seiji Ozawa conducts the Seventh, François-Xavier Roth Leads the Fifth, and Thomas Adès conducts Beethoven & Barry

November 30, 2020
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Seiji Ozawa’s Symphony no. 7 and Leonore Overture no. 3 offers a memorable blend of color, atmosphere, purpose, and soul; François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles serve up a satisfactory, period-instrument Symphony no. 5; Thomas Adès’ take on Beethoven is concentrated and energetic, if a bit impersonal.

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Theater Review: “Rock and Roll Man” — Ambitious Musical Fun

July 13, 2019
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If you enjoy singing and dancing in your theater seat to the sound of good music while learning a bit about American cultural history and its personalities, you will enjoy this show.

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Film Review: “Joyland” — A Drama of Trans Prejudice in Pakistan

May 24, 2023
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There is little doubt that Joyland‘s subject matter is what drew international attention.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Other Desert Cities” — Bridging the Great Cultural Divide?

January 19, 2013
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For all of its earnest interest in healing some of the great divides in American life, Other Desert Cities ends up slighting the desert spaces that lie between us.

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Book Review: Samuel Delany’s Phallic Fun

February 7, 2005
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 Sci-fi master Samuel Delany’s latest novel is a mystery set in the ancient world. Phallos, by Samuel R. Delany. (Bamberger Books) By Vincent Czyz Samuel R. Delany is best known as “l’enfant terrible” who published his first novel at age 20 and then went on to win science fiction’s most prestigious awards — the Nebula…

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Fuse Film Review: “Nuts!” — A Documentary Skeptical About Documentaries

July 24, 2016
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A meta-documentary shows us what viewers really want from the genre, and how problematic that can be.

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Dance Review: Ids in Captivity

October 10, 2015
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Most of the piece was carefully engineered; it seemed more calculated than liberated

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Film Review: Pedro Almodovar’s “Parallel Mothers” — Let It Bear You Away

October 11, 2021
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Pedro Almodovar’s latest, Parallel Mothers, sets up a dialectic between women’s regenerative powers and the blood-soaked history of pre-WWII Spain.

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Film Review: “The Triplets of Belleville” – A 21st Century Animation Classic

August 21, 2018
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Sylvain Chomet’s sublime 2004 feature is a shimmering, knowing homage to the beginnings of sound animation.

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Book Review: Robert Hass’ “Summer Snow” — Always Awake on the Coast

March 5, 2020
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Wherever Robert Hass is, the poet drinks in (and reports to us) the details of place and human activity.

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