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Book Review: “Canceling Comedians While the World Burns” — The Case for Comediansplaining

June 22, 2021
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‘Lived experience’ doesn’t automatically confer moral or political insight, argues social critic Ben Burgis, but if we can make others laugh at that assumption we might be getting somewhere.

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Food Muse: Pictures At An Exhibition, Exhibitionist Food–Luis Melendez At The MFA and Tapas At Toro

April 4, 2010
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What is the food that Luis Melendez paints? Is it food? More than food? Less than perfect food? Food stand-ins for something else? What is this stuff called “every species of food produced by the Spanish climate”? Is it about the food or something beyond, beyond the canvas? by Sally Levitt Steinberg What fruits! What…

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Theater Review: The CSC’s “King Lear” — The Deed Dutifully Done

August 2, 2015
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For all of its sound and fury and smoke, the CSC’s version of King Lear is solid rather than surprising or exciting.

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Theater Review: CSC’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” — Plenty Likable

August 1, 2016
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There is much to like in this outdoor production of Love’s Labor’s Lost — the time passes by quickly and there are plenty of smiles along the way.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “Roseanne” — In Trumplandia, Women are the Losers

April 29, 2018
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For me, the experience of watching Roseanne is annoying and unpleasant.

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Film Review: “Belle” — “Gales of song, guide me through the storm”

January 18, 2022
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Belle didn’t quite make my heart sing, but it’s a nice change of pace to see a film that treats the internet as a place that can bring people together, not merely a cut-throat Thunder Dome of clashing egos and verbal slap fights.

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Film Review: “Luca” — The Passions of a Sea Monster

June 22, 2021
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This Italian fairy tale is more whimsical than groundbreaking, but it has all the delights of a day at the beach.

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Visual Arts Review: The Happy Place? More Like The Sad Place

April 11, 2019
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Of course, there can be no happiness in America without lots of corporate support.

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Music Review: Rapper Vince Staples Longs for Escape in “Prima Donna”

September 4, 2016
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Prima Donna is a rare thing: a conceptual EP that works.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Blue Lives Madder, “Dirty Harry” Turns 50

June 4, 2021
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The path Dirty Harry (and too many of his defenders, then and now) chose to pursue — the urban policing version of “killing the village in order to save it” — was outdated and discredited even in 1971.

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