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Coming Attractions: April 21 through May 6 — What Will Light Your Fire

April 21, 2024
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Jazz Album Reviews: New Sets of Previously Unreleased Music — Art Tatum, Yusef Lateef, and Others

April 23, 2024
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These four sets are among five new collections of previously-unreleased music that provide crisp snapshots of renowned jazz performers in the second half of the twentieth century and precious documents of great originals in their prime.

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Music Feature: New Orleans French Quarter Festival, 2024

April 25, 2024
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Some at times sentimental observations of New Orleans’s “other” massive music confab, the French Quarter Festival.

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May Short Fuses — Materia Critica

May 1, 2024
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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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Film Review: “La Chimera” — A Celebration of Etruscan Grit and Glory

April 12, 2024
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If “La Chimera” is a bit harder to penetrate than the director-writer’s previous works, it boasts some captivating passages and raises pertinent questions about art, history, globalism, and national identity.

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Music Interview: Matthew Sweet — After Five Years, Back on the Road

April 9, 2024
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The alternative rock/power pop singer-songwriter and musician was slowed down during the COVID years — but now he is back.

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Poetry Review: “The Infinite Field” — From the Personal to the Political

April 6, 2024
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The volume is an ambitious balancing act: the echoes of memory meet the grit of experience, musical language interlaced with occasional thick texture, nostalgic passion counterposed to philosophical calm.

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Coming Attractions: April 7 through 23 — What Will Light Your Fire

April 7, 2024
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Theater Reviews: Broadway Taps the Bookshelf — Musicals Based on “The Notebook” and “Water for Elephants”

April 1, 2024
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Two new musicals attempt to capture the magic of two beloved books. With mixed success …

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Book Review: “3 Shades of Blue” — Transcendent Art, Despite Personal Demons

March 26, 2024
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“3 Shades of Blue” is at its most compelling seen as an extended essay about drugs, creativity, the jazz life, and the mysterious nature of musical genius. 

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