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Book Review: “Chain-Gang All-Stars” — A Terrifying Future World

June 17, 2023
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In this novel Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah creates a terrifying future world. I’m glad that he chose to anchor that creation so powerfully in the shameful present.

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Book Review: “Magnetism” — Attraction and Repulsion, the Endless Puzzle

October 9, 2021
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Writer Jacqueline Gay Walley has become adept at probing the unpredictable interaction of self and others, transformations that imprison as well as liberate.

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Television Review: “Starstruck” — Rewriting the Rom-Com

June 25, 2021
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Starstruck is the rare rom-com that will appeal to audiences who aren’t just fans of the genre.

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Theater Review: “A Woman of the World” — A Remarkable Relationship

May 27, 2021
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The “Real” Emily Dickinson never materializes, but the “Real” Mabel Loomis Todd does — and it’s a sometimes shocking and sad story.

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Opera Concert Review: Benjamin Britten’s “Curlew River” — From Woundedness to Wholeness

October 31, 2021
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With its wide-ranging textual and musical materials, this “church parable” stands as one of Benjamin Britten’s most striking creations.

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Jazz Album Review: Manel Fortià Trio’s “Despertar” — Intelligently Lyrical

May 7, 2022
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Manel Fortià’s album of his Spanish-tinged compositions is meant to wake us up to what the bassist can do.

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Film Review: “You Won’t Be Alone” — Witchcraft, Forever

April 3, 2022
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This is no run-of-the-mill supernatural witch movie.

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Bluegrass Album Review: Molly Tuttle — Blurring the Boundaries between the Folksy and the Exploratory

March 29, 2022
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Crooked Tree is the Molly Tuttle record we’ve been waiting for, one that is firmly rooted in bluegrass, but imbued with her own sharp style as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Concert Review: Fontaines D.C. — Irish Darkness

October 9, 2022
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At House of Blues, Fontaines D.C.’s brooding, bristling music was offset by shifting swatches of amber and purple lighting amid the shadows, casting the musicians in mysterious terms.

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Concert Review: My Morning Jacket — An Evening of Mystery, Majesty, and Murk

September 18, 2022
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The veteran band from Louisville, Kentucky, kicked into the millennium with a wild and woolly mix of Southern rock, alt-country, space-prog, and electro-funk that grew weirder over time.

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