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Film Review: Shudder’s “La Llorona” — A Supernatural Reckoning with Guatemalan Genocide

August 10, 2020
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La Llorona’s deepest horrors flow from real history, from the atrocities inflicted by powerful men and the institutions established to ensure they get away with it.

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Either/Orchestra: The 25th Anniversary Concert

February 8, 2011
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UPDATE: Either/Orchestra’s 25th anniversary concert comes to New York—an unforgettable confluence of talent revisiting more than two decades of memorable compositions and arrangements.

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Classical CD Reviews: Listening During COVID, Part 6 — Fresh Music-Making from Three Splendid Singers and One Amazing Pianist-Who-Also-Sings

September 10, 2021
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Chopin masterpieces, Rossini duets, and songs, spirituals, and arias — all performed in ways that make the music dazzle.

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Book Review: John Fulton’s “The Flounder” — A Testament to Human Resilience

June 7, 2023
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In The Flounder, John Fulton is clearly at the top of his game. His prose has that rare thing — a sense of intimacy.

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WATCH CLOSELY: The Horror of Pork Chops — “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”

November 22, 2022
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The series is wise to center its attention on Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims as often as possible. This is a heartbreaking saga of lives lost to a homicidal maniac.

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Performing Arts Series: Stories of Surviving COVID-19 — Handel & Haydn Society

May 14, 2020
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“We are in a time that challenges each of us running arts organizations to revisit and reaffirm our institution’s core existential purpose: why are we here? What do we do, and why does it matter?”

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Film Review: The Intriguing Documentary “Art and Craft” — Getting a Kick From Copying Art

October 15, 2014
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Why, when finally caught, didn’t mark Landis land in jail? Here’s the rub. He was a consummate liar and a big-time deceiver but he’s never committed a jailable crime.

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Theater Review: A First-Rate and Relevant Version of “An Enemy of the People”

October 7, 2014
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Ibsen’s and Miller’s scientist hero must contend with denial, disbelief, ignorance, fear of change, malice, opportunism, greed, the abuse of power, censorship, betrayal, and violence. Sound familiar?

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Book Interview: Marion Elizabeth Rodgers on the Expanded “Days” of H. L. Mencken

September 25, 2014
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In The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition, H. L. Mencken comes off as a marvelously mellowed master, his trademark savagery smoothed over, its energy focused on generating a pungently picturesque vision of a vanished America.

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Film Review: “Queer” — The Color of Loneliness

December 14, 2024
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“Queer” breaks new artistic ground for an artist whose visionary talent is already well-established.

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