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Jazz Album Review: Playing the Music Eclectic

August 29, 2005
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For fans of jazz, world music, Americana — in short, for fans of all the genres guitarist Bill Frisell has explored over the past decade — “East/West” is a must. By James Marcus Will the real Bill Frisell please stand up? It’s a question his admirers have been asking with increasing frequency over the past…

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Film Review: “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.” — The Gospel of Ridicule

September 10, 2022
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Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. would have been wise to stick to being a conventional mockumentary, a sardonic deconstruction of its target, the megachurch.

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Dance Review: “Gallim” — Extremes of Stress and Release

August 13, 2019
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Gallim specializes in depicting raw emotions through movement.

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Book Review: “Summer Cannibals” — A Patient Psychological Portrait of a Toxic Family

September 3, 2018
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Summer Cannibals’ main virtue is its keen transmission of psychological warfare in families.

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Film Review: “Slow West” : The Western Epic Redux — and Reduced

April 30, 2015
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Slow West bursts with visual interest, but doesn’t seem to be able to settle on what story it wants to tell.

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Fuse CD Review: The Black Crowes Take Flight — Separately

August 16, 2016
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There’s one thing both Robinson brothers lack outside of The Black Crowes: creative tension.

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Film Review: “Filmworker” — (Over) Labor of Love

May 26, 2018
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Tony Zierra’s film is a worthy and interesting one, but I admit to becoming worn down by the endless litany of unglamorous ways that protagonist Leon Vitali worked his butt off for the genius filmmaker.

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Cultural Commentary: Songs of Forgetting – From the Cultural Quarantine of the 1918 Flu Pandemic

April 7, 2020
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At a time when fear of the influenza was in danger of being deemed unpatriotic, art retreated to nationalism or escapism.

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Rock Album Review: From the Vaults — Miltown’s “Tales of Never Letting Go” Holds Up After 25 Years

September 16, 2025
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Super-talented band with sharp material, big label backing, hot-shot producer, top-shelf recording studio—what could go wrong? Plenty.

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Film Review: “Dark Waters” — Poison and Passion

December 11, 2019
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Dark Waters may not be Todd Haynes’ most beautiful film, but it may yet prove to be among his most important.

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