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Film Review: “Learning to Drive” — Down the Formulaic Highway

September 26, 2015
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This modest film manages to hold the viewer’s attention, not to mention his or her compassion, throughout.

Theater Review: “Mad Dash” — Fresh Ink Theatre Beats the Clock

July 10, 2017
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Fresh Ink Theatre is to be applauded for taking risks, for daring to mix it all up, for giving audiences a taste of what theater, shelter-skelter version, can be.

Film Review: “Fading Gigolo” — Kind of Funny, Kind of Touching

May 2, 2014
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“Fading Gigolo” isn’t about fulfillment, sexual or otherwise — it’s about the transitions in the lives of its characters.

Theater Review: “Quixote Nuevo” — The Impossible Trauma

November 27, 2019
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Octavio Solis’ Quixote Nuevo, is a genial, and very American, riff on Don Quixote.

Book Review: “Was It Yesterday?: Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television” — Looking at the Past, Fearlessly

August 31, 2021
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The essays in this excellent volume consistently show that nostalgia is about something, and it matters.

Theater Review: Paul Zaloom’s “White Like Me” — Madman on a Mission

October 21, 2016
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It’s the wild mind of puppeteer Paul Zaloom that’s really on display here.

Watch Closely: Midwinter Moods

February 23, 2023
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This week’s column is all about cozy comfort, decadent distractions, and heart-melting romance.

Music Interview: Singer Dianne Reeves — Her Foundation is Jazz

July 10, 2016
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“I try not to live in fear, which is the big thing we have to fight right now.”

Book Review/Commentary: Let Us Summon as Much Generosity of Spirit as We Can

August 12, 2025
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To be silent in the face of cruelty is to be complicit. And I refuse to be complicit. Surely we have to recognize that there are differences in taste. But to skewer another writer with such precision and glee? That is beyond the pale, especially in these perilous times.

Classical Music Album Review: Pavel Kolesnikov & Samson Tsoy — A Fabulous Four-Hand Team

June 18, 2024
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Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy’s debut CD is breathtaking, released a few months after the pair’s acclaimed performance at Carnegie Hall earlier this year.

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