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Jazz CD Review: “Distant Song” — Reflective Strength

April 14, 2018
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Singer Fred Farell brings an introspective sensibility to this album and has gathered a group of songs that are appropriate for his introverted and quietly aspirational lyrics.

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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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Rock Album Review: Galaxie 500, “Uncollected New York Noise 1988-1990” — Expanding the Band’s Legacy

September 22, 2024
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Through it all, the members of Galaxie 500 have stayed true to the idea of “indie” as a personal and political vision rather than a mere genre tag.

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Theater Review: “K-I-S-S-I-N-G” – A Refreshing Reflection on Black Love  

March 29, 2023
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The theme may be Black love, but the dramatist is too smart not to invite all of us to consider (or perhaps even reconsider) our personal definitions of what love means and how that changes the ways we relate to each other.

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Film Review: “The Truth” — It Just May Set You Free

July 6, 2020
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The Truth is simply a delightful film all around.

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Film Review: “Elysium” — The Sound and Fury of CGI Signifying … Not Much

August 9, 2013
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Overall, Elysium is an entertaining distraction posing as a meaningful global allegory.

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Theater Review: “Laughing Stock” Redux

August 8, 2013
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The current revival of Laughing Stock, directed again by the playwright, has softer edges than I remember in the earlier one, played with fluidity rather than crackle.

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Lyrical Hyperdrive

October 8, 2005
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In a new collection of his poetry, Albert Goldbarth supplies a marvelous mosaic of images, quantum leaps of intuition, and artifacts of historical anecdotes.

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Nix Chick Lit

November 14, 2005
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Anyone who reads this bestselling, critically acclaimed novel becomes part of the focus group for the inevitable television or Hollywood stinker.

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Film Commentary: “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — The Most Serene Movie in Years

May 7, 2022
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This movie reminds us that — if there is any meaning to life at all — it’s what you bring to it, not what it brings to you.

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