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Theater Review: Fresh Ink’s “The Housekeeper” Keeps Things Neat

January 22, 2016
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The Housekeeper may be too conventional for its own good, but it is intelligently crafted and engagingly entertaining.

Book Review: Up Close and Personal? — “The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us”

August 30, 2020
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With journalistic flair, The Years That Matter Most brilliantly shows how, in terms of college opportunities, the scales of justice tilt in favor of the wealthy.

Arts Remembrance: Phil Spector

January 19, 2021
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The late Phil Spector once famously referred to his songs as “little symphonies for the kids.”

Theater Review: Did You Hear the One About the Lawyer With the Cellphone? – “Kol’s Last Call”

October 19, 2017
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An entertaining but surprisingly slight monologue from Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol.

Theater Review: Bedlam’s “Pygmalion” — An Enjoyable Excursion into Shavian Feminism

February 12, 2019
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The generally enjoyable Bedlam production of Pygmalion doesn’t quite settle for the glucose bait.

Television Review: “This is Not Happening” — Standup Comedy Gets Real

May 19, 2019
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This Is Not Happening serves up welcome shots of honestly and reality that hit you in the most ticklish parts of your own amusingly flawed, hilariously stupid humanity.

Film Review: The Karate Kid — A Preteen Rumble

June 25, 2010
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The remake follows the same plot as the 1984 original, but the new version is more like watching a bunch of twelve-year-old kids in a steel cage death match. Reviewed by Tom Samph In a time when baby-faced Michael Cera and whiny John Mayer are cultural icons, Americans still can’t get enough blood and guts.…

Book Review: “About Time” — Clocks That Made History

January 24, 2022
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David Rooney’s thesis in About Time is provocatively ironic: clocks, through their ever-increasing precision and regularity, are the instruments of constant change.

Arts Remembrance: Homage to Paul West — The Cosmic Range of an Eccentric Genius

October 18, 2016
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“Surely the passion for the plain, the homespun, the banal is itself a form of betrayal, a refusal to look honestly at a complex universe.”

Book Review: “Mecca” — A Wonder of an American Canvas

March 27, 2022
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This is an immensely complex, deeply atmospheric story of the working class, of immigrants with global origins, many who are descendants of early settlers.

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