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Classical Album Review: Karina Canellakis conducts Bartók — Pretty Much as Good as They Come

May 29, 2023
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This is an album of top-notch orchestral playing. Yet the real star is Karina Canellakis.

Jazz Album Reviews: A Roundup of Recent Recordings

November 6, 2025
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An occasional feature that looks at current jazz albums of interest. 

Book Review: “What You Can See From Here” – Hopefully Romantic

June 13, 2021
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There is enough candor and humor, along with a handful of bracingly moody characters, to make Mariana Leky’s vision of perpetual love compelling.

Rock Concert Review: Elvis Costello and Blondie — Fun, with Some Surprising Edge

July 25, 2019
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What could have simply passed for a nostalgic classic-rock spin turned out to be an expansive smorgasbord, frustratingly uneven at times, yet given to flashes of fervor and surprise.

Book Review: “The Prison Industry” — Proving That a Humane Prison Is a Perverse Fallacy

April 8, 2025
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Some of “The Prison Industry”‘s most devastating material appears in the section of the book exposing the lack of acceptable health care in jails and prisons.

Letter from New York — Dresden Treasures, and Lots of Picasso

November 10, 2021
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New York has come back to life, so there is more art to see than anyone has time to visit or write about.

Book Review: “Beeswing” — Richard Thompson Loses His Way and Finds His Voice

April 16, 2021
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Richard Thompson’s memoir displays flashes of his writerly talents, but the volume feels a bit less immediate than one might hope.

Film Interview: Director Peter Miller on the Making of “AKA Doc Pomus,” The Story of a Master Songwriter

December 9, 2013
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Despite the influence and the respect Doc Pomus still has in the music community, his name is not as well known to the public as that of some of his contemporaries.

Jazz Commentary: Remembrance of Jazz Venues Past

March 18, 2020
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The idea of posting this list is to remind people of what has been lost and hope that it stirs us to preserve what we have left.

Book Review: “Debris” — Deep into Grieving

June 22, 2018
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L. M. Brown has also written poetry, and she brings some of that lyrical know-how to her promising first novel.

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