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Book Review: The Rise and Fall of a Multivocal and Multicultural Alternative — “The Village Voice”

January 6, 2025
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Looking back, the writing in the “Village Voice” was as good as Tricia Romano’s subjects remember. She excerpts paragraphs and the language is fresh, distinctive, sometimes profane, and always worth reading. For those who wrote books, it will send you back to the bookshelf.

Film Review: “The Old Oak” — Still Standing Tall

May 4, 2024
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Veteran British director Ken Loach turns over a new leaf in “The Old Oak”.

Concert Review: Van Morrison — Working in Overdrive

September 14, 2018
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There were moments during Van Morrison’s 22-song concert Tuesday when he was whipping the band into a frenzy — shouting out song selections before the final notes of the previous tune had fully rung out.

Book Review: “Blown” – A Madcap Journey

May 31, 2018
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Blown is a short and engrossing mystery novel that also stands as a morality play, an ethical fable that suggests that our own selves are perhaps the greatest mystery of all.

Film Review: “In Darkness” — Not Just Another Holocaust Movie

March 12, 2012
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Twenty-one years after she received a Golden Globe for “Europa Europa,” director Agnieszka Holland returns with another uncompromising vision of perseverance and the power of human connection in the worst of times.

Film Review: “Encounter” — A Solid Genre-Spanner

December 17, 2021
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This “father and sons on the lam” film adeptly blends genres (in this case: sci-fi plus thriller). It is well assembled, emotionally compelling, and beautifully shot.

Film Review: “Shiva Baby” — Cringe at a Funeral

April 25, 2021
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Though it’s classified as a comedy, Shiva Baby utilizes many of the stylistic trademarks found throughout the horror genre to merge painfully humorous discomfort with suffocatingly atmospheric terror.

Film Review: “On the Rocks” — Snooping Among the Upper Class

October 2, 2020
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Sofia Coppola’s flawed characters are part of the real world, engaged in authentic relationships struggling with universal dilemmas.

Music Review: On Quatuor Ébène’s program — Mozart, Bartók and “Pulp Fiction.”

March 5, 2014
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Quatuor Ébène burst into song. And I think it’s safe to say singing of any kind is almost never heard at a strings-only concert.

Album Review: Khruangbin’s “Mordechai” — Mostly Musical Wallpaper

July 10, 2020
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Khruangbin’s principal strength lies in how well the musicians manage to fit together

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