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Film Review: “Farewell, Mr. Haffmann” — Selling the Family Jewels

April 6, 2024
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This is a tense morality play, with twists odd enough (and a palette dark enough) to sustain a noir-inflected thriller of almost two hours.

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Book Review: “Last Chance Texaco” — Rickie Lee Jones Remembers

April 5, 2021
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Of all the biographies of female musicians I’ve read in the past year, Last Chance Texaco is the most transparent about the vagaries of fame.

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Film Review: “Welcome to Me” — Me and TV, The American Dream

May 8, 2015
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It is Kristen Wiig’s committed performance, along with director Shira Piven’s skill at comic timing, that grounds the satiric comedy’s absurd premise.

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Film Review: “The Substance” — The Beauty Trap

September 22, 2024
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“The Substance” is the most insane midnight movie you’ll see in a multiplex in 2024. Needless to say, I loved it.

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Jazz Commentary: Sinatra — Myth, Reality, and a Critic Standing in Line at Arby’s

May 21, 2020
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A review of the 60th anniversary reissue of Frank Sinatra’s album Nice ‘n’ Easy. Though not without a few rounds with the Sinatra mythology — not the complicated man, but his music.

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Book Review: Don DeLillo’s “Zero K” — The Wages of Cheating Death

April 28, 2016
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Zero K will prove refreshing to Don DeLillo’s readers in that it’s a novel of faith — a concept that he’s always been skeptical of.

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Theater Review: Take Two — Shakespeare Plays it Safe In “Henry VIII”

January 5, 2014
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If “Henry VIII” is dramatically lacking when compared to Shakespeare’s other histories, what makes this production worthwhile is the care Actors’ Shakespeare Project has brought to staging it.

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Film Review: “I Smile Back”—Becoming Undone, Memorably

November 3, 2015
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Sara Silverman throws herself into depicting Laney’s mental illness and out-of-control life.

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Opera Album Review: A Near-Forgotten Czech Opera Via a Vivid 1959 Recording Available in Stereo!

July 26, 2025
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The world-renowned tenor Ivo Židek leads a spirited cast, and reminds us how involving opera can be when sung by native speakers.

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Theater Review: “Oh God” — An Audacious Israeli Comedy

July 17, 2016
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Anat Gov’s play about wrestling with life and God is an outrageously provocative script that showcases the best of contemporary Israeli art.

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