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Dance Commentary: Alone and Loving It

September 15, 2004
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The number of solo dance performances is growing, and it is not only because they are cheap to produce.

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Film Review: “Photograph” — An Unforeseeable Romance

May 17, 2019
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In Photograph, embracing your roots can nurture love — in very unexpected ways.

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Jazz CD Review: Edward Simon’s “Sorrows & Triumphs”

April 7, 2018
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One doesn’t have to have gone too deeply into Buddhism to recognize its influence on the titles found here, and perhaps on the music as well.

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Concert Review: Kurt Elling with Anat Cohen at Sanders Theatre

May 18, 2015
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I’ve never seen Kurt Elling when he wasn’t in fine voice, and this show was no exception.

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Fuse Commentary: “Pawn Sacrifice” — Missing Bobby Fischer

October 6, 2015
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I wish I had more thumbs to turn down about Pawn Sacrifice.

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Jazz Album Review: Guitarist Dave Stryker’s “As We Are” — A Successful Synthesis

January 24, 2022
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Unlike a lot of modern jazz releases, this isn’t so much about displaying virtuosity (though all the musicians are virtuosos) as it is about setting a mood and a groove and dancing on top of it.

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Film Review: “The Outfit” – (The Cutter’s Way)

March 18, 2022
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A subtle, elegant noir mobster film that maintains an aura of tranquility — until the violence begins.

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Theater Commentary: Complicite, HD, and Freedom

October 19, 2010
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Book lovers and filmgoers have long been able to sample art from anywhere they wish—to read a book in translation or to rent a DVD if they didn’t like the latest releases in the theaters. Now, because of HD,  devotees of the stage will be able to roam the world. By Bill Marx. A Disappearing…

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Classical CD Reviews: Bruckner Symphonies (complete), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Herbert Blomstedt (Querstand SACD)

October 27, 2012
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Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig present us here with what is easily the most memorable classical box set of 2012 and, possibly, the most important addition to the Bruckner discography in a generation.

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Book Review: The Lucidly Chilling “Massacre on the Merrimack” — The Woman Who Killed Indians

January 11, 2016
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Jay Atkinson does a great service to the complexities of history by portraying the bloody tragedy of each side’s mutually deadly incomprehension.

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