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Fuse Pop Music Review: Kangaroos on the Wing — Part 2

November 9, 2011
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The Australian Pink Floyd Show is a tribute band, but not just any tribute band. TAPFS is considered the best tribute band in the world today, a title they have defended since 1988.

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Classical Album review: Clarinetist Anthony McGill’s “American Stories”

December 5, 2022
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These stories occupy their own, distinctive spaces but they share something intangible. A kind of humanity, maybe? Perhaps.

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Short Fuse News: “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross” — A PBS Series Not to be Missed

October 24, 2013
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In the first episode, Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes viewers back to Africa to talk, not as has been done before, with Africans whose forebears were lost to slavery but with descendants of Africans who grew rich on slave trade.

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Rare Brain Power

April 1, 2007
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A memoir by one of the world’s few savants is thoroughly rewarding.

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Film Review: “Because I Said So” Isn’t Good Enough

February 14, 2007
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By Adrienne LaFrance Before you say “I told you so,” let me explain. I wasn’t expecting Annie Hall. I thought Because I Said So might be likable in a Something’s Gotta Give kind of way. I was wrong. Diane Keaton’s latest star vehicle is an empty vessel of a romantic comedy, pieced together by poorly…

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Flipping a Coin: The Significance of Anna May Wong’s Quarter

February 4, 2023
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What emerges from even a cursory study of Anna May Wong’s life is that her complexity and depth were rarely acknowledged but she used her intelligence to control the narrative as much as she could.

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Jazz CD Review/Commentary: Holly Cole — Sticking to the Standards

April 18, 2019
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I did want to use this CD as a springboard to engage with the question of how using material of a certain age tends to pre-select — and limit — listenership.

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Music Interview: Inside Veteran Folk Singer Tom Paxton

June 9, 2015
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“My idol was Pete Seeger, even before I moved to the Village. He still is.”

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Film Interview: Until the End of the Movies—Wim Wenders on his New Retrospective

December 10, 2015
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“Fictional movies seem more and more made from recipes. Documentaries seem a much more open, adventurous field.”

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Concert Review: Neil Young and Crazy Horse — Together Again

May 19, 2024
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Over the course of Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s two-hour show the tension between magnificent creativity and near collapse were palpable.

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