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Visual Arts Review: Rediscovered Feminist Rebel — Artist Miriam Laufer

September 29, 2016
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The political and feminist works of the ’60s and ’70s make the case for Miriam Laufer’s place in the annals of post-war American modernism.

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Theater Review: “The Who & the What” — And the Why?

April 11, 2017
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The script softens up the issue of patriarchal authoritarianism by plugging it into a family comedy structure.

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Jazz Concert Review: Jason Moran and the Big Bandwagon Pay Splendid Homage to “One of the Original Big Bangs in Black Music”

February 21, 2023
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Jason Moran, as virtuoso pianist and bandleader, enacted all of jazz history at the keyboard, from ragtime to no time, as the saying goes.

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Arts Remembrance: Guitarist Garrison Fewell — The Master of Searching for Something More

July 5, 2015
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An inspiring man as well as a brilliant musician, Garrison Fewell had the courage to turn away from the darkness and to embrace the light.

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Children’s Book Reviews: Just in Time for Fall — Multicultural Perspectives

September 1, 2024
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 A round-up of new children’s books that celebrate diverse cultures.

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Film Review: “Io Capitano” — When You Wish Upon a Star?

February 19, 2024
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The plight of refugees is given a fairy-tale treatment in “Io Capitano.”

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Book Review: Kat Meads’s “These Particular Women” — Celebrating Women Who Misbehave

April 14, 2023
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Poet, essayist, and novelist Kat Meads puts readers in the presence of women whose lives were often “spectacularly awry.”

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Book Review: “The Undercurrents” — History as a Whisper in Your Mind

September 4, 2022
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Kirsty Bell’s psychological-cultural-topographical-historical walking tour of Berlin is an idiosyncratic delight.

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Film Review: “The Devil All the Time” — Bad Things Happen, Over and Over Again

September 13, 2020
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This may be the year’s best ensemble cast, and that goes a long way towards making this multi-layered melodrama accessible and compelling.

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Jazz Album Review: “Ballads for Two — Chet Baker and Wolfgang Lackerschmid”

July 8, 2020
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The playing on this 1979 album, which would generally be considered as flawed, is part of the singular (mature) Chet Baker gestalt.

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