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Movie Review: “The Deep Blue Sea” — A Feast for the Eye and the Mind

April 2, 2012
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While “The Deep Blue Sea” may be a throwback to another era, director Terence Davies has used his masterful style to engage the audience cinematically and psychologically in an elegant circular structure.

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Classical Album Reviews: Petrenko conducts Elgar, Britten’s “Saint Nicolas,” and “Italian Postcards”

December 2, 2020
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One of Vasily Petrenko’s most successful Elgar releases; there’s an edge to the Crouch End Festival Chorus’ performance of Britten’s Saint Nicolas ; Quartetto di Cremona’s new album is nothing if not overflowing with Mediterranean personality

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Theater Feature: “The Rest is Silence” — A “Doggie Hamlet”

June 13, 2017
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A difficult balancing act: marrying art with the community-based traditions of everyday rural life.

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Arts Remembrance: His Soapbox Was The Brillo Box — Arthur Danto, 1/1/1924 –10/25/2013

November 12, 2013
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The late Arthur Danto was open to and appreciative of all sorts of possibilities in art, as other visual arts critics were not.

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Book Commentary: “La patria y la muerte” — Exposing Mexican “Greatness”

January 10, 2020
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José Luis Trueba Lara’s anti-popularist history is the truest kind of people’s history.

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Theater Review: “Witness Uganda” — From Africa, With Schmaltz

February 17, 2014
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“Witness Uganda” is a quintessential American musical — a work of cultural tourism that condemns cultural tourism.

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Film Review: “The Promised Land” — Of Food and Fortitude

February 5, 2024
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Starring Mads Mikkelsen, “The Promised Land” is an opulent and moving period piece that captures a location and era rarely depicted on the big screen

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Classical Music Album Review: “Symphonic Chronicles Vol. IV” — A Treasure Trove of the New

April 24, 2025
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The not-to-be missed “Symphonic Chronicles IV” is a very welcome alternative to much of the atonal, modern classical music currently flooding the market.

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Doc Talk — Salem’s lot

March 27, 2025
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The best documentaries of 2025 can be seen at the Salem Film Fest.

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Concert Review: The Many Charms of Pianist Bill Charlap

January 28, 2025
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Put Bill Charlap in that camp of brilliant jazz originals who have plied their trade by playing songs by other people and making them definitively their own.

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