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Visual Arts Review: Prince of Pieces — Rothko at the MFA

March 9, 2018
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There are no angels in Mark Rothko’s work: only the ascendancy of glorious color.

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Book Reviews: “Grey Bees” and “Lucky Breaks” — Civilian Life in Wartime Ukraine

September 1, 2022
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Neither book is primarily directly about the war itself. Rather, in sometimes oblique ways, they show the price paid by Ukraine’s non-combatant civilians.

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Toons Online

June 24, 2006
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By Danielle Dreilinger Web artists specializing in alternative comics are finding readers and discovering new ways for the arts to profit online.

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Book Review: Haruki Murakami’s “After Dark” — Dead Tired

July 12, 2007
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By Bill Marx In his critically acclaimed novels and stories, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami sings of the subterranean connections between software and the supernatural. After Dark (Knopf, 191 pp, $22.95) Haruki Murakami is a hip cultural diagnostician who would like to be viewed as a melancholic poet of the postmodern condition, a writer who has…

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Theater Review: ASP’s “Exit The King” – When Politics Become Absurd

September 30, 2017
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In Ionesco’s play, society no longer makes sense — even to itself.

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Film Interview: “Trafficked” — Siddharth Kara’s Disturbing Vision of Modern Slavery

September 26, 2016
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“The purpose of the film is to take the audience on what I hope will be a riveting, challenging, and ultimately uplifting journey into the world of human trafficking.”

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A Remembrance of Theater Artist Paul Dervis: Embracing The Incomprehensible

July 8, 2022
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Personal salutes to theater director, playwright, and critic Paul Dervis, who died at the age of 67 on June 13.

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Theater Review: “Made in China 2.0” — The Art of Taking Risks

February 3, 2023
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Made in China 2.0 is valuable as an act of theatrical witnessing, the voice of a rebel who is facing considerable challenges from the powers that be.

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Book Review: “In Extremis” — A Flawed Heroine

July 5, 2019
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In Extremis is required reading not only for anyone interested in war, but for anyone interested in how an unusual woman makes her way in the world.

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Arts Remembrance: Be the Rock Star — A Tribute to Jules Siegel

January 26, 2013
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Legendary music journalist Jules Siegel died of a heart attack on November 17, 2012 at the age of 77. There was no “New York Times” obituary, no mention in “Rolling Stone.” But to me, he was a rock star.

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