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Design Commentary: Department of Play — Creating a New Urban Planning Paradigm

May 27, 2023
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Participatory, small-scale planning is a powerful step forward because it doesn’t pay lip service to cliches about “listening to the community.”

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Opera Album Review: Zoroastre and His Sun Worshipers Vanquish Louts in a World-Premiere Recording of Rameau’s 1749 Opera

May 26, 2023
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Some of France’s best early-music singers and a splendid period-instrument band make this Zoroastre a perfect introduction to the pleasures of Baroque music.

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Theater Reviews: “Hangmen” and “American Buffalo” on Broadway — From the Gallows to the Gutter

May 23, 2022
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Two dark comedies explore American and British subcultures far below the line of decency.

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Film Review: “Montana Story” — Confessions and Revelations in Big Sky Country

May 19, 2022
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This beautifully crafted film relates how the past, particularly one crisis in this family’s past, has colored the siblings’ lives and affected their choices.

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Theater Review: “Miss Holmes Returns” — A Sherlockian Mystery with A Twist

May 2, 2022
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In Miss Holmes Returns, dramatist Christopher M. Walsh has involved the gender-switched pair in an entertaining yarn of uncertainty, betrayal and social justice.

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Film Review: “Bros” — A Thoroughly Mainstream Gay Rom-Com

October 4, 2022
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Bros jokes about the hypocrisies of corporate diversity — often accurately, and with a cutting edge — while embodying some of the same problems.

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Concert Review: Eminent Singer-Songwriter and Guitarist Richard Thompson at the Shalin Liu Performance Center

September 27, 2022
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The caliber of Richard Thompson’s voice is undiminished. His always expressive, frequently soothing timbre was perfectly intact.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “Pieces of Her” — The Dangers of Privilege

March 13, 2022
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This Netflix thriller takes some interesting twists and turns as it moves along its absurd way.

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Book Review: The Books of András Koerner — Acts of Wondrous Remembrance

December 7, 2020
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Writer András Koerner has dedicated himself, lovingly and brilliantly, to assiduously reconstruct the lives of ordinary Jews in Hungary before the Shoah.

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Classical CD Reviews: Beethoven & Knecht Orchestral Works, Josef Suk’s “Asrael,” and Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique”

March 24, 2020
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin’s pairing of Beethoven with Knecht is intelligent, programmatically and musically, but Thierry Fischer’s Symphony fantastique is a disappointing misfire.

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