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Concert Review: Genius Finally Getting its Proper Due — Blue Heron’s “Ockeghem@600”

February 27, 2015
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The first in what is surely going to be Blue Heron’s memorable series of testaments to the neglected brilliance of composer Johannes Ockeghem.

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Jazz Album Review: Art Pepper and Zoot Sims — A Sweetly Swinging “Jam Session”

January 7, 2022
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Whether playing together or apart, on this 1981 recording the two saxophonists couldn’t sound more gracefully inspired or more compatible.

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Theater Review: Penny Arcade — Provincetown, Puritans, and the Pandemic

September 29, 2020
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I’ve hated enough people,” Penny Arcade confessed, “I can’t hate anyone new until 2022.”

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Music Preview: Electric Earth Concerts Powers Into its 9th Season

March 4, 2020
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This writer heartily recommends a trip up north to hear a fascinating range of concerts featuring artists, ensembles, and repertoires of remarkable diversity.

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Book Review: “Cursed Legacy” — The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann

October 13, 2016
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Cursed Legacy‘s chronicle of the life of Thomas Man’s son is an important addition to the cultural history of the twentieth century.

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Book Review: “Shame” — Racism and the Sins of Paternalistic Liberalism

April 8, 2015
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According to Shelby Steele, white liberals “dissociate” themselves from the past sins of white America by subscribing to the “poetic truth” that the United States is “characterologically evil.”

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Book Review: “I Can’t Breathe” — Humanizing the Underclass

February 5, 2018
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Follow almost any of these police brutality cases to their realpolitik conclusion and you will eventually work your way back to a monstrous truth.

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Visual Arts Review: Jordan Eagles — Art Made of Blood in All Its Ruddy Glory

April 28, 2014
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Rich as the material is, can any Blood Artist develop and mature by just seeing red?

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Book Appreciation: Celebrating Kate Atkinson’s “Life After Life” –The Best Novel of the 21st Century

September 10, 2023
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In “Life After Life,” novelist Kate Atkinson has shown how boundless the imagination can be.

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Book Review: The Allman Brothers’ “Brothers and Sisters” — The Album that Defined the 70s?

July 28, 2023
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Alan Paul’s meticulous, in-depth research lays out many of the pieces needed to help the reader think more deeply about this era.

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