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Jazz CD Review: Luciana Souza’s “Book of Longing” Tells a Compelling Story

September 4, 2018
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With this album, Luciana Souza has created her own indelible “book” of songs that ache and celebrate, muse and regret, dream and mourn.

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Film Review: “Ophelia” is Revisionist, Romantic, Ravishing

June 30, 2019
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Ophelia is moving, intoxicating, haunting: the most visually pleasurable film I’ve seen so far this year.

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Concert Review: Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 — Exhilaratingly Performed

April 12, 2017
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The fiery excellence of Handel and Haydn Society’s collective effort made Monteverdi’s epic masterpiece sparkle like a star.

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Film Commentary — Roger Ebert: A Contrarian View

April 9, 2013
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What Roger Ebert was was a very hard-working, daily journalist who, as he should, watched thousands of movies and wrote about them in a very clear, concise, fairly interesting but obvious way.

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Book Review: Living Well is not the Same as Being Good—Jim Harrison’s “The Ancient Minstrel”

March 18, 2016
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Jim Harrison’s prose is gorgeous, illuminating. The simple language slides into your head and resonates there.

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Film Review: “Everybody Wants Some!” — Richard Linklater’s Remembrance of Teams Past

April 6, 2016
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I was finally won over in the last act, when Everybody Wants Some! turns a little emotional, a little “girly.”

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Book Review: “Blood In The Tracks” — Bob Dylan’s Mystery Musicians

September 12, 2023
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“Blood In the Tracks” delivers a minor miracle: a host of fresh looks at the most (over)written about musician of our age.

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Theater Review: “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” — A Genially Absurdist Comedy

June 5, 2024
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Despite its undeniable fun, Christopher Durang’s play feels somewhat quaint a decade or so since it was written.

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Book Review: “The Amen Effect” — Call It Pastoral Community Organizing

March 11, 2024
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This small volume is apt to become a classic that is passed hand to hand.

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Film Review: “The Holdovers” — Learning Their Lessons

November 4, 2023
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Director Alexander Payne and star Paul Giamatti excel at this kind of character-driven comedy/drama.

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