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Jazz CD Review: Dexter Gordon and Woody Shaw — From Out of the Past

October 24, 2018
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These albums, featuring Woody Shaw and Dexter Gordon, are illuminating to listen to side by side.

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Film Review: “The Fall of the American Empire” — Corporate Cant versus Socialist Kant

June 12, 2019
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For all its bite, Fall is oddly endearing, too, leavening its harsh portrait of money-madness with aw-shucks moments of solidarity and kindness.

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Book Review: “Foreverland” — Bound Until Death

March 4, 2022
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Here’s to Heather and Bill, and this lively saga…

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Arts Commentary: “Fast Car” — Mainstream Country’s Detour from Diversity

July 19, 2023
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Black and openly queer women are not allowed in the Nashville club. Secretly gay white men are not doing too badly, though.

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Book Review: “The Silence” — Brusque Prophecy

November 7, 2020
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Many Don DeLillo fans will overlook this novella’s somewhat stilted dialogue and perfunctory erotic scenes for the sake of another taste of his dark and knowing world.

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Jazz Feature: Pianist Jason Moran Repays It Forward

February 15, 2012
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From James P. Johnson to Thelonious Monk to Jason Moran, inspired mentors carry the past into the future.

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Jazz Album Review: “Mingus in Argentina” — An Unexpected Gift

April 19, 2025
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I must confess to hearing some of the Buenos Aires recordings on bootleg LPs, though their sound quality pales in comparison to this Resonance release.

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Theater Preview: “Buddy” Cianci’s Ghost Returns to Haunt Providence

September 2, 2019
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We are definitely feeling a sense of Buddy haunting us, to be sure. I mean, this theater is the place he visited. He attended many, if not most, of the shows here.

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Book Review: “In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss” — A Brave and Heartrending Story

March 15, 2022
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This is a profoundly disturbing memoir about a subject that hits close to home for many readers.

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Book Review: Vivian Gornick’s “Unfinished Business” — Remembrance of Pages Past

February 6, 2020
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Vivian Gornick is an elegist of the transformative experience of reading and writing, what she calls “the companionateness” of books.

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