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Film Interview: No Jumping to Conclusions in ‘Sunshine Superman” — Talking to Director Marah Strauch

May 29, 2015
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Marah Strauch’s documentary tries to fathom Carl Boenish’s motive for taking his last leap.

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Visual Arts: Sanitizing Black Is Beautiful

July 28, 2008
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By Gary Schwartz One in so many Western works of art contains an image of a person we would call black. The phenomenon attracts relatively little attention in art history. The Menil Foundation went after it seriously, in a project now inherited by the Warburg Institute. An exhibition in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam offers…

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Book Review: “Which Side Are You On?” — American History, Skimmed Over

January 14, 2019
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In its efforts to cram so much information into so small a space, the narrative becomes unfocused.

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Theater Commentary: January 6 — What About the Children?

August 9, 2022
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Despite a seven-year record of artistic, social, educational, and organizational success, Junior Programs has, until now, been a forgotten chapter in the history of America’s children’s theater. And we desperately need to remember that chapter now. 

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Jazz CD Preview and Survey: Years of Utter Beauty, Part 1

January 20, 2019
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2018 saw the release of four ambitious and powerful jazz releases driven by poetic texts.

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Book Review: “Bible Nation” — The Misleading Religion of Hobby Lobby

April 24, 2018
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This is an important and timely book, one that happens to be compulsively readable and that anyone even mildly interested in the intersection between religion and politics, faith and science, or religious commandment and secular law should read.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — June 19

June 19, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — April 16

April 16, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Book Review: Poet/Essayist Richard J. Fein — Yiddish as Mother Tongue and Lost Lover

February 22, 2013
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“The Beginning-End of Yiddish,” is poet/essayist Richard Fein’s core subject: his love for a language largely eviscerated in his lifetime.

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Book Interview: “Season of the Witch” — Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Occult Imagination

February 3, 2015
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“To say that the occult ‘saved’ it is really to say that the spiritual agitation is at the heart of what was able to bring rock ‘n’ roll to its most interesting places.”

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