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Theater Review: “Pru Payne” — Critical Condition

October 22, 2024
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This is a well-honed, mostly successful script about the difficulties of making human connections — a drama about seizing the day.

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Dance Interview: Matthew Rushing, Interim Artistic Director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

April 28, 2024
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“We ask them to interpret the music through their own experiences, so they are connecting to and performing what Mr. Ailey called ‘blood memories’ on stage.”

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Blues Album Review: Robert Connely Farr’s “Country Supper” — Feed a Hunger for That Lonesome Delta Sound

December 19, 2020
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Country Supper is a beautifully produced album, a cohesive musical and artistic statement that will appeal to serious fans of the blues, country, and indie rock.

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Dance Review: Festival of South African Dance — Sheer Exhilaration

October 26, 2017
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A festival of Gumboot and Pantsula at Rhode Island College featured a large cast of virtuosic dancers and engaging musicians.

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Book Review: Black Food Matters — “The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food”

November 4, 2020
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The Rise is the rare cookbook that does more than offer a culinary and educational journey. It inspires.

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Book Review: “Zeppo: The Reluctant Marx Brother” — He Wasn’t an Underachiever

January 7, 2025
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Biographer Robert S. Bader is an engaging writer and meticulous researcher. And handy here, he’s able to be tactful, but not forgiving, when describing lousy human behavior.

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Arts Interview: Author and Editor Mark Jay Mirsky on Writing, Reading, and Literary Friendships

August 5, 2023
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“For a writer the important thing is to write. The second important thing is the resonance of a reaction, a response. Without an audience, you’re basically locked in your cavern.”

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Opera Album Review: First-Ever Recording of “Shamus O’Brien” — A Long-Forgotten Delight by One of Britain’s Savviest Composers

September 2, 2024
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A success in 1890s London and New York, the engaging Irish comic opera “Shamus O’Brien” finally gets Its world-premiere recording

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Jazz CD Review Round-Up: Christopher Hollyday, Chris Pasin, Abigail Rockwell, and Jake Ehrenreich

November 15, 2018
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Christopher Hollyday’s Telepathy is a keeper, Chris Pasin’s Ornettiquette is an excellent outing, Jake Ehrenreich’s A Treasury of Jewish Christmas Songs is uneven, and for some long winter nights Abigail Rockwell’s Autumn Noir might be just the ticket.

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Book Review: “Limitarianism” — An Idea Whose Time Has Come

March 30, 2024
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In this pointed book about the harm done by the super-rich, Ingrid Robeyns is out to convince us that limiting wealth, and reallocating it, will result in a better life for all of us

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