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CD Reviews: Ebony Quartet’s “Unheard” and Martyn Brabbins conducts Vaughan Williams

September 29, 2017
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Ebony Quartet serves up a “must-hear” album of music from between the world wars.

Visual Arts Review: Virtual Reality Art — Not Ready for Prime Time

February 1, 2017
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Worse, humor and irony have no place in this show’s version of virtual reality.

Theater News: IRNE Awards @ 22 — The Theater Bug, Renewed

April 24, 2018
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But, amidst all this excitement, there was an undertow of concern in the crowd at this year’s IRNE Awards.

Music/Film Interview: Portrait of “The Punk Singer” — Riot Grrrl Mover and Shaker Kathleen Hannaz

December 18, 2013
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The documentary “The Punk Singer” is a welcome, informative portrait of riot grrrl icon Kathleen Hanna, the former lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.

Music Review: Rapper Vince Staples Longs for Escape in “Prima Donna”

September 4, 2016
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Prima Donna is a rare thing: a conceptual EP that works.

Book Commentary: The Three Percent Solution

July 23, 2007
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By Bill Marx Fiction in translation deserves all the notice it can get, but it doesn’t do anyone any good to patronize writers and readers by duplicating the happy talk that is turning people off of blurb-ridden book reviews in the mainstream media. My friend Chad Post, formerly at Dalkey Archive Press, has begun a…

May Short Fuses – Materia Critica

May 3, 2022
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Visual Arts Review: RISD Museum’s “Bona Drag” — A Captivating Look at Gender Subversion

February 9, 2019
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RISD Museum’s well-curated show Bona Drag is a powerful act of remembrance.

Author Interview: Scholar Avner Ben-Zaken — Crafting a Unified History of Science

August 10, 2013
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Intellectual frameworks such as “the rise of Europe,” “the decline of the East,” or “the clash of civilizations,” tell us more about the laziness of the human mind than they do about history.

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