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Theater Review: “Working, A Musical” — A Pleasantly Uneven Hymn to the Working Man

January 6, 2014
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The challenges of this musical are to keep things buoyant yet insightful (and with some backbone) about a subject many of us dread, namely work and its drudgery.

Film Review: “13 Assassins” — A Blood-soaked Homage to Swordplay of Yesteryear

May 7, 2011
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“13 Assassins” is an affectionate salute to old-fashioned swordplay films, just as occasionally artful as it needs to be, and ultimately, it’s a highly-satisfying romp through and through. Is there really anything wrong with that?

Opera Review: Beyond the “Barber of Seville” — New Recordings of Two First-Rate Forgotten Operas by Rossini

February 17, 2019
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Beethoven reportedly told Rossini to stick to writing comic operas. But new recordings of two of Rossini’s major serious operas bring great pleasure to the listener—and let us hear some splendid young singers.

Jazz Remembrance: You Don’t Know Jack—From Glasgow to New York

November 2, 2014
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“With Cream I and Ginger could play free jazz as a rhythm section, while Eric played the Ornette Coleman role. However, we didn’t tell Eric that!”

Book Commentary: “Taming Silicon Valley” — Man Over AI

December 17, 2024
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The kinds of regulations Gary Marcus proposes, however well-intentioned they may be, would — in practice — only end up further disenfranchising the masses.

Film Review: “Candyman” – Stale Sweets

September 6, 2021
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Why bother giving big-budget Hollywood projects to up-and-coming Black filmmakers if they’re just going to be neutered and cut to shit before release?

Rap Album Review: slowthai’s “Tyron” — A Rapper of Two Minds

February 22, 2021
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This is a sophomore album that showcases an artist’s desire to grow beyond his initial success.

Film Commentary: Scorsese and Cinema — Before and After “After Hours”

July 31, 2023
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This shaggy dog story, set in the bowels of Manhattan, in the yet to be gentrified bohemian enclave of SoHo, presented an opportunity for Martin Scorsese to return to bare-bones filmmaking.

Book Review: Guilty Pleasures? — Rocker Peter Hook Takes Us Inside Joy Division

February 13, 2013
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Peter Hook’s memoir contains no earthshattering revelations, but it does offer a new way (or at least another way) of thinking about the four young men who made up Joy Division.

The Arts on Stamps of the World — December 19

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

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