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Coming Attractions: May 5 through 21 — What Will Light Your Fire

May 5, 2024
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

Opera Album Review: Croatia’s Best-Known Opera, “Ero the Joker” — Folk Fun and Games

February 4, 2021
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Croatia’s best-known Opera is like The Bartered Bride or a lighter-spirited Porgy and Bess: tuneful, engaging, and stageworthy.

Fuse Dispatches: Lessons Drawn — William Kentridge’s “Six Drawing Lessons”

March 23, 2012
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After hearing just the first of William Kentridge’s six Norton Lectures, I have no doubt that this series of “Drawing Lessons” will be one of the most entertaining and enlightening artistic events of 2012.

Film Review: Rude, Crude, and Enchanting, This Year’s New York Film Festival is a Helluva Ride

September 22, 2019
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Three remarkable films that promise a bumper crop of world cinema yet to come at the NY Film Festival.

Poetry Review: The Lyrical Restraint of Mel Kenne’s “Take”

July 11, 2012
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Poet Mel Kenne, like a desert ascetic, has pared away everything that is not essential -— no words have been wasted in the making of this collection.

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.

Book Review: “Queer Lens” – Let the Record Show

September 5, 2025
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By Trevor Fairbrother The Queer Lens project made me think about queer culture and camera culture as distinct phenomena that began in the Victorian era: each was a manifestation of modernity. The latest exhibition that Paul Martineau has curated at the J. Paul Getty Museum is titled Queer Lens: A History of Photography and features…

Film Review: “Death to Metal” — Heavy Metal Hijinks

December 19, 2021
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Death to Metal is the best sort of low-budget exploitation flick because its ideal balance of ridiculously excessive gore and self-aware humor makes up for its technical and budgetary shortcomings.

Jazz Appreciation: Rahsaan Roland Kirk — A Musical Force Field

August 8, 2020
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If there’s ever been a more distinctive jazz musician than Rahsaan Roland Kirk, you’ll have to prove it to me.

Theater Review: “Grand Concourse” — You Gotta Have Faith

March 8, 2017
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Grand Concourse does wondrous things: it encourages us ponder our own growth toward faith while emphasizing with the struggles of others.

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