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Short Fuse Podcast #40: Inviting Readers into a Brightly Lit Room

May 18, 2021
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Book sales are up, but indie bookstores are struggling. In this podcast, Lauren Cerand suggests ways to promote new titles, particularly those published by independent presses or written by emerging authors.

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Test Poetry Page

August 26, 2020

BLIZZARD/Cole The most incongruous words in “Face of the Bee,” the opening poem of Henri Cole’s Blizzard, a loose, unrhymed sonnet of the kind made fashionable by Robert Lowell in the early 1970s, fall in the twelfth line of the poem: “cisgender male.” They plant a flag that signals two very different elements of the…

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Television Review: Hulu’s “The Great” — Russian Tyranny for Laughs

May 20, 2020
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In The Great, Tony McNamara proves that period pieces that pit conniving yet sympathetic women against tyrannical men can make for a kind of refreshingly cathartic entertainment.

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Jazz Album: “Love Hurts” — Guitarist Julian Lage’s Strongest Recording to Date

March 9, 2019
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The disc is manna for lovers of assertive electric guitar, played by one of today’s top practitioners, in an unadorned trio setting.

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CD Review: The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble — Volatile Fun

December 12, 2016
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Contagious enjoyment is very much the goal of Ken Field’s Revolutionary Snake Ensemble. Mission accomplished.

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Theater Review: “Snow White and the Seven Bottoms” — Smart, Stylish, Slick, and Hilarious

April 28, 2014
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Ryan Landry has a sharp eye and ear for contemporary foibles, skewering stereotypes and pop culture icons with equal aplomb.

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Concert Review: Violinist Xiang Yu — A Stupendous Technique and a Musical Voice All His Own

April 22, 2014
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At this point, violinist Xiang Yu sounds like a mature artist ready to commence a major career.

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Dance Review: Compagnie Käfig — Arbitrary Exoticism

February 8, 2014
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I get why Compagnie Käfig’s Correria/Agwa has been booked onto stages in 15 countries and counting. But the troupe’s polished athleticism comes at the sacrifice of hip hop dance’s precious anarchy.

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Concert Review: The Blues Magoos — Psych-Era Kicks Redux

May 22, 2015
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Though they took enough acid to qualify as a psychedelic band, the Blues Magoos always had a foot in the garage.

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Opera Review: A New Virtual Opera House in Town

December 11, 2011
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This is shorter, no-frills Opera as Cinema than the Met HD supplies: without long intermissions, star interviews and audience preludes and postludes from Lincoln Center, it’s almost an hour shorter.

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