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Theater Review: “Her Portmanteau” — Unpacking Emotional Baggage

April 4, 2025
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This is the most slickly engaging of Mfoniso Udofia’s scripts so far, its domestic melodrama enlivened by welcome humor, detailed characterizations, and moments of pathos.

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Concert Review: X — Finishing Out With Versatility, Vitality, and Heart

September 23, 2024
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Despite some hiatuses and a non-lasting change in the guitar slot, X has amazingly soldiered on for four decades since its 1977 formation and 1980-1984 heyday to remain standing with its original lineup.

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Book Review: “Freeman’s Challenge” — Essential Reading on Prisons, Slavery, and Profit

June 4, 2024
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The prison was the first in the nation specifically designed to generate a profit for everybody but the laborers.

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Television Review: “Palm Royale” — Eating the Rich Right

March 21, 2024
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Because the upheavals of the ’60s parallel various breakdowns that are happening at the moment, “Palm Royale” turns out to be an effectively pointed lampoon, rather than just another gratuitous swipe at the upper crust.

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Theater Review: “Clue” on Tour — Silly Stuff Done Well

May 1, 2024
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“Clue,” a whodunit board game-based comedy, rolled the dice and found success by bypassing Broadway and going directly on tour.

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Concert Review: My Morning Jacket at Roadrunner — Interesting and Overly Diffuse

October 27, 2023
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My Morning Jacket remains one of rock’s best live acts, and a stylistically broad one. And more bands should be so generous in not only representing their entire catalog but mixing up the song selection every night.

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Television Review: “The Horror of Dolores Roach” — The Curse of the Magic Hands

July 7, 2023
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“The Horror of Dolores Roach” is a captivating mixture of horror, suspense, and comedy that proves we haven’t come all that far from the class-fueled injustices of Victorian England.

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Album Review: Omar Apollo’s “Ivory” — Making Good on His Promise

May 16, 2022
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Ivory is at its best when Omar Apollo fully commits to taking adventures into different sonic spaces.

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Television Review: “Platonic” — The Power of Friendship

May 25, 2023
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em>Realistic storylines ground Platonic‘s comedy in recognizable trials and tribulations — and usefully steers it away from the tired can men-and-women-be-buddies debate.

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Book Review: “On The Marble Cliffs” — History as Dreamscape

January 7, 2023
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Maintaining liberty in the face of totalitarian fantasy calls for vigilance. Ernst Jünger’s cautionary tale may be more resonant now than when it was first published.

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