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Classical CD Reviews: Ádám Fischer conducts Mahler, Mariss Jansons conducts Rodion Shchedrin & Respighi, and John Eliot Gardiner conducts Schumann

January 23, 2020
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Ádám Fischer’s reading of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony is breathtakingly clean.

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Classical Album Reviews: Andris Nelsons’ CBSO Recordings, and Mariss Jansons’ SACD Recordings

December 29, 2019
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A collection that provides a fascinating bit of context for how Andris Nelsons has developed as a conductor over the last decade-plus, and an honest, mostly flattering, tribute to a much-loved conductor, the late Mariss Jansons.

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Rap Album Review: Open Mike Eagle’s “Anime, Trauma, and Divorce” — Personal Matters

October 25, 2020
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Open Mike Eagle may have written this album for himself, but many others will recognize themselves somewhere in his words and in his pain.

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Jazz Commentary: Sinatra — Myth, Reality, and a Critic Standing in Line at Arby’s

May 21, 2020
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A review of the 60th anniversary reissue of Frank Sinatra’s album Nice ‘n’ Easy. Though not without a few rounds with the Sinatra mythology — not the complicated man, but his music.

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Film Review: “Nancy” — Getting a Life is Hard

June 20, 2018
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Nancy is mystifying, but in this case the inexplicable has its fascinations.

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Book Review: Facing Up to the Damage Wrought by Facebook

July 11, 2018
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“Resistance is futile. But resistance seems necessary.”

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Arts Remembrance: William Peter Blatty — Cultivating the Horror Cinema Landscape

January 16, 2017
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William Peter Blatty may have created a comparatively small body of work, but he played a major role in the evolution of American horror.

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Film Review: “Free Fire” — A Tsunami of Gunshots

April 22, 2017
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While calling this Ben Wheatley’s most violent film may be debatable, Free Fire is absolutely the one most riddled with gunshots.

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Film Commentary: The Carthage Film Festival

November 21, 2017
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Like going to Mecca, shouldn’t every committed cinephile get to the Carthage Film Festival once in a lifetime?

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Film Review: “XX”—Horror Anthology, Female Version

March 6, 2017
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I was looking forward to “XX” because it was horror, it was an anthology, and because all four pieces were directed by women.

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