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Music Interview: Barrence Whitfield — Still Savage After All These Years

December 13, 2022
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“It’s up to us to remind those making music today to never forget those pioneers. I always say if it wasn’t for R&B, jazz, and gospel there’d be no Elvis, Beatles, or the Rolling Stones.”

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Music Interview: The Return of the Kossoy Sisters

May 17, 2023
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The Kossoy Sister’s last area performance was at the 2012 Newport Folk Festival. Now both living in Guatemala, the pair are back for a Saturday matinee appearance at Club Passim.

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Film Series Preview: “Alice Diop’s Souvenirs of Lost Time”– A Partial Retrospective

March 23, 2023
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Director Alice Diop’s films explore, with great sensitivity and little sentimentality, the generational effects of colonialism and racism.

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Arts Feature: The Lockdown Underground — Discoveries in Isolation

July 26, 2021
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Stuck in a world where regular shopping was rare and live performances extinct, the right path seemed to be the curls and swirls of mentions and references that led to surprising new or little-known artists and fascinating new levels of famous ones.

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Book Review: “El Norte” — Recovering a Greater America at the Southern Border

June 24, 2019
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Rather than focusing on Mexicans in the United States, historian Carrie Gibson posits an expansive transnational history.

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Book Review: “Never A Dull Moment” — Rock Apotheosis

August 14, 2016
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Was 1971 greatest year in the history of rock? Read this delightful book and be prepared to argue.

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Theater Review: “Eyes Shut. Door Open.” – Cain and Abel South of Houston Street

August 12, 2015
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The script’s suggestion of mythological violence elevates Eyes Shut. Door Open. above the formulaic “dark domestic secrets revealed at a family reunion” plot line.

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Theater Review: Viva “The World Fixer” at Austrian Stage

November 30, 2014
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In this fiction and plays, Thomas Bernhard creates fascinatingly repugnant monsters, black holes of egotism that are symptomatic of our spiritual and moral myopia.

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Rock Review: Alt-J at Paradise — Not the New Radiohead

March 6, 2013
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The music has no soul. Alt-J isn’t “the new Radiohead.” They’re “the new Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.”

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Book Review: “The Democratic Surround” — Exploring the Makings of Mass Experience

May 10, 2014
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Fred Turner’s counterintuitive and subtle argument in The Democratic Surround draws a direct line between the design of museum exhibitions and the Be-Ins of the Summer of Love.

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