All's well that ends well - except for poor Essex, of course.
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Theater Review (NYC): Hostage Song
Two war hostages are wrenched into a space so unreal that erupting into song seems as sensible as anything else.
Read More »Music Review: Rachel Taylor Brown – Half Hours with the Lower Creatures
The poetry of 21st century disillusionment, packed neatly into a plastic disc.
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up – Michael Veitch, Josh Fix, Keith Killgo
Josh Fix's densely produced, rocking, accessible pop will remind some listeners of Ben Folds.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Almost An Evening by Ethan Coen, with F. Murray Abraham and Mark Linn-Baker
F. Murray Abraham as a hilarious, thundering Jehovah in Ethan Coen's first Off-Broadway play.
Read More »Music DVD Review: Tangerine Dream – Live at Coventry Cathedral 1975
This extended psychedelic music video of a very cool (and important) band is not, however, a live Tangerine Dream concert.
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up – Gordone, Rush, Blatt, Segal, VonderHaar
Leah-Carla Gordone's best songs are whizzing worlds of twelve-string soulfulness.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): A (Tooth) Fairy Tale
It takes a special council of the heavies of faerydom to figure out how to set things right.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): TBA by Carla Ching
A gifted writer locks himself in his apartment and creates worlds from within.
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up – Spitzer’s Folly, Sky Cries Mary, and Down the Line
Who but Sky Cries Mary could make a compelling chorus with just the words "Here comes the 5 Train"?
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