Each selection represents a different type of love. But the violinist had deeply personal criteria for what music she wanted to include.
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Videogame Review: ‘ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN’ – Suda51’s Most Insane and Addictive Trip Yet
'ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN' is Suda51 in his purest, most evolved form. It’s a stylish, blood-soaked, and utterly bizarre adventure that rewards exploration and demands your attention
Read More »Music Reviews: Early Rock Ballads, plus NRBQ, the New York Second, and Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz
If you’re not familiar with the music of the late 1950s and early 1960s, you’ll probably have a hard time guessing which of these tunes rocketed up the charts and which never dented the Hot 100.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Your Place in this World’ by Jake La Botz
'Your Place in this World' by Jake La Botz is an empathic and caring story of someone from the streets of Chicago who's just desperately trying to find a way to be.
Read More »Music Reviews: ‘Steppin’ Out’ Collects Early Garage Rock, plus Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon
A new 94-track anthology is as likable as it is varied. It features many of the best and best-known acts associated with early garage rock.
Read More »Opera Review: ‘Manon!’ – From Heartbeat Opera, Massenet’s Tragic Courtesan
This isn't your great-great-grandparents' Massenet. But I'll bet they would have liked it, and I'll bet even opera purists and snobs will appreciate what Heartbeat and Co. have done here.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Anonymous’ Drops Audience into an Addiction Support Group
They could almost be the characters in an old-fashioned murder mystery. But no one's solving a crime; they're here to support each other as they try to solve themselves.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘The Honey Trap,’ Taut, Suspenseful Theater
When two off-duty British soldiers meet two pretty Irish women in a pub, things go swimmingly until they don't in Leo McGann's 'The Honey Trap.'
Read More »Music Reviews: Lucinda Williams’s ‘World’s Gone Wrong,’ plus Dave Miller
Williams attempts to find solace in music, but she can’t forget the world’s troubles, at least not on this album.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): The Fire This Time Festival 2026
Six short plays by emerging Black playwrights tackle racism and civil rights, heroes and villains, and family dynamics.
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