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Music Review: Jesse Terry – ‘Arcadia’
The seventh studio album from Jesse Terry bubbles with hooky heartland rock, country rockers, and poetic folk-rock.
Read More »Fantastic Fest Movie Review: ‘Never Let Go’ with Halle Berry Delivers on Opening Night
This film proves that even an extremely common, and perhaps overdone, horror premise can still deliver a powerful story.
Read More »Music Reviews: Frank Zappa’s Expanded ‘Apostrophe (’),’ plus Mike Montrey Band, Kevin Gordon, Rebecca Frazier, Guy Davis, and Mac Leaphart
Reviews of an expanded edition of Frank Zappa's Apostrophe, plus Mike Montrey Band, Kevin Gordon, Rebecca Frazier, Guy Davis, and Mac Leaphart
Read More »New York Film Festival 2024 Reviews: Land Struggles in ‘Harvest,’ ‘No Other Land’
Two films, one fictional, one a documentary, concern struggles with land possession and ownership that divergently reveal how money, greed and power become the salient motivation for evicting people who have worked the land for a century or more.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Redeemed’ by Chisa Hutchinson
Hoping for redemption through forgiveness, a white convict tries to convince his victim's sister he's no longer the man who beat her brother to death in a racist rage.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Our Class’ – Former Playmates Become Murderers
Based on Jan T. Gross' 'Neighbors,' Tadeusz Slobodzianek's 'Our Class' chronicles the destiny of 10 classmates over a period of 80 years.
Read More »Interview: Composer Yair Klartag on His Azrieli Prize Commission ‘The Parable of the Palace’
Klartag's new work for choir and four double basses, the winner of the Azrieli Foundation's Commission for Jewish Music for 2024, investigates the limits of logic and reason in explaining reality and the metaphysical.
Read More »Film Review: ‘My Old Ass’ Brings Surprises with Aubrey Plaza and Maisy Stella
If your future self came back to give you advice, would you take it? That's the question examined in 'My Old Ass'.
Read More »Concert Review: Fourth Wall Ensemble Sings Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer-Winning ‘Partita’ and More
With a sound that mixed plangency and purity, and an almost palpable fearlessness, the Fourth Wall Ensemble did this wonderful music justice.
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