Culture
Hear the rediscovered documentary movie music of American composer Alan Shulman
August 31, 2023“The middlebrow ideal was to be sophisticated without being pretentious, worldly but not effete, and classical music with an American accent fit the bill.”
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‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’: Not a bomb!
August 30, 2023Daniel Goldhaber’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline, based on the controversial book by Andreas Malm, is an excellent film, a suspenseful thriller raising important issues.
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‘The Man Who Changed Colors’: A multi-layered working-class suspense thriller
August 29, 2023Fletcher vividly depicts working-class life in New Bedford, the string of other working-class communities along the Massachusetts coast, and the dangerous work conditions in the shipyard.
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‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ are a problem; so are those south, east, and west
August 28, 2023“Rich Men North of Richmond” expresses class resentment with words and music evocative of Woody Guthrie. But Guthrie aimed his fire at economic elites that oppressed hardworking Americans; Oliver Anthony has people looking in the other...
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‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’: Probing the souls of young Catholic conservatives
August 25, 2023Perhaps as many questions are left unanswered as settled, but bottom line, this is one play not to be missed.
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