arts and culture
Baritone Will Liverman dreams of a new day in CD of Black composers
March 24, 2021Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers comprises more than an hour’s worth of 19 great songs by eight different composers.
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‘Rocks’: Just enough for the city
March 22, 2021Into the filmic world of interchangeable, comic book super-powered protagonists, Director Sarah Gavron has released “Rocks."
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Author Dan Hicks reveals the backstory of ‘contested objects’ in Western museums
March 18, 2021The role of museums in Western culture has been a conversation in art and academia for decades.
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Documentary ‘The Boys Who Said No!’ recalls anti-draft, anti-war movement
March 17, 2021A highly effective and moving new documentary about the young American men who refused to be sucked into the maw of the Selective Service System during the Vietnam War has just appeared.
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‘Making it’ in America as pure fantasy: Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Homeland Elegies: A Novel’
March 17, 2021The book jacket describes Homeland Elegies as “[p]art family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel.”
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