arts and entertainment
‘Good People’: Some are better than you think, others a whole lot worse
December 14, 2021The “good people” of the title are those who subjectively earn that title by some combination of lineage, class, morals and behavior. But it’s a shape-shifting concept.
Read moreTwo new CDs about life in America
December 2, 2021It’s almost as if the impulse to keep singing is what keeps us alive—and maybe it’s true.
Read more‘Normal People’: Love among the ruins
November 29, 2021Rooney et al have created a masterpiece.
Read more‘Paradise Blue’ evokes 1949 Detroit and early wave of gentrification
November 24, 2021Tony Award-nominated playwright Dominique Morisseau takes us back to 1949 in Paradise Blue.
Read moreTom Paxton returns to the concert stage
October 18, 2021He is an American folk-singing troubadour and his songs of love, life, and social justice have reached a worldwide audience.
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