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Books

Book Review: Tell Me More

Forget reviewing this book; after reading it, I had the urge to call the author and invite her over. I’d pour us some sauvignon blanc and blare the Richard Thompson and we’d toast …
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Music Review: Power of Peace

Power of Peace is a joyful album that fulfills a wish of Carlos Santana to collaborate with a band that’s been a longtime inspiration for the singer/guitarist—the Isley Broth…
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Music

Music Review: Clean

Paul Jones is an accomplished jazz saxophonist, and for his second album—Clean—he’s courageously combined elements of two other diverse musical realms: classical minima…
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Film

Film Review: Year by the Sea

“What if something happens to you out there, all alone?” “That’s the whole point!” The great Karen Allen shines as a woman who decides to strike out on her own after her son gets m…
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Film

Film Review: Te Ata

This handsome, well-mounted biopic of Frances Thompson Fisher, a Chickasaw actress from Oklahoma who persisted against all odds to become a major international performer in the ear…