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Film Review: Sunday's Illness
AN INTIMATE FAMILY DRAMA shot like a slow-burn horror movie, Spanish director Ramon Salazar’s film centers on an odd, evocative arrangement: An aging, wealthy woman is confronted o…Tags:
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Music
Music Review: Down Come the Walls
DOWN COME THE WALLS is a heart-opening album about personal transformation and removing barriers to authenticity. It’s also about the political walls of our time. “We started recor…Tags:
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Music Review: Here in Heaven
DONNA DE LORY’S new album, Here in Heaven, begins with percussive vocals that bring to mind Indian singer Sheila Chandra. Elements of pop, world music, chanting, and spiritually fo…Tags:
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Music Review: Lost Souls
WHILE THE TITLE TRACK from Canadian vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Loreena McKennitt’s 10th studio album takes its inspiration from Ronald Wright’s 2004 book, A Short History of Pr…
Books
Book Review: Seven Types of Atheism
TRADITIONALLY, atheism and religion are seen as diametrically opposed, but in this dense, challenging, and erudite little book, former politics and philosophy professor John Gray m…
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Film Review: The Seagull
MICHAEL MAYER’S frantic but atmospheric new film version of the classic play still makes the mistake of so many Anton Chekhov adaptations, which is to deemphasize the comedy. Chekh…Tags:
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Film Review: Far from the Tree
EVERY PARENT at some point has to contend with the fact that their child is a different person, with his or her own desires, needs, and ways of seeing the world. Based on Andrew So…Tags:
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Music Review: 7
WITH ITS HUSHED FEMALE VOCALS and lush layers of keyboard and guitar, Beach House’s atmospheric dream pop is the sort of thing hipsters might sing their babies to sleep with. But s…Tags:
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