One could view 'In Winter' as a stylish stopgap between Melua's last recording 'Ketevan' and her next album. However, one should embrace it as an inspired seasonal concept album that ties 'The House' as her most ambitious undertaking yet.
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Music Review: Leigh Pilzer – ‘Strunkin’
'Strunkin'' is straight-ahead jazz at its finest, recalling the sophisticated musings from the likes of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Benny Goodman.
Read More »Hamptons International Film Festival 2016: The Award-Winning ‘Unlocking The Cage’
Are chimpanzees sentient beings deserving of legal personhood?
Read More »Language Matters: Rescuing Dying Languages
Money and genius grants can't revive the hundreds of languages native to the Americas that have died out over the last few centuries.
Read More »Interview: Hannah Kohler, Author of ‘The Outside Lands’
"There are a number of ideas I was exploring in this novel: ideas of truth and fiction in war—how war is mythologized before, during and after the fact; how story-telling acts a way to cope with trauma; how the trauma of the Vietnam War was a trauma of the American family."
Read More »Home Video 2016 Gift Guide
The home video offerings are plentiful this holiday season including special version and gift set releases.
Read More »Music Review: Gwen Hughes – ‘Native Land’
Gwen Hughes captures the ups and downs of her passage through life with profound authenticity, and revealing honesty.
Read More »Music DVD Review: Fall Out Boy – ‘The Boys of Zummer Tour: Live in Chicago’
Fall Out Boy's new live DVD, 'The Boys of Zummer Tour: Live in Chicago,' lets fans experience all of their hits in one place.
Read More »Flash Fiction: Clown
A kid dressed as a clown and an adult killer clown's paths cross on Halloween night.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ by Bertolt Brecht
Corruption is easy. Justice is hard. Brecht warns us: In a zero sum game, if the little people allow criminals to gain supremacy and legitimize themselves, they will have allowed the destruction of justice, morality, and peace.
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