Ethan Stanislawski is a freelance journalist/critic and new media specialist. He is a regular reviewer and staff writer at Prefix Magazine, and also contributes regularly to Blogcritics Magazine. His interests include theater, film, and pop music criticism (with a focus on independent and alternative rock), sports, politics, the media, the Internet and Technology industries, and general culture. Ethan maintains the blog Tynan's Anger.
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Theater Review (NYC): TRACES/fades by Lenora Champagne
This insufferable experimental work is probably better suited for the art gallery than the theater.
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Book Review: Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age by Maggie Jackson
Distracted author Maggie Jackson is more distracted by her own predetermined opinions.
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Theater Review (NYC): The Strangerer by Mickie Maher
A fine existential play comes to New York, and will either baffle its audience to catharsis or bore it to sleep.
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Music Review: The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
The best bar band in the world becomes one of the best bands in the world, period.
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Movie Review: August
August, which concerns a failing tech stock circa 2001, is equally bankrupt as a film.
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Theater Review (NYC): Life in A Marital Institution by James Braly
James Braly's nakedly honest one-man show covers more than one side of married life.
Going from New York to Chicago and back, you could see the Chicago invasion coming a mile away.
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Book Review: The Death of the Critic by Ronan McDonald
If the critic isn't dead, his postmodern cousin is on life support.
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Theater Review (NYC): The Pleasures of Peace by the Medicine Show Theater Ensemble
Fighting complacency, one wisecrack at a time.
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Dissonance and Dissidents Between Marxist Theory and Practice in Tom Stoppard’s Rock 'N' Roll
In two contrasting worlds, Stoppard's play shows how Marxist materialism became indefensible in the Soviet bloc.
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