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Jon Sobel is Blogcritics' Culture and Theater Editor. In addition to reviewing NYC theater, he writes a semi-regular round-up of independent music releases. By day he is a computer professional and a freelance writer and editor, and at night he's a working musician: lead singer, songwriter, and bass player for Whisperado, a founding member of the Kings County Blues Band, and a sideman. His most recent venture is Oren Hope Marketing and Copywriting, through which you can hire him to write whatever marketing materials your heart desires.
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Theater Reviews (NYC): Willy Nilly and MoM at the Fringe
A band of suburban moms unexpectedly achieve the musical success that eluded Charles Manson.
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Theater Review (NYC): Being Patient: When All You Want is the Sunrise by Kelly Samara
This hospital one-act is anything but maudlin. It's tense, gripping, funny, and surprisingly celebratory.
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The Re-Education of a Road Trip Nation
I'm a public transportation snob. But there's this nice house in the country, see...
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Music Review: Rachel Taylor Brown - Susan Storm's Ugly Sister and Other Saints and Superheroes
In a perfect world, Brown's superhero songs would be distributed in goodie bags at Comic-Con.
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Fakin' It in the Sweet Calcutta Rain
My cultural references are just as good as your cultural references.
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Music Review: Mark Stuart and the Bastard Sons - Bend in the Road
Mark Stuart makes it sound easy, with or without the Man in Black.
![Under the Volcano [with an Introduction by Stephen Spender]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417uSXBArFL._SL60_.jpg)
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Theater Review (NYC): Lavaman
Three aging punk rockers battle their own demons and a cartoon monster in Casey Wimpee's play.
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Theater Review (NYC): Twisted
A philosophizing three-year-old and a tragicomically misunderstood Salome highlight an uneven but diverting evening of one-acts.
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Theater Review (NYC): Perfect Wedding by Robin Hawdon
No one does bedroom farce like the British.
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Music Review: Indie Round-Up - Craig Jackson, the Iveys, Bobby Long
With raw vocal power and smart, evocative lyrics, Bobby Long is a folksinger with a spirited intensity.
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