The Godfather of Rhythm and Blues is dead at 90.
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Opera Review (NYC): ‘Miranda’
Drawing on rock, tango, movie-thriller music, Baroque opera, hip-hop, and more, the score of this "steampunk murder mystery" is consistently engaging and exciting.
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This delightful and original "Best of Edinburgh" anti-gravity show is well worth seeing, even if it overstays its welcome a bit.
Read More »Vice Capades: NYC to Gamble on Temperance
Less drinking, more gambling? There's no angle from which this makes sense.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War’ by The Mad Ones
Beset by static, power outages, and flaky equipment, a Soviet radio show rattles on as the world outside falls apart.
Read More »Music Review: Emily Hurd – ‘Long Lost Ghosts’
Each song is a shiny chip off a mysterious compound of intelligent thought and honest feeling.
Read More »New Year’s Eve and the Perpetual Triumph of Magical Thinking
Let's welcome 2012 – a year in which we hope the world will become a slightly better place, and also, for better and for worse, another year of magical thinking
Read More »More Stuff I Don’t Know
It's no wonder I often find myself retreating to murder mysteries and Mozart.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ by Samuel Beckett, with John Hurt
Even after more than half a century, Samuel Beckett's extraordinary theatrical innovations retain the power to startle.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Neighbourhood Watch’ by Alan Ayckbourn
In Ayckbourn's 75th play, mild-mannered Martin marshals his neighbors into an increasingly strident and fascistic neighborhood watchdog group.
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