Two re-releases document the influential British bluesman's creative reinvention in 1969.
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The show's creators use subway vignettes to make us look closely at ourselves - and to laugh at what we see.
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The Stone Coyotes' stark naturalness is what makes them so good.
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This dazzling new dance-theater piece incorporates elements of pre-ballet Baroque dance.
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"Straight-talker" McCain is as cynical and conniving a political animal as any of them, and better at it than most.
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This new edition is a good reminder of the still-intimate relationship between literature and physical objects.
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The Stray Cats' late 80s reunion albums, reissued on Hep Cat Records, are worth another listen.
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Henry James' suspenseful tale of duplicity, set in a backwater of Venice, comes luridly to life on stage.
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Cast and crew's great cleverness and enormous talent make Brecht's masterpiece pulsate with the outsized, exaggerated energy of real life.
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Hayes Carll has a decisive answer to those faux-devotional slick country songs like "Jesus Take the Wheel."
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