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Black musicians who tried to take their music to the masses paid a far steeper price than exclusion from restrooms.
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Theater Review: An Octopus Love Story
"If I could find another octopus in the tank...I would choose that over you."
Read More »Book Review: Avoid a Migraine, Stop a Migraine by Sandra Spewock Feder
Migraine is a symptom; pain comes for a reason.
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up – Barnes & Barnes, Wild Man Fischer, And Some “Normal” Music
"Party in My Pants," "Three Drunk Newts," "Sewey Hole" - they're all here. Eat them up. Yum.
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up – Snider, Tillis, Hammond Jr.
This CD has transformed me from a lukewarm Todd Snider fan into a big Todd Snider fan.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): f-ckplays
Evokes headier eras in picturesque countries where live theater had the power to make audiences go nuts.
Read More »Theater Review: Jean Genet’s The Balcony in New York City
By today's standards, the S&M scenes are so tame as to be barely noticeable. What a difference a half-century makes.
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up – Larsen, Heyman, Everybody Else, Assembly, Brooklyn Rep
Heyman does more things on the drums in two and a half minutes than most drummers do in their band's whole set.
Read More »Religion and Morality: A Match Made in Hell?
Our world is awash in religious wars, and we had better learn to think of them that way.
Read More »Theater Review: Frederic Glover’s Desire in the Suburbs
Ed, a deliciously creepy bolt of jealousy, lopes about his father's suburban kingdom like a modern Richard III.
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