Whether it's Lord Byron's whereabouts on a certain few days or the entropic fate of the universe, the search for knowledge drives us all.
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DVD Review: ‘Gospel According to Al Green’ by Robert Mugge
For insight you'll get nowhere else into one of the most interesting artists of his era, pick up this re-release of Mugge's 1984 profile of the born-again singer.
Read More »Music Review: Kenji Bunch – ‘The Snow Queen’ Ballet Score from Orchestra Next
This suite is full of heart and likely to move yours, and while it might make you wish you could see the ballet, it won't leave you frozen.
Read More »Music Review: Stew Cutler & Friends – ‘Every Sunday Night’
NYC soul man Bobby Harden joins the guitarist and his band for good vibes, good times, and musicianship that's fluid and sharp, expert and humane.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Terezin’ by Nicholas Tolkien
Nicholas Tolkien's new play presents the terrible story of the Nazis' propaganda camp by focusing on a few characters on both sides.
Read More »Music Reviews: Crystal Bowersox – ‘Alive’ and Emily West – ‘Symphonies’
Two true artists who've gone their own way after TV appearances.
Read More »Music Review: Pianist Luca Buratto – ‘Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Humoreske & Blumenstück’
Buratto envelops the listener in what feels like the Schumann's authentic presence, bringing out melody, harmony, and inner voices with both raw feeling and fragile-seeming sensitivity.
Read More »Music CD/DVD Review: The Who – ‘Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 2004’
Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey took the stage at the 2004 Isle of Wight Festival to show us what they still had, and a new box set brings us the concert on two CDs and one DVD that show there was plenty of life in the old boys yet.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘A Hunger Artist’
Boisterously funny and chokingly sad, Sinking Ship Productions' new adaptation of Franz Kafka's short story follows the original rather closely, yet through pure showmanship it defies expectation at almost every turn.
Read More »Language Matters in Life and Business: My Last and Final Column About Redundancy
Every walkway is a "pedestrian walkway." Redundancy should be used sparingly, and only when it contributes to rhetorical effect or provides necessary emphasis.
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