"Hate" is an old word, going all the way back to Anglo-Saxon (Old English). "Hate group" and "hate crime" sharply narrow the meaning of the word.
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Music DVD Review: Deep Purple – ‘Live at the NEC’
Newly released in standalone DVD and digital formats, the band's final show with founding keyboardist Jon Lord includes classic hits – "Woman from Tokyo," "Highway Star," "Hush," "Space Truckin'," and of course "Smoke on the Water."
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘About Clarence & Me’
This sensitively told story of an old black man taking piano lessons from a young white composer reminds us of the universality of the human experience and the power of friendship and love.
Read More »Concert Review: Mark Peskanov, Julian Schwarz, Marika Bournaki – Brahms at Bargemusic (Brooklyn, 8/27/2016)
The three musicians did right by Brahms as they played some of the composer's most beautiful and dynamic music for violin, cello, and piano in Brooklyn's floating waterfront concert hall.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Crashlight’ – A New Musical by Celeste Makoff
Despite its flaws, this dystopian fairy tale has the imaginative power to draw us into its world, then send us out with songs in our hearts.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘A Day by the Sea’ by N.C. Hunter, Directed by Austin Pendleton
Directed with precision and grace by Austin Pendleton on Charles Morgan's lovely sets, the superb cast brings to warm life this world of dimmed elegance with its lingering divide between the privileged and servant classes.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Motherlode Theatre Company’s ‘The Good Earth’
Welsh villagers are pressured to leave their ancestral homes when the government suspects their mountain may collapse.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘Touch’ by Toni Press-Coffman
A fascinating tale of a great love crushed by a violent act, 'Touch' is part love story, part murder mystery, and a tender dissection of the human spirit subjected to horrors known and unknown.
Read More »Music Review: Ralph Samuelson – ‘The Universal Flute,’ Music for Shakuhachi
This fine new album may not be the most "authentic" place to start appreciating the marvelous sound of the traditional Japanese flute, but it's nonetheless a good one.
Read More »Music Review: Chatham County Line – ‘Autumn’
The bluegrass/America band's new album hits a sweet spot: laid-back sound and feel, but focused songwriting and powerful playing.
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