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Jonathan Mandell Jonathan Mandell,
New York Theater

The Scottsboro Boys and The Return Of The Minstrel Show

Posted 4 hours, 8 minutes ago

“The Scottsboro Boys,” the latest musical from the team behind “Cabaret” and Chicago” – which is playing to sold-out houses at the Vineyard Theater at least until April 18 and is aiming for Broadway — is not the first time this infamous chapter in American history has been…

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Jonathan Kiefer Jonathan Kiefer,
Film

Faster Filmmaker Q&A: “Greenberg” Star Greta Gerwig on Nakedness, Noah Baumbach and Movies that Make It Easier to Keep Living

Posted 22 hours, 38 minutes ago

In Noah Baumbach’s “Greenberg,” the so-called “first lady of mumblecore,” Greta Gerwig, plays love interest to a guy who’s “trying to do nothing for a while,” played by Ben Stiller. So is that a step up, or what? I talked to Gerwig for half an hour in a hotel room the other day, and neither of…

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Vincent Rossmeier Vincent Rossmeier,
CD Reviews

Josiah Wolf’s “Jet Lag”: Breaking Up Is Wearying

Posted 4 days, 2 hours ago

Those familiar with WHY?, especially fans of the group’s 2008 release “Alopecia,” might not believe that Josiah Wolf’s new album, “Jet Lag,” is the solo work of that band’s drummer. Whereas WHY? mixes hip-hop rhythms and rhymes with avant garde indie rock lyrical and tonal complexity to create…

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Jonathan Kiefer Jonathan Kiefer,
Film

“The End of Poverty?” Review in Brief

Posted 4 days, 21 hours ago

Presumably a rebuke to the book of the same title, sans question mark, by economist Jeffrey Sachs, filmmaker Philippe Diaz’s radical neo-Marxist screed affirms once again the inherent cinematic dullness of seething liberal guilt.

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Vincent Rossmeier Vincent Rossmeier,
CD Reviews

Frightened Rabbit’s “The Winter of Mixed Drinks”: Background Music At Its Best

Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Frightened Rabbit’s new album “The Winter of Mixed Drinks” would make a great soundtrack for the life of a college freshman. This isn’t necessarily an insult. The Glasgow quintet has created perfect music for indulging one’s loneliness and sense of nobody-understands-me uniqueness. But it lacks…

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adam wilson adam wilson,
TV

Idol Thoughts: Kara Is the New Paula, Ellen Isn’t Funny, The Boys Suck, and I’m Back, Baby!

Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Family, friends, people who google image searched “Paula Abdul Drunk” and accidentally ended up here — I offer my sincerest apologies.

I have been slacking. Too busy writing about pretentious things like “Books” and “Films” in pursuit of green dollars to give American Idol Season 9 the…

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Matthew Guerrieri Matthew Guerrieri,
Classical Music

The Rhythm Thief: Chopin’s Timekeeping

Posted 1 day, 1 hour ago

Pianists tend to take a lot of rhythmic liberty with music by Frédéric Chopin, for whom we can blame Frédéric Chopin. The 19th-century British pianist/conductor Charles Hallé famously told of proving to Chopin how much extra time the composer added to his three-quarter-time Mazurkas by…

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adam wilson adam wilson,
TV

Idol Thoughts: Kara Is the New Paula, Ellen Isn’t Funny, The Boys Suck, and I’m Back, Baby!

Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Family, friends, people who google image searched “Paula Abdul Drunk” and accidentally ended up here — I offer my sincerest apologies.

I have been slacking. Too busy writing about pretentious things like “Books” and “Films” in pursuit of green dollars to give American Idol Season 9 the…

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