arts and culture
‘Beyond the Years: Unpublished Songs of Florence Price’ available on new album
September 10, 2024Last year, a hardworking music publicist alerted me to a rare performance of Damien Geter’s spirituals-based Justice Symphony up in Fresno, paired with Beethoven’s 9th, and I took the bait.
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‘100 Years of Lynchings’: 1962 book remains a ‘should-read’ for all
September 9, 2024The genocide in Gaza had this reviewer looking back to the mass murder of innocents in U.S. history.
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‘The Front Room’ review: Religious trauma and Black womanhood collide for wild horror ride
September 6, 2024Terrifying imagery, body horror and fear are woven into a story defining womanhood.
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German painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) on his sestercentennial September 5
September 5, 2024Friedrich’s rebellion in a time of greatest repression and pressure on artists to join the establishment remains relevant to this day.
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‘Israel’s Reel Extremism’: Lessons unlearned
September 5, 2024Films like Israel’s Reel Extremism need to find as broad an audience as possible in order to stop the contagion of this war from further contaminating the American political fabric, as well as protect life in...
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