Repost: Just rewatched this amazing film recently, and what once felt like a warning from the near future now feels ripped from the headlines… Today, most people know director Alfonso Cuarón as the first Latino[…]
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Category: Reviews
Kindred
Repost in honor of Butler’s birthday, and her selection for a Google Doodle: The late, great Octavia Butler was best-known as a rare black female superstar in a genre –science-fiction –largely dominated by white men.[…]
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Alt Classical: The Innovators
Reposted from 2015 This week brings a new installment of my series on alt-classical music –music that combines the instrumentation, elegance and sophistication of classical music with the vitality of newer and more modern approaches[…]
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Stevie Wonder: Philosophical Music
It occurred to me recently that in my survey of philosophical music I had too long overlooked perhaps the premiere philosopher of transcendent pop music, Mr. Stevland Wonder (an artist I had the exquisite pleasure[…]
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Alt Classical: The Jazz Connection
Repost from 2014 A month or so ago, I explored the “cover songs” side of alt classical music, a genre that combines the pleasures of classical music with the vitality of more modern forms. This[…]
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If You’re Feeling Like a Pimp, Luke… : The Unexpectedly Fresh “Last Jedi”
I think the critical consensus is that all of us –steeled for disappointment after the travesty of the prequel trilogy –were perhaps just a little overly celebratory of The Force Awakens, a film that exceeded[…]
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Does Jay-Z’s 4:44 Live Up to Beyonce’s Lemonade?
Following the artistic leap forward represented by his wife’s album, Lemonade, it was a necessity for Sean “Jay-Z” Carter, AKA “Mr. Beyonce,” to respond with something that could reasonably be placed next to it on[…]
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Allegiance
Allegiance is returning to theaters for a one day only engagement, on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor! See it if you can! You may not have heard of the recent Broadway musical Allegiance. You might[…]
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Context is Everything: This is Us
In honor of Season Two’s recent premiere, please enjoy this repost: One of the least understood impacts of technology on modernity is the way it alters context, and the way that, in turn, shapes how[…]
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Sister Mine
As I mentioned in my review of “The Justice Trilogy,” when you are a minority author writing a genre book, you’re risking ending up with a fractal audience, occupying a niche inside a niche. The[…]
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