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The only break in the flow comes just before the last song, “Toppling.” There’s a need to tune the guitar, so what – until this point – is…
It’s a sobering thought that had Marianela Nuñez joined the Paris Opéra Ballet at 16 instead of the Royal Ballet, she would have been…
Sarah Kane’s Cleansed is a love story whose heart has been torn on barbed wire. Yes, that’s what it feels like. Sounds intense? Okay,…
For the current edition of the Venice Biennale, the Bulgarian Pavilion serves as the headquarters of The Federation of Minor Practices, a…
“Ish” is the name of the lead character in this movie, but it also might be a suffix attached to adjectives describing it. Here we have a…
Since the release of her last album, Eternal Sunshine, in 2024, Ariana Grande, already a multi-platform superstar, has exploded to even…
Richard Dadd is best known as the mad Victorian painter incarcerated in mental hospitals for 42 years for killing his father; but this…
The pre-publication scuttlebutt on this book suggested that not only would it be David Thomson’s last, but also that it marked a dramatic…
You can’t really understand house music without grasping the influence of the Black American church. As it coalesced from the remnants of…
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