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Yaron Zilberman's "A Late Quartet'
How do neurotic people produce such gorgeous music?
As A Late Quartet vividly dramatizes, even the finest and most dedicated musicians are flawed human beings whose personalities, life situations and internal conflicts disrupt their music making. All the more reason to marvel at the performance of any great ensemble.
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Pig Iron's "Pay Up' at the FringeArts Festival (1st review)
The uses and abuses of money, in one bizarre hour
The trouble with most “immersive theater” is that you remember the form rather than the content. Pig Iron's Pay Up, by contrast, is a razor-sharp, insightful investigation of how humans (and even animals) interact when it comes to money.
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Architectural Digest for rednecks
Architectural indigestion
Architectural Digest presumes that its readers want to stay au courant with hedge fund managers and Hollywood celebrities. But what about those of us who might have a different reference group for our home decorating fantasies?
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"The World's End': 40-something reunion
The old gang of mine meets the Stepford wives
In this appealing comedy, five ex-buddies in their 40s try to rekindle their youthful friendship, only to find that even a robot/alien invasion can't heal their fundamental differences.
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Amanda Ripley's "Smartest Kids in the World'
On divorcing sports from education: If Finland and Korea can do it…
Sports may build character, but Amanda Ripley's exploration of the world's top-ranking school systems indicate schools should concentrate on their primary purpose.
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Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine' (2nd review)
Woody Allen falls off a streetcar
Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine rewrites A Streetcar Named Desire, updated to reflect the Wall Street crash and the anomic materialism it symbolized. But without Tennessee Williams's poetry or any clear view of its tragic protagonist, the film falls flat.
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Pennsylvania Academy sells a Hopper
Keeping an Eakins, selling a Hopper, or: Watch your back, Mona Lisa
The Pennsylvania Academy's announced sale of East Wind Over Weehawken, one of the two Edward Hopper oil paintings in Philadelphia, raises this question: What responsibility do museums have to preserve core works in their collections, or even the idea of a core collection itself?
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Antidotes for black violence
To reduce black male violence, don't get tough—get smart
Who are the young black men throughout this country who kill each other on a daily basis? Adults who care to find out— and the arts— hold the key to the solution.
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A man's guide to the 2013 Fringe Arts Festival
No music or feelings, please: A man's guide to the Fringe Arts Festival
Men may dominate the theater world, but women dominate the audience. So how can a male theatergoer enjoy this month's Fringe Festival? By choosing carefully and relying on the expert guidance of my weightlifting teammates and drinking buddies.
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Charles Whitecar Miskelly's "The Cape'
Whites and Indians in 17th-Century New Jersey
More than 70 years after it was handwritten by a shipbuilder and chicken farmer, a fantasy vision of New Jersey's earliest settlers has surfaced.
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