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"Black Star Nairobi': Kenyan fiction and fact
Truth is stranger (and more inspiring, too)
Black Star Nairobi contrives a fictitious globetrotting adventure among three Kenyan pals fighting international terrorism. Meanwhile, in real-life Kenya, a much more astonishing and uplifting story is unfolding.
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"Noises Off' at People's Light (1st review)
What Michael Frayn could learn from the Marx Brothers
Michael Frayn's farce about the production of a farce succeeds even while violating a time-honored vaudeville maxim.
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Art Museum's "Collecting for Philadelphia' (1st review)
The Art Museum's tasting menu
The Art Museum's new works added over the past five years alone could stock a major museum. Some of the best are on display now. They have little to do with each other, but their diversity itself is appealing.
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Change your house to change yourself
People who live in glass houses….
Why was Bob obsessed with finding exactly the kind of house that wouldn't accommodate his need to acquire and hold on to material objects? Maybe because, deep down, he wanted to change.
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A feminist "Hannah Arendt' (3rd review)
A thinking woman in an old boys' club
Hannah Arendt may have been wrong about Adolf Eichmann, but she was right about the banality of evil. And much of the verbal abuse she suffered came not from Holocaust survivors but from male academics who resented her intrusion into their domain.
Hannah Arendt. A film directed by Margarethe Von Trotta. At the Ritz at the Bourse, 400 Ranstead St., (215) 440-1181 or www.landmarktheatres.com.
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"Night Vision' at Gross McCleaf Gallery
Fourteen shades of night
Night, as a theme, can conjure up feelings of loneliness and dread, or it can impel us to seek out warmth and light. Some of the 14 artists at Gross McCleaf interpret the subject more literally than others.
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Music marketing: missed opportunities
Classical promoter, cure thyself: A cautionary tale
How would you feel if you spent $25 to see an English-language opera about a major social issue and discovered you couldn't understand a word? Would that make you feel like you'd sampled a vital, exciting art form?
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"Hannah Arendt,' ill-served again (2nd review)
When bad movies happen to profound philosophers
Attempting more than a courtroom drama of the Eichmann trial but less than a full biography of Hannah Arendt, the filmmakers pack too many complex relationships and big ideas into 113 minutes with far too little intellectual substance for support.
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Jennifer Bartlett at Pennsylvania Academy
After 40 years, still searching for the meaning of life
Jennifer Bartlett began her professional life by pondering the kind of art she could create that wouldn't look like everyone else's work. If only more artists would think and act along these lines, we could have another Renaissance.
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Landscapes vs. cityscapes
When landscape artists explore the city
Landscapes allow the artist to become a little god, creating a world from scratch. But in the city, the subject— whether it's people or buildings— determines the creation.
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