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Nick Jarecki's "Arbitrage'
The cost of doing business
Nick Jarecki's debut film is a slick Wall Street drama with a police thriller grafted on. Are Wall Street's Masters of the Universe destined to get away with everything forever? Apparently; but they do pay a price.
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"Poetry Brothel' at Live Arts Festival
Why didn‘t Emily Dickinson think of this?
In the best of all worlds, we'd get our kicks from poetry instead of sex. That's what happened one night at the Live Arts Festival.
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2012-13 music preview: Nine great coming attractions
From Yannick to the Black Watch: Nine music programs I wouldn't miss
Yannick, Ignat, Hilary Hahn, Natalie Zhu, bagpipes”¦ my cup runneth over for Philadelphia's coming music season. Here are nine programs I'm marking on my calendar.
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Shipwrecks and Homer at the Art Museum (2nd review)
When strong men rescued damsels in distress
Tragedy at sea was a subject of emotional involvement from the time of the ancient Greeks. The fascination was strongest during Winslow Homer's time, when all intercontinental journeys involved crossing deep, dark and potentially fatal oceans.
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"Next to Normal' in Pottstown
What does Next to Normal really mean?
This musical about a family coping with bipolar disorder won a Pulitzer on Broadway, but it takes on added meaning when seen in the intimacy of a 90-seat loft theatre.
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"Rent' Sing-along at Bryn Mawr
Another side of Rent
Combining a Rent Sing-Along with La Bohème is a good idea. Combining it with Angels in America would be downright inspired.
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Shipwrecks and Homer at the Art Museum (1st review)
Disaster at sea
The Art Museum's “Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and ‘The Life Line' ” is both an art show and a cultural history lesson that examines 19th-Century America's fascination with maritime disasters when most long-distance travel was by sea, with all of its attendant perils.
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"Angels in America' at the Wilma
America through an AIDS prism, 20 years later
AIDS was such a serious business when Angels opened 20 years ago that Tony Kushner's humor often escaped his audiences. Blanka Zizka's excellent Wilma cast lets us laugh without guilt.
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Orchestra 2001's John Cage centennial
Learning to love John Cage
How can anyone take an eccentric “composer” like John Cage seriously? The answer, as Orchestra 2001 demonstrated, involves looking beyond his admittedly bizarre antics.
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Paul Behnke and Tremain Smith at Rosenfeld Gallery
Taking a bath in a rainbow
How does an artist deal with color? This perennial question is answered by two completely different resolutions at the Rosenfeld Gallery, each of them vital and pertinent yet continents apart.
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