FEEcon 2019: Making a Career Out of Video

Can you build a passion for making videos into a career? According to the four gentlemen of FEEcon’s | Continue reading


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Movie Review: ‘Toy Story 4’ – Finding Forky

The fourth film in the computer animated series created by Pixar for Disney Studios, Toy Story 4 fee | Continue reading


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FEEcon 2019: How Does Paris Get Fed?

In the post-apocalyptic cult classic Zombieland, Woody Harrelson’s character is on a continuous hunt | Continue reading


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Music Review: Team Dresch – ‘Choices, Chance, Changes’, ‘Captain My Captain’ & ‘Personal Best’

With the reissue of remastered versions of their three albums (plus heading out on tour again) Team | Continue reading


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Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue, Take Two

“Wait a minute,” you might think, after hearing about The Rolling Thunder Review: The 1975 Live Reco | Continue reading


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FEEcon 2019: John Stossel’s Journey from Twenty-Twenty to 2019

Can veteran newsman John Stossel travel through time? Not as far as I know. But he did make a journe | Continue reading


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Nickelodeon Brings Spongebob Squarepants’ Bikini Bottom to Life at Comic-Con International: San Diego July 18-21, 2019

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Music Video Premiere: Reuel, EDM/Classical Crossover Pianist, with ‘Für Elise’ as You’ve Never Heard It

Classical crossover artist and virtuoso pianist Reuel is readying a new album of original music. Whi | Continue reading


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Book Review: ‘The Traitor’s Niche’ by Ismail Kadare

In The Traitor's Niche, from Counter Point Press, Albanian author Ismail Kadare has drawn a satirica | Continue reading


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Music Reviews: John Finbury with Thalma de Freitas: ‘Sorte!’ and Vince Bell: ‘Ojo’

John Finbury and Thalma de Freitas, Sorte! Easy-flowing vocals and lyrics with literate depth fuel t | Continue reading


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Father’s Day – Why a Good Dad Is More Important Than Ever

Every third Sunday in June we celebrate Father’s Day, and it is worth noting that men who get called | Continue reading


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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec’ from Bated Breath Theatre Company

I don't know about you, but I get really tired of those Toulouse-Lautrec posters. Aristide Bruant, G | Continue reading


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Concert-Dance-Drama Review (NYC): ‘Lucretia’ by Cantata Profana

Tales from centuries and cultures far and wide gather fresh urgency in the #MeToo era. La Susanna, M | Continue reading


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Memorial Day – Honoring Those Who Never Came Home

It seems to happen every year when Memorial Day comes around again – people do not understand w | Continue reading


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Music Review: Jerusalem Quartet – ‘The Yiddish Cabaret’

The title of the Jerusalem Quartet's new album, The Yiddish Cabaret, may be a bit of a stretch. But | Continue reading


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Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Virtuous Fall of the Girls from Our Lady of Sorrows’ by Gina Femia

In The Virtuous Fall of the Girls from Our Lady of Sorrows, girls at a Catholic high school in Brook | Continue reading


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Theater Review (NYC): Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’ from Spicy Witch Productions

Measure for Measure is a curious play. The last of Shakespeare's comedies, it tells a pretty dark st | Continue reading


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Concert Review: American Classical Orchestra – ‘Eroica’ (NYC, 17 May 2019)

The American Classical Orchestra played Beethoven's Third Symphony | Continue reading


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Song Premiere: The Iveys – ‘Colors of Honey’

When I first heard The Iveys a decade ago, I called their first recording | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 5 years ago

Opera Review: ‘Murasaki’s Moon’ by Michi Wiancko

The Tale of Genji, Japan's classic 11th-century romantic saga, spans decades and locales. But it's v | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 5 years ago

Something Has To Be Done About Textbooks

As the spring semester ends for colleges and universities across the country, students are done with | Continue reading


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Book Review: ‘Red Birds’ by Mohammed Hanif

Mohamed Hanif's latest book, Red Birds, published by Grove Atlantic, brings the surreality of the au | Continue reading


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DVD Review: ‘No Offence Series 3’

They're back. The detectives and uniformed officers of Friday street station in Manchester Great Bri | Continue reading


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Opera Review (NYC): A ‘La Susanna’ for the #MeToo Era at BAM

A beautifully staged modern vision of Alessandro Stradella's 1681 oratorio La Susana was at BAM this | Continue reading


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Movie Review: Lin Shaye in ‘Room for Rent’

Room for Rent is a familiar | Continue reading


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Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘Caroline’s Kitchen’ by Torben Betts

Torben Betts' Caroline's Kitchen is paced and acted like a madcap comedy. But in fact it's heavy on | Continue reading


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Book Review: ‘A Brightness Long Ago’ by Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay's newest release from Penguin/Random House, A Brightness Long Ago, is one of those w | Continue reading


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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Entangled’ by Gabriel Jason Dean and Charly Evon Simpson

Entangled is a departure from The Amoralists' wonted gritty realism. This epistolary two-hander by G | Continue reading


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Movie Review: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ – The Ending We Didn’t Want But Needed

The challenge of writing a review for the latest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ave | Continue reading


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Music Review: VulgarGrad – ‘The Odessa Job’

It seems like everyone is worried about Russian troll farms interfering in elections these days. How | Continue reading


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NAB 2019: The Making of ‘Apollo 11’

Rarely does a documentary film not only relate past events, but along the way preserve the culture a | Continue reading


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SXSW Music Festival 2019: March 15 (Austin, Texas)

Sleep deprivation hit me hard on Friday, March 15, 2019. Trying to maximize a weeklong South By Sout | Continue reading


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‘Star Wars: Episode IX’ Trailer – Shivering Me Timbers

I just saw the trailer for Star Wars: Episode IX and, while it only runs 2:07 minutes, I f | Continue reading


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NAB 2019: Opening Day Honors Alan Alda and Looks to Future

During the opening ceremonies of its annual meeting, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) | Continue reading


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PAX East 2019 Videogame Preview: ‘Control’

On the First day of PAX East media get an hour on the show floor before the main crowds are let in. | Continue reading


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PAX East 2019 – Day Three Preview – ‘Wrath: Aeon of Ruin and Astroneer’

I found myself losing a bit of steam on the third day of PAX East but once I hit the show floor I go | Continue reading


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The Social Side of PAX East

In a previous article I had discussed the core PAX East experience as you wander the halls of the ma | Continue reading


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PAX East 2019 Videogame Preview: ‘Mistover’

As a monstrous fan of Darkest Dungeon I was very interested in checking out Mistover at PAX East whi | Continue reading


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PAX East 2019 – Day Two Preview – ‘Falcon Age, Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain and Chernobylite’

After a full first day of PAX East I was tired but exhilarated, the expo hall is so huge I had barel | Continue reading


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The PAX East Experience

I think it's important to talk about what it's like to simply experience a conference like the Penny | Continue reading


@blogcritics.org | 5 years ago

Theater/Opera Review (NYC): Ivo van Hove’s Staging of ‘Diary of One Who Disappeared’ by Leoš Janáček

Leoš Janáček's song cycle Diary of One Who Disappeared deserves to be heard more often. Inspired by | Continue reading


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Blu-ray Review: ‘The Brokenwood Mysteries: Series 5’

Murder and mayhem in a small country community is just that much more appealing than when it takes p | Continue reading


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Concert Review: Cellist Inbal Segev – ’21st Century Women’

New York-based cellist Inbal Segev continues to expand her range. At her concert last week at Roulet | Continue reading


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SXSW Music Festival 2019: Preview (March 11–17, Austin, Texas)

Is there any definitive way to prepare for South by Southwest? If there is, I have not discovered it | Continue reading


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‘Blogcritics’ – An Appreciation

  Thinking about my many years here at Blogcritics, I appreciate the profound impact this exper | Continue reading


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Blu-ray Review: ‘Mystery Road: Series 1’

Acorn Media has just released the six part Australian mini-series Mystery Road: Series 1 as a two di | Continue reading


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SXSW 2019 Preview: Film, Music, Culture and Faster, Maybe

As SXSW enters its 33rd year, the event promises to be bigger, more exciting, and include changes to | Continue reading


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Movie Review: Guto Parente’s Satirical ‘The Cannibal Club’

The Cannibal Club, Brazilian director/screenwriter Guto Parente's darkly satirical comedy, paints a | Continue reading


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