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Music & Opera
The fallacy of ‘The Voice’
What was Mahler thinking? (1st comment)
The great debate: Sackbut or trombone?
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Music & Opera Reviews
Tempesta di Mare: Four Baroque entertainments
Yannick conducts Mahler and Hilary Hahn (2nd review)
Rattle and Lang Lang with the Orchestra
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Art & Architecture
Denise Scott Brown, ignored for a Pritzker
The Barnes raises its rates
Who needs architecture school?
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Art & Architecture Reviews
Serge Zhukov at F.A.N. Gallery
Albrecht Dürer at National Gallery in D.C.
Norma Minkowitz at Snyderman-Works Gallery
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Theater
‘Macbeth’ in London, violence everywhere
The education of Toby Zinman
Mamet’s ‘The Anarchist’ and its audience
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Theater Reviews
Bruce Graham’s ‘North of the Boulevard’
‘Orphans’ on Broadway: The Boston Marathon link
‘Pippin,’ ‘Kinky Boots’ and ‘Matilda’ on Broadway
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Dance
Why I love ‘Dancing with the Stars’
Can dance reach young audiences?
How kids see ‘The Nutcracker’ (3rd helping)
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Dance Reviews
Ira Glass’s ‘One Radio Host, Two Dancers’
Savion Glover’s ‘Dance Space’ at Academy of Music
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet: Doing something right
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Books & Movies
Learning to love ‘The Avengers’
Roosevelt’s Hyde Park hideaway
Mary Roach cruises the alimentary canal
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Book & Movie Reviews
Mumia again: Stephen Vittoria’s ‘Long Distance Revolutionary’
Mary Sue Welsh’s ‘One Woman in a Hundred’
Robert Redford’s ‘The Company You Keep’
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Cross-Cultural
Banality as an art form
One more time: Freedom vs. security
The Gosnell trial and the abortion debate
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Cross-Cultural Reviews
Hooked on ‘Project Runway’
Behind the scenes at the Penn Museum
HBO’s ‘Girls’: Where feminism failed
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