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Tar A Symphony Like the World The film is a rich and immersive experience as she becomes the emblem of all those who live in an unreal world. Miles David Moore
Flora An Iris, A Tulip, Ferns and more The Photography of Jon Rendell
Natee Tubtimthong นที ทับทิมทอง Combining classical styles with modern ideas. Janine Yasovant
Cirque du Soleil Re-Imagines 'Twas the Night Before Christmas The company's first-ever Christmas production. Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold
Cordelia and My Ears Grief – the thing that rips away all armor and turns the body into nothing more than a bare nerve ending. Why would evolution ever select for such a thing?. Michael Bettencourt Silver and Gold There, that ought to do it. Now wave goodbye to anguished 2022 and smile hopefully at 2023, asking… What's New?. Arthur Danin Adler 1st Violin So I missed my narc zoom tonight. I had been thinking about it and had it on my calendar but cruised straight through. It was 7:30 before I remembered, so too late. Claudine Jones Time I feel constrained (or liberated) in discovering some cosmic truth about time through the lens of various songwriters – usually in the span of three minutes. Les Marcott 100 Years in the Waste Land Possibly the most famous—for some, notorious—English poem of the 20th century was published in October 1922. T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land". Gregory Luce Rabbits Island This rail route to Rabbits Island held one more challenge, one more dose of maximum adventure. Just as trains roll over trestles, they sometimes roar through tunnels. Patrick Walsh
The Hours—Choosing Life Over Suicide 'How to be in the world' is the subject of a new opera in a simulcast of a live Metropolitan Opera performance. Karren Alenier
Baum Ahead of His Time
The Media's all in a sweat about robots taking over. But if built like Baum's Tik Tok—no need to fuss. He's gentle, loyal, caring, helpful to everyone in OZ. (And a hell of a lot less dangerous than most of us!) David Alpaugh
The Stranger Face of the Friend Then, with no warning that anything unusual might occur, I experienced an outpouring of creative energy, as explosive as a pyroclastic flow. Brian George
Matisse in the 1930s The pleasure of seeing works by Matisse. Karren Alenier
An Intimate Memorial Account of Kandinsky: Thomas de Hartmann This man was loved by all who knew him, and for whom he has not died. Jelena Hahl-Fontaine and Lissa Tyler Renaud
Letter to John Rueschhoff Martes Gordo [Carnaval] is over but there is always a carnival in Vera Cruz, a Coney Island of the mind if nothing else. We are living on another planet here. David Wiley
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Abstraction, Reloaded The Art of Philip Gerstein
The Art of SS. Burrus A Retrospective
When the Earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people will appear on the Earth
Patrick Nagel It's in the Eyes
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The Man Who Killed The Song Altenir Silva Thank God, my father never became a hitman, but, for an irony of destiny, I'm sitting here on this sofa that stinks like a climber's shoe, waiting to know details about my new job.
The Square Harriet Halliday Renaud Anton Tillis, urban designer, professor of City and Regional Planning, conceived of The Square while a condemned corner rooming house burned down.
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Theatre Thoughts An entertaining array of audio essays on an array of theatre topics by an astute and entertaining essayist
You Don't Say! Occasional Musings by an occasionally amused writer
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Undress Me In a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undress her, by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue
Light Fantastic Weighty matters of brain neurons and addiction, two kisses, single-malt scotch, the green dance of blue, yellow lasers
Ear Buds What happens when we love our devices — and they love us back
The Greed Gene A young couple is told by their genetic counselor that their child has the greed gene, there is nothing they can do
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