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Music Review: The Jungle Sessions
THE JUNGLE SESSIONS is the third album in a trilogy from sacred singer/guitarist Miten, following Temple at Midnight (2016) and Devotee (2019). These compassionate songs celebrate …Tags:
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Music Review: Music for Film & Theatre
HANIA RANI IS A bright emerging artist whose piano-based compositions are emotional and energized, drawing on a diversity of genres including classical, jazz, ambient, and electron…Tags:
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Books
Book Review: Anchored
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM has a playbook for handling threats. When we are dysregulated, disconnected, or healing from trauma, our usual playbook becomes unreliable. We freeze and capitul…
Books
Book Review: Sit Down to Rise Up
WHAT’S THE SECRET OF LIFE? The simple, but not necessarily easy, action of showing up, says mindfulness teacher Shelly Tygielski in Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can C…
Books
Book Review: A Human History of Emotion
EMOTIONS ARE one of the most universally experienced aspects of being human. We have all felt the rippling burn of anger and the calm comforting love we have for a close friend. Of…
Film
Film Review: Looking for a Lady With Fangs and a Mustache
In this gentle, playful drama, a Nepalese entrepreneur looking to open a cool new coffee shop in Kathmandu is plagued by mysterious visions. Could they be the result of his cava…
Film
Film Review: Stray
Five years ago, adventurous moviegoers were enchanted with Turkish director Ceyda Torun’s documentary about Istanbul’s street cats, Kedi, a small indie hit on the festival circui…
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Music Review: They’re Calling Me Home
If there’s an upside to the pandemic, it’s that it inspired creative endeavors like They’re Calling Me Home. Rhiannon Giddens, a native of North Carolina, recorded the album in …
Music
Music Review: We Are
We Are is the powerful new album from pianist/singer Jon Batiste, his first full-length studio album since Hollywood Africans in 2018. These 13 songs optimistically celebra…Tags:
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Books
Book Review: Heart Open, Body Awake
“Embodied” is a buzzword these days, flung around in an attempt to describe the effort to live grounded inside our physical selves. But what does it actually mean to be embodied…
