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Music

Music Review: The Prophet Speaks

by Van Morrison
reviewed by John Malkin
Could it be that the answers we seek are right in front of us, but our ears haven’t been open to hear them? Van Morrison seems to have this in mind on his latest musical offering, …
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Music

Music Review: Stay Human, Vol. II

by Michael Franti & Spearhead
reviewed by Damon Orion
Since the 2001 release of Spearhead’s original Stay Human album, the band’s sound has edged away from funk, soul, R&B, and hip-hop in the direction of pop. Accordingly, while socia…
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Music

Music Review: The Cut of the Warrior

by Jarboe
reviewed by John Malkin
The Cut of the Warrior is an album about slicing through the ego and opening to compassion. These incantations by vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Jarboe are simultaneously exquisite…
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Film

Film Review: Genesis 2.0

by Christian Frei and Maxim Arbugaev
reviewed by Bilge Ebiri
Alternating between strikingly shot footage of ivory hunters in the New Siberian Islands north of Russia, looking for woolly mammoth tusks, and a gathering of young scientists in B…
Tags: • Genetics • Film Reviews
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Film

Film Review: A Quest for Meaning

by Nathanaël Coste and Marc de la Ménardière
reviewed by Bilge Ebiri
a Ménardière and Nathanaël Coste, one a slick, successful bottled water salesman, the other a documentarian who’s just made a film about water access in India, reconnect after many…
Tags: • Film Reviews