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Music
Music Review: Sacrament
Sacrament is an album of ritual music with a Native American flavor by multi-instrumentalist Byron Metcalf and vocalist Jennifer Grais. The flowing, rhythmic journey includes …
Film
Film Review: The Medicine
The medicine referred to in the title of Farzin Toussi’s documentary is ayahuasca, the fascinating, elaborate, and shamanic Amazonian concoction that the film seeks to promote as b…
Film
Film Review: Dark Waters
If you just read a synopsis, director Todd Haynes’ Dark Waters might seem like a standard-issue socially conscious legal drama. It’s based on the true story of attorney Robert…
Books
Book Review: You’re Not Listening
The New York Time’s Kate Murphy attempts to help us rediscover the lost art of listening in her new book.
Books
Book Review: I’ve Seen the End of You
In his new memoir, Dr. W. Lee Warren, a devout Christian and a practicing neurosurgeon, focuses mainly on the work he does with patients suffering from a nearly always fatal brain tumor called glioblastoma.
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• Memoir
Books
Book Review: Brain Wash
Austin and David Perlmutter's new book provides science-based practical lifestyle interventions for detoxing the brain to help foster clearer thinking, deeper relationships, and healthier habits.
Books
Book Review: The Way of the Rose
You might expect a book about the rosary and Marian apparitions to be written by strict Catholics. However, authors Clark Strand and Perdita Finn are a former Zen Buddhist monk and a feminist former teacher, respectively, and they were surprised to be called toward the rosary.
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• Rosary
Music
Music Review: Ghosteen
“With its frequently meandering melodies and wordy lyrics, Ghosteen is less an assembly of songs in the traditional sense than it is an unusually tuneful poetry reading.”
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• Music
Music
Music Review: Thanks for the Dance
Thanks for the Dance is a quintessential mix of Leonard Cohen’s melancholy humor, sentimental insights, and lost-love laments, with a hint of social-political critique.
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• Music
Film
Film Review: Gift
There is a radical utopianism at the heart of Gift, but for its 90-minute running time, Robin McKenna’s documentary makes you believe such a world is possible. The film, inspi…Tags:
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