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Film Extras: THE BEST-RATED MARVEL MOVIES OF ALL TIME
The Best-Rated Marvel Movies of All Time The game-changing Iron Man from 2008, which launched a franchise with massiveness in mind, is considered to be the official start of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With Eternals making waves at the box office and Shang-Chi and Legend of the Ten Rings injecting the MCU with a blast…
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Film Recommendation: SIMCHAS AND SORROWS (directed by Genevieve Adams)
A new romantic comedystarring Thomas McDonnell, Hari Nef, Annelise Cepero, Chip Zien and John Cullum opens 9/16 & Digital VOD 9/20 SIMCHAS AND SORROWS is an independent romantic comedy about a secular, free-spirited artist and former Catholic school girl, Agnes, who must come to terms with religion in order to marry the love of her life – Levi. Shocked by…
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Music Recommendation: 32nd SAN JOSE JAZZ SUMMER FEST
An Electrifying Artist Lineup For One of the Summer’s Major SF Bay Area Music Festivals Friday, August 12 – Sunday, August 14, 2022 Plaza de César Chavez Park, Downtown San Jose, Calif. Tickets On Sale Now (Tickets: $30 – $170/Day; $75 – $495/3-Day Passes; $10/Children 5-12) Silicon Valley’s premier annual music event,  San Jose Jazz Summer…
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Music Recommendation: SUMMER OF BEETHOVEN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL (Doheny Mansion, July 14-17, 2022)
SUMMER OF LOVE Once while in Salzburg, I happened upon a chamber concert in a private home. Our host explained that compositions for piano, trio, sonatas, quartets, and quintets were designed for intimate spaces such as the luxuriant parlor we sat in. The sound of the music, so close to your soul, was unlike anything…
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Event: WEST SIDE STORY (2021) IN CONCERT (Hollywood Bowl)
WEST SIDE STORY (2021) IN CONCERT Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil bring to life the score of Steven Spielberg’s celebrated new film adaptation of the legendary musical as it’s projected on the big screens Tuesday, July 12 and Thursday, July 14, 2022, at 8 p.m. PT Photo: Niko Tavernise ©2021 20th Century Studios As part…
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Album Recommendation: SONDHEIM UNPLUGGED: THE NYC SESSIONS – VOLUME ONE
PLUGGING INTO SONDHEIM Every song in this collection is fabulous, from the standards to the more obscure songs from the Sondheim cannon. Any collection like this will be a mixed bag. Sure there are some great interpretations, but there are others which don’t always do justice to the originals. Still, the voices are outsyanding: Blaine…
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Film Screening: THE COWBOYS (50th Anniversary at John Wayne: An American Experience in Fort Worth, TX)
When The Cowboys premiered in 1972, it was one of the biggest hits of the year. It is best remembered for launching the careers of several young actors, as well as being one of only a small handful of movies in which John Wayne’s character dies. The 50th anniversary celebration of The Cowboys will feature three days of events, including…
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Free Events: SUNSET CONCERTS (Skirball Cultural Center)
SUNSET CONCERTS Thursday evenings, July 21–August 25, 2022, at 8:00 pm From beloved Sunset Concerts alumni to up-and-coming international performers, this season offers artistry and storytelling that harnesses music’s unique power to bring communities together, forge cultural bonds, and move hearts and minds. Visit Skirball for more info. Visitors are encouraged to arrive early to…
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Film: NO LONGER SUITABLE FOR USE (Tribeca Film Festival)
Sam Rockwell and Mark Berger’s Play Hooky Productions presents writer and director Julian Joslin’s riveting new live action short, No Longer Suitable for Use. with a World Premiere next month at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. Joslin’s screenplay draws from his firsthand experiences working on terrorism cases in NYC Samir (Ramy’s Laith Nakli), a Syrian-Egyptian immigrant, has…
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Album Review and Recommendation: CAROL SLOANE: LIVE AT BIRDLAND (Club 44 Records)
SLOANE AND EASY [Editor’s Note: It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Carole Sloane on January 23, 2023, at the age of 85. An Announcement is reprinted below.] In 1963 Carol Sloane said, “I want to be one of these persons who have been around a long time.” Check. Did you…
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THE ROLLING STONES: LICKED LIVE IN NEW YORK (2 CD and Blu-ray, Remixed/Remastered, Explicit)
LICKED LIVE To celebrate their 40th anniversary, The Rolling Stones embarked on a worldwide tour in 2002 and 2003 that would cover 117 shows in a variety of theatres, arenas and stadiums. This show captures their January 2003 performance at Madison Square Garden in New York City and features a guest appearance from Sheryl Crow on “Honky…
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Album Recommendation: JOHN WILLIAMS VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 2 (Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin)
John Williams and Anne-Sophie MutterReunite for World Premiere Recordingof the Composer’s Violin Concerto No. 2– Written Especially for Mutter Alongside Three Film Themes in SpecialNew Arrangements by Williams Out Today, June 3, 2022 on Deutsche Grammophon “Marion’s Theme” from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost ArkMusic Video Out Today, June 4 Watch the Music Video…
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Album Recommendation: THIS ONE’S FOR JOEY (Keith Oxman)
When acclaimed tenor saxophonist and educator Keith Oxman learned that one of his former students, bassist Joey Pearlman, had passed away in February 2021 at the age of 24, Oxman decided to create a recording paying tribute to the brilliant young man who’d already earned a place on the New York scene. This One’s for…
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Album Recommendation: AMY WINEHOUSE: LIVE AT GLASTONBURY 2007 (Coming to vinyl on June 3, 2022)
Here comes the release of Live at Glastonbury 2007 – the iconic performance of Amy Winehouse’s Pyramid Stage set at Glastonbury 2007, coming to vinyl for the very first time on Friday, June 3, 2022. Glastonbury co-organizer Emily Eavis commented, “Amy Winehouse was a Glastonbury-goer through and through. She either came and played or, when she wasn’t working,…
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Music Preview: WILD UP (Los Angeles New Music)
WILD UP’S NEW HOME-BASED SERIES, LOS ANGELES NEW MUSIC, PLAYS MAY 15 – JULY 10, 2022 “For a decade, we’ve been exporting LA culture. Now, we’re beginning a home series here in LA.” – Christopher Rountree, Artistic Director of Wild Up Wild Up, LA’s ruling new music collective, greets the season of renewal with Los Angeles New…
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Album Review: BIG CRAZY LOVE (Courtney Freed)
FALL IN BIG CRAZY LOVE WITH COURTNEY FREED Ah, let the worries of the world simply melt away as chanteuse Courtney Freed takes you on a journey with her breezy new album Big Crazy Love. With a very wide and break-free range, and lightly tittering vibrato, Freed offers her own accessible tunes (“When We Were…
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Album Recommendation: A CHORUS LINE (Original Spanish Cast Recording with Antonio Banderas)
¡HOLA, A CHORUS LINE! The cast album of Antonio Banderas’s acclaimed Spanish production of A Chorus Line, the first-ever Spanish language recording of the iconic musical, is now available on CD in Spain and on streaming and digital platforms worldwide. And it’s a blast. I have been collecting foreign language cast albums for decades and this is among…
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Jazz Album Recommendation: TAKE ME TO THE RIVER: NEW ORLEANS (Soundtrack out April 29, 2022 on Petaluma Records)
The new film Take Me To The River: New Orleans follows director Martin Shore’s 2014 award-winning film Take Me To The River, which documented the musical influence of Memphis. “Memphis told the American music story. New Orleans is a story of how World music was created,” says Shore on his decision to document New Orleans. The…
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Jazz Album Recommendation: GUITAR AND ME (Aleksi Glick)
EXQUISITE Warm, breezy, intricate, intimate, deft, and all together lovely, Guitar and Me, out this week, is the debut solo release from New York-based guitarist Aleksi Glick. The album plays as a genealogy of the guitar, weaving through various musical styles that have been crucial to the guitar’s evolution as well as influential to Glick’s…
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Album Recommendation: SHERYL: MUSIC FROM THE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY (UMe/Big Machine Records)
SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT On March 11, a full-length documentary film directed by Amy Scott, entitled Sheryl about the singer-songwriter’s life and career, will premiere at SXSW, ahead of a spring premiere on SHOWTIME. An intimate story of song and sacrifice, Sheryl navigates an iconic yet arduous musical career while the artist battles sexism, ageism, depression, cancer, and…
Music Review: NELLIE McKAY (City Vineyard)
by Rob Lester | April 29, 2026
in Cabaret, New YorkOff-Broadway Review: BROKEN SNOW (Theatre 71)
by Gregory Fletcher | April 28, 2026
in New York, TheaterTheater Review: THE SECRET SHARER (DNAWorks at Emerson Paramount Center)
by Lynne Weiss | April 27, 2026
in Boston, TheaterBroadway Review: JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE (Barrymore Theatre)
by Paola Bellu | April 25, 2026
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