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Laughter — more than any melody, lyric or conversation — categorizes the rehearsal.  It’s a Saturday afternoon, and Strictly Platonic, one of Yale’s hottest bands […]

September 8, 2022

February 25, 2021

I like to consider myself a snob when it comes to cinema. Not only do I think that I have impeccable taste in films and […]

October 15, 2020

Historically, cinema has not been good to gay people. Or women. Or especially not gay women. Few films depict lesbians, and when they do, the […]

February 28, 2020

Two warnings: this review is full of spoilers, and Fleishman Is In Trouble contains lots and lots of detailed descriptions of dating-app encounters. The story […]

February 7, 2020

Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory. Yale University Press, 2018. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 24, 2019–January 12, 2020 My […]

February 6, 2020

One of the darkest bits in the canon of Martin Scorsese’s films is the “Pretty Face” sequence in “Raging Bull.” Jake LaMotta, the paranoid, abusive […]

November 22, 2019

Before this review gets started, let’s get some things straight. Fleabag is funny. Hilarious, even. When rewatching the second season of the show for this […]

October 4, 2019

Orange, strong and monochrome, stares me in the eye in direct conflict with an otherwise empty room with blank white walls and wood floors. Light […]

September 13, 2019

Louis DeFelice ’19’s apartment is wired like an underground concert venue. Cables connect a series of speakers to each other, a keyboard and a record […]

April 26, 2019

The group was A Far Cry, in name and from expectations. On Tuesday, three-time Grammy-nominated and self-conducted chamber orchestra A Far Cry presented “Gravity,” an […]

April 19, 2019