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Is there a doctor in the house? That's the question John Hoffman, a veteran boxer and fight promoter, asked at a recent event at the Myth Nightclub in Maplewood. Under state...
Communal frenzy rarely comes as tuneful and specific as Black Mountain's new full-length, In the Future. Working with time-honored elements of prog and folk-rock, the...
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the...
Christ encountering journalism Skepticism, fear, and paranoia about things Christian is neither surprising nor always unjustified from people turned off or hurt by the...
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An unusually blunt melodrama by David Gordon Green, melodious poet of such sentimental delicacies as George Washington and All the Real Girls, Snow Angels introduces a pair of...
Good manners, as the saying goes, don't cost anything—unless, it turns out, you pay a local etiquette maven for lessons in the finer points of tableware and the...