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MUSIC

Isaiah Rashad Is Just a (Very Talented) Dude

The Chattanooga native raps his way through the good, the bad, and the 12 steps in between, and doesn't care how long it takes.

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FILM

Review: The Drama in Lance Oppenheim’s ‘Primetime’ Docudrama Barely Rises to Documentary Level

In the aughts, “To Catch a Predator” delivered a sordid stew of sting operations and sanctimony, but a new retelling is thin gruel.

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FILM

A Sisyphean Tale: ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Screenwriter Samy Burch on the Power of Persistence

Like the little coyote that could, the scenarist kept going though every obstacle thrown in her path.

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SEVEN DECADES

In 2003, Reading Up On John Coltrane’s Contemplation and Invention

A book worth another look asked musicians of the early Aughts what they heard when the jazz titan broke through to the other side.

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SEVEN DECADES

The John Coltrane Guide

From sideman to mesmerizer to evangelical to interstellar space.

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VOICE CHOICE

A Two-Fer From a Pulitzer Nominee Goes In and Out

Author Ed Park has a lot to talk about at upcoming local book events, including his offbeat take on the memoir and his update of a seminal dose of metafiction.

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FILM

Review: ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Slashes a Genre With Wit and Mint Details

Jane Schoenbrun’s inspired new film gets meta about a Final Girl now too old for her franchise, even as she lives within it.

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NYC SITES

Ground Control: The Serendipitous Art of the Streets

It’s always a good time to take your eyes off the screen and really look where you're going.

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ART ARCHIVES

Finding Beauty Underfoot and On High

Pat Place and David Hepher hit the streets to find concrete beauty.

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FILM

Review: Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ Lands Viewers in Cinema Purgatory

The auteur of the “Pusher” trilogy can no longer find his way through the dry-ice fog of his puerile obsessions.

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