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	<title>The Reality-Based Community &#187; Arts reviews</title>
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	<description>Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.</description>
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		<title>Red Tails</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/arts-reviews/red-tails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harold Pollack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A sweet distraction from a depressing GOP primary.]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Hussein Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/politics-and-leadership/barack-hussein-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/politics-and-leadership/barack-hussein-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clash of Civilizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ground Zero Mosque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This video  is the most elegant iteration I&#8217;ve seen of the dialogue on the left about the President.  What&#8217;s so amazing about &#8220;Barack Hussein Obama,&#8221; written and directed by Jamil Khoury, is that both sides are treated with respect.  And what a shame that should be amazing! Khoury is Artistic Director of the Chicago theater [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens at His Best, on Anthony Powell</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/literature/christopher-hitchens-at-his-best-on-anthony-powell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/literature/christopher-hitchens-at-his-best-on-anthony-powell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthony powell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christopher hitchens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Because Christopher Hitchens&#8217; oeuvre is both enormous in size and uneven in quality, it&#8217;s a challenge to sort his finest writing out from the bits that are merely barstool rants or contrarianism for its own sake (Like other people, I was always suspicious that when Hitchens was ripping into Mother Theresa or some other cultural [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>WTF (music)</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/popular-culture/wtf-music/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/popular-culture/wtf-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rolling Stone has a list titled &#8220;The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time&#8221;.  Not &#8220;&#8230;of the specific time and style of music my little world encompasses,&#8221; and &#8220;&#8230;where great means &#8220;even I sort of understand it, it&#8217;s got a good beat, nice to dance to&#8221;: greatest  of all time.  It is the kind of list [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>52</slash:comments>
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		<title>Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/spirituality-and-religion/perspective-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/spirituality-and-religion/perspective-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal moment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An essay on moral and painterly perspective, round a great paintind by Piero della Francesca]]></description>
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		<title>Final thoughts on &#8220;The Help.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/race-related-isms/22722/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/race-related-isms/22722/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 04:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harold Pollack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race & related -isms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Help‘s female antagonists were depicted cruelly and stereotypically. Allegorical denial of their humanity does a disservice to these perpetrators of racial injustice. Oddly enough, it also does a disservice to their victims. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Many Contributions of Sidney Lumet</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/arts-reviews/the-many-contributions-of-sidney-lumet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/arts-reviews/the-many-contributions-of-sidney-lumet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sidney lumet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The tributes to Hollywood legend Sindey Lumet are focusing mainly on &#8220;Twelve Angry Men&#8221;, &#8220;the Verdict&#8221; and &#8220;Dog Day Afternoon,&#8221; all worthy pieces of cinema (&#8220;Serpico&#8221; is less so, in my opinion). He deserves credit for at least two other things. First, he largely rescued Sean Connery from Bondage by casting him in meaty dramatic [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Can contemporary classical music survive disc brakes?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/arts-and-cultural-policy/can-contemporary-classical-music-survive-disc-brakes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/arts-and-cultural-policy/can-contemporary-classical-music-survive-disc-brakes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts and Cultural Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Danny Holt performed five numbers at Berkeley&#8217;s Center for New Music and Audio Technology last night.  Holt is a formidable performer who, in this incarnation, plays a piano while also surrounded by, and greatly engaged with, a bunch of stuff to hit with sticks and hammers. Having learned to play all this percussion and the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>To Tell Only Two Jokes About the Spiderman Musical Takes Self-Restraint</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/arts-reviews/to-tell-only-two-jokes-about-the-spiderman-musical-takes-self-restraint/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/arts-reviews/to-tell-only-two-jokes-about-the-spiderman-musical-takes-self-restraint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite dreadful notices, repeated delays and a series of actors either being strung up over the audience or dropped upon the audience onto the stage or into the orchestra pit (ht: Swift Loris), &#8220;Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark&#8221; is raking in over a million dollars a week. This calls to mind the apocryphal military officer&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Will the real anything please identify itself?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/uncategorized/will-the-real-anything-please-identify-itself/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/uncategorized/will-the-real-anything-please-identify-itself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts and Cultural Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rhetoric and Framing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Ross noted a couple months ago that the Metropolitan Opera&#8217;s new $16m Ring cycle was beginning . Is this a good use of resources in tough times? he asks. He makes a good try at arguing that Wagner, at least, is opera for everyone (Wagner&#8217;s views on the relationship of art to society were [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>They were careless people, Mick and Keef&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/popular-culture/they-were-careless-people-mick-and-keff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/popular-culture/they-were-careless-people-mick-and-keff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harold Pollack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They were careless people, Mick and Keef. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess....  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The road from serfdom</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/arts-reviews/the-road-from-serfdom-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/arts-reviews/the-road-from-serfdom-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transportation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ilya Repin´s painting  of Volga boatmen is not one of serfs.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Clive Donner, RIP</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/arts-reviews/clive-donner-rip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/arts-reviews/clive-donner-rip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Film buffs will mourn the passing of Clive Donner, a film director whose career peaked a long time ago and did not have enduring impact in the U.S. Much of the English new wave films, like the French new wave films of the same period, look a bit self-conscious and pretentious today, but Donner&#8217;s skill [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Breast-feeding Virgin</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/01/history/the-breast-feeding-virgin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/01/history/the-breast-feeding-virgin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=9825</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why some Gothic statues show a breastfeeding Virgin Mary,]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Goya on Gaza</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/01/international-affairs/middle-east-politics/goya-on-gaza/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/01/international-affairs/middle-east-politics/goya-on-gaza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A lesson from Goya's Duel with Cudgels.
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		<title>Politics and Art: Feminism and some humble pie</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/03/race-related-isms/politics-and-art-feminism-and-some-humble-pie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/03/race-related-isms/politics-and-art-feminism-and-some-humble-pie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts and Cultural Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race & related -isms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Brooklyn Museum hit the headlines several years ago playing its role in the wonderful piece of political theater set in motion when it exhibited Chris Ofili&#8217;s The Holy Virgin Mary . Growing up as a provincial Manhattanite of the classic sort, I had never made it to the BM until this weekend, when we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Christian Music&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/03/spirituality-and-religion/christian-music/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/03/spirituality-and-religion/christian-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[... doesn't include Byrd, Tallis, Taverner, Josquin, or Hildegard.  That's sad.
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		<title>Toys and art</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/02/arts-and-cultural-policy/toys-and-art/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/02/arts-and-cultural-policy/toys-and-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts and Cultural Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week I was trapped in an aluminum tube with the movie, Mr. Magorium&#8217;s Magical Emporium. This is a piece of fluff that wastes Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman on a deeply vacuous story about a magic toy store, and how you can do anything you want if you only believe, and how accountants and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything old is new again</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2007/11/arts-reviews/everything-old-is-new-again-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2007/11/arts-reviews/everything-old-is-new-again-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I saw the forgettable but reasonably charming food movie No Reservations (2007) in an airplane last week, and again tonight because my daughter brought it with her on a DVD labeled Ratatouille (2007) when she came home for Thanksgiving (I liked this version better, but more for the winking bank-shot references Pixar excels at &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cinema news: OWALW on DVD</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2007/06/arts-reviews/cinema-news-owalw-on-dvd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2007/06/arts-reviews/cinema-news-owalw-on-dvd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oh! What a Lovely War, an extraordinary movie from 1969 that records the first world war as a musical using actual songs from the period and real historical speeches and documents, intercutting fantasy scenes on the (now destroyed ) West Pier at Brighton with &#8220;realistic&#8221; battle footage, is just recently available on DVD ($13 at [...]]]></description>
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