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Year of the Month

Year of the Month

“She Was the Happiest Corpse I’d Ever Seen”: Cabaret and the Show That Didn’t End

April 9, 2020

History gets refracted multiple times in the many productions of this musical.

Year of the Month

Shining violence in the city: After Dark, featuring Italians Do It Better and Johnny Jewel

February 19, 2020

The Italians Do It Better label compilation is the perfect introduction to the mid-2000s Italo-disco revival

Year of the Month

No One Left to Listen: Family and Loss in There Will Be Blood

February 6, 2020

“We offer you the bond of family that very few oilmen can understand.”

Year of the Month

What’s Up, Doc? The Cartoonish Mayhem of Shoot ‘Em Up

February 4, 2020

The 2007 action film is a gleefully over-the-top, hyper-stylized thrill ride of fun that never lets up

Year of the Month

The Thin Man (and Family Memories)

January 14, 2020

Pour me another drink, darling.

Year of the Month

I’ve Found a Love of My Own: “Blue Moon”

January 13, 2020

A fine selection from the Great American Songbook.

Year of the Month

Little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously: Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde

December 29, 2019

On Bob Dylan's masterwork, and the parallels between it and the author's life

Year of the Month

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are (Still) Dead

December 12, 2019

Getting bumped up to center stage won’t save you.

Year of the Month

We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn’t dead then: The absurd influence of Police Squad!

November 18, 2019

Police Squad's deadpan absurdity and density of gags would go on to inspire some very funny works

Year of the Month

Now she’s gone, and I’m back on the beat: Squeeze, Singles 45s and Under

November 13, 2019

The band's first greatest-hits collection, covering the period before their initial breakup, is full of diverse, witty, mature power-pop gems