Category Archives: Reviews & Commentary

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Sterling Plumpp salutes Von Freeman

Von Freeman, one of Chicago’s titanic tenors, passed away this August, and his passing brought to mind the most beautiful lines ever written about him: “Be-Bop is precise clumsiness.       Awkward lyricism       under a feather’s control. A world in a crack. … Continue reading

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The Five-Year Engagement: Just Believe!

In The Five-Year Engagement Tom (Jason Segel) and Violet (Emily Blunt) have put off their marriage for career reasons, broken up, gotten involved with others, but finally give in to what seems an inevitable love.  In one of the movie’s … Continue reading

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Reviews List

The lists below create easier access to Reviews and a more compact overview of them than you would get by clicking on the “Reviews & Commentary” category. —Links go live when reviews become available.— FILM, VIDEO, POETRY, ART: Amadeus: The … Continue reading

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