FILM (reviews)
The Help, The Guard
The Help feels slightly fake to me. The film lacks the delicate magic of the movie version of To Kill a Mockingbird; it feels cheaper and more obvious, its characters more lacking in nuance and believability.
Miles David Moore

DANCE
The Many Gifts of Lissa Resnick
When as a teenager Lissa Resnick first met choreographer Alan Scofield he introduced her to the "human side of dance." The ironies in this statement begin with the notion that dance is inseparable from the body.
Catherine Conway Honig

OPERA
Four Saints in Three Acts: An Installation
Gertrude Stein's opera at San Francisco's Summer of Stein.The San Francisco Chronicle called it "a little silly and naïve," and was it?
Renate Stendhal

POETRY
What Poets Can Learn from Songwriters
At a time when too many poets have so purged their "poetry" of repetition and melody that it reads and sounds like outright prose, songwriters continue to satisfy a human craving that cannot and should not be denied.
David Alpaugh

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