Matthew Cawthon

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ARTS Pick: The Embers

Still glowing With global warming now confirmed, the weather is sure to go straight to hot, with scorching...

ARTS Pick: Or,

The 17th-century never looked as wildly seductive as it does within the world of Aphra Behn. There’s a war in the...

ARTS Pick: The Memorandum

What goes around If you think that bureaucracy and red tape are absurd, Czech playwright Václav Havel couldn’t agree...

ARTS Pick: Immortal Technique

Playing it forward A year behind bars during the early years was not entirely lost time for Felipe Coronel. It gave...

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Chick flicks Critics talk a lot about the male cinematic gaze and the masculine domination of film throughout the...

ARTS Pick: Jessye Norman

Uber achiever The richly talented Jessye Norman is not a standard singer. To clarify, she does sing standards, as...

ARTS Pick: Aziz Ansari

Victory laugh In 2007, when MTV’s sketch comedy and surprise hit “Human Giant” was just underway, Aziz Ansari seemed...

ARTS Pick: DJ Shadow

Press play Endtroducing… dropped all the way back in 1996, but DJ Shadow’s experiment in instrumental hip-hop brought...

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Prison riot Even Shakespeare and John Fletcher knew that the rewrite of a Chaucer poem took some serious guts back in...

ARTS Pick: Michael Clem Trio

Folk lure According to the bio section on Michael Clem’s official website, he doesn’t take himself terribly seriously...