Month: September 2013

TV Review: “Breaking Bad” Ends Well — “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”

September 30, 2013
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Over the past five years of Breaking Bad, the chemistry of fate has run its course.

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Visual Arts Review: “Dilated Biography — Contemporary Cuban Narratives”

September 30, 2013
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Curator Jorge Antonio Fernández succeeds, for the most part, in creating a stimulating show that is held together by formal and conceptual associations, not just political concerns.

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Theater Preview: When Puppets Go Hungry

September 29, 2013
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Hunger is hunger but each hungry person experiences it in his or her own way. That insight is at the heart of the remarkable, socially engaged toy theater production Who’s Hungry.

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Jazz Album Review: Fred Hersch and Julian Lage — Gloriously “Free Flying”

September 29, 2013
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One of the remarkable aspects of these duets is that almost nowhere is either player — Fred Hersch or Julian Lage — reduced to mere comping.

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Album Review: Blitzen Trapper Holds Steady with “VII”

September 28, 2013
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Overall, VII finds Blitzen Trapper maintaining its musical muscle even though its lyricist occasionally struggles.

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Concert Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra plays Mahler’s Symphony no. 2

September 28, 2013
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If Thursday’s performance of Mahler’s Second Symphony by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus was marked by some untidiness, the broad picture to emerge was one of often thrilling, Apollonian grandeur.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week (Updated)

September 27, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.

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Film Review: “Blue Caprice” — A Scary Evocation of Killing Field Senselessness

September 27, 2013
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Director-writer Alexandre Moors, a Parisian living in New York City, builds a credible narrative story of the killer team in the months before their death spree.

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Arts Commentary: To Stay or Not to Stay? Copley Place’s fountain faces an uphill battle

September 26, 2013
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Today, the fountain at Copley Place feels embarrassing in some way; not its form or execution, but its very existence.

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Concert Review: Travis Live at House of Blues — Standing Tall

September 26, 2013
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“Return to form” is a little too easy, but if you miss the “old” Travis, then the new album, Where You Stand, is the one you’ve been waiting for.

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