Month: September 2014

Book Interview: Marion Elizabeth Rodgers on the Expanded “Days” of H. L. Mencken

September 25, 2014
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In The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition, H. L. Mencken comes off as a marvelously mellowed master, his trademark savagery smoothed over, its energy focused on generating a pungently picturesque vision of a vanished America.

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Concert Review: Glenn Tilbrook — Not By Squeeze Alone

September 24, 2014
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Never mind all the timeless melodies Glenn Tilbrook’s written: Anyone who can rhyme the name Persephone with “incessantly” deserves immortality for that alone.

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Book Review: Daniel Kehlmann’s “F” — An Amusing Look at Our Disjunctive Modern Life

September 24, 2014
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In F, vertigo is often palpable. Evil exists. “The terrifying beauty of things” does, too.

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Fuse News: Julie Burros — Boston’s first Chief of Arts and Culture in Over 20 Years.

September 23, 2014
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Mayor Walsh Announces Cabinet Level Chief of Arts and Culture. Important step in ongoing elevation of arts in Boston, Appointee led Chicago’s cultural planning process.

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Film Review: “The Better Angels” — Nurturing the Young Abe Lincoln

September 23, 2014
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The most striking part of The Better Angels is its cinematography. The naked branches on the thick, gray trees are silhouetted against a sky that seems unable to hold sunlight.

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Music Interview: Beth Harrington on The Carters, The Cashes, and the Course of Country Music

September 23, 2014
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“The music itself is quite Gothic. It’s about murder, and death, and God, not all toe tapping stuff.”

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Music Feature: “Don’t Look Back” – Talking With Barry Tashian of The Remains

September 22, 2014
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“And the pot was very good. I don’t know if you want to print that or not.”

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Jazz Preview: The 2014 Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival

September 22, 2014
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Boston’s premier outdoor jazz event, the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, returns to Boston’s South End for a fourteenth year this Saturday, with drummer Terri Lyne Carrington back at the helm again as the artistic director.

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Book Review: “In Certain Circles” and “The Last Lover” — The Powerful and The Disappointing

September 22, 2014
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Elizabeth Harrower’s In Certain Circles is a stunning novel about class and marriage and power; Can Xue’s The Last Lover is a tedious surrealistic farce.

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Books Interview: Heather Cox Richardson on the History of the Republican Party — Going Full Circle

September 22, 2014
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In this book, Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson explores the (d)evolution of the Republican Party from its founding in 1854 through the presidency of George W. Bush.

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