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Television Review: Season Five of “Hacks” — A Fabulous Dabulous Time

April 9, 2026
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“Hacks” has been one of the best sitcoms in recent years.

Book Review: Rene Karabash’s “She Who Remains” — A Balkan Tale of Gender, Law, and Survival

April 9, 2026
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However well or ill this smoldering novel works, it is undeniably compelling, with an ending neither tragic nor happy.

Film Review: “John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office” — A Sober Look at a Psychedelic Mind

April 8, 2026
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Faced with the bizarre evolution of John Lilly’s life and ideas, the directors were wise to refrain from sensationalism.

Theater Review: Spinning Kindness and Connection — “Charlotte’s Web” at Wheelock Family Theatre

April 8, 2026
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With its production of “Charlotte’s Web,” WFT has created a lovely, balanced experience — by turns obvious and full of nuance — that offers life lessons and the value of multigenerational sharing. 

Book Review: The Mouse That Ate the Movies — Vicky Osterweil Dissects Disney’s Cultural Monopoly

April 7, 2026
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Vicky Osterweil examines how Unca Walt’s empire imposes a politically dangerous, patriarchal form of homogenization across all its intellectual properties—from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to cartoons, to “Star Wars” films and shows, and to amusement park “experiences.”

Poetry Review: The Sound of Sighs Restored — A.M. Juster’s New “Canzoniere”

April 7, 2026
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What may look at first like exercises in verbal acrobatics — closely rhymed sonnets, delicate madrigals, intricate sestinas — are simultaneously expressions of confessional, personal anguish.

Classical Music Commentary: Boston’s Lost Opportunity — How the BSO Board Chose Charles Munch over Leonard Bernstein

April 6, 2026
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In Boston, Leonard Bernstein might have sustained Serge Koussevitzky’s bold adventure—and changed the course of American classical music. Today’s Boston Symphony is adrift

Concert Review: Puscifer Channels Dystopia and Redemption at the Boch Center Wang Theatre

April 6, 2026
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The messaging and its delivery were never self-righteous — Puscifer provoked rather than preached.

Classical Album Reviews: Ferdinand Hiller’s Symphonies — A Major Rediscovery from the Era of Mendelssohn and Schumann

April 6, 2026
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This is one of the most welcome, ear-opening recordings I’ve heard in recent years, easily capable of restoring Ferdinand Hiller to the position he once held as the composer of highly accomplished, enjoyable, and intriguing works.

Theater Review: Good Theater’s “Grand Horizons” — An Entertaining, At Times Unsettling, Domestic Dramedy

April 6, 2026
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A renovated and flexible performance space with unlimited free parking is what every theater company from Boston to Portland dreams of.

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