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Author Interview: Heather Cox Richardson on “Democracy Awakening”

September 22, 2023
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“The book in many ways is a defense of liberalism. It’s a defense of the idea that that’s really what the government should do in a democracy. The liberal consensus is what happens when you actually let people vote.”

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Theater Commentary: Impressions of Canada’s Shaw Festival 2023, Part Two

September 23, 2023
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Canada is far enough from New York and Broadway to ignore their siren drum beats.

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Children’s Book Reviews: Stories for Kids about Empowerment, Protest Movements, and Multiculturalism

August 28, 2023
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A trio of books for kids about combating injustice.

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Film Commentary: The Heights and Depths, the Rise and Fall, of Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”

August 27, 2023
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In the end, what strikes me most about “Vertigo” is its melancholy, its aura of grief, its mood of inevitable, irredeemable loss.

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Film Review: “Bad Things” — The Legacy of “The Shining”

August 24, 2023
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“Bad Things” tries out a lot of ideas, many of them good, but a crisis in identity results in slapdash execution.

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Film Review: “Bad Things” – Two Star Hotel

August 23, 2023
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Billed as a queer woman’s spin on “The Shining,” “Bad Things” is a much more entertaining film in concept than it is in execution.

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August Short Fuses — Materia Critica

August 2, 2023
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Music Interview: Chatting with Liz Stokes of The Beths

July 24, 2023
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Lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist Liz Stokes talked about the making of The Beths’s most recent album, why the band isn’t called The Lizzes, and if fans can expect to ever hear her play trumpet.

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Fuse Album Review: Singer Songwriter Bryan McPherson — Protester and Performer

June 23, 2015
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Bryan McPherson has come a long way from writing songs in the room next to mine in North Cambridge and then busking at Porter and Harvard Squares.

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Music Interview: Guitarist and Singer Tobin Sprout — the George Harrison of Guided by Voices

July 10, 2014
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Since then, they have remained as indefatigable as ever in terms of writing, recording, and touring.

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