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Jazz Concert Review: Portrait of Composer/Pianist Ran Blake — Celebrating 85 Years

March 25, 2021
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Ran Blake was in fine form at the festivities as were the New England Conservatory faculty and student participants.

Book Review: “The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar” — A Formalist Critic’s Picaresque Novel

March 25, 2021
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A new complete translation of the most accomplished novel by Yury Tynyanov, an innovative Russian man of letters during the experimental 1920s.

Book Review: “The Recent East” — Exploring Seldom Seen Territory

March 25, 2021
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Thomas Grattan, a New Yorker with German roots, displays an observant eye and a way with dialogue in his first novel.

Book Review: “¡Printing the Revolution! — The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now”

March 24, 2021
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There’s a looseness, a jagged brio that gives the images in ¡Printing the Revolution! a visual bang — a kind of primal pop.

Film Review: “The Last Blockbuster” — A Nostalgia Trip to Video Heaven

March 24, 2021
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Could it be, I dream, that a resurgence in local video shops much be in the cards, like the vinyl record stores that are popping up everywhere now?

Arts Remembrance: Jeff Breeze, Host of WMBR’s “Pipeline”

March 22, 2021
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“I don’t believe that there has been a stronger advocate for local music than Jeff Breeze. Nobody cared more about local music than him — nobody.”

Shelter in Place Attractions: March 21 through April 6 — What Will Light Your Home Fires

March 21, 2021
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In the age of COVID-19, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music — mostly available by streaming — for the coming weeks. More offerings will be added as they come in.

Jazz Album Review: Big Bands, Ian Charleton and Schapiro17

March 21, 2021
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Two big bands, two different sides of the tradition.

Film Review: “Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched” — Definitive Documentary on Folk Horror

March 20, 2021
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There’s no question in my mind that Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched will remain the definitive work on the history of folk horror for many years to come.

Book Review: “Mona” — No Prisoners Taken

March 19, 2021
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It isn’t always easy being beautiful, brainy, and talented.

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