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WATCH CLOSELY: “The Stand” Stumbles

January 26, 2021
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Though the cast is generally excellent, Stephen King’s characters are often at the mercy of wrongheaded writing or needlessly flashy special effects.

Visual Arts Review: Two Public Art Projects in Boston — Provocative Visual Expressions of the 21st Century

January 26, 2021
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Steeped in technology, non-traditional public art is about sparking conversations about visuals as well as playing with contemporary aesthetic perspectives.

Book Review: “Burning the Books” — The Never-ending War on the Preservation of Knowledge

January 25, 2021
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Burning the Books sometimes turns into  a disturbing chronicle of mankind’s elemental hostility to learning: barbarians often first targeted libraries and archives.

Book Feature: Remembering Norman Mailer

January 25, 2021
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Over six decades Norman Mailer managed, by turns, to engage and enrage and stir the zeitgeist’s pot.

Opera Album Review: Before “Carmen,” There Was Massenet’s Spanish-Tinged “Don César de Bazan”

January 24, 2021
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World premiere recording of an utterly delicious 1872 comic opera, recorded without spoken dialogue, so you can just revel in the music and the singing.

Opera Feature: Should We Be Updating Operas So They Address Present-Day Issues?

January 22, 2021
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Philip Glass’s librettist Arthur Yorinks offers his thoughts on whether and how to update an opera as the Boston Lyric Opera releases its revamped and filmed version of The Fall of the House of Usher.

Film Review: “Breaking Fast”– The Romantic Life, Among Gay Muslims

January 22, 2021
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Films like Breaking Fast introduce audiences to cultures that they may not be familiar with — that they may even be hostile to — but through conflicts and dreams that are universal, that revolve around family, love, and friendship.

Listening During Covid, Part 4: Fascinating Vocal Adventures from Different Times and Places

January 21, 2021
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I may be in quarantine, but music can transport me back to the Middle Ages, or to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia, or, via Donizetti, to an imagined India.

Film Review: “Azizler” (aka Stuck Apart) — Trapped Again

January 20, 2021
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Azizler is a slow burn; unfortunately, the payoff isn’t worth the wait.

Theater Review: “The Race” — Business as Unusual

January 19, 2021
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This is a very effective political drama, a relevant warning about what social critic Chris Hedges calls the formation of “corporate totalitarianism.”

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