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Book Review: “Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls” — A Disappointing Look at Women, Music, and Fame

November 23, 2020
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Journalist Lisa Robinson deconstructed the idea of the girl who could hang with the guys (and laugh off their casual misogyny) long before Gillian Flynn immortalized the Cool Girl in Gone Girl.

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Theater Review: “The Tattooed Man Tells All” — Memories of a Survivor

November 22, 2020
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Peter Wortsman has made a valuable contribution with this play; it is a rare theatrical account about how living through the Holocaust shaped survivors.

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Theater Review: A Raucous Zoomified “Much Ado” — “Thou Art Muted, Don Pedro”

November 21, 2020
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Hub Theatre’s virtual production of Much Ado About Nothing recognizes Zoom’s potential for farce and leans into it: this is a rollicking delight of a show that refuses to take itself seriously, to everyone’s benefit.

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Theater Review: “On Beckett / In Screen” — Bill Irwin Honors Samuel Beckett

November 19, 2020
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Bill Irwin’s homage to Samuel Beckett explores what makes the writer so fascinating, even inspiring, for those who appreciate the knockabout beauty of his despair.

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Book Review: “V2” — Robert Harris’s Gentler, Kinder World War II

November 19, 2020
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This is history from a distance. Harris’s characters feel more real when they’re working out the equations that will make a missile fly or fall than when they’re fleeing a double agent or a misfiring rocket.

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Classical CD Reviews: Listening During COVID, Part 2 — A Lute, a Particularly Silken Steinway, and Mahler Himself Playing in a 1905 Piano Roll

November 18, 2020
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A trio of recordings help us rethink and rehear composers as varied as Barbara Strozzi (from the seventeenth century), Chopin, and Mahler.

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Jazz Album Review: The Yellowjackets Celebrate Turning 40 — With a Big Band

November 17, 2020
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Now that ¾ of the Yellowjackets are eligible for Social Security, the emphasis is more on confirming a legacy of creative compositions and expanding their art of arranging with a broader range of colors.

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Short Fuse Podcast #32: An Interview with Country Singer Teagan Stewart

November 17, 2020
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Host Deanna Costa virtually meets with country musician Teagan Stewart to chat about her latest EP, Taste of My Heartbreak.

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Poetry Review: Joshua Bennett’s “Owed” — Paying a Debt, Memorably

November 16, 2020
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Every exquisitely crafted line reflects the pull of a threatening body politic, the gravitational force of history.

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Opera CD Review: Verdi’s Opera about Attila the Hun Gets a Taut, Vivid New Recording

November 16, 2020
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Metropolitan Opera stars Ildebrando d’Arcangelo and Liudmyla Monastyrska headline a new recording that reveals Verdi operatic mastery five years before Rigoletto.

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