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Theater Review: “Tiny Beautiful Things” — A Little Anonymity Can Bring Us Closer Together

September 30, 2019
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At its best, Tiny Beautiful Things delves deep into demanding emotional territory without becoming sappy or maudlin.

Film Reconsideration: The Beats’s “Pull My Daisy” at 60

September 29, 2019
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You can go home again, daddy-o, but you’re not the same person you were the first time around.

Arts Remembrance: Robert Hunter, Lyricist for the Grateful Dead

September 29, 2019
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Robert Hunter did as much to shape the sound and influence of the Grateful Dead as guitarist Jerry Garcia did.

Book Feature: Jake Brennan’s “Disgraceland” — A Wicked Exposé of Popular Music’s Psychopaths

September 28, 2019
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Jake Brennan’s unique blend of humor and horror generates very entertaining stories about some of the most shocking crimes committed by various icons of rock, pop, and punk music.

Theater Review: ArtsEmerson Presents the Exhilarating “Passengers”

September 28, 2019
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The latest show from circus troupe The 7 Fingers is both intimate and gasp-inducing.

Opera Album Review: Offenbach’s “La Périchole,” by an All-French Cast, Combines Zest and Elegance

September 26, 2019
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This is one of the zippiest, most life-affirming opera recordings I have heard in a long time. Well, this puts it a bit too blandly, because the work’s social satire also targets the smug self-satisfaction and careless cruelty of the powerful.

Concert Review: Koyaanisqatsi Live! — Apocalypse Then … and Now

September 25, 2019
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modern world out of control is more perceptive and chilling than ever.

Book Review: “Animalia” — ‘Taint a Fit World for Man or Beast

September 24, 2019
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Jean-Baptiste Del Amo has written a marvelous novel in the naturalistic mode that explores how the lives of humans and animals are both interdependent and in conflict — it is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach.

Dance Review: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas — Phase by Phase

September 24, 2019
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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker invites the audience to let go of outside distractions and meditate on our own deeper feelings.

Film Review: “Ad Astra” — Stoic to a Fault

September 23, 2019
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An attempt to comment on contemporary masculinity, but without enough mind or matter to make much of an impact.

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