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Jazz Album: “Love Hurts” — Guitarist Julian Lage’s Strongest Recording to Date

March 9, 2019
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The disc is manna for lovers of assertive electric guitar, played by one of today’s top practitioners, in an unadorned trio setting.

Film Review: “Climax” — Mental Blitzkrieg, Cinematic Version

March 9, 2019
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Climax may be the director’s most fully realized attempt so far to suggest a state of madness onscreen.

Film Review: A Pair of “Suspirias” Square off at The Brattle Theater

March 8, 2019
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Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria is a landscape of the shadowy feminine, steeped in ancient magic, willful evil, and the cyclical round-de-lay of death and rebirth.

Theater Review: “Escaped Alone” and “Come and Go” — Forms of Disconnection

March 8, 2019
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To be truly effective black humor must have us laughing at something we fear, regret, or at the very least recognize.

Classical Music Preview: “Help the Children” Concert — An Eclectic Vocal Program

March 7, 2019
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“It’s not a concert about despair,” observes Joel Cohen, “there’s a lot of festive music in it.”

Theater Review: Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s Visceral “Birdy”

March 7, 2019
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Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s production of Birdy is at its best when it focuses on the play’s central relationships.

Television: PEN15 — Middle School Made Uproarious

March 7, 2019
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Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle turn in frequently hilarious but vulnerable performances as their adolescent counterparts.

Book Review: “The Wages” — A Powerful Folk Tale About Slavery

March 6, 2019
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We need stories like The Wages to expose the hypocrisy and incoherence of the institutions that we are supposed to believe are pillars of justice.

Poetry Review: “Peaches Goes It Alone” — A Comic Ode to the Age of Trump

March 6, 2019
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In the age of truthiness, poet Frederick Seidel’s is a welcome voice.

Theater Review: “Once” — Everything Goes Brilliantly Right

March 5, 2019
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Once is a wonderful musical and the Speakeasy Stage production does exquisitely right by its considerable merits.

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