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WATCH CLOSELY: “Roseanne” — In Trumplandia, Women are the Losers

April 29, 2018
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For me, the experience of watching Roseanne is annoying and unpleasant.

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Concert Review: Boston Symphony Chamber Players

April 29, 2018
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The Boston Symphony Chamber Players gave a very satisfying performance of eclectic musical material.

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Jazz Interview: Composer/Pianist Anthony Coleman — On Being “Avant-Garde”

April 28, 2018
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As part of its 150th anniversary celebration, NEC commissioned Anthony Coleman to compose a large-scale work he has named Streams.

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Poetry Review: “Not Elegy, But Eros” — A Skilled New Voice

April 27, 2018
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Nausheen Eusuf’s deep affection for language and sound is omnipresent.

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Film Feature: IFFB 2018 — Documentary Preview

April 27, 2018
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A wide-ranging slate of documentary features on display in this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston. Here’s a sampling of a few of the standout films coming up.

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Film Review: “Three Identical Strangers” — at the IFFBoston

April 26, 2018
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What starts off as a rollicking entertainment ends with a flourish of profundity.

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Television Review: “Wild Wild Country” — Scruffily Corporatized Love-in

April 25, 2018
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Wild Wild Country details the insane clusterfuck that results when faith, fundamentalism, and media hype intersect.

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Book Review: “Bible Nation” — The Misleading Religion of Hobby Lobby

April 24, 2018
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This is an important and timely book, one that happens to be compulsively readable and that anyone even mildly interested in the intersection between religion and politics, faith and science, or religious commandment and secular law should read.

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Food Feature: Somerville — Chocolate Capital of Massachusetts?

April 24, 2018
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Somerville’s Union Square hosts four chocolate companies, in renovated warehouses.

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Dance Review: Alonzo King — Disembodied

April 23, 2018
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Sutra was a curious mix of reverence and virtuosity, lavish movement and intricate music — over an hour’s worth of changing forms. I found it intriguing and untrackable.

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