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Book Review: Haruki Murakami — Marathon Storyteller

November 27, 2011
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In his dozen or so works of international best-selling fiction, Haruki Murakami has created an alternate-reality Japan that is at once magical and familiar, dangerous and comfortable, foreign but Westernized.

Theater Review: An Electrifying “Angel Reapers”

November 19, 2011
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For a polarized nation, both pre-occupied and Occupied, the musical “Angel Reapers” is an inspiring Shaker gift.

Theater Review: Welcome to This “House”

November 11, 2011
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You see, Victor knows he is in a theater, telling stories. And he tells us this. His self-awareness as a performer gives him the freedom to be completely honest.

Fuse Pop Music Review: Kangaroos on the Wing — Part 2

November 9, 2011
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The Australian Pink Floyd Show is a tribute band, but not just any tribute band. TAPFS is considered the best tribute band in the world today, a title they have defended since 1988.

Book Review: “Maybe This Time” — The Fragility of Personal Identities in Surreal Worlds

November 7, 2011
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The nine tales found in “Maybe This Time” chart the unnerving psychological transformations of its characters. Its style forces us to reconsider our ways of reading and our childlike dependency on narrative authority.

Classical Music Review: Boston’s Cantata Singers

November 6, 2011
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Boston’s Cantata Singers opens its 48th season with an eclectic musical mix of the Baroque and the Modern.

Theater Review: Ibsen’s DollHouse — Deconstructed

November 3, 2011
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Entertaining and provocative, this quick-witted and dreamlike evening of theater suggests that imbalances of power sacrifice individual freedoms and love. Everyone becomes a doll (master and servant) in a doll society.

Theater Review: A Delightfully Daffy “Divine Sister”

November 2, 2011
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Charles Busch’s plays are informed by an obsession to playfully upend iconic film genres. This time it’s the celluloid celebration of nuns, and what a divine romp it is.

Music Interview: Dogs, Sheep, Pigs, and Kangaroos with The Australian Pink Floyd Show’s Jason Sawford

November 1, 2011
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Not only is TAPFS considered the best Pink Floyd tribute band, but it is argued that they are the best cover band in the world.

Pop Music Review: Portugal. The Man Inspires Its Own Nationalism

October 24, 2011
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Portugal. The Man is nothing if not a paradox — the band is nostalgically avant-garde.

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