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Rock Preview: Gov’t Mule — Very Much on the Move

August 7, 2022
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“One of the positives to come out of this whole [pandemic lockdown] experience is that everyone found out what is important in their lives. Those of us who love music realized just how special it is.”

Book Review: “The Quiet Before”– How Our Conversations Set the Boundaries of Our Thinking

August 6, 2022
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This superb book about adventures in radical thinking is less about tracking incendiary ideas to their obscure sources than about the various media used to ferment and transmit them.

Visual Arts Review: The Supportive Imaginary — Weaves and Grids

August 6, 2022
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Grids come into these woven pieces with a strange humility, disarming us with repurposed materials and precious handiwork, domestic scenes and visionary tales.

World Music Album Review: Bassist Alune Wade’s Brilliant “Sultan” — A Global Patchwork Quilt

August 5, 2022
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Sultan has a solid lock on my year-end best of 2022 list. Let’s make the world a little smaller and make this album a hit.

August Short Fuses – Materia Critica

August 5, 2022
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Visual Arts Remembrance: Pop Art Icon Claes Oldenburg Dead at 93

August 3, 2022
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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s work can be found in the collections of major modern art museums throughout the United States and Europe.

Book Review: “Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld” — A Tale of Mobsters and Musicians

August 3, 2022
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Guitarist Eddie Condon quotes a mobster on jazz: “…it’s got guts and it don’t make you slobber.”

Classical Album Review: Short Can Be Good — Three Splendidly Varied One-Act Operas by Lennox Berkeley

August 3, 2022
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I was pleased to encounter all three compact operas. Lennox Berkeley seems to me more and more an admirable, indeed lovable composer, and a bit of a chameleon. I like him in all his various colors.

Theater Review: “Grand Horizons” — Divorce Geriatric Style

August 2, 2022
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Grand Horizons at the Gloucester Stage Company is a wild, funny, and sometimes wonderfully touching ride.

Book Review: “The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones” — A Tabloid Take

August 2, 2022
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The Stone Age is only about the gossip, to the point where even when something (potentially) true comes along, it still reads like trash.

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