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Coming Attractions in Underground Music: June 2011

June 2, 2011
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The biggest event this June is the Wilco-curated Solid Sound Festival at the MASS MoCA in North Adams. A couple of these bands will also be playing shows in Boston around the same time as the festival.

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Theater Review: A Musical Cure for the Blues

June 2, 2011
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SpeakEasy Stage Company tops off its 20th-anniversary season with a delightful production of a Tony-winning comic valentine to the musical.

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Coming Attractions in Film: June 2011

June 2, 2011
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June marks a sluggish start to the summer movie season, but it’s not without a few big events. New films from art-house hero Terrence Malick and Lost creator J.J. Abrams promise to be must-sees for different segments of movie buffs, and fans of older cinema will have plenty on their plate with throw-back screenings at the Brattle and a Luis Buñuel retrospective at the HFA.

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Coming Attractions in Theater: June 2011

June 1, 2011
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June is a transitional month for theater — the big Summer Festivals don’t hit their stride until July. But odd and interesting productions pop up, such as a view of life for women in Putin’s Russia, a musical about union activity, a glimpse of what’s billed as “the future of ensemble theatre in America,” and the world premiere of a musical version of the Bible’s Song of Songs that, who knows, might usher in a Summer of Love.

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Theater Review: Silver Spoon — A Lefty Valentine and a Missed Opportunity

June 1, 2011
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The musical SILVER SPOON is at its strongest when a lullaby evolves into a ballad about the arrest of a group of undocumented migrant workers.

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Classical Music Sampler: June 2011

May 31, 2011
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June is not a month that lends itself to an easy gathering of concert recommendations, mostly because it presents an an embarrassment of riches. Many festivals are in full swing, others just beginning.

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Theater Review: Propeller Theatre Company Takes Off

May 31, 2011
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Buckets of blood and handfuls of guts always look slightly ridiculous splashed and dangled around on stage, though I must admit that this is the first RICHARD III I have seen with a working chainsaw.

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Visual Arts Review: The Contemplative Art of Sue Yang — Where the Digital and the Organic Meet

May 30, 2011
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Sue Yang’s eclectic solo exhibition explores the intersections of her multicultural identity through digital and organic art — each medium represents a different facet of the artist’s contemplative selfhood.

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Theater Feature: Edward Gorey Takes the Stage

May 29, 2011
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Author Carol Verburg covers a sinfully neglected part of Edward Gorey’s career –- the books on his art deal cursorily, if at all, with his forays into theater as a director, designer, actor, and writer

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Movie Review: An Immensely Rewarding “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”

May 29, 2011
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By Harvey Blume The beauty and power of Chauvet’s art, at once primal and sophisticated, tempers director Verner Herzog’s passion for Homo Sapiens bashing. We do, after all, belong to the very same species as those cave painters. Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Directed by Werner Herzog. At various New England cinemas. It was with some…

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