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Film Review: “How to Have Sex” — The Holiday Trap

February 9, 2024
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“How to Have Sex” doesn’t criticize teenage girls for wanting to get laid, but it points out how the cultural environment in which they do so is directed entirely towards male pleasure

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Rock Album Review: Sonic Youth’s “Walls Have Ears” — Intimations of Sounds to Come

February 9, 2024
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Sonic Youth’s fans remain passionate enough to justify the release of a slew of live albums.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

February 8, 2024
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This week’s poem: Laurie Price’s “Going in and out”

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Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra plays Smyth, Bruch, and Mendelssohn

February 8, 2024
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Given its considerable strength and vitality, Ethel Smyth’s music deserves its newfound place in the limelight. Let’s hope the BSO programs more of her music again soon.

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Film Review: Sundance 2024 — Dispatch #1, Life, Death, and Daring

February 7, 2024
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Three sure-handed debut movies at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, including a documentary directed by Lucy Lawless and features from Thea Hvistendahl and Jack Begert.

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Theater Review: “The Interrobangers” — The Aliens Dun It?

February 7, 2024
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This version of the script may be overreaching, but there is promise in M Sloth Levine’s attempt to infuse gender and personal soul-searching into a spooky ‘cartoon’ mystery.

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Book Review: The Poetic Vision of Larry Eigner — A Gravitational Aesthetic Force Field

February 7, 2024
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Jennifer Bartlett’s fine biography is a capstone to a steady solidification of respect for this innovative poet’s art and legacy.

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Concert Review: Soprano Renée Fleming and Pianist Inon Barnatan — Voices of Nature

February 7, 2024
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It is always a thrill to be in the audience when the legendary American soprano Renée Fleming performs.

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Book Review: “The Jail is Everywhere” — Expansion Plans

February 7, 2024
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The essays in this book are a critical read for folks who might be fighting prison expansion or construction in their neighborhoods.

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Theater Review: “Machine Learning” — Artificial Intelligence as Caretaker?

February 6, 2024
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This is a rare script that focuses, equally, on emotional depth and scientific wonder.

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