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Book Review: Rachel Hadas'”Pastorals” — Everything We Want Poetry To Do

July 24, 2025
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Rachel Hadas’s book of prose poems is a set of meditations grounded in a life well lived and much observed, an experimental field for examining the nature of [human] potentialities.

Film Review: “Fantastic Four: First Steps” — Deliciously Self-Contained

July 24, 2025
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My reviewing this movie is like Proust reviewing a tea-dipped madeleine, but I think even old Marcel could spot when bits of the sponge cake were stale or too soggy.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

July 24, 2025
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This week’s poem: Cheryl J. Fish’s “Wind (Iceland 10)”

Concert Review: Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra Plays Prokofiev and Berlioz

July 23, 2025
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Mother Nature provided singular and poetic assistance during Sunday’s afternoon outing at Tanglewood.

Musician Interview: Talking to Folk-Rock Troubadour Steve Forbert

July 23, 2025
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It’s difficult to say if Steve Forbert sounds youthful now or if he has long since fully grown into his always expressive and distinctive voice. Or both.

Arts Appreciation: Ozzy Osbourne — He Was One of Us

July 23, 2025
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Ozzy also gave us all the inspiration to overcome whatever dipshit, fucked up, and idiotic things we did, because he did just that, and generated plenty of good in the process.

Arts Appreciation: Ozzy Osbourne — A Pioneer of Heavy Metal Left on His Own Terms

July 23, 2025
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It would be hard to name another successful artist so passionately demeaned by the music press.

Theater Review: “The Heron’s Flight” — Double Edge Theatre Soars

July 22, 2025
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“The Heron’s Flight” is, in many ways, a hopeful antidote for the fear generated by these difficult times.

Film Review: “Filmlovers!” — A Valentine to the Movies and the Cinema-Going Experience

July 22, 2025
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This piquantly enjoyable docufiction emphasizes how movie spectatorship encourages empathy and understanding.

Film Reviews: The Boston French Film Festival Offers Cinema’s Crème de la Crème

July 22, 2025
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The Museum of Fine Arts screens some ripples from the New Wave.

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