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Music Feature: The Tedeschi Trucks Band — Home for the Holidays

December 1, 2019
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The Tedeschi Trucks Band is capping another remarkable year of transition and growth, some of it spurred by tragedy.

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Coming Attractions: December 1 through 15 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 1, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Theater Review: Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express” — Neither Noir nor Romp

November 29, 2019
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Ken Ludwig’s stage version of Murder on the Orient Express is an enjoyable diversion.

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Book Feature: Terry Tempest Williams on the Agonies of “Erosion”

November 29, 2019
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Terry Tempest Williams thinks that we must seize opportunities to save an increasingly endangered world — we don’t have a choice to feel powerless against the forces that seek to exploit and destroy the beauty of life on this planet.

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Critical Commentary: A Few Thoughts about John Simon

November 28, 2019
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Few critics proclaimed that the emperor was naked as a jaybird with as much savvy panache.

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Theater Review: “Quixote Nuevo” — The Impossible Trauma

November 27, 2019
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Octavio Solis’ Quixote Nuevo, is a genial, and very American, riff on Don Quixote.

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Concert Preview: Judy Collins Heats Up Some “Winter Stories”

November 27, 2019
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“People love a story, they always have, and always will, and stories are an essential ingredient in this folk music revival, which started sometime in the early ’50s.”

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Concert Review: Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra at Symphony Hall

November 26, 2019
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The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra’s first appearance of the season presented canonical selections without a hint of complacency or apathy.

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Concert Review: Robyn Hitchcock — Reigning Godfather of Mind Expansion Music

November 26, 2019
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The Brit-born iteration of mind-expansion music — from Syd Barrett onward — favors clever wordplay and musical accessibility.

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Film Review” “Waves” — Generations in Search of Grace

November 26, 2019
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Waves is a plea for mutual understanding, for acts of grace that transcend race, age, gender, and social status.

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