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Theater Review: “Choir Boy” — Musical Grace

September 22, 2019
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Few of the numbers in Choir Boy fails to astonish.

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Music Commentary: Ken Burns’ “Country Music” — Superb Cinematic Storytelling

September 22, 2019
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Country Music digs into the rich, deep dirt of a music with a complicated past, a hybrid genre soaked in soulful suffering, twangy glory, and times both high and tough.

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Film Review: Rude, Crude, and Enchanting, This Year’s New York Film Festival is a Helluva Ride

September 22, 2019
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Three remarkable films that promise a bumper crop of world cinema yet to come at the NY Film Festival.

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Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Opening Night

September 20, 2019
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That rarest of Opening Nights: a program that was mostly fun and entertaining, but also substantive and artistically satisfying.

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Rock Concert Review: ZZ Top/Cheap Trick — Simplicity, and Volume, Rules

September 20, 2019
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Apart from predilections turned into marketing hooks, both ZZ Top and Cheap Trick know how to rock as a base instinct – and that also hasn’t changed since they first burst to fame in the ’70s.

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Music Interview: Mike Adams At His Honest Weight — Curb Your Skepticism

September 20, 2019
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“Honest weight” has more to with like karats of gold, maybe. The “weight” being the value of something. It kind of alludes to that a little bit.

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Music Preview: Guitarist Jimmy Herring — Seeking the Simple Root

September 20, 2019
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Veteran guitarist Jimmy Herring and the 5 of 7 play groove-heavy tunes that barrel into unexpected and interesting places.

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Music Commentary: Modern Marketing and The Hella Mega Tour

September 18, 2019
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If the music industry put as much effort into being fair to their customers as they put into taking their money, everyone could participate in the rocking world.

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Theater Review: “The America Plays” — Aisle of the Dead

September 18, 2019
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Listening to the dead speak, amid the natural grandeur of Mount Auburn Cemetery, is a moving experience.

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Book Review: “The Sweetest Fruits” — Stories in Order to Live

September 18, 2019
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Reading The Sweetest Fruits is like looking at the back of an oriental rug in which the pattern is rather more indistinct than the front but the colors much richer and more vivid.

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