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Theater Review: “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” — Honoring a Sacred Space for Black Women

May 15, 2025
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The beauty of “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” at this political moment is that it provides a firsthand rebuttal to the current administration’s draconian policies  — without ever directly acknowledging them.

Doc Talk: A World of Dew — Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston

May 15, 2025
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At the Global Cinema Film Festival, some look for love and life in all the wrong places.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

May 15, 2025
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This week’s poem: Nicole Callihan’s “The Story”

Book Review: “The Director” — To Collaborate or Not to Collaborate, That Is the Question

May 14, 2025
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This wake-up call — what will artists be asked to do to please the powers-that-be? — is also a good read.

Film Review: “Marcella” — A Celebration of a Master of Italian Cuisine

May 13, 2025
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A charming and deeply entertaining documentary about Marcella Hazan and her transformation into a world-famous cookbook author and influencer.

Book Review: “Horace: Poet on a Volcano” — A Writer Who Advised We Live Life to the Max

May 13, 2025
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Horace advocated that seizing the immediate with existential zest.

Concert Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project — Music for the Now

May 13, 2025
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Happily, the composers on this compelling BMOP program were not cowed by tradition.

Television Review: The Docuseries “Trial 4” — Boston Crime and Questionable Punishment

May 12, 2025
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“Trial 4,” along with other currently streaming crime docuseries, examines the systemic biases, misuse of official force, and internal corruption that impede and subvert justice, undermine convictions, undercut integrity, and erode public trust.

Concert Review: Devo’s De-Evolution — Still Surprisingly Fresh

May 12, 2025
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The arty, satirical rockers from Akron, Ohio, remain a singular entity — Devo has been as inspirational as it has been influential.

Book Review: “A Precise Chaos” — The Omnipresence of Change

May 12, 2025
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“A Precise Chaos” examines, with profundity, intricate human patterns of memory, history, and love, where the personal and the political intertwine and nothing ends cleanly because nothing is ever entirely lost.

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