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Film Reviews: Five Fine Movies at This Year’s Independent Film Festival Boston

May 1, 2025
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An independent film festival presents works that expose audiences to diverse voices, to alternative political and social points of view, and to different ways of understanding the world.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

May 1, 2025
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This week’s poem: Danielle Legros Georges’s “The Two Liberations of Crispus Attucks”

Concert Review: Radius Ensemble — A Special Occasion

April 30, 2025
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After more than a quarter century, with an impressive new venue serving as a platform, Radius Ensemble continues to expand its musical reach.

Rock Album Preview: The Return of Little Feat — A Revival of the Fittest

April 30, 2025
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Little Feat is on the cusp of a rebirth – again.

Television Review: “Étoile” Puts a Promising Dramatic Spotlight on Ballet

April 29, 2025
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All of the gritty challenges for today’s ballet companies are touched on in “Étoile”, including financial troubles, union strikes, rapaciously controlling donors, jealous, egomaniacal dancers, and more bumps in the road.

Visual Arts Review: Jim Dine Prints — A Vocabulary of Feelings

April 29, 2025
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Every subject in Jim Dine’s richly rendered work seems to edge towards something other than itself, deeper and more personal.

Book Review: “Sargent and Paris” — Sargent and Amnesia

April 29, 2025
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I wish this catalogue spelled out John Singer Sargent’s professional stance as a “juste milieu” painter more methodically. That term refers to those eager to be associated with new stylistic tendencies yet careful not to transgress the establishment’s norms.

Film Reviews: At the Independent Film Festival Boston — Shorts Dartmouth: Narrative

April 26, 2025
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The Independent Film Festival Boston has been a major showcase for short films from New England and beyond. Here’s a roundup of one of this year’s programs, “Shorts Dartmouth: Narrative” (collections are named after streets in the Back Bay). There’s not a weak one in the five-film bunch.

Jazz Album Review: “Izipho Zam (My Gifts)” — A Sign of Its Time

April 26, 2025
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Perhaps “Izipho Zam (My Gifts)” might have become as well known as Pharoah Sanders’s “Karma” — if Impulse! rather than the tiny cooperative label Strata-East had recorded it.

Theater Review: “The Obligation to Live” — Defying the Machinery of Death

April 25, 2025
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The emphasis of the B&P troupe has become increasingly apocalyptic: the struggle we are engaged in is for nothing less than the preservation of our planet, and for the preservation of our individual — and collective ––hearts and minds.

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