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Book Review: Oliver Sacks’ “On The Move” — A Mix of the Distant and the Intimate

May 20, 2015
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Oliver Sacks’ On the Move is an absorbing, idiosyncratic, often moving memoir.

TV Review: “Mad Men” Finale — Read the Art?

May 19, 2015
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My conclusion is that Mad Men is abstract, like some of the art in the series.

Television Review: “Mad Men” – Reflections on the Finale

May 19, 2015
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The revolution may be televised, but it is also going to be packaged and sold back to us.

Book Review: The Fiction of Norway’s Per Petterson — The Early Bonds That Bind

May 19, 2015
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I Refuse is one of those novels that only truly comes clear on a second reading, when certain initially apparently innocuous, easily passed-over sentences reverberate with revealed meaning.

Commentary/CD Reviews: Recent Symphonic Recordings From Boston Orchestras

May 19, 2015
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A series of new and recent recordings by Boston orchestras demonstrate that, in the right hands, symphonic music since 1945 remains alive and well, still powerful, fresh, and vibrant.

Dance Review: …And Farewell — Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet

May 18, 2015
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Contemporary dance has no useful definition; maybe we could think of it as an attitude, a constantly changing venture.

Concert Review: Kurt Elling with Anat Cohen at Sanders Theatre

May 18, 2015
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I’ve never seen Kurt Elling when he wasn’t in fine voice, and this show was no exception.

Theater Review: “The Submission” — An Engaging Script that Falls Short of Its Ambitions

May 18, 2015
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At first, The Submission comes on as an agreeably edgy satire of the automatic embrace of identity politics and political correctness in the academy and popular culture.

Theater Review: “Albatross” — A Return to Theater as Poetry

May 18, 2015
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Albatross is terrific — a powerful script, vital performance, and imaginative stage design.

Film Review: “5 Flights Up” — Growing Old … the Hollywood Way

May 18, 2015
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How much longer can these seventy-somethings climb those stairs?

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