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From the Editor’s Desk: The Mess at the Met — Resolved?

August 23, 2014
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Despite commentary to the contrary, Jonathan Blumhofer thinks that in the negotiations between the Met management and the unions there was a winner and a loser.

Theater Review: An Uneven “Texas Trilogy”

August 23, 2014
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There are some fine moments in Re:Group Theatre’s production of the epic A Texas Trilogy, but there are also many limitations.

Opera Commentary: The Mess at the Met — … curtain!

August 22, 2014
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On the surface, this is a deal that lets both sides go forward having saved face, though a closer look at things suggests that the musicians came out ahead.

Fuse Visual Arts Commentary: Design Museum Boston — Celebrating 21st Century Design

August 22, 2014
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The establishment of Design Museum Boston is long overdue.

Poetry Review: Romanian Poet Gellu Naum — Living in the “Blue Crypt under the Night’s Obscure Seal”

August 22, 2014
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Gellu Naum does not use the heterogeneous juxtapositions of surrealism to create something jocular, absurd, prankish, or gratuitously paradoxical.

Rock Review: Chicago the Band — A Hard Habit to Break

August 21, 2014
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Though it doesn’t seem that Chicago will ever shake up their setlists or rediscover their original mission, at least they can still sneak just a little Varese in with the hits.

Theater Review: “The Voysey Inheritance” — A Masterpiece About Fraud, Capitalism, and Family

August 21, 2014
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The Voysey Inheritance comes to the Peterborough Players with distinction, and this production is persuasive evidence that it belongs in a wider repertory of contemporary theater.

Film Review: “Frank” — Wonderfully Idiosyncratic

August 21, 2014
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If Van Gogh had picked up an acoustic guitar, he’d be Frank.

Book Review: “Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life” — Intimations of a Seminal Thinker’s Aura

August 20, 2014
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The authors have used their research well. Beyond applying an abundance of detail to trace his intellectual growth as well as the trajectory of his emotions, Eiland and Jennings have managed to intimate—though perhaps not to capture—something more elusive: a sense of Benjamin’s aura.

Film Review: The Political Musician-Rebel Fela Kuti, the Master Blaster of Nigeria, Gets a Satisfying Bio Treatment in “Finding Fela”

August 19, 2014
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Because it includes so many images from all parts of his life, Finding Fela may offer the finest tribute to the star’s determination and defiance though the way his face and body look as time goes on.

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