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Film Series Review: Columbia 101 — The Rarities, A Tasty Cinematic Smorgasbord

November 4, 2025
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A preview of a few of the obscure gems and curios in this huzzah to Columbia Pictures.

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Arts Remembrance: Donna Jean Godchaux — She Brought Soul and Grace to the Grateful Dead

November 4, 2025
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Donna Jean Godchaux changed the Grateful Dead – adding a Southern accent and feminine energy to this rough-hewn psychedelic troupe – and the Grateful Dead changed Donna Jean Godchaux – elevating her from session singer footnote to jam-scene royalty.

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Rock Album Feature: “Brian Wilson Live at the Roxy Theatre” — A Welcome Expanded Reissue

November 4, 2025
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While one hopes that never-before-released live shows are found and released, it is nice to revisit the start of Brian’s Wilson’s second-chance career.

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Doc Talk: The Boston Jewish Film Festival 2025 — Festival of Light

November 3, 2025
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The Boston Jewish Film Festival supplies some glimmers of optimism.

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Visual Arts Review: A Painter Among Poets — Grace Hartigan’s “Gift of Attention”

November 3, 2025
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The exhibit highlights the interplay between Grace Hartigan and the circle of modern poets who became her friends, supporters, and in some cases, patrons.

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Concert Review: Club d’Elf — Where Trance Meets Revelation

November 2, 2025
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If any out-there band deserves the opportunity to be in-here, Club d’Elf is it.

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Arts Remembrance: Mario Diacono, 1930-2025 — A Tribute

November 1, 2025
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Mario Diacono’s works were a guide – a guide to see and think deeply about words and images.

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November Short Fuses — Materia Critica

November 1, 2025
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Theater Review: Manual Cinema’s “The 4th Witch” — A Hallucinatory Vision of War and Witchcraft

October 31, 2025
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Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” serves as a springboard for a memorable new vision by these inventive, multimedia theater artists.

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Classical Album Review: Nielsen Clarinet Concerto, Symphony No. 5

October 31, 2025
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A new recording of Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5 from the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner captures much of what makes the composer’s writing in it sound so fresh.

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