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WATCH CLOSELY: “The Exorcist” — The Devil and the Deep State

March 14, 2018
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TV’s The Exorcist reinvents its source material for an occult-savvy (not to mention cinema-savvy) audience.

Commentary: #MeToo and Dethroning Rock Deities

January 2, 2018
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We have the obligation to look behind the music and the culture that glorified and perpetuated it.

Commentary: Best Jazz (and Other) Recordings of 2017

December 25, 2017
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The range of recordings issued this year was remarkable, both in terms of their instrumentation and their artistic inspiration.

Music Commentary: Top Classical Performances and Recordings of 2017

December 23, 2017
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A line-up of concerts, performances, and recordings that, as 2017 draws to its close, I can’t, for one reason or many, shake from my memory.

Theater Commentary: Horovitz and Sexual Harassment — Why Did it Take Over 20 Years?

December 12, 2017
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Does anyone really believe that there is no sexual harassment going on in Boston area theater companies today?

Theater Commentary: Twenty Years Ago — Stonewalling Charges of Sexual Harassment

December 12, 2017
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These articles dramatize, sadly, who was listened to and who wasn’t when sexual allegations were made against playwright Israel Horovitz in the early ’90s.

Stage Commentary: “The Boston Globe” to Boston Theater — Drop Dead?

November 28, 2017
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Critics were once seen as the ‘canaries in the mineshaft’ — now newspapers and magazines are closing down the mines.

Critic Commentary: “My Basketball Retirement”

November 25, 2017
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After 36 years of twice-a-week pickup basketball at the Cambridge Y at Central Square, I recently cleared my locker and said adieu.

Music Commentary: “Bernstein at 100,” aka Tanglewood 2018

November 17, 2017
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In honor of what would have been Leonard Bernstein’s hundredth birthday, the Tanglewood Festival is pulling out all the stops.

Book Review: “We Were Eight Years in Power” — An Essential Book

November 11, 2017
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Nothing could be more necessary at this point in time than this book.

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