Commentary
Why do critics like the New Yorker‘s Peter Schjeldahl rush to absolve G.W. Bush?
Hypnotized by celebrity and the monied class, our stage critics have become a gaggle of cheerleaders, feckless enough to call Diane Paulus a “visionary.”
I try to be optimistic, but it’s hard not to observe that the jazz club scene in eastern Massachusetts is worse than it’s been in decades.
On paper, at least, the upcoming season of the BSO is a bit of a letdown: cautious, unthreatening, comfortable.
Resistance, at least in Boston theater, is futile.
Thoughtful Branding underscores a community’s sense of place.
The nagging question: why didn’t the ICA didn’t create a building that offered options to be developed vertically?
Whatever challenges there may be, the enthusiasm of the New England Philharmonic’s leadership is infectious.
At his best, Albert Murray is a thinker passionately in love with thinking, a virtuoso of verbal music, an American to his core.
Literary Homage: Denis Johnson, American Dostoevsky
Denis Johnson’s spiritual vision was dark and more than a little scary but also supremely generous.
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