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Television Review: “Silicon Valley” Gets the Algorithm Right

June 6, 2014
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The creator of the series, Mike Judge, and his team have gone to great lengths to sweat the details of the corporate landscape of San Jose and its environs. Right from the start Silicon Valley rang true.

Book Review: “Plato at the Googleplex” — A Passionate and Thoughtful Look at Philosophy Today

June 3, 2014
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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s erudition, coupled to her literary skill, makes Plato at the Googleplex inviting and readable without sacrificing complexity.

Visual Arts Commentary: A Trio of Local Arts Colleges Complete Major Structures

May 20, 2014
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Three Boston-based arts colleges have completed major structures. Each has taken a different aesthetic path to assert its very own institutional signature.

Music Commentary: Looking for the Real at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

May 15, 2014
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Mostly, I’m looking for that most elusive and hard-to-define quality — authenticity.

Dance Commentary: Learn to Love Something By Doing It, or How I joined Le Grand Continental and Discovered the World of Dance

May 11, 2014
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I hope thousands of people show up to see Le Grand Continental-Boston next weekend. Not to see me, but to see how dance can change the way we appreciate our world.

Arts Commentary: Who’s Afraid Of James Baldwin?

May 5, 2014
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So what we have is a failure of nerve — a reluctance to make students grapple with the considerable demands of James Baldwin’s prose and sensibility.

Television Commentary: Whither Stephen Colbert?

April 23, 2014
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Now that the dust has settled after the announcement that Stephen Colbert will be replacing David Letterman on “The Late Show” next year, it is time for some thoughtful analysis.

Visual Arts Review: Cyberarts’s Art on the Marquee — Digital Game Shorts for Now People

March 30, 2014
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Whether art can comfortably exist in this thoroughly commercial frame is a question for the ages. Let’s say that whether this show succeeds is firmly in the eye of the beholder.

Classical Music Commentary: Boston Symphony Orchestra Season 2014-15 — A Jolt of Energy and Stability

March 9, 2014
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Most of the programs during BSO conductor Andris Nelsons’ ten subscription weeks look fresh and, if not outright adventurous, on paper they at least look more exciting than not.

Fuse Views: This is What We Look Like — On “Selfies” and Self-Image

March 6, 2014
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Sometimes using the Twitter handle #itsokKimNovak, at other times just linking to Laura Lipmann’s Facebook page, women – primarily writers and our friends – have started posting our own “raw” photos.

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