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True to its name, “Nirvanna the Band The Movie” is bigger and crazier than anything Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol have ever conceived of, a feat of gonzo filmmaking that would make Werner Herzog sweat.
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It’s a bad sign that such an entertaining and visually stunning film, shot in CinemaScope, couldn’t play in theaters in this country.
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If John Lahr could learn, even in his eighties, to cut back on his own self-adoration and stop being so damned star struck, the razzle in his profiles would dazzle all the more.
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Predictably, when you get to the discussion of money, honey, the rubber hits the road.
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New albums from Billy Hart, Phil Haynes & Free Country, Pat Thomas, Kalia Vandever, and the Webber/Morris Big Band.
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A trio of good documentaries: Benita, Flophouse America, and The Pink Pill: Sex, Drugs and Who Has Control.
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When it comes to the aberrant conditions in today’s jails and prisons, concerns such as how corrections officers are regarded by their superiors in the system, the media, and the public are beside the point.
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Arts Remembrance: Tribute to Jazz Producer Alex Lemski
Being a one-man or one-woman band while toiling in the shadows is not glamorous work. Over the last 13 years, producer Alex Lemski undertook this role and supplied a great deal of exciting, important music to the people of Boston.
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