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Jazz Album Reviews: Two Recordings, Two Homelands, One Expansive Musical Vision

September 17, 2026
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Claudia Acuña reconnects Chilean roots with American jazz on “Ave de Luz,” while Jorge Drexler explores love, technology, politics, and dance on “Taracá.”

Poetry Review: In “Precisely Now,” Lawrence Joseph’s Prophetic Fury Meets Love’s Fragile Serenity

September 17, 2026
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A lawyer-poet’s arguments against war, racism, plutocracy, and despair are sharpened by moments of sensual attention and stubborn devotion.

Film Festival Review: At Camden, Technology Becomes a Tool for Memory, Mourning, and Connection

September 16, 2026
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In films about Franco’s disappeared, AI companions, Iranian exile, and an Indian South African family’s buried history, the Camden International Film Festival finds digital—and analog—means of restoring bonds fractured by violence, loss, and time.

Book Review: “Deserted” — How the Local News Crisis Is Devastating Rural Communities

September 16, 2026
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By Dan Kennedy Social change and corporate greed are destroying newspapers in small-town America. What happens to the people left behind? Deserted: Life Without Local News in Rural America by Nick Mathews. University of Illinois Press, 168 pages, $110 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) Local news is in crisis everywhere, but the challenge is more daunting in…

Classical Music Review: Flutes, Stones, and Ecstasy — Terry Riley’s “The Holy Liftoff”

September 16, 2026
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Claire Chase and her collaborators make a persuasive, vivifying case for Terry Riley’s hourlong score of freewheeling fantasy, grief, birdsong, and release.

Visual Arts Review: Gloucester Light, Lasting Friendship — Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko

September 15, 2026
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The Cape Ann Museum’s revelatory exhibition shows how Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko turned the Gloucester shore into a language of abstraction.

Book Review: The Ghosts of Empire in China Miéville’s “The Rouse”

September 15, 2026
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In this monumental, politically charged epic, the author turns Cold War imperialism, government secrecy, and the limits of human understanding into a haunting story of weaponized ghosts.

Film Review: “Practical Magic 2” — A Stumbling Sequel

September 15, 2026
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Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return to the Owens family in a handsome, fan-friendly follow-up whose appealing cast and witchy atmosphere cannot overcome a disjointed, derivative script.

Classical Music Preview: Eric Nathan’s Violin Concerto Finds Hope on a Mountain

September 14, 2026
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The Rhode Island Philharmonic will perform the world premiere of  a new work shaped by a New Year’s Eve encounter with Ukrainian refugees—and the consoling force of “Amazing Grace.”

Concert Review: Carl Palmer’s Emerson, Lake & Palmer Tribute Defies Skepticism

September 14, 2026
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Joined by the ELP Legacy band and archival footage of Keith Emerson and Greg Lake, the drummer delivered a technically astonishing and emotionally respectful evening at the Cabot Theatre

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