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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.”
A lawyer-poet’s arguments against war, racism, plutocracy, and despair are sharpened by moments of sensual attention and stubborn devotion.
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.
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…
Claire Chase and her collaborators make a persuasive, vivifying case for Terry Riley’s hourlong score of freewheeling fantasy, grief, birdsong, and release.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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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