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Film Review: “Tron: Ares” — It Might Have Been a Contender

October 9, 2025
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 Tron: Ares  hurries from one spectacular concept and one spectacular set piece to another. But it doesn’t take the time to let any of those remarkable things sink in.

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Film Review: Dispatch #3 — From the New York Film Festival, Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother”

October 9, 2025
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“Father Mother Sister Brother” invites you into a space of present-ness where you need to slow down and re-set your metabolism. It invites you to tune out all the noise and sit with the silences between people. A daring ask in a digital world where everyone’s glued to their screens the better to pick up the noise.

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Musician Interview: The Cult’s Billy Duffy Talks About Exploring Musical Impossibilities

October 8, 2025
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“Vinyl is special because it makes the music less disposable, it makes listening a little less convenient. There is something tactile for people to hold and look at, an object to cherish.”

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Poetry Review: Shangyang Fang’s “Study of Sorrow: Translations”

October 8, 2025
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We owe Shangyang Fang a debt for bringing the delicacy, obliqueness, and sheer tremulous beauty of these Chinese poems to English-speaking readers.

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Book Review: “Queer Enlightenments” – Flaming Creatures of Yore

October 8, 2025
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This lively foray into popular history, and others, exemplifies the move to attract younger audiences with open and freewheeling interests in gender and sexual nonconformity.

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Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra Embraces the Contradictions of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4

October 7, 2025
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The Latvian conductor can sometimes overindulge in pieces that demand shifts in emotional direction on a dime, so the frenzied eclecticism of Mahler’s Fourth feels tailor-made for him.

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Book Review: “Fifty Poems” — An Offering on the Altar of Rainer Maria Rilke

October 7, 2025
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If, as a commemorative volume, “Fifty Poems” introduces readers to sample the German poet more extensively, either in the original or in the range of translations currently available, it will have accomplished a valuable task.

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Book Reviews: Four Books on the Climate Crisis — Is it Really the End of the World?

October 6, 2025
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How bad is the future going to be? Depends on who you read.

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Theater Review: “Sardines” — A One-Man Journey Through Death, Memory, and Grace

October 5, 2025
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Chris Grace invites us to think about mortality with him, to learn something from his stories, and to share a few heartwarming laughs along the way.

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Concert Review: David Byrne’s Boch Wang Show Mingles Spectacle with Connection

October 5, 2025
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At a time when the world’s aflame, David Byrne ignited creative camaraderie, a dazzling experience that lingers in mind and spirit.

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