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Book Review: “The Making of the American Creative Class” — Unions, Their Rise and Fall

January 29, 2021
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This history of union activity among white-collar workers in New York City tells an illuminating story about creative labor’s effort to be treated with respect by the powerful.

Film Review: Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place, Impeachment Trial Edition — Stir-Crazy 15

January 29, 2021
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As we wait for our vaccine shots, here’s some superior films that will make standing by more pleasurable.

Jazz Album Review: Dave Stryker’s “Baker’s Circle” — Welcoming the Past

January 27, 2021
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This is a well-rounded session of disciplined, well-crafted composing and soloing, with established and up-and-coming players mixing it up with style and commitment.

WATCH CLOSELY: “The Stand” Stumbles

January 26, 2021
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Though the cast is generally excellent, Stephen King’s characters are often at the mercy of wrongheaded writing or needlessly flashy special effects.

Visual Arts Review: Two Public Art Projects in Boston — Provocative Visual Expressions of the 21st Century

January 26, 2021
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Steeped in technology, non-traditional public art is about sparking conversations about visuals as well as playing with contemporary aesthetic perspectives.

Arts Publication Interview: The Coming of “Caesura” — Sustaining the Freedom of Art

January 26, 2021
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“The gallery system, publishing houses, and critical reviews — all that facilitates the production and criticism sides of art’s dialectic — need to be reconsidered.”

Book Review: “The Movement” — The Struggle for Civil Rights, Abbreviated

January 26, 2021
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The Movement works best as a stripped-down, high-speed introduction to the struggle for civil rights, nothing more.

Book Review: “Burning the Books” — The Never-ending War on the Preservation of Knowledge

January 25, 2021
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Burning the Books sometimes turns into  a disturbing chronicle of mankind’s elemental hostility to learning: barbarians often first targeted libraries and archives.

Book Feature: Remembering Norman Mailer

January 25, 2021
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Over six decades Norman Mailer managed, by turns, to engage and enrage and stir the zeitgeist’s pot.

Jazz Album Review: “Garden of Expression” — Virtuosic Meditations

January 25, 2021
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It’s easy to single out each of these musicians, but listeners will hear the three as nearly one, which is surely what this trinity intended.

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