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Music Interview: No Way To Slow Down — Ian Anderson Marks 50 Years of Jethro Tull in America

September 2, 2019
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Jethro Tull founder Ian Anderson brings the group’s classics to Medford’s Chevalier Theatre on September 11.

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Theater Preview: “Buddy” Cianci’s Ghost Returns to Haunt Providence

September 2, 2019
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We are definitely feeling a sense of Buddy haunting us, to be sure. I mean, this theater is the place he visited. He attended many, if not most, of the shows here.

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Rock Album Review: Tool’s “Fear Inoculum” — No Surprises

September 2, 2019
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Fear Inoculum is not a bad album. It’s not a great album either, and Tool has made some great albums.

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Arts Commentary: 2019-20 Classical Music Preview

September 1, 2019
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I’ve compiled a list of twelve concerts (or concert series) that I think will stand among the future season’s highlights.

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Music Concert Review: The Mavericks at 30 — Digging into the Songbook

September 1, 2019
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The last half-hour or so of any Mavericks concert is usually just about the happiest place to be on the planet.

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Streaming Docs: “Jawline” — The Delusion-Soaked World of Teen Internet Influencers

August 31, 2019
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A Screenager Star is Born?

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Visual Arts Review: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater — Brilliance Beyond Myth

August 31, 2019
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20th Century Modern Architectural Greatness

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Book Review: “The Nickel Boys” — Keeping the Faith

August 30, 2019
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Colson Whitehead’s work is political in the sense that he has an incredibly keen eye for the insidious ways in which institutions and structures of power work.

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Book Review: “William Walker’s Wars” — Revisiting US Slavery’s Soldier of Fortune in Latin America

August 30, 2019
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A new biography of the oft-forgotten ‘filibuster’ provides ample facts and little thesis. Is that enough — don’t we need more?

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Book Review: A Memorial to Lucette Lagnado’s Two Remarkable Memoirs

August 29, 2019
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To have such a remarkably courageous voice as Lucette Lagnado’s silenced forever at such a young age is, simply, not fair.

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