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Jazz Concert Review: Dirigo Rataplan at Bowdoin College

October 5, 2018
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Jazz band Dirigo Rataplan explores what could be described as ‘chamber expressionism.’

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Book Review: “The Farm” — Obsessed With The Land

October 4, 2018
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There can be no future, Héctor Abad seems to be arguing, when everything you are is hidden away in a time you can never fully know.

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Opera Feature: MassOpera –“Taking Up Serpents”

October 3, 2018
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MassOpera opened their season with a workshop of a new opera, something they’ve never done before.

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Theater Review: “Ben Butler” — Civil War Laughs

October 3, 2018
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A comedy about slavery poses considerable challenges in our #blacklivesmatter times, but the characters bounce gleefully through endless rounds of verbal sparring.

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Opera Preview: “Scalia/Ginsburg” — Mining (and Minding) the Political Gap

October 2, 2018
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Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg is a three character comic opera that combines elements of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit and Perry Mason.

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Book Review: “A History of France” — Outsized Heroes on Horseback

October 2, 2018
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In all of his books, John Julius Norwich remembered that history is a story.

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Poetry Review: The Devolution of Eileen Myles

October 1, 2018
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One of the fears of poets and, I imagine, all writers, is that you’ll reach a certain age and you’ll run out of gas.

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Arts Commentary: Another View of “The Niceties”

October 1, 2018
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To an extent, The Niceties does probe a fault line between the Democratic Party and the left: a boundary that will rupture sooner rather than later.

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Jazz CD Review: Darren Barrett’s “Time for Romance”

October 1, 2018
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Time For Romance: But Beautiful may qualify — if I can even use the term now — as seduction music.

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Theater Review: Tennessee Williams’ “Talisman Roses” — Early Healing

September 30, 2018
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This is an opportunity to take in the early stirrings of Tennessee Williams’ talent as a playwright.

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