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Theater Review: “Morning After Grace” — A Cause for Celebration

June 25, 2018
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It is heart-warming that, in these “worst of times,” playwrights like Carey Crim are working quietly to give us a look at new beginnings with humor and tenderness and hope.

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Jazz CD Review: Buster Williams — An Exemplary Modern Bassist

June 24, 2018
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There are no missteps on this disc. Buster Williams and company make all the complications swing, mightily.

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Book Review: Catch “Culture Fever”

June 24, 2018
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Being able to comfortably shift gears between “high” and “low” culture is one of the easiest ways in which a contemporary critic can gain the reader’s trust.

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Music Review: Stephen Stills and Judy Collins — Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

June 23, 2018
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So who knows where the time goes? Sadly, it only goes in one direction. But the past can be gracefully revived.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Now + There — Reinterpreting Public Art in the Civic Environment

June 23, 2018
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An organization dedicated to making Boston a vibrant, contemporary art city.

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Book Review: “Debris” — Deep into Grieving

June 22, 2018
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L. M. Brown has also written poetry, and she brings some of that lyrical know-how to her promising first novel.

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Film Review: Four Faves at the 2018 Provincetown Film Festival

June 22, 2018
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A quartet of standout movies, the best of the just ended Provincetown Film Festival.

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Film Review: Scorsese’s “Age of Innocence” — Re-released

June 22, 2018
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The privilege Edith Wharton’s characters swim in has not disappeared. If anything, it’s expanded farther into the social stratosphere.

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Dance Feature: Mark Morris and Ethan Iverson’s “Pepperland” comes to New England

June 21, 2018
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Pepperland serves up the expected tie-dye nostalgia, keyed to a half-dozen Beatle tunes from the classic album.

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Jazz Commentary: Greg Hopkins Big Band at Ryles — Whither Big Bands?

June 20, 2018
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At this time in the Boston jazz scene, there are no ongoing spaces for big bands and, predictably, the number of such ensembles has shrunk.

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