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Film Review: Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq”—A Long and Sexy Sermon

December 4, 2015
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Chi-Raq is a work of agitprop—preachy, strident, sentimental, even sacramental.

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Fuse Album Review: Fresh Improvisational Sounds from Finland’s TUM Records

December 3, 2015
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According to its web site, TUM operates mainly thanks to volunteers. We should be grateful.

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Album Review: Queen’s “A Night at the Odeon”—Holding Nothing Back

December 3, 2015
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1975 was when they officially began their reign. A fab year for sure.

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Theater Review: At Israeli Stage—Alma Weich Places a “Price Tag” on Violence

December 2, 2015
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The timeliness of this staged reading made for one of the most heated and engaged talk-backs for any of the presentations in Israeli Stage’s six-year history.

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Concert Review: Boston Symphony plays Haydn, Bartók, and Tchaikovsky

December 1, 2015
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Andris Nelsons possesses a clear fondness for Slavic music and his Tchaikovsky performances in Boston have become can’t-miss events.

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Classical Music Review: BEMF’s “Acis and Galatea”—Glorious Entertainment

December 1, 2015
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The music was so extraordinarily pleasant and well performed that the two-hour production breezed by.

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Theater Review: “Hard and Fast”—But Not All That Clear

December 1, 2015
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Jess Foster’s clever script takes the trope of “cars are like women” to its logical, though unexpected, extreme.

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Book Review: More than Meets the Eye — “Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge”

December 1, 2015
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Readers interested in early modern science, Renaissance studies, or Galileo will undoubtedly savor this trailblazing work of history.

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Visual Arts Review: Known and Mysterious—Wendy Artin’s Watercolors in “From the Roman Studio”

November 30, 2015
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Wendy Artin finds beauty everywhere – in a clutch of beets, old paintbrushes, ruined statues, the human body.

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Book Review: Michel Houellebecq and the Wages of “Submission”

November 30, 2015
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If you’ve recently been mourning the end of the Novel of Ideas—take heart. And dig in, for Submission offers a smorgasbord.

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